Grand Falls, Newfoundland sighting (Kearsey)

Constable Eric Kearsey of the Newfoundland Constabulary at Grand Falls reported strange objects over the town on the night of 9 July 1947. His report to the Chief of Police, dated 13 July, said he arrived home from duty at about 11.30. His wife, his mother-in-law and a family friend, John Jackman of St. John's, were on the front steps. They told him they had seen four objects flying east just before he arrived. Jackman described four round figures that passed overhead at a terrific speed, side by side.

Kearsey wrote that he then saw a single object flash across the sky, which he likened to a huge jellyfish. He could not judge its height or speed. He said it appeared to have a phosphorus glow, was round, about the size of a barrel head, and flew in a rocking motion. The group scanned the sky for about half an hour and saw nothing more.

A message from the Air Transport Command at Fort Totten, New York, filed 14 July, relayed a Newfoundland Base Command interview with Kearsey. It recorded four egg-shaped, phosphorus-coloured discs at 2330 local time on 9 July and a single disc ten minutes later. It gave Kearsey's rough altitude estimate as 30,000 feet and said the objects left no smoke trail. The interviewer reported CAVU weather. The message was stamped as received by AFBIR-CO on 15 July.

The incident became number 39 on a Check-List form, which listed the time as between 11:15 and 11:40 and the number of objects as five, four at first and one later. The attached remarks said the last object was seen by Kearsey, his wife and a Mr. Jackson, per the summary page. A second copy of the form, in another compilation, spells the observer's name Kearney. An Air Force table of 16 sightings listed it as report 14, at 2330, with a shape described as egg-shaped, or like barrel head. The documents give no explanation for the sighting.