Fairchild AFB, Washington: Two intelligence sergeants see sphere with long blue tail
At 7:20 p.m. on January 20, 1952, two master sergeants, both intelligence specialists, saw a large bluish-white sphere with a long blue tail cross Fairchild AFB near Spokane, Washington, silently from east to west.
Background
At 7:20 p.m. on January 20, 1952, two master sergeants, both intelligence specialists, were walking down a street at Fairchild AFB near Spokane, Washington, when they noticed a large, bluish-white, spherical object approaching from the east. It passed north of their position, traveling horizontally and silently, and disappeared in the west. They noticed that it had a long blue tail. According to the entry, it traveled beneath low cloud cover at 4,700 feet at 1,400 mph. 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.