Alfred Loedding and the Great Flying Saucer Wave of 1947 by Michael D. Hall

Author:Michael D. Hall [Hall, Michael D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

A Very Serious Business

The Muroc Sightings were the pivotal event which activated the United States military into concerted action on the saucer mystery. After that point, as Edward Ruppelt recalls, it was indeed a very serious business. In the middle of this was poised Alfred Loedding.

Dayton started to receive firsthand UFO reports by Wednesday, July 9th. One of these came

from Idaho when Boise Evening Statesman writer Dave Johnson, who after three days of trying, finally caught a glimpse of a UFO. Flying out of Go wan Field in an AT-6 from his National Guard unit, he observed at 12:17 P.M. MST a strange looking dark object. Johnson tried to make sense of the weird sight as it became silhouetted against the clouds. The UFO then made a half-roll and entered a stair-step climb. Johnson at first thought it might be a balloon. (Many of the early meteorological balloons were made from neoprene which would turn smoky gray or black in the sunlight.) 1 No apparent balloon launches, however, could account for the incident. 2 Later, Johnson learned that three ground observers at Gowan Field who were National Guard pilots had also reported a similar object. 3 Like Johnson, they too were mystified as to what it was they had seen that day.

Another sighting came in from the 1380th Army Air Force Base in Fort Pepperell, Newfoundland. It related a story near Grand Falls, when a police constable’s wife and mother-in-law observed four “egg-shaped phosphorus colored discs.” Each disc passed over in a side-by-side formation around 11:30 P.M. ADT. Ten minutes later a similar object, which the constable saw himself, darted across the sky with a “jellyfish-like flash.” 4

A report that never reached Dayton, but is of interest came from two men flying over Glacier Park, Montana, at 3:53 P.M. MST. They spotted seven flying saucers heading in a northwesterly direction. The two men, Ed Johnson and Joe Dimio, noted that the craft were only visible for a short period—indicating they traveled at a fairly fast rate. 5

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