April 25, 1952. Dr. W
(biochemist) and Dr. Y (bacteriologist), both employed by a private company,
about 11:00 a.m. were driving to their office when Y saw something odd overhead
that seemed to be moving against the wind.
They entered the company parking
lot and got out of the car to look. Directly over a building across the street
was a small, metallic-looking disc, tilted at about a 20 degree angle and
rotating around a vertical axis, wobbling "like the motion of a disc in a
water meter".
The distance was estimated to be
about 50 ft, and the disc appeared to be 4-5 feet in diameter The wobble
allowed them to judge the thickness as about 1.5 feet as the disc proceeded
directly over their heads, continuing to rotate and wobble.
No sound or exhaust emission of
any sort was detected. It moved in an arc about 40-50 feet overhead very
slowly, perhaps 8-10 m.p.h. When it neared some railroad yards, the disc curved
around and made a fairly distinct turn, heading back toward them.
At this point Dr. Y suddenly saw
something else overhead, which Dr. W also then saw: a black object at high
altitude hovering motionless under an overcast (later determined to be about
10,000 ft). It was round, and apparently much larger than the silvery disc,
perhaps 100 ft in diameter
As they watched, two identical
objects came into position as if they had dropped out of the cloud overcast,
and the three objects jittered around like boats in a stream".
About this time the small disc
had neared again, still moving slowly. Suddenly it stopped spinning, hung
motionless for a moment, then rapidly climbed towards the NNE in the general
direction of Mt. Hamilton. At the same time that the small disc began its
climb, one of the three black objects left the formation and headed in the same
general direction. The black object and the climbing disc seemed to be on a
converging course, when suddenly both seemed to disappear into the overcast.
The remaining two black objects
maintained their original position for another minute or so, then one of them
headed off to the north and out of sight, while the other went directly up into
the clouds and disappeared, terminating the incident at about 11:15 a.m. The
two scientists immediately went into their offices and dictated accounts of the
sighting for a permanent record.
Dr. W felt obliged to make an
official report and placed a call to Moffett Field. While waiting on the line
for someone to be found to take his account, he had second thoughts about
exposing himself to personal ridicule and hung up, so no report was made to the
Air Force or other agencies.
Special significance: In addition
to the observation by scientifically trained witnesses, and loss of an official
report due to the ridicule factor, the scientists' reaction is instructive.
They had found it "a most disturbing experience:' They had been forced to
the conclusion that they had seen some objects of such unusual propulsion
characteristics that it was difficult to think of it as anything other than
extraterrestrial.
As Dr. W said, "...it
utilized some propulsion method not in the physics books." He had been
"worried ever since," mentioning historical evidence that inferior
civilizations tend to go under when contacted by more advanced technologies.
Source: Interview with Dr. W by
Dr. James E. McDonald; complete account including names and identifications in
author's files.
Dr James E. Mcdonald was probably one of the most important figures ever in the history of Ufology - he was also the Senior Physicist at the Institute for Atmospherical Physics and Professor at the Department of Meteorology at the University of Arizona.
Theres an interesting biography below detailing his work and research into the UFO subject -
it also mentions his feelings about the reliability (and intellectual honesty) of certain
'government conclusions and explanations' regarding specific UFO incidents:
Privately, McDonald analyzed all Project Blue Book case files, convincing him that the Air Force had performed an entirely inadequate investigation, which appeared to have been more concerned with internal politics rather than real science. He also reviewed the cases of the Air Force's sponsored University of Colorado UFO study, and concluded that many of their explanations were not well founded either.Biography:
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