July 16, 1952 — Hampton, Virginia
9:00 p.m. Paul R. Hill, an aeronautical research engineer, is watching the sky with his future wife, Frances Hoback, on Chesapeake Avenue (near LaSalle Avenue) in Hampton, Virginia, when he notices two amber- colored lights coming in over Hampton Roads from the south at 500 mph. They slow down and make a U turn, moving side by side until they revolve around each other at a high rate of speed in a tight circle 200–300 feet in diameter. A third UFO comes racing up from the direction of Virginia Beach and falls in several hundred feet below the other two, making a V formation. A fourth UFO comes in from up the James River and joins the group, which heads south at 500 mph. “Their ability to make tight circling turns was amazing.” Around 9:03 p.m., the four UFOs have moved out of sight to the south. [Eberhart]
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Sources:
“Tidewater Virginians Scan Night Skies After Reports Of Flying Saucer Invasion,” Pulaski Southwest Times, July 17, 1952, p. 1;
Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 57;
“The 1952 Sighting Wave, Radar-Visual Sightings Establish UFOs As A Serious Mystery: Part 2, The Flap Begins,” Journal of UFO History 2. no. 2 (May-June 2005): 5;
Brad Sparks, Blue Book Unknowns Catalogue, Case 682, p. 150;
NICAP, “Two Pairs of Objects Maneuver Overhead”;
[Blue Book documents];
Paul R. Hill may sound familiar to some of you. He was a NASA engineer who studied UFOs and wrote the book “Unconventional Flying Objects: a Scientific Analysis” [Book is on Scribd if you subscribe to that, or pretty cheap on Amazon]
"NASA scientist Paul R. Hill secretly wrote a manuscript on UFOs: “Unconventional Flying Objects,” Eyes on Cinema Youtube channel, June 9, 2023;
