UFO Circled Atomic Plant at Shippingport, PA, 10/1/57
From: jan@cyberzone.net (Jan Aldrich)
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 18:11:12 -0800
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[From Project 1947 E-mail Research List]
From page 1, "The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse,
UFOs: A History, 1957: October 1st - November 2d"
by Loren Gross
"1 October. Rochester, Pennsylvania. (about 7:00 p.m.)
"Circled Shippingport Atomic Plant"
"A former Rochester councilman, John Karcher, owned a farm in
Daugherty township, outside the city of Rochester. On October 1st,
about 7:00 p.m., Mr. Karcher was with a friend, Lee Plunkett. The
men were outdoors with a clear view of the sky.
"From the direction of the nearby town of Ohioville something
strange approached at an altitude of 2,000 feet. The two men
spotted it and were astonished. The thing was a big luminous
torpedo they estimated was 200 feet long. The top half was green-
colored and the bottom half was reddish-orange. These two colors
were separated by a strip of yellow. The thing was moving slowly,
perhaps as slow as 15 miles per hour. Karcher hand enough time to
get a pair of binoculars and to also phone some neighbors, a Mrs.
Norderbugger and her daughter and son-in-law. These three
neighbors managed to observe the object as it passed by on a
steady course to the south, in the direction of Shippingport
Atomic Plant. Karcher saw nothing worth mentioning with the
binoculars and like everyone else believed the show was over when
the UFO moved out of sight. To the surprise of all, the torpedo
reappeared after a few minutes, retracing its course, apparently
returning to its homebase, if it had one. In Mr. Karcher's
opinion, the mystery ship made a U-turn over the nuclear facility,
considering its speed and distance involved. This suggestion was
taken serioulsy by the Air Force and the FBI." (The Beaver County
Times, Beaver, Pennsylvania, 8 November 1957.)
Gross' comments in a footnote: "The newspaper said the FBI and
the Air Force investigated. Where are those records?"
--
Jan Aldrich
Project 1947
http://www.iufog.org/project1947/
Index: 1950s UFO Sightings
Index: Sightings at Military & Nuclear Installations
Created: Oct 20, 1997
