◆ CASE FILEThe facts, corroborated
A Hub-cap Disc over a Silo near Boston, New York
At about 17:00 on 10 September 1949 three people filling a silo on a farm in the Town of Boston, near Hamburg, New York, watched a dull flat disc the size of a hub-cap at arm's length cross overhead from west to east in ten to fifteen seconds. Air Force special investigators checked the witnesses for Project Grudge and recorded no conclusion. This is the record of what three farm workers reported, not a verdict on what crossed the farm.
◆ THE SHORT VERSION
- A Hub-cap Disc over a Silo near Boston, New York is a reported UAP case in Town of Boston, Erie County, New York (near Hamburg), USA, 10 September 1949, about 17:00 EST.
- Three people filling a silo near Hamburg, New York, on 10 September 1949 reported a dull, flat disc the size of a hub-cap at arm's length crossing overhead in ten to fifteen seconds.
- Other farm workers refused to look and said they were "seeing things".
- Air Force special investigators checked the witnesses' police and employment records for Project Grudge; local radar was not operating that day.
- No conclusion is legible in the file, and none of six outside catalogues checked lists the sighting.
- For this case Fractured Realities holds 1 distinct source, 1 corroborating primary document and 2 distinct claimants on its resolved list.
- The archive grades it L4 · OFFICIAL RECORD — a released government record names who saw it, the top of our scale, though no independent testimony sits beside that record.
Counts are resolved totals of what sources say, computed 2026-10-12; the reported details above are claims in the record, not findings. A record of reports, not a verdict on what happened.
EVENT DATE
10 September 1949, about 17:00 EST
LOCATION
Town of Boston, Erie County, New York (near Hamburg) · USA
COORDS
42.63°N 78.74°W
INDEPENDENCE
L4 · OFFICIAL RECORD
SOURCES
1 distinct
CLAIMANTS
2
STATUS
Known from released government records
NUMBERS COMPUTED 2026-10-12 · RESOLVED COUNTS, NOT A VERDICT
