August 25, 1952 — Pittsburg, KS
5:50 a.m. William Squyres, a radio station musician at KOAM [now KKOW-AM] is driving from his home northeast of Frontenac, Kansas, to the station at Pittsburg. He is in his 1952 Jeep station wagon on a rough gravel road about a quarter of a mile from US Highway 160 when he sees a large, disc-shaped object hovering 10 feet in the air on the right side of the road 750 feet away. The UFO looks like two bowls placed together end to end, 75 feet long, 40 feet wide, and 15 feet high in the midsection.
Through a window he can see the head and shoulders of a motionless human figure. Along its outer edge are a series of propellers 6–8 inches in diameter, spaced closely together and mounted on a bracket so they revolve “in a horizontal plane” along the edge of the object. He stops and gets out to watch it. As he is walking toward the object, it rises into the air and flies away at great speed. [Eberhart]
Sources:
“‘Flying Saucer’ With Men Inside Seen by Pittsburg Radio Employee,” Neosho (Mo.) Daily Democrat, August 26, 1952, p. 1;
“Probe ‘Flying Saucer’ Report,” Wichita (Kan.) Eagle, August 27, 1952, p. 1;
Unknown Newsclip:
J Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, pp. 200–203;
Gray Barker, They Knew Too Much about Flying Saucers, University Books, 1956, pp. 76–78;
Brad Sparks, Blue Books Unknowns Catalogue, Case 795, p. 168;
Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, UFO Information Retrieval Center, November 1966, sec. 3, pp. 16–18;
Jacques Vallée, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 199-200; [Case 98]
“Study 102-EL-55/2-79 - Analysis of Unidentified Aerial Objects”, aka Project Blue Book Special Report #14 aka “Battelle Institute study report”, US Air Force, pp 89-90, May 5, 1955.
Patrick Gross, “Project Blue Book Unexplained Cases”;
“Pittsburg, KS CE-III – William Squyres Interviewed by Frank Edwards,” Ufology: A Primer in Audio, 1938–1959, November 21, 2013;