PURSUE Release 03 — US AirForce Analysis of Flying Objects in the US 101 172 (DOW-UAP-D088)

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of February 18 over ncrtt.ern l\ansas was just t.hat, inasrmch as meteorites have been recovered tron i t. 11 Thore were found , be(;ir nine 1.prU 211, first

sever al su.lla fra..,-en:.s JJ) to ore of 4 1/2 pounds . Then a disturl ed spot in a clover f’ield led to “the di i:giI1e up of a r i PC& of so e 109 po\l1llls e edded about two feet in the soil. The st.one i s nhat is tenred aa an “achondrite”, a technical name f or an unusual cy-pe or stony m teorite. It is reported t o be of a tYJ hi ch will detAriora~a rapidly.

A p otorrHph or t r e trail of the meteor, r:l.’.lde by amateur p.otor,r ~her Duane ,I. ~“fr117 of Nortor , shows tho vapor tridl left in the sky by t.he exploaiol“‘l of a ~eteor whi ch wa s secl’I 1r Oklahooa, t,ew -exic o, Colorado , Kansas, ard uebr .,~ka . It wu m:.de at. uray 1 s },oae, ni.Je mil,-.s rort·1 or Norton , jlPt tour r.,inutes after the teer XJ loded . A ~r:n.cce of blue wliite smoktio remained in the sky £or an hour 1’ ebruary Wth . ’!‘his pboto craph is in tile under lri i ent ‘1101 . Furthe r r emarke are contained in supplemen t .

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peculiarities To call at.ten ti.on t.o so in connection, whe her coincid ntal er not

AccordinG to ‘Vl AP bulletin appeari”’ 1n the Pueblo CHIEFTAIN for Fehruary US , 19116, sone ohj ect was seeu moving eastward across the sky or tt-.n late artemoon of 1” bruary IBth, ard en this UiinG re’lcl ed a po:iition ap1,roxi.mate to l!orcatur , Kansas, c:xploded , or disrupted, or disappeared. The ex plosion is said t.o ha· e been terrific. Dir,..ction:i gi.vi::n as to •he prccress or tJ is appearance i n rticate Unt it rii< ved from west to east. Information con ,ained in t,hc dispatch under a Denver dateline in1i ·ate that ile mar,y would call this object a bolide e . , . , expl din meteor - the astronomP.rs of Chamberlin Vbservator y (iJenvor) did not so assess it : it is said in U e dispatch that t se offic1al• could offer no explanation of it. If this 1.s t ca· e, the a ;:,para.nee is anomalous , a nd may lend 1 tseli to other meteoric expla nation . A sb tch~iaGJ”Bm of t ~ earth and moon I s orbit reveals a pe culiarity in coMcction wi tt thP appearance , 1’hich may be &1E;nJ.ficant . Ir a line i s s •r icken r..it r ight- anrl“‘s ‘lcross the meridio“‘a.l position o r the s:ite of expl “‘sion r this oeteor at hour argl • fo •ir o’clock (local time) and t ds line be con::idered the west- to-eai:;t cours of thP object, tten it will bo St en t 1at if • iB line i .. c !’It n’ d tward ir to ‘lpace toward t.ho orbit of t t e moon it will intersect the lunar orbit at a pla nPar to wt re the moon would be at fron 60 to one huncir ed h urs after the explosion t .,ok } lace.

Uew moon occ11rrud at 9 0 10 H 2 U Februarn First uurt er at 1 7D ‘H . F’e’ ruary - the noon ciov s -i1 I r ox1111ately 12. 5 do r rees per d::i:• alon 1~ its orbit.

— - ----•~ ----It is held by rocketry experts (example, WILLY LEY - see his ROCKE’IS, p. 192, diagram and note in c onne c tion there with) that it wol,ll.d take about 100 hours f or a rocket-craf t to negotiate the di stance from Earth to Moon. Prior to its ~xplosion over Norcatur, this object of Feb. 18th was variously reported as a “falling plane”, a ” jet plane”, and a ”ball of fire 11 • It is said by some to have l eft a trail of smoke behind it. It is the suggestion of this writer that the Army collect

am assimilate reports on this obj ect , with a view t o

determining where it was seen as an object trailint: smoke and llhe re as a ball of f ire. If this thing is a r ocket of some kind headed fo r the moon,

it might first have been seen as a streak of s r.oke, then later as a ball of fire , and las tly as a tremendous ex plosion when it at last reached sufficient speed and eleva tion for take-off . The writer has in mind the various and unexplained r e1.,orts on “!lying saucers”, and bases this speculation upon a lonb c onsideration of various oddments of reports whose significance might be of epace-craf t f r om other worlds of space. The so- called “meteori c procession” which crossed Tor on t o in February 1913, consisted of a number of u oups or illimunated bodies traveling in v oups of thre e an:l moving in “rigid formation”, all pursuing a course acr oss the same streak of the earth’s surface . J.r a line is proj ected backward along ·t his line of fli ght it will be seen that this line “comes out” at the position of the moon at the time . The 1913 phenomenon occ urred in the mid-period of a series of reports on dirigible aircraft of appearance like zeppelins which were seen over :&, gland an:i whos e appearance terminated - or reports on the appearances stopped - j ust prior to the inferior conjt.mc tion of Venus of April 24, 19 13 . The writer begs to call attention to the f act that the times prior to and just after inferior conjunction of Venus are prolific in r eports of stran ge t hin gs seen i n the sky. Also t }at lights have been r eported on t he moon from time to time, back f or at l east a century. Ir in thr future of mil itary experiment the moon is selected as a base for the launching of r ockets (which has been sugges ted by some writers), it may be wel l to look first

i·1to •·er orts like Vis one or1 Lhe explosion ovf”r Norcatur aw1 1.hc di t·PctioT’ 1)1’ the nhject in•,olved . Tl·ere is n r,os:,i. bilitv , 1 O-rev“‘r r cMote this r:iay seem, that

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.I.larch 14, 1948 FILE REF: - SIGGE-U-1 From:

Norman G. Uarkham MAIN HOT£L, Pueblo, Colo

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Norcatur , ~s., sky explosion of lS February, 1946

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To shc,,r a speculation regard ing tho above phenomenon and another one of earlier date and to call attention to occurrences between the two which have an appearance of relationship whether coinci dental or not.

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The geographical position of the Norcatur explosion s uggests poss ible with other occurrences happening inside latitooinal limits arbitrarily demarkable between 43 ° 36 1 North (which is the lati tooe of Ooise, Idaho) and 36° 10 1 North ( the lati tu:ie of Nashville, Tenn.)., a belt about 485 miles wide. linka.!;8

‘lbis suegestion is gained from positions given for occurrences happening between June 24., 1947 and February 18 , 1948, as s hall be hereinaft er briefly described,

THE OOISE (Idaho) OBJECT- This was seen either beginnin{.! or ending at 330 pm It was in the western sky, was of comet-li~ appearance, and settled gradually toward the horizon ae planetary bodiea set. It was seen bo.r Lt. Gov. Whitehead •u )j Chief Jus tice Lartpert. Its nature was unknmm .

24 June 1947 am was visible for 20 minutes.

The peculiarity which connects this object, for speculative purposes, with the explosion of some unknown object over 1~orcatur, Kans ., on 18 l!‘ebruary 1948 is the seeming of a relationship between the positions of the moon for the two phenomena:

In the form2r case the moon was at the date of phenomenon, about 7%, 63 before the positionof First Quart er; on the second case i t was about 8%. 73 beyotxi the position of first quarter. Since the Boise object was visible for 20 minutes be fore it sank this argues it was about ten deil”ees a bove the horizon when fi?1J t seen. Now if a line be dra1’l’l westward and at ten degrees zenithward from the

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horizon of Boise at 3:30 p . m. and another l ine be dra“‘ft’ll from tbe position of the o oon a t one hundred hours before the s ighting of the Boise object, and projected to t he center of the earth, it will be seen that this ten degrees-altitude and the moon-earth line intersect as a place tar above a geographical position considerably to the west of Cape Bla11ce, in the neighborhoodof about 700 miles off the coast. The Boise object in its appearance suggests a rocket-type ar craft possibly using r eaction blasts to brake itself down for a landing on the earth. The brig”lt point and plumy tail of the de scription suggest this, as also its apparent fixity in space. HOLLE ’ S 11 SHIP Ir F1J\MES ” -

Nine days after the siehting of the Boise object a forest lookout named F..arl Holle saw at o r soon after 4:00 p . m. , 3rd July, 1 ,47, something he took to be a “tanker in flame s” . This was seen horizon -ward f r om a point 1n Sonoma Gounty, Cali fornia , n ear to Fort Roos . A search waR inst:!. w ted by the Navy or Coast Guard, and nothing was foum . Tho s ov;et tanker ELBRUZ , w’1idl had been in t.he vicinity, was quer i.ed a rd found to b~ all right. This was not explained.

Ir this apperance had been on the hor izon, there is no telling how far it may have been from the observer .

CAPE MENDOCINO BLDAP H’CIDENT - Hot far from the l ocati on of Holle ‘s ” burnini; ship” an accident occurred to a navy blimp, 14 July 1947, off Cape t,1 endocino. This blimp soodenly settled into the water , slipped out its crew and rose ai;ain . anoMaly here is that one would not expect to find drastic do’Tm-<:lrafts of such violence as to thus upset a lighter than air craft. Possibly a dovmdr :ift a ccounted ror t ~ accident - but if the Signal Officer will look up the incident of the British steamer Talma w’,ich, at the time of the sighting of a luminous wheel- like phenomenon in the Gulf of Llartaban, reported a s lowin r: of the engines from some unknO\m cause, it may be seen that possibly forces are ,-:enerated in son:e manner by certain unk11own ohjects at time s in t he or ean, whi ch may have physical attraction for materj al objects . 1’1is blimp ace idP.nt occurring in waters where occnrred othP r phenomena shortly to be mentioned, seems to have a doubtful side t.o it. ‘1110

TI 1E OAKIAIID ODJ”EX;T - !!.arly on the mor ninc; of 13th Octob 0 r, 1947, a photographer named Hen Dobus togehter with a taxidriver named A. J. Goldman saw a thing “that looke d like Saturn with a rinc around it.” lt shot at terrific speed WEST,7AfID across the sky of the Bay area, anci was seen shortly after midnight .

This may have been heading in the general direction of what may ha ve been the goal of two later objects which r oughly resemble it in descripti on. THE TICOODEROGA OBJEC’IS - According to the tanker Ticonderoga’s secom officer, two “nyinc discs ” were seen heading SOU’IHWE:3T when the ship was in 43 degrees fifteen minutes north and 124 degrees 54 minutes west, at 0620 GCT, 12th November 1947.

These may have been heading f or the object seen in the Pacific off the Golden Gate, not long afterward - or possibly at the same time, if earlier reports on this are consulted. • On November 24, 1947, the Navy denied that it had found a phantom reef or other obstruction to navigation at a point about 4oO miles west of San Francisco. TM Navay Survey ship MAURY, s ent out there in r esponse to reports of ships that s ome hugh object had been seen in the water in tha t neighborhood , reported that when in the approximate 1 titude and long:1.tu:ie of the supposed obstruction they picked up an echo from soll8thing in the wa+.er 16oo yards f rom the ship; but that Tfhen they had steamed to within 4oo yards of thi s, the echo vanished.

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There seems a possible connectability between the various elements so tar considered. Later on January 7, 194.S, there were occurrences in the neighborhood o! \filmington, o ., Ft. Knox, Ky., Franklin, Ky., am Nashville , Tenn., all of which must be now familiar to the archivists of the Signal Office. Something like a “fl¥ing disc” was pursued by one Lt. Mantell arrl two other pilots, ~antel being killed while in the process of att emptin g to gain altitooe to get close to whatever it was he was chasing. Also, in this connection , it may not be amiss to mention the deaths of two military officer& ,mo were said to have been bringing back material evidence from “flying discs” one of which was said to have met with some kind of accident over .14aury Island, Puget Sound, around June, 1947. It Will be seen on inspection that the geographical locales of these incidents fit inside the belt of latitu:ies hereinbefore mentioned. ‘mE NORCATUR EXPLOSION was described in a previous letter of this writer, an:i it was shown in that letter that a line tangential to the meridian of Norcatur, Kans ., at hour-angle 2:20 p.m., would if con tinued outward into space to the orbit of the moon , intersect the moon’s orbit at a point where the moon would have been at about 100 hours after the time of the explosion.

Accordin g to r ocketry theory, it would take a reaction-propelled craft of the rocket type about 100 hours to reach the moon.

! sub,i. t there is n likelihood t.hn t. on .J1u11,1 2!,, 19!17, ~:mn,•thini; like a sp:ic c-sl i• ca• , l •~e fr om the r10011 and 1won Februar:· 1g, 19hS, returned to • hP. J’!IOnn .

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8•11. has ., nyone :,,,t, cxplatnel t.ho ‘1 fl·:int; disc:. 11 in ter1:1s of all th~ p1•etty-well proven fa<” ts in conuccti on vrith t.t,om? lla!l an·,one vet devised .s fuel powurful enough t o k~ck , r ocket !“rom l.o !.!0011?

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Th“‘re la·~ beer hw lreus o!.” reports, durlnc the pnst century, on oc~ 1rr,•nces which implv this world is visited from outside space. Alis, nee ,,f c..r1tact hy these po11tul-itahle visiting entiti,•s ma.v imply a st.ate of C)t lt.urt? frir beyond ours, to the point ffh(?l’e it wo11 l.d be inP.X pediPn t. !‘or th.,i r ·.,.obers to han. to do “ith us en-r.iasse. lhese reports hive na vPr Ileen seriously considered by science, wh ich in general il?)‘lore~ them . Howevr•r , acco!‘dir,1 .o Dr . Rocr.t of Chamborlin Obsnrvatory , Jenver, there is not ,int ir. astr or~~or.iy to expl ain the thing which expl oded over Norcatur. Jr . Ninin11 e r 1 s idea that t.he thint wa~~ a meteor fl:ltly di3rei:;ards Dr. Rocht ’ s opinion, wl it-h may have been based on the Jknver losts • statement that a nver ll’l”l’11.n saw t..he “orc:itur object twenty rninutes before the eXt,losion occurred. I sub, .l t th·,t the rmy needs men who are capable or r ecoenizing Un anomalies beforeri,•n ti oMd when they OC” ur , even if only to aid in s ecula tion r egarding tnm . The und,-rslrned off~rs his ser Jices to +.J1at erd, if t.he Arr,y may wish to avail itself of tl·em.

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Excerpt of letter dated April 11, 1948 from Dr. Lincoln LaPu, Director, Institute of Meteoritics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, to the Deputy Executive Director, Committee on Geophys ical Science~, Research and Development Board: Thank you for the surprising documents sent roe under date of March As you remark, certain aspects of Markham’s letters a re fantastic (for example: (1) the fir~ball procession of 1913 , February 9, waa genuinely meteoric, although a rare type of chain fall; (2) no astronomer could take seriously Markham’s 11 invasion by beings from Venus or the Moon” theory: <,) he appeals to, and biases in his favor, such untrustworthy evidence as newspaper stories, e.g., the absurd statement a ttributed to Dr. Rocht of the Chamberlin Observatory) . Nevertheless, Markham is justi fied in calling attention to certain incidents as tD1explained, for example, the 11 flyin 6 lenses” (in my opinion 99% hoax and imagination and 1% r eal). 3().

As r egards the Norcatur, Kansas incident, I remain convinced t hat, like the Four Corners incident, it was a genuine meteorite fall, although one of exceptional size (again like the Four Corners f all ) . Hovrever, there are many curious aspects of bot h these falls, some of an objective nature, like the singular fact that in spite of intensive searches (ad mittedly tmder bad terrain a nd weather conditions), not a t race of meteoritic material has so far been found; some of a non-objective nature, like the amazing testimony given by Mr . Leland Sammons, Mr. Alfred Gle:m , . and other witnesses of the Norcatur incident, both to members of the State H1gtiway Commiss ion of Kansas and to l nstitute of Meteoritics field survey parties. (See exhibits A, B, am C enclosed.)

Some comment on such testimony as appears in 1i.,B, and C would seem desirable: 1 . Glenn first reported the battery case as red hot. hhen I pointed out that the pa·‘er on it was not charred, his account was changed to “too hot to handle”. The Institute of Meteoritics party found only two men, not four, who saw the battery case fall. The battery case ‘1as been examined by Dr. 11ictor Regener, Department of Physics, University or New “‘exico, who stat.es that it appears to be identical witn the small batteries used in portable radios. 2. K. Hays ’ identification of the Norcatur object as a rocket has the following support: On the morning of February 19, I talked to the to,rer man and two assistants at the Air Base at McCook Field, Neb!‘aska. All three denied the Norcatur object was a fireball and described it as a filack object with an extremely bright jet of flame pouring out of t he rear. Furthermore, a l h-year old, and presumably unbiased, schoolgirl in Oberlin, Kansas wrote me a similar description of the “Fireball.”

A detonnined ettort is umer way to chock up on Sammons ’ veracity ( and sanity!) I hove neither seen nor talknd to -‘aMnOna, but another Qlllber

or he Institute of J.lcteoritics pnrty (Dr . D. M. Gragg, an Instructor in the e po “t.l’tent or Mathematics) l’mO did so believes Samons (who is a well- to-do !armor ) to be sincere am very b~~ly scared . Or course nearness to a bi& 111eteor1te fall would scare one as b:id~~ as an atom bomb; but •1ow could i t produce such tes timony as

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-------- •·a.r.: , s, n of Flo·,d ltw-::. , 11, rr.iles east of I ort.on on ll:i :;&, at the Jct . K-1—(), sn11t,h rirlc r~ i,tw>‘1,•· . At ah,-ut. c:; to c, :;o l . 1-t. • , not sur e of time , wa!: r di,: is hor se i.r a 1-t·,st,..n·e, ‘ften he 11eard s<.,r.!tttin1 quner int.he sky . I ookin, ‘J} to ,.,. south -west, 1~ .,av, wl a1. ;ippearcd tr f im t.o be a r c,cket, just li ,e ,. h·,d seen ! ·i.rin,• the war in … uror,e . l 1, startl ed ,im, and he j111,11cd ,""Jff the ‘or::ie . “a t.h1.:n r er101u1t,cd , 11ntcl;ed itc:: cowse , alrr.ost on a lir P-1 hut lns· ni; Hi t i de a lii ,le, anrl i1 then expl oded with a bir cloud of smoke , c.11 pnr entl;: ov , r 1\0:rton , from i·, 1,ere he vra, south of 1- rairie Vievr. JI., rc<le Ior, t oward hnr:,,,. ,’? wa_·fi , w en c..udcle-,lv t he sound and jar o f t he explosion r eadied i,, . I rs . l’nrs v,a:-; hone in tl e 1ous o , when s he heard and relt SO!’Y t..hing 1 likn a trud· mi 1; t h::ive struck the house . ,>he ran out o f the l•ouse and t. ~.en fit-r.t saw t.he h11,se clo1x:f , f SMOl.:E’ . ·,bout 110 minutes lnter , a part of t,he sr.ioke c l ou1 lirf’t ed d ir, ctl y over thei r ho11se, and went on east ovor 1-hil l iJ sbur t:• i<rmnct.h 1

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11-aJ.J.h ‘JP.w, J,ostm·!ster a1. Lor cat ur, that at. about l~ : 50 l-’ . 1.!. he was standinb j ust inside t.he front wir.dow of the rost.offi ce in Nor c’ltur , when l,e observed a blindir ., flash as if someone had taken a flashli J ht pie ture. dP. could locate no one wi t1J a camra, but noticed several men walkint; t,o the c,•nter o.f t i e s treAt and lookinc up . Ye ti.en walked out t,o where t,hey nere and looking up, saw a high cloud of smoke i n t h e sky almost diredtly ov er head s 1, a t , e d

but slightly east. Suddenly, about 1 anct 1/2 minutes after e }ad seen the flash, there was a terrific explosion an1 jar, shakinc the vrotmd and causine the windows all around to rattle. Following the explosion, there were several low reverberating rumblil’lgs across the heavens . He stated that tho explosion must have been very high. Edgar Younr: , 1 >0y living at Regar, just east of Horcatur, was outside the eleator, when he observed the eXJ losion, looked up and saw the huge clotd of smoke . He stated that it 11as almost overl.ead but slightly west of hiJ!I. He said that it was a bif explosion. The elevator man was out in the elevator, 1’hen he heard the e.xµlosion . He t ought tht his oil- burner had exploded in tho office and ran in to see about it . Fi.ndinr, i• O. K., he ran outside to see what had exploded, saw the big clo1.rl of ~moke hir;h overliead, slightly west.

Ea, tern Kansas newspapt!r carried a story about 6 days aco of one just like this one, coming from the south to vicinity of Iola, ~ansas, where it turned west and dis appeared into the sky.

Check with Chief Scott of Norton about a bum~~d flashlight b~~ttery which fell in the street of Norton just after the explosion. It was too hot to be picked up for sevoral minutes. Chief Sco tt has it.

Note :

A copy of Exhibit 11 c11 referred to in letter fr on Dr . LaPaz, was not received .

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Air Nea- Green RiTer, Utah

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., : ;r . :1 of ob:. r v ,r 771:ll Bomb Sq, 2$th Bomb Op ( VH), Weaver AFB. S.D.

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lc@odill pita ■•■

of’ ob~

rv1 t i <,n

39° N - 100° W

near Green River, Utah

100 miles

“11 i .url 20 ,ooo feet Very high

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Southeast of Limon, Colorado

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-:‘i,ct ic,: Ex} losion rate

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u1ulti-colored ball of fire

pdluge mulb. -colored ba] 1 of fi r e and tierise cloud of smoke

Vapor trail with ball of fire at head of trail ’ . r c c,nd i t i , r •.

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Hone

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A 11Ult1-colored ball of fire trailing a dense cloud of emoke w.a ai&hted at approx 1500 hours MST 18 Feb 48. 39° N-100° Wat approx 20,000 ’ b.r two~ aircra!t of the 28th Bombardment Groo.p (VB). It wa• seu a>me 100 miles southeast of the B-…“9a. Size -.ae eatimaed aa huge al.tho illpc>1aible to determine accurately due to the distance. It • • tr&Telii:ig at Tecy high speed and hea.di.Dg southeast of Li.Ioon, Colorado. at approx 20,000 ft.

Witneeeee:

Capt Boward B. Berodt, A0-49504. 718th Bomb Sq 28th Bomb Gp (VE). Pilot of 1st B-..“9 Capt Mairice T. llitenour, J0-48o43. 718th Bomb Sq 28 :Bomb Gp (VB). Co-Pilot of lat B-29.. lat Lt Leonard P. Marchese. A0-748714, 77th Bomb Sq., 28tp Bomb Gp (KH). Pilot of 2nd. B-29 lat Lt. Carl W. Stucld., AD-785916, 77th Bomb Sq, 28th Bomb Gp (VH). c.o..-Pilot of 2nd :B-29.

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Green River , Utah

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obr. rv r

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20 , 000 feet

Diroc i on of fl· 1·h

T• c- .ics

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ob~, rv ‘l r

‘outheast (of Limon , Colorado)

losion rate

Could not be determined due to

29 en ine noise

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iz ,., Huge (Seen 100 n iles west of the B-29 ’ s)

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Colo r

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⇒h .po Hugh milti-colored ball of f ir e and dense clou:i of smoke followed

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Oder ciJtn c

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Exh .u &

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ulti-colored ball of fire

N/S

co s -r u e ion

N/S

tn.ils Vapor trail with a ball of fire at the head of trail

Eff.i ct on ~l oud s

2L .

ko ch Js or photo r phs

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2055 C ll:ayrna• ‘l’enn. ~ r v r Franit L . renn, Maj, USAF, 00, Smyrna AF Base Col Ric.“‘lard C. Pettingill & Pvt Frank C. Jobntnn, • p. i :. f’ r •, r e 00 of Smyrna & radio and toi.ier operator•

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fr or.i C’h

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6 milea

About 5° above horizon very elov N

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a~ from 5:uyTDa

N/ S Faded awq l .

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Bone

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Unknown

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yello•r-0range

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Odor cl t, c t 1d

N/5 - •eemed to be flare

Bone

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2 ,.

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(oTer)

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ahovil:lg yellov oran,ge fi&‘lle-like oru

faded into horizon

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A yellow-orange object …W.ch had the appearance of a flare was observed eome six miles from Smyrna AAF between the west and northwest just above the horizon and movill& directly awq from ~ ’!‘he speed was estimated aa alow since the object t”ema1ned visible aome forty-five minutes. It gradna1Jy faA.ed awey disappearing into the horizon. No ubaust trail was seen and nqsGUDd was heard.

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TiMO

1100

Locotion

BelD:>nt, B. C.

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Pomo of obsc- r vor

Kr. A. C. Morri•on

Occupc.ti on of ob!jor vor

Sapt. Meter Dept, lbb Po\er Co.• Charlotte, I. C,

Charlotte, B. C. (n.uat Power Co.)

;,-:Idr ,…ss of ob::;orvo r

Ploc

Nunbo r of ob j~cts

Distance o!’ ob j.: ct f r om obs r vcr

Belmont, I. C.

of obs~ r Vl.a ti on

10 .

TiMO in s i ~ht

~lt.itudo

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Spc.od

105

(Sitpted from ground)

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about 10 seconds

B/S - could not be esti:Afted

Around 600 l4PH

laaterq

Diroct i on of flirht llJ .

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1r- .

S”und

lone - moved 1n atr~t line at constant speed without change in altitude or direction Bone

Siz~

From a distance - that of a small coin

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_bright or ailTer - looked metallic

18 .

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round or sphere (unable to determine wich)

Odor d tc.ct d

N/S Metallic

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i.p~~n r, nt con-, t.. ruc~~i,m

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Clear with scattered white cloud•

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Eff c

or, clouds

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s or photor,r l<p~s

None

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of di,.-ipo ••r r.~~

behind small -.dlite cloud

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NOTE:

Wi tn.eaa (Mr Morri 10n) 1a a ::l8Zl of e xcellent char ct r e.nd re :ut tlon, a first-gread.e e 1neer and employee of Iuke Fower Co for some JO ye r,. He impressed t..e agent u bei..D& conservt1.tive and sound and ia a t echnical man with a very tec.‘lniccl and re•. oneible poaition. 0

Mr. Morrison was c.ar etul in hi ■ 1t&t e:.enta. Be doe ■ not cl3ia he eaw t he ” f l ~ d.iac” . merely d:ts claiai_ng that tbe7 aav an object -..bi.ch tbe7 could not 1d.ent1f7 with any natural phenomenon or known tlJ)e of aircraft. It re1embled •a r ound metallic appe…ring object JDOviz:ig very r apidly. •

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Mr. Rezw.rix, aa1iatant Superintendent. Meter Dept nib Power Co., Charlotte, N. C. Mr. G. V. Jordan, Oaatonia J:lectr1c Co., Gastonia, B. C.

