A silvery, disk shaped object had been visually sighted by crew and personnel from the Hanford radar station and confirmed on radar.USAF F-82 fighter pilot Walter was scrambled from Larson AFB, WA, to intercept object hovering over Hanford at 17,000' to 20,000', sighted visually and on radar, by Hanford radar station personnel 637th Air Defense Control Center.
The object accelerated away to the South, before the F-82 could intercept it.