Three Air Force personnel, Master Sergeant Aluridus C. Holm, Staff Sergeant Robert T. Barnes, and Technical Sergeant Harry A. Gavagnaro, two of which were in Wing Intelligence, saw a large bluish/white spherical object with a long blue tail in the east, about 2 miles away traveling north through the sky much faster than a jet aircraft.
The object was.on a horizontal path estimated at 500' altitude, was below and seen against solid overcast cloud cover at 4,700', speed later estimated at 1,400 mph, no sound, disappearing in the west.