Ontario man claims family saw fleet of UFOs in Ireland

The date was July 6, 1947, just one day before the Roswell Incident. The R.V. Allen family that now resides in Ontario was in Ireland at the time.
"The rancher said that while he and Mrs. Allen and their daughter Dolores were seated in their motor car about 9:30 p.m., they saw a whole `school' of the strange discs overhead from south to north and insisted that they played about in the air just as perch do in the water,"' wrote the Ontario Daily Report the next day.

And they were not the only ones to see these UFOs. B.A. Runner reported several of the discs “sailed over his house about 8 p.m., circled about and returned, one of them flying so low that the sound of an attached motor could be distinctly heard."

The following day, a report surfaced on the recovery of a “flying disc” by the U.S. Army.

From that historic day, a flurry of sightings occurred, including the following:

Jerry McAdams saw a disc "big as a house" in Beverly Hills: "It seemed to give off a low whistle as it disappeared."

On the morning of July 10, Pomona residents on West 10th Street told the Pomona Progress-Bulletin they saw three tumbling objects in the air, each sparkling as the sun reflected off them.

A front-page story in the July 7 Daily Report said a plane shot down a flying saucer over Montana and included quotes from the pilot and his cameraman. But on the next page of the same edition was a last-minute bulletin saying it was a hoax - the story grew from several of the pilot's friends sitting around telling tales.

On July 8, a reward of $1,000 was offered for anyone who could capture one of these flying things. And it wasn’t long before a North Hollywood man planned to ask for the $1,000 prize after a 30-inch disc conveniently landed in his garden. It contained a radio tube and two exhaust pipes and spewed out a lot of smoke.

While some reports have turned out to be hoaxes, this one from Ireland takes the cake. Police in Pomona captured two young fellows atop a building under construction on July 8. They had built a 20-pound saucer fabricated from two plow blades with attached batteries and wires. They had planned on setting it on fire and hurling it into the road intersection below to frighten people in the area.