Witnessed by a businessman-pilot at 6,000 ft!
On April 28, 1949, at 8:00 a.m., Leon A. Faber—businessman, radio crystal expert, and licensed private pilot—was flying near the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City when he saw something that changed his perspective forever.
At about 10,000 feet away, he spotted a bright metallic disc ☄️ hovering high in the sky at 16,000 feet. It was shiny, flat, and moving east—but not with the wind. It wasn’t a weather balloon. It wasn’t a plane. And it definitely wasn’t a cloud.
Faber radioed his experience in real-time to a group of amateur radio operators 📻 who listened in as he described the disc vanishing into thin air. No flash. No trail. Just gone.
His exact words?
“It didn’t become smaller and smaller as it went out of sight. It just seemed that very suddenly it wasn’t there any longer.”
This was just two years after the Kenneth Arnold sighting that kicked off America’s obsession with UFOs. And Faber wasn’t just some wide-eyed dreamer—he was an experienced pilot and respected businessman
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So what did he really see? Flying saucer? Secret tech? Something stranger?
Let’s hear your thoughts: Real UFO encounter or post-war imagination at work?
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