# May 17 or 19, 1947 — Oklahoma City, OK — Round and Flat Object Observed by Field Engineer

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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:

 ![05171947-OklahomaCityOK-SIGN-Incident72-Checklist-p1](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/2X/6/60e3225e72ba874e32bdb32ab7cc94febb05a9e7.jpeg)

 ![05171947-OklahomaCityOK-SIGN-Incident72-Checklist-p2](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/2X/2/25711fd2087b2944e34ec71ff3761cb20d73187b.jpeg)

Sources:  
“Whatever That Object Was, Sooner Says He Saw One,” Miami (Okla.) Daily News-Record, June 26, 1947, p. 7;

 ![05171947-OklahomaCityOK-Miami_News-Record_1947_06_26_7](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/2X/6/6d2d528a256d5cc6842719334e63591d74c53ef1.jpeg)

[https://www.newspapers.com/article/miami-news-record-miaminews-record1947/194490774/](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;

 ![05171947-OklahomaCityOK-Oklahoma_City_Times_1947_06_26_1](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/2X/b/b50a5c073c99510b32476cb6265aeff31ca8df61.jpeg)

> **[DAM](https://gateway.okhistory.org/dam/?next=%2Fark%3A%2F67531%2Fmetadc1767524%2Fm1%2F1%2F%3Fq%3Dsavage)**

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;

 ![05171947-OklahomaCityOK-GrossSN-p27](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/2X/f/fb5c22bbf8548cc14c1ab88cafc618811a5d5acc.jpeg)

 ![05171947-OklahomaCityOK-GrossSN-p28](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/2X/3/3f0dcc31f74c677904836be2705633354d2d5ca9.jpeg)

Brad Sparks, Blue Books Unknowns Catalogue, Case 3, p. 17;

 ![05171947-OklahomaCityOK-Sparks-Case3-p17](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/2X/2/284ba09c3421494bab0cf3fe2c731b38ec2a8d75.png)

NICAP, “Round and Flat Object Observed by Field Engineer”;

> **[UFO Report](https://www.nicap.org/470517oklacity_dir.htm)**