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4-564 (12-22-55) 0062 83894 RRP003IXGU 8/11/1274188 Class / Case # Sub Vol. Serial # HQ - HEADQUARTERS 246 301 FBI - CENTRAL RECORDS CENTER Declassification authority derived from FBI Automatic Declassification Guide, issued May 24, 2007. ment of Justice OVED FROM OR ADDED TO THIS FILE! FOR ж62-HQ-83894-6M SERIALS 246-301 62- HQ-83894 BUREAU of SECTION 6 COPIED 10 P MAR 2 1978 3Y 29 INVESTIGATION FOR JAN 19.1979 COPIED ) FOR SECTION SERIALS 246-301 APR 181911 BY USE CARE IN HANDLING. THIS FILE DO NOI Transfer-Call DESTROY FOIPA #- 993087

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1,50 STANDARD FORM NO. 64 Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOYERNMENT TO FROM : SUBJECT: D. M. Ladd A. H. Belmont SUMMARY OF AERIAL PHENOMENA IN NEW MEXICO MISCELLANEOUS - INFORMATION CONCERNING DATE: August 27, 1950 Ladd Cle sel Tracy Harbo Belmont Mohr 7616. Koom lease_ PURPOSE Gandy Венок To advise that: 1) OSI has expressed concern in bu connection with the continued appearance of unexplained phenomena of sensitive installations in New Mexico. (2) Dr. LaPaz, Meteor Expert of the University of New Mexico, reported that the phenomena does not appear to be of meteoric origin. (3) OSI has contracted with Land-Air Inc., Alamogordo, New Mexico, to make scientific study of the unexplained phenomena. NATURE OF PHENOMENA Pearly Observations of aerial phenomena occurring within the vicinity of sensitive installations have been recorded by the Alr force since December, 1948. The phenomena have been classified into 3 general types which are identified as follows: 1. Green fireballs, objects moving at high speed in shapes resembling half moons, circles and dises emitting green light. 2. Discs, round flat shaped objects or phenomena moving at fast velocity and emitting a brilliant white light or reflected light. 3. Meteors, aerial phenomena resembling meteoric material moving at high velocity and varying in color. The above phenomena have been reported to vary in color from brilliant white to amber, red and green. Since 1948, approximately 150 observations of aerial phenomena referred to above have been recorded in the vicinity of installations in New Mexico. A number of observations have been reported by different reliable individuals at approximately the same time. KWD/mp RECORDED - 2 INDEXED - 2 42283894- 246 55074950 52 SEP 18 1950

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RESULTS OF AN INQUIRY BY PROFESSOR LINCOLN LA PAZ Dr. Lapaz, Director, Institute of Meteoritics, University of New Mexico, submitted an analysis of the various observations on May 23, 1950. He concluded, as a result of his investigation, that approximately half of the phenomena recorded were of meteoric origin. The other phenomena commonly referred to as green fireballs or discs he believed to be U.S. guided missiles being tested in the neighborhood of the installations. Dr. Lapaz pointed out that if he were wrong in interpreting the phenomena as originating with u.s. guided missiles that a systematic investigation of the obser- vations should be made immediately. Dr. LaPaz pointed out that missiles moving with the velocities of the order of those found for the green fireballs and discs could travel from the Ural region of the USSR to New Mexico in less than 15 minutes. He suggested that the observations might be of guided missiles launched from bases in the Urals. On the basis of the investigations made by Dr. Lapaz and the Air Force, it was concluded that the occurrence of the unexplained phenomena in the vicinity of sensitive installations was a cause for concern. The Air Force entered into a contract with Land-Air, Incorporated, Alamogordo, New Mexico, for the purpose of making scientific studies of the green fireballs and discs. It was pointed out in the summary furnished by OSI on July 19, 1950, that the unexplained green fireballs and discs are still observed in the vicinity of sensitive military and Government installations. RESULTS OF AIR FORCE INVESTIGATION The Air force together with Land-Air, Incorporated, nave established a number of observation posts in the viciniti of Vaughn, New Mexico, for the purpose of photographing and determining the speed, height and nature of the unusual phenomena referred to as green fireballs and discs. On May 24, 1950, personnel of Land-Air, Incorporated, sighted 8 to 10 objects of aerial phenomena. A 24-hour day watch is being maintained and has been designated "project Twinkle." - 2 -

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CONCLUSIONS The Albuquerque Office, in a letter dated August 10, 1950, advised that there have been no new developments in connection with the efforts to ascertain the identity of the strange aerial phenomena referred to as green fireballs and discs. The Albuquerque Office advised that Dr. Anthony O. Mirarchi, Project Engineer, had been informed of the Bureaus jurisdiction relative to espionage and sabotage and arrangements have been made so that the Bureau will be promptly advised in the event additional information relative to this project indicates any jurisdiction on the part of the Bureau. ACTION None. The above is for your information. - 3 -

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September 8, 1950 To: From: Subject: Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General 2010 Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington, D. C. John Edgar Hoover - Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation FLYING SAUCERS There is attached hereto for your consideration and attention a copy of a self-explanatory letter dated August 29, 1950, received by this Bureau from Mr. Walter D. Jones, of 36 King Street East, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. For your infornation, the letter fron ir. Jones has been acknowledged by this Bureau, and he has been inforned his conmunication has been referred to your Department. Attachtont. APPROPRIATE AGENCIES AND FIELD OFFICES ADVISED BY ROUTING SLIP (S) OF M 54,1 DATE 9107 N EHM:eas RECORDED - 5 11 tun 2319 ISEPIT 41958 5 MAILED TA SEP 11 1950 COMM - FBI R337 29-940

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64 Office Mer. undum • UNITED STATES GUT TO FROM : MR. A. H. BELMONT MR. L. L. LAUGHLIN SUBJECT: FLYING SAUCERS G. L R. -I SAC Cornelius of Philadelphia called at 10:45 A.M. today and stated that yesterday evening while two officers of Philadelphia Police Department were cruising in their scout car they saw through the windshield an object descending slowly to the earth which appeared at first glance to be a parachute. DATE: September 27, 1950 14-1 Tolson_ Ladd Clegg_ Glavin Nichols Rosen Tracy Harbo Belmont_ Mohr Tele. Room Nease Gandy When the officers first noticed the object, it was at tree-top level and was described as being six feet in diameter. It landed in a field near-by and the officers, upon examining it, noted that it gave out a purplish glow which was almost a mist. The officers summoned two other police officers. After looking at the object for some time they attempted to pick it up. The object broke, leaving a slight odorless residue. Over a period of about 25 minutes which the officers spent watching the object it completely disintegrated. The officers further commented that the object was so light that when it hit the field, it did not even bend the weeds or the grass it fell on. Mr. Cornelius said that he has called the local offiee of the Air Force but the individual with whom he spoke there said he knew nothing about them and was not aware that his office was looking into reports of this type. Mr. Cornelius desired to know what further action should be taken by him. I told Mr. Cornelius that he was correct in referring this matter to the local office of ost and that he should direct a letter to the Bureau incorporating all available information concerning the matter and that we here, upon its receipt, in turn would bring it to the attention of OSI Headquarters. 5 4' RECORDED - 84 EX-29 62 - 8389446 OCT, 4 1950 14 9 5 1 0CT 101950

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KRENT OT CONTATES ONA COA EPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE WASHINGTON 25, D. C. DECLASSIFIED Authority: NND 90986 Hon. J. Edgar Hoover Director, Federel Bureau of Investigation Department of Justice Washington 25, D. C. Dear Mr. Hoover: oFlying Disce The inclosed letter, subject: "Reporting of Information on Unconventional Aircraft, "is forwarded for your information and any cooperation you may be able to extend. As indicated in the letter it is desired to place this subject in its proper perspective as part of the normal USAF requirement for information of air technical intelligence anterest. Respectfully yours, 1 Incl: a/s С. Р. Сансе- г C. P. CABELL Major General, USAB Director of Intelligence /sel OSCORDED - 108 6213294249 3 12 6144 This document contains information affecting the national defense of the United States within the mearing of the Espionage Laws, Title 18 U.S.C., Sections 793 and 794. Its tiancassion or the revelation of its contents in any manner to an unct health, person is prohibited by lorw." 448 о 5 ОСт 281950 CONFIDE

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DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE HRADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE WASHINGTOM 25, D. C. AFOIC-CC-1 8 September 1950 SUBJECT: Reporting of Information on Unconventional Aircraft TO: Commanding Generals, Major Air Commands, ZI and Overseas A11 United States Air Attaches 1. The United States Air Force has a continuing requirement for the reporting and technical analysis of observations of uncon- ventional aireraft which might indicate an advance in technological progress of a foreign power. An unconventional aircraft, within the meaning of this directive, is defined as any aircraft or air- borne object which by performance, aerodynamic cheracteristice, or unusual features, does not conform to any presently known aireraft type. 2- It is desired that information on unconventional aircraft be reported in the following manner: a. A separate report of each incident will be forwarded. No information other than that bearing on the unconventional air craft will be included in this report. b. Priority of transmission accorded the report will be that appropriate in the judgment of the forwarding agency, accord- ing to its apparent authenticity and importance as intelligence. Reports will be forwarded to Commanding General, Alr Materiel Conmand, Attention: MGIS. d. Reports forwarded by electrical transmission will include, as far as possible: (1) A brief description of the object(s); its shape, size, color, number, formation if more than one, aerodynanic features, trail or exhaust, propul- sion system, speed, sound, maneuvers, manner of disappearence, and other pertinent or unusual features. (2) Time sighted in 24-hour clock zonal time, and length of time observed. -CONFIDENTIAL ENCLOSURE 62-83894.249

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... fron air Any type of optical or electronio equipment used should be described. (4) Location of observer during sighting, elving exet lati- tude and longitude as closely as feasible, and/or reference to a known landmark. Location of object (s) with respect to observer, glving distance, direotion, and altitude. (5) Identifying information on observer(s) and witnesses, estimate of rellability and experience, and any factors bearing on estinated reliability of the sighting. (6) Weather ani vina conditions (teletype sequences) at time and place of sightings. (7) Any activity or condition, moteorological or otherwise, which might account for the sighting. (8) Existence of any physical evidence; fragments, photo- graphs and the like, of the sighting. (9) Interception or identification aotion taken. (Such action should be taken whenever féasiblo, complying with existing air defense direatives. ) €. Reports forwarded by eleotrical transmission will be followed up within ten (10) days by a written report on AF Form 112. This report will contain the same information specifled in subparagraph 2d above in greater detail, and where feasible will include sketches and signed attested narrative statements of observers. 1. Written reports of sightings, where no previous electrically transmitted report has been submitted, will follow the same forn as the written follow-up report described in subparagraph 2e above. 8. Any physical evidence of the sighting will be forwarded by most expeditious means to Commanding General, Air Materiel Command, Attn: MCIS, under cover of a letter identifying the shipment with the report of sighting. Mention of the method and time of shipping of this evidence will be included in written report of the sighting. 3. It is desired that no publioity be given this reporting or analysie activity. BY COMMAND OF THE CHIBE OF STAFF: Info copies to: D1r/Int, G-2, Army Dir/Naval Int. Commandant (INT) US Coast Quard Sp Asst for Research & Intel, State Direotor FBI Director of CIA CP Calec C. P. CABHI. Najor General, USAT Dizector of Intelligonge -CONFIDENTIAL

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NDARD FORM NO. 64 Off Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO FROM : дт SUBJECT: THE DIRECTOR MR. D. M. LADD FLYING SAUCERS FLYING DISCS GREEN FIREBAILS DATE: October 9, 1950 Tolson Ladd Clogg Glavin Tracy Harbo Mohr Tele. Room Nease Gandy PURPOSE To advise you of the most recent information know to the Bureau concerning the captioned aerial phenomena. BACKGROUND You will recall that on August 23, 1950, I furnished to you a memorandum regarding Project Twinkle set up • by the Department of the Air Force, with the assistance of Land-Air, Ince, at Vaughn, New Mexico, for the purpose of obtaining data regarding these unusual aerial phenomena which had been seen in the vicinity of sensitive installations in New Mexico. To date the Air Force has not advised us of any new developments in connection with this project. Dr. Anthony 0. Mirarchi, Project Engineer of Project Twinkle, has been contacted by the Albuquerque Office and arrangements have been made in order that the Burcau will be advised in the event any information relative to these phenomena indicates any jurisdiction on the part of the Bureau. According to Bureau files, an average of approximately three or four complaints have been received per month from June through September. These complaints were brought to the attention of OSI. A review of Bureau files does not indicate that there has been any increase in the sightings of these phenomena during or as a result of the war in Korea. JURISDICTION FOR INVESTIGATION OF THESE PHENOMENA You will recall the investigation to obtain information concerning these aerial phenomena is the jurisdiction of the Department of the Air Force. The Department of the Air Force is aware of our jurisdiction in matters relating to espionage, sabotage and internal security, and we have contacted OSI and requested them to advise us of any developments in connection with these phenomena which would be of interest to us as a result of our jurisdiction. EHM: de лия 52 OCT 16 1950 RECORDED - 105 162-83894-250 OCT/10 1950 BE OCL

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POSSIBLE ORIGIN OF THESE AERIAL PHENOMENA The Bureau has been advised in the past by OSI that many of the sightings reported to them were determined by investigation to have been of weather balloons, falling stars, meteorological phenomena and other air-borne objects • Bureau liaison determined on the morning of October 9, 1950 from OSI headquarters that the investigations of these aerial phenomena are being handled by OSI, Wright Field, Ohio. Their investigation of these phenomena fails to indicate that the sightings involved space ships or missiles from any other planet or country• According to OSI, the complaints received by them have failed to indicate any definite pattern of activity. OSI further advised they are closely following the investigation of the captioned matters, and they will advise this Bureau of any matters of interest. ACTION None. The above is for your information. - 2 -

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Octobe: 9, 2950 To advioo you of the nost rocont information inom to tha Durom concurring the captiood ardal phenomena. Tou will recall that on Augt 1930, T. faminbod-so nonorantan rogarding Projoet Twinkle set up by the leptatzont of Lin Force, with tho assistando of Land-lia, Jane, at Vaugha, Jew Moxico, Pon the purposo of dataining data reparding thoso unusual, adrial phenozona Thich had boon soon in tho vicinity of sonoitivo inotallations in Now Tieaci.0o. To date tha Lie: Toree tas nob airlood no of any nes dovelopmenta in connection with this project. Dr, Anthong O. rarcht, Projoat Engineer of Projoct, Prinkle, has boon conbachod lay Cho Albuquaqno ODIes and arrangenento have boat saco in coder that tho Burom will be advioed in the ovant my inforntion relative No thoso phonomma, indientos any jutallotion on the pirt of the Bureate Accordinin to Bureau Milos, na nurce of approstataly three cr lone conglaints hava beon roceivod per month, tron dino Shrough captaber. Those complainto wore brought to the abbention of OST. &, zovior of Buronu CIles does not indicata that there has boon any inarcano in the nighbinge of these phenonana during ce Tol son Clega Ton, ni12, rocall the Auvostigation to obtain intornation concerning thone acrist phoncon is the julodiction of the Department of the Aiz Porco. ibe Dopartment of the Air Porco is ange of om juriadiction in matters calating to espionage, anbotage ond interal semity, and uo have contactio DiT and roquented then to adviso un of any dovalopments in comection with these phonion which muld bo of intoreat to us as a result of ou trioletion. Tracy 62-83844-250 2 9 5 9 0CT 23 1950

