Today in UFO History -
May 17 or 19, 1947 — Oklahoma City, OK
8:30 p.m. Byron B. Savage, an RCA field engineer, sees a frosty-white or silvery elliptical object about the size of a B-29 heading northwest at 10,000 feet over Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, at three times the speed of a jet (about 1,800 mph). After it noiselessly passes overhead, he hears a sound “like the rushing of air.” [Eberhart]
SIGN Incident 82:
Sources:
“Whatever That Object Was, Sooner Says He Saw One,” Miami (Okla.) Daily News-Record, June 26, 1947, p. 7;
https://www.newspapers.com/article/miami-news-record-miaminews-record1947/194490774/
“City Pilot Sees ‘Flying Saucers’ Here Too,” Oklahoma City Times, June 26, 1947, p. 1;
Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 January 1st–June 23rd, Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2000, pp. 27–28;
Brad Sparks, Blue Books Unknowns Catalogue, Case 3, p. 17;
NICAP, “Round and Flat Object Observed by Field Engineer”;