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RBkersti old , California

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Bakersfield , Cali!ornia

of otir. r·~, t i on

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~ltitud

12 .

Spead

13 .

Diroct.irm o r rHrht

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nd , aouth

st, t.o

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Vista Lake , Cali.t.

Two

10 - 12 ailAto

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i,.. d ice

earthward

N/S

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Sizo

17 .

Color

See::u.n;q on tire , bl.ack and red amoke t.ra1.li.‘1 G be~1nd

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S1.miJ ar to .falling airer a.rt

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Oior d tcctod Njs

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..p, r. r or.t ran

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Ex}viu:.t trt.ilo

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Hoo tho r conditi ons

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N/S

&-own1eh-.h.1to smoke and debris trailing

N/S I

.lone

or d i onppnarnno t’

Behind a water t 011Jer, which 1’8.1!1 an obatruction t o the • ie”ft’ Col!Dents of G. L. Buckner and other wi tnessea to thia

RoT1Wr ” : sighting cont ained 1n attached supplement .

n HEADQUARTERS FOURTii AIR FORCE

Office or the Assistant Chief of Starr, A-e Intelligence Hamilton Field, California 4AFDA- 3/120S- I SUBJECT:

TO:

Mar 11, 19liS

Investigation of Flying Disc .

Chief of Staff United States Air Forces Washingt on , D. C. AT’IN : DIREC TOnATE OF INTELLI GENCE Air Intelligence Requireme nt s Branch

1 . Incident reported on 9 March 19WS, t his headqua rters, per telephone call from Sgt A. U. Lar s en, Sheriff’s office , BakP.rsfield, California .

a. ubservation by Mr. (Geor ge L) Les Buchner , Bake r sfield, California, 0£ two objects fallin g to P-a.rth from unknown source on 5 March 19-48 between 1610 a nd 1655 hou rs. Des cr iption o~ objects s imilar to falling aircraft with smoke 3lld debris trailing . Observation made at Bakersfield with objects sighted southwest tovrard Buena• Vista Lake , Calif ornia. b. Ubserva tion by Mr. Denio , employee of the Pacific General 1lect ic Company, Bakers.fi eld , Califo rnia , of t.wo ob jects wlri.ch fell to earth from r unknown source no rth of Baker s field, California , 8 March 1948. One obje ct seemed to be on f ire with r ed and black smoke trailing behind . 2 . In1orl:l8J1t Larsen stated that searchin g p :irties, •1ircraft and rescue w,it~ ha:ve made numer ous attempts to loca t e these reported obje cts without success .

investigatio n of incident has been initiated by t · is he adquarters . Report •,ti.11 f ollolf.

/s/ Donald L. Spr inger DONALD L. SPRDlGZ.

Lt . Colonel , USAF AC of 3, A…!2

Inforration to : A.JC , •.!i t chel Fld , tl . Y. FfH , San Francisco G-2 , vixth Amy DI O, .Jan :.“r a ncisco (12th r av . !)is t)

HEADQUARTERS FOURTH AIR FORCE

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4AFDA-;/l208-I SUBJECT:

Investi gation of Flying Dis cs

SUMMARY OF lNFO.RMATION.:

Information from t he Sheriff ‘s Off’ice, Bakers.field, California, r e ve~ed that nwrero”UB calls from r esidents in Bakersfield concerning peculiar obj ects in the sky over Bakersfield, predicated an invest1c;at1on by their office and contact With A-2 Headquarters Fourth Air Force.

On 13th March 19~, tl’() informants, Mr. George L. Buchner, and .!ar. H• B. Nix, stated that they observed a flyinl object wh1 ch appeared to be consumed in fire, am left a br01m1sh-white plume of smoke , which suddenly stopped an::l disappeared. Secorx:is l at er, what appeared to be a i:arachute, was seen to be drifting to the east. The object, as described, appeared to be a burning fabric airplane, consumed in smoke. Observati ons were ~ade in Bakersfield o f object to the south and southwest, appro:ximately ten to twelve miles distance, arotmd 1600 hours on 5 March 1948.

On 13th March 1948, info rmant, Mr . H. B. Nix, stated t ha t he observed an object at 0830, 8 March 1948, due north of Bakersfield, approximately five miles distance. ‘I he object was a large, orange-red ball of fire , s omewhat larger than a smll airplane, appeared to remain static for a ppr oximately thirty seconds, then split and continued to bm-n ; each visible as a burning half. A parachute, with a black object hanging was then observed to fall, drift to the east an:i disappeared int o the hills eas t of Bakersfield. On 13th ula.rc:h 194$, two informants, Mrs . Callie R. Wason, secretary, Haberfelde Building, Bakersfield, California, and Dr. J. E. Johnson , d entist Habe:rfelde Building, Bakersfield, Cal ifomia , stated that they were in Room 518, 11aberfelde Building, on the mor ning of 9 March 194,S. L1rs. tAas on was a pat ient of Dr. Johnson. Both infor mants stated that t hey observed a !laming object which appeared at fi rst to be a very small airplane . Orange red nanes seemed to envelope the object w:i. th considerable black smoke trailing in a zigZag manner for approximately 4,ooo to 5, 000 feet. The obj ect was ob served R t 1,000 feet, appr oximately due north of BakerRfield, seven t o ten miles distant at approxi.na tely 0830 hours. Informants further s t ated that the object disappeared behind a water tower, which was an obstruction to their view, and was near the vr ound . Both in£ormants watched for an explosion, thinking t hat it would expl ode upon reachin g the ground, but n othing unusual was noted.

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Alt.. :our’ t, ere i. r. no ev-:cinece to ~uh;1t.antiat,c 1,h.. followiri 1 , it is o• ininn n” t’ is hAadqunrt1?rs that this acti·:i t,.: c ,1ld be t,t,rj b11te-d .,. rkc.. fl re” . :..: . further lc v.,.l oi :nents , or ovid,.ucc o taincd , -..ill be f n, rdPrl iJ-is na<lqu r torr. fr oo the lrriff 1 !l Office , hke r r field , Califor nia . t,1—.£?

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Loco tipn

Baker s f ield, California

I.. :!nmo of obso r vor 5.

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.Mr . Denio

Occupat i on of ob!jor vor

6 ~ l,ddr<.;ss of obs or vor

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Plo.c o of obso r vc.t i on

Nunbc r o f objocts

Distnnco of obj o ct from obso rvor

Sighted f r om ground

Two N/S

10 .

Til”lo in sight N/S

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Altitudo

Spead

13 .

Direction of f l i 6 ht

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Ta ctics

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Sourd

N/S

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Sizo

N/S

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Co l or One object seemingly afire, r ed and black srooke trailing

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Shcpo

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Odor dotoctod

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Appo. r ont const r u ction N/S

EY.huust t r u ils

Woathor conditi ons N/S

23 .

N/S

N/S :Earthward

N/S

N/S N/S

Effoct on clouds

N/ s ,

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N/S

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Skotchos or photogr o.phs None

Manne r of disnppoara nce

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Tii”lo in sfrht Approx. 30 seconds bofore splitting and burning

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9 March 1948

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Locntion

:-ramo of observe rs

Occupot i on of ob~o rvor

Bakersfield, California J.E. Johnson an1 Mrs. Callie R. Mason

6 . 1,ddrcss of ob so rvor

J.E. Johnson, Dentist, Mrs. Mason, Secretary

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Ploco of obse r vr,t i on 5th noor of business building

Numbor of objocts

Distonco of obj e ct from obso r vor

One 7 - 10 miles

N/S

10 .

Ti~o in sight

Altitude

Speed N/S

Dir o cti on cf fliGht

Toct ics Zigang

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S onr.:d N/S

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Size Appearance of a very small airplane

Color

Orange—red f lame

She.po

Appearance of a very small airplane

19 .

Odor d otoctod

Appo r ont constru ction

Exhous t trails

22 .

Vfoothor conditi ons N/S

1000 f~et

Due north of Baker sfield

N/S N/S

Considerable black smoke t railing !or 4000 to 5000 feet

Effoct on clouds

N/S

Sketche s or photogr aphs

None

Monnor of disappoa r a nco

N/S

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‘iJu, thvr conditi ons

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i~ff, ;ct on clouds

:,}:,,tch •~ or

r, r,.i ·cts

Undetermined

N/S N/S N/S

photoi;r l..phs

None

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HFJ.DQUARTERS STRATEGIC AIR CO!AUAND Andrews Field Washington 20, D. c. SAC 3~ (29 Mar L.a)

A2B

29 March 1948

SUBJECT:

Report of Unidentified Aerial Sounds.

TO:

Chief of Staff United States Air Force Hashington 25, D. C. Attehtion: • Director of lntelli gmce

The follo,ring is quoted from a copy of a l e tter, .8a1ti more Office, FBI, addressed to the Director of Intelli , ence, Second Army:

“On liarch 23, 1948, an individual, who desi red. that her identity be kept confidential, telephonically communicated With this office arrl indioa ted that she is the wife of a former mernber of the United States military forces, am that s he is presently active in American legion activities, but was emphatic in sta ting that she was in no way hysterical or unduly apprehmsive regarding present world conditions . She did , howeve r, wish to bring to t he attention of the proper authorities that during the past six or e i ght weeks, on number of occasions between the hours of 3 :00 and 5:00 ,L. M., she has heard peculiar sounding noises in the sky, wh i ch npr,ear t o come from airplanes in the dist ance, but the sound is not the type of a irplane motor drone T1hich i ~generally heard f rom ~me rican planes. She has discussed the matter with he r husban::I, and he be lie ve s t ha t t he sound is more like that of a foreign type airplare . J he r e ce ntly discuss ed this matter ,nth a:q unidentified v,oman who lives in her neighborhood, which is Hamilton, Baltimore, l>iarylan::t, arrl t his woman stated tha t she, too , had he ard the noise in q uestion , and that her husba nd is also an ex-G.I. arrl he has stated that the motors s o unded like that of foreign planes.” 2. No action is contemplated by t h is headquarters .

FOR ‘mE CO;IMANDING GENSRAL:

c/c furnished CG, JJKJ , Attn: MCI .

ALAN MARCEAU CWO, lliAF Asst udj Gen

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1 April 194S

Time

0955

Locution

11 .

l!nmo of obsor vor

Occu~~tion o!’ ob~~o r vor

i,‘1d r • ~is of obso rvor

67t h Fighter Squadr on, l,gth Fighta r Group

7•

P l ucc, of obso r vi.tion

Philippine Islands - S ighted from dr

Uumbor of’ obj C’ots One

Distunco of ob;, ,J ct f r-om obs ,:i r vor

124° 3 1 East, 12°, 52’ Horth 1st Lt. Ueyars

(Robert W.)

P-47 Pilot

3 miles

10 .

TiJ’Tlo in sic;ht Approximately 60 seoonde

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t\ltitudo 1.000 feet

12 .

Spcod

13 .

Dirocti on of fli {~ht 270°

Jb .

Toctics

15 .

Sriurd

None

16 .

Siz0

Estimated - wing- span 30 feet, l engt h 20 feet

17 .

C0 l or Silver

Hl .

Ghcpo A half moon closely resemblin g a f lying wing type acft; turtle ba ck a nd an indist inct dorsal fin

l <j .

Odor <l otoctud

20 .

,.p pu r unt oonst r uction N/S

21 .

Exhn ust tr£.i ls

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Vlocitho r conditi on s Scattered cumulus , base 3000 feet, tops 6000 f eet

23 .

Eff ,1 ct on clouds

211 .

Sk<1tch ,•o or

200 mph (disappeared in 5 seconds, in iicating great acceleration)

N/S

None observed

N/S

phot ogrc. phs

None

rlannor of dimippl.larr,nco Object leveled out on he adin 1~ of 270°, accelerated rapidly and disappeared from sight

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IIEADf.fJARTIPS , TPiltTEENIB Ai n ft,CRCE CLAR. A~ FORCE BASE APO 719

B-2/am

S April 1946 AG 452. 1 SUBJEC r :

Report of bigh ting of Unidentified ,ircra ft and/or Fl yi ng Ubj e ct .

Conrnandin g General , Far Eas t Air Forces, APO 925, u. -⇒ • . Army. ATTN : AC/S, A-2

In compl iance with “lntelliga,ce Reou irernents - Un -identified i\ir craft” and letters, your hea:iquarters, AG 452 .l A-2, 3 11 ovember 1947 and AG 452 .1 A- 2 , 20 ~J arch 1948, the f ollowing incident is rep orted . 2. At 163() hours on 1 Apr il 1948, the S- 2 offic er of the 18t h Fighter Gr oup contacted the A-2 Division, this headqu arters, and reported :that 1st Lt. Robert .,. ~eyers had sif:t1ted an unidentified flyin1: object. His s tory i s as follows .

On l f\pril, at 0955 , 1st Lt . •eyers was l eading a flight of f our l4) P-47 aircraft of t r.e 67th F’ipj,ter Squadron, 18th :F’iE:hter Group. He was flying a heading of 180 degrees , al titude 1500 f eet, position 1?4 degree6 3 minutes east and 12 degr ees 52 minutes north, when he sight ed an unidentifi ed d:>ject approximately three ( 3) mil es east of his posi tion and at a n estimated altitude of 1000 feet , headin g of 36o degr ees . The object appeared to be a flyine wing type a ircraft, its shape r esembled a half moon what appeared to be a dorsal fin waR barely perceptible , the s pan of t he object estimated to be t hirty feet, length t-wenty feet and silver in co l or. Upon sifjltint: theobj ect, Lt . - eyers immediately sta rted a l eft tum with the intenti on of interceptin g and to more J:OSi tively id 81 ti.fy this phenomena . 1’/ldle l !eye rs was making a 240 degree turn, the unidentifi ed obj ect made a 90 degree left turn, then l evel ed out on a headinc of 270 degrees, accelerated rapidly and disappeared f r om sight in approximately five seoonds . Ther e wa s no sound heard, ·and no exhaust trails were observed. At the time of t he sh ting visibility was unlimited, scattered cumulus, base 3()00 fee t, tops 6000 feet.

a. Because of the distance f r om which the sightint: was made, no distinguish in g features i . e . powe r \inits, lard ing gear , armar1ent oi, cockpit were observed . T-22190

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cockpit were observed . b. The interview 1d. th Lt. •eyers indicated that he is a reliable, nonxcitable i• dh i!‘l ual and appeared q •dte pos i tive 1n hia stateni,nt.s. It must be taken into consideration howe· er that he was t he only w1. tness t o this incidert, as t-e wu. \l”lable to call the object to t at tent ion of his thr ee win g-1:2en because of thei r maneuverir g in t he t um, plus the fact tt-at his radio •~ ~ •

Above incident repo· ted your headquarters, 2 April 1%S, 1n rm io, ci te KJ,i2L3H. ’

FOR ‘ll=E CO!!l >JlDING G

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/1/ Robort 1’ . DeLong ~ •.:.RT r. DE w m lat J..t., tSAF .lctinc Asst Adjut.ant General

BASIC :

Ltr Hq 13th l.F, APO 719 , ~ubj : “Rpt of vii;hting of Uni dentified 11 11.ir cr aft and/or f lyin ~ Ub,iect, dtd 8 Apr 4 •

AG 452. 1 A-2

15 Apri l 19uS

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HEAD4UAR ‘l’ :FtS , FA R FAST AIR Foi~ cES, APO 925,

TO :

Comrnandi nb Gener al , Air l.1ater i el Command, ,,r i l ht Patterson Air Force Ra se , Jayton, Ohio, Atten ti on : CUI

Referen ce i s rrade t o lett er Headquarters United States Air For ce, r. ubj e ct : ” Repor t ing of l nf or na t ion on 11’ l y in r Di sc s ”’ dated 26 Fe bruary l ti4,S.

Eva l uation of s i e}1 ting descr ibed in basic commun i cation by thi s headquarters is tha t in view of t he circumstances surroundin 11 t he inc i dent , t he obj ect was prob abl y a bir d . FOR ‘lHE C011HANDING GENER.AL:

/s/ c. N. Stewart C. N. STElVART Capt , AGD Asst Ad j Gen

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PRIO RITY FRW:

CINCFE TYKYO JAPAN oso7312.

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DEPT OF ARMY WASHING’roN DC FOR CSGID, COMGE?~A.MC WRIGHT- PATTERSON AFB DAY’IDN OHIO ATTN MCI RPT MCI

lNFOL: COMGI!NFFAF

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IN REPLY CITE :

Report control is A- 1917.

Pilot , 13 Air Force, at 0955, 1 April 4S, i,~lying

P-47 Aircraft heading l&:> degrees altitude 1500 feet i ndicated at 124 degrees 3 n inutes East, 12 degrees 52 minutes lijorth, weather scattered CFMULre Rpt CUMULES . 3/10 base three thousand, t op 6oo vis1 bility unlimited sighted fiyin g object prroxi mately 3 ·m11es East lA roead1ng ,e,o , altitude estimated one thoua·ind feet below him. Unidentified object estimated speed at time of signting 200 miles per hour .

Pilot

turned left attemptin g to intercept unidentified flying object for more pos i tive identific ation .

At this time n y1ng object made a turn of 90 degrees left, leveled

out and accelerated disappearing in a ppr oxitra tely- 5 seconds . turtle back and an i ndistinct dorsal fin.

Described as having A

The sahpe o f th e object v,as that of A half

moon c losely resembling A nying Win g type a :ircraft, es timated Win e span 30 feet,

estimated le n th 20 fee t , color silver, n o r pt no exhaust trail was observed .

Five

seconds elapsed t ii’e for disappear in g would indicate exceedingly high speed and great acceleration.

Reporting ufficer is consmred sincere and non-excitable type and firmly

belie·,ea he s i ehted object.

A r ep ort wi ll b e f o:rwarded upon completion of an i nvesti-

gation of t his i ncident . Received lACAA0121 9 Apr 48

1005 ( 1505: )

Typed by IJCAA0f21 9 Apr 4£

1359 )1859Z)ams

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Loc() tion

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::o.mo of obscr vor

Occuput i on of ob9o rvor

iddr c:ss of obs c r vor

Pl oc o of obso r V1c> t i on Ashley, Ohio (ground)

Numbor of objoc ts

Di s tonco of ob jn ct fr om obsorvor

Ashley, Ohio

10 .

TiMo in si~ht

11 .

;..1titudo

12 .

Speed

Miss Winifred Pa ine& - Mrs. Bertha Slack Mte• Paineal Asst Bank Ca shier; Mrs. Slack: housekeeper 227 W High St•• Ashley, O.

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N/S Could not estimate

slow-moving Southwest

Di r o cti on of fl i. [;ht 111 .

‘i’1_1c.tics

No maneuvers

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undet ermi ned

17 .

Co l or

Gh::; po

silver Ob long, l ong end narrow - like s ilver s t reak

Odor d •Jtc:ct od

N/S N/S

20 .

i-prn r ont con struct i on

:-‘2 .

‘.ile;oi,hor c ond it i ons

Cle ~r. n.o clouds ne ar object

23 .

Eff ct on r l ouds

N/S - no cl ouds ne r:r object

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Sv.rJtch.ls or photor,r uphs

~‘.unr.i r of disnpp,:::i r r.nco N/S

Romu r ks :

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Witness thoUe;l)t she he,,rd plane which appe red. to be flying lo,,., Emd m…king an unusual. moount of noise. Coulc. not locs te the plane tv.t did see en object oblone; in shape r-nd long end narrow which h; d the app&·re.nce of a silver stre,ak. It wns clearly outlinr-,d and moving slo~ly and et.es.d.ily in a south..-esterly direction -parall el to the ground a..d without charlgirig directio n.

Altitude a.od. size were Lot estimeted.. Note:

See Incident #1120 in which the plane was rerceiv~d flying low.

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12 .

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!>low - dirfting

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Uone

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Ilone

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1430

Time

Locut ion Delaware, Ohio

::umo of obser ver

Occup~~tion of ob~~orvor

Mrs . James B. utephenson Housewife

6 . I,‘1dru3s of obse rve r 93 Uorth Franklin Street , Delaware, Ohio 7•

Pl oco of obsu r vr,tion

1!umbor of objMts One

Distan ce o!’ obj o ct from obso rvo r

From the ground

H/S

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TiMO in sic;ht

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~ltitudo N/S

12 .

Spcod Slow

13 .

Direction o f flir,ht

Tactics

15 .

S r,uJ!‘d

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Si zo Very large - about the size of a f t, 11 moon in height but much snaller in width Colo r Very white

She.po Cylindrical, with vapor around the top

Odor dotoctod

Appn r ont constru ct ion N/S

Exha ust t r ails

22 .

Vfoothor conditions

23 .

Effe ct on clouds

24 .

Skotchos or photoi:;r aphs

None

Alannor of disopp0o r nnc o

N/S

26 .

N/.:3

Southwesterly

None

N/S

None

Clear, no clouds ur ound object

H/S

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Occupci.tion of ob~o rvor

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Pastor

93 N. Franklin btreet., DelAware, Ohio

Pli..cc of obsv r vt;tion From the ground

Numbo r of’ ob jnot s

Distonco of obj o ct fr om obso r vur

One N/S

10 .

TiMo in s i ght N/S

11 .

ltltitudo N/S

12 .

Spead

Diroot i on of fH r ht Southwesterly

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Tactics

15 .

Sourd

16 .

Sizo Not Stated

17 .

Color

18 .

Shcpo Ve:rticle, larger at t he botton and narr01f at lJ1e top

19 .

Odor d otoot od

20 .

.1~ppc1 r ont con stru ction N/S

21 .

EYJH1 u &t

22 .

Woothor conditi ons

23 .

Effoct on c l ouds

::>low

None

,lhite

None

t r u i ls None

Clear

N/S

Skotchos or photogr aphs

None

hlonner of disappoe r onco

N/S

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.. l""••••d lair &Id m~ a great, deal- et noin. Alter a tew seconds’ stud7 object became el.early outlined and looked p11:ifdlar to a vertical cylinder, large at the bottom am narrow at the top, w1 th streamers or strealca of vapor attached. i t gave t he appearance or a white cloud, but did not behave as a cloud. It retained its shape and maintained a steady movenent on a straight c ourse agains t the wind. The Delaware a irport was alerted •for i ts appeara1c e, but a fter a half t our it had not been sighted there.

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23 .

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Eff , ct o!l <’ louds

211 .

S’lrntch :s or photor:r uphs

25 .

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26 .

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9 April 1946

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Occupu ti on of ob~ orvor Pilot

,ddr •.:.s of ob s’l rvor

Plue ! of ob::.v r vr.ti on Fr om t he air

?Jumuor of’ obj ,.cts One

Dis tun co of obj <J ct from ol’>s n rv,, r

h4ontgomery , Alabama .1.,t .

Colonel , IBAF

l’actics Di v . , Air Tactical ~cl ool , Tyt1dall AF Base

N/S

10 .

TiMO in sirht

Five seconds

11 .

hltitud o

12 •

Spr:od

13 .

Diro ct i on o f f’l i.t”ht Nor thwest

14 .

‘l\1ctics

l~/S

16 .

Siz~

Top part eight £e et diameter

17 .

Colo r

Si l ver

18 .

Sh~po

Approrimat ely 16000 feet

In excess of the viewer 1s 310 mp h air speed

Had the aweara,ce of a p11rachute carryine a lar ge canister or

ball

19 .

Odor d ot oct od

20 .

Jp pnront cons t ru ction

21 .

Exhuu5t t r ails

22 .

Vloathor conditions

23 .

Effo ct on clouds N/S

N/S

·‘/S

t-lone Clear, visibility a nd cei lin g unlimited

( t rip )

Skotoh 0s or photogr o.phs

Sketch

25 .

Mo.nnor of disnppoa r n nco

N/~

Romu r ks :Lt . Col Robert B. Hughes fir st si1Y2ted the object r,efore com pleting an 180° le.ft turn over the town of Montgomery, n.labama .

e ·

object, sighted at ten o’cl.ock o!t his left win g, aweared a silver disc . He immediatel.y completed a sharp bank to t he left ar¥i waa able to get a bet ter look at the object, and described i t as follows:

T h e

t o

b e

“Top part of the o bject approXimately eight !‘eet in diameter, eilver 1n color, bad the appearance or a parachute. Attached to the bottom of this had been a dark cable or shrou:i which appeared to be approximately five feet long. Suspended upon the cable had been a large canister or ball (Colonel Hughes could not discern w.rl.ch) also silver in color. This r:anister or ball had the~pearance of being sli ghtly to the mar of the top part of t he object. The overall appearance of theob ject lo’oked s omething similar to the par a c,1Ute and canister containing photogra ph ic testing equipment dropped from a r ocket .” V - 2

At t he t irre he lost sight of the object, 0 ughes’ aircraft had been indicating 310 mil.es pe r hour air speed, aro the object ha:i appeared to fly avray from him on a hor izontal plane r ather than a ver tical d ecline . A sketch of the objec t is attached .

E ‘i.Hl 8\T • 1 •

8’ •

- - SILYE”

DA~K 9 ABLE ·

SILVER

. ll•c •

(

…

•

C!!-:-c;: - LJ ;. - 1’1 1 l•

::-..d:

18 Apr 118

,.,r. •

.. J!1

13o6 hours

:,, .

~c,· ticm

Approx 1 mile north of Fairbanks, Alaska Lt qtch Jobnmn

.,•:M r• ,:;. of ob~, rv J r

lat Lt (disc.barged f/USA:1 as per authority Para 1, ro. to dated 28 ~ 48) (eee) Ft Worth, Texas

Plue

Over city of FairbSDD, Al.aaka

C:ccu pt ti, n nf’ cb:.: ci r v1r

of obsi.J r·.~ Li on

1 9.

’

Di!:tunco of c bj, ct ‘fr om obsr r v, r

N/S

10 .

Tino in sir-ht

11 .

,‘.lt.jt,utlv

3pucd

l_;, .

Dir oction of fl trht

111 .

T1..,rt 1 cs

15 .

s “‘l.J’d

lt.> .

