May 13, 1952 — Greenville, SC
10:33 p.m. James Richardson and three other amateur astronomers (among them Cyril Thomas Wyche and Harry B. Mooney), set up telescopes at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina, when they see a diamond formation of 4 oval, reddish-yellow or reddish-brown luminous objects nearly overhead. They disappear after 3 seconds moving through a 12° arc. The apparent size is a half dollar at arms length. They wobble in flight. [Eberhart] Case #15, on the official clearance list of 41 formerly classified Air Technical Intelligence UFO reports cleared for Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe by Albert M. Chop, Air Force Press Desk.
Sources:
“Our Space Age,” Vineland (N.J.) Daily Journal, June 29, 1967, p. 20;
BB Status Report 8, December 1952, p. 25;
Willy Smith, “Blue Book Pearls: Greenville, S.C.,” IUR 20, no. 3 (May/June 1995): 8–9, 24;
Brad Sparks, Blue Books Unknowns Catalogue, Case 580, p. 132;
Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 (March 2010): 10, 15;
Willy Smith, On Pilots and UFOs, UNICAT Project, 1997, pp. 31–42;
NICAP, “Diamond Formation of 4 Objects Observed by Astronomers”;