October 31, 1948🇵🇹Military Encounter
Military base

Lajes Field, Azores: Airmen watch silent yellow-orange light weave above the base

At 1:30 a.m. on 31 October 1948, S/Sgt Joseph J. Barnett and two other servicemen at Lajes Field on Terceira in the Azores watched a pale yellow or orange light move silently north above the base for 3–5 minutes.

Date
October 31, 1948
Location / Country
Lajes Field, Terceira, Portugal🇵🇹Portugal
Type
Military Encounter

Background

At 1:30 a.m., S/Sgt Joseph J. Barnett, stationed at Lajes Field on Terceira Island in the Azores, saw a pale yellow or orange light weaving slightly at about 160 mph. It moved silently in a northerly direction above the base for 3–5 minutes before disappearing behind clouds. Barnett alerted Pfc Robert R. Anderson and Theodore Vlas, who also saw it. The case is described in the Box 7 incident summaries of the PURSUE release. 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.