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POSSIBLE ORIGIN OF THESE AERIAL. PHENOMINA The Bureau has been advised in the past by OST that many of the sightings reported to them were determined by investigation to have been of weather balloons, falling stars, mateorological phenomona and other air borne objects. TO A TO ME POT GO 5, 200 00 , TOTON, D. ° Bureau Liaiaon determined on the noming of October 9, 1950 Crom OSI headquarters that the investigations of these aerial phenomena are being handled by OST, Wright Field, Ohio. Their investigation of these phenomena fails to indicate that the sightings involved space ships or missiles from any other planet or country• According to OST, the complaints received by them have fatled to indicate any definite pattern of activity. OsI further advised they are closely following the investigation of the captioned natters, and they will advise this ACTION None. The above in for your infornation. - -

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64 Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO DIRECTOR, FBI DATE: October 2, 1950 FROM : SAC, PHITADELPHIA ATTENTION: MR. LEO LAUGHTIN SUBJECT: FLYING DISC REPORTED AT PHITADELPHTA ON 9/26/50 OFLING SAUCERS During the late evening hours of September 26, 1950, two Phila- delphia police officers observed a peculiar phenomenon on Vare Boulevard near 26th Street when they saw a round object about six feet in circumference slowly float down to the ground. The object had the appearance of a parachute and landed in a fiela, it being so light it did not even depress the weeds in the field. The object was lavender in color, described by the officers as dewy, sort of like soap suds, and evaporating within fifteen or twenty minutes after it landed. When touched by the officers, the substance composing the object disappeared, leaving nothing but a slight sticky substance. This matter was reported to this office by the Philadelphia Police and for that matter, was subsequently carried in the Philadelphia press as "Flying Saucer Just Dissolves". Lner Mr. LAUGHLIN of the Bureau was telephonically advised of the above by this office and issued instructions that the matter should be referred to Air Force Intelligence for handling and any investigation. Accordingly, Major WATTS of the Philadelphia Office of OSI was telephonically advised of the above and no further action was taken by this office. FMK/mmd 98-0 RECORDED - 80 Mosslig 62-83894-251 OCTI / 1950 124 55 0CT 181950 зало

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION ED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE cc-160 To: COMMUNICATIONS SECTION. OCTOBER 13, 1950 URGENE Transmit the following message to: SAC, LOS ANGELES FLYING SAUCERS. YOU ARE INSTRUCTED TO DISCREETIX DETERMINE THROUGH APPROPRIATE RELIABLE SOURCES OF YOUR OFFICE WHETHER FRANK (SCULLY, AUTHOR OF THE BOOK QUOTE BEHIND THE FIXING SAUCERS UNQUOTE IS IDENTICAL TO THE FRANK SCULLY WHO HAS BEEN ACTIVELY ENGAGED IN COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES SINCE THE LATE NINETEEN THIRTTES IN THE TERRITORY OF YOUR OFFICE. HOOVER RECORDED : 99 INDEYED 162-83894-253 00T: 81950 5 Mr. Tolson Clogg Mr. Glavin Mr. Ladd Mr. N1choIs Mr. Rosen Иг. Tracy Mr. Egan Mr. Gurnea Mr. Harbo Mr. Monr Mr. PennIngton Tele. Room Mise Gandy FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIES S LS. DEPARTMIENT OF JUSTIO OR MUNICATIONS SECTIO, Об Ост 261950 COPIES D SENT YIA. 931 270 NOV 23 1964 8 1950 3 0313038 PM ONIGYAN *50 10 Ld30 S ROOM 13 Per

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62-83894-254 CHANCED TO 100-2244-6 OCT 31 1950

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CONFIDEN AL DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE WASHINGTON This image contains all the information on the document. DECLASSIFIED Authority: NND 90986 THE INSPECTOR GENERAL USAR 17TH DISTRICT OFFICE OF SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, NEW MEXICO DR/ms 25 May 1950 File No: (24-8)-28 SUBJECT: Summary of Observations Aerial Phenomena in the New Mexico Area, December 1948 3 - May 1950 TO : Brigadier General Joseph F. Carroll Director of Special Investigations Headquarters USAF Washington 25, D. C, o flying Dises In a liaison meeting with other military ánd government intel- ligence and investigative agencies in December 1948, it was determined that the frequency of unexplained aerial phenomena in the New Mexico area was such that an organized plan of reporting these observations should be undertaken. The organization and physical location of units of this Dis- trict were most suitable for collecting these data, therefore, since December 1948, this District has assumed the responsibility for collect- ing and reporting basic information with respect to aerial phenomena occurring in this general area. These reports have been distributed to the Air Materiel Command, USAF, in accordence with Air Intelligence Requirements No. 4, and to other interested military and government agencies. 2. There is attached, as a part of this summary, a compilation of aerial phenomena sightings that have occurred mostly in the New lexico area and have been reported by this District Office subsequent to December 1948. This compilation of sightings is not a complete record of all reported observations, but includes only those in which sufficient information was available to justify their inclusion. these phenomena include scientists, Special Agents of the Office of Special Investigations (IG) USAF, airline pilots, military pilots, Los Alamos Security Inspectors, military personnel, and many other persons of various occupations whose reliability is not questioned. This com- pilation sets forth the most important characteristics with respect to each observation and evaluates each sighting into one of three classifi- cations, (1) green fireball phenomenon, (2) disc or variation, and (3) probably moteoric. 1294,253 There is also at iNDEX an an analysis of the green fireball occurrences in this area made by Dr. LinoolnClaPaz.5Dr. LaPaz is the CON AL

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TAE File No: (24-8)-28 Subj: Summary of Observations of Aerial Phenomena in the New Mexico Area, December 1948 - Way 1950 25 May 1950 Director of the Institute of leteoritics and Head of the Department of Mathematics and Astronomy at the University of New Moxico. He was Re- search Mathematician at the New Mexico Proving Grounds under an OSRD appointent in 1943 and 1944, and Technical Diroctor of the Oporations Analysis Section, Headquarters, Second Air Force, 1944-45. Since 1948, Dr. LaPaz has served on a voluntary basis as consultant for this Dis- trict in connection with the green fireball invostigations. On 17 February 1949 and again on 14 October 1949, conferences were hold at Los Alamos, New lexico, for the purpose of discussing the green fireball phonomena. Roprosentatives of the following organizations were present at these mectings: Fourth Army, Armed Forces Special Wea- pons Project, University of Now Moxico, Fedoral Bureau of Investigation, U. S. Atomic Enorgy Commission, University of California, U. S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, Geophysical Research Division Air Materiel Command USAF, and the Office of Special Investigations (IG) USAF. logical explanation was not proffered with respect to the origin of the green fireballs. It was, however, generally concluded that the pheno- mena existed and that they should be studied scientifically until these occurrences have been satisfactorily exploined. Further, that the continued occurrence of unexplained phenomena of this nature in the vicinity of sensitive installations is cause for concern. 5. The Goophysical Rescarch Division, Air lateriol Comnand, Cambridge, Massachusetts, has recently let a contract to Land-Air, Holloman AFB, Alamogordo, New Mexico, for a limited scientific study of green fireballs. The results of this sciontific approach to the problem will undoubtedly be of great value in determining the origin of these phenomena. This summary of observations of aerial phenomena has been prepared for the purpose of re-emphasizing and reitereting the fact that phenomena have continuously occurred in the New Mexico skies during the past 18 months and are continuing to occur, and, secondly, that these phenomena are occurring in the vicinity of sensitive mili- tary and government installations. Tees DOY LE /REES It Colonol, USAF District Commander 4 Incls 1. Summary of Sightings 2. Photo of Sighting No. 175 w/comments 3. Ltr fr Dr. LaPaz to Lt Col Rees, dta 23 May 50 4. Graph indicating maximums 2 CON AL

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ЧАЬ File No: (24-8)-28 Subj: Summary of Observations of Aerial Phenomena in the New Mexico Area, December 1948 - May 1950 25 May 1950 DISTRIBUTION: 6 cys, Director of Special Investigations, Headquarters USA! CG, Air Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson APB, Ohic ATIN: Director of Pechnical Intelligence 1 cy, CG, Special Weapons Command, Kirtland AFB, New lexico 1 cy, CG, Armed Services Special Weapons Project, Sandia Base, New Mexico. ATTI: J-2 1 oy, CG, Headquarters, Fourth Army, Ft. Sem Houston, Texas ATI: AC of S, G-2 1 cy, CO, Holloman APB, Nev Mexico 1 cy, CO, Air Force Cambridge Research Laberatories, Cambridge, Mass. 1 cy, Director, Security Division, U. S. Atomic Bnergy Commission, Los Alamos, New Mexico, ATTN: Mr. B. O. Wells 1 cy, Federal Bureau of Investigation, El Paso, Texas 1 cy, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Albuquerque, New Mexico 1 ey, Air Force Scientifio Advisory Board, Pentagon Building ATTN: Dr. Joseph Kaplan. 1 cy, Research and Development Board, Pentagon Building ATTN: - Dr. H, E, Landsberg, Executive Director, Committee on Geophy sios and Geography 1 cy, File 3 CC AL

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CON THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO ALBUQUERQUE INSTITUTE OF METEORITICS May 23, 1950 To : Li. Colonel Doyle Rees, Commanding Officer 17th District, o. S. I. From: Lincoln LaPaz, Director Institute of Meteoritics Subject: Anomalous Luminous Phenomena (Seventh Report) 1. In the second report of this series, dated 1948, December 20, the writer listed ten significant differences between the bright green horizon- tally-moving fireballs observed in the interval 1948, December 5-20, and typical meteors. These differences were the following: (1) The horizontal nature of the paths of most of the December fireballs is most unusual. Genuine meteors are rarely observed to move in horizontal paths. (2) Again the very low height of the December fireball discussed in section 2 above sets it off in sharp contrast from the genuine meteors for which heights of the order of 40 or more miles are no.*- mally observed. (3) The velocity determined for the fireball of December 12 is much less than the velocities determined from typical meteors (and yet is considerably greater than the speeds of the V-2 Rockets or jet planes or of conventional flares). (4) In the case of meteorites that penetrate to as low levels as that determined for the fireball of December 12, the observed lu- minous phenomena are always accompanied by very violent noises. No noises whatever have been observed in connection with the various December fireballs so far investigated. (Note added on 1950, May 23: Possible exceptions to the noiselessness of green fireballs are the incidents of 1949, January 30, and 1949, December 4.) (5) Genuine meteors mornally show remarkable variations in brightness, beginning as fine thin hair lines, which are scarcely visible to the observer, and then brightening up to flash out near the end of their paths. In the case of the December firoballs most of the observers have reported that the green balls appeared almost instantly at their full brightness. TAL

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To: Lt. Colonel Doyle Rees - Page 2 Subj: Anomalous Luminous Phenomena (Seventh Report) May 23, 1950 (6) In the case of genuinc meteors the paths are dircotod to- ward all points of the compass with equal frequency. in the case of the groen firoballs, plots of admissible approaca sec- tors show that there is a very pronounced tendency for the paths to come in from the north half of the sly. (7) The three groups of anomalous preenish luminous phenomena show a curious association with well known meteor showers, although none of these meteor showers normally produce extremely bright green fireballs, such as those recently observed. For example, the obser- vetion mentioned by lir. Tonnig appeared neer the maximun of the Quadrantid shower of carly January, Tr. icCullough's observation of August was near the time of the Persid shower and the December observations all fell in the interval covered by the Geminid shower. This relationship might indicato an attompt to render the grech fire- balls less conspicuous by causing them to eppear only when there is considerable meteoric activity. (8) As noted in an earlier communication, the remarkably vivid gren color reported for most of the December firballs is rarely observed in the case of gen"ine moteors. By laboratory test this peculiar color seems to be identical with that given off by coppor salts in the blowpipe flame. If this idontification is correct, the wave longth of the radiation from the greon fireballs is near A =5218A. (9) The duration estimates of botwoon 2 and 3 scoonds reportod for tho green firoballs aro considorably longor than thoso (0.4 - 0.5 soconds) for the ordinary visual motoors, but shorter than the duration ostimates invariably roported in the caso of a genuine moteorito fall (5 to 30 scconds or oven longer). (10) For none of the green fireballs has a troin of sparlis or a dust cloud beon reported. This contrests sharply with the be- havior noted in casc of meteoric fircballs--particularly thoso that penctrate to the very low levels where the groon firoball of December 12 was observed. In the year and a half since this list was propered, many ad- ditional observations have been made, the total number of objects now accepted as belonging in the groon fireball catogory being 72. (A1- though this number constitutes nearly 50 of the incidents listod in the accompanying Summary, it constitutes loss than 5% of the total number of unscreened obsorvetions roported to the writer.) Critical analysis of all green firoball reports now available shows that only one of the statements in the list givon in paragraph l needs to bo modiried, namely, item (1). Within the last year, a considerable number of the green fircballs have appoared to fall vertically dowward rather then CONF

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CONI To: Lt. Colonel Doyle Rees - Page 3 Subj: Anomalous Luminous Phenomena (Seventh Report) May 23, 1950 to move horizontally. However, a strictly vertical infall is also vory rarely observed in the case of genuine meteor falls. 3. An analysis just completed of the time distribution of the green fireballs so far observed permits us to add an llth item to the list of differences given in paragraph l above. The graph of frequency versus local time which accompanies the present report shows that the maxinum frequency of sighting of green fireballs (occurring at approximately 2030) coincides in time with neither the frequency maximum for ordinary meteors (occurring at approximately 0300) nor the frequency mazimun for meteorite falls (occurring at approximately 1600). Inspection of the graph referred to in peragraph 3 also will show that most of the green fireballs have been sighted in a time inter- val extending from about 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. (IST). This concentration might be even more pronounced if it were possible to screen out of the secondary maximum, around 2 a.m. (IST), all ordinary meteors which have been mistakenly identified as green fireballs. That such misidentifica- tion has occurred is strongly suggested by the near coincidence in time of the secondary maxinum of the green fireballs and the well established carly morning maximum of the ordinary meteors. 5. Some significance may attach to the fact that the time interval alluded to in paragraph 4 extends from about 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Ural region of the USSR. Since missiles moving with velocities of the order of those found for the green fireballs for which real path determinations have been possible would travel fron the southern Urals to lew Mexico in less than 15 minutes, a possible interpretation of the concentration of sightings roferred to in paragraph 4 is that tho green fireballs result from guided missiles launched from bases in the Urals in the morning hours before cloudiness due to convection or blinding afternoon dust storms can interfere with non-radar tracking, such as has boon used by the Optical Trajectory Section at White Sands Proving Ground. There is also a pronounced concentration of green fireball incidents on the four days, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, almost all of the most widely observed incidents having occurred on Saturday or Sunday• 7. It is a curious and fairly well-established fact that there has been a distinct decline in the numbor of green fireball sightings during the last two months, within which the number of so-called "fly- ing saucer" incidents in this region has attained an all-time high. Although I have recently received from Dr. Joseph Kaplan of the Scientific Advisory Board a letter containing the statement "Frankly, I don't know of any U. S. experiments that would result in the appearance of these unconventional objects, and neither does Von Karman" • I still CONF TIAL

