July 1, 1952 — Fort Monmouth, NJ and Washington, D.C.
8:40–9:15 a.m. Two silvery objects move south along the East Coast and hover near Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, for about 5 minutes at 50,000 feet. As radar at Fort Monmouth detects the objects, they put on a burst of speed and head southwest toward Washington, D.C., confirmed visually. At about 12:00 noon, a physics professor at George Washington University in D.C. sees a grayish UFO hovering and arcing back and forth across the sky for about 8 minutes. He guesses about 500 people are watching the object. [Eberhart]
Chronology Of Events / Radar:
Summary of Information:
Sources:
Brad Sparks, Blue Book Unknown Catalogue, Case 656-657, p. 144;
Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 160;
Edward Ruppelt, The report on unidentified flying objects, pp. 151–152;
Loren E. Gross, UFOs, a History: 1952, June–July 20th, The Author, 1986, pp. 36– 37;
Frank C. Feschino Jr., Shoot Them Down! The Flying Saucer Air Wars of 1952. Lulu.com, 2007, p. 17;
Jerome Clark, The UFO Encyclopedia, 3rd Ed., p. 377;
Jerome Clark, The UFO Encyclopedia, 4th Ed., p. 421;
NICAP, “Objects Tracked at 50,000ʹ, G/V”;