Peekskill, N.Y., July 1949July 1949

On July 22, 1949, at about 2045 (8:45 p.m.), three civilians near Peekskill, New York, saw two objects while walking on a country road. A local man wrote to the Air Force describing what his wife, his daughter, and a young man had seen. The case became part of the Air Force study of unidentified aerial objects. The Air Force replied that there was not enough detail for positive identification but noted a marked similarity to plastic research balloons in flight.

The three witnesses described two discs that appeared slightly larger than a full moon, pure white, with a look of concave depth. The discs were whirling or spinning in the same direction they were traveling, at a high speed, as if being rolled across the sky. They came out of the southeast and traveled northwest, one following the other on the same track. They disappeared behind a white cloud and did not reappear.

The writer said a local radio station near his home had been having trouble around the same time, and he wondered if the discs were related. The Air Force replied that the radio trouble was probably due to technical difficulties and that the timing was coincidental. The Air Force also said that under changing light and weather, research balloons have appeared as discs and behaved in the way described.