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HAL To: It. Colonel Doyle Rees - Page 4 Subj: Anomalous Luminous Phenomena (Seventh Report, Kay 23, 1950 consider the most probable explanation of the green fireballs to be the one given in the first of the three paragra hs below which are quoted from my letter of 1950, February 20, to Dr. P. I. lyckoft, Chief Athos- pheric Fhysics Laboratory, Base Directorate for Geophysical Research. The last two paragraphs quoted below well summarize my recommendations concerning the green fireball problem: "As a preliminary to setting down the project recommendations which you requested, I have very carefull? reviewed all available fireball data (observers' reports, transit measurements, calculated real paths, etc.) coverin; incidents fron those of December 5, 1918 to the extraordinary incident of February 7, 1950, which has beon under intensive investigation for the last two weeks. 10 mont ch a restat of this comprehensive review, particularly as it relates to the in- cident of February 7, 1950, I feol. compelled to write you in some- what different terms concerning my on part in the proposed fireball project than I had in mind when we last discussed this matter. In brief, I have come to the conclusion that, on the basis of the evidence now available to me, I would not be justified in recornend- ing a fireball project. In my opinion, this evidence proves conclu- sively that the fireballs reported on fall into one of two categerics: Those of the first category (the majority) are noteorite falls of unusual, but certainly not of impossible, magnitude, frequency and other characteristics; those of the second category (the minority) are U. S. guided missiles undergoing tests in the neighborhoods of the sensitive installations they are designed to defend. This interpretation of the latter category is the one that I proposed in answer to a question raised by Dr. Ieller at the first Los Alamos conference on february 17, 1949. It was not taken seriously ühen and I doubt that it will be taken seriously at the present time. However, even if my interpretation of the unconventional fireballs is the correct one, it is obvious that those in position to confirm it should refuse to do so." "Only one other point need be stressod, nanely, that if I an wrong in interpreting the guided missiles es of U. S. origin, then cortainly intensivo, systematic investi ation of these objects should not be delayed until the termination of the present academic year. Recent international developments compel one to sense the imperative necessity of immediate investigation of the unconvention- al green fireballs, in case you are in possession of information proving that they are not U. S. missiles." "If such on immediate investigation were to bo underbelen, I would recormend that Dr. Fred L. Thipple, of arvard College Obser- vatory, be placed in charge of the photographic phase of the inves- tigation; that Dr. Feter M. Millman, of the Dominion Observatory, be placed in charge of the spectrographic phase of the investigation; CON AL

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AE To: Lt. Colonel Doyle Roes - Page 5 Subj: Anomalous Luminous Phonomona (Seventh Report) Tay 23, 1550 that Dr. L. A. Manning, of Stanford, and Dr. Millmen be placed in chargo of tho radar investigation; and, finally, that Dr. Tilliam Crozier, of the New Mexico School of lines, be placed in charge of dust collcction and identification. On the besis of many intensive field surveys, I do not anticipate that ground search will load to any recoveries, but in caso such ground search is to be attompted, it should be carried out on the scale stressed in my conversations with you and Major Oder last month." Although the above paragraphs were written some months ago, the reconmendations contained in them are the ones I would urge you to con- sider at the present time. In conclusion, I should like to repoat the offer made at the end of my letter of February 20 to Dr. Wyckoff, nancly to serve, if needed, as consultant on the green firebolt projoct as suggested in liaior Oder's letter to me under dete of lovembor 29, 1949, with the stipulation, however, that my service be on a voluntary basis rather than on the 40 per day contract specified in lajor Odor's leiter. L мисом - va Van Lincoln LaPaz, Director Institute of letoritios University of New Mexico -CON

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20X20 PER INCH THE FREDERICK POST CO. CHICAGO. ILL CONFIDENTIAL METEORiTE MAX/MUM 40 Legend ..*..... Meteorites _-- Meteors _ Green "Fireballs" _._.-DIsKs" or Variations METEOR МАХіМИМ Number of Observations GREEN "FIREBALL" MAXIMUM "DISK"or VARIATION МАХІМОМ 16 18 20 22 24 TIME 2 OF 6 S/GHTINGS 8 10 12 14 CONFIDENTIAL 16

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Sighting No. 175 Photograph of Unknown Aerial Phenomena taken at Datil, New Mexico by Cpl Lertis E. Stanfield, Holloman Air Force Base, New lexico on 24 and 25 Feb 1950. An analysis of the above photograph was made by Dr. Lincoln LaPaz, Head of the Institute of meteoritics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, who reached the following con- clusions : The angular diameter of the perfectly round luminous object Stanfield observed was approx- imately 1/4 of a degree. b. The angular velocity of the object in the sky was greater than half a degree per minute. Dr. LaPaz stated that on the basis of the results (a) and (b) above, the object seen by Stanfield was not the moon (for the angular diameter is too small), it was not Venus or any other planet (for the angular diameter was too large), and it was not a bright fixed star slightly. out of focus (for the observed rate of motion is double that due to the diurnal rotation of the earth).

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umber 1 2 3 4 ENTIAL This image contains all the information on the document. A porto by the 1711. Districo Office n2 Epsoicl Invastigatinas (X), irblond Air Vorce Dase, lew Lexico ime umber of Observers *Reliabiliv of Observers Gonorc.1 Area of Occurrence 3 & Jan 2300 1 loins of impact On line be- tween Brest and Kiev Apparent Direcsion of Flight 11moss ver- tical des- cent ol- loved by "bouncing" i to s Apparent Altitude Latter 2000) part 1947 1 Vaughn, New lexi- 4001 - 5301 1948 E7 Jul 0835 0845 1 R Albuquer- que, lew Lexico 1 Aug 0200 2 Unk North Pow-lill to SE der ,Oregon 5500' 0300 Course Forizontal to Vertical Color Train or Trail of ¡Duration Observation ¡Sound I Shape 35° above Torizon Descend- ing brilli- an's white 12 3 secs . Lone Descond- in- slow. ly in vertical manner right lional Round Dura- luni- num reflec- ted light None Flat and round Horizon tal line Green LI GIND : *Reliability of Observers: V2 - Very Reliable P - Reliable Un!: - Unknown Reliability *[valuation: (1) "Creen Piroball Phonomona" (2) "Disk"' or Varietion (3) Probable Teteor CONFIDENTIAL Apparent Size Compere w/plonet Venus on usually cleer naht. Targer then Softball Apparent Speed Descending slowly Stationary at times 720 mph anner of pear isplode Extingui- shed

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Summe ma 11. umber Dave 946 Time 5 4 or Tov App 2200 123 Lov App 2200 8 5 Dec 2135 9 5 Dec App 2200 10 C Dec 2255 11 8 Dec 1833 unio Observors Labilit Obsorver. *201 of ]. 2 2 1 2 Unt: R R R R Unle VR Leriol haronear, 1ith bistrict USI (cont) Concral Aros. of Occurrence Apparent Direction of Flight -hoenix, Arizona. to iT Vangin, Mexico Vaughn, 17 em Lexico Las Vegas, New lexico " to Albuquer- que, lew No move- ment noted Sandia Base ,New loxico E to IT Apperont Altitude Dourse orizontal to Vortical 1400' - 1500' 10001 - |500' Descending clouty in vertical 12875C7 Desconding slo lv in vertical manner Slightly Eorizontal above slightly 19, 000' descending 10,500' Parabolic curve Slight falling arch Las Vegas, ENE to HiSW 13,500' New Mexico Horizontal Color Prain or I'retl Green Bright "hite Bright white Mitish orange Green Tes Groon Yes Bright green Yos CONFIDENTIAL Duration Observation Bound 75 Ibs. Hone None secs 2 secs 2--3 secs 2 SOCS None None IT one Shape Rowmd Round Round Round S1z0 Star Larger then bas- iro tba 11 Larger than bes- ketbe 11 1/3 dia- meter of moon Larger then a flare Pas marent Snood Very slow Desconding slowly Dosconding slowly Rapid Rapia rate of spood Disa Became very bright and 2oll apart Emploded Exploded Disappoarad Faded out Vanishod Fadod out

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CONFIDENTIAL Sumnery of Sightings of Un'nown Aerial Fletonena, 17%h Dictrict OSI (cort) unber 12 13 14 15 16 17 Tumber o6 Observers *Reliabilty Observers of A 1948 11 Dec 11930 Unk 12 Dec 12102 5 : VR 120 Doc 12051 R 28 Dec 10431 1 1 94.9 6 Jan 1730! 1 Unl 6 Jan 0310 R 30 Jan 1754. General ¡Area of Cocurrence Apparent Direction o2 Flight Hood River, Oregon 115 miles south of Las Vegas, Tien Mexico E to T Los Alamos New Mexico W to E Los Alamos, N to S New Mexico Albuquerque | SE to NIT New Mexico Los Alenos, E to W Now lerico 18 Appl Unk 200l 21 Faso, Texas NIT to SE Apparent Altitude Course Horizontal or Vertical 3 - 10 miles Horizontal Great height 20° to the horizon descend- ing.- Descend- Descending ed fro in verti- high alt cal path to 60001 1500' - 20001 lorizontal 3 to 59 from ob- server Horizontal 3° - 50 above horizon Horizontel Color Train Trail Blue & white Very bright green Pale green or bluish white Yes white Bright white Brilli- ant green Green CONFIDENTIAL Observation Sound Yes 2.1- 2.3 SeCS lione 1-1/2 None sees Sev. secs Hone None 2 secs None Hone Shape Flash Ball Ball Star Dia- mond Ball rage Aprarent Size apperent Speed Tanner of Disappeer- (Flasi w lice thur larnitude - 4 Broke into 3 or 4 small fragments 2 disappeared Dasketcall High speed Disappeara behind mountain Star Blower than Disappeared falling w/ greenish star Plash App. 2' 100g luch faster. Disappeared then a + jot High speed Disappeared behind mountainous horizon Broke into pieces

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Summory of 0igi sca I Munb er 19 Humbor o2 il Obsorvors of Observer Da te 1949 Time 30 Jan 1755 App ,Unk 200 Stacan General Area of • Cecurrenco Rosvell, New Lezico 20 21 22 130 Jan App App Unk 1800 200 c: R 30 Jan 11854 110 1900 Unk 14 Fcb 11840 2 [Unk: Alamogordo, iTow Merico Ft. Worth, Toxes Canado, Hoy lonico TI to B Annarent Direction of Flight 2000' Horizontal Apparont Alti budo Courso horizon tal Nononche, 1/01 P.ap8 i0b 05. (cons) CONFIDEN Troin or trail TI to N to S Angle elov • 150-30° from ob- of Gentle descent 13° above horizon 300 down- ward crom horizon Somo- wha c acovo horizon Stacionary thon {ell in slignt ¡curve to W Bluc- green Green Greon trail- ing sparl's Yos Bril- lient white slight- ly groon color Yes Duration Obsorvation 3 - 15 secs - 1 SOCS Sound Hono Nonc Nono il one (Ball Page 4 Apparent Size Apparent Speed IMoving slowly 1/3 ¡sizo of ifull moon anner of Visapnear- Disappea to sone. Disintogra- tod into shower of smaller lighted fragments Seemed to fizzle out Disint tion Stationary then fell in slight curve to W.

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Summary os Drumber 23 1949 17 Tob 24 17 Fob 100 1300 1 Unle |IT ime Lumper o.2 Obsorvors *Roliabilit Observe 25 26 27 28 27 Feb 1905|1 2 Har 3 lar 6 Mar 0010 1. 01591 2100 2 R R Unk New lexico Albuquorque, IT to E Mexico Grants, Rew Southwardi Genoral Arca. of Gecurrence Apparent Direction of Flight Apporont Altitude -caom au, 17 ch criot OSI (cort) Courso orizontal Vortical to Color Vorticel clinb then lovelod off Gradual ascont Thi to Los Alamos, Now Lovico Los Alamos, Nan Mexico Los Alanos, Now Moxico Camp Food, Texas W to E Nio S Straight down From N 74° W N 810 W "Low in sky" rom 6° 45' above horizon: Parallel to carth Horizontal Straight down. Bril- liant whi. to shirt- ing to peach color Green- Phito sight Dright green Bluo- white light Yos Train Irail Yos Observation S mos 2 SOCS 2 SCCS i Sound None Nono! Nonol None! Nono! Shape Oval Apparent Size Lorgor chan incteor Round lunar shirt Franover ing to ollipse Oblong 2' by 1' lage 5 Apparont Spood Disappeared Disappeared Ill anner of [Disappear- ance liot as meteor Vory fast fast Disappeared abruptly Disappcared bonind troos Disappoarod Not Inown (1) 3) (1 3 (1

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Summary Trumbor 29 50 31 72 33 34 Date 1949 Tar 7 Mar 7 Mar 7 Mar 7 Mar Time lumb or Observers *Reliobilit Obsorvors of Genoral Arca of Occurrence 2020,2 2045 11 10115|1 0130|1 0130|2 02,00 0145 Unk Camp Hood, Texas Unl Camp Hood, lexas Uak Camp Hood, Texas Unk Camp Food, ¡Toxas Unk Camp Hood, Texas Unk Camp Hood, Texas Apparent Piroction of Flight N 40° B From S 810 W to 600 W N 400 E N 16° W S 200 TT N 60° E Apparent 59° above sorizon Pron 21° above horizon to 69311 abovo. 66° 151 above horizon 270 301 above horizon 260 abovo horizon Course horizon sel to Vortical Color or Train Trail Blue- white Light Light colored hcad. orange treil Yos Bril- liant blue- white Bright Felue- white Bluish white Droppod. vortically to ground Orange CONFIDENTIAL Duration off Obsorvation 2 secs Sound Nonc Hono None None None Hono epc Dall 11. ilto flash Round hoad with trail Like flash blub Like Plash bulb Ball like flash i Toar- i drop Apparent Sizo Apparent Spood Basketball "Fixed flash" About 10° in longth Flash bulb Baskotball "Fixed flash" Flash bulb 21 by 11 anner of Disappoer- ance i(1) (3) 1(3) Disappeared bohind trees

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Summarv Lumber 25 36 37 Date 1919* T Mar 8 lar 8 Mar 38 Kar Lunbor of trimo 181011 1836|1 11855 1 0103 1 Observers *Reliobility Observers. Unk 12 R Unk General rea o2 Occurrence Findow Rock, Arizona Los Alamos, New Lexico Los Alamos, New Mexico Camp Hood, Texas Annerent Direction of Flight is to N iS to N from $ 59° B to S 540 D Apparent Albitude Course Lorizontal to Vertical 4.0 45° to hori- 20n 12,000% lorizontel 15,000' 4, 000 above terrain Descending at 450 jangle From 58º Traveled above in arc horizon to 540 above CONFIDEN Color rein Trail Red (fire) in cen- ter shading to blue at edee Yes Bright white with green- ish tint Intense white light alumi- num colored Pale white light Yes ENTIAL Duration Observation Sound 6-8 secs 1-2 secs None on e Very short None None Shape Apperent 3a11 3' in round- meter spher - ical (Ellipt+ ica.] pointed at ends Round- ish head vi/hazy snole trail Apperent Speed dia- 200-300 imph App 800 imph Lanner o? Disappear- ence Dis intogra- ited Either went out or dis- appeared bo- hind cloud Slower than Disappeared twin-en- behind trees igined plane : (1 (3)

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Sumery Number 39 40 41 42 43 ime 02 umber 1949 Tar :01031 1 13 Har 121531 1 14 Mar 09- 100- 162 1 27 Mar (1800 1 1805 27 Var (1800| 1 Observers *Reliaciliou Chservers; of Unle Unk R lUnk Unk General of Irea Occurrence Camp Hood, Тохав Apparent IDircotion of Plight From N 56 Is 610 Albuquerquo, IVE to SW Now Monico ST to INE Airplene enroute fr Honolulu to Candon Is Tucuncari, New lexico E to W Ion toya, New lloxico IE to W Apperont 1situde Course orizontal to Vertical Color From 150 Iravelod in Falo above arc reddish horizon nOS0 Iwhitish rod trail rain Trail Yos 20° above horizon Desconding slightly ¡Bluish or igreen- ish white ¡Yes 16°-12° above airplane at 5,000 Horizontal pigh in sly -app 30° above horizon About 75° above Ambor Mone Orango (flame None CONFIDENTIAL Duration Obsorvation 12-4 SeCS 10 secs 25 jints 110 lits Sound Mono None tone Tone None Shape pparent ze ¡Lemon w/vail Longth itwice dia- [meter 1o.2 ball diameter of full moon Nose like Ibul- lot Long & narrow Long Longth- narrow about 1/6 lunar dia- motor, width-acouti 17/5 longth Apparent Speed 65° in 9 secs Disappeare anner of Disappear- an.c e Fadod out in distance Fadod out in distance (2

