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Boomerang or chevron

5 cases where witnesses described a boomerang or chevron, from 1947 to 2008.

1947

Kenneth Arnold, Mount Rainier

Flying his small CallAir plane from Chehalis toward Yakima, Idaho businessman Kenneth Arnold broke off a search for a missing Marine transport when a sharp flash caught…

UnresolvedArmy Air Forces: mirage (formal public conclusion, 1947)
1951

Lubbock Lights, Texas

On the evening of 25 August 1951 three Texas Technological College professors relaxing in a backyard in Lubbock saw a loose arc of twenty or thirty soft, bluish-green…

UnresolvedProject Blue Book: officially unknown (all sightings except one radar…
1983

Hudson Valley Boomerang Sightings

From New Year's Eve 1982 and through the next two years, people across the commuter towns north of New York City reported a vast, quiet shape gliding low over highways…

DisputedNo formal government investigation; New York State Police (Troop K)…
1997

Phoenix Lights

On the evening of 13 March 1997, people across a 300-mile corridor from the Nevada line through Phoenix to Tucson reported strange lights. Two separate things were seen…

DisputedUS Air Force / Maryland Air National Guard: the 10 pm lights were…
2008

Stephenville, Texas

Just after sunset on 8 January 2008, dozens of people around Stephenville, a dairy town about 100 miles south-west of Dallas, saw a display of bright white lights above…

DisputedUS Air Force Reserve, NAS Fort Worth JRB (revised statement, 23…

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