What happened
Litwin saw crew members pointing at a silver sphere that seemed to be following the fleet and took four color photographs. This is the Mainbrace sphere noted as "not triangular" in the triangle catalog (entry 9).
"silver sphere"The witness's own shape words
Witnesses
Wallace Litwin, American newspaper reporter; pilots and flight-deck crew of USS Franklin D. Roosevelt
Explanation
Explanation proposed
Weather balloon (Litwin's own assumption at the time)
Sources
- History.comhistory.com
- digital.lib.ecu.edudigital.lib.ecu.edu
History.com East Carolina University archive