NUFORC Sighting 34019

Occurred: 1954-09-09 12:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2003-12-20 20:48 Pacific
Duration: 5 MINUTES
No of observers: 2

Location: Beaumont, TX, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

Aprox. 30 Disk shaped UFOs fell out of clouds got in V formatin and shot toward a black rain cloud avoiding a Jet Plane.

A brother and I were working on the outside of a house in South Beaumont on 9/9/1954 or 9/11/1954. I remember that New York had a hurricane of their coast on that day. We heard a Jet Plane overhead. It was cloudy so we did not see the Jet. (We are both Air Force Vets and know their sound which were few in number in 54.) We saw what appeared to be free falling disks. They had the motion of free falling paper plates (powerless). They then stopped decending and slowly got in a V formation. The Jet, which they appeared to be avoiding, was out of hearing range at that time. Then they started moving in a southerly direction. The Jet plane was going north. They flickered as they moved and turned to the East toward a large Black rain cloud. They quickly accelerated to a very high speed still in V formation. Estimated speed was about 450 MPH. They were unstable and took turns shooting up or down (90 deg.turns) and then returning to their position in the fast moving V formation. These dull metallic colored disks then disappeared into the dark rain cloud. No lights or sounds were noted. They were at approx. 4000 ft elevation and appeared to me to be about 4 to 6 ft. in diameter. I have seen no more UFOs in the last 49 years.

We made no report since the Blue Book croud were calling everything Weather baloons. We did see reports that UFOs were seen in 5 Nations on that same day.

NUFORC Note:

Date may be approximate. PD

Posted 2004-01-17