December 22, 1952 — Larson AFB, Moses Lake, WA
7:30 p.m. An instrument technician driving toward Larson AFB [now Grant County International Airport] near Moses Lake, Washington, stops his car to watch a hat-shaped glowing object rising vertically in odd spurts right and left, then level off at high speed. The object glows white with a red side when it is rotated. Halfway through a roll the light disappears, then it holds stationary in the sky with jumpy movements. Duration is about 15 minutes. [Eberhart]
Sources:
Project Blue Book, Special Report 14, p. 86; [Case VI (Serial 4822.00)]
Loren E. Gross, UFOs, a History: 1952, November–December, The Author, 1986, p. 71, 71-A; [Gets location wrong]
Brad Sparks, Blue Books Unknowns Catalogue, Case 899, p. 186;
NICAP, “Hat-Shaped Object Observed by Technician”;