August 14, 1947 — Placerville, CA
4:00 p.m. Insurance executive Ray A. Switzer and his wife are driving along Cedar Ravine Road about 5 miles south of Placerville, California, when they see a smoke trail. In front of it is a metallic, highly polished chromium object, 4–6 feet wide and 10-14 inches thick, rounded slightly on top and larger in the front, that leaves a white trail at 500–1,000 feet and traveling at high speed. [Eberhart]
Sources:
“New Version Of ‘Flying Disc’ Reported; ‘Shining Object’ Disintegrates in Air” Oakland (Calif.) Tribune, August 18, 1947, p. 4;
https://www.newspapers.com/article/oakland-tribune-oaklandtribune194708/201167923/
NICAP, “Metallic Object with Smoke Trail”;
Brad Sparks, Blue Books Unknowns Catalogue, Case 48, p. 26;
[PURSUE release, pp. 143–144;]
https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release_1/38_143685_box7_incident_summaries_1-100.pdf
[PURSUE release, pp. 73, 79–82;]
https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release_1/65_hs1-834228961_62-hq-83894_section_3.pdf
[PURSUE release, pp. 190–191;]
