1957: Fort Belvoir, Virginia Photo

THINK ABOUTIT SIGHTING REPORT

Date: September, 1957

Sighting Time:

Day/Night: Day

Location: Fort Belvoir, Virginia

Urban or Rural: Rural

Hynek Classification: DD (Daylight Disc) Metallic or whitish object was seen in the day.

Duration: 5 minutes

No. of Object(s):  1

Size of Object(s):

Distance to Object(s):

Shape of Object(s): ring-shaped

Color of Object(s): black

Number of Witnesses: multiple

Source:

Summary/Description: The Condon Report (p.168) devoted 11 pages to this case.

One morning in September, 1957 an Arm private at Fort Belvoir, Va. was called from his barracks by his buddies to witness what appeared to be a black, ring-shaped UFO approaching.

The private grabbed his Brownie camera and snapped 6 pictures of it, of which this was the first.

After about 5 minutes, the black ring, which appeared “solid” to the soldier and glided steadily along, began to be “engulfed in white smoke.”