SiZ•1

8” in diameter

17 .

Co l or

eUver,y

lf. .

3 hc~ po

round alld. !lat

1~.

Odor dJtoct~d 11,s

20 .

hppnr…nt const ru ction

21 .

E:r.h•,u~t t r ni l s

?2 .

HGn thor c onditions

Weather clear and n.e1bU1t7

23 .

Effoct on cloud s

B/S

21 .

Skotoh os or photogr aphs

none

i•lnnno r of disnpp..-,e r nnco

B/S

Romnr ks :

fev aim.tee

2000-3000 ft

250-300 mile•

( traTeled. :0() feet in 1 or 2 second.a)

Oscillated trom horizontal plsne rapid speed) Bo sound

1l/S

no traUe of aey kind

•

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Object observed at altitude of about 2000-3()00 on NE-SWhead1:ng. It appeared to be eome 8 inches 1n diameter and f!J3.Ve otf a eilTery brilliantreflection. It oaeil lated from a horizontal. pl 8Zle to a ·v ertical plane at a very rapid pace.

htimated speed: about 250-300 MPH -(traveled I01ll8 500 :teet in l or 2 seeonda ► llo sound could be • heard nor were there any trail s of azv kind.

OO!’E:

‘!his ai&htillg ms, baTe been the refiection of Ellll from w.lrigs of these aircraft. At the approximate ti.me of the eigbtillg a ?IUlDber of aircraft were fiyi.Dg in the local area. i

19 Apr 48

1•

1615

. 1

• 1

I, .

• ,… ,

0-,,er Greenrtlle XI B:i.. , GrocnYille. s . C.

o’ •” r v r •

0 1·

l at Lt Francia ‘.i. Sennj n, Jr. & lat Lt Robert … Loollia, U.J ..P Both a t tached to Liaison eq. Greenv1.Ue

c •up• , i n o r o b: c. rv :,r .. !d r

b .

l ,c

•

of o b :i rvor •

Greenville AF Base, Greenv1lle,l. C.

Greennl le AF Base

r · t, i on

)1.

of o b

•

Ti:,

ir . i r ht.

I t.Uc! I

lr .

,.; I

J - l at firet , t later

!‘mu r o : o l j• ·t .,

115

lncil . t

f r ::1 obs rv r

15, CXX> to 20, CXX> ft OTerhead

2 minutes

15, CXX> to 2(XXX) ft

Undeterml.Ded..

Dir c t i, r r f fl

I•

, ,. (”

1 ht

St: t i onary, then rapidly acceler ~ting imd. c1i.billg

North

Ho•er~ then acceler&.tion and cl1’t1bi.ng

Observeo. trail format i,:m

l .

none aidible (7) - st tea: wrleter.nined

ir.

#itnes aes were ttr acted b,1 sound of fighter aircrftft in vicini ~. (no -aent’ ~n de of these)

wite .;1 , f 1 ,.

Cd r

ellintical l Jt ct

th r c ondi i

N/S

C”-VU

or pho o •n.•J ‘1:;

1n d11tance

(o..-er)

, I

Yitneaaea were attracted by sound of fighter aircraft 1n vieinity. ~~1’ atarted aearchicg the sky f or the airera:ft and sighted the objects. ahen first sighted , the witne s ses thought t~~bject s might

be weather balloons. However, lllhen they- accelerated eo rapidly 1n a northerly heading, they determined the objects could not be balloons. ‘fruq were in a trail formation on a lorth-South line. and moved so rapidl7 tb.e;r vereout of eight w1 thin a f ev seconds. From ori.81.nal s~~ting in the stationary position to their dieappearence, a period of JIPProximatel)” two (2) miDutea elapsed, orr which the objects wre in a 1tatio~~ position for approximately one (l)minute. NOTE:

Wind at 20,000 ft from 3lfo0 at 10 kDote per hour (1230 EST Rr,t) Wind at 20,000 ft 320 at 13 knota per hour as (1830 EST Rpt)

JIIOTE:

learest weather station relea eil:lg balloon& is Spartanburg, S. C.

One black: balloon vas releaaed at 1230 EST.

• ’ I

’

(4)

ln appro:d.mtely 2 0 0

(2)

(1)

llinute■ obJecta ba4 r■appesred

ObJecte began movillg in a llNE direction and rapidl,y acceleratinc and cl 1JDb1ng.

When firet aeen obJecte were 1n a ead-atationar;y poe1tion. J’iret one obJect waa aighted, next, another on, appeared.

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CEECK- LI :.7 -

lT !Jr::i!T I r JED FL’.‘HlG OBJECTS Inc id Jrt :ff U6

night

‘I’ it”IO

Locc t i on

}~ .

:1nmu of obsc- r vor

:i .

Occupr…ti on of ob~o r vor

n”.idr •,$ S of obs u r vo r

Moose Fae tory

Pl uco of obso r Vuti on

Moose Factory, Canaca

Mun bo r of ob j octs

i) .

Di5tonco of ob j e ct f r om obsorvor

Near shores of Jamee ~ .

10 .

Ti;t10 i n si~ht _,

11 .

l-1 t itud o

12 .

Spead

V. J. Pratt !‘mploye of Hudson Ba,y Co.

B/S

N/S

N/ S meteoric

Di r o cti on o f flt c ht

earthward

Bo noise

1:- .

S011r d

16 .

Size

17 .

Co l or

,jj/:£,

i B.

Chc po

N/S

J.C:, .

Oci or dot octod

20 .

i-.ppn r ont constr u ction

Exhoust t r a i l s

?2 .

vfonthor conditi on s Night

23 .

Eff o ct on c l ouds

2li .

Sk e t che s or photogr c.phs None

25 .

1annor of di sa ppoa r a nco

Rema r ks :

size of f:ld:1.xm:ml f ootball :Blue flame

N/S

meteor

■ t■■pxUgict N/ S

N/S

exploded

(over ) !. ., ,.. .

r, ,,.

A big ball of blue flame, seemingly the size of a football streaked out of the sq and exploded neer this North.em Ontario conmmity {Moose Factory) nesr the shores of Jsmes Bey. The explosion 11 t up t he entire area brighter than d.eylight, the wholt? ball disappeured and a second l ater a streak of orange light shot 11pward from were the ball was l a st seen. The orange streak was gone within a second. Witnesses heard no noi se of any kind. NOTE:

‘lhfs ties up with earlier reports fra;.n Cochran, 15() miles sou th of

Moose Jaw where sever~.J. citizens r eported seeing what they thought to be a meteor around 11.UO P . M. EST Thurs.

One witnes s ( a Mrs. Charles Giles) said t hat the obj ect plunged do’Wllws.rd like a spent rocket in the northern sky. She described it as about the size of a full moon which gave the appearance of disintegrat i on as it fell.

CHECK- LIST - UEIDENT IFIED FLYING OBJECTS

Incid -mt # ]&llJ 117

Doto

7 ~ 1’s

Time

15(:() to 1700

Loca t i on

Ha.mo of obse r vor

Occupat ion of ob9or vor

J,ddr c ss of obsorvor

Pla co of obsc r vtition

Number of obj ects

Distanco of objo ct f r om obsor vor

Memphis, Tenn.

Miss Jem B~. Housekeeper et nt al (aee other side)

Housekeeper

253 W. Waldorf Ave., Me!TKJhie, Tenn. Memphi s, Tann.

50 or Eo N/S

N/S

TiMo in sight

11 .

.Altitudo

12 .

Speed

13 .

Direction of fli ~ht

1L.

Tactics

Most traveled in straight line altr.o some of them zig-z~ed.

Sou.ed

None

Size

Very small

Colo r

shiny - like bright aluminum

extremely high

faster than SDY’ aircraft witDes ses had ever seen

easterly

Shcpo

Odor dotoctod

Appa rent constru ction

Some objects emed to haTe a silvery tail which might have been exhaust WoE!_tj’lor conditi ons CAVU, wind: 330 to 3qoo, 15 MPH at surfa ce 1ncreaa4ig to 66 MPH at 20, 0CO; au-face teJJi>: 72°: dew point 43° relative humidity

22 .

unknomi - possibly like meteor

N/S S/S

Exhaust trails

Eff oct on clouds 1/S

Skotchcs or photogr aphs

Bom

25 .

l,lannor of disappoarenco

N/S

26 .

Romnr ks :

(over )

0 ~

r-·

·~,, \

:, l,

,-:-

I) :f,’\ ~7. ’ - • ’ • I

f, .. d ’{.; I ’

J’ifty td6o ~ object• were seen moving at a speed faater than any kno111 aircraft on en laaterl.y beading at an extren-el y high altitude. Jor the uoat part these objects traveled in a straight line al tho some of them dg-ze,;ged eliglltly. Bo sound was heard. Some object• aeemed to have a silvery tail which mi&ht have been exhaust. These objects could not be.ve been weather balloons a.a only one balloon -.e released by the Menphi e Weather Bureau. th.at d~. OOTE:

Wi tnesaea thought they had eeen a meteor; however au.bsequent inveati&ation. eeeme4 to preclude thi• possibility. See Supp II to ‘l’rip Report to Meq,his - Visit with Dr. Paul Berget of the Observatory of CincinnEi.ti, Ohio, 1n which Dr. Herget expressed eerious doubt that the 50 or more object• obeerved 7 Ms_y- ~ 1n Menpbia were meteors. Be, waa, however unable to offer arrr explanation as to a possible identification of the object,. •

Dr. Bp.ak of OSU and Dr. Lincoln i.P4Z are to be coneo.lted about the poaeibility of iD:b these being a meteor shower. Witnee■ of thie incident were:

Mr. F. J. Kaiser, aaleamen 251 W. lfal.dorf Ave., Memr.hia

Mr, 1. J. Xaicer, housewife

25). V. Waldorf Ave., Memcbis, Tenn.

I !

ft: l

OPJEX:T

In.. 1:1 rt

26 Mar 48

118

1630 hours :Berlin Licbtenrede, lirchbachetraase 2

] ,

Dr Onn!!ne,

rv r f

“UP,

,1:lr

rv r

n r f

Berlin Lichtenrode, Iirchbacnetraeme 2

.•

Fonr.er guided mi ssile exp rt at Exeim:ietall Borsi,

b—

r·

r,f o t j

A.a abo?e

i n

,‘ur1b r

U r.tntlC’O o f nhj ct f r or., oh

l •

.-. ti~ud

14 kilometer•

l .

01 r c 1 .

r r 1 r:h t

Sou.th t o North

J./ S

l C:l

lI •

..: , ’ d

No sound re, ,o rted

l;:,.

•.w.te cotnt•

17 .

r-nlo r

White

ll .

:-;h~po

n/s

)

0d r d t Cl;Od

I •

li/ S

B/S

in nir:ht

ll.

,<1

rv r

2 1.

Er.hr,ust, t ru1l n

1/s

nr r.t cor.:. 1 ruct ion

No eXBD.at trail report£.d

hor c :,d i i n ..

clear

Err ctn

2 11.

Sk I ch n nr ph n t.or,r ,, phs

None

25 .

’ ‘onn r or dino p poa r nco

B/S

R mo r k c •

c l nud o

(OTcr)

B/S

Dr Onnana, former Ouided KiaeUe e ~ t at ~inmetall, Boro1g mentioned that be • ~ t ed 1 wite point lll)ri.ng fro• ~ th to JJorth at an approx height ot i4 ld.l ometera. apeed u.ndAtterm 0ed, r &ther f a at, no rpt of aound, and no report ot exhaust trail.

WIT.RESSES:

Dr and. Mr1. Orman.. So J)botoganh9 amulable.

•

mnDENTIFIED FLYING

of observor

•

.,’

CHECK - LIST -

(Tl IDENTJF!ED Ft~·rno

OBJECTS

D::.i t o

20 1eb 48

Timo

0700

Loco tion

I, .

i:nmo or obs(‘r vor •

Occupotion ot oblJurvor

hddrc :;s or obso rvo r

UJl,hs ·Chaco”

Pl oco of obso r vr tion

Bancb houa. in ne18hborb od o~ Villa Ba;rea

Hunbor o!’ o bj oota

Distonco o f ob j l ot from obso r vor

Ineid nt

f ll9’b

Villa liqea (10 ailea m ot Aauncion.) Rancher ~ laborera Bencher.

Tino in air:ht

11 .

Allitudo

12 .

Sr< <Jd

13 .

Di r ucti on o f’ fl 1r ht

111 .

Tu~ti c:;

J,.,11~d

N/5

Si1.n

N/S

17 .

Col o r

N/S

S h’, po

dieo

B/S

H/S

l,OCX> ft leas than that of a plane

weet to east

B/5

0d or dotoctod

B/S

, \p~n r ~nt constr uction

li/S

2 1.

Exh,1ust t r n ils

:>2 .

‘ifoothor c onditi onr. N/S

?3 .

Eff’or.t on c l ouds

?l, .

Slrntch ut> or phot or,ro pho None

25 .

~Jo.nnu r of d i irn ppoll r ‘lnc,

26 .

Romur ks :

N/S - gave off an intense green oolor

(~er)

N/S

e Perce1Ted a d11c &irlDC off on intenae green color. Witnea1 report, tbot the obJect traveled from west to e· 1t at a speed l•• • than t hat of a plane and at an altitude of approx lCXX) ft. Along its ed&91 it gave off an mireola w1 th the color green predominant.

’

c:r.:- •• - l • - ”’ : -:· : l D FL’ I’ 11/s - aro nd 7 J’eb 48

2•

. ir.

N/S

}•

Cccupc.ti n of’ obs rv,r

VeJle, Denmark

t:it”n

•

… r

s of ob’” rv.> r

fl .c

of otn T’.” Lion

:iunb r o!’ ohj cts

•

!H. orico of obj ct r r o.l!l ob

l •

Ti:io in ~ir.:h •

11 .

;.1 t :l ~udo

l? .

1~ .

Dir1cLior. o

l ,.

i’u~ ics

N/S

iJC to N\f

fl “rht

N/ S

Siz

N/ S

Ct’ l or

sh1n1n&

10..

:;h .po

N/S

1’;1 .

Odor cl tact d

nopn r ont con… r ue i nn

N/S

.Io hor condi i or.s

3 second■

hl&b speed

lt> .

25 .

rv r

2CX) meter ■ altitude

N/ S

Eff rt c~ rlouds Sk

GadbJerg (n r Vejle)

SI’\ I

23 .

fi eld laboraz-e

B/S

N/3

N/S

r.h s or photo ,r up~:; Bono nnor of dinop

R .or b; :

o r nnc N/S

200 l!letere al.ti tu.de

• throe qa ..Orkia« 1n ~ t i • ld tJl GadbJ e rg ( ne r fcJ le) .Dm:nrk, h4.‘ft ob er-.red • ab D ~ obJr et , t •i cb moved , t ~ Bpf!‘t”d cw r t he eky f’rom B.Ji..thc) et to northwest .t about 2CX) mi,tore alt itude. lt 1ned n.s1·b1e

. tor three ..ecouaa.

I I

CITECK - LIST - UEIDEH’!’ IFIED FLYIUG OBJECTS

Inc id’ J Pt # 121

D:.itc

9 January 194g

Time

23,0

Locc1 t i on

}.~.

I!amo of obsc rvor Hugh DuBose

Occupr.4ti on of ob~o rvor

Cartersvil1e , Georgia ,

6 . ;,-:ldrc ss of obse r ve r

Pilot (EAL)

f-4/S

Pl oc o of obso r VLition

Number o f objocts

Di stnnco of obj o ct from obso rvor

10 .

Tirr10 i n Si(;ht

11 .

rl l titudo

12 .

Speed

34° 10 1 N, 84° 49 ’ W

Air

One N/S

N/S

3000 feet

4oo mph

Direction of fli cht

175° M

Tactics

1’J one

15 .

Sound

U/S

Size

N/S

Color

Light , sky- blue

S he.po

19 .

Circular, except £ or t he top quarter w.1ich ‘tTa s .flat, potshaped Odor d ot o ct od !J/S

20 .

Appn r ont construction N/S

Exh uu~t t r ails

?2 .

Won thor conditi ons

23 .

Eff o ct on c l o uds

2!1 .

Sl-:otch 1s or photogr o.phs

None

nunner of di anppoa r anco

10 ° below the horizon

1’1hen obj ect crossed the p 1th of t he witn ess all that could Romo.rks : be observed was an intense blm flame , in a shape circular exce pt for

None N/S - —::— - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

1~/‘iJ

‘1

•

the to1, quarter ,•,hi,:h via.. flat , pot- f; aped . ‘lhe v:itnes:1 stat.es that the obJect definitely did not ha•.ie IJ e curved traj•~~ctory of a r1ini less Plisslle . Shartly after crossin~~ his path, t ,,., bl 1e fla”!e sp1Jttar:d an-:i tur ned 1rnnedia Le-.ly earthl’tard . ·11ie flamP t hen lied 3lto e1,her b ut nothing ”,as seen hittin~ t.he rround . ,‘iitnoss st..atea that t he flanc was •1ot ci ihe lonP, tr ·dlh1 tyue , bub ratr -: ve ‘,he imoression that you were looking down a lon: exHaus t stack at a •;}10rt but coi centr:.J. ted mas !‘l of blue fla11e and further stated th· t his connectL Jns with fl.A.I” pilots .in .!hclancldurin6 ti,,,. war 1-eads him now ‘,o Je lieve tr is ob.iect looked the saze as the 11 nuzz ‘3ombs ” chased b:· t ose RAf pilots 1t night. Arthur Por t~ r, pur s er on this fliLrt 9 Jan11ary w , a l so saw the ohjact , t he f~me only, but can }!i ve no fur t.her evidence for its i dentifi cation. Ur . DuDose stated on Apr il 7.”} that sever,ty- fi ve ~~at t le had ‘iied of an unknown lis@ase on tJ-,~~ farm of a ’°“.I:‘. Gor1y a, Ne1’tl1an , Georeia, and exprer-sed concern over a. possible connection between the unidentified o\ ject ne reported anrt t,is wiusual f a tality amonp 1—e althy c.at.tle . llowevv-r , tho Atlanta Uffice of rie Animal Industry Division, U. S . DPpa.rt.‘llent of Agri cult’lr”9 , ad.rises that thi£i “unknown II dis ease has persi sted fo r ov e r a year and ot her cases r e y: eated elsewhere in the coun try fo r some t i me ba ck. TI.ere apparentl y remains no basis for oonnect ion b etlf8en the obj e ct J.ir . Du.Bose r eports and the deat 11 of seventy- fi“‘9 cattle a t }‘ewnan, C’..eor gia.

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·~

, b lo! t· \J

f’

”•

‘Lt

5 AprLl lJh” i!/S

, ii-:u

l nc. t .i 0n ‘iollo’Tlan Air i”orce ,iasc

‘J .

(:ccupt. Lion ‘>f obs ) rv0r

., ld r •·.,:; of ob::;,. rv..J r ti/S

”( .

Fl ·.c

Di;.tnnco of obj n c1, fr om obs,, rv ir

of ob:;;,1 rv1. t i on

Trained 1:al.oon obsei•ver, Geophysics Lab Section

Fr om t ·o ground

N/S

10 .

TiPH> .i n s i Ght 30 seconds

ll .

rt lt.. i Ludo Ver-J high

12 .

Spr,od f a:;tcr Lhan any known aircraft

l ;, .

Dirocti,m o f fl i. r ht

1 1.. 15 .

‘i’uct ics Era.tic - conplcting a lar ge loop after its doyn ward descent, then soarine; upward and disappe a.ring suddenly Sr-• md None

16 .

Size

Large

l7 .

Co l o r

Ore y - Tihite

18 .

Sh(.po

Ron:nded , indis t inct fonn

J,1/::i

Odor dot octod 20 .

Appn r ont const ru ction

E:xhuu5t t r nils N/S

,!2 .

Vfoothor c ond ition s

23 .

Eff nct on c l ouds

N/S

C•.\ . V. U.

N/ S

Skotch<Js or photogr o.phs

None

~iannor of di soppoa r nnco

Disappear ed suddenly

Romnr k s : This was evidently the one obj ect , of t wo sighted by anot her wit ness , t hat veered t o t.he r i ght an:i down . I ts v a guel y

de f i ned for!’! c;avo t he appear.a.rice of a large object a t a gr eat dista nce. The s tate:t”tents of ot ‘1e r witne sses to thi s i ncident !:ir e c ontained i n reports 112a and 112b . All {ritn~sses a greed t hat the object was ver y high , moved f aster than any k. •mm a ircr a f t , pos s essed a r o unded , indist inct form, an::i dis appeared suddenly r ather than fad i ng away in the d ist ance . It was 1.tr1der observation 1/2 minut e s or slightly l e s s . .it wa s defini tely not a balloon., a nd apparentl:T not manned , judging f r om the v i ol ent mane uver s whi ch were performed at a :1igh r ate of spe ed .

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CHECK•LIST - U}!IDENTIFIED FLYIUG OBJECTS Incidrmt # l22 a

Da t e 5 April 19~

Time A.tternoon

Loco tion

I!omo of obse rve r

Occupo.tion of ob~orvor

Holloman Air Force Base

Mr. Johnson Tl-ained balloon obserTer, Geophysics .i..ab Section

J~ddros s of obsorvor N/S

Ploc o of obse rVI.ition Frorn the ground

Numbo r of objoots One

Distonco of obj o ct from obso rvor

N/S

10 .

Timo in sight ,o seconds

11 .

Altitude Very high

Spcod Tremendous

13 .

Dire ction of fli ght West

14 . 15 .

Tact i cs Object made three vertic 1 loops , upon completion of which it it disappeared in a large arc to the west Sound None

16 .

Sizo

17 .

Considering t he moon the size of an orange, t he object was the size of a diroo Color N/S

18 .

Shnpo Bore some resemblance to, but definitely not , a balloon

Odor d ot o ct od

None

20 .

Appnront construction

21 .

Exha us t t r o.ils

22 .

Woathor conditi on s Effo ct on c l ouds

N/S

N/S N/S

N/S

Skot ch c s or phot ogr o. phs

1,..

None

Mo.nncr of diso. ppoa r onco Disap peared s uddenly

26 .

Romo.rks :

to the right •

Presumably Mr. Johnson s aw t he object t ha t did not veor ( dee Inciden t #112 b)

He stated tha t :i.t was absolute l y

• silent on the desert that afternoon and that no atdible noiee was heard trom the object. Neither wae any s ignal nor atmospheric noise heard on the 400~ter receiver to wr ich he was l istening at the time. He further stated that the wind at high altitude that day was very calm being only 10 to 15 miles an hour from the wost at 65,000 feet.

The statements of other witnesses to t his i ncident are conuained in reports 112 am 112b. All witnesses agreed that the object was very high, moved faster than any knonn aircraft, possessed a r ounded, indistinct form, and disappeared su::idenly r ather than fading away in the distance. It was under observation 1/2 minutes or slightly less. lt was definitely not a balloon, and apparently not tIBnned, ju:ieing f rom the violent maneuvers which were performed at a hi~ rate of speed.

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N/S

ion Hollo:nan Air Force

r , C’ ophysics J..ab ~ ction

or ob:;o rvv r tl/S

,\ ldr

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Pl c

of ob.. r·•., tion Pr0t1 the ground

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l22 b

in d balloon o ser

ccuputio~ o f ob~ rv r

,rt

Two

ili.,tcwco o:’ ob j ct froo obs rv r

, /.::,

10 .

Ti:,o i r sir.ht

11 .

:.1 \t.uclo

l” .

Sp od l er y hi~ , faster t. :a, a y knownnircraft

}O secor.Js

Diroc i on of fli r htl straight ‘-4’ , 1 dis pearcd in t.he west Fir:tt O“‘e ~ ored o Jie right , start dawn was lost to Tiew. Tur.t t c

<,eoond ond made arc into ihe west a t a terr ific spoed and

So I d

dis , ~ar suldenly. N/S

lf.> .

Sizu tl/S

!7 .

Col o r

1 .

Gh~po Had ap: ea.ranee of a major •s iJ’1siE’)“li.a, that is, irrocul.arly r rundej and slightly concave on top Odor c\ot o ot.od •1/S

“ppn ror.t conti t.r uctir.n

?l .

Exhi.ust t r td l s

?2 .

11 n • hor conditi ons

23 .

Eff r.t on d ouds

? •

SkoLr.h s or photor.r uphs

I one

•· . nr. r of di:::ap

Dis

26 .

Colden hu,

1/S

l’/‘1

/S l /5

r cnco

pea.red s uddenly

Romu r ko : Ur . Chan ce wa.<i t.he only one of the three witnes:,es who saw two objects . ;,nen .10 firat , erc-eived .. en , y .er going 5/

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., straight up then one veered to the r ifht, started d om, and was lost to view. Directing his attention to 1, other object., Mr. Cnance s aw it arc into the west at a terrlfic speed an::i disappear smdanly. Mr. Chance described the object as being ot a golden huiJ, r ather indistinct 1n outline and possessing somewhat the appaargnee ot a aajor’s insignia., t hat is , irregularly r ed and slightly conc,pe on top. nts of o thor witnesses to this incident are contai ned 1n The stat reports ll2 arrl ll2a. A 1 wi. tness s agreed that the objoct wa~ vtsry high, moved faster than any knom1 drcra.tt , possessed a r ounded, indistinct form, and disappeared sudde’lly rat ,er t r an ftkiin~ a-..y in the distance. It was mder observat1.on 1/2 minutes or slig1tl..• less . I t was ~fini ely n …t a balloon, and apparently not manned , judging from tho violent maneuvers which were per!omed :i t a hi ;i rate of speed .

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Dute:

:!. l . • V’ …il 19~8

Timo

: :30

I,.ocntion

-. ,.~. ., r..o … t ~

:‘J./"" .1.l t

, l llir.’)iS

I!nmu of obse r ver

Occupc.ttion of ob~o rvor

F:r- .. ~ ” + :. r.c’i-.!. t Ai.1 J, ’€ “‘t h r’ I""‘:S , ‘r]—..;_ ~ c,t )T”f” cr-1~ t <. !.t”f: r..:.n. 0 r f-:>r ..‘ecrtcrs Ci..-!‘t… i ·1..r , Co . , ,.: t’""n . ;,,ldr u:i s of ob s or vor ·.-reE st Ern Cc,… t~·i, i” , Co ., .n.l.:,.Jr• 111. ,J .,

…nrl

Pluco of obso r·vution

!lul”‘\bor of’ obj oots

Distance of obj e ct from obser ve r in s i r,ht

10 .

