Elsinore, California: Dwight Lewis sees oval object emerge from forest-fire smoke
At 11:30 a.m. on September 12, 1956, Riverside County schools consultant Dwight Lewis saw an oval object emerge from the smoke of a forest fire in Elsinore, California, and hover for 5 minutes at about 5,000 feet.
Background
At 11:30 a.m. Riverside County Schools Consultant Dwight Lewis saw an oval object emerge from a cloud of smoke and ashes coming from a forest fire in Elsinore, California. It hovered for 5 minutes at about 5,000 feet, glittering in the sun, and then moved away to the south. Eberhart cites case 218 in CRIFO Orbit (November 2, 1956) and Loren E. Gross's history of September–October 1956. 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.