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Sumnar* rumber 44 46 47 48 49 50 hurbon Observers *Ro1i0: 11: of Cbsurvor ate 1.949 lit imo 27 Tar |1818|1 127 Mar 1800; 1 31 Mar 2150| 1 5 Apr 2200, 1 6 Apr 11205|1 7 Apr 0135 1 7 4pr 0100| 1 Unk R R R R General Area of Occurrence ITucuncari, New lenico Pucuncari, lew Menico Camp Tood, Texas Los Alamos, New Mexico Los Alamos, New Mexico Los Alanos, New Mexico Los Llamos, Lew Lexico loneront ¡Direction of Flight to E to W SW iS to N SE S to IT Apparont Ititude Close to 450 dove horizon 600 above horizon Gst. 2,000' App. 300' Arc ebove S slope cf Fejarito t. About 15,000' Acout 200 yds fr top 02 hill Courso [Torizon tal to Vertical Color Bright orange Orange trire Tire red to white Green w/red. after glow Be- tween dk: &: 1t green Greon Green Train trail Hone one Yes Duration Observetion Sound. 15 mos Lone 15 mts I one one - I Done sec 3 secs 5 ji one App 45 secs Mone 5 secs None TAL pparent Cize Apparent Speed ¡Long i inarrow Lilco Lite About size 02 C-47 a'c 120,000 ft. saber-dop. size ical of basket- ball It'remendous (speed Very fast loved very slowly Moving slowly of anner Disappoar- ance Pedod out o. sight in distance Disappeared behind hills Disappeared behind mo- untain (1) (2

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Summary of Sightings of Unknown Aerial Phenomena, 17th Distriot OSI (conta) I umber Time Number Observers *Reliability Observer of 51 Date 1949 12 Apr 1930 1 General Area of Occurrence Apparent Direction lof Flight Albuquerque, SE to WH ev l'exico Apparent Aititude 20° above horizon Course Horizontal to Vertical 52 15 Apr 1630 1 18 Apr 0148 2 54 122 4pr 0905 1 55 24 Apr |1033 5 56 25 Apr 10030| 2 Unk: jUnk R Unk: IVR Unl E1 Paso, Texas Straight up About 30° Flagetaff & Willians, Arizona INT App 12,000' to one . 75 - 100 miles to other observer Clift, New Mexico IT to D 20° drop- ping slowly Mite Sands, 1º New Mexico 25-29° Springer, New Mexico 2 groups going Ti 2 groups going E Tell above 30,000' Color White Gray- ish Green- ish blue Alum- inum Train Trail None Yes None White light yellov Silvery None white Duration Observation Sound Lone secs 15 mts I one 1 secs - 2 None 2 mos None 60 secs None 4 Grps tot- aling! abouti 20 sec Yes CONT AT Shape Round Thin smoke (trail Ball like Apparent Size 1/8 size of moon Very thin 100 watt light bulb Round, flat thin, idisc- 5.28pe E1lip- soid Round Over 15' in dia- meter Very smal1 Apparent Speed 115° secs in 8 Tremendous rate of speed Very fast well above speed of sound Page 10 Manner of Disappear- ance Betinguished Dissipated Disappeared behind obscacle Disappeared behind mountains Disappeared due to distance Disappeared from view (1) (2) (2) (2) 1(2)

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Summery of Sightings of Unimown Aerial Phenomena, 17th District OSI (cont) Number 57 58 59 60 61 Tumber of Observers *Reliability of Observers General Area of Occurrence Course Horizontal to Vertical Date Time 1949 28 Tpr App 1745 Apparent Direction of Flight Apparent Altitude Color 13 Unk: Tucson, Arizona INE to SE or SW 30 Apr 2215 Unk: Albuquerque, E to iT Now Mexico 59° AbOVe horizon 3 lay 2143 1 IR Los lanos, New Vexico S to N 10° - 15° above horizon.. 3 May 2126 1 2143 2205 Los Alamos, New Mexico S to N 10° - 15° above horizon 3 May 2126 1 2140 R Los Alamos, New Tezico ESE to 10° - 15° above horizon Silver Blue green Bright white light White 2126- white 2140- red CONFI Trail None None Duration Observation Sound 112 140 ints None 12 secsilione 20 110 secs None 3 - 7 lone isecs each time o sec None Ist; 2 sec 2nd Shape Apparent Size Cigar or Sa- usage shape Round From B-29 to a city block Tenth of moon Large - similar to size of air- plane landing lights Page 11 Apparent Speod 300 - 600 mph seconds 2 degrees Very fast up to 3,000 mph Very fast 2126-base- Seme speed ball dia- as aircraft mond landing lights. 2140- slightly larger than firebox lights Manner Disappear- ance Faded from view Went out **Evaluati (1) (1) (3 (1) (3)

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Summery of Sightings of Unlown Aerial Phenomena, 17th District CSI (cont) ITumber :2 3 5 66 67 Date 1949 6 Hay 6 May 7 May 7 May 8 May Time Number of Observers *Reliability of Observers 204.0 1 2130 General Area of Occurrence 0105 1 2025 2105 4 1940 1 2008|1 2017 8 May 0930 1200/4 Camp. Hood, Texas Los Alamos, New Menico R Camp Food, Texas R Camp Hood, Texas R Camp Hood, Texas Unl Tucson, Arizona. Apparent Direction of Flight and N N to SE N and E N and E W, 900 turn to the N Apparent Altitude Course Horizontal to Vertical Color Train or Trail App 1200'; dropping to 440' Duration Observation int s Sound Alterna- None 50 ting pinkish to green None 50 above Tas going Green horizon down at an angle of 30 - 35° 1300' Green- white Trac- None tion of a. seC lone 40 mts Tone 1000' Reddish lone 57 greenish sec white None Shape Round Apparent Size a doller diminish- ing to Ishort quarter size Round App 1/8 size of full moon Dia- mond shape 3 mils width Dia- mond shape 3 mils width 1600' Reddish (Ni one 9 greenish mts white None Dia- mond 2 mils width 4000 to 20,000 Horizontal White then rapid climb at 450 angle CONFIDENTIAL None 10-20 Mone [le tal- 40-75' in mts lic in dia- circu- meter lar Page 12 Apparent Speed Very slow Very high rate of speed Covered 15 mils in 40 mins horiz. Covered 20 mils in 57 secs horiz. 10 mils in 9 mts Lotionless to faster than jet Manner of Disappear- ance Faded from sight Disappeared west of Jemez Mus. Dimmed and went out Dimmed and went out Dimmed and went ouf Climbed at 45° angle until out of sight **Eval (1) (2) (1) (1) (2) (2)

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COl Summery of Sightings of Unimown Aerial Phenomena, 17th District OSI (cont) Number 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 Time Number of Observers *Reliability of Observers General Area of Occurrence Date 1949 9 May App 11430 1 12 May (2115 |1 2130 16 Way App 11700 1 2 Jun 10040 1 11 Jun 2057|1 20 Jun| 2010 1 20 Jun 2010 1 R lucson, Arizona VR Alamogordo, New Mexico Unk Tucson, Arizona Los Alamos, Don lexico IR Los Alamos, R Los Alamos, New Mexico R Los Alanos, Now Mexico Apparent Direction of Flight SW to NE E to W E to N ST to NE W to E to E Apparent Altitude Course Horizontal to Vertical Color Silvery 3° or 4° above horizon Thite with green- ish tinge 5000' Horizontal Black 7000' - 10,000' 25° above horizon Descending Green Green then red at end of flight Directly overhead Green turned orange red be- fore va- nishing Blue green CONF Train or Trail Duration Observation Sound None 16-10 SeCS None Hone 14 IT one mins None 8-10 secs Mone Yes 1 sec None Yes 4 - 5 lone secs None 3 None secs 1-1/2 Hono secs Shape Round 2 Plat 2 fuzzy stars Round solid flat Ball of light Round Apparent Size 251 in diameter 1 diameter of full moon 3 - 41 in diameter Size of star Page 13 Apparent Speed 750-1000 mph 800-1000 MPH Manner of Disappear- ance Faded from view Vanished Behind air- craft han gar **Eval (2) Extinguished Vanishod as tho en ting 'a. (2) (1) (1) (1)

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Summery of Sightings of Unknown Aerial Phenomena, 17th District OSI (cont) || Number 75 76 77 Number of Observers *Reliability Observers of General Area of Occurrence Apparent Direction of Flight Apparent Altitude Course Horizontal to Vertical Color or Train Trail of Duration Observation Date Time 1949 24 Jun 1545 2 1630 27 Jun 01.38 29 Jun 2010|1 30 Jun| 1630/1 11 Jul 2110|1 Unk | Unk R Unk Lesa, Arizona 3 4 5 to SE to E to WE vertical to E 4 lorizon- tal Steel gray Vertical 4 at 30 mes 1 at 25 secs Albuquerrue, I to E New Lexico 30° to 190° above horizon Similar to star Slightly more oran "e Yes 2 nts Flags taff, Arizona E to W 30° from vertical Yellow in front Red be- hind None Seligman, Arizona N 130° above horizon Dull grey Mone 8 secs Camp Hood, W by SW 30° above horizon Pale red Nonel 2 secs CONFIDENTIAL Sound None None None None lone Page 14 Shape Apparent ize Disc w/2 flanges Apparent Speed lax of 400 mph Round Slightly larger than brightest star 140° in 2 mts. Bullet ê size of Relatively shaped small air-slow plane Circle Appeared dia- meter at 10,000' altitude 2,000 mph or faster Ball - but not a per- fect loircle Iwice as large as evening star Wanner of Pisappear- ance Faded view from Went behind building Over a hill Disappeared in distance Such as turning off (flashlight (3) (2) (3)

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AL Summary of Sightings of Unknown Aerial Phenomena, 17th District OSI (cont) • Number 80 81 82 83 te Time Observers *Reliability Observers General Area of Occurrence 1949 28 Jul 2045 1 28 Jul| 2259|1 28 Jul 2258 1 30 Jull 2135 1 Jull 2204 1 funk Killeen Base, Texas Unk Killeen, Texas Unk Killeen, Texas R Camp Hood, Texas Camp Hood, Apparent Direction of Flight N to S S to N N to NW SE to NW to SW Apparent Altitude Course Florizontal to Vertical Color Train Trail Duration of Observation Sound Shape Apparent Size 1300 labove horizon White w/tint of blue green Yes 3-5 secs Hone Round Size of w/tail evening star 130° above horizon 2 pre- domin- ately white. 1 had orange glov to tail Yes #1 at None 2-3 secs at 10 - 12 secs Round Tennis w/tail ball 30° labove horizon Initial- lone 15 - i one ly blue turning secs white Round 3 times size even- ing star 35° to horizon Climbed in arc Blue- white Yes 2 - - None 1.110 2₴ Like rocket secs tail App 30° horizon Straight Fredom- flight los- inately ing alti- white tude w/blue tint Yes 2 - 3 secs None Round Evening w/tail star or planet CONFIDENTIAL Pogo 15 Apparent Speed Unable to estimate Faded out Faded out Manner of Disappear- ance Went out like light 2 - 24 secs Faded out to cover arc of about 15° Very fast Gradually faded out (1) (3)

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Sumary of Sightings of Unlown Aerial Phenomena, 17th District OSI (cont) Number 85 86 87 88 89 Date 949 16 Aug 6 Aug 6 Aug 6 Aug 6 Aug Number of Observers *Reliability of Observers 2000|1 2000 |1 2000 1 2000 1 2005 2015 |1 General Area of Occurrence Unl Las Cruces, New Mexico Un?: Las Cruces, New Mexico Unl Alemogordo, New lexico Unk Alamogordo, New Mexico Unk Alamogordo, New Mexico Apparent Direction of Flight E to W E to W Vertical E to W SW Apparent Altitude Course Horizontal to Vertical Color Bluish green 3028" to Curve going Reddish 9940" up then fellblue & above in almost green horizon vertical direction 2°20" to Straight 7° 35" Ivertical above flight horizon Bright white slight reddish cast 204" to 12°7" above horizon 100 off vertical White Straight flight app 200 verti- cal dec- line Whitish vellow red trail) Train Irail Yes Yes None Yes Duration of Observation Sound Shape - 2 None Round. secs 4 secs 5 I one Round 3 secs None Round 2 secs Fone 1 sec lone Round CIAL Page 16 Apparent Size Apparent Speed bigger than falling star App 6" in diemeter ễ size of moon Large as auto spot- light at arm's length Twice size Extremely normal fast - falling Itwice as star fast as falling Istar Manner of Disappear- ance Disappeared behind building Disappeared gradually Exploded then pieces died out Disappeared behind muilding Pisappeared Ibehind moun- tain (1) (1) (1)

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Summary of Sightings of Unmown Aorial Phenomena, 17th District OSI (cont) Number 90 91 92 93 94 95 ate ime Number of Observers *Reliability of Observers General Area of Occurrence Apparent Direction of Flight 1949 6 Aug 2030 1 16 Aug 2020| 1 6 Aug 2000 1 6 Aug • 2000|1 10 Aug |0010 2 10 Aug 2030| 1 Unk Alamogordo, New Mexico N Unk Albuquerque, Descend- New Menico ing to earth verti- cally Unk White Sands, Nev Mexico R Alamogordo, New Mexico 200° Unk Killeen Base, Toxas E to W Unk Killeen Base, Texas N to S Apparent Altitude 15° above horizon 40° above horizon 30° above horizon Course Horizontal to Vertical ¡Constant slight curve earthward Descending to earth vertically Straight line to learth Long slow curve to earth 30° ang- 30° angle le headed headed donw down 30° above horizon Color White (bluish) Green Obsor- ver color blind Bluish green Blue White Train Trail Yes None Duration of Observation Sound 1 sec None None secs Hone 1 sec I ono Shape Round Round to Ipear shape Round Yes Yes Yes 1 sce None Round 3 - 4 None SCCs Oval 5 soce iono Sar - Simi- lar to comet Page 17 Apparent Size Apparent Speed Manner of Disappear- ance Wont out App small- Similar to er than falling clenched star fist 500 watt bulb about 1/5 mile away 10° in lẻ secs at miles (Dissipated Half size of finger- nail at arm's longth. Slightly Disappeared faster than behind sand ordinary dune falling star Tip of thumb at arm's longth Burnod out Head size Suddon disappearanca anco Disappoared (1 (1) (1) (3)

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Summary of Sightings of Unnown Aerial Phenomena, 17th District OSI (cont) Number 96 97 98 99 Number of Observers *Reliability of Observers General Area of Occurrence Date Time 1949 10 Aug 2035 1 110 Aug 2035|1 2207 2220 2240 10 Aug 2040 1 10 Aug 2100 1 100 10 Aug 2100|1 2120| 2215) 2250 Unk Unk Unk R C emp Hood, Texas Camp Fiood, Texas Camp Hood, Texas Killeen Base, Texas Camp Hood, Texas Apparent Direction of Flight N to S W to E N to S S Apparent Altitude Course Horizontal to Vertical Color Level flight Yellow to orange 30° - 45° above horizon Level flight White 30° above horizon Horizontal w/slight arc Orange w/white tail 300 Continued Bright above climbing at orange horizon 30° angle going up until dis- appearance 400 - 70° # 1, 3 8: 4 above almost hor- horizon izontal 2 almost vertical White with orange CONCI Irain Trail Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes of Duration Observation Sound Shape Apparent Size 11 - 2 None secs Like head- light of old car 3 secs 4 None Round Large w/tail flare 3 - 5 tone Rocket 20 mm. secs tracer ammo. 5 secs None Redd- ish ball with long firey tail Head size sec None Round for each with trail one Large star AL Page 18 Apparent Speed 60° in 2 secs Greater speed than plane Very great similar to falling star Lianner of Disappear- ance Cut out Burned out Light grad- ually diminished Disappeared Great speed Went out like a light (3) (3) (3) (3)

