Andrews Air Force Base Washington reported close encounter — September 1958

On or during September 1958, at or near Andrews Air Force Base Washington, District of Columbia, United States, the source reports the following sequence: 7 SEPTEMBER 1958 UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT SIGHTINGS The image appears to be a diagram or graph with a grid of intersecting lines. The text provides a thorough account of the object observed, including its shape, size, color, movement, and other descriptive details. TH MISSILE COMMA STH BALLISTIC UNDERSOOD MD COMMA ADC ANDREWS TOWER OPERATOR, ADW AFB COMMA T/SGT M ANDREWS TOWER OPERATOR, ADW AFB PD ADW TOWER (EP) SIGHTED OBJECT AT 0525L DESCEFING IN WEST TO NORTHWEST PD GREEN AND RED LIGHT THAT APPEARED TO BE DISINTEGRATING AS IT DESCENDED PD RAPCON HAD GROUND CLUTTER IN THE VICUIITY PD PILOT REPORT TO BOILING TWR VERIFIES PD LT M CALLED BACK AT 0633L OBJECT IS STILL GLOWING ON GROUND. THE WASHINGTON POST and TIME* Wednesday, October 8, 1958 UFO is a Reflected From Andrews Soldiers less object" which two Army miIIIIien said landed and took off near their Nla site at. It wasn't UFO, and while it was wingless It didn't land and take off a spokesman for Andrews Air Force Base, which sent a jet fighter to the scene, said." The report: on the spot probe of the report, stated It turned out to be a Potomac Electric Power Co. trucks, eerily reflected on the, unseeing glow' of arc-welder*' workers were using in build PEPCO'a steel, transmission line. Preliminary report of Air Defense Command investigating team so far indicates subject of the report was not, repeat not, a reported from Pittsburgh. THIS REPORT IS TO BE TURNED IN TO CHIEF, NEWS DIVISION IMMEDIATELY UPON COMPLETION. By Sep- tember it will have moved in to a distance of some 50,000,000 miles from the earth, the closest approach it will make until about 1956.