Arlington, Virginia: Ring of gray globules found on lawn, Air Force sends samples to FBI
On the morning of 2 September 1952, Charles Walter Storm found a ring of an unknown gray substance about 18 feet in diameter on his backyard lawn in Arlington, Virginia; the Air Force took samples and sent them to the FBI for analysis.
Background
At 7:30 a.m. on 2 September 1952, Charles Walter Storm of 102 N. Garfield Street in Arlington, Virginia, noticed on his backyard lawn a ring of an unknown gray substance adhering to the grass 'in clusters of five globules'. The ring was approximately 18 feet in diameter and 6 inches wide. It turned grayish-blue by mid-afternoon and purplish-gray by 5:00 p.m. The Air Force removed some samples and sent them to the FBI for analysis. The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's PURSUE chronology (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.