# July 7, 1947 — East Troy, WI — 'Flying Saucer' Seen By Bob Southey

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July 7, 1947 — East Troy, WI  
2:30 p.m. Capt. Robert J. Southey and Clem Hackworthy are flying a private aircraft near East Troy, Wisconsin, when they see a fast-moving silver object flying southeast from Eagle to Muskego, covering 17 miles in 20 seconds (approximately 3,060 mph). They try to photograph it, but it quickly disappears, then suddenly reappears about 10 miles away. [Eberhart]

Sources:  
“‘Flying Saucer’ Seen on Monday By Bob Southey,” Burlington (Wisc.) Free Press, July 10, 1947, p. 1;

 ![07071947-ElkhornWI-Burlington_Free_Press_1947_07_10_1](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/2X/8/8c9bfbc3b5eda6bd0e5cd3eeb159dec88ab6574c.jpeg)

[https://www.newspapers.com/article/burlington-free-press-burlingtonfreepr/198820099/](https://www.newspapers.com/article/burlington-free-press-burlingtonfreepr/198820099/)

Brad Sparks, Blue Books Unknowns Catalogue, Case 31, p. 22;

 ![07071947-EastTroyWI-Sparks-Case31-p22](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/2X/8/8c2ee56a19e71d1aed107acf2a14a23e26363f21.png)

PURSUE release, p. 21;

 ![07071947-ElkhornWI-Report](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/2X/4/41f651b5e2adbeeabae66c6f98425d100771946a.jpeg)

[https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release\_1/65\_hs1-834228961\_62-hq-83894\_section\_2.pdf](https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release_1/65_hs1-834228961_62-hq-83894_section_2.pdf)

PURSUE release, p. 115;

 ![07071947-ElkhornWI-CAPReport](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/2X/5/5f56aaec3760ea2167ddac2aa12c7b492439d944.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)

Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, Case 606, pp. III-12;

 ![07071947-EastTroyWI-Bloecher-sec3-p12](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/2X/2/23b9a56af3334bfa32548322020424050940fa4a.png)

Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 July 7th–July 10th, Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2001, p. 9;

 ![07071947-ElkhornWI-GrossSN-p9](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/2X/5/5abf0f56fffb354bb8dbb19cdf072f2b53b440bb.jpeg)