July 1, 1952 — Lynn & Bedford, MA
7:25 a.m. A Ground Observer Corps spotter sees a UFO headed southwest across Boston, Massachusetts. Two F-94s are scrambled. Erwin W. Nelson and his wife at Lynn, Massachusetts, notice two vapor trails from the climbing jets, look around, and see in the west a bright silver “cigar shaped object about six times as long as it was wide” heading over Boston at a very high altitude. An identical UFO is following the first some distance back. No vapor trails are visible. The witnesses watch the F-94s search back and forth far below the UFOs. At 7:30, USAF Capt. Robert E. Metcalf, petroleum officer for the 6520th Test Support Wing, and USAF air policemen M/Sgt James Stiner and M/Sgt Joseph R. Bosh, 6520th Air Police Squadron, at Hanscom Field, Bedford, Massachusetts, see the two jets, look for what they are intercepting, and see to the east a 100-foot-long silvery ellipse “fatter than a cigar” traveling southwest. At two points, the object seems to hover, then continues at about 40,000 feet. The object’s path intersects contrails of the two jets heading southeast. Metcalf loses sight of the object on his way to the tower after a few minutes, then sees it again at about 7:40 a.m., noting it has increased distance “considerably,” but finally loses sight of it at the tower. [Eberhart]
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Sources:
Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 160;
Edward Ruppelt, The report on unidentified flying objects, pp. 150–151;
Loren E. Gross, UFOs, a History: 1952, June–July 20th, The Author, 1986, pp. 35–36;
Frank C. Feschino Jr., Shoot Them Down! The Flying Saucer Air Wars of 1952. Lulu.com, 2007, p. 17;
Brad Sparks, Blue Book Unknown Catalogue, Case 655, p. 144;
[Blue Book document];
NICAP, “100’ Cigar Observed By AF Captain”
NICAP Project Report, “Possible Nuclear Connection on July 1, 1952”