July 29, 1948 — Indianapolis, IN
9:18 a.m. James Toney and Robert Huggins, both employees of an Indianapolis, Indiana, rug cleaning firm, are in a truck headed west when they see a shiny, propeller-shaped, aluminum object with 10–12 small cups protruding from either blade. It is 6–8 feet long and flying silently above the trees at 30 feet altitude some 300 feet away heading south. It approaches to about 100 feet at its closest. The object glides across the road at 25–30 mph in a slight descent then makes a 20° bank to the east and goes down in a wooded area. Toney and Huggins stop the truck and get out to look, but the object has disappeared behind trees. A later search finds no traces. [Eberhart]
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Sources:
Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: a History: 1948, Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2000, pp. 61-63;
Brad Sparks, Blue Book Unknowns Catalogue, Case 106, p. 36;
NICAP, “Close Encounter with ‘Propeller-Shaped’ Object”;