January 6, 1953 — Duncanville, TX
1:05 a.m. The 147th AC&W Squadron at Duncanville, Texas, is notified by the CAA at Meacham Field [now Fort Worth Meacham International Airport] about a UFO northeast of Dallas. Tinker AFB in Oklahoma City reports a radar target 20 miles southwest of Paris, Texas. An arrowhead-shaped UFO with green and whitelights is seen by some witnesses in the Dallas area. [Eberhart]
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Sources:
“‘Flying Arrowhead’ Seen over Dallas: ‘Not a Star or Plane,’” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 6, 1953, p. 1;
“Dallas See Colored ‘Thing’ In The Sky,” Santa Fe New Mexican, January 6, 1953, p. 6;
Brad Sparks, Blue Books Unknowns Catalogue, Case 909, p. 188;
Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History, 1953, January–February, The Author, 1988, pp. 6–7;
NICAP, “Arrow-Shaped Object Tracked at 600 Knots”;