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The only pictures I personally saw were the stereotypical blobs. Cameras still aren’t that good at night, but what of radar sightings? Thermal imaging?

As for something so huge that it blotted out the stars? Who knows? I know it’s almost impossible to judge size and distance of an unknown in the night sky. If you can hear the airplane, then you have an idea of how big it is, but likely not how high. A meteor, on the other hand? Was it 10 miles high from the horizon or 100? A hundred miles from you or 500?

And I think of what passes for mass “entertainment” in this world, and I wonder how many of those who claimed they saw the UFO’s also watch TV or wanted to cash in on the “needle in the Pepsi can” craze, know what I mean?

It’s been a long while since I read those reports from that sighting. So, I would have to go back and look it up again (which I’m sure I could find it again). But, from my memory of what many people said — it was slow moving (very slow, maybe covering the sky in perhaps 20-30 minutes, just an impression from what I can remember), large and overhead (I get the impression that they were talking about not more than 10,000 feet up, maybe less), not making noise, massive in size - blocking out starlight (which is how they could tell the size) and then simply going on past.

Any more than that, I would have to get the reports (wherever they may be now). This was seen by so many people that it became a “city-wide sensation” in the news (for them). It didn’t hit the national press until much later for some reason.

That’s as much as I can say for now..., just doing it from memory, and my memory could be all wrong, too (in terms of little details, but not the “overall story”).

"Cameras still aren’t that good at night, but what of radar sightings? Thermal imaging?"

Trevor James Constable's 1957 Amoeboid Bioform 'Critter'