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Summary of Sightings of Unlown Aerial Phenomena, 17th District OSI (cont) Number *Reliability of Observers General Area of Occurrence Timo Numbor of Observers 1949 10 Aug 2200 ] 2230 Unk Camp Food, Texas 2 10 Aug 2240 Unl: Camp lood, Texas 103 11 Aug 2030| Sev Unk 2045 2052 2105 0010 Camp Hood, Texas 12 Aug 0010|2 Unk Killeen Base, Ioxas Apparent Direction of Flight Apparent Altitude Course Horizontal to Vertical Color Train or Trail S to N 30° above horizon Level flight White w/yellow trail Yes to S 8, 000' or more Straight Light flight with red di- gradual minish- incline ing to light yellow N to S 45 - 60° Generally above a level horizon flight White Due IT in arc 45° above horizon Straight & level flight w/ascent descent describ- ing arc Bluish white CONFI Yes Yes Yes Duration of Observation Sound Shape Apparent Size 1 - 2 None Oval secs Size of shooting star 2 secs 3 None Round Much larger w/jag- than evening ged star trail 3 secs 5 None (Flash like a rocket or train- ing flare Star size 1,0 secs None Broken Hoad circlo resem- bling signal flare size Apparent Speed 1300 mph or faster Fade Burned up disintograted Faster than Went out jany plane like a observed light Sudden dis- appearance (3) (3)

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Summary of Sightings of Unknown Aerial Phenomena, 17th District OSI (cont) I Number Date Time 1949 105 12 Aug (0445 1 Number of Observers *Reliability of Observers General Area of Occurrence 106-14 Aug 2135 |1 107/20 Aug 2130 2 108/21 Aug 2115 5 2150 109 26 Aug 1345/1 jUnk Unk Unk R Killeen Base, Texas Alamogordo, New Mexico Douglas, Arizona Nogales, Arizona Apparent Direction of Flight Apparent Altitudo Course Horizontal to Vertical SE to NIT 130° above horizon headed down Headed Appeared 110 - 15° 25º Dis- off appeared vertical at 12° N to S 8,000 ' - 110,000' Flat trajectory Davis- Monthan AFB, Arizona SE to MT Color I rain hrail uration of Observation Sound [Shapo Apparent Size Reddish Yes Yes Trail flame Fairly long streak of flame Reddish Yes orange 12 secs None (Round Larger than Venus None 16 - 10 None Round secs to ob- long like in- verted saucer About size of single engine airplane 45° at Forizontal low levelto earth's 900 at surface high level Dull orange Hone |10 secs i one Tafer App size of volley ball App. 50,000 Forizontal at 50,000' Brown- /ish hazy color None 160 secs Simi- ¡lar tri- angle with round ledges be app of inch when lobserved at 3 ft. CONFIDENTIAL Apparent Spood Page 20 3500 to 4500 mph 10 times speed of jet planes Terrifio rate of speed lanner of Disappear- ance Faded avay Disappeared Disappeared in distance Diseppeared lin space Faded from view 1(3) (2) (2)

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CONFIDE Sumery of Sightings of Uninown Aerial Phenomena, 17th District OSI (cont) Number 111 112 114 115 Number of Observers *Reliability of Observers General Area of Occurrence Date ime 1949 30 Aug 12300 1 Apparent Direction of Flight Apparent Altitude Course Horizontal to Vertical 90° over-Almost overhead straight fall 15 Sep 0025|1 16 Sep 0230|1 18 Sep 2015 1 19 Sep 0900|2 27 Sep 0300 27 Sep 0300 Unk R Unk Unk Unk Unk Los Alemos, New Mexico Almost straight fall Albuguerque, New Mexico 300 above horizon Los Alamos, New liezico IN to E 3,000' Horizontal Sandia Base, VT to S New Merico Tucson, Arizona 145° above horizon App 4000₽ Sandia Base, New Moxico From SE Sandia Base, To the N He Mexico 45° above horizon 10° above horizon Traveling tangent to carth Color Bright green w/red- dish tail Yellow red Orenge Dark yellow Train Trail Yes Duration of Observation - 2 secs 6 secs L. one 15 secs Lone 3 secs 4. Grayish None 12 mts white Bright blue to white None 4. secs Yellow Yes - 4 secs Sound Shape None None Round Tone Ball shape None Round None None Round None Round Page 21 Apparent ize Apparent Speed Manner of Disappear- ance Much larger than meteor Burned out Size of baseball Burst ap- peared to disintegrate Larger than Faster than Dimmed then falling airplane star disappeared slower than completely falling Ister Size of baseball Untmown 2 to 3 ft across 600 mph Faded from view About size 45° in 4 of softball secs. at 300 yds. .n............ss Size of baseball at 25 yds. Same rate as shoot- ing star Obscured by building Died out (3) (1) (2 ) (3) (3)

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117 27 5ep 1949 0300 1 Number Date Unk New Moxico Sandia Base, SE to NIT horizon above 15° - 200 ward earth in arc to- Traveling Time Number of Observers *Reliability of Observers General Area of Occurrence Apparent Direction of Flight Apparent Altitude Course Horizontal to Vertical Summary of Sightings of Unknowm Aerial Phenomena, 17th District OSI (cont) 118 2'7 Sep 10130 1 Unk 119 120 121 122 27 Sep 0130 1 130 Sep 2257 1 2 Oct 12110/1 6. 0ct 17451 Unk Unle R Unk Sandia Base, New Moxico Sandia baso, How lioxico Sendie Baso, S Now Mexico Los Alamos, Tew Mexico Mescalero, low Mexico to N to W Color Bright green 200 above horizon Made a gen- tle are toward earth Dark blue 145° aD OV O horizon Loving tangent to carth Green 550 to horizon Yellow orange 20,000 - Went up & 30,000' thon down 1520 Descended abeve in slight horizon arc Bright green Dark green Train or Trail of Duration Observation iT one 2 secs Yes 2 secs None 11 sec None 2 - 3 secs Yes None 3 secs 30 secs CONFIDENTIAL Sound Shape Apparent Size None Round Same size as perime- ter fence light at distance of about 200 yàs. None [Coni-. Looked icle like a w/tail loky rocket its dia- motor None Round Fist at jarm's Lensth None Page 22 Apparent Speed 450 secs. in 2 50° in 2 secs. 200 in l sec Slightly 200 - 300 larger than mph shooting star Honc Round (Big ball Manner of Disappear- ance Brighten then wen out Burnt out (3) (1) Burnt out Disappoarod bohind hills (1) (1) (1)

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CONFI Summary of Sightings of Unknown Aerial Phenomena, 17th District OSI (cont) Page 23 Number ate A 1949 16 Oct Time of Number Observers *Reliability of Observers! General Area of Occurrence Apparent Direction of Flight 123 1800 1 1845 Unk Mescalero, New Mexico Apparent Altitude 18° above horizon Course Horizontal to Vertical Color Grecn Train or Trail None Duration of Observation Sound Shape 7 - 9 lone Round. secs Apparent ize 02 size of thumb at arm's len- £th Apparent Speed Moving slowly 124 16 Oct 1758 11 R Alamogordo, New Mexico E to H Straight angular descent Bluish white possi- bly lt. green tinge None 14 secs None Circu- 3 times the lar size of Jupiter or Venus 5° per sec. 125 6 Oct 1800 1 Unk Alamogordo, New Lexico 4°20' tc 70 g' Green None |5 - 6 None Round secs 126 16 Oct 1750|1 R Albuguerque, E to W New Mexico Curved des- Green- [lone 1 sec lone Simi- cent ap- lar proaching white to vertical very flare Size of baseball at arm's len- sth size of thunb at arm's len- gth 127 6 Oct 1750|1 R Wagon Hound. New Mexicó E to W 128 6 Oct 1758|1 Unk Albuquerque, NE to ST New Mexico Horizontal Green- Ione 3 - 4 ish secs white At tail end Brilli- lone 10 of its ant secs course it green arched over and fell Hone Round 15 " - 2" in diane- ter App. that of meteor lone Tear drop Manner of Disappear- ance Disappearec behind a hill (1 ( 1) Abrupt (1) Vent out like (1) like elec- tric light Seemed to burn out (1)

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CONFIDENTIAL Summary of Sightings of Unlown Aerial Phenomena, 17th District OSI (cont) Number 129 130 131 132 133 134 I ime Number of Observers *Reliability of Observers Area of Occurrence Apparent Direction of Flight Date 194.9 T Oct 2120|1 10 Oct: 0406|1 10 Oct 0107|1 10 Oct: 0107|1 10 Oct 0107|1 11 Oct| 2010| 6 General Unk Albuquerque, Straight New Mexico vertical drop IR Los Alamos, New lexico SE to NE Unk Sandia Base, W to E New Mexico Unk Sandia Base, SIT to NE New lexico Unk Sandia Base, IN to NE New Mexico Unk Roswell, New Mexico Apparent Aititude Course Horizontal to Vertical 35° above horizon 13,000' Parallel above to surface observa- of earth ition pt. 45° above horizon 45° above horizon Executed dives 450 above horizon Appeared moving to N & angl- ing sligh- tlý to E Laneuvered Color Yellow Ito green Brill- iant white Bluish igreen Green- ish blue w/red sparks trail- ing Green Light green turned orange Train Trail Duration of Observation None 1 seC es 4 - 5 secs Yes 15 secs Yes 4 secs lone 15 secs Yes 145 mts CONFIDEN Sound Shape None Round None None Round Done Round lone Round None Round Page 24 Apparent Size Apparent Speed Manner of Disappear- ance Half a moon Dropped 15° lin 1 sec Behind Sandia lountains Sme.11 Size of fist at arm's len- gth Size of fist at arm's len- 1gth Size of fist at arm's len- gth ¡Size of baseba11 Appeared to Disappeared he slower than a meteor Slow Died out S1001 Faded out Slow Burned out ( 1) (1) ( 1)

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Summary of Sightings of Unknown Aerial Phenomena, 17th District OSI (cont) Number 135 136 137 8 Date Time Number of Observers *Reliability of Observers 11 Cot 1015 2 1100' 12 Oct 1115| 3 12 Oct 1115 3 12 Oct 13401 4 139 14 Oct |1420; 3 | Unk Unk Unk R R General Area of Occurrence Alamogordo, New Mexico (Roswell, Now Mexico Alamogordo, New Mexico Tucson, Arizona Apparent Direction of Flight Apparent Altitude Course Horizontal to Vertical NT to SE IS to NE size of B-29 jappeared to be 150,000% 13,500' Appeared If size from S & of B-29 veered appeared off to NE ito be 35,000' From NE to ST 30,000' I Los Alamos, New Mexico IT to E 20,000' Color Train or Trail of Duration Observation hite None 10-15 secs Smooth arc White (sil- ver) None 45-60 secs Smooth arc White or al- uminum None 1 45-60 seCS Horizontel Thite or sil- ver Mone: 15 secs Level Green- flight just ish above blue- horizon white trail Yes 2 secs CONFIDE ENITIAL Sound Shape None Round dish shape None Round proba- bly ellip- tical Mone Round ball None Round None Round Apparent Size 2" in dia- meter at arm's 1ength 35,000 ' 4" in diameter 50 - 100% in diameter Appeared as a i2" disc Page 25 Apparent Speed Manner of Disappear- ance Very fast compared w/falling star Faded from view Faster than Went beyond jet air- range of craft vision 1,500 mph Faded from view 1,000 mph Faded from view Burned out (2) (2) (2) ( 1)

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CONT VIAL Summary of Sightings of Unmown Aorial Phonomona, 17th District OSI (cont) Number 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 Date ime 1949 14 Oct 2021| Nunker of Observers *Reliability of Observers General Area of Occurrence Apparent Direction of Flight Apparent Altitude Course Lorizontal to Vertical Color Train or Trail Duration of Observation 14 Oct 1410|1 1415 21 . Oct |2130 1 22 Oct 0228/1 22 Oct 02201 11 16 Nov 1950 1 19 Nov 2152 1 TR Albuquerque, N New Mexico to S Horizontal Red orange Yes 10 secs Unk Los Alanos, New lexico Unk Roswell, Now Moxico R Los Almos Now Monico IR Los Alamos, Now Mexico R Los Alamos, New Moxico Los Alamos, Now Monico to N Front- green & silver Roar - Palo bluo Yos 3 - 4 socs SE to MT 30° above horizon Very bright white i one 20-30 nts NW to SE On horizon Bright groon 2 secs Vertical 50 - 100 ft. Groon 1 sec Disap- poarca to N 2 ob- jects bluish green Vortical (Groon thon 2 secs yollow -CONFIDENTIAL Sound Shape Nono Round None None None None Like flare None None Page 26 Apparent Size 1/3 - 1/4 size of moon 1/8 size of Pull moon 4 times size of a Plaro Snall Apparent Speed 500 mph or more Unknown 150 mph Stationary but disap- peared with speed of meteor Manner of Disappear- ance Broke 2 pieces & disappeared Disappeared behind a hill Went out Disappeared from view (1 (2) (1) (1) (1) (1)

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Summary of Sightings of Uninown Aerial Phenomena, 17th District OSI (cont) Number Trumber of Observers *Reliability of Observers 147 Date Time 1949 19 NoT 2152 1 148 25 Hov 2000: 5 149 27 Nov 1800| 1 150 27 Nov |1730 1 27 Nov 1749| 1 152 27 Nov 1749 1 R R i Unk Unk R IR General Area of Occurrence Los Alamos, Now Moxico Los Alamos, Now Moxico 1c Intosh, New Mexico Winslow, Arizona Apparent Direction of Flight Vertical E to W Vortical E to W Albuguorquo, E to IT New Loxico i Socorro, New Nezico E to W Apparent Altitude Course Horizontal to Vertical 15° - 10° Downward above 10° from horizon the hori- zontal |Less than 2,000' Vertical doscent 30° above [horizon 30 - 5° above horizon Sloping doscont 100 -400 Are above horizon Page 27 Color Train Trail Duration Observation Sound Shape Apparent Size Apparent Speed Manner of Disappear- ance Green 2 secs None Yellow- fish green 2 secs None l Disappeared behind nt. Green Hono 1 sec lone Shaped Same as a like a signal Iflare- flare Same as falling signal flare Same as signal flare Bright I bluc- white Yes 13 - 4 secs None shape Egg held arm's len- th Dwindled out cover 15° - 20° horizon Bluc- whito Nono 1 - 2 None Round Pencil era.- ser at arm's Length 5° - 70 in 1 or 2 secs Nent out then on then out again Pale green to pale blue Yes 15 secs None Round Quite large Slower than Faded out meteor gradually CONFIDENTIAL (1) (1) ( 1) 1(1)

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CONFIDENTIAL Summary of Sightings of Unknown Aerial Phenomena, 17th District OSI (cont) Number 154 155 156 1949 3 Dec 1 Dec 4. Dec 5 Dec 5 Dec 158 9 Dec Time Number of Observers *Reliability of Observers 1805 1 General ¡Area of Occurrence Alamogordo, New Mexico 1935| 1 1935 2 1930|3 1945 2240|1 Apparent Direction of Flight R E to V Unk: Albuguerque, New Lexico to W Unk Los Alamos, New Lexico E to NE Unl Carrizozo, New Mexico Unk Tularosa, New Lexico E to V Unk Farmington, New Nexico Apparent Altitude Course Horizontal to Vertical In an arc downward [early horizontal Sloping descent 40° above horizon In dive Smooth arc downvard 1330 1 Dropping vertical- Iy 1500 ft. Vertically down Color Train or Trail Duration of Observation Greon fringo of oran ge light None secs Green None! 2 secs 3 Green 1/5 SOC Bluo- green Blue w/yel- lowish red toward tail Yes sec Sound Shape Apparent Size None Circu- Somewhat lar larger than Venus None: Round Marble at arm's len- gth. Yes Round None Tear- drop None Stroal: Appeared of light little long- longer than length of lead pencil at 61 None|Char- red para- chute for cargo not Apparent Speed Page 28 Very slow Manner of Disappear- ance Disappeared behind building Went out like a candle Disappeared behind mt. Disappeared Appeared to hit ground near Tularosa, New Mexico Disappeared CONFIDENTIAL (1) (2)

