Terre Haute, Indiana: CAA communicator and private pilot see silvery flattened object
On October 9, 1951, CAA communicator Roy A. Messmore at Hulman Municipal Airport near Terre Haute, Indiana, and private pilot Charles Warren near Paris, Illinois, saw a fast silvery object minutes apart.
Background
At 1:42 p.m. Civil Aviation Administration Chief Aircraft Communicator Roy A. Messmore at Hulman Municipal Airport, five miles east of Terre Haute, Indiana, sighted a fast-moving, silvery object shaped like a flattened tennis ball. At 1:45 p.m. private pilot Charles Warren, flying at 5,000 feet east of Paris, Illinois, saw a silvery object like a flattened orange that appeared stationary to his left rear. It then picked up speed and headed northeast. Project Blue Book plotted the sighting and concluded that both observations involved the same object. 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.