Posted: 02 Aug 2014 08:32 AM PDT
On a winter’s night in 1952, it was pandemonium at a Girls Club when
they all saw a Flying Saucer.
“I was eleven years old when this happened,” Diane says.
Diane was leaving the Binghamton Girls Club at approximately 9 p.m., in
February 1952. The facility was located intersection of Frederick and Liberty
streets in Binghamton, NY. The girls had just been dismissed for the evening,
so the front yard was full of girls age 9-16, about 45-60 in number, all
heading for home.
Diane was fascinated by the night sky and the beautiful stars so she
was constantly looking up at them. The winter sky that evening was crystal
clear, so she took advantage of the opportunity to look around. To the west she
saw the moon as a simple crescent. As she glanced toward the southeast sky, she
saw something odd and interesting.
“It looked like a shark’s fin at first … I may have been the first to
notice the thing.” She says.
Diane described the object as self-illuminated; “It had a harvest moon
orange color sort of appearance. No other lights were visible.”
She explains that the object drew closer and enlarged in size, “then it
flipped or sort of rolled over, I saw this whole thing very clearly, when it
sort of turned over or revolved horizontally it appeared as a disk and
approached us very quickly and stopped in the sky about 45 degrees up from the
south horizon.”
Diane says the object was totally silent. She further states that it
was like an orange football or blimp shape with portholes around the middle,
and it appeared solid.
“I had the distinct feeling that we were being observed or scanned or
something. It was a very oppressive feeling I had never experienced before.
When someone yelled “it’s a flying saucer” it started a stampede back into the
Girl’s Club door, if you can imagine a large number of teen-age girls all
trying to get back into a small door all at once.”
Inside the girls club the group of teens were yelling at the two women
directors, telling them that a flying saucer was outside. The staffer
reluctantly went outside for a look. By this time the craft had moved to
the southeast and it quickly moved away in an apparent straight line becoming
quickly smaller to an orange point of light and disappeared.
The director of girls club in an effort to calm the frightened
youngsters told them simply. “It’s the moon.”
Diane tells us that she objected to the trite explanation. Telling the
director “no.” She pointed to the moon setting in the western sky. The
director paid no attention to what the eleven year old had to say about it.
Diane tells us that she did check the local newspaper the next day but couldn’t
find a report of the event
Finally Diane tells us that for her it was a life changing experience,
“I entered The University of Michigan; as an astronomy major in 1958, as a
direct result of fascination based on this event.”
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