Wilbert Smith Archives Files Box 1130 16 1130-16-p006

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by Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark ©; December 5, 1948, a clear Sunday night the pilot and copilot of an Air Force C-47 en route from Denver to Phoenix saw some: thing that would set in motion one of the strangest series of events in UFO history. But the man who first witnessed the phenome: non, Capt William Goade, had no inkling of what was to come in the days and weeks to follow. In fact initially he was not even sure he had seen anything out of the ordinary. At9:05 p.m. Goade spotted a bright...