Map of the Cash-Landrum UFO Sighting Location

This map below shows the location of the Cash-Landrum UFO sighting, subsequent viewing locations, and the placement of alleged secondary witnesses. Some placements are speculative and are subject to correction.
(Corrections and notations last made 11/9/16)

This may prove helpful to anyone studying the case and trying to pinpoint locations and examining the timeline. Please recall that the incident was not reported until almost two months after it occurred, and the additional witnesses came forward only after the case received publicity over the months and years that followed.

 

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Compare the marked map above with this vintage aerial map:

Aerial Map of Cash-Landrum sighting location from 1981 

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A big thanks to DPD11 for this vintage map!

Dr. Leon Davidson on the Avro Saucer

Here's an interesting bit of UFO historical trivia, a letter to Aviation Week from Dr. Leon Davidson about the Avro "saucer" project:

Aviation Week Volume 63, 1955

     The recent USAF announcement that Avro has a contract to build what looks like a "flying saucer" (AW, Oct. 51, 1955, p. 14) overlooked one very interesting aspect of this aircraft, related to the Coanda effect on which its operation is based. This was described on pp. 456-465 of the "Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress for Applied Mechanics" (P.P. den Hartog and H. Peters, eds.; John Wiley and Sons. NY, 1939). One significant application of the Coanda Nozzle was its use as a motorcycle engine muffler or silencer. Not only did it silence the exhaust, but the backpressure was less than for free discharge conditions.
     This indicates that the Avro saucer will probably be remarkably silent in operation. This feature is a further example of the astounding prescience of the great number of saucer observers who since 1947 have not only predicted the shape and performance of the Avro craft, but have also almost invariably remarked on the amazing silence of "saucers" in flight.

Leon Davidson                   

64 Prospect Street 

White Plains, New York