Elmendorf AFB, Alaska: Two USAAF officers see fast silver-metallic sphere south of base

At 11:00 a.m. on July 11, 1947, USAAF Col. Bruce H. Perry and Maj. William E. Geyser of the 59th AACS Group saw a round aluminum or silver-metallic sphere traveling at great speed to the south of Elmendorf AFB (now Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson) at Anchorage, Alaska. The size is given as 2–3 feet or 10 feet. The estimated altitude was 3,000–4,000 feet. The sighting is documented in NICAP's case listing and in Air Force and FBI files released in the PURSUE collection. The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.