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5 July 1947 · South Bend — the sister city's ground · Run B #171
The county's first entry is a press-wave report, and it is printed at exactly that size: eleven days after Arnold, in the nationwide rash of Independence Day weekend sightings that Alfred Loedding's history of the 1947 wave reconstructs day by day, South Bend appears in the wave's own chronicle among the cities reporting on Saturday 5 July 1947 — listed with Huntington, Indiana, in a single day's national roll that runs from St. John, New Brunswick, to Seattle. No case file for a South Bend sighting of that date survives in the Blue Book archive's open indexes, and no witness, object description or disposition is carried in the record reached. Placement: South Bend, ten miles west — the sister city's ground, not this ground's. Disposition: none recorded; a wave report, not a case. It opens the county ledger because the file system opens there.
Michael David Hall and Wendy Connors, Alfred Loedding and the Great Flying Saucer Wave of 1947 (NICAP), ch. 4 — the 5 July 1947 national roll naming South Bend and Huntington, Indiana.