# July 6, 1947 — Clay Center, KS — 30–50ʹ Circular Object Paces B-25, Accelerates

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![07061947-ClayCenterKS-B25](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/2X/0/0849cce86ffa91d5bcbe7309f5baa18201101f22.jpeg)

July 6, 1947 — Clay Center, KS  
1:45 p.m. Maj. A. B. Browning and the crew of a B-25 flying over Clay Center, Kansas, see a silvery disc about 30–50 feet in diameter slightly lower than their plane. It paces them for a while then shoots off. [Eberhart]

BB Record Card:

 ![07061947-ClayCenterKS-BBCard](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/2X/d/d37e7a3104b593098b696b15dc2c5d24be212f61.jpeg)

Sources:  
Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, Case 402, p. III-11;

 ![07061947-ClayCenterKS-Bloecher-Case402-pIII-11](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/2X/b/be100e978297876c64144e93f2516e36f545da1e.png)

Brad Sparks, Blue Book Unknowns Catalogue, Case 25, p. 21;

 ![07061947-ClayCenterKS-Sparks-Case25-p21](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/2X/2/274a2906405b7f57e4da6860a5b6254e87316dd4.png)

NICAP, “30–50ʹ Circular Object Paces B-25, Accelerates”;

> **[UFO Report](http://www.nicap.org/470706claycntr_dir.htm)**

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PURSUE release, pp. 187–188;

 ![07061947-ClayCenterKS-SIGN-Incident89-p1](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/2X/6/6e888d2dbd5a37e0ec72d5f4a519646abe8c57b0.jpeg)

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[https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release\_1/38\_143685\_box7\_incident\_summaries\_1-100.pdf](https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release_1/38_143685_box7_incident_summaries_1-100.pdf)

PURSUE release, pp. 112–113, 117;

 ![07061947-ClayCenterKS-65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Serial_130-p112](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/2X/0/06fccdb3deba396af3a0965cb09cfdff01aaf93d.jpeg)

 ![07061947-ClayCenterKS-65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Serial_130-p113](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/2X/9/9c793e56a13ccc1086b0d9cc6d7a3602477f2663.jpeg)

 ![07061947-ClayCenterKS-65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Serial_130-p117](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/2X/1/1696832233261838fe56af990afad3582fecdc10.jpeg)

[https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release\_1/65\_hs1-834228961\_62-hq-83894\_serial\_130.pdf](https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release_1/65_hs1-834228961_62-hq-83894_serial_130.pdf)