Source: UFO Reports and Documents 1943
California in 1943
In Escondido one day in November 1943 around 1030PM, on a dark, moonless night, the Sledge family, husband, wife and son, were listening to the radio when Mrs. Sledge stepped outside for some air. She noticed an object hovering 15 feet above the roof of her house, shaped like a disc with a dome, some 12 feet in diameter. The dome had square windows all around, about 30 inches square each. Behind two of them she could see silhouetted shapes like men. The dome inside appeared to be like shiny chrome.
Mrs. Sledge ran into the house for her husband, thinking that an aircraft was in trouble. Both husband and son had the object in view but could not identify it. A quiet humming, like a spinning top could be heard as it hovered.
As Mrs. Sledge flashed a flashlight on the ground, believing that the object wanted to land, it blinked out its lights and disappeared. The family kept silent about it until many years later.
by Shiny-Tie-126