Granger, Utah: Private pilot chases rocking disc, airport staff see it, Hill AFB inquires

Around noon pilot and real-estate broker Waldo J. Harris was preparing to take off in a Mooney M20A from Utah Central Airport in Granger, Utah, when he saw a bright spot in the sky. After take-off he flew toward it and saw an object with no wings or tail, hovering with a slight rocking motion, 35–50 feet across and about 4 feet thick, looking like sand-blasted aluminum; within about 2 miles it rose abruptly, sped 10 miles away and resumed hovering, then left in 2–3 seconds on his second approach. Several people at the airport, including controller Jay Galbraith, also saw it, and attendant Russell M. Woods put its altitude at 2,500 feet. Investigators from Hill AFB arrived quickly, and on October 9 Douglas M. Crouch forwarded the Hill AFB report to Wright-Patterson AFB, noting no unusual meteorological or astronomical conditions. Blue Book nevertheless wandered from Venus to a research balloon to a sundog as explanations; James E. McDonald called the sundog assessment nonsensical. 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.