Ti;,‘!O

ll .

.i.ltitudo

12 .

Spcod

1~ .

Dir o ction o f fli c;ht F/.:,

ll.i .

Tactics

15 .

So1rrd

Ii/.:>

17 .

Co lor

r../..,

18 .

Sha po

19 .

Odor dotoctod

20 .

,1.ppu r ont constr uction

Exhuu~t t r ui l s

22 .

Hc~thor conditions

… l ~ I

11 :‘la. ,. ed.

Effoct on clouds

its w1ng’S 11

rls I

H/3

• r;

2L1 .

Skotch ~s or photogr a phs

N’)ne

f. 1annor of diso ppoa r nncc

·_:r/s •

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li .. Y..

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.e ”’ ct t … t

t ..,n ce

Ti1’l0

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ir,c: tL·n

Cccup,.tion r, f ob ~o rvo r

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i:orth , tJ.antic , 62°00 1 IJ

,‘1ea t her station natrol

.,‘!rl r • ;s of ob:;•, r v ,0 r

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rbc ,.

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D.i$tuncu of obj;:• ct f r om obse r ve r

of ob:; .: r vi.ti on

33°00 ’ i’/

1<‘:irs t Coast Guard Distr ict

Air

Hi .

Ti!“lo in s i r::ht N/ S

ll .

rtltitudo

12 .

Spc od

13 .

Diroction of fli(~ht

15 .

S""""d N/S

16 .

Si ze

N/ S

17 .

Co l or

N/S

18 .

S he. po

H/S

19 .

Odor d otoctod N/S

20 .

, ppn r rmt construction H/S

21 .

Er~~a u~~t t r uils

22 .

1ilcnthor conditi ons

23 .

Eff oct on clouds N/S

2L1 .

Skotohc s or photo,;rci.phs None

6500 yards - 18000 yar d s

N/ S 30 mph H/ S

N/S C. A. V. U.

• Manner of disn ppoa r unco Target s trength was S5 fadmg at l S, 000 yards

Romu r ks : This incident is t he result of a r adar sight ing. is also filed in radar si ght ing file .

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This target r,as contact ed on tJ,e air s earch r adar at 1500 OCT on 18 April 48.

‘lhe f i rst contact was mad e at if.00 yards and was tracked to J.g,ooo yards The area i n w i ch the t ar get 1ra oont act ed “as th or oug} l y s earer. Visually a nd there ,·tere no clo,rl s nor weather f r onts in sai d area . ‘Iher e were no target i ndjca tions on thr• surface rad ar. The target strengt h was S5 f adin a t 1g, ooo yards. 6 i;iv:i..n& a velocity of approxi mat ely 30 m. p . h.

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D~tc 2 liq 19!¢

Ti.mo

Locotion

Hnmo of obse rve r

Occupat i on of ob~o r vor

Night

St. J..ouis, Miss ouri , 40°oo’N 90°15’lf N/S N/S

6 . 1\ddross of obso r vo r N/S

Pl oco of obsorvi:.tion

Murnbor of obje cts

Distanco of object f r om obsorvor

Ground

One

10 .

Timo in sight N/S

ll .

Altitud e

Spcod

13 .

Diroction o f fli ght N/S

llh

Tactics N/S

Sound

N/S

16 .

Size

N/S

17 .

Color

Phosphor escent after dark

Shapo

Bird

Odor dotoctod N/S

20 .

Appo. r on~ construction N/S

21 .

Exhaust t r uils

Woothor conditions

23 .

Effo ct on 0louds N/S

2h.

Skotch os or photogrc.phs

None

Uannor of disappearance

N/S

Ror::orks:

N/S

Se,, Incident I/J23

Inc id >r.t ~ 126

30 Apr i l 194S 1015

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lr.c: Lion

rccupr:.1..ion of ob$ rvnr Lt Commarrler, U3 Navy

Pbc,1 of obz,, rvr, tion

-) .

Di:;tunco of’ obj, ct f r om obse rve r

Anacostia, l’aval ..:ir Station, 38°52 1 N, 77°00 1W·

lG .

Tino in oir:ht ,ljS

11 .

,:.Hitud,., 4500 feet

l? .

Sp1:od 100 m. p . h .

13 .

Di r octi 1m of fl i.1~ht

1!, •

TII ct i cs N/s

One mile

360° N

l r .. Sizo

25 - 40 f t diaireter

lfJ .

Sh!.po 5phere

) r,, .

Odor d•Jtoctod

20 .

M1pnror.t constru ction N/S

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,: r:thor conditions

23 .

8ff ;ct on d0uds N/S

U/S

N/ S

Sb,tch ·s or photo~ruphs

Non e

2’) .

r:cnrvr of disnpp«oronco

‘l/S

The 01~ject appe ired “to the pilot to be a yellow (or l ight colored) balloon , am attracted attention principally because Romurks :

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of its night path. No external f i ttings or attachments “l’lere observed on the object. The speed of he object was estimated at about 100 m.p.h . ‘Iha flieht of the object ~~. as in a_riproximately a south to north direction , cle~~pHe upper winds f r om north northl’fes t, and apparently fol.lowed a con stant alti tu:ie . Pilot did not pursue object t urther because it was enting the prohibited f l ying area, u.~. Capitol, White House Area .

Cf!ECK - L IST - ttt-:IDENT JFIED FLYHlG OBJECTS

Inc id mt #- 127

D:.ttc

Time

Locot i on Lake Doiran , alonB the Yugoslav- Greek .fr ontier

I~ .

:ramo

0c cup~~ti on of ob~~o rvor

N/S

of ob::;c r vc r N/S

N/S

6 . ;,dd r o=,s of obse rve r N/S 7.

Ploc o of obso r wt i on

Ground

Numbe r of objocts One

Distance of object f r om obsorvor

N/S

l G.

TL“‘r\o in sight N/S

11 .

,‘..ltitud o 3000 feet

12 .

Speed

13 .

Diroction of fli {~ht l tJ0°

111 .

Tuctics

15 .

S N tnd Like artillery shell ( shril l whine)

Sizo

h /S

:7.

Col or

N/S

Shcpo

Flying disc

Odor dotoctod

Jippnront construction

21 .

Exhuust t r nils N/S

?2 .

\iloathor conditions

N/S

N/s

Effoct on clouds

N/S N/S

N/S

“r .,.

2/1 .

Sketche s or photog r aphs

l one

ilnnnor of disnppoa r onco

N/S

Romnr ks: A pres s dispa. tch quoted residents of the Lake Doiran area along the Yu&oslav- Greek f r ontier as -sayi ng ·they saw a “flJri.ng

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I t was d escribed as speedinr; so thwru-d from Yugoslavia at a height

of :ibout ; ,000 f eet, Z!lakin

a noise l ike an artillery shell.

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iddlepor t , O io , 3c, 0 00 ’ l,, <12° 03 1 H

,1r ol • r v r

Pen 1! rpe

·, or ob’.; rv r

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~i.:tn1:cu of’ ob i ~t

f r oM obs rv•·• r

!1./S

6 - S !“!LI.es

11 .

,,1 t itud•

1.:, .

Di r ,cti ..l” rf’ fHrht 90°

lfJ .

:; j z,

l/ .

~n lor

.?o.

hrpnr.-. nt

21 .

Exh •. u:,t t r cli l :; Fhosrl-toresccnt trail in sey

.2.

,I ·t. t,hur conditi ons

23 ,

Err ,c~ en c l ouds I / ~

?!unr. r of disoppoerc.nco

26 .

Romo rks :

9” diamet,e r

r om t r our.d level

i·hozphores <:en t

con::.t ru ct i ()n

I’./S

T’/S

r;/s

The ahove cover s si 1 ;ti ting of same objects by Sarl Roush, ,fern York Central vystem r::ar Inspector; Bob /hi te, New Yo rk C-en t ral

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.’ .. ard .;lerk ; and C. }~ . “ite, 1ew .i..c,l’k Len t.ral • atroLnan . Patrolirian !lite st.ot.ed in oodition t.l.at hi~ at.. …entinr, waS c:.illed ~~o these ot.Jects by Car .1.r.~~! (‘C’·“r u, Rui f’ . U_ on o servi tll thi• sk? Hite saw disc- shaped oi..jects t?·avelini.;froir.west l.o a:;t, in succession i i t, 50.l”,e path at ahout t·.-m-mir,ute u,t.erv:ils . !.o. c111d et, c.1c would “hook hack apparently in ., t’ Sal’l”e fath Yr et ce i 1 i,Jd cnme . 11 {‘ccasio:1all,, or.e seer.:ed t.o ir:.t ·utl iisi.ntc;,;r:1te . For a reser:ible.—:cc> , 11i b said 11 ‘1a.o a lar::e r;iock face , cover • t 1·1it: ra<l:i.U!U , in:i sa.il i t ~hl· 1 -·1 t:ia air . 11

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Tirno

Locotion

}4-.

l!amo of obsc r vor

Occupati on of ob~o rvor

;\d<l r os s of obso rvo r

Pl oco of obso r vr,t i on

Numbor of objocts

Distanco of obj e ct from obso rvor N/S

l29

1320 Wi lmington, North C:n-olina,

34° 14’ N, 77° ,t’ ,I

~s . H. D. Alspach N/S

709 South 6th Ground

One

10 .

Tirrio in si.i;htN/S

11 .

Altitude

12 .

Spcod

Direction of fli ~ht

15 .

s “lll!d

Size As large as an arm, and about 3 feet long

17 .

Color N/S

Shnpo

19 .

Odor dotoctod

20 .

J\ppnront constru ction

21 .

Exhuur,t t r ails

?2 .

VJuuthor conditions :·l/S

23 .

Effo ct on c l ouds

2L .

Skotch,:s or photogr ophs

Hone

i:onnor of disoppoa r &nco

J, /S

26 .

Romo r ks :

Awfu lly h igh

Fast

90°

N/S

Vblong N/S

N/S

Emitted smoke

.., t

?/S

1.1ysterious sky object

sister 1.,1·s . 8olvin , and

was sighted by Hrs . Alspach , her

rs . H. 1) . Hufham.

It cacno at first at a fast

speed from_the direction of Bluet:1enthal Field a t 1 : 20 p . m., O”{er t he Cape Fear River , t!,en veered at a l ow s peed back to,vards ..r ic;htsville, a little to the \7est.

Tl te local office of the Civil ~eronautics adm i nistration discredited a supposttion by Bluethenthal Field ’ s station man~~er ~~anes Holonon, that object could have been a P~~ plane in flie) t . The ·-:AA said there was n o such plane in the sk;y “there at· t he time.

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,dd r c:;s of ob su rvo r 415 J . Rosser Ave . , Bismark,

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Pl ue: of obsu r vi.t i on Orolmd , Route ,/212, .iest of Plevna, traveling west

tJuMbur of obj0ct.o

Di:,tonco of obj~· ct from obse rve r

Betwe en Plevna a nd Miles City , ~ontana

W. A. Bonneville

nmo o f oh!’;<’ r vo r

Ti ;,io in sir,ht

11 .

,:..Hi tud,i t!/S

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•rer r itory …gr ., B. F . Loodrich Company N. D.

One

At ,closest point, approx. 25()0 f e et

Some twenty minutes

Twice t he speed of the Nor thwest Airlines pla.~es

13 .

Diru cti on of fl ir;ht

‘.f est, sligh tly sout11, then w·a st

li1 .

‘i’odi cs Per~or r:1ed .J.rc

15 .

S nur.-d

: .one

16 .

Sizo

Fairl:.r large coinpared wit h an a i’r cr aft

17 .

Cnlor

·:lhite - (mierit have had slight bl uish""‘W;~te tinee)

if\ .

3hnpo Ball

19 .

Odor dot octod

20 .

hppl\ro nt constr uct ion N/ S - but apparently meteor-like

Exhau1,t t r n ils A l on;:s brierit light shooting f r om under it

22 .

Wvc.thor conditi ons i~onlight,

23 .

Eff oct on c l ouds

?L .

Skot ch us or photogr aphs None - ,~p for warded shoWing locat ion of object

25 .

1’fo.nnor of disa ppoa r c nco

26 .

Romur ks :

M/ S

1’1 Ut

c!,-otrly

N/S

See Supp l ement

Flew i n a dark cl oirl bank

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415 W. Rosser Avenue Bismarck, N. Dakota June 18, 19Li8

Col I , . H. Clingerman u • .::i . Army Air Forces Wri eht Field Dayton , Ohio Ref er - !-lCIAX0- 3 Dear Sir: In r e ply t o your letter of June 15th in mich t here are several questions which y ou desire answ red to t he best of my ability - With reference to t he object which I saw fl yi ne throui:;h t he a ir between Plevna am Miles City Uontana on t he ni&:it of Mey 17tn, .i. will a nswer them and give you a graphic desri:otion again with a little more elaboration than my previous letter - if that is possible. Queetion: - Did the e ntire object appear to be glowing, or did it give t he effect of carrying lights. Answer: This tiling seemed to be a ball of bri ~ t wr.ite light - and I could not make out if it was being carriedor just what made it r; o - howev er, it did disturb me q uite a little because after stoppi ng t o view it a t t he Pc:7tvder Ri ver Br i d ge I could not hear motors hnmming such as a n aircraft i n these p arts might have , and I therefore tried to find out jus t, what it was b;r t he u se of -my f ie l d g lasses . ( b ) Quc, tion: - .An estimate of t he size of t he object in comparison with some othe r kn own obje c t;. Answer - t h e size of t he light which was very brilliant would indicate that it was fairly large compared with aircraft and I would say tha t t his exceedingly bright light which was one li ght arp not several vras as bri eht as the headlight on a locomotive, only about three times t hat bri ght and vri t hout direction. By this I mean that th i s li ght s i mply gl owed very bright a rrl was not a directed li ght . ( c) Que ti.on: - An esti mate of t1e s P3ed of t he object in comparison with the j et °tJ’pe or conventional aircraft . .Answer: This object flew at about t\vice t he s peed of any a ircraft tha t Northwe::, t Airlines planes fly - because it ,vould appea r c oming t hro w!1ere I v,as traveling “fest on Highway #212 or #l2. as we call it out ,ere appearing only faintly f irst and t hen growing larger as i t approa c hed over t he hills north of t he highway - until it seemed to ha ng there off i n the northwe s t of me brif),tly and then would turn south toward the h i ghw.:1::r tmere it became real brigh t and t hen would start back ·,vest again and fly out of s i r.,ht . This t ing did this several times - which actually eot rey- goat - if I may p ut it th a t way . (d) Que:-:t i on: Did the obj ect appear to be circlin g a t random or didit follow a definite f li ght pattern . Answer : As … have explained before - t he object appea1·ed f irst when

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the Weat - then turning a lightl.7 South and turning in a big •win& and t en heading Weat again - !lying out of eight into the da rk black clowl bank out or eight - then reappean.nc, and it did this aeTeral tiaes. (e) Queatioru - Ia it poe~~ible tha t its duappearance into a “heavy cl.om banJcn mi.tit hne been caused b7 clouds obscuring r eflected moonli~~ht. from a hig 17 polished aartaoe. Answer 1 - No - I have seen aircraft IIMlJV times on moonlight nights - but this wu not anyth ing like that this thing glowed bri&tJtly white liaht such u any real white brillimt light llight. The moon was not bright eno to reflect poli.shed liftlt lrlleaa the craft might have been South of me in the dire ct light ot the moon - which showed (the moan) fraa time to ti.ma through the clouds. ‘l’hia objedt wu in thoblack eection or tJ)e eky owr to the l4orth ot me m slightly west, and • s a steady onooaing light growing brighter as it care, am had the appearance of scmathing corryinc this light in the a ir but w1 th out sound, and i t. certainly was close en ounh to ae to have heard motors. I thought it might have been sone kind of a jot aircraft that I perhaps had no r seen - beoauae we u d.Tilians knOl’r …-ery little as to ~ at ni&M, be ping on in detense or experinantal moc.~anics howevor J.. ! Celt it l’I\Y duty to report the t ‘dng reg rdlesa as to what it migr,t ave been. ~ is was s omewhat difficult for me to do because of the crackpot stories makine the rounds in soae sections about fiying 4!&\lcera etc ., · ut for t ho lite ot mo tlia had all the ear marks or j wst thn t kind of a deal . I have traveled t hi.s r oad abO Jt which I have roloa ted this sichtinc many many tines and at night inter and .;>ummer - an:f haw n ver before in 1 life soen anythine like this - so naturally I was ~1 omowh11t nlorl’ll’!d about it., :nid have steadfastly- kep+: 1.he wl—ole t dnc to self . I Trill certainly be on the lookout !or the damed thing tho next trip I make t hrou;, this sane area which is generall.7 after dark - because os• of the ti I ” rk from Lemmon Sou t h Dakota or Hottinger North Dakota along this highway to Miles City which is about one days ffl:>rk 1th 111..Y DealorJ. In t_r.,ee li,e those I !eel as bofore stated ony-thing of this n..1ture which ,1e are not tni 11ar with we are duty bound o r · ~ rt to our Defenee 1-‘orces o may be better equipped to understa11d t he unfam.1.liar tha.n we are. Yours wry truly, 1 . A. 001 UEVJ LLE - Territory ~gr for the B. .i.: • Gooctrich Company

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B. F’. GOODRICH COHPAlJY

Minneapolis 3, 1-rinnesota

li.15 1,est Rosser Ave Bismark, N. D.

5-?3-4g United States Anny - I ntel ligence Div. Washington, D. C. Gentlemen: -

On the night of May 17th at about 11: 30 PU d riving f r orn Baker, llontana to Miles City Montana on u.s. Hi grr,ray 1/12. just West of Plevna, Hontana before getting to the hills I noticed a very bright object in the s ky to the l,orth west . The sky was overcast in the West but to the Sout h the moon could be seen at times - with a broken sky. HavinB t raveled this s arre route for many years - about 15, I an p retty well used t o open prairie r oad a t niBht and can tell a star from an unusual object when I see i t. Northwe:.t Air lines t rav el a Western route just North of thi s route also, but I s to pped a t the Pov1der River Bridge where the road dips con siderably down from a high ridge - cut off my car motor and watched this object as it sailed around i n the sky - wh~.ch .- t times close and others seemed to speed away into t he he avy c lou:l bank to t he 1.Vest and then later reappearing, at a ver y bri ght v1hi te light a t what I would ju:if;e about not more than several miles away or closer . I c:1rry a pair of field glas s es with me, and after stopping t he car engine watched this thing t lirou~ ray glasses, which seemed to appear as a s mall object with a long ve ry bri ght light s hooting .f:t-om the under part of it. Because of t he speed of the object and the darkness it was very difficult to make out ‘What it might be, but I am sure that if I had had a more powerful glass Im ight have rrade it out.

I am perfectly sincere and do not drink so the foregoi ng is absolutely the truth. t)ith some of this newspape r funabo ut flying saucers etc, this had all of the appearance of just that- am in stoppin g the car if this had been an aeroplane I would certainly have been able to he,ar the motors. I stopped at a s ervice sta ti.on just before getting to the Powder River Bridge but they hai all gone to bed so did not have anyone alon g vrl. th me to witness the ob ject as it flm, through the air . I t stayed around this area for about 20 minutes arxi then f lew off t hroug ‘1 the heavy cloud bank to the West.

I am enclosing a map shO’fing the location of the foregoing . Yours very t ruly, The B. F. Goodrich Company / s/ Wm. Bonnen lle Territory Manager

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CHECY. - LI..,T - u::i r.:,TI F! EO FLYlt.Ci OBJECTS l.

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P1 r cc*i n 0 t’ fli13ht

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Color

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Shap,-

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Odo r

App,ircr.t conu t r ue ti on

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Date

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Loco.ti o’n

Be lcv;lle , :::1 in→i~

. Name of observer

Ju=.e 1r,l1u

:,:.,j:>r E.—:.rl

…’ F.n:·rh

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Occupation or observer

Add ress o r observer

?lo ce of observation

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tumbe r or obJec ts

Die o.nce of object f r om observ~r

10 .

Time in sigh’t

Altitude

12 .

Speed

Di recti on of flight

;,35° 5 o:’ 3nre tre n

14 .

Tactics

.:i bzog cour e

1 s.

So·Jnd

16 .

Site

17 .

Color

18 .

Shape

19 .

Odor de tected

20 .

Apparent constr uction

Exhaust t rails

22 .

ee.tho r condition s

Coarol te ovr re; r-t . t 6, .f”Q f t .

23 .

Effect on clouds

N/’3

24 .

Sketches or phctorrapha

•25 .

A!anner of disappearance”

26 .

Remar ks

Pilot, ~mc.1.”V! or , ~-~i it. ry Tr.•

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;.inleter :r.i:-?ed bat b elo-N 6,r.co ft .

rox 500 ,G’f. !..J 0 :,:… !l reach: l ""

C)“>utn 4?nd of :kott .-S 3::1r-o

Six or ei{;ht inch!!n in diamctnr

•’!‘.i C lig r.t , nrox r ounJ

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No airer- .ft fl y ing in the vi ci nity of Seo!. t E’ ci_, at the tic.~ li~nt si :htcd.

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— 3 CHECK - LI!:>T - maDF.NTlFIED FLYl NG OBJECTS

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Date

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. ‘fa-e of obse rver

Occupa ion o f o bs!!rver

Address of obse rv r

?lnce of observation

10 .

Ti r;,- in :; ir},

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Al ti

12 .

Sr ., d

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ui r ccti’ln of fligh

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-=-~ctic,.

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,, ~rd

Jr. .

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Color

::13

t>n

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thr e “P.C r. ,.

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t<J/ ~ (., ra. t .,:,· tra•: :- ,,. 4 rl v clo.-e to •row,J or -;OUld be vi ~~i hl o to .ore neo le) :ot q : tc n~~ fn…t a~ n t::e’:c>or

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Ar f.‘lrcnt cor,& truction

2] .

Exhn•Jst; t r •,ils

22 .

Yo!! ’ h~ r condition!:

J:-t”~t.! h- y llow tr i l

n .e o r phs 2 •

26 .

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or di ‘Pl

1 11:c:.orks :

fl:- llC

Offic~ er;::,,,… 1 ht rif n ~

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ob c•u- d v! i on

26 Feb ~

Date

20 -

Time

Usually around 2130 hours

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Location

N/S (Norway Denmark & Sweden)

Name of observer

~ccupation of observer

N/S

Address of observer

N/S

Place of observation

N/S

Number of objects

N/S

Distance of object f r om obse rver

10 .

Time in sight

N/S

A1ti tude

From tree-tap l evel to 20, CXX) t

Speed

Di r ection of flight

Tactics

15..

Sound

16 .

Size

N/S

Color

(green tail )

18 .

Shape

N/S

INCIDENT lJ~

N/S

one to two miles uer second Come from dir ection of Peimemunde

N/S N/S

Odor detected

N/i

20 .

Apparent construction

21 .

Exhaust t r ails

22 .

Weather conditi ons

23 .

Effect on c louds

24 .

Sketches or phot ographs None

Manner of di sappearance.

P.ema.rks

green N/S N/S

N/S

The trend of these objects to arroear a t2130 hours, might be si gnific:mt. •. ,.

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CHECK - LI~T • UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS

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Date

Time

28 May 1948

1500 houra (Ea stern Daylight Saving Ti me) EnrqQte to Location • Se1rri dge Fld ., Mt . Cl emens, Mich r,/2.1a0Dill Fld Positions 6 miles due ea s t of Monroe , Mi ohigan Name of observe r M/Set ~est I)\vie , Jr . (oo l ored)

Occupation of observer

M/S~

Add ress of obse rv·e r

Selfridge Field

Place of obse rvatio n

6 mil•• du• east of Monroe, Michigan

Numbe r of objects

Distance of object fr om observer

Time in sight

11 .

Altitude

i2 .

Speed

13 .

Di r ection of flight

14 ,

Tactics

Pursued atraight ooura•

Sound

N/S

16 .

Size

Appeared t o be four f••t in diameter

17 .

Co lor

Shi:rw brass

18 .

Shape

round

19 .

Odor detected

20 .

Apparent construction N/S

21 .

Exhaust trails

22 .

Weathe r conditi ons

25 to 30

m i

les

mu:

left

;o eeoonda

approx 8,000 rt D D ~ Over 400 m1lea per hour

Effect on clouds

South West from 35° at 8100 o’olock positioa

N/S

None

Clear, high overcast at 18,000 ft; t hin stratus layer broken at 8,000 rt, l ateral visibility• o to 15

miles

24 .

Sketches or photographs

Sketoh

Manne r of disappearance

N/S

26 .

Rema rks

Disorepanoy as to position of 2nd object in group 2 as sighted by Lt Xokbloroi~ (!no U4) \7itness perceived only top-aid• or object. Objects ,een flying over wooded section

., CHECK- LI5T .. UIITDEN .IJ’IED FLYING OBJECTS

Date

Between 15th & 20th Aug >,.

Time

2130 M5T

Lo ca.tion

Ba.pid City A:F Base, Weaver , S.D.

Name of observer

Occupatian of observer

Add ress of observer

Place of observation

I ntel Officer 28th Bombardment Group (‘VR) Baoid City .AF.Base ‘:leaver, S. D. Weaver , s. D.

Number of objects

12 (lsoprox)

Distance of object from observer

10 .

Time in sight

Altitude

Speed

13 .

Di r ection of flight

14 .

Tactics

Sound

16 .

Size

Length :

Color

Yell owish- white - brilliant

18 .

Shape

Ell iptical

19 .

Odor detected

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Maj Elmer H. Ha.mnar, i. (A0-46014)

4 miles

N/S 10, 000 ft to a-rynrox 6 ,000 ft .

500 f.PH + Appr oached first from N”l’I then turn to right and disappeared in SW t ight di amond-shaned forrGr’.lti on

no noi se heard

1004- ft estimate

N/S

20 . • Apparent construction

N/S

21 .

Exhaust t r ails

None

22 .

Weathe r conditi ons

23 .

Effect on clouds

Clear, no clouds , stars visi ble, wind, c…-lm visibility 3o+ none

24 .

Sketches or photographs

Scetches

25 .

Manner of disappearance

Dissm:ieared on a S1i heading

26 .

Remarks

There ~ears to be minor discrepancies as to speed and altitude in the r enort given verbally to Gla sebrook and l tr to this Hq f/’¥a.J Hammer

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Date and Ti me of Observati on:

Wher e Si ght ed:

Observer 1 s Posi tion: ( i. _e . , gr ound, a ir-, control t ower , etc.)

