Longview, Washington: 150–200 air show visitors watch metallic disc in falling-leaf motion

At 10:40 a.m. aeronautical engineer Molt Taylor, airport manager at Longview, Washington, was preparing for an air show when someone pointed out an object in the northwestern sky. He announced it over the PA system to the crowd of 150–200 observers, including pilots, who watched a metallic disc cross to the southeast with a falling-leaf motion, at an estimated 30,000 feet, 300 mph and roughly 100 feet in size. A second object was seen at 10:49 a.m. for two minutes. At 11:25 a.m. a third object approached from the west at about the same altitude, oscillating 48 times per minute, and disappeared into the sun. James E. McDonald cited the case in his statement to the House Committee on Science and Astronautics on 29 July 1968. 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.