7/22/1953: Near Kalama, WA, USA

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Occurred : 7/22/1953 13:10 (Entered as : 07/22/1953 1:10 PM) Reported: 10/18/2022 8:58:08 PM 20:58 Posted: 12/22/2022 Location: Near Kalama, WA Shape: Light Duration: 30 to 60 seconds Characteristics: There were aircraft in the vicinity or aircraft chasing the object
While at a swimming hole, we saw a bright light zoom up to an airliner, fly alongside it for a time, then zoom off again. My friend and I were lying on the grass next to a swimming hole in the woods. A number of our friends were there too. He and I were watching an airliner flying north. Suddenly a bright, circular light zoomed up from the southeast, flew alongside of the airliner for a while, then zoomed off to the northeast. Its speed made the airliner look like it was standing still. Earlier that summer my friend's mom had lent me a recently published book claiming the existence UFOs. I had never heard of them before, but perhaps this was one of them.

National UFO Reporting Center Sighting Report

Occurred : 7/22/1953 13:10 (Entered as : 07/22/1953 1:10 PM)
Reported: 10/18/2022 8:58:08 PM 20:58
Posted: 12/22/2022
Location: Near Kalama, WA
Shape: Light
Duration: 30 to 60 seconds
Characteristics: There were aircraft in the vicinity or aircraft chasing the object

While at a swimming hole, we saw a bright light zoom up to an airliner, fly alongside it for a time, then zoom off again.

My friend and I were lying on the grass next to a swimming hole in the woods. A number of our friends were there too. He and I were watching an airliner flying north. Suddenly a bright, circular light zoomed up from the southeast, flew alongside of the airliner for a while, then zoomed off to the northeast. Its speed made the airliner look like it was standing still. Earlier that summer my friend's mom had lent me a recently published book claiming the existence UFOs. I had never heard of them before, but perhaps this was one of them.