Name and Address of Observer: Ur,. \UdtehOU1te, South ~ xvills, fenn.

Occupation and/or hobbi es: w:1.t’e ot lfajor lta”97 J. lbitehouae

Attention Attr acted by:

Number of Object(s) Seen : 1

Si ze of Objec t( s) : JJ/ S

Color of Object( s) : orange

Shape ( Sketch i f Possi bl e) Ball

Nature of Lumi nosi ty: (directed beam of light? )

12,

Al ti tu.de of ObjPct : ,o. ooo ft (estimated)

Esti mated Di stance of 0bject from Observer : N/S

Estimatod Gpced of Object : 1,000 IPli

Ti me i n Sight : 3 ainute■ (according to llra Whitehouse)

Tacti c s:

Sound Jlf.ade by Object( s) : N /S

Direction of Flight of Object( s ) Weat

.Apparent Constructi;m:

Effect on Cl ouds:

Exhaust Trail ( Color of) : ••tr•mer of blUi.Sh color traillng•

Manner of Di sappccrance:

23 .

Weather Conditions at Time of Si ghting: B/S

Peculi ari t i es Noted:

Su.mmD.ry of I ncident :

~ “1na 1~~ at 21.40

Soutb lnouil.18, Tennessee

Comaanding O.tf i.oer, I.SU, 3~19 iennessee

3 aeeonda (accordin.g to ORC inetructore)

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N/s

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30 Ju :- e 19ue

Date

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Location

Name of obse r ve r

Occupation of obse r ver

Adrl r ess of observer

Oa k r idge , Tenm,ssee

?lace of observation

Knoxville, Tenn

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~l•unbr>r of obj”ects

Distance of object fr om obse rv’3r

Time in Gigh~

11 .

Altitude

12 .

Speed

13 .

Di r e ction o f f light

14 .

Tactics

N/S

15 .

:o•.md

N/S

15 .

Size

N/S

17 ,

Color

Orange Color

18 .

Shape

Ball

19 .

Odo r de tected

20 .

Apparent construct i o n

Exhaus t t r ails

22 .

‘fleathe r conditions

23 .

Fffect on clouds

24 .

Sketches or photographs

None

25 .

~.~anno r of disappea r a nce

Over horiton to West

26 .

fi’emo. r ks

1,36a 2140

s. Knoxvi lle , Tenn Mr Tryus W. Setliff N/S

N/-3

3 seo onda

1,000 MPH Westerly

N/S

Fir•

Bluish Color

N/s N/S

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CJ!’EGK• LIST - Ur-!IDFJl~:‘IFIED Fl Yrnrr OBJECTS Inc id ·,rt ./1 1)7

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7 Jul 4g

2•

Tino

211~ and 2ll5 ,,

Loci tion

i1nrw of obsc r vor

J~mes k•u , Lt., 0 : S. llaYal Bea.rY•

Cocupc,tion of ob~o rvor Nllt.h81at1o• laa\ruc\ar

n’idr• :..s of obso rvor

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Pluco of obso r vt. tion

Nur’lbur

Distnnco of obj e ct f r om obso rvor

of o’hj<‘ots

Universt ty o f Norta Carolina CMpel 1Ul’, i. C.

three ( J) N/S

A·1>rox-1mately o• (1) lliJmte

10 .

TiMo in sir,ht

11 .

Alt i t;udo

Spcod

Diroction of flit;ht

ll1 .

‘.i’uctics

15 .

Sound

Jst

16 .

Sizo

X/8

Co l or

N/1

Shape

N/8

Odor dotootod

20 .

;,pp£,ront constru ction N/8

Exhuui.t trnils

22 .

Woothor c onditions Clear

23 .

Effect o~ clouds

Sketches or photogr aphs

l one

25 .

Manner

of disoppea r a nco

N/8

‘JI.Y:U,.M

N/S

N/8

Not lieiltla

1/8

ts ha ze of an airp Didn’t,

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-·. CEECK- LIST - lffI DEi’!TI?IED FLYHlG OBJECTS

7 Jul 48

I ncidort :/f 137a

D:.ito

Time 2114 and 2Uc:;

Loctition Cbapel Hil l , N. C.

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;!umo of obse rver

Occupc.tion of ob~~o r vor Capt., I nfantry, Re~~erve

hddr t:os of obso r vo r

Box 188 , Chaoel Sill

Ploco of obs o rwti on

Chapel Hill , N. C.

lfuMbor of objC\cts three ( 3)

Distance of obj o ct f r om obsor vor N/S

H. W. Daniels

10 .

TiMo in sight Aoproximatel,v one ( 1) minute

11 .

Altitudo Extreme

Spead

13 .

Diro cti on of flir,ht Eas t Northeast

llJ .

Tuctics

16 .

Size N/S

17 .

Color

18 .

She.po N/S

19 .

Odor d ot o ctod N/ S

20 .

Apparent constr uction N/S

Exhaust t r nils Not Visible

22 .

Vfoothor c ond itions Cl ear

23 .

Effo ct on c l ouds

21., .

Skotch os or photogr nphs None

25 .

Mannor of disnppoa r anco N/S

26 .

Romn r ks :

High

N/S

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2•

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CJJ20

Loct t i on

f;o1~“hl<J , ’ r..1o

:ramc of obse r vor

‘t/ildt! Z!.t tek

‘J.!•s .

Occupoti on o-f’ ob~~o r vor E:,.ne~~f•

~9 Avl l on Ave.

6 . 1\1drc ss of ob s o r vor 7.

Colun:bus.- O. Pl aco of obs (; r vt. t i on Grc-1.:mi!

Ilur.ibo r o!’ obj oct s

Di stnnco of ob j Gct fr om obsor vor E/S

t •:o (2)

l G.

Tino in sif;ht f c-.ir (4) 11lnute ■

11 .

;..1t itudo J w_g ~d t .> be arowxl. 3000 feet

12 .

Spood

13 .

Dir oct i on of f lic ht

111 .

To ~ti cs

15 .

Snnrd

ti~

16 .

Size

With biDocul&r ■ (!Jape N-3, 6 x J O) about 3 1/2’ 1D lacth by 1• in diamt\ar

17 .

Col or SilTer

18 .

Shc po Li ke a cigftr or \orpedo

Odor doto ct od

20 .

,\ppa r ont con st r u ction

21 .

Exhoust t r u il s J:me

22 .

Wontho r c ondit i on s

23 .

Eff oct on c l ouds

Cc~ld act be e1tiattd aroUlld . Firs t he&AeJ. t;i ti.la iartb

J <>ob ecl up ud down

J/ S Mc~ll1o

Cl-.r, I\Dllipt, ao claaia llone (fher9 wre noae)

Skotchos or phot ogr ophs

Bone

Uannor of di sa ppoa r cmco

rnd.e4 &Vii(

Roma r ks :

{Onr)

t \bat tm obJec\e loolm4 11.n •

.-.. Zt.\tAtk

goi thro air currenta. Tb., a blunt DON tl’la tall wa obacar • At !tr t t 7 look like uric blot. Both • aeru 1.D!lat.inct. fb.q were Tiaible for three or ’ ‘lur rutuuwa 4Mi11:1D\of

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!.r crart ~ 11 t he ar IID4 n, bu\ poor f ,r U tan •

•· air a

Capt. Dant1ll, pilot or cma ~. w ~ ” 1Qg • l co•• for tiOD 1D trail of Lt. Colliu -.11.t paou« hi.a a cal br .t • c ~- !ha a1rcra \ wr• JlO t aquipped. with’ w1JI& \t.p -talm. !h pilot• eta.tad that th., wre 111 U. Columbua AN&. Nr1. llttek poeitt.oa _. fl• o \brN quartar rear ro11ton at e1«ht1mg. ,

.ta article .u pibU.abK by tbe Coludnl• C1t1r . n

ew9 1’~• C lubws, Ohio, g Jul 48.

l tb U. ntk~ m~ ~ •PlX41’.t4 to ~ wri~ in. t ~ .

… dia11etazo. X:-n otoer WQl’da• tbiiJ’. aeemd to di.allltt.er in

..u..w♦-

lour ·iilmi

~ :ware

t»b a

aound &udlb u-at. aetl ll

~ no

t toward

o”bJt,ct1 ~

◄

•

J t 1 .,.

:; .

ti ll

or h

c u

ti :i of ob.. rv r AT! !1.v

~i; n • or

o•

.~~!lr .., o f ol -~~ rv r ..

A. v \ ” ’ 1•r .1 —t J

f1 c

r,r :in.

o! ob:i r vi til.ln

ob:; rv r

n . t i:r 11 .

.,1 i ,mh>

12 .

Sr, od

1-~

iurc . on

~lOO o 11000 fet t

bet ,p, n ~co & Geo

•.·

Oiroc t i a. 11. \n

r i

t ( a~ t t o .,. . t ) ~ !1

1:on

coQla not b

ual«.! ycllowi. . •~1.i t

17 .

C”lor

lf .

3hnpo

19 .

Odor liot ctod

E.Y.hf,l.St

’

(

e~ti ~te ( .!IJinous)

N/S 1

t r .ils

:OC1thu r oonditi ons Clear w/ i.<ll’t. r

£ffoct on c l ~uds

2L.

SY.otoh •s or photo

Hnnr.or of di&np

Romor ks :

1 in

t he E st- Sout oo!‘t.

N/S

nr r.co Suddenly a t -mPlf” of’ ap ,. i\T. 7C t o horizo:l ir: fror.t o"" ob~~rva- ~ o ;.11s lo~~kir4” n T h

Lt . Gle ebroo

n reconn is ance uilo 1

in :cs·l

:i O’I

I Vf’r

.. .

t tm

♦

•

from obsorvor

.’

•

• construction Exhaust tr~ila \ 1fo nthor

Seemed to near

conditions

photographs .;

•

’

•

Tlitnesa states: “A beautH’Ul golden a halo with a silver rim arourxi it.”

CHEClC•LIST - Ul IDD?TIFIED FLYlnG OBJICTS

Inoident

1 July 1948 2 • Time

Between 2100 an4 2200 hour•

Location

O&hanna, Ohio

L. ttomo ot obaor-.or

llr Jaat Taylor

0coupotion ot o~or-.or

1/8 but now aot1-.e in kt1oaal Guard

6 . Addrou or obt1orvor W/s

Ploco or obaorwtion

Nuabor ot obj oota

G a ~ , Ohio

( groan4 )

Distonoo of objo ct trcm obaorvor

1/s

2 ..oond•

10 .

Tino in sight

ll.

i\ltitudo

12 .

Spood

Dirootion or fli ght

ll,.

Toot les

Sou.-d

Non•

16 .

Si&o

W ft

Col or

brir,ht yellow-white

16 .

Sha po

W/S

19 .

Odor dotootod

Appo r ont conatruotion

21 .

Exhouat trails

22 .

ftootho r conditions

Eff oot on clouds

21.i.

Skotohos or phot o~r aphs

Hon•

Unnnor of d isoppoo r onoo

N/S

Rom.a r ks :

}000 to hooo rt

terri fie Bortheaat to SOQthweat

P\lnued aknt""11cdtu tl&t line ot tlight

11/s

luminoua

w/ s Clear• bright aoonlight

N/S

Vr. Cheat er Ta y lor ga• • the aam• -.eraicn • • that ot hi• aon.

Mre. Tayl or apparently did not oh1erv• t he phen011enon.

c ,:,a of s~~d. ~ It ws •a glow and not a. e . ght and. vras about two seconds in’ dur~~tion. It <lidn ‘t fade bJ[t, ·c bruptly. The ·Jine of’ <flight’ appeared f~~t and the object ap~~re om the Northeast going southwest. A.lti tu.de :q~ between, 3,000 an 4.ooo ft. There was no audible noise alt i t was a qui.et nigh the object ,a~red close orizon of about Al.though tlle sky wa

light - ·

CHECK-LIST - UNID&.”TIFIEO FLYING OBJroTS 1.

Do.to

Tilno

30 Jun9 1948 11125 A. 11•• to 1127 Pll ud 1hortl7 therearter Beola. South Dakota

Lo~tion

loraan Prut11nreut•r

Nomo ot obse rver

Occupation ot oor Chemioal Engineer - Amateur Aatrcmoaer

Addr ess of obaorvor

B•ola,· South Da kota

Placo of obsorwtion

B~ween Wat•rtown, s. D., & Wtbater, s. D.

Nwabor of objoots

Diat-onco of objoct tram obsorvor in sight

Ti_110

Altitudo

Spood

l N/s

Slirhtly owr two houri 150 miles (?)

Stati onary Stati onary ,.approx Remained in on•/position then d~aintegrated

D1roct1on of fli ght Tactics

16 .

Sound

None

Sho

N/S

Color 18 .

Shapo

__…,

Like polished alumin\1111

r ’ Chanr,ing

Odor dotoctod

None

~~cmed to be • oluater 0£ part•

Appnront construction

21 .

E.xhoust t r aila Partiolea of disintegrating me.£0 !ert very faint trails of -vapor Vfoathor conditions Brilliantly oloar (CAW) - Wind velooity 3 ‘MPH

22 .

Effo ct on clouds

No olouda

24 .

Skotohos or photographs

Map aho•ing looations of s1~~ht1n~~a •

Mnnnor of disoppoaronoo

Disintegrated into a~aller pieces

Ronu:irk5: Object appeared as olusttr of parts wh1oh remained fairly stationary and constant for sane two hours when it underwent a rather elow ohan~e in shape . A large chunk fel l otr. Within the next 2-1/2 minutes the entire s pot started to very slowly disintegrate . Three larger parts moved (over) 75

allay ogt trom the ~s• and formed a perfect iaometrio tria.ngl•, the reaa1n1ng mass slowly moved into hu dreda ot small parts seemingly l•• “t’1Jlg nry fai.Dt vapor tnile. The three rema i ning pa rts oontillu•d to move apart holding their relat.ed poeitione ot a perfect triangle

but gradually getting s111&ller and fainter until they dissappeared some 9 aimtea after th• initial break-up. It could mttx:ea$1ly be seen that the parts ,n,re moving a.way rrom the earth.

Inc i j )t t; -fr 1 1c 2.

Tfr:v

Ir:,,· t.itn

…, ;r le , J,·.

i3 .. C , I

D.i.!1tt1nco of ob,; ct frcn obt;o r v·.:r

10 .

Ti;“IO

nlt it:udo

Sr•)1Jd

13 .

Diroction or fl i[‘ht

• j

l•

in si.-ht

Tuc-1 ics

s “lll’d

11., .

Sizo

17 .

Cc:-l or

She.po

] c;, .

Cdor d otcct ,d

20 .

HpJ Cl rr•r.t cons t ru r.tion

Exhuust t r n ils

i’>2 .

‘i/outhor o onditj on s

23 .

Eff .i ct on c l ouds

21J .

Skotchis or photogr c.phs

1:0.nnor of di sn ppoo r nnco

Romnr ks :

•

••

’ l’rt:r - l,T -

11 ‘1

’~ l ] ?IC i 1 H I, 1,

.1 .

,. t ‘i 11

,i .

of nh

(’ (‘U pt.

. . 1.

1 _,

rl c

rv r

or ob; rv r

of ol

r-., r

b~ r.~ ti n

:• -.b r o” obi ct .. ’:) .

D:i: t; •1c

o f o • · l frm ob” r v r

10 .

Ti:-, > iu oir.ht

11 .

,. 1t i t.udo

12 .

Sp orl

l’ .

Dir l>C I i or.

l ,.

‘i’ur. lCS

l c: .

n• tr- 1

or flirht

1,., .

oiz

!’/ .

C l cr

18 .

Chr.po

1r, •

Oder ti toctod

20 .

” J’PC. rr r.t

Exh•iur,t t r il:.

22 .

l a thor onndi• i ons

2} .

Effo r.t r.n ~~loud~~

21J .

Skotch s or photogr i..p!”I:;

1’ nr.or of’ disnppon r nc

R :‘UlT}t,,. :

ons •.r ur,t ir,n

CHECK- LIST - UN I DENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS 1.

24 ~ ~

Da t o

InoidQnt

02.:,0

2 . • Timo

Sear 11.ackatoM, Ta. euroa.te to Balei&b-nu-ha

Locotion

l~.

i!amo of obse r vor

Occup(ltion of ob~orvor

I.ow.a J’el4•rt

J\ddr os s of obsor v or

pilot

LG.\

Pl aco of obso r wtion Air - ~ Blacaton., Va.

Numbor of objects

Cistanco or obj oct f r om obs or vor

lal,- trail IND

n/•

1/S

10 .

Tmo in sight

11 .

~ltitudo

12 .

Spood

Dir ooti on of flight

Tactics

!Ir-all COTered en 80° to 90• arc lateral.~

Sound

B/S

S1zo

1414&

1/S terrific epeed. -

230°

)

B/S

)

Co l or

1/ S

18 .

Shapo

11/s

19 .

Odor d ot octod

20 .

Appn r ont c onstruction

21 .

Exhaust t r a i l s

22 .

Woathor cond itions

(

0D.l.7 trail pei-ceived. - obJect

)

was not seen

) B/S

Effoct on clouds

B/S

Seemed to be a jet or rocket trail

at 02}0 at :Blackstone: ‘IJ/70 mqGF 112/73/72/ waw 5/987. G.reanaboro and Raleigb-Bm=h had m/15 plue

B/S

2L1 .

Skot ohos or photogr nphs

Manner of disa ppoa ra rtc o

None 1/S

Romo.rks :

•

Shortly a f t e r ~ BJeebtone, at approx 023(), • trail w. picbd up th&~ appeared to be a Jet or rock.et trail. ~ object leariJlc the trail ws• tr&TelhJc at terrific apeed 1n a 900.thveaterl7 diNction aDd aa marJ..y u the7 could ec.tmai. they calculated the ~ e • ot travel u 23()0. •. !hey wre on a heading a_t tb.e time of 215•. The Jet or 1”0cbt trail at no time croaaed their fiigb.t path. · It w.a on the 411taat weatcn bor1zcm at approx 20• abo•e the horia:on. b trail oo•ered an 80° to 90• arc laterall.J. IO’?I:

!here 1• a 15 llimlte differeace in time f/thi• •1’bt1.nc w{023()) to tbe roobt •i&htinc at 0245 1n M 1 • JPN l«x> to i.75 all•• diatant. ~h,, r-, …,.,.-..G-, - ,

mt’lr

!!he abo•• time (0230) talli•• with uothar •i«btfzic ‘b,y another pilot in the ricini ty of lUackatone, Ta. • eav a ‘Yff’Y um.aaal meteor that &ppecll”ed to bo on a bearing of about 21.0° from th.ea tr&Tel UC in a aoutherl.y direction aboTe lN.t cl.o•• to the horizon.

llel

1…at to Trlp Bapor\ to Colu(llbul. Ohio Ji.tlanta 81.cb\iac

1’HRDI

Col Cl laccl”JlaJI

‘ft) I

Col. McOoJ

31 Jilly 191&1

•

!he obJeot ol tbi• trip .u to i.aterrlaw C. L. Mc,lelrie, a puaa

& r al,oard tba ._tera J.l_rliaea l)(l.J, tba ni&ht o! 24 Jul,y 1948.

Mr• .iclelvi•’ • vritto nat—.t ta ••…tial..q aa follows Ile •• ~7U& tbe 5th or 6th ae-.t fro• the 1’1’0at of the pla• oa the ript ad ”°‘114 period1call1’ glance out the window. !ban wa• a full mon which

lllillilaated tti. grollJld ad tha lld.ea aild the cz-OUDd could cl rl7 be aea. ~ · t}3 they po.a.ed cwatlu1 elowla. On on~ ocoaeio• a• he w::>-9 lookia& nu\ he obaorYed a suddea 1treak oi lht movinc in a couthee.atern 4ireotioa acre • the airv9¥ above the plane. Ile woDdered it it were 11&htainc but o’b.-ved tho fiaae moved in a atrai&ht liu and. not in a flare. The color YU ‘brieht flm• - be thoupt 1t wa probL:.bly a liFt chen.y red - altbou&h tlw edge• wre 1110• of a 7ellov name. a,, ahitted hie pos1t1oa 1A hit eo1 t f O’f’ b t\91’ obeervatio, momeut.uril.T loaag •~~t of lt. Then be u.w tt IIC01ta. ii~~ eoiimuted. the n e t o be ..lbout l/2 ae far above tM plane a■ the plae ._a oboft the crouad.. Re eaw no pbfalcal abap• - 01117 a atreu of n ame movillC ia a •trdcht tiu. The “°ole uperleace .,.. moaumtaJ-7 ao that detailed obuervatioa was abect. Be he.:u-d no $0und bGt 1t&.tod tbat th• n.bration of tho plane va• much greater than normal end that it ws not -pootd., ble t o heur o»3’ sound fro• tho oo.teide.

In the interview lib-. McJtel-.1• etated to MaJ Lle’-91.l)“ll thnt tb.e pilots aoemed quite ex.cited Olld that the1 appe ftd n•M’OUS o.,. r the epi!IOda.

. A. LLE :ELLnJ Mu.jr,r. U ;.P

‘QJ..L/aw

t’.5~10 Bldg 2e8 Post 203)’

• • i

•

itlanta. Ga. AiJg 3. 1948

Mr. S. L. Sbanncm. Jaatern Air Linea

Miemi, Fla. The follovi.ng ie a report of en unidan.t1f1ed. aircraft which was sighted. by John Whitted and me. aa ve wre twenty mile• aouthweat of Mont.&t>Dm7; Al.a. July 24, 1948, •• we were on la.a tern•• trip 576. At 2: 45 A. M. w were eru.i•in& at 5,000 feet men there came •

.hat looked like a Jet t7Pe of aircraft to onr richt and aU.ghtly above meetillg u,. It w.a a clear monli8}1t ni&}lt with the visi bility excellent; therefore, w were able tG rlew the ahip aa it passed for a period of c,.round ten second.a. It wae clear ‘t bere . were llO wing• preaent, that it wea poweNd by aome Jet or. other type of pover aboot!Jlg fl81118 from the rear some fifty feet. !here were tvo rowa of window•• which indicate! an upper and lower d.eclt, from inside theae willdo,n a Ter;y brl&bt light wa glow1~. Underneath the ahip there • • a blue glow of li&}it.

After 1 t paaeed 1 t pulled up into some light ‘brobn cloud• end we.a loat from -.iew. !here WB8 no prop waeb or ro’Uigh air felt aa ,it paaaed. After t ~ to the o~ paaeencer awaa· at the time. be aav only t~ trail ot fire ae it paeee4 and. pull.._ into the el~~d•. I celled the coq,aey at Cohaba.a aDd u1r:ed if there • • ~ re ported Jet army craft and re~~ated 1f the A!l’C bad aey aircraft under control. I w.e told tbat no web craft we.a reported by either eouree. I •I c. s. Cb.ilea O. S. Chile•

Capt J:. A. L. ,

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CHECK- LIST - ffi ’ liiEH’!’ “‘rIED FL:lllG OBJtt;TS

O:.i t o

~ ~ 48

Tino

0230

, •

t..o Ctl ti.on

Inc1d mt if

144b

Be tween Bl ecka tone. Va. and Greeniboro • I • . C.

Capt Perry R. Mansfield.

6 . l,dd ru :s o r ob:so r 7.

Placo or obso r wtion Between ~l.ackatone. la. Uld Greenaboro, JI. C.

ttunbor or obj cts •

Capt on 571/23 I.AL

Occupution of ob~o rv r

D1stunco o r objo c:t; fr

cb~o rv r

i/S

3 eeconda

10 .

Ti!‘lO in sir-ht

11 .

nltitudo

12 .

Speed

l}.

D1 r oct1on of fli cht

1L .

T1.1ctics

Sound

Sizo

B/S

17 .

Col or

N/ S

18 .

Ghcpo

B/S

Odor dotootod B/5

20 .

11.ppnront canst.ru ction 1/S -

1/S

•teor1c 10Utberl,)’

traTel~ horizontally B/S

21 .

• ExhuuRt trails

,‘2 .

Wonthor oonditi ons

~ CAVU

Err,,ct on cl ouds

B/S

?I ,.

Skotohos or phntor.r uphe Bone

J.IoMor of disnp

Rurno r ks ,

(oTer)

N/S

o rc noo

“died out” 1n the dietance

pilot At about 0230 on July 24 , 1948, C. Kingsley/and Capt Perry R. ?1.ensfield eaw what they tho\J&ht was an UJJusucl. meteor. It was bri t;h t er than any ever seen before and travel~ in a hori zontal direction, sl49’1tly above the horizon. It was obser ,red f or 3 seconds before it di ed out . At no t ime did it appea- to travel in a. dow’W!lrd direction. Ki.Dgsley & Mansfield discussed the matter that the meteor appe red to be travel ing horizontally.

At the time they were trave 1 ing b etween Blackstone, v,-, ., and GTeensboro, S. C•• ‘lhe sky was clear Wld the v1e1bility unlimited . They were ona

magnetic headixig o~ 21.Joo and eetimated tbe object to be on a bearillg of about 210° f.,om them - that is - about 30 ° t o the left of tbeir heEU’.U.Dg. It appe:red to be travel i.Dg in a southerly direction , s.bove, but close to the horizon.

!IOTE:

‘lhere is a 15 minute variance in ttn time f/th1e sighting (0230 ) to the rocket sight ing at 0245 i n ~ t a some 4oo to 475 miles distSJ1t. The time (0230) also tal.11es with Ioc 144a Pilot Louis Feldwary • s eccount of sighting a jet or ro~ t trail

just after le~ving Blackstone.

