Pikes Peak Railway silver object sighting, Manitou Springs

Three employees of the Pikes Peak Railway reported a silver object over Manitou Springs, Colorado, on 19 May 1947. The checklist names D. A. Hauser, F. J. Smith and L. D. Jamison and gives the time as 1215 to 1315, their lunch period. It records one object with a silver colour, in clear weather with no ground wind.

According to the narrative, a member of a train crew called attention to the object, which approached from the northeast at what looked like great speed. The men could not judge its altitude because it looked extremely small. It appeared higher than the top of Manitou Mountain. No shape could be determined with 4 to 6 power binoculars. The men said it lacked the physical characteristics of a conventional aircraft.

The object stayed north of Manitou for several minutes and climbed, dived and reversed direction every few seconds. Two of the men thought there might have been more than one object. It last appeared climbing very fast towards the west, almost directly into the wind.

The Fifteenth Air Force headquarters in Colorado Springs recorded the account in a report dated 2 July 1947. Counter Intelligence Corps personnel interviewed the three men on 27 June 1947, about five weeks after the event. The report gave the date as on or about 19 May. It was titled "Supersonic Platters".

An FBI compilation of 1947 sightings listed the incident as report number 1. It described the manner of disappearance as climbed very fast and out of sight. A second compilation of Air Force analyses carried the same checklist as Incident 92. In that version the narrative gave the binoculars as 6-power. The source and information were rated "B" and "O". None of the pages offered a cause for the sighting.