May 26, 1964 — Cambridge, MA
7:43 p.m. Paul Wańkowicz, RAF pilot and ex-Smithsonian satellite tracker, sees a thin, white ellipsoid, estimated at 15–20 feet in length at 1,000 feet altitude, at Cambridge, Massachusetts. It flies straight and level from nearly overhead to the east-northeast, where it disappears behind the roof of a Sears Roebuck store as viewed from his car in the parking lot to the south. He briefly loses sight of it as it passes behind cumulus cloud cover. No noise or trail. The tops of cumulus clouds are at least 3,500 feet altitude, thus the UFO’s speed is at least 700 mph and length 50–70 feet. [Eberhart]
Witness Letter:
Dr. J. Allen Hynek Letter:
Sources:
Brad Sparks, Blue Book Unknowns Catalogue, Case 1569, p. 299;
Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, UFO Information Retrieval Center, November 1966, sec. 3, pp. 96–98;
NICAP, [Blue Book documents];
A tribute to PAUL WANKOWICZ (March 22, 1926 – January 29, 2023) [Interesting biographical detail, such as he published some novels in edition to being an engineer]
