Posted On: July 28, 2022

The year was 1947. The place, Fort Collins, Colorado. The witness, James Allison and his family observed eight flying disks in the skies over Fort Collins, Colorado. This is a very short incident about a sighting this family has while going to the grocery store.

Dated: June 18th, 1952.

Letter To United States Air Force:

 "I am a retired officer of the AUS, have keen eyesight, having qualified as expert machine gunner, expert rifleman, and expert with a pistol during my nine year tour of Army duty. The balance of the family at that time consisted of my wife and three children aged about 13, 10 and 6 years of age.

I was 37 years of age at this time, none of us had ever heard of 'flying saucers' and this sighting occurred at about the time of the first sighting by the salesman Mr. Arnold in Utah.

The five of us were about to enter a small grocery at the corner of Vine and Shield Streets, Fort Collins, Colorado, on a clear sunny day in June 1947. My oldest boy remarked, 'What are those things flying up there?'

We all looked up and what we saw we have all agreed later to be exactly as stated. Eight silver discs moving on a southward course toward Denver. They seemed to follow each other in a 'follow the leader' way as if attached by some means and would flash like bright aluminum when they reflected in the sunlight.

These objects were definitely round. When we first sighted them they appeared to be almost directly overhead. I called for my friend, R. W. Luhman, to hurry outside to see these objects. By the time he could manage to come around the counter and come outside, they had disappeared to the south. They were moving faster than some fast jet planes, I have observed lately. They made no noise, no vapor trail or smoke observed.

By saying they seemed to follow the leader, I mean as they traveled, each object would take the place of the object immediately in front of itself, giving the appearance of a zigzag movement, but still on a straight course.

Their elevation could not be determined as we do not know their size, however they seemed to be at about the same as most airline planes, which I would say from five to ten thousand feet.

No detail could be observed except that they appear round, flattish, and flashed bright like aluminum as they reflected in the sun. We had an opportunity to observe them for a distance of about four or five miles, as this grocery is located on the edge of town [ ... and] our view not obstructed by close trees or buildings.

From the time we first observed them until they disappeared must not have been over one minute. The sky to the west to our recollection was cloudless."

Source: Loren E. Gross at The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse, 2003.

My Take: I will assume AUS means US army. Here is a retired Army veteran that observed something very unusual in broad daylight with his family. There have never been any type of known military craft that match the description of these flying disks. What else could they be other than alien UFOs?

Posted On: July 28, 2022

The year was 1947. The place, Fort Collins, Colorado. The witness, James Allison and his family observed eight flying disks in the skies over Fort Collins, Colorado. This is a very short incident about a sighting this family has while going to the grocery store.

Dated: June 18th, 1952.

Letter To United States Air Force:

 "I am a retired officer of the AUS, have keen eyesight, having qualified as expert machine gunner, expert rifleman, and expert with a pistol during my nine year tour of Army duty. The balance of the family at that time consisted of my wife and three children aged about 13, 10 and 6 years of age.

I was 37 years of age at this time, none of us had ever heard of 'flying saucers' and this sighting occurred at about the time of the first sighting by the salesman Mr. Arnold in Utah.

The five of us were about to enter a small grocery at the corner of Vine and Shield Streets, Fort Collins, Colorado, on a clear sunny day in June 1947. My oldest boy remarked, 'What are those things flying up there?'

We all looked up and what we saw we have all agreed later to be exactly as stated. Eight silver discs moving on a southward course toward Denver. They seemed to follow each other in a 'follow the leader' way as if attached by some means and would flash like bright aluminum when they reflected in the sunlight.

These objects were definitely round. When we first sighted them they appeared to be almost directly overhead. I called for my friend, R. W. Luhman, to hurry outside to see these objects. By the time he could manage to come around the counter and come outside, they had disappeared to the south. They were moving faster than some fast jet planes, I have observed lately. They made no noise, no vapor trail or smoke observed.

By saying they seemed to follow the leader, I mean as they traveled, each object would take the place of the object immediately in front of itself, giving the appearance of a zigzag movement, but still on a straight course.

Their elevation could not be determined as we do not know their size, however they seemed to be at about the same as most airline planes, which I would say from five to ten thousand feet.

No detail could be observed except that they appear round, flattish, and flashed bright like aluminum as they reflected in the sun. We had an opportunity to observe them for a distance of about four or five miles, as this grocery is located on the edge of town [ ... and] our view not obstructed by close trees or buildings.

From the time we first observed them until they disappeared must not have been over one minute. The sky to the west to our recollection was cloudless."

Source: Loren E. Gross at The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse, 2003.

My Take: I will assume AUS means US army. Here is a retired Army veteran that observed something very unusual in broad daylight with his family. There have never been any type of known military craft that match the description of these flying disks. What else could they be other than alien UFOs?