Thursday, June 16, 2016

UFO report from Pullman 1/25/1956

What’s your recollection of UFOs in Pullman?

Here’s the “Flying Saucer Reports” column from the Parkland (Tacoma metro area), Wash., Times-Journal newspaper from Dec. 5, 1957. Note report from 1/25/56 in Pullman.

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Pullman, Washington – 1/25/56 – On the basis of numerous
Substantial reports from Military and Sunnyside Hills and GOC sky-
watchers, a rapidly moving luminous object buzzed down over
College Hill and the Airport just before 9:00 p.m. “The object
Seemed to whip into town, was brilliantly white,” says one ob-
Server. “Then it turned green, reddish, then disappeared in a trail
of what looked like smoke.” At first sight the object was thought
to be an airplane, but was too large. “It looked like a big moon,”
said Mrs. T. A. Merrill.

Mrs. Ed Wagner, who was at the Gardner Stacy home, was
another of the many who saw the object. “It was bright bluegreen,
looked a little bigger than the Bryan Hall clock, from the Stacy
home,” says Mrs. Wagner, “and seemed to have a red fire or sub-
stance dropping away from it. It lasted about a minute, long enough
for other women at the meeting to see it.”

The Ground Observer Corps who also observed the phenomen-
on, reports there were no aircraft in the area at the time.
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At the end of the column is this, “Information contained in this series courtesy of Aerial Phenomena Research Group, Seattle, Washington.” 

And, also, “PLANNING A SPACE TRIP? BEFORE YOU LEAVE, STOCK UP AT THE Bargain Basket.”

Thanks to Archives & Special Collections at Pacific Lutheran University for scan of the Times-Journal.





































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Jack Brown was publisher/editor of Parkland Times-Journal for nearly 20 years
http://generalaviationnews.com/2011/12/22/jack-brown-93

Jack Brown of Parkland Times-Journal flew in from Mazatlán, according to the Issaquah Press of Feb. 28, 1963 https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=986&dat=19630228&id=mu88AAAAIBAJ&sjid=lfcFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1284,11196356&hl=en

Herbert Eugene Stark and wife, Velzora, purchased the Parkland Times-Journal in 1971. They operated it for a year. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=37133327