May 8, 1952 — Atlantic Ocean off Jacksonville, FL
2:27 a.m. Pan American Airways pilot Clayton C. Gallagher and his copilot, flying a Lockheed Constellation aircraft at 8,000 feet en route from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to New York, see a light, 10 times the size of an airplane landing light, approach them over the Atlantic Ocean east of South Carolina. It streaks past their left wing about a quarter mile away, followed by two smaller orange balls of fire. Probable meteor. [Eberhart]
Sources:
Brad Sparks, Blue Book Unknowns Catalogue, Case 571, p. 131;
Edward Ruppelt, The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, pp. 133-135;
Richard M. Hall (Ed.), The UFO evidence, p. 132;
NICAP, “Three UAO Sighted by Constellation Crew”;
Tim Printy, “May 8, 1952: Atlantic Ocean off Jacksonville, Fla.,” SUNlite 15, no. 3 (May/June 2023): 3–5;
“San Juan Puerto Rico Pan Am CE-II Case of 5-8-52 – Jay Glick,” Ufology: A Primer in Audio, 1938–1959, November 21, 2013;