’

••

l •• fbial a-pll-’ for Olp. 0. S. OhU.1 oa ~ 576 wbl’.ah 1eft lmnop._ ltm at lai.o JIN laawa Sw,dvd fillil,“M4-F n.i&ht. “1111’ 22. 191’1. M 02k5 llf, • •WlW a •U’IIII olaJeo, 11~‘nc wart u al a h1&b 1”aM at lpMCl. • WIN q ,xx> t .., ID4 our ,ol1’1aia - . 25 all•• ■-tttw1\ ~ Non~. jJ,a. ~tranp .-)lo\ ba4. a … _ of red fin OOldJlc fl’OII 1\1 Wl. 1 ulmle4 ti. lt-■ a Jet V’J)4II airpllile of tbt lntr or lava, aa it cam ••nr I oaa.14 IN 1:u, 1\ _. mob larPl’ tbaa UT Anq or an, J•\ ’ - ’ 1 i . . ffll’ NG or na4 aboat. It »aa-4 u • the rs.ht •148 of our DO-). l e,,tn-ate lt1 a.peed 1a the »Scbborhooct of 700

IIPB bat tJ1• 11 J;m”e1T a 1”0Qlb. t.U.te. • ~ a oompo•• i.s.411:w of 50 dao’N■ iD4 Iba obJeot puud ua. eohtc in the oppo•tt.e 41No’1on. to•• the o’bJeet •eaed abmt a baa411.a troa u. 11 aou14 •• no “1llp acwortiaa tlyiJW • ~ t imd. lenl. l the · o\Jeot. !bi obJeo\ . . o ~ lhllped and teae4 to be ahont a mmdN4 f••t 1a ~ . !ha tbll.ap appeared to be’ abcmt three tiall• tbt oil”aateraoe ot a J.29 fv-.lap. It had. tw row of windowae a apper ud. a lowr. l1lll w1D4.ow wre wrr l•c• ad. ••••4 aqaare. !hq • ” .tilt• vitla ls.tit ~ah •eme4 to be CMUNCl ~ ao• tn,. ot ooaba.ation. I ••U-.te tba w •tahed. the obJect at leut 5 Nconda 8114 not IIDft tbu 10 NCODd•• • b.clll’d DO now nor did . . fNl . . turl,Qlew tree the . o’bJect.. It •IIM4 to be at about 5,X, teet. l alDd Qapt. Cbilea what w bad Ju•t … and be said that he c11da 1
nov. Capt Cldlea th.a ooataot.4 tu ~ •ridio operator at Ooluau• Ga.• and abed b1a to contact Lanon?ldrift ~ o•S nc, 0.. • aa4 fuad ou\ if ~• An&, be.d a, Jet or ~ t a l . pl.we 1a Ule T10Wt7. !be 4’0lllpMT operator called ua a tew llilmt•• lat• and • i.te4 \ rat t • eca Jliel4 r9POrted \bat tb.ey bad no plaaa fliii>c la 0’111!” area. Capt Cb.il• tbea N portecl back to the “OllplV rs41o open.tor aq1.JIC that a at r - . airo:ntt Juat P.9-Nd 1111 ~ it loobc! llllllwae ‘lpe ~ rocbt ahip.

•

puaed up Ool:aabna beCllllN of ground foe ad. t,:,ut,imecl on to Atla~

CP.ECK•LlST 1.

0!.ltO

9 July 191.ig

Timo

1.05 A.3T

Lo°’ ,tion

Field,ne Lake l !:‘t Lt ~ ‘Ili nick J. Carr.ria & ~ ~ws B. Corpenter

Occuput i on of ob~orvor s(VLR) Photo

,.-ici.r• .: s of obs r, rvon: 72nd RCN Squadron (VIR) Photot:,ra.”’ ic c/o 1iJ>C 731, c/ o Po st !Ocl st1:.•r Seattle ,iicl:!hin~ton Ploco of obso r vt.tion Fieldin& Lc…ce , Alaska ( 63°11 1 - 1!..5° l10 • ’,/

(3 .

?Junbo r or obj oots

Di3tonco of ob j o ct f r om obs or v o r

11 .

~ltit udo

12 .

Spcod

.Appl”o:x-iir.;_ te-ly 20

5, ()(X) +

5, ’)()O +

above-

i “l1’l’led.i~tely b elow t ~e clouds

over )00 t✓.i~

Diroct i on of fl i. (;ht

‘i’uctics Snn.rd

Size dot

17 .

Col or

10 .

Ghc po

Joch.•yf’ • ’ =ck , nd for t h il. t he ~~rc.1 M ::orrnation (b~~ve i ‘l’l!)rc ~s i , n of ~ ot ~un bl, ~~t pattern) ‘but maint~~ineo ~troight Cf’)Ur r f’ .

Lou d road nt:, f.”‘)1 m<1 np• rd ( t nout;ht it \t{c:; $ ~~troni::; ,.. ind ) before ‘)bj ect r ·-·ere f’i f),t( -l : e0,md she.r;r n”d into a bu1:: ;;~~ -they c.,..,:Jroc.chec t:.nd pt ~sed.

Odor doto ct od

20 .

,.~r 1-C1 r or.t cons t. ru Gtion

Exha ust t r td l s

;.,:? .

Vfootho r c onditi on s

b r i b”:i t

Eff ict on cloud s

n~tc - flr w i re i : t el

Il’) fl(>

vi s i bl e ?.Dl~ Fn:-tny •.~/ ~

<ct·.;.to- cu . ..ilus cloud covcr ~e

bnl ow t t r rn

Sko tch is or phot or,r nphs n annor of’ di sn ppon r nnco Remar ks:

r/ .:i

___ ,.. ·J. ”’” ? t s . i…!‘&.lE-·!“1 bl …:n :- … ~b ~~- ct ’” r,-, ,r , . \•:cr o p l :. lr.1 ! ir i d1 l”’ :… d t hc r n a b , rint. ~~i.. u t . T , f’., 1 r e• :‘J b , . _ . •~~-: “e~~ : .. …, b. dr . • a :’ 1i E”C . C_ • • Ti ~ ~:‘))t:

( · V l’~

. .,.

• .,

.i:

f orth in t he group fo’!’M…&ti~n w: ich gave the overo.11 impre~~ i nn of a sh0tgnn bl· ~~t p: tt P~~n . The objectr ~~r e t oueht to be ~oving ir. ,

“Xccse o: 500 MPH :..t b>:m,roxiir~~tc-l~~ 5. 0C.O ft ( i.m.-nedia tel y below the cloud~) from .N,.; t o E..)”E and wer e defini tely flyi.ng a stre.ight course . J ust before thPy wer (> s i bh t cd a 1 -:md r ?sring sound \as her rd ‘:hi ~~h was ettt i butel’\ t !:> ::. !; t.-,,r,l,. …i n d bl o1-•ine, lbr o~~ h t he sur r o1mding woods . Ho..-ever, ~~ t oe objects appro~ched ::md ~~eased, the sound sharpened int n a bnzz ucli Lkc t hc.t t. e b y i. 6Toup of j e t :1ircn:ft . Ne exhau~~t trails were

visi ble .

Ther e were no photogra:phe , avc:t.ilable. ’

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Tll’IU

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I.n ~r t fon

1, .

:rnn1” of ob~<’ r vor •

uccup~~ti on or ob~~o rvoi9 ’

Vicinity of San Acacia Dam 1 65 mile• aouth ot .Albo.qa.erque M/Sgt Wm R. Carter & H/Sg\ Bernard E. Ban.7

Carter: .trmament t~cia

-.LA…

-,.au.. Harvey:

.—!d r ,.J ns o f ob:;o rvo r

uperienced 1.ta non.-com ~th J7BO XirtlaDd Jil Bau

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V1c1D.1ty of San Acacia Daa

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Hunl>o r of obj 0ots

Di:;tnnco of obj,~ct • f r om o bs o r vo r

•

7 B/S

10 ,

Ti.l’IO in sii;ht

B/S

11 .

Altitudo

sp,od

13 .

Di r oct ion of fli ght

111 .

Tactics

15 .

Sotlnd

Size

S/S

17 .

Co l or

Color of a1um1fflJll_a1rcraft at b.1&h altitude

18 .

Shapo

1ftien OTerbead:

Odor dotootod

l ppn r ont

Exh aust t r ai l s

Vfoothor c ondition s

Eff e ct on clo ud s

2L, .

Skotohos or photogr a phs

25 .

ktanno r of’ di sn ppoe r nnco

‘1lta.

20.000 ft

1,500 MPH (U eatimated altitude correct) :northarly bead1nc

(between llOrt.h and northwest)

Maintained formatioll

I/S

circ:nlar. Mtcr paa•in& £Qi.th:

1D.cletenli.llat•

I/S metallic

c~nstru ot ion

none CAVU

20,000 ft wind velocit,.- 8 to lO llilea

. 5/S

In mortb.veat

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acnit 65 alle■ south ot Albu.quarque 7 unidant1f1ed obJeet I flyuig Oll northerly headiJI& were obeerved. Objects 1n1t1elly in V f orma.tion at an ••ti-.ted altitude of 20,CXX> ft above earth. Jormation ftried from 1 1” to “L’ to and the crouped in an 1rregular formation and a regalaz- palaat~ fiaeb1ng l~t -.aa obaened from tba after they bad paaeed 30° beyond zenith. ~ abape was difficolt to ascertain. lllen 41recUy O’fet’~ad th.Q’ ware c1rcal.at’ ad re ■-bled a cluster of balloons tt&Yeliac at a -cea.t rate of apeed. !!he color wu that of alum1 mm at hi&h altitude (or mite painted aircratt). It the altitude estimation 1• correct the speed could. be eatillated a.a 1500 MPH. There wa no TapOr, aob or other trail rta1ble. !hey did not swear apberical w,.an Tieved at oblique a»gle. Diaappeared on wd1 ng betwen north and northweat.

•ct

Mml!S ll)!!S2

Set Carter 1• a aobar 1ndnatr1oua, 1…-.J. hePded iDdiTidDal,

au armamant technician of ootatand1fi8 abilit7. Definiteq not the t~ to uperi~nee halluc1nat.1ou. hto received

in other wtancea from thia indiTidDal h each instance proyen aeClll’&ta. Sgt Barvq ia an aperienced .a non-cca acc:u.stomed to the sf&ht of aircraft at ft!‘ioua altitude■ and speed.a.

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CHECK- LI ST - Ul:IDElfl’IFIED FLYHJG OBJECTS 1•

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27 July 48

Time

2200

Locct i on

lnc i d ,rt if

Springfield, Ohio

h . I!omc of obs <’ r vor Mrs. H. H. Gibson

Housewife

Occuputi on of ob~o rvor

6 . "".!dr ,:ss of obso rvor

1217 Kast Main St.

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Pl aco of obso r vi.t i on

Spri.Dgfield, Ohio

f\ .

Numbo r or objnc ts

J . Distance of obj<,c-c f r om obs orvor

1/S

3 aeeoDde

Tino in s i i;ht

11 .

!‘1titudo

12 .

Sr( od

13 .

DirrJction o f fli {;ht

1} 1•

‘i’ ,..1 <‘t i cs

16 .

Size

17 .

Cn lo r

N/S

10 .

Chc po

Round

)9 .

Odor d otoct od

20 .

,~ppo r ont constru ction

Exh1,u5t t r nils

~right red tail of fire

;:>c> .

ifou thor conditi ons

So1119 thunder 811d ligh~llg

Eff , •rt on ol oudc

1/S

~L .

Sketch ,s or photogr aphs

?5 .

Mnnnor

Roma r ks :

Great height

‘nlat of a jet plane

llOrth

l one - traveled in 8traight line

Witness stated object resembled “l:mge ball”

B/S B/S

Bone

l’le w ou.t of sight

of dioa ppua r a nco

(over)

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On Dipt of 21 Jul.7 48, at 2200 hour• obeener aaw obJect lllbich reNmbled a huge ball in the aq. It c.. from the eouth and

w.a headed north tra.Telizlc at apeed of Jet plane• vhich often

fq oTer obeervc’ • honae. ObJect trailed a bri&h,t red t.ail of fire ad traveled in a ■tra.18ht 11:o.e. !here wa eome 11.&btll.UIC and • tm1nder at the u… bnt im ob ■erTer thought the obJect aometb.i 11g entirel.7 f ore1&D,. •o noiae could be beard. Object onJ.¥ eeen for three NCOnda•

.Apnta DOte: Nra. Gibeon 1• the wife of a local carpenter, and 1• b1gt,J7 re1pected. •ot incliud to euggerate or bra«, accordillC to u1cb}>ora.

CT!ECK • LJST - Ul’.IDBI!TIPIED FLYIUG OBJ&;TS

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28 Jul.7 4g

Timo

Olm

Locc tion Springt1.td, Ohio Nra. BoN &mr7

l!umo or obsC’r vor

Occupo.tion of obtjorvor

JloaHW1£e

6 . l\tidr 1:ns of obso r vo r

826 Dibert Ave., $priJJgt1el.d, Ohio

826 Dibert .A.Te.• Spr’-zlcfield, Ohio

Pl oco of obso r wti on

O. MuMbor or objoots 9.

·l

Distonco of object f r om obso r vo r

lat ti.ae:

10 .

TiI’lo in s i f;ht

11 .

Altitude

12 .

Spead

13 .

Direction of f liGht

X/$

5 ai.Dut.ea.

2d. time:

15 aimltea

‘Jl/S

Reuine~, nearly atationar;y

B/S

Tuctics Sound

Wituee thovgbt llhe heard aoUDd. of plane before the aaw the object

Size

Col o r

About the eize of a basketball Intense 7ellow

Round

18 .

Shapo

Odor dotootod

20 .

Apporont

21 .

Exhuust t r n ils

22 .

Vionthor oond i t ions

B/S

Effoct on c l ouds

B/S

Skotchcs or photogr nphs

!lone

A1anner of disnppoaranco

J’aded e.r,q

26 .

Remar ks :

Jl/S B/S

const r uction

(oTer)

B/S

On 110rnillf; of ~ JuJ:r (about ()).()a) Mre Rose Hen17 happened to look out of ber bedroom v1.ndow toward the northeast 8Dd eaw an object the size of a baabtball vhi.cb. gm-e o!f an intense 7ellov light. It remained for some 5 aumte• and appeared to fade DIQ’. l•+wca IS a aoment 1t reappeared and•• rltible for IOlle fifteen mi.mltf;e. then faded awey ooa:pletely. It -.de no noise. Sound like tbat of a pl.au heEl’d before the obJect was eeen. Bo witnea1e1.

jpnt’ • Iote:

Jira. Seney 1• a colored wman about 50 yrs of age end 1 ■ a reapeoted member of tbe COMllllDi t7. She appeared well edncated and wre of her ■t.ate•nt a during the inteniew.

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Dote

19 J,m 4g

Tizno

7(}0 AM

Inc i d ont

f 11’9 ’

Borth Jutland (HJerra. ,the Scaw and BJerup)

Locot i on

I/S

li .

I!amo of obscr vor

Oc cu pat i on of ob 9 or vor

i,ddrcss of ob so r vor

B/S

Placo of obsorw ti on

• hth Jutland

Numbe r of ob jects

Distance of obj e ct fr om obso rvor

I/S

) !aka froa CIU. B . - ~ (IAD 11796) u prepared b,- Lt Col haJcl.1a :I. !o:ml.iuon

~ !hree

•/S

B/S

10 .

TiMo in sight

11 .

Altitude

12 .

Speed

Dirocti on o f fli cht

ll~ .

Tactics

15 .

S 01md

Ji/S

16 .

Size

B/S

17 .

Color B/S

18 .

she. po ball - aaucer

JS.

Odor d oto ctod B/S

20 .

Appa r ont constru ct ion

Exhuust t r nils

:-‘2 .

Vfoathor conditions

23 .

Effect on clouds

?L1 .

Skotch os or phot.oi;ro.phs

Rone

t-:annor of disnppoaranco

mzploded. and dieappeared

Romnrks :

Ji/S

apparently rocket-like

J1PB

11 8llddenly etopped,

laat - West exploded and dilllppe8Z’ed1

rocket-like obJe cta

kwl}).111 tail of green li&Jlt B/S

B/5

t”,;.

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Various parts of L’iorth Jutland have reported that :>n 19 Jan 48 at 7:30 .A:•! the wd..11 eo-called flyi.Dg mcera ~re observed. T’.o..e phenomcnn b;.s been observed in Hjerri.ng. the Scaw and Hjerup. The objects re S’..U-:-ounded by a bluish light and had tail of green light, noving east west. One observer thou.:.ht they loQked like three balls. Several oboervers in the Scaw sey they were rocket-like objects which suddenly stopped, exo oded anc. d.iaa_;Jpe ed. M/A. ca

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lmpo~ible to get any verification of this from tanish offici.:us or De.rJ.iah .var !-iinistry.

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Cl!ECK• LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS 1.

D0 t 0

&-ro.x 1 Mar -t’…

Time -

’ ntl’?n … . . v7JV

Location

Ifomo of ,obser vor

Incidrm.t =/I- l,>

SwedJ.ahCoan I/S - a lorwciaa pilot

Occupotion of ob~orvor

OIL pilot

Address of’ obsorvor

I/S

Plooo of obsorwtion

Air - uroute fro■ .tal.berc, Demnerk to • Oslo, Borw,

Numbe r of obj oots

Distance of ob joct f r om obsor vor

,Material. talra froa MA R-1~ •

KAI>~

1/S

~ MCODU

Ti.mo in sigh\t

Altitude

Spcod

13 .

Dire ction o f flight

Tactics

So1md

I/S

Sizo

I/S

17 .

Color

Shopo

Odor dotootod

Appnront constr uction

21 .

Exhaust t l”oils

Vloathor conditions

23 .

Effoct on clouds

Skotohos or i,>hotogr o.phs

Bou

Manner of dise.ppoaronoo

OTer Bon-.

Romnr ka :

20,0CX) ft

1/S Soutbeaat - paasiJac aloac Swedillh Coast and dieappeariJtc OftZ’ Bonl9’ I/S - flight path followed earth1 a mrface

aitted

I/S ba.t PSlflii a bluiab-green flame

I/S

(OTer)

I/S 1/S

•ne I/S

1/S

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An OBL plane enroute fro!D Aalberg, Demnark, to Oslo. No~, aignted a projectile C()\jing from the southeast. :passing 81.cmg the Swedish Coast and dieappearillg over Norwey-. The missile wa11 at 20,CXX) ft and diaapp83red over the horizon in four seconds. It t.t:mi t~ct a bluisb-geen flame but left no trail in the elcy-. The projectile seemed to :fta follow the earbh1 s surface. NOTE:

Simila.r missiles have been observed at R,juk:eJ?., No~ & Finse. No~.

In this connection, it is of interest to kllow that hea~ water ia currently being prodnced in Rjulmn. Observers:

A Norwegian pilot and his co-pilot. The pilot aerved w1 th the Royal Norwegian a in Great Britain.

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0955 3. •

• ,. • i ·1 Northeastern part of IndiSZ1Bp011s, Indiana ( See attached sketch of location) 1 • .r, or nb.· r v•·rs Mr. JB100c w. Toney & Mr. Robert Iiu&gins !t- ■■11 ,

c::c: 1.ip•.ti1 n <i f ob:, rv “r e

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of ot,~ r ·· t i ,,n

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o b ~• rv J r

of nb.’.

Eoth employees of W. 0. Jones Ru.g Cleaners Toney: 235 So :Br adley, I ndianapol.is Huggins: 5)l.io IncUanaol a, I ndianapolis (See attc.ched drawing of loc,:i.t ion)

f r om o b,- rv, r

N/S - not OTer a fell hwldred feet

N/S

I •

‘I’:in(I :i t: :; i r:ht

11 .

,dt i l,ucl•J

l? .

-,f’ ·. d

l ;. .

Dir •ic t:i 11n r: f fl 11·ht

1: •

“i ,,r, ic:;

F .

1,J .

, i z,I

b t o 8 f eet l o~

!.7 .

:;,-,1…, r

Al:uminum Blld sb.1.ey 1n col or

lf’ ,

,;h •.pp

Shaped like a broad short propeller (See attached dnig.)

J•::; .

Cdrr d•Jt-nct 1d

co .

” n n r ont cons t.ru ct inn

11.” d

30 fee t - just above t r ee-tops

25 to 30 MPH

Re.:.ded south ill bank to left

gliding .,.,.1 t h no apparent spinning act i on

no di scernible sound by 1-1/2 to 2 f eet

lfide (See att ach dng. )

N/S

&l.umimma con struction

None

? l.

.c.

~fccd,ho r c onditi ons

~3.

Eff :ct on r.l~uds

?l. .

S’k 1t-ch ,•s or ph otor;r up.h:;

25 .

! :nnr.c r of di sn pp11a r i:.nc J

Went dom in a:>oded area (seemingly)

26 .

Romo rk s :

(over)

CAVU - DO clouds

No clouds

• ObJeet vu llhsped like a broad abort propeller spprox1mate~ 6 to 8 ft l ong, each blade approxi.Dately 2 teet wide and epproximtel.y one foot thick with cap• on l1J?per lid.e ot blades. It eppeced alumimlm and ah1ey 1n color. ‘l’re.veled approxi.D:ately 25 to 30 MPH. It wae sigbte d just above the treea at approximately a 30 ft altitude 1n bank: to the left of approx ‘JP and appeaed in a alt descent. ~re w.s no discernible eound and no ex

haust trail.

NOTE:

hack had Ju.at atarted across bri<l88 ( eee dng) wen object wa.e a~ted directl.7 ahead abo•e the trees. Witnesses stopped on the other side of the cantilever brid&e but could not relocate obJect. Search by Lt John E. Roak:ina, Base PIO, and Lt Russell J. Carey, Jr.

Base Intel Off. (331st AF.BU) Rea Tng Stout Fld. did not :prod:Dce any result. However the area 1n wieh 1 t was believed t.o have fallen 11 deneely wooded with lD8Jl1 hill a and valleys. See diegrem attached.

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let Lt, USAF 1

Intel Officer

Laey wood School (Approx 1/4 a1 f/eifjJ.t~

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Inc id ·mt # 152 2.

Time

Loco tion

Iiacilanapolia. Indiam (South-Central part)

h. I!omo of obs er ver I Hr. & Jlr1 T8l”mn Swigert

Occupation of ob~orvor I Rilill am. electriclaa ad houeewU’e

:~ddross of obsorvor I

203:> Bo,-d. St.• lndl«MpOlia, 1D4hma

Placo of obsor ~t i on

.laabo••-

a. Number or objoots 9.

Distance of obj ect from obs or vor

in s i ght

B/S

10 NOOnds

10 .

Til”lO

.Altitude

Spood

Direction of fli ght

Tact ics 11/S

S ound

Sou

Sizo- •

17 .

Co l or

a> ft 1n d1a. Ud approx 6 to 8 ft 1a he1d,1.t 1Ja center - Batio about 3:1 ,-bite with ao ab1ne

18 .

Sha pe

lib a q1lbal

Odor dotoctod

2,000 !~ 18’)0 MPH

90° • east

B/S ,t

B/S

20 .

Apparont construction

Exhaust trails

22 .

V/oa thor conditi on s

23 .

Effe ct on c louds

Skotohcs or photographs 1

Uannor of disappoaranoo

Romorks:

~over)

Jrone :.;, clear

•/s 1/S

Object first perceived in the west. 1.be object w.s shaped like a cymbal With smooth aurfa.ces and epprorlm.tely 20 f eet in dismeter at the base and approximately 6 to g feet in aeiDlt in the center. Batio was about 3:1. It appem-ed to be fiat. white b color with DO shine. It trave.led extremely fast crossing the aky in sppro:rlratel.5 10 seconds (a distance of about 5 miles) on a ~ 0 beed.iJl&. It maintained a level course and ahimnered in the sun giVJ.lli the appearance of spinni.Dg. ‘?he al.t i tude was estimated at approx imatel7 2,000 ft. Object made no discernible sound and left no eDBllst trail. lo openizlge were noted on the object. NOTE:

Mr. Swi«ert was atand1~ by open bathroom wt ■i4■■■ window which f~ces the west an be was attracted by the obJect in the u:;y. Couldn’t believe hie eyes. He rushed into adjoining ki tcb.en and showed hie wife the object tbru the kitchen window facing south. He li••q;kk etated the object appeared lerge enough to carry one perso.n

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1Ave1tigation oondncted b7 Intel Officer, 1st Lt Bus sell J. Carey, Jr., on a call from Mr. Swigert. It was noted that rts1bi11ty 1118.S good from both windows for such observation.

lo other reports receiTed on this object.

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(Bation approx. J:l) / a/ Russell J • 1,/U,[“ye ,.__ Jr., RUSSELL J

CAREY

l8t Lt. I 05.Al’

Intel Officer

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Inoid ~nt :/1-

0100 boar•

Time

Location

I!omo of obse rvor

Occupntion of ob~o r vor

iddross of obs o rvo r

B/S (Info forvarded. f / ~ r U .._)

Pl aco of obso r wti on

Between Parrott, Ga. & llicbl•n’, Ga.

Numbor of objocts

Distnnco of obj oot f r om obsorvor

lletwen Parrott, Ge.. and llicb]and,Qa.

Jaaee Jaeral, 1oraer D Pilot

•/S - ba.t foraerl.7 D pilot

Til”lO in s i ght

ll .

hltitudo 20,000 to 35,000 ft

12 .

Spe ed

Oir ooti en o f fli i;ht 250•

llJ .

Ta ct ics

16 .

Sizo

B/ S

Co l or

b l ~ t e ■treek of li&ht

18 .

Sha pe

19 .

Odor dot octod

11.p pa r ont cons t ru ction

Exhu u s t t r ails

22 .

‘ilooth er conditi on s

CA.VU

Effo ot on clouds

B/S

?11 .

Sk ot ohos or photoer o.phs

~lonnor of di so ppue r e nco

Roma r ks :

•/s

5 to 10 NCOnda

J - 3{:()Q MPH ( e•tilla.ted) B/S

•stjeak”

B/S 1

rocket-lilr.e1

A trail of apaz-lca several. ail.ea lon& ·followed. it

Bone

B/S

153

11.beu wa U’llftl.1- betwen Parrott, Ga., and Richland, Ga., in an aatcaobil• lllbD be o’6aened a ‘brilliant blu.-llhi te streak of li&ht vhich laawd. trca 5 to 10 Ncond.1, tr&vellDc ill an apparent leftl flight on a beed1:ag of approrlaawly 250•, at about 30,000 ft altitude (estiaated). Jitter ’ - li&b,t diuppeared a trail ot aparb waa observed ‘Illich appeared. •‘t’Val llil•• loac. !hi ■ trail luted from 45 MCOnda to (1) minu.te

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Mr. —..1. did not ‘believe thi■ to be UT cele ■tial bit baaed Oil hie aperiuoe u a pilot in t1- D, be ■tated it appeared to be a bar■t of powr applied to a rocbt or rocket ■hip.

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Charles Sauod&l’I ) •

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cu pc. t,ion of ob:;, rv , r

Mtornt11

2&}-1/2 South ~ St

.d ;r• .,::; of’ ob:,,‘rv r

Yard of 1337 Clifton Ave., Columbus. Ohio

of’ obs,• r vi tion

Pl·.c

Di,tonM of ob.:i cL fr om obs orvor

10-15 mimtea

l •

TinLl in sic;ht

11 .

