October 9, 1954🇱🇧Sighting
Close Encounter
Beirut, Lebanon: German firm's representative sees white object land and spin away
At 10:15 p.m. on October 9, 1954, Max Favell, a representative of a German firm in Beirut, Lebanon, saw a white flying object land, then take off vertically while spinning.
Background
At 10:15 p.m. Max Favell, a representative of a German firm in Beirut, Lebanon, saw a white flying object land. It then took off vertically, spinning, and was lost to sight. The report appeared in a US newspaper two days later and is listed by Vallée and Gross. 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.