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CONFIDEN Summary of Sightings of Unlown Aerial Phenomena, 17th District OSI (cont) Number 159 160 161 162 Date Time 949 13 Dec 12005 ¡umber of Observers *Reliability of Observers 3 [1950 16 Jan 32230|7 17 Jan 2215 2 19 Jan 2226|1 Unk R Goncral Area. of Occurrence Alanogordo, New Mexico Alamogordo, New Mexico Corona, New Lexico Los Alamos, New Moxico Apparent Diroction of Flight Apparent Altitude Courso Horizontal to Vertical Station- ary then began to move downward slowly and to right D to W 5, 000' Up & down and horizontal [From SW to SE Descending 80° - 40° Horizontel above horizon Color or Train Trail of Duration Observation White ember red green None 19 mts White None 45 changod ints to . green & rod Yellow- Yes ish white orange blue er. 110 secs Incen- dos- cont Ereon Yes Iscos CONFH ITIAL Sound None Mone Star like lone Round ball shape None Ove.1 with trail Page 29 Shape Apparent Sizo Apparent Spood Circu- 1 - 1> times lar size of a- verage st. light at a distance of 8 miles Slightly Moved app. larger than 150 to 20° planet from E to Venus N during 45 mins it was ob- served Same as cup Compared 6" in dia- w/fast meter at arm's jet fighter length Mannor of Disappear- anco Object took on brillian green color, picked up speed and faded from view Stopped observation Disappeared behind mt. range Disappeared behind trees (1 (1)

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CONFID Summary of Sightings of Unmon Aerial Phenomena, 17th District OSI (cont) Number 163 164 165 166 167 168 Date 1950 19 Jan Time Number of Observers *Reliability of Observers General Area of Occurrence Apparent Diroction of Flight 2220|1 Jan 32225|1 12 Jan 1900 3 13 Jan 0605 27 Jani 1715 1 7 Fob 1950 2 2015 R Los Alamos, New Lexico Due W R Los Alamos, Now Lexico Unk Holloman, New Mexico To W Unk Holloman AFB, Now E to W Unk Scullville, NW How Jorsey Albuguorque, New Lexico SSE Apparent Aititude Course Horizontal to Vertical 60° above Straight course horizon 75° - 80° Straight above line horizon Changed altitudo orratic- ally Erratic- ally up & down Ascending at about 60° ang 10 Color Train or Trail Bluish white Yes of Duration Observation 2 SeCS Green- ish white one 13 secs Thi to changed to green & red None Imts Tite changedi to green & red Nonel Short timo White streak 30 mts 400 - 45° Horizontal above horizon Reddish Yes green 4 - 6 secs VANININENI Sound Shape Apparent Size None Point- Appcared ed as a point None Round None Star 1ilce None Star like -4 to -5 compared to Jupiter About same size of Venus About seme sizo as Vonus None Round elon- gated trail Twice size of evening star Page 30 Apparent Speed 10° per second 25° per second Manner of Disappear- ance Luninosity stopped suddenly Bohind horizon Discontinuod watching Pisappeared w/daylight * that of Paded a firoworks gradually rockot at close range About same as falling Faded out in atmosphere star **Evaluation (1) (1) ( 1) (2) (3) (2) (1)

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Summary of Sightings of Unknown Acrial Phenomena, 17th District SI (cont) Number 169 170 171 172 173 Number of Observers *Roliability of Observers Date 1950 7 Fob General Area of Occurrence Apparent Direction of Flight Apparent Altitudo Course Horizontal to Vertical Color or Train Trail of Duration Observation 1945) 2 2000 15 Fcb 1530 1 18 Fob 10510l 5 20 Feb 0530 2 24 Fob 1355 1 R Unk R Unle R Botwoon Tucumcari & Kirtland ATB, Now toxico .. Sandia Base, Now Mexico Holloman AFB, New Mexico Holloman APB, Now Moxico From NI to W Station- Flat Trajoctory Fire- (ball white Yes 2 - 4 secs 45° downward above horizon Appoar - Yos led red & greon 30 Climbod hi te and orange Hone! 1 hr 44 mts 1, 000* above 9,000' mt. Stationery Thi to None 5 mts Albuquerque, To W or New Mexico STI 120° to 230 above horizon Straight flight Thite Mono 14 mt s CONFIDENTIAL Sound Shape Non e None Round None Round to ¡cone shape None Round Hone Round Apparent Size Page 31 Apparent Spood Over 1,000 mph Like shooting star trail That of a normal marble Size of coffee cup lat arm's /longth App size of Stationary dollar held at arm's longth. Compared in 1z mts. to size to up- cover 2° per dark portion of moon as it rises in E Lanner of Disappear - ance Faded out suddenly Faded out Stopped observation Disappeared from view behind cloud Juation (2) (2) (2)

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CO Summary of Sightings of Unlown Aerial Phenomena, 17th District OSI (cont) Numbor 174 ime Number of Obsorvers *Reliability of Observors General Area of Occurronce Apparent Altitude 950 24 Feb I1400 |1 175 -24 Fob 1930|1 *** 176 24 Fob 1345|1 177 24 Feb 1340|1 178 Apparent Direction of Flight R Albuquerque, E by SE Now Lexico About 120° above horizon R Datil, New Mexico Unk Los Alanos, Now Mexico E thon turned WI 125,000- 130,000' Unk R Los Alamos, E to W 30,000' New Mexico W to E then st. up Los Alamos, How Hoxico Erratic 120,000- goncrally 30,000' NE ***Seo attached photograph. Course Horizontal to Vertical Straight up Straight Color or Train Trail Duration Observation Bright white ¡iTone 120-30 secs White chang- ing to red & groon Tito, kept flash- firg |11kc mirror in sun Yes 12 hrs 130 imts one 20 *mics Silvery lione 20 white mats Silvory li ono (15 mts -CONFIDE AL Page 32 Sound Shape Apparent Size Apparent Spoed None Round Compared w/size of weather ¡balloon as ¡it disap- ¡peared in distance Very slow INone Round 1º per 2 mts. Fone Vory fast None Mannor of Disappear- ance Faded out of sight Disappeared Nont strai- ght up out of sight Wont strai- ght up out of sight None Saucer 11001 acrossiAs fast or shapod if at faster than 120,000- sound 30.0001 Disappeared **Evalua (2) (2 ) 1(2) (2

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Sumnary of Sightings of Unimown Aerial Phenomena, 17th District OSI (cont) Number 79 1180 181 183 Number of Observors *Roliability of Observers General Area of Occurrence Date Timo 1950 24 Feb iBe- tween 1315 1400 Ipparent Direction of Flight !1 25 Feb |1545 12 1555 R 25 Feb 2115 1 Unk 25 Fob 10200 R 25 Feb 1410 1 R Los Alamos, New Mexico Circled then E Los Alamos, New Mexico Heading toward ground Albuquerque, Toward S New Mexico Datil, New Mexico Los Alamos, New lexico to N Apparent Altitude Course Horizontal to Vertical Consid- erable altitude 30° - 35° above horizon App. 20° Almost above vertical horizon Color Alumi- nun Flash- ing silver Bright green - isn white White chang- ing to red & green Metal- lic 1 to 3 imiles at 30° above ¡horizon Train Trail of Curation 'Observation Sound [Shape Apparent Size Yes 2 None Spher- ical Rather largo None 3 secs lone Circu- (Small to 2 Its lar airplane il ike plane fuse- Yes secs None Tear- drop 3 times size of a hooting Is tar Yes 130 imts None Round None 2 mcs None Oblong 10 - 15' Page 33 Apparent Speed Manner of Disappear- ance Erratic Un'nown From very slow to very fast (Slightly Appeared to slower than burn out falling star 1° por 2 mts Disappeared behind (mountain 40 mph Went below horizon (2.

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CONFIDE Sumnary of Sightings of Unknown Aerial Phenomena, 17th District OSI (cont) Number 17 84 185 186 187 188 Date Time 950 25 Feb 1545 1 of Number Observers *Reliability of Observers General Area of Occurrence 25 Feb 1550|1 25 Feb 1545|14 1555 25 Feb 1655|1 10 Mar 1800: 6 1830 15 Mar 1135|4 1300 R Los Alamos, New lexico Los Alamos, New Mexico Los Alamos, New lexico Los Alamos, liTem Lexico Unk Phoenix, Arizona Vaughn, New Mexico Apparent Direction or Flight Apparent Altitude Course Forizontal to Vertical Color Train Trail Duration Observation Very high White to silver lone 30 secs S or STI 12,000' Letal- lic one Few secs NE to SiT Overhead Traveled lat from w/a flut- 4 to 10 ¡tering miles motion Siiver one Few secs to 2 ints E to W Shiny sily.- ery 10-15 secs SE 40,000- 50,000' Moved up- Alums - ward at 60° inun or angle quick silver Yes 10 mts Traveled 1950 Straight flight White None |1 hr 25 mts CONFIDI IAL Page 34 Sound shape Apparent 51.z0 Apparent Speed Done Cirou- About size lar of 60% piece at lits hoight Very fast None Foze pRo an None Round Hone jOval or ob long None Round As largo or Fast larger than ¡averago plane Wary from Very fast 1500 - 1500 small imph airplane. ¡Ahout size lef B-25 Easelage Slow speed Size of nOO: Extremely high Ping pong ball at arm's len- 1g th 180 to 200 mph Manner of Disappear- ance Disappeared into glare of sun Faded from view Disappeared behind tree Disappeared Ceased observation **Evaluation 1(3) (2) (2): (2) (2) (2)

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Number |11 Mar j0100i 1 11950 Date ime AFB, lew Holloman App 270° 50 miles tance of ! at dis- horizon bove 30° a- About flight Straight Number of Observers *Reliability of Observers General Area of Occurrence Apparent Direction of Flight Apparent Altitude Course Horizontal or Vertical Summary of Sightings of Unimown Aerial Phenomena, 17th District OSI (cont) 191 16 Mar 1100 10 193 194 16 Mar |100d 10 17 Mar 0310 1 17 Mar 0308 1 Unk Farmington, , N to NE 'New Mexico Unk Farning ton, New Lexico R Los Alamos, New Mexico R Los Alamos, New lexico NE Toward earth NE Over : 20,000' Color or rain Trail Duration of Coservation Sound Shape Apparent Size Changed None :5 mts from light jorange to Iblood ired to jamber i to light green ¡Turned on Bright ¡their axis lumin- ¡None 13 - 5 mts &: maneu- ous as vered up & itin down foil Skyward at "Bright None: 30 i at 600-80° alumi-. m'ts num None Ping pong ball -1ng pon g ball held lat arm's (length None Flat spher- ¡iodic i1 to 6" None Oval 2 ob- long 11/16" - 2" held at arm's length Toward earth Level flight Reddish None| 1 then green Green- None 3 ish yellow sec Mone secs| None Round la size of full moon Apparent Speed Page 35 from view Disappeared Manner of Disappear- ance **Evaluation Faster than Discontinued i(2) convention- lobservation al aircraft Faster than Gradually convention-| lisappeared al aircraft Moderate Appeared to fall to earch Like light going out (2) (3) (3)

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Sumary of Sightings of Unlown Aerial Phenomena, 17th District OSI (cont) Number ;196 4197 Time Number of Observers *Roliability of Observers :1950 17 Var 0307:1 117 Mar 044511 117 Mar 0310|1 17 Mar 10307 1 General Area of Occurrence R R R Los Alamos, New Mexico Los Alamos, New.. Lexico ILos Alamos, lew Morico Los Alamos, Now Moxico Apparent Direction of Flight Apparent Altitude Course Horizontal to Vertical Straight down Formed an jarc Straight down Formod an larc Seemed to climb, change color, start down & disap- pear Earthward Barthward Color or Train Trail Duration of Observation Orange & Greon Yes 2-22 secs Green Mone 15 Green turn- ing to yellow Hone 15 Yes 3 Sound None Shape Anparent Size Page 36 Apparent. Speed Premondous secs None Round Quite small Free fall secs i one !Spher- ical size of imoon Moderate secs ll one Round size of full moon 1199 120 lar 0115 1 Unk [Clovis, New Mexico Fron WW Above |12,000' 1 - 2 secs l'one Spher- ical Extremely fast 2,000 mph Manner of Disappear- ance Explosion on impact with earth or dis- integration Fell toward earth Suddenly Plunged to earth & 2 explosions were noted prior to disappear- ance Disappeared from view ¡White Yes Iw/1ight blue CONFID AL * valuation 3) (3) (3)

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Summary of Sightings of Unmown Aorial Phenomena, 17th District OSI (cont) Numbor 200 201 202 203 Time Number of Observers *Reliability of Observers 1950 121 Tar 132011 Unk 21 lar 11300 1 Unk 21 lar 1315 1 Unk 21 lar 1300: 4 1330 Unk 122 lar 1100 11 Gono ro. 1 Aroa of Occurrence Apparent Direction of Flight Sandia Base, E to SW New Mexico Sandia Base, INE to SE New Mexico Sandia Baso, E Now Mexico Kirtland AFB, How SE to Apparent Altitude Course Horizontal to Vertical Color App 45° above horizon 2 ok- jects silver 40,000- 60, 000' Varied from shiny silver to shady gray.. 75° White above horizon 40° - 50° Zig-zag above motion up horizon 1&: down Bright silvor APB, How Mexico NT chang- 25,000 ing to N 30,000' Horizontal -CON Train or Trail Duration of Observation None 110 mts ¡one | 30 mts None 5 mts lone 1 mt Nono 5 - 6 Sound Shape None Round None Round None Round None Round Page 37 Apparent Sizo Apparent Speed Lanner of Disappear- ance App size of dime at arm's len- gth Excessive to jet flight Gradually faded fron view Size of end About same of thumb at las jet air- arm's len- craft gth Disappeared Smaller than fist at arm's 10ng th ¡Sizo of i dime at arm's longth App. 600 - 700 mph Disappearod from range of vision About same Disappeared as fast jet from range aircraft of vision Flying About size Extrenoly high specd Disappeared at arm's length **Eval ( 2) (2 (2) (2) (2)

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Sunrary of Sightings of Uninown Aerial Phonomena, 17th District OSI (cont) Number 205 1206 207 209 Dato imo 1950 22 Mar 10010l Number of Obsorvors *Reliability of Observers General Area of Occurrence Apparont Direction of Flight Apparont Altitude 1 Apr 04201 1 17 Apr 1530 10 20 Apr 1530 1 1 May 1510) 2 Unk: Sandia Base, SE to NIT Now Mexico R Los Alomos, Now Loxico S to N 75° above horizon R Los Alamos, Now Moxico 2,0001 above horizon R Los Alemos, New Moxico Unk Kirtland AFB, Now ST to NE Apparc- ntly a fow thou- sand foot Course Horizontel or Vertical Color Line para- Blue [1lel w/lino centor tangent to with the carth orange 10r Whito light lanuevered Light up & down greon & from side bright to side as tin foil Mancuvored up & 2onn Bright metal- lic Was angl- ing down- ward Silvor lucia imo tal- lic object Train or Trail Duration Obsorvation IN one 72 secs 3 Lono |1 SeC or None 20-30 secs Hono 15-30 Ints Erone Not quito a sec HAL Sound Shape Apparent Sizo None Round like ba.11 from roman candle None Round None 1/16" at arm's longth None Rough- ly circu- lar Est. g1 in diamcter None Cylin- drica? Page 38 Apparent Speed Wanner of Disappear - ance 12 sees 30° Burned out lazimuth Disappearod bohind building Gradually went out of sight Fastor than convention- al aircraft Lost sight of object I remendous Flash of brilliant whito light aluation (1) (2 (2

