Around 1:30 p.m. While walking on US Highway 92 one mile east of Lakeland, Florida, Hiram William Griffin sees five round, shiny, “turtle-backed” objects climbing at 5,000–7,500 feet in just a few seconds. They are making a shrill noise. [Eberhart]
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Sources:
NICAP, “Five ‘Turtle-Backed’ Objects Headed NE (Sound Heard)”;
Brad Sparks, Blue Books Unknowns Catalogue, Case 26, p. 21;
[PURSUE release, pp. 179–180];
https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release_1/38_143685_box7_incident_summaries_1-100.pdf