1947-07-09 / Hackensack, New Jersey / unresolved
On July 9, 1947, Raymond Edward Lane, a Dow Chemical Company employee, and his wife Laura reported hearing a puff noise and seeing a ball of white about the size of a bushel basket burning a foot off the ground in a Dow-owned field in Midland, Michigan. Lane brought recovered material to the Dow Physics Laboratory the next day; laboratory examination found ordinary sand, a small silver nugget, melted sand droplets giving off ammonia odor, and a grayish radioactive material. The FBI Detroit Division reported the incident to the Director on August 5, 1947, and recommended forwarding the material to the War Department.
Round, black object, approximately thirty to forty inches in diameter, moving south to north in a horizontal plane about two hundred yards above the ground, no rays emitted, steady rate of movement, Hackensack, NJ, August 3, 1947 (Casella account)