Springfield, Massachusetts: Fighter pilot sees circular object shining like a mirror

At 4:45 p.m. Lt. John J. Sevila, a pilot with the 131st Fighter Squadron, heard a sound like a flight of jet airplanes and rushed out of his house in Springfield, Massachusetts, to see them. Instead he saw a perfectly circular object moving slowly westward at an altitude of 25,000 feet. He watched it for 5 minutes as it moved at a speed of 50–100 mph. When the sun hit it directly, it shone like a mirror. The sighting was reported in the Rutland Daily Herald and the Springfield Union on April 14, 1950. 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.