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UNI? FENERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE CC-150 To: COMMUNICATIONS SECTION. Transmit the following message to: URGENT 10/18/50 SAC, LOS ANGELES FLYING SAUCERS. REBUTELS OCTOBER THIRTEEN AND SEVENTEEN LAST. SUTEL IMMEDIATELY RESULTS OF YOUR INVESTIGATION TO IDENTIFY FRANK SCULLY, AUTHOR OF QUOTE BEHIND THE FLYING SAUCERS UNQUOTE. HOOVER KHM: S000 Tolson Cleg& Glavin N1chols Egan Gurnea Harbo Mr. PennIngton Room Mise Gandy U, SATE ACTRES RECORDED - 44 COMMUNCINIONS. INDEXED ĐCT 18 195X-29 • 162=33897 - 250) 5 52 NOV 1 SENT VIA COPIES 270 DESTROYED NOV 23 1964 1950 Per_

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Director, YBI Detober 18, 1950 SAC, Knoxville RADAR DETECTION OF UNTHSNETETED OTECHES OVER OAK, RINGS, Gotober 12, 15, 16, 1950 PROTECYTON OF VITAL INBPAIZATIONS 1131/22 Flying Saucers Remytel Cetober 13, 1950. There is being submitted herewith a copy of two reports made by Distriot Representative of the OST, 8th Distriet, U. S. Atr Force, with regard to the detection of unidentified objeate by the mans of radar, as ast forth in referenced teletype. These reporte continue to set forth additionel reporte concerning unidentified objects in the air spaco area over Oak Ridge, оввее, which to date have not been explatned. No investigation in being condueted by the Kaorville Offioe In this matter, but any further informtion received fron 0ST on from CIC representatives will be forwarded immediately. A1r Mail COME faw 65-475 Enc • m 1956 NOV 22 ENCIENES ON OREGEN 55 NOV 251950

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EDERAL BURCAU OF INVESTIGATION CORRELATION & IT Date_ ON SECTION , 1950 Director Mr. Tolson Mr. Ladd Mr. Belmont Mr. Laughlin Room 3208 Mr. Ammarell Mr. Bates Mr. Blair Mr. D. M. Brown Mr. Keay Mr. Bartlett Mr. J. W. Brown _Mr. Cole _Mr. Connell Mr. Baumgardner Mr. Stanley Mr. Hennrich Mr. Conroy Mr. DeLoach Mr. Dinsmore Mr. Ellis Miss Mr. Ferris Room Mr • Fipp Mrs. Abel Miss Cuddy File in Mr. Flaherty Mr. Foley Miss Reddy Mr. Gotschall Mrs. Schwab Miss Wielkiewicz Flyin Mr. Harrington _Mr. Kuhrtz амет Landis Mr. Bromwell Identification Division/le Mr. Lawrence Lynch Miss Harrington, Room 7229 Mansfield Mail Room, Room 5533 Mr. Martin Reading Room, Room 5531 Mr. Millard 5-Effo Mr. Mozanan Records Section Routing Unit Send file, up to date Send reference Mr. Noone _Mr. Obenshain Mr. Ormond Mr. Reynolds Mr. Roach Mr. Sanders See Me Phone Me Mr. Secord Mr. Sullivan

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JUSTICE Oar A-z for senoug. 1o .

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ARE? OF UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL OBJECTS •U.S. ATOMIC ENERGY SECURITY SERVICE LOS ALAMOS, NEW MEXICO DATE (Day) (Month) 195_ 1. Name of Observer Last Station assigned Home Address Names of other known observers First Section_ Telephone M.I. 2. Time and date of sighting 3. Point of observation hours_ _195_ Day Month 4• Direction of object from observer 5. Distance of object from observer 6. Angle of elevation from horizon degrees 7. Direction of flight of object 8. Time in sight 9. Number of objects 10. Shape of object 11. Projections and/or indentations INDEXED - 17 EX. - 68 NOT 83794- 257 RECORDED 6--06T-98-1950 51 NOV 151950

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REPORT 12. Apparent construction UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL OBJECTS ( 13. Apparent means of support and/or propulsion 14. Size of object 15. Luminosity of object (Bright, very bright, glaring, ete.) 16. Color of object 17. Sound 18. Odor 19. Speed 20. Evidence of trail or exhaust 21. Effect on clouds 22. Tactics or maneuvers 23. Manner of disappearance_ 24. What attracted attention to object 25. Additional Remarks of observer -2-

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REPORT UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL OBJECTS (C Observer's signature Title 26. Additional remarks of investigator Investigator's signature Title -3-

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.. guin October 17, 1950 SAC LOS ANGELES URGENT FLYING SAUCERS. REBUTEL OCTOBER THIRTEEN LAST. SUTEL RESULTS OF YOUR INQUIRY TO IDENTIFY FRANK SCULLY. HOOVER EHM : MH avin en FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE COMRHAMATIONS OCETION J01 5-950 RECORDED - 82 EX 29 / 1 192-838217 OCTITONESO 5600 VEL NT, E k950 5 - 12.32 р Улк COPIES DESTROYED 270 NOV 23 1964 ROOM Ост 17 // RECEIVED READI Ан '50

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men o slyng toucere (SAUCER ) DENVER--A CONSTRUCTION WORKER AT LOS ALAMOS, N.M. HAS REPORTED THAT A STRANGE "BLINKING OBJECT" SOARED OVER A HIGHLY RESTRICTED ARÈA OF THE BIG ATOMIC ENERGY CENTER. LEE ROBINSON OF THE ARMEX CONSTRUCTION COMPANY SENT THE DENVER POST A COPY OF A MEMEOCRAPHED FORM IRON HE USED TO REPORT THE ORUPT TO THE LES THE FORMS ARE PREPARED BY THE AEC FOR "REPORTS OF UNIDENTIFIEDY AERIAL OBJECTS AT LOS ALAMOS • THE ORIGINAL THREE-PAGE REPORT, ROBINSON SAID, WAS SUBMITTED TO THE ATOMEC ENERGY SECURITY SERVICE SEPT. 12., THE DAY ROBINSON AND EIGHT OTHER EMPLOYEES OF THE ARMEX COMPANY SAY THEY SAW THE OBJECT. ROBINSON SAID HE AND THE OTHERS WERE EATING LUNCH WHEN THE UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT PASSED OVER. HE SAID IT WAS NOT A BALLOON: OR ізят CONVENTIONAL TYPE OF AIRCRAFT." ROBINS ON SAID THE OBJECT APPEARED TO BE AT AN ALTITUDE OF ABOUT 20, 00 FEET. IT ALTERNATELY FLASHED BRIGHT AND BLACK AT INTERVALS OF TWO SECONDS HE SAID, AND WAS VISIBLE FOR THREE MINUTES AND 40 SECONDS. THE SPECIALLY MIMEOGRAPHED FORMS INDICATED THE ARC IS MIGHLY CONCERNED WITH UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL OBJECTS OVER THE PROJECT. THE FORMS CONTAIN SPACES FOR INFORMANTS TO REPORT ON LUMINOSITY OF OBJÉCT ARE A FOUR, OF SUPPORT AND PROFUSSOM AND ODORE OF THE ONET leSS 10/7--E1008A, 162-83894= NOT RECORDED 5 OCT 23 1950 дего 55 NOV 141950

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64 Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO : MR. LADD FROM : A. H. BELMONT SUBJECT: FLYING SAUCERS DATE: October 19, 1959 Ladd Clegg, Gavin Nichols Rosen Tracy. Harbo Belmont_ Mohr Tele. Room Nease, Gandy_ The matter of flying saucers was discussed by Special Agent Edward S. Sanders with Major General Joseph F. Carroll of OSI on October 16, 1950, at which time General Carroll advised that insofar as he has been able to determine the Air Force is not working on any type of "flying saucer" or "flying disk". General Carroll stated that the Air Force is working on high altitude rockets and jet aircraft. He stated these experiments may account for some of the reports concerning flying saucers but that the Air Force is not apparently working on anything which is the cause of the many flying saucers reports. He stated that the Air Force program for investigating reports concerning flying saucers, etc., has been reinstituted at Wright Field and that any perti- nent information of interest coming to his attention will be furnished to the Bureau. RECOMMENDATION: The foregoing is for your information. • ESS: ilw - 0000 5b 5 19 5205 35" 1162-83894. RECORDED - 38 ост 34ал 1950 EX 1051% 5 0 0CT 301950

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RECEIVED-LADD F B I : S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE Ост 19 4 02 PM °50 RECEIVEdOPHIRECTOR SUBT ISON L. S. DEPS: DEPT. OF 1049 28 7 1 P Ост 19 3 33 PM '50 REC'D BELMONT F. B. I. DEPT. OF JUSTICE RECEIVED-NICHOL: FBI US DEPT OF JUST:. 1 06 PM '50 Ост 20 10 51 АМ °50 RECEIVED-TOLSON BI I S. DEPT OF JUSTICE

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RECORDED - 19 62-83894-260 November 24, 1950 EX-16 v1n nols To: Director of Special Investigationa The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington, D.C. From: J. Edgar Hoover, Director, Tederal Bureau of Investigation Subject: FLYING DISCS Mr. Aaron L. Hitchens, Chemical Engineer in charge of the Chemical and Physical Laboratories of the Vinchester Repeating Arms Compant, 275 inchester Avenue, New Haven, advised the New Haven Office of this Bureau that on friday. October 30, 1950, he, his wife, and daughter, who reside at 495 Edgewood Avenue, New Haven, went out of their home into the back yard at approzimately 6:15 p.n. His young daughter called his attention to a star which was moving, and Mr. Hitchens noted a sphere-like object directly overhead that gave a steady golden-orange glow. He stated that this object was very high, being between ten to twenty thousand feet high, possibly higher. The glow given off was very steady, not blinking, and the whole sphere itaelf glowed in about the same consistency. He witnessed this object for approzimately twenty seconds, during which time it traveled in a westerly direction toward New York City. It then veered in a southerly direction, as if crossing Long Island, or possibly in such a direction that it might have been traveling over Long Island. He lost sight of this object as it disappeared behind trees. He aduised the fize of the object was approcinately ten times the dianeter o Venus, which was shining very brightly that night. He stated it the manh in the at dre tell very i co paret to that eadiness of the glow giyen off bu dia not appear on diment this object. He advised that the object size as it traveled farther aucy, but appeared to maintain about the same size as when he firat EHM: eas 238 NOV 25 1950 59 NOV 2 9 1950 COMME FB) Abs

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noticed it directly overhead. The same steady orange glow persisted during the entire time that he witnessed it. Although this object was actually cut from his sight by nearby trees, Mr. Hitchens stated that it was so far away at that time that he probably would have lost sight of it very shortly. The object made no sound whatsoever, and there seemed to be no attachments or projections of any kind. Mr. Hitchens stated the object was a complete circular ball. He had no idea as to the method of propulsion, but advised that at the time it seemed to change directions, probably over New York City, and that it seened to back up and go forward, possibly two or three times, in order to execute a change of direction. There were no clouds in the sky which interfered with his vision, and he could not comment as to whether or not this object penetrated or circumvented clouds. The object left no trail of any hind, and ir. Hitchens mathematically calculated its speed at between 400 and 700 miles per hour, depending on the height, which he stated he could not accurately compute. He advised that he could not recall any odors and had no idea as to the construction of the object. To Mr. Hitchens! Inowledge, the only other persons in this area to have witnessed the object were his wife and daughter. Immediately upon sighting the object, Mrs. Hitchens ran to the door of neighbors occupying the same house as the Hitchens to bring them to the yard. However, these neighbors did not witness the object, since it disappeared before they got outside. Mr. Hitchens stated that he is a Chemical Engineer and has fifteen years of experience in research and development. He is not a pilot, but has done considerable flying, and has also done considerable reading, including technical data concerning flying saucers and discs. He understands from reading the above matters that the star Venus is often mistaken by observers for flying saucers, and he pointed out that he no to fail one an he loo rata not senge venes the object that parten tr everents ad momen and compared the He also stated that he computed the speed at which this object was traveling by using points in his area, such as roof tops and tree tops, together with the distance he walked on the ground in order to keep the object in sight. - 2. -

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Upon recetving the above normation from ur. itchens, he was adutsed that this Bureau would turn the information over to another Governnent agener. Ittchens indicated his approval of this action, but apecifically requested that no public announcement or connent be given to the fact that he had reported seeing the above object. The above information has been furnished to your office for your confidential information and assistance in connection with the captioned matter. It is requested that no dissemination be nade of this information.

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64 Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO : DIRECTOR, FBI LiNW FROM : SAC, NEW HAVEN SUBJECT: FLYING DISCS AARON I, HITCHENS, INFORMANT DATE: November 9, 1950 The following is being brought to the attention of the Bureau so that it may be referred to the Department of the Air Force in connection with instructions set forth in SAC letter No. 38, Series 1949, dated March 25, Mr. AARON L. HITCHENS, Chemical Engineer in charge of the Chemical and Physical Laboratories of the Winchester Repeating Arms Co., 275 Winchester Avenue, New Haven, was interviewed in connection with other official business and furnished the following information: He advised that on Friday, October 20, 1950, he and his wife and daughter, who reside at 495 Edgewood Avenue, New Haven, went out of the back door of their home to the back yard at approximately 6:15 P.M. His little daughter called his attention to a star in the sky that was moving and Mr. HITCHENS noted a sphere-like object directly overhead which gave a steady golden orange He stated that this object was very high between ten to twenty thousand feet, possibly higher. The glow given off was very steady and not blinking and the whole sphere itself glowed in about the same consistency. He witnessed this object for approximately twenty seconds during which time it traveled in a westerly direction toward New York City and then when Mr. HITCHENS believed that possibly it was near or over New York City, it then veered in a souther- ly direction as if crossing Long Island or possibly in such a direction that it night have been traveling over Long Island. He lost sight of this object as it disappeared behind trees in his vicinity. He advised that as to the siz of the object, it was approximately ten times the diameter of Venus, which was shining very brightly that night. He states it was a very clear night and that all the stars in the sky were twinkling as compared to the steadi- ness of the glow given off by this object. He advised that the object did not appear to diminish in size as it traveled farther away from him but appeared to maintain about the same size as when he first noticed it directly overhead. The same steady orange glow persisted during the entire time that he witnessed it. Although this object was actually cut from his sight by nearby trees, Mr. HITCHENS states that it was so far away from him any way that he probably would have lost sight of it very shortly due to distance had the trees not intervened. The object made no sound whatsoever RECORDED - 102- MHF : FGM INDEXED • 102162-83894-260 NOV 18 1950 8 EX-89

