UFOs in Defiance - 1952

If you've ever watched "Project Bluebook" on television, you might be interested in life from other planets who may or may not come to visit us on Earth.  Just last April, the Pentagon released Navy plane photos of supposed UFOs.  It's been a subject of discussion and argument and believability for many years - do UFOs exist?  Is there life on other planets?  Have they visited us here?  Are you a believer?  So far, in Ohio, 23 sightings have been reported this year alone.

On January 18, 1952, the Defiance Crescent News reported on two men who were certain they spied a flying saucer in Richland Township.   

" TWO DEFIANCE COON HUNTERS SAY 'FLYING SAUCER' OBJECT LIGHTS SKYS.

Two coon hunters who were so unbelieving about what they saw Wednesday night in the sky near here that they kept quiet about it until late Thursday afternoon, were still wondering today if they had seen some type of 'flying saucer.'   They are Doug Hamilton of the Farm Bureau here, and Charles Ort of south of Defiance.

They were hunting about 9 p.m. Wednesday at the Leroy Kunesh farm in South Richland Tp. when the object appeared so bright that 'the tree branches were illuminated.'  The bright object seemed motionless above the low-hanging clouds for about five minutes, they reported to friends Thursday afternoon.

'Then it moved away to the east, slow at first and then picked up speed.' The object was reported to have seemed to rotate and somewhat resembled an immense one-bladed propeller.  The men said it seemed to have a radius of about 30 feet.

 The observers of this spectacle said they had no way to determine how high in the sky it may have been.  It was 'pretty high' though.  They were first attracted by the light shining against the wet tree tops.  This caused them to turn their gaze skyward and both say they saw the 'object.'"

 A member of my own family can remember a sighting he had in our back yard, and he was bolstered in his claim when it was discovered a neighbor had spotted it, too.  Around 1970, the Northwest Signal reported that a woman had spotted a UFO above her home in Liberty Center.

"A UFO sighting was the subject of a report filed Thursday by the Henry County Sheriff's Department.  According to the report, Mrs. Rose Jones, rural Liberty Center, reported seeing the unidentified object hovering over her home last Saturday night.

Mrs. Jones, who reportedly suffered a heart attack after the sighting and is now a patient in Heller Memorial Hospital, described the object as reddish brown in color, with an elogated  bullet shape, and soundless.  Mrs. Jones reported that what seemed to be two large spotlights were on the base of the object and two rows of blue and green lights were also visible." 



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