,dtitud J

l;, .

Dir ,ctitm cf fli1·ht

1 1,.

,,Ac-i

SIIX)Q

B/S

l,5(X) to 2CXX) ft

MoTillg south from the north

ics Constant slow speed - Once it hesitated & thin trail of i1sued from opposite direction of travel. Qumged poa1tio:n a~sum:1ng

Ilona

different ah.apes

1~ .

.:;, 11C“‘d

11.) .

Siz••

Judged to be about 20 to ‘;I) ft in diameter

17 .

Cnlor

B/S. Perimeter:

1 fl .

Jh”. pc

O:langizl«. First: eide-Tiew: P&l’allelogrBII. then r e-.erted to original. form

O<l or d .1tr,ct ‘ld

constant gr-e.,-black.

N/S

cO .

J\Pt:‘n r ont cons t ru ctinn

r1•

Bxhi.. w, t t r u i ls

B/S

thin trail of smoke

.font hur condit i ons

CA.VU

Err ct on clQuds

1io clouds

,’ 1, .

SJ.: ,t ch •s o r photor,r uph:;

4 sketches

2’; .

i’.r.ru.· r of dio-ippwo r c.nc<J

‘fl/S

2b .

Romu r ks :

(o-rer)

—

Center:

transparent. circular Second: clcclur

• On 2 AIJg l’8 at approx 1945 a rouM. object lalich appeared to be abotit ~ to 30 tt 1n d.1-.eter w.a obeen-ed moviJJ« in eoutherly direction from t:he mrth oYer center O’t CollJIDbna. Bad conatut cre,-‘black periaeter with a U’8ZU!parent oenter. The blu. ~ could be obeerTed. t.brongb. thia grq-blact peraaeter lmil.e 1t moed at a constant, al.ow epeed. of about 15 MPR. It made no no1te ~ ez,;r kind. Once it bedtated in it ■ IXT9’e:r:enta and a thin trail ot llll0ke 11sued from the oppo•ite direction of traTel. !be a.ob aoon dieeppeued am. wa not aeen apin durug the 10 to 15 ainutea obJect “8.8 rl•1ble to the observer. ‘!he obJect cbLziged position - lnt not direction of tr&Tel - tb:ree tiaea. 1llen fir at eeen 1 t nidently pre&mted a d. Tiew llhich w.a a parallelog• 1n lbape. (See). Slowly ita poaition oltered and it became circolr 1n fol”II, cm1y to rnert after a tiu to 1tw origiul fora. The altitude w.a Judced to be aome 1500 to ~ ft aboYe groond •

.&pnt• • loter

sa:n:w5era drew the followi.nc aketcme

\ _: : J’aurth

Second

__,]

J’ir.t

!be aboYe drawi.Dga conotitute four poaition• of one pbaM. b obJect puNd tb2”Cl throe of t.beN pbaua c1ar1JJC the 15 aimt.e perUd.

CJ rCK - LrnT -

t’:.ato

•

Tino

7Z~ P. M.

locotion

OccuJ>Q ti on of ob~o rvor

Incici ir.t

BouMW1.te

6 . ,, idr u::n or oboo rv. :> r

1337 Cl.1ttol1 A.e, Coltabcl•• Ohio

Placo or obso r v<., tion

Columbaa. Ohio

llur.tbo r o!’ objoct:s

Di:ito.t co n!’ obj ct rrom obso rvor

Ti:,o iri o i r.ht

11 .

J\ltit.udo

Spood

l;, .

DiroctiOJ’l or fl! Ght

11, .

Tor:t·c•/

l ~.

S011r.d

16 .

Shi,

17 .

Co l or

Sh~ po

19 .

Odor dotoctod

2o .

;\ppnront constr uction •

21 .

Exhuuc,t t ru Us

23 .

FL ‘IJ!G OBJD;TS

.Aue 4g

10 .

:>?. .

11!•1 ID 1’P“‘IFIEO

•fs

15 ldmtea

1/2 aUe h1cb

al.ow llbd. r•Clllar apeed • troa •orth to South t.o Southwet

•/s

Obl.on« to circw.ar to oblonc cbamge in abap. ~

of aall pl-.

•Is -b\i, Ciroalar tor th.a mat part

•/s •/s

tail of 11110b

Wonthor oond i t i on s

UaJ•neJS: ffffl>r~ for olteenaticm. ld.cht aaff1cient

Erro ct on c l oud:,

ClOIQ(lle11

vi th.out interlere:ac:e from am I rq,.

2 1.

Skotoh os or photor.ro.phc .

IJoDII

25 .

ltc&r.nor ot dhappo r r.nc o

•Is

26 .

ROt:‘IO r lcs :

(OYer)

0JL 2 Jae lla, at 71’}:) P. ll. … Seard.er• ObserYed. - un,-,e,] o~~Jeet b tM rlq. Ber attention -.. diNcted. towrcl it NOlllN … nei&b’borbood ch114re wre looki»« towrcl ~ »rtb. Sbe called her m.abaDd, Cbarl•• Sennder~~. (Jae 1~) te wit.De•• tu :pbceaenoa. !he aq waa cl.owllN■ an4· b l’-4:ht a,re Ua&. lafficieat, Yitbmlt interference frat tba rqe of the am lllhicb wre bidden b7 the mildiJI&• of the e1~. ObJect first appeared. oblonc 1A lbape and w.e trsreliDC trom north to 8011th at a al.ow, reculer apeed.. DI A•• at a betcbt O’f a ba1.f llile. ~ ~ 15 aim.tee under obeenation the obJect tr&Teled approx 7-1/2 ailee. Jl ~ it did no\ cbBl:rge it■ courN, it preMD.ted difterent appearace• flrom tiJDe to t1M. J’rom obJ.oDc to circular then to obloiic. ObJect vent tbru tbia cbage three di:tfe:ren_t time• 11Rtil o\Nl’Ter loet ■t.,;b.t ot it. BoweYer, for tbe a,at pert it preNDted. a cir CQ:l.ar appesruce. Oa.tluaa Yery dark in contrut vith the maa.. paNDqJ ot the cater. ,-ha ed. c1rculv obae.ner aware ot ~ Cllllter a t

’

t O aener mo …_ & iloa etuc frca 1iM nar, aft• which tbe obJect coatillud ill a aoutber~ direction.

·—

!hi• tail of aolce _. obaerved ba.t cmce. !be aiN appeared to be that of a ..U plae, It ade DO ■oam. al.tho at OM tiae ebNner tbavcbt • 4etected one. At approx szoo P. 11. o’beerYc- loet 81,pt Oil the ol>J~ Jut u 1t IIJPe&red to be ebmcSnc 41.r~ioA troa So-11th to Sout>:aw,t.

…

•

. ,. ,.

;.h

,,. …

31 July 48

lnr- Li Jrt ff 1 55

1 nr· ~ i en

/, .

• ,!‘i•

)•

.. ldr, .,:.; of ob:::, r-n r

480 N. Monroe Ave., Ciolumlra.s, Ohio

-i .

r 1, c

Columbus, Ohi o

4&> N. Monroe Ave., Columbus, Ohio nf’ ol•"" r v,., r Mrs. Edward G. Watson

of r b!;0 r v•. tion

6 or 7 Very great dietanee ~ L, .

Tino in sirht

N/S

very great

Bo-veriDg l;, .

Diroct i on of fl it-ht

N/5

7,,c-1 ics

-hangi.JJg in the sky

Hoveri.Dg

lfJ .

Sizr)

of an ash. trfV

17 .

Co l or

gold

3h-.po

I~, .

Oder doto ct od

to .

hppn r ont c onstruction

21 .

Exhuust t r a il s

,>? ,

w.. .thor c onditi ons

23 .

·Eff .ct on c l ouds

starlike

1/S

H/S

CAVU-bright sunlight

fI/S

Sk ~t oh os or phot oer nph s :o nrcr of di sa ppoa r c nc o

Romo r ks :

(over)

1/S

Bone

Witness Statement: ObJecta first looked like large stars. They seemed t o be at a very great diatance and appeared to be about the size of an a.eh trq. There vere approximately six or seven of them in a formation tbat resembled the abape of the big dippere Did not have a d.efini te shape indlvidually but Just seemed to be a group of spots glittering 1n the sky. They were gold in color and seemed to be just hangi.Dg in the sky. ‘!he ak;y- was clear and blue and the am was shining but do 110t bel i eve the gold color cansed by a reflection of the Eml. witiiess

Corrollrated b7 truck driver ba.t/ COW.Cl not obtain hie name.

Cl!ECK- LI ST - Ul!IDENT IFIED FLYING OBJ~TS

I ncidrmt fl- 156

Dato

8:00 P. II. 3.

Oobabu. Ohio - tr SP~ 14 MBl’ 1091 radio towar located M8Z’ tJniftZ’lit7 Qolf Ccm’N i!nmo of obser vor Mr ■• Marti.a Price 6 llr•• M8l’7 lippetoe Loco t ion

Mr■ • Price:

Occupat i on of ob~o r vor

houNWlf•

J\ddr oos of ob so rvor

Mrs. Mary JU.ppetoei aotber of llra. Price 2186 J.amont, • • • , Colmlba.a. Ohio

Pl oco of obso r vti ti on

!raont B4 near l«)SJ lad1o Tower

Numbor of ob joots

Di~tnnco of ob j oet f r om obso r vor

10 .

TiMO in s i bht

11 .

,atitudo

12 .

Spead

2,> fee\

1/s

25() feet Tf!l.rY al.ow

Di r oction of fl ight

lfeat to :last

lL .

Tnctics

Did not cbimge course or altitude

15 .

Sound

Jlo noise

16 .

Size

of gasoline dram - Approx 5 1 x 61

17 .

Col or

AIP Blade

Shc po

Oblong

Odor dotoctod

20 .

Appnront constr uct ion

21 .

Exhu ust t r ails

~? .

Vfont hor cond itions

Clear with DO c1onda

23 .

Eff.ict on clouds

Bo cloa.ds

2L1 .

Sketches or photogr nphs

Bone

25 .

~1nnnor of disnppoa r nnco

B/S

Romo r ks:

•,s B/S

Spouted black amolte from the top

(above) ,J

• I

0a SaQIJ’dq ffeniJtc, 31 M¥ 48, at appronmat.i,- 8:00 P. M. , clle dr1:r1ac IIOO.tb o-. fiiaont Boa4 u obMn’Wa approached tba w:>SO lad:10 !owr located cm tM lhdTer ■1V Golf Com-•, a larp obJect re…,_ bliJte a lantena wa ■Nil floatinc 1a the ak;,. !be watber . . clear, ad 1t aa ■till clqll&tit • o’bJeot ooul.4 be aeen quite clearly. It aa o’blo11e 1A abape ad about the ■lze of a guoline dna. It wu oond• froa t.be w■t and. mTiDc ffr7 alo~. It puNd cloae to the towr ad. w.a aboa.t 1/2 \be beicbt of the tow:r tr. tlwt ground. Aa it puN4 Oftl’hea4 traftliDc eaat, it lpORted black 1110b froa the top 11114 at the ‘bottca Oil the left ■id.a thee w.a a dD.11 enclosed li&ht Ub that of a i… !he obJect did. DOt cbac• ita courM or al.titud.8 ‘bllt ooat!mled oa to the east with black aolm traili.Da beb1nd, !be eltJect _. ‘bleclc. It 414 aot aab-,, DOiM. !b.c-e wre no v1np Ti■ible nor 414 it baYII a:r •tor.· • OJ)IIIWICtl of UT k1Jld. ooald be ■een.

m.-

JD?la .tm~ car ■topped…, tba with ho occapante llllO el•1:eed \hat tb-, ba4 …- wUu■aed. ~ l i b it before.

,~• .

~ -, ◄

t..

. , -:”’ ..

.. Ir-

(~ ,.

Inc id ,Pt /1

31 ~ 4s

157

8:p:) P. M.

j_r,<•

Columbt>.1. Ohio

Ljc,!1

Bobert C. Gomora

Teletype Oper ator G.

.. J<lr ,::; o f ob::, rv Jr

State Hi&hwq Pa t rol Radio Station lfear Golf Dr1v1.ng Rea•, Columbus , Ohio

l G.

:>i!’:tan<‘o o!’ obJ , ct f r om obs ’ r vr.: r Object was balloon ‘Which fell to earth & vas iDvestigated bf obseryer Tb,} in :Ji-ht ‘N/ S

11 .

;, li itud •.)

12 .

:;i. <J d

l~- .

Dfr >c t ion c,f fl irht

’ ,I •

1 •~ct ics

Came to earth f’rOJD around 100 ft ( lllhen first observed) N/S earthward

11/s N/S

11.> •

Siz,:;

2 ft X 3-1/2 ft

17 .

‘:r,lo r

lllhite crepe paper

1G .

8h:;p<’

N/S - but ea.id to be like old tima “Count:, :1air11 balloon - round.

l’;, .

Oder 1l ,1tucto d

20 .

. ~fi,i,Pii.J,flf con st,ruction

11 ,:

•

N/ S

Er.h ·, u~t t r ui l s

crepe paper

smoking - caused by large ball of waste ma.t~rial

’.”! ci . •. hor conditi on n

N/S • (cl.ear • see Incident: 156)

~3 .

Eff:ct o n cl o ud s

5/S (no clouds)

C 41 •

Sr:ut ch, s or

.,,

photogr etp!‘ls

t·onno r of’ disappuo r anco

Romu r ks :

None

Fell to earth li>.ere it was retrieved.

(over) I ._

Object was perceived floating in the sq comi.Dg from the wes t over Ohio State Student Housillg Project and vas approximately 100 f eet off the ground. vb.en first obsened. It got lower all the time and landed in a field nearbi • ‘ftlree anall boys ran toward 1 t and observer went over to investigate. Saw ~ r ba,; affair approx 2 feet in diaeter and 3-1/2 fee t l o~ made of wite crepe paper. (like old time 11 Co1.mty…J”air” hot air balloons) It was IIOOk:i.ng men first observed and this was caused bia large ball of waste material wich va.e fastened underneath it. There were no mark:a or writing

on it ++i1l1D1+1i1\ww1Mi+&1l,,weee ~

:lote:

See Incident 156 - in wich tille & direction tally.

. CEECK - LIST - 11?:J:DEH’:‘IF’IED FLYlllG OBJECTS

Incid mt iJ

D:.. t

Tir,o

Loe£ ticn

11 .

i 1umo of obscrvor

7•

Occupution of ob~o r vor

,dd r tJ .;s of obso r vo r

Plue ) of obso r ~Jt ion

[I .

t!unbvr of obj-,ct.s

Distance of obj, 1 ct f r om obs e rve r

158

2a00 P. M. AXIIMI Groveport, Ohio Harold A. Tailtil Stu.dent, I

25 Yest Hinman ue. l 111le west o! Groveport, Ohio

l Ci .

Tino in s i r;ht

B/S

11 .

nltit udo

Yery high

12 .

Spr od

13 .

Diro ction c f fli,~ht

B/S

N/S

in we1terl3 direction against a light wind

Tuctics 11/S - Just u:baust visible - smoke pattern dark & ft’r7 large dispersed rapidly and appeared. again as wide streak a mile or ao in leQgth l·• · S011Fd lio SOUDd tviated from wide to narrow atreak 111 .

and.back.

lo .

Size’

B/S - object not seen

17 .

Co l o r

1/ S - object not seen

18 .

3h~po

Julit a streak observed.

l.<j .

Odor d ot o ctod

20 .

i~ppnront constr uction

?2 .

Appeared aa black cloa.d with no de:tlnite ab.ape but loolmd lia an anti-81.reraft a.hell a few aecond.1 after it mploded ·· · · · ·•-· , … ... rew white clowia - bo.t jl.eer Wcmthor conditi ons

23 .

Eff o ct” on clouds

2L .

Sko tch ,!S or photor;rophs

25 .

Monnor

26 .

Romar ks :

11/S

,:/Jk.

An exhmlst trail (&1DOke)

Exhuust t r oils

bl.aek cloud •1-l.houet ted em:>ng tba that moved

of di”snppoa r o.nco

3 fi&•• B/S

(oTer)

…

• Obaen-er noticed ‘411hat appeared to 1>e a emal.l blade cloud between t.:, llb.1.te ozae■• Semed. peculiar because the weather w.a cl.ear 8D4 th.ere were a few wit. cloa.da in the aq - mt no otber dark cloada or formation■ ot UST ld.ad. !!he black clotld did not have arq dlfinite abape bu.t looked. lib an enti- &1.raraft abell a few eeconda after it explode■• Suddenly it ■ tretched out into a Yicle 1treak with aaller Tft’t1cal atreaka. then rapid.17 turmd end twiated. mTiDc illto a different direction and. di■appearillg. In three or tour aecon.dl , the amoke burst app.ared ~ 11p0nt81le0Usly-, approxiaate.1.J ‘2f1I wat of the pJac. mer• firet n.oticed. Smoke pattern dart, TC7 large. ad disper■ed rapidly, appear~ aca1n u a “1.rua ■treak a aile or 10 ill len«th wueh appeared to twi ■t troa a wide to a ~ w 1tnak and tbea back acain cbangiJI& direction aa it twi ■ted. Mo’Ying 1n w1terly direction agaiJlat li~t v1n4. Pla1nl.7 rta1ble altho far 8Jtllq ad ftr1’ high. Bo amm4 heard. Seemed lib a atreak that would be md.e 1f a ~ w1D£ with ""ra1 ~ • IIL benJdnc am turn1Jlg and leaTillc aba,st traila.

lotel Yantia was in the var and bad seen a l ot of ant1,,.a1rc:raft ahel.l• burst mid~ Tap<>r trails from plane■ ba.t bad. unr obeen-ed ~~ lib thia. Be atateai • 1 It wa.a IO apoatauau 11D a rnbber bazwl ..hic:b ics round, tun 10ddenly 11 1tretched at length and tviated. and then diaeppeara v1 th.out & trace.• Jont 1 • llotet

Tanti• drew the lketcbee below

Streak twisted and turned - mddenly diaappearecl

l ? lengtb ~ width same -

eatimated at l to 2 mile•

lat position

..e 30 July 1948

l •

’

. .i

2015 hours

:1 s

Worthington, Ohio J ohn A. Felton

5800 Hi gh St, Worthi ngton, Ohio

·r .

rl·,c

~.i.:.t•u1crJ of ob j, ct f r om obse rve r

of obs •r-,r.t i on

Li .

Ti:,o in s i t;ht

11 .

:dt. i tud)

l? .

::;

r· ‘Jd

Worthington, Ohio

N/S

15 minutes

Approx 3000 ft very slow SW

Di r uc ti ,m of fli 1;ht

None

1!1 .

,,..:c-t ics

1 r, .

,; , •1rd

:7 .

Col o r

silver

rn.

8hr,po

cylindrical

None

N/S

Odor d •Jt<:ctod

N/5

20 .

1,ppn r o nt con stru ction

21 .

Exhaust t r ai l s

,“>2 .

v’/c-tit hor c onditi on s

Effo ct on clouds

2L1 .

Sk etche s or photogr uphs

None

25 .

t-la.nr.or of disnppoa r a nco

N/S

Romu r ks :

N/S

Clear with high scattered clouds, visibility good

N/ S

(over) I;

• Object appee:red cylindrical in shape with no apparent wiJl€s or tail surfaces. Bo standard marker lights were disp~ed and there were no eDgioe noises. The object emitte4 a steady silver glow.

Altitude was judged to be approximately 3000 ft and the object Wa.s moving very slowly in a southwest course. It was in line of vision some 15 minutes. Bo other aircraft. military or civilian were in vicinity of Felton’s hearing or vi8ion. The sky was clear with high. scattered clou d s and the v1sib111 ty vae good. NOTE:

Felton questioned by Maj Cal:rpbell of the USAF, but nothing further was gained by this interview with the e~ception that hi• wife also saw the object.

CF-ECK- LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS Inc idQnt

Onto

4 J ~ 48

Timo

lltl5 P. N.

Locotion

t!nmo

Occupo.tion of ob~orvor

B/S

1,ddr oss of obsorvor

Box 227, nr…ebarg. Pa.

Pl oco of obso r wti on

Dr&Taaburg, Pa.

Numbor of obJocts l

Distanco of object fr om obsor vor

f 160

DnlYaabarg. Pa.

of obser vor

T imo in sight

11 .

Altitudo B/S

12 .

Spcod

John Jmmi~. Jr.

•/s

20 Mconda +

Boveriz:lg - then mviDC on at und.etenained apeed.

B/S

Diroction of flight Tactics

JDOTed aero••

•topping three times and resum:tnc movtment

Sound

Bo noi se

Si zo

of a star

17 .

Color

same as a star

18 .

Shdpo

l ooked l i ke a star

19 .

Odor d otoctod

Apporont construction

21 .

Exhaust t r ails

22 .

Woathor conditi ons

23 .

Effect on clouds

Slrntchos or photogr o.phs . Vague sketch

Mnnnor of disn~poe r anco _

Romnrks:

p·

·N/ S B/S

N/ S N/ S

N/ S

(over ) , ·

.’ .

…

On 4 J-al.7 1-8 at appr~.. 11:15 P. M., OS!, witneaa and bis wife tbougb.t tlwT aaw a ■tar mT1DC. ‘!here • • a li&b,t in the mcy the same color and ■ize of a atar which w.a movinc. *••t 1w,,,,,._,,tt p,,,,,w,ca,,,ae

w110+1Dtl•sw1■ 1w1•lwclaee11u ➔wN1”1et1a ■ pt++e14+■■ xMlw+lnqi l11&► 1el11Jllres,kle1e,eet1414. !hen the7. thought it ‘88 a plane bllt it -4.e DO noi… !be obJect moved across the ■k;y, then its course

cbanced.

a bit and wnt straight and ■topped again for about 5 MCODde, changed it■ cour• a bit and 1f91L~ etraigbt tor avhile and •topped aga1n th1• time for at lea.at 15 llfCOnda, tbezl it wnt across the l)cy a little wa;,ye and diuppeared ccapletel.7. lben. the obJect •topped in the sq-, it resembled a star and onl7 b7 folloWinc it• courN cow.~ the difference be noticed.

IDB:

lfltaeaa atatea that he 11-.ea 801N 2-1/2 mile■ from the two woman (NoEeeaport, Pa.) mo reported aeeirlg a bic ailver plate zooming

11DiNlea■l7 OYerbea4 in the direction of ~ o d Pmtt.

161..

See Inc.

.e,. .

r .

11:·P)‘::l!:‘Ir!ED

Cl:ECK- LI:.T -

Around July 8,

FLYilJG OBJECTS

Incid >rt if 161

N/ S

’:” ir’\u

L r,cr ti on

McKeesport, Pa.

Mr s . !fell Vewey & Mrs. Elizabeth Ooltz r./ .

C:ccupr.ti on of ob~o rvo r

housewife

,.-idr,• .;:,; of obs o rvo r s

Mrs Goltz:

·1 .

Pli.c

McKeesport, Pa.

rlunb~’ r of obj <“‘cts

Di:.tonco of obj <.’ ct from obso rvo r

Mrs Vewey:

of obsu r vi.ti on

34o4 GTover Ave) 26o4 Gr-over Ave. McKeesport, Pa.

l N/ S

N/S

10 .

Til""lo in sir,ht

11 .

,; lt itudo

12 .

Spr•cd

13 .

Dirocti on o f fl i /~ht

1c:-, .

J ,” 1rd

16 .

Size

12 to 15 inches in dia.

3h•.po

“plate”

10 .

Odor d otoctod

20 .

i1.ppn r ont constru ction

2 1.

Exh:lUst t r uils

,‘2 .

;10nthor conditi ons

23 .

Effoct on clouds

2L .

Skotch Js or photogr aphs

None

~:annor of disnppoa r a nco

disappec-red in bl:nid baruc

26 .

Romo r ks :

N/ S

N/S N/S - toward X:enJl3W(>od Park

noiseless

N/S N/S

disappeDred in c l oud ballk

(over )

. · w1tnesa saw lllhat looked like a “big, silTer plate• zoom.il:lg noiael eal.y overberul in the direction of Kennywood Parle. IIQh look, that’ a not a plane, ac:reamed Mra. Vewq of 34o4 Grover to ber neighbor, Mr$. Goltz, 36o4 Grover, “it looke~ike one of tboee flying eaucers.”

Mrs. Vevay said the disc was about 12 to 15 inches in diameter. It diaappe6red in a cloud bank but reappe ed on the far eide and was seen by Mrs. Goltz. They followed the direction of the diac until out of ai8}lt•

R’.>TE:

Taken from the Daily Neve “Mcieeaport, Pa.

July S, 1948.

… . . I . ,. ’ …,-CHECK- LIST - lfl·! IDE1•!7 IFJED FLYHIG OBJECTS

Inc id ·,rt :/1- 162

D:1tc

ll Aug 48

Timo

1200 and 1215 hours CS?

Locotion

Pomo of obsc- r vor

Oc cupc.tion of ob~o r vor

:\ridr c ::;s of ob so rvor

R/R 1 Hamel, Milmesota

Ploco of obs.:> r vt,t i on

A8 above

lJuJ’lbo r o!’ objoots

Disto nco of obj n ct f r om obsor vo r

Hamel, Minneeota Jerome Leu.er (age 10 and Benne Leuer (age 8) children

baclt yard

10 •

T iM0 in s i Ght

11 .

Altitude

12 .

Spcod

Diro oti on of fli Ght

a matter of a few feet

li/5

rested on ground -

‘1/S

After resting 011 ground it aacended to a hei&ht of

30 fee t and shot off 1n a nortb.eaaterl.7 direction

1L.

Tactics apan once, made ‘Wistl1ng nois~, ,wot stra1ght up 20 ft, halted and again made whis tlill& noise. Maneuvered aroWld tree branch.es & tele Sourd whistling noise - like steam whistle wires.

16 .

Siz o

1 ft thick - 2 feet wide

17 .

Col o r

dull. gr9¥

S h n po

~ound.

Odor d ot o ctod

20 .

Appor ont construct i on

Exhaust t r “ils

N/S metal.lie

B/ S

iloothor conditi on s

B/ S

23 .

Eff ect

21.1 .