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Letter to the Director 11/9/50 and there seemed to be no attachments or projections of any kind, just a complete circular ball. He had no idea as to the method of propulsion but advised that at the time it seemed to change directions, probably over New York City, that it had seemed to back up and go forward, possibly two or three times in order to execute a change of direction. nee de direction, diere were no clouds in the sky that interfered with his vision of this object and he could not connent as to whether or not this object penetrated or circun- vented clouds. The object left no trail of any kind and Mr. HITCHENS mathematically calculated its speed at between four hundred and seven hundred miles per hour, depending on the height which he stated he could not accurately compute. He advised that he could not recall any odors and had no idea as to its construction. To his knowledge the only other persons in this area to have witnessed this object were his wife and daughter. Immediately upon sighting the object, his wife ran to the door of neighbors occupying the same house as the HITCHENS to bring them to the yard. However, these neighbors had not witnessed the object as by the time they got outside the object had disappeared. Mr. HITCHENS stated that he is a Chemical Engineer, has fifteen years of experience in research and development. He is not a pilot but has done considerable flying and has also done considerable reading, includ- ing technical data concerning flying saucers and dises. He understands from reading the above matters that the star Venus is often mistaken by observers for flying saucers and he pointed out that he feels that he is familiar with astronomy not to confuse the object he saw with Venus as he also recalls Venus in the sky on that particular evening and compared the size of this object as being ten times Venus! diameter. He also states that he computed the speed at which this object was traveling by using points in his area, such as, roof tops and tree tops together with the dis- tance he walked on the ground in order to keep the object in sight. Mr. HITCHENS was advised that the Bureau would turn this information over to another agency and indicated that this was according to his approval. He specifically requested that no public announcement or comment be given to the fact that he had reported seeing the above object. Mr. HITCHENS appeared to be a very reliable and sincere individual and evidences con- siderable technical knowledge and experience in reporting the above inci- dent. -2-

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DIRECTOR, FBI SAC, NEW HAVEN FLYING DISCS AARON L. HITCHENS, INPORMANT November 9, 1950 The following is being brought to the attention of the Bureau so that it may be referred to the Department of the Air Force in connection with Instructions set forth in SAC letter No. 38, Series 1949, dated March 25, 1949• Mr. AARON L. HITCHINS, Chemical Engineer in charge of the Chemical and Physical Laboratories of the Winchester Repeating Arms Co., 275 Winchester Avenue, New Haven, was interviewed in connection with other official business and furnished the following information: He advised that on Friday, October 20, 1950, he and his wife and daughter, who reside at 495 Edgewood Avenue, New Haven, went out of the back door of their home to the back yard at approximately 6:15 P.M. His little daughter called his attention to a star in the sky that was moving and Mr. HITCHENS noted a sphere-like object directly overhead which gave a steady golden orange glow. He stated that this object was very high between ten to twenty thousand feet, possibly higher. The glow given off was very steady and not blinking and the whole sphere itself glowed in about the same consistency. He witnessed this object for approximately twenty seconds during which time it traveled in a westerly direction toward New York City and then when Mr. HITCHENS believed that possibly it was near or over New York City, it then veered in a souther- ly direction as if crossing Long Island or possibly in such a direction that it might have been traveling over Long Island. He lost sight of this object as it disappeared behind trees in his vicinity. He advised that as to the size of the object, it was approximately ten times the diameter of Venus, which was shining very brightly that night. He states it was a very clear night and that all the stars in the sky were twinkling as compared to the steadi- ness of the glow given off by this object. He advised that the object did not appear to diminish in size as it traveled farther away from him but appeared to maintain about the same size as when he first noticed it directly overhead. The same steady orange glow persisted during the entire time that he witnessed it. Although this object was actually cut from his sight by nearby trees, Mr. HITCHENS states that it was so far away from him any way that he probably would have lost sight of it very shortly due to The object made no sound whatsoever MHF : FGM

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Letter to the Director 11/9/50 and there seemed to be no attachments or projections of any kind, just a complete circular ball. He had no idea as to the method of propulsion but advised that at the time it seemed to change directions, probably over New York City, that it had seemed to back up and go forward, possibly two or three times in order to execute a change of direction. There were no clouds in the sky that interfered with his vision of this object and he could not comment as to whether or not this object penetrated or circum- vented clouds. The object left no trail of any kind and Mr. HITCHENS mathenatically calculated its speed at between four hundred and seven hundred miles per hour, depending on the height which he stated he could not accurately compute. He advised that he could not recall any odors and had no idea as to its construction. To his knowledge the only other persons in this area to have witnessed this object were his wife and daughter. Innediately upon sighting the object, his wife ran to the door of neighbors occupying the same house as the HITCHENS to bring them to the yard. However, these neighbors had not witnessed the object as by the time they got outside the object had disappeared. Mr. HITCHENS stated that he is a Chemical Engineer, has fifteen years of experience in research and development. He is not a pilot but has done considerable flying and has also done considerable reading, includ- ing technical data concerning flying saucers and discs. He understands from reading the above matters that the star Venus is often mistaken by observers for flying saucers and he pointed out that he feels that he is familiar with astronomy not to confuse the object he saw with Venus as he also recalls Venus in the sky on that particular evening and compared the size of this object as being ten times Venus' diameter. He also states that he computed the speed at which this object was traveling by using points in his area, such as, roof tops and tree tops together with the dis- tance he walked on the ground in order to keep the object in sight. Mr. HITCHENS was advised that the Bureau would turn this information over to another agency and indicated that this was according to his approval. he specifically requested that no public announcement or conment be given to the fact that he had reported seeing the above object. Mr. HITCHENS appeared to be a very reliable and sincere individual and evidences con- siderable technical, knowledge and experience in reporting the above inci- dent. -2-

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copy; bw DERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATI .S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE COMMUNICATIONS SECTION ОСт 13 1950 TELETYPE SAC, KNOXVILED 10-13-50 8-26 PM JYC OIRECTOR, FBI URGENT Saucere RADAR DETECTION OF UNIDENTIFIED OBJECTS OVER OAK RIDGE OCTOBER TWELVE, NINETEEN FIFTY, PROTECTION OF VITAL INSTALLATIONS. USAF RADAR INSTALL- ATION AT KNOXVILIE AT ELEVEN TWENTYFIVE PM, EST, OCTOBER TWELVE, PICKED UP INDICATIONS OF ELEVEN OBJECTS AND PERHAPS MORE TRAVELING ACROSS CONTROLLED AREA OF ATOMIC ENERGY INSTAILATION AT OAK RIDGE. ALTITUDE OF OBJECTS VARIED FROM ONE THOUSAND TO FIVE THOUSAND FEET, COURSES FROM SOUTH SOUTH EAST TO SOUTHEAST, AND DENSITY FROM READING MADE BY LIGHT AIRCRAFT TO AIRCRAFT EQUAL IN SIZE TO C FORTY SEVEN, SPEED FROM ONE HUNDRED TO ONE HUNDRED TIENTYFIVE MILES PER HOUR. FIGHTER PLANE ATTEMPTED TO INTERCEPT IN FEW MINUTES AND RADAR SCREEN REFLECTED CONTACT, BUT PLANE REPORTED NO OBJECT COULD BE SEEN BITHER VISUALIY OR ON PLANES RADAR SCREEN. AEC PATROL WAS ALERTED BUT NO OBJECTS COULD BE VISUALLY SIGHTED BY THEM OVER THE AREA OTHER THAN THE AIR FORCE INTERCEPTOR. OSI AND EASTERN AIR DEFENSE FORCES HAVE BEIN ADVISED AND ARE CHECKING INCIDENT. NO REASONABLE EXPLANATION FOR RADAR READINGS YET DEVELOPED ALTHOUGH OPERATORS ARE EXPERTENCED RELIABLE PERSONNEL AND RADAR SET IS IN PERFECT OPERATING CONDITION. BUREAU VILL BE ADVISED OF FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS. ROBEY ACK AND HOLD PLS 8-31 PM OK FBI WASH DC GAR ED 162-83899-261 CORDAD S 1950 NOV 22 INITIALS ON ORIGEN 55DFC7 19

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION U. S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE COMMUNICATIONS SECTION ELETYPE FBI WASHINGTON DC 12-5-50 4-47 PM GAR URGENT Flyino Saucers DETECTION OF UNIDENTIFIED OBJCXXX OBJECTS OVER OAK RIDGE AREA, PROTECTION OF VITAL INSTALLATIONS. REURTEL DECEMBER FOUR LAST REGARDING POSSIBLE RADAR JAMMING AT OAK RIDGE. ARRANGEMENTS SHOULD BE MADE TO OBTAIN ALL FACTS CONCERNING POSSIBLE RADAR JAMMING BY IONIZATION OF PARTICLES IN ATOXXX ATMOSRHERE. CONDUCT APPROPRIATE INVESTIGATION TO DETERMINE WHETHER INCIDENT OCCURRING NORTHEAST OF OLIVER SPRINGS, TENNESSEE, COULD HAVE HAD ANY CONNECTION WITH ALLEGED RADAR JAMMING. SUTEL IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS. HOOVER 162-83894 - DORIES 4950-DEC-20 ORIGINAL COPY FILED IN UND CORRECT LAST WORD FIRST LINE PLS - - PROTECTION 1951 OK D FBI KX OLO

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JUSTI SECTION DEC - 8 1950 TELETYPE Mr. Clegg My. Glavin WTichols Rosen Mr. Tracy Mr. Harbo Mr. Belmont Mr. Mohr- Tele. Room Mr. Nease FBI, RICHMOND DIRECTOR 12-8-50 12-09 PM URGENT G RE FLYING SAUCERS. THIS OFFICE VERY CONFIDENTIALLY ADVISED BY ARMS OU INTELLIGENCE, BICHMOND, THAT THEY HAVE BEEN PUI ON IMMEDIATE ACUTES ALERT FOR ANY DATA WHATSOEVER CONCERNING FLYING SAUCERS. CICH STATES BACKGROUND OF INSTRUCTIONS NOT AVAILABLE FROM AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, WHO ARE NOT AWARE OF REASON FOR ALERT LOCALLY, BUT ANY INFORMATION WHATSOEVER MUST BE TELEPHONED BY THEM IMMEDIATELY TO AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE. CIC ADVISES DATA STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL AND SHOULD NOT BE DISSEMINATED. 62=33894-260 AUERBACH IDECT13 1950 RECORDED - 81 EX-46 - 5-2 th END 12-11 PM OK FBI WA NRJ 65 DEC 191950 ec Kenuch

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NOSIVIT - NOEV138803 RECEIVED-LADD FBI F. B. I. DEC 11 9 22 AN "3 DEC 8 12 11 PH". RECEIVED TELET PE UNI.S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE 9 9 07 AM '50 REGENE ADO S, DEFT RECEIVED-HICHOL B I DS DEPT OF JUST.- DeC 9 10 37 AM '50 REC'D BELMONT F. B. I. DEPT. OF JUSTICE Dec B 12 34 PM °50 DeC 8 5 48 PM °50 RECEIVED-TOLSON FBI US DEP; OF JUSTIE RECEIVED SEC 12 || 46 ДМ '5 REC'C ESPIONAGE REB.IVED US DEFT OF JESTE U.S. DEPT. OF JUS DEC 8 3 39 PM 05. Wd so | 3311S0F 10 1'8 1NGW738 1030

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DIRECTOR, FBI November 4, 1950 SAC, KIOXVIURE DETECTION OF UNIDENTTE JED OBJECTS AT OAR RIDGE, October 20,23,24,26, 1950 dulnesful 831 17 ну PROTECITON OF VITAL, INSPATLATIONS Flyiné Remylet October 18, 1950. Submitted herewith is copy of CIC reports on above caption matter. Further Information as received will be forwarded to Bureau. Enol. (Air Mail) CCM: JE 65-475 ORIGINAL COPY FILED IN 163-82824-1 FORDED 98 1950 NOV 22 SODEC & DU ANTITALS ON DALGINAL

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CLASSIFIED INCOMING MESSAGE CONFIDENTIAL Hepperich CONZIDENSTAL PRIORITY. DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY STAFF COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE RECEIVED FROM C-2 THRONON LIASON CHANNELS PARAPHRASE NOT REQUIRED DATE 12/15/50 CuB рек) FROM 8 TO: COUSARAL FT RICHARDSON ALASKA FROM ARGSI DEFTAR WASH DO FOR ACOPS G2 I R. 2 1503457 DTG : 15 DEC 50 £168 Al? Cond reports military jet pilota vic Fairbanks while over Weeks International Field at an altitude of 8000 feet observed a flash of light, yellow in color at en altitude between 25,000 and 30,000 feet. Horizontal distance to object was aprx 50 mlles. Soon after flash a dark brown snoke appeared to rise or climb at an angle of 40 degrees• At the leading edge or the smoke at ayra 100 feet eppeared an object either aigar shaped or a fuselage without wings travelling at terriflo spesd. Pilots atarted pursuit on heading of 210 degrees nag, indicating 380 at a very steep climb. Pursuit continued until pilots resched villoge of clear and lost sight of cbject. Meantime object gained altitude and apesd and disappeared because of distanoe of aprx 50 to 55,000 feet. Color of amoke color of object dark and no refleotion from sunlight. assured of shape because of perfect silhouette against the One pilot had object in view apra 42 ming. Pirat sighted at 1500262. Coordinates 64 degs 13 mins North, 149 dega 30 mins West. Add info will be fwd when obtained. 162-83894 - NOT RECORDED i far DECLASSIFIED Authority: NND 90986 57 DEC| 21 1850 mor ACTION: 02. INFO: G3, AF likew pee, 5 str CM IN 932 rvk/T (25 Dec 50) DIO: 1503452 141 DEC15 50 27 t48 O SAFORM 279EC 2 7 1950 CONFIDENTIAL REPLACES DA SCO FORM 22-3, 15 JAN 49, WHICH MAY BE USED. COPY NO. # U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1950-0-868129

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62-83894-263 CHANGED TO 100-2244-8 343 5 JAN 26 1951

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7 - MAR 2 1951 62-83894-261 iCED TO 62-93979-1

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STAND J'D FORM NO. 64 • Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERAMENT DIRECTOR FBI DATE: 2-10-51 SAC KNOXVILLE SUBJECT: UNLDENTTFIED OBJECTS OVER OAK RIDGE AREA, PROTECTION OF VITAL INSTALLATIONS FLyin Saucers Re Knoxville letter dated 12-13-50. Cony D AYE: TAI Mr. Rosen Mr. Tracy - Ma. Harbo Mr. Dolmont Vir. Mohr Cels. Tcom Mr. Nooso . Mins. Gatidy 2010 8/3122 For information of the Bureau, the below listed copies of CIC, G-2 Third Army, pertaining to captioned matter are forwarded herewith. Report of SAC WILTIAM B. GRAY, CIC, dated 1-2-51, entitled "Object Sighted Over Oak Ridge, Tennessee." CIC reporta dated 1-20-51, entitled. "Objects Sighted Over Oak Ridge, Tennessee". Enclosures - 2 65-475 CCM/wj G. I. R. -7 APPROPRIATE AGENCIES AND FIELD OFFICES ADVISED BY ROUTIN SLIP (S) OF_ 2640 DATE 9171 62t- 83894-265. RECORDED - 42 FEB: 13 1951 3 DECLASSIFIED Authority: NND 90986 Herstich 3SFEB 19 1951 UNRECORDED COPY FILED IN 65-

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COPY/wj 2-10-51 SUMMARY OF INFORMATION 111th CIC, FAO # 8, P. 0. Box 379, Knoxville, Tennessee. OBJECT SIGHINED OVER OAR RIDGE, TENNESSEE. submitted.) A. Location and Time of Sighting: Between 0820 and 0830 hours on 18 December 1950, on the Turnpike, within the controlled area, approximately one (1) mile from the White Wing entrance and Y-12 plant. B. Weacher at the Time: At 0730 hours - wind fron the Northeast, seven (7) miles per hour; temperature - 20 degrees I. according to the Atomio Inergy Commission Meteorological Division. C. Nemes, Occupations, and Addresses of Witnesses: DY. A. J. Miller, 518 Delaware Avenue, Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Dr. V. P. Calkins, 105 Disston Road, Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Mx. J. Frank Coneybear, 119 Meadow Road, Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Mr, A. O, Mooneyhem, 101 Dewey Road, Oak R1d6® Tennested,® Mr. I. T. Bly, 221 Villanova Road, Oak Ridge, It. Col. John R. Hood, U.S.A.F., 200 Virginia Road, Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Cdr. