Incident No. 403 Sighting Report — Pullman, Washington, 17 July 1949

This document, dated 3 August 1949, is an intelligence report from the 25th Air Defense Division regarding a sighting of an unidentified aerial object near Pullman, Washington. The primary witness was the wife of an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the College of Washington. On 17 July 1949, between 1430 and 1530 hours, she observed a single object that she described as a halo with a disk, which appeared to be spinning end-over-end. She noted that the halo seemed to rotate with the object, suggesting they were combined. The object was described as shiny, white, and moving rapidly in an easterly direction at a very high altitude. The witness observed the object for approximately five minutes. The report highlights that this sighting aligns with an account published in the Pullman Herald on 15 July, which detailed an incident on 12 July involving three men. Those witnesses described a 'big, shiny' object that was 'floating along toward the East in a kind of rolling motion' and 'glinting in the sun.' The military correspondence, signed by Major Winfred H. Gallienne, was directed to the Air Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base as part of the ongoing Project SIGN investigations. The document includes standard military routing information and references previous directives regarding the reporting of such phenomena. No physical evidence, radar data, or photographic documentation is mentioned in the report.