June 27, 1950 — Louisville, KY
4:15 p.m. Al Hixenbaugh, a photographer for the Louisville Times, is at the corner of Longest and Everett avenues in Louisville, Kentucky, when he hears the sound of a DC-3 airplane overhead. He looks up and sees the plane as well as a large disc with a slight corona around it. He shoots 50 feet of film with his 16mm movie camera as the object remains motionless for 10 seconds before it starts getting smaller and disappears to the west. [Eberhart] This is not the first time Hixenbaugh has photographed a UFO.
Sources:
Louisville (Ky.) Times, June 28, 1950, p. 1;
“‘Saucer’ Filmed,” Lexington (Ky.) Herald, June 29, 1950, p. 13;
“Kentucky Newsman Records Flying Saucer in Movie Film,” Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat and Chronicle, June 29, 1950, p. 10;
“How to Film UFO’s,” Saucers 6, no. 3 (August 1958): 3;
Brad Sparks, Blue Books Unknown Catalogue, Case 383, p. 93;
His previous sighting:
