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Case · C-120

USS Supply 1904: three “meteors” rising above the clouds in front of a Navy ship

Pacific Ocean, on the open sea west of central California · International waters · Feb 28, 1904

In flight Military witnesses

Unexplained

What happened
On February 28, 1904, at 6:10 a.m., from the Navy ship USS Supply, sailing in the Pacific, three red objects in formation, called “meteors” in the report, were seen coming in under the clouds toward the ship and then rising above the clouds; their apparent motion slowed until it ceased, when they seemed to move directly away from the Earth. They remained in view for over two minutes. The largest looked ovoid, with an apparent area of about six suns; the other two were round. The report, signed by Lieutenant Frank H. Schofield and published in March 1904 by the Weather Bureau's Monthly Weather Review, specifies that there were three witnesses, including the officer of the watch, acting boatswain Frank Garvey: when Schofield arrived on deck the objects had already been covered by the clouds for about half a minute.
Proposed explanation
The report calls them “meteors,” but considers their approach to the surface and subsequent rise above the clouds very remarkable. No later analyses explaining the trajectory described appear in the sources consulted.
Official investigation
U.S. Navy (report by Lieutenant Frank H. Schofield); Weather Bureau (Monthly Weather Review)
Words of the document
three somewhat remarkable meteors were observed from this ship

Official documents

  1. Remarkable Meteors (Monthly Weather Review, vol. 32, n. 3, p. 115, marzo 1904) · U.S. Weather Bureau – Monthly Weather Review, report by Lt. Frank H. Schofield, U.S. Navy (American Meteorological Society archive) · Mar 1904

Sources

  1. American Meteorological Society – “Remarkable Meteors,” Monthly Weather Review 32(3), p. 115 (article page) (primary source)
  2. American Meteorological Society – “Remarkable Meteors,” PDF of the original page (primary source)

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