Skotch ns or photographs

25 .

llnnnor o f diso ppoa r onoo

Romor ks :

o n c l o uds

(over)

N/S ‘lone

into northeast

lllforaant ■ atate4 that oa 11 Aue 148 between 1200 and 1215 houra, cs-r. Jeroae and :Benao were p~~i.Jlg in the back Tard and noticed en object in da■ca:1t approxiaatel.7 twel.Te feet from the groand wb.1ch waa deacend.1~~ betwen the tw of them. It settled to the ground gentlJr - JIil.Ch e.a a halJoon. Opon bittin& the ~ the object lp,lD. once. made a aort of wbi•tlillc DDiN, d.elCl’ibed b7 the tvo beye •• re ■-bli.Dg a at.an wiatle, ad tbm abot atraieht -ap into the a1r approxiae.teq 20 feet, halted and ap1n aad.e a ~~•tl1D& noise. The object then ahop upwrd to a height of abant Y:, feet, and, 1D th11 a scent, 1118DBUTered around tree bran.che1 a4 tel~~n• v1rea. Upon reaeb1J>& a height of approrlmately 30 feet t.be o’bJecibot off in a mrtbeaaterl)’ direction. !be obJect approached. frcm the 110rtbwat.

!be bo7• deacribecl the obJect aa “approximately ODe t oot thick, two teet aide and rOlmd. • !be obJect had 110 windoww, wiree, or any Tiaible apparteaucea. It w.a a dull gnq in color end when it hit the ground, it mde a al.1’b,t elenk1ng uoiee, ma.ch a e metal hit t ~ agains t metal. Philip en4 Mr• Leuer stated the boy e wre viei~ f’ri,;btened lib.en t he;r ran into the boo.M and were afraid to tell what they had aeen. Uyon clo•• que1ti011U1B, the boya related the above story to them.

Mr. Ltoer advised that he1ben bad notified. Mr. E. R. Sheridan. Poat maste~ at Baati, Mimleac,ta (vbo mbeequantly notified the pr oper enthoriti ee)

AGDITS 1l>‘!IS: .tcent noted that the 11p0t are the alleged ‘flying 1E111Cer” had landed wu approximately 2 fe et in diameter and appeared. aa t hough ■c:ime beaT)” obJect had landed there or bad been eet down - as the ground • • dented aJMi protrudi.D& rock• had been leveled. The apot wee covered by a washtub. . to .a-""tM,,._ E. R. Sheridan. Poatmaste.i:. advised that he had no reaeon UA,l,U,I ~-Ue atoey of the boys or of Mr. and Mrs. Leu.er. and for thie reuon bad reported the matter to the Federal :Bureau of Investigation, St. P8Dl, Miml.

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C . t Henry Glovr-r & •Alifa (Otd-Res)

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8531 Variel Ave., Cano~.: Park, Cru if Van Nuys , Calif.

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Ordnance Reserve Officer

rv r

1, • C’ •

l t·ro:-i c,t1., r v r

1 1. I

‘l:fis:,. about an hour

r . 1 1t

I •

grt”ci t

n J ’ I ,. ll l

. ~ overnead

he i:e,ht

•

• n i

1,,. .

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l •

;→1 .

of we·.ther balloon i:.t 2CXX) f t

1~r

blu i sh lum nescence like fluor escent l amp whi ch gradUE.lly cn~.nged to or,nge color at dusk r ound tend~ to spheri cal

r i ,i;, l’t. •d

N/S

,-r,r,r.ror.t cons• ructinn

c.r.h•.•J ., t t r u1 l s ,,

or e

N/S

,- d

~h P”

I ,.

or Wxim:d!

E to .

t r a,11=led a ve-rtictl arc of about 25° or

,.. , r I .

toward the sun from t he Ea.et

l,t

N/S

1 r c onditi r·

CA.VU

2:, .

: ·vnr r of diznpp· :—t r nc”

LU o

R 1,hr lts:

(Over)

ground terq:,er · tu.re 70-75°

snapped off like a lamp ‘ftlen you throw switch

Object api:eared round and probo.blJ c,;phH.!“ic:.tl.. At first l0ok{•d si’llilt:.r to weather balloon at t~~bout 2000 ft but t.‘1-iere was no characterletic bobbing. The wind vc:1.s blo~~,i~ on the ground wit;, fatr strength and gusty yet t:.~~e object was <r?,ite steady. Io t~~e time 1 t was under observation (about an nour) it traveled thru a v.ertical arc of about 25° or 1rore . After watcning tne object for a ‘While the observer concluded that whatever it was the t r.. ng ~~c s at great height but not a star. It had a. bluish :!.U.‘llin.escenoe like .a fluorescent lamp and as the sun set tbe color gr~~dually c..~w:iged to an or ange color at dusk and finslly snru,ped off like a L.mp when the switch is throw. The outl i.ne was clear and sharp and symetricc:l (no fuzziness or blurring) , t ne air cler:;r with visibility unlimited. Di recti0n of travel from Ea.st directly to•~d the sun.

. CHECK - LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS 1.

O!lto

29th JUM

TiJno

ll P. M.

, .

Lo cot ion

l~omo of observor

Occupoti on of ‘ob,orvor

l”ddr oss of’ obso rvo r

Pl oco of ol;>so rvr,ti on Uniontow, Pa. - ObaerTer 1 • front porch

llunb~r of objoots

Distanco of obj o ct f rom obso r vor

IIJS. O!l.~1.Ae NeD:>nald

•/s

lllt■a widow

38 Lm.•illgton Circle. Unionto-..n

three - one at a t 3.me •/S

•/s

10 .

Timo in lli(;ht

11 .

Altitude

Spood

13 .

Dirooti on o f f liGh t

lh.

Tactics

15 .

So,md

Sito

17 .

Co l o r

luminous

She.po

oTBl

Odor doto otod Bone

20 .

Appa r ont constru ct i on

EY..houst t r ails

22 .

Woathor oonditioos

23 .

Effe ct on ol ouds

,x>C) ft

. Teey fast

apinn1ng Tertical.ly o n ~ none

1/S

1/S - tranaparent

trail ot ligbt about l :,ard l01:1g

•~ra, mn cloadl’

•/s - flew acB•• ek;y beneath baae o~ clouda -

11’ntninc could be eeen_tbru it. .. , Tague aketcb -. I ..,._ —.:. Manner or di aoppoe r o.noo lost a14Plt at - obetro.ctea b”t,n.eS&M>oruc bou.ea

Remarks :

r.! .,,

UniOlltom. Pa.

Sketche s or photographs

,JOlllfJ’

(OT81’)

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At a:pproximately ll P. M. on th~~o{ J .me Mrs .dollar saw a luminous oval-W’laJIPed o b j e c t x a mea t p l a tter rolling al:>Dg on its edge. It appeared to t e going very fast since it disappeared in about 5 to 10 seconds . It was without sound or odor but seemed to have a tail ‘Ahich extended about a yard or so. Five minutes later, witness saw a second object and after another five minute ints rval a third objec t w- s observed . They appeared in t he Southwest and flew to the Northeast. The we·-ther w~ s cloudy ¼ith lightning and rolling thunder. The objects flew over the Oaldand St. Area or just to the si de of it (&st of Oakland St.) Tbey traveled about l , CX)() ft and then disappeared beh ind the houses across the street from the witnesses.

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Witnesses:

Mrs. Catherine McDonald Police Sergeant S-nuh & ~hter

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CF.ECK-LIST - Ul!IDENT IFIED FLYING OBJreTs Inc idrmt ft l64e.

29 June 48 2,

Time

23()0

Location

I!omo of obser ver

Occup(ltion of ob~orvor

,,ddr c ss of obso rvor

Union.town. Pa. Mra. Margar~t Hollar et al HOllSewi.f’e 100 Moore ATe. • Uniontown, Pa.

Placo of obs or ‘Vbtion 3g Kensington Circle. Uniontown

(home o! Mr a. Catherine Mcll)nald)

3 - one at a time

of objocts

Mumbor

Dista nco of obj o ct f r om obsor vo r

‘fl/S

10 seconds

10 .

Tir10 in SiE;ht

11 .

rlltitudo

12 .

Spcod

13 .

Dir oction of fli Ght

J 4.

Toctics

15 .

Souttd

~ Bo sound

16 .

Sizo

“platter”

17 .

Co l or

luminous

18 .

She po

oval

Odor dotoot od

20 .

Apporont constr uction

21 .

Exhuust t ~ni l s

22 .

Vionthor conditi ons

cloudy with ligb.ti iDg and rolli.Jlg thunder

23 .

Effo ct on clouds

N/5

21.t .

Skotchus or photogr aphs

None

25 .

hlannor of di sa ppoa r n nco

View obstructed by neighboring house s

Rornn r ks:

ll/S

very faat

hom Sout.bwest to Bortheaet

roll.ed along on its edge

~ None N/S

luminous

a tail of about a yard in length

(over)

Witnese saw a lumi.nou.a, oval-ebaped object fl.yi.Dg at an altitude of approx 5,0CX) ft which ve.s traveli.Dg beneath the baae of some el•••• cloud.a from t10Uthveet to northeast across the sky. The weather was stornv and cl011ey and aa a aecond. object flew a.cross the sky a flash of 11.glltning eoul_d be seen thro. it. It seemed to be trensparent. The objeete(3) tnmued Tery f c:.at and eee_med to just disappear within 10 seconds. The objects appeared at approximately five minute intervals. There vas no odor or acnmd ft :from them. However, a trail of light about a yard l ong was obeerved. ~ object• rolled Tertically on their edgea and appeared to be apinnill« an end across the aky. Witnesses lost sight of the objects a.a ne1&}1bor1Dg boo.1e1 obatructed their Tiew. \fitnesete: Mre. Marpret Hollar Police Sergeant Shull & aua hie dsngbter

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I::, t

29 June 48

Tino

2,300

; .

Locu t i on

J, .

: 1al”lr or <“‘hn!’.’ r V’.lr

:‘I!>El::-:FIED FLYHlG OSJp;rs

Inc1dJnt

11:00 P. M.

Uniontown, Pa.

Sgt Chae E. Schuh & d.8u&):lter

5- Ocr.u p . ti on of ob ~o r v or

Uniontown Police Dept.

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32 Lawton Ave.• Uniontown

Ploc o or ob-:o r·. ti cn

from front porch of 38 J!enaington Circle, Uniontown.

1:u1:1bo r oJ’ obj ~ta

~i:ito nco of obj o c& r r on oba or vo r

1 N/ S

5 - 7 MCOnda

10 .

Tino in :sirht

11 .

~1 ir.udo

6,oo ft

12 .

Sr-00d

100 JI.PE

1;.

Dir >cti Gn of fli c ht

1!,.

Tor. ics

D -

sighted 1n weat

atr41&bt & level DOile

.io11r.d

balt ot a large meat platter (1-1/2 1) Co l or

»/s

3ht: po

eemi-cirC’.u.ar

luminoua

Odor d ot,Jct od

N/ S

cO .

,~ppnront construct i on

Ji/ S

21 .

&Y.hr1ust

t r cd ls

1/S

foothor oond1t1 ons

2; .

Err ct on c l oud~

B/ S

~1, .

Sko choo o r

none

:?5 .

‘cnnor

26 .

’ R0:X1 r ko,

partl7 cl ouey

photo,;r i:.p?ls

ot dit’Joppce

nco

(o~er )

•/s

e On the night of 29th June at about ttili: U:00 P. M., witnes1 taW an object that reaembled a hal! of a large meat platter which appeared oTer tJl the west end of the cit7 at Oakl.aad Ave & West Main St.• Uniontown. Pa .

It seemed to be at a height of about 6,000 ft and sailed 1n a atra18bt line

of about 8 or ~ fee t 1n about 5 to 7 aeconda. Bo eound wu heard and the obJect •u1t1 ■+11a,11 emitted no r••• It w.a traveliJ:lc in a northeaatly direction. Witnesses:

Mrs. Mcl))nald

Mre. Hollar Sgt Schub’a daughter

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CITECK - LIST - UWIDEN’l’ IFIED FLYING OBJECTS

Incid cmt :fl 165

26 July 1948

D~to

T imo

Locc ti on

11 .

:!amo of obser ver

2100 I Chamble e, Ga. Ihyle L. Avery et al

Ob server, Atlanta Naval Air Base 6.

;,r:ldr css of obse rve r

Atlanta Naval Air Base, Chamblee , Ga.

Pl oc o of obso r ‘lrot i on

Numbe r o f ob jncts

Dis t a nce of obj e ct f r om obse r ve r

Observa ti on tower

1 blue white light

10 .

TiMo in sight

11 .

~ltitudo

Sr ood

13 .

Di r oct1 on of f l i Ght

11.i.

Tactics

15 .

Sn.turd

None

Siz;o

N/S

N/ S

N/5

B/ S

N/S - like abootiDg ets-

SE turning Sand geini.Dg al.titud.e

straight &: level &: ga.1.ni Dg altitude

…

Co l o r

blue-white light

18 .

She. po

N/S - object not seen

19 .

Udor d otoot o d

20 .

1~ppo r o nt constru ct i on

2 1.

EY.hu ust t r a i l s

N/S l i ke shooting st ar

N/S - possibly the blue lilhite l_ight was the exhaus t

?2 . i”loa t ho r cond iti on s 2/10 ci rrus a t 25.000 ft: l to 4/ 10 of l ower stratocirrus at 5,000 ft. Visibi lity 12 to 15 milee. Surf wind light & varia». 23 . Eff oct on clouds N/S 2-5 MPH 2L1 .

Sk otch P-s or phot og r o. phs

None

25 .

He.nnor of disnppoe r n nco

N/S

Romn rks :

(over) ,;

?1t 11/

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iaali, +-1 -:Wi , n>yle L. Avery Obser7er, Atlanta Naval Air :Base, Chamblee, Ga., wiile on dnty at the observation tower on 26 July ~ about 2100 hours sighted a blue-white light traveling anutheast from the north~st It vas travel in& very faet and maintained. a uniform altitude (undetermined) and speed. It looked like a ahootillg s tar except for the fact that it maintained the &ame altitude. lhi l e under obaervati:>n it then appeared to gain altitude and t hen turued sharply to the eouth. The weather wae clear and still . Tb.ere was no sound. Shortly after sighting the light several reaidents of the art:a called and reported seei.Dg tb.e same t hing. No flights left or arrived at the station after 1910 hours on 26 Jul y “8. 165a

Witnesses ot thi« Dhenomena who were interviewed made statements On 20 July 48 they were seated on the lawn of the O.eorgia School of Technology Housing Project at Chsmblee, Ga. About 20!..5 hours Mrs. John Goll sighted a strane;e light and cal.led it to the attention of ber companions. The light appeared about the size of a football and was travel ing southeast on a ste~ course. It was green and. faded into a silver-colored tail, Tbe light eppe·.red 1 t ee-i. to l ose altitude slowly n:nch the &sine ae a plane co:ning in for a l anding. It appeared to f a.de awa:t in flight as if extinguished. No sound waepe.r;rrl.

a.a follow :

Vi tneesea:

Mr. & Mrs . Harold Shaw Mr. Robert Sebring Mrs. Jeanne Hill Mrs. Myrtle Renfroe Mrs. John Gall

CEECK - LI ST - UUIDE1!7IFIED FLYIUG OBJECTS

lncid mt

Dute

30 Aug 48

Tino

20,000 hollra or S:00 P. M.

Locat i on

l!omo of obsC’r vor

Occupc.iti on of ob ;orvor

J~t:ld r css of obso r vor

Pl oco of obso r vn ti on

Numbo r of objoot s

Distanco _of ob j o ct fr om obso r vor

1 66

Loe Angeles, Calif.

S/Sgt Leroy B. Eete ■ 5/Sgt … 1,301 W. Olympic l31.Td. , Los Angele•

1,301 W. Olympic Blvd. Loe Angele s. Calif.,
l

10 .

Tirlo in s i i;ht

11 .

Al titudo

Spood

13 .

Di r e ction o f f l ight

Tactics

none

15 .

Soun d

Bo eoUlld

Sizo

Larger than B-29

Co l o r

silver

18 .

Shapo

V-2 rocket

19 .

Odor dot oct od

20 .

Appor ont c onstruction

Exhaust tra ils

22 .

‘Woat h o r e ondit i ons

Effo ct on c l ouds

Skotchos or phot ogr a phs

Bone

25 .

llo.nnor of diso ppoa r o nco

B/S

26 .

Remarks :

B/S

N/S

eeti.mated to b9 well over 20,000 ft. thought to be well over 700 MPH

Wczt 2 ■ 3t flew level course

B/S rocket - like

blue exbaaet trail

,.S

B/5

(OTer)

JI c,

Object resembled the fuselage of a V-2 rocket - but much larger. S/Sgt Eetes stated that it was much larger than a B-29 and silver in color end that 1 t completely filled the lens of a 10 B-80 field glass which was taken from a German 88 mm artillery piece. kch lens was 8” in diaidter. Speed estimated to be well over 700 M PH. and objecVwas traveli.Jl€ at an altitude of well over 20,000 ft. No sound was heard Left a blue em.mist trail. Object travelillg from west to east. Only one object •i&hted.

CHECK - LI ST - P!1IDE1!7IfIED FLYHIG OBJECTS Inc id 1r t -#

6 ~ 1948

1 67

0905 OCT

2•

Tin0

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11 .

:=•1m1

19° 08 1 ?l - 164° 05 1 E be tveen KwaJalein Island, Marshall !elands and Hickam Field.,

of obsc-r vo r

Capt J’l.oyd Barnes

Pilot USAF Pacific Division, Milit Air ‘l’rane Service

-.> .

. . ld r

a o f obo•l rvo r

-, •

ri..c

of obsu r vt.tion

II .

lluMbo r of objncts

·) .

Digtonc-o o f o b ,j, ct f r om obsc rvo r

Ahead & above hia plane

TiMo in si~ht

split second

,,ltit udo

10,000 ft

4 to 5 milea

12 .

N/S

Dir 1, ction o f fl ii;ht

exploded like e. shall.

Tue-tics

16 .

Siz 0

N/ S

17 .

Col or

white

16 .

3hcpo

ball

l ’) .

Odor d ot~1ctod

N/ S

20 .

nppn r o nt constru ct i on

21 .

EY.huu st t r ni l s

~~ -

“:I ntho r conditi on s

23 .

Eff ,i ct on cloud s

,>], .

S k o tch os or photogr aphs none

25 .

·,anr.c r of d.1 sn ppoa r a nee

26 .

Romu r ks :

~ “fire”

Non~

5/10 cloud coverage N/ S

exploded

(over) I I/

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• A large white ball of fire was ob served some f o ur to f i ve miles directly ahead of and sl18btly above the aircraft. I t was obser ved for ?nly a apli t second and vas comparable t o t he explos ion of a shell There were no streamers or “tails” observe d such as u sually r e l ated to a meteor or a distress sign.cl. . As t he aircraft a9Pr oached the approximate position where the ball of fire was ob served a single whi te

ligb.t was seen on the water surface. Ro…ever, this diaeppe~red within a few eecollds aft er sighting beci:!Use of t he e:xisting cl :md cover age . More lights wre immediately obser ved on the “8ter surfs ce some 10 miles north of the _plane I s course. It 1 s the opinion of t he wi tnese ( 6ap t Barnes) that these were f r om a surface vessel. Some 10 minut es elapsed after these l ights were observed on t he vater surface when an aircraft was •~ted fiyiDg a reci’procal course ( 240° ) at about lCXX> ft below the observers’s aircraft and slightly to the right of the course. Capt Barnes made numerous attempts t o contact this aircraft on Channel ”B” end “C”, “VBJ” but acknowledgment of b is transmi ssion was never teceived.

e CEECK- LIST - IJEIDENTIFTED FLYING OBJECTS

20 July 1948

Incidont :/1- 168

Tino

1330 local

1.0 ct: ti on

Obrecbstreet, Arnhem, ‘lhe Hague

::nm<: of obs<’ r vc r

Occupo.ti on o f ob~o rvor

Chf. Investigator of Court of Damage

,,‘1dr e::;s of obs o rvo r

Anlheim, ‘lhe Hague

Pl oc o of obsc rvb t i on

NuT:\bor of obj nots

Distance of obj o ct from obsorvor

A. D. Otter

52° 30’ N, 4° 30’ E l

N/S

TiMo in sight

N/S

ll .

Altitude

very high

12 .

Speed

Dirocti on of fli 6 ht

11.i.

Tactics

15 .

S0tl:rd

16 .

Sizo

17 .

Co lor

18 .

Shepo

Odor dotoctod

20 .

1\ppnr ont construction

21 .

Exhuust trai l s

22 .

Vlcnthor conditi on s

visibility unlimited - scattered cloud.a

Effo ct on c l ouds

N/S

high speed - comparable to V-2

N/S

N/S Same as V-2

N/S N/5 Aircraft with 2 decks and no wings

N/S N/S

N/S

Sket che s or photogr aphs

None

Mnnnor of disnppoe r nnco

H/S

”1.,,.• . I

26 . Remar ks : Object appeared to be wingless aircraft with two decks. It was traveling at very high altitude and was seen f our times intermittently thru cloud s. Visibility: unlimited. JI

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169

Inc idrmt 4/1.

D:itc

Tirn0

Lo·cotion

I:amo of obse rve r

Occupution of ob~o rvor

hddr oG s of obsc rvor

Place of obsc r vr,t i on

Maple…ood. Ohio

Numbe r of objacts

Distance of obj e ct from obse rve r

0530 Mapl e…ood, Ohio Mr. Faby Niswonger farmer RD #1. Maple…ood, Ohio.Phone:

Jackson Central 8-0F42

N/S

10 .

T i:>lO in sight

11 .

Altitudo

Spcod

13 .

Dire cti on of fli ght

N/S

N/5

N/S

‘i’uctics

Arose from behind woods - seemed to unravel a silver substance that floated earthward

15 .

Sonnd

N/5

16 .

Si ze

large

Color

silver

18 .

Sho po

sphere

19 .

Odor d otectod N/S

20 .

i.pporont construction

21 .

Exhnust t r ni l s

22 .

Weather conditions

23 .

Effo ct on c l ouds N/5

silver substance(?)

N/S

Skotche s or photogr aphs hlannor of disnppca r a nco

Romo.r ks:

N/S

None Disintegra ted. in mid-air

(over) f,-.

.. J

Witness observed a large silver-colored sphere -.r,ich seen.cd t o arive from behind hie woods and continued to float across his ferm. While in fl ~ t it e.eemed to unravel a silvfr subGtence wnich floated earthward. While under observation it disintegra ted in nid- air. B:>TE:

Witness seen:ed very conscientious and. sincere while r elating this incident. Subject arose while witness ~~s talkine t o a man fro~~ this 6o!Illll8lld (MCIAXP) -.hen an airplane chanced t o fly overhead.

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1f1’I!)Ei”:” IFJED

FL’.‘HIG OBJECTS

I ncid mt ‘fi

Around 5 Mey 48

I oc:, tion

Li .

:!r,mc• of obs ,., rvo r

Oc cup~~tion of ob~~c rvo r

.,,jdr .., ::;

Plo c

rJuMbo r of objocts

itanco of objoct from obsc rvo r

Adspazari, Turkey

N/S - taken from telecon Item extracted from Turkish newspaper 11 Yeni Sabah”, Istanbul, 5 May~ See above

Vill~ near Adapazar1. Turkey

of obs o r vt.t i on 1

11 .

Altitudo

12 .

Speed

13 .

Diro cti on of’ fli [ht

1L .

‘.i’uctics

650 feet N/S

N/S

::: NI ..,

S “llrd

N/S

16 .

Si ze

N/S

17 .

Co l or

“shining”

18 .

Sht.p o

N/S

19 .

Odor d ot o cto d N/S

20 .

,1.ppn r ont constr uction

Exh~ust t r ai l s N/ S

22 .

¥/oa.t hor conditi ons

N/S

23 .

Eff oct on clouds

N/S

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Skotchus or photoe;r nphs

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~;o.nr.or of disnppoa r nnco

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N/S

Timo in sibht

N/S

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Sunset

Timo

Moscow, usrn

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Occupc.ti on o f ob:,orvor

Addrc~ s of o bs o rvo r

Plo c o of obso r vt.t i on

Nurnbor of objocts

Distance of ob j o ct fr om obso r vor

N/ S - .Amerie&i Newspaper Reporter Newspaper r epor ter

N/S m>out 25 kilometere (19 to 20 miles) NW of Moscow

N/S

N/ S

10 .

Tii’!o in s i i;ht

11 .

l\ltitudo

12 .

Spcod

Di r oct ion of fl icht

Tactics

N/S

15 .

Sound

No sound

16 .

S ize

N/S

17 .

Co l or

: N/S - shone bri&ntly

18 .

Shapo

19 .

Odor dotoctod

20 .

Appo._r ont construction

21 .

Exhaust t ~nils

22 .

Vfoa-thor conditi on s

23 .

Eff oct on clouds

Skotohc o or photogr aphs

Bone

Manner or disappearance

N/S

Romarks 1

Very high

high but not excessive

Southwest-Northeast direction

l o08 nar;row

N/S Apparently metallic aince it ebon.e Terf briabtl7

N/S ‘B/S .., IWW3

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• -‘bout SianMt Oil 3 Aue 48, about 25 kilometer, (a→ 11ile1) northwet of Koacow a uperiaced Jaerican newwpaper reporter am, an unidentified. obJect at .-er, high 111.titade. It waa lo!JC and norrow and proceeded at a h1ch bu.t not e.xceHiTe apeed in •a generally south-west- northeast direction. It lbone Teey bri&htl.7 probab1¥ froa reflected wnl.1&}lt. lo w1.oc• could be Men and no eound waa beard. It looked like a ri&id airabip and - . eo identified by a Ru..111.aD acqaaintance who aaw it at the . _ time. Bowner, the reporter, 1n apite ot the appeera.nce of the obJect w.s of the 01>in1on that 1 t w1 not rigid airah1p due principally to ita bigb apeed. Re bad no theo17 to offer

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fbia obJect mi.gbt baTe been ~ - Ita speed 1eema inao.!ficient tor a guided ai1alle, but it could ha.Te been •1 tber a Jet or oonTentional airplane as \lilUmial. li&ht conditiona and for►Bborteniag frequent17 give aircraft a frea1ciab epp, rarace. !he pouibilit.r that 1 t waa a d1r1,«ible uould not be u.cluded. Reference “A• lhould not be excluded.

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!he upper wind■ in Buaaia are not published but it vaa noted. that on the followinc JDOrning there wre high sur face wil:ld1 with 1torm prediction,.

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