# August 4, 1947 — btw. Bedford and Everett, MA — Pan Am Airliner Encounters Elliptical Object

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August 4, 1947 — btw. Bedford and Everett, MA  
4:00 p.m. Pan American Airlines pilot Alpheas D. Powell and navigator Walter I. White are flying between Bedford and Everett, Massachusetts, when they see a bright orange or deep-gold-colored elliptical object, 15 feet long and 2–3 feet wide, flying at more than 150 mph at 7,000 feet altitude. [Eberhart]

Sources:  
NICAP, “Pan Am Airliner Encounters Elliptical Object”;

> **[UFO Report](https://www.nicap.org/470804everett_dir.htm)**

Brad Sparks, Blue Books Unknowns Catalogue, Case 43, p. 25;

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[PURSUE release, pp. 159–160;]

 ![08041947-btwBedfordandEverettMA-SIGN-Incident73-p1](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/2X/f/f2f98f48e362ab61676c2a7990343b73e9cbd35c.jpeg)

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[https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release\_1/38\_143685\_box7\_incident\_summaries\_1-100.pdf](https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release_1/38_143685_box7_incident_summaries_1-100.pdf)

[PURSUE release, pp. 1–4;]

 ![08041947-btwBedfordandEverettMA-65_hs1-834228961_62-hq-83894_serial_130-p1](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/2X/9/9e1f1ba093335f038b6ed6a3d0db0a8bc1bb66d5.jpeg)

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[https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release\_1/65\_hs1-834228961\_62-hq-83894\_serial\_130.pdf](https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release_1/65_hs1-834228961_62-hq-83894_serial_130.pdf)

[PURSUE release, pp. 202–203;]

 ![08041947-btwBedfordandEverettMA-SIGN-Incident73-ALT-p1](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/2X/b/b375b9b8c2d4e2dd1dfc49912fc5863948800b44.jpeg)

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[https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/061226/release\_03/documents/DOW-UAP-D087\_US-AirForce\_Analysis-of-Flying-Objects-in-the-US\_1-100.pdf](https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/061226/release_03/documents/DOW-UAP-D087_US-AirForce_Analysis-of-Flying-Objects-in-the-US_1-100.pdf)