Codroy, Newfoundland sighting (Evans, Samms, Legge)

Three people at Codroy, Newfoundland, reported seeing a bright object on the evening of 10 July 1947. A check-list form in the Department of War incident summaries logged William Evans's sighting as Incident 60a, at 1000, with one object, a size like a dinner plate and a yellowish tail. Albert Samms, a child of 12, was logged as Incident 60b. The same summaries cross-referenced an account by Legge as Incident 60.

Harmon Field intelligence took statements on 17 July 1947. John P. Legge said he saw the object from his store door at about 10 in the evening, for about fifteen seconds, coming from the northwest and heading east. He put its height at roughly 6,000 feet and said it was neither a shooting star nor an aeroplane. Evans said that if it was a shooting star it was larger than any he had seen, and that he was sure it was not an aeroplane. Samms said he first took it for a plane flying high, then thought it strange because it was so brightly lit. His mother, the post mistress, told the same story.

Captain William H. Smith, Air Corps intelligence officer of the 1388th AAF Base Unit, signed a final report. It gave the time as 0030Z on 11 July 1947, an altitude of about 6,000 feet and a heading from the northwest to the east. It described Legge as believed reliable. It also recorded a second-hand account from a River Warden at South Branch, which agreed with the Codroy sightings. The report did not name a cause.

The witnesses themselves ruled out a shooting star and an aeroplane. Evans said he called it a flying saucer because it matched what he had heard on the radio. An Air Materiel Command document listed the Codroy event among its typical disc reports, dated 11 July and describing three persons and a smoke trail.