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Summer 1952 · the Tribune's county-wide watch · Run B #171
A press event, entered as one and not counted as a case: ten days after the Kloth sighting and in the immediate wake of the Washington flap, the South Bend Tribune did what the era's newspapers did at the flap's height: on 31 July 1952 it appealed to the public for help in a two-hour saucer watch, and the watch the register's floor dates to 2 August 1952 put the county's eyes on the sky together. The APRO Bulletin's contemporary compilation records the Tribune's appeal among the flap's documented events. No Blue Book case file results from the watch in the open indexes. Its ground is the whole county the Tribune served — Penn Township's rooftops and farmyards among them — and it is the closest the file era comes to this ground: an invitation, printed in the paper the township read, to watch a sky in which, that summer, a county case had just been filed as Unknown.
APRO Bulletin, 15 September 1952 (contemporary compilation: “July 31, South Bend, Indiana: The South Bend Tribune appealed for public help in a two-hour saucer watch”), with the register's floor dating of the watch itself to 2 August 1952.