August 11, 1954 — Yoron-Jima, Japan
8:55 p.m. P. L. Percharde, electrical engineer and assistant manager of the Moeller Shipwrecker Company, of Okinawa, sees a line of blue lights underneath a blue circle with a black center fly over the SS Docteur Angier off Yoron-Jima, Japan, and climb, illuminating and agitating the clouds. [Eberhart]
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ATIC Report:
Sources:
Brad Sparks, Blue Books Unknowns Catalogue, Case 1068, p. 225;
NICAP, “S. S. Docteur Close Encounter”;
Patrick Gross, “Disk Seen from SS Docteur Angier, August 11, 1954”;