October 11, 1951 — Minneapolis, MN
6:30 a.m. Joseph J. Kaliszewski and Dick Reilly are flying at 10,000 feet north of Minneapolis, Minnesota, observing a balloon when they see a brightly glowing object to the southeast of the University of Minnesota airport moving at high speed from west to east. It has a halo around it with a dark under surface. It crosses rapidly, slows down, and starts to climb slowly in lazy circles. Observers Doug Smith and Dick Dorion at the General Mills tracking station at the University of Minnesota watch the object through a theodolite. They watch another object 2 hours later. [Eberhart]
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Sources:
Project Grudge Status Report No. 1, Appendix X;
Project Grudge Status Report No. 2, Appendix VII;
Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 56;
Brad Sparks, Blue Books Unknowns Catalogue, Case 482, p. 114;
James E. McDonald, “Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 44–45;
NICAP, “The Kaliszewski Sightings”;