January 4, 1949 — Hickam Field, Honolulu, HI
2:00 p.m. USAF pilot Capt. Paul R. Stoney, on the ground at Hickam Field [now part of Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam] near Honolulu, Hawaii, sees a flat, white, elliptical object about the size of a T-6 aircraft, circle at about 3,000 feet while oscillating to the right and left.
It is apparently several miles off the base and slowly circling. It is bright white on the underside and darker on top and possesses no other structures. It proceeds for 15 minutes to make “rhythmical undulation” maneuvers in a cyclical manner. The “object seemed to maneuver under control at all times completing 360° turns and 90° turns.” The object then “departed climbing (into the northeast) at accelerated speed out of sight.” [Eberhart]
SIGN Incident 236:
Sources:
Brad Sparks, Blue Books Unknowns Catalogue, Case 159, p. 47;
NICAP, “Disc Circles, Maneuvers, Climbs into the NE”;
http://www.nicap.org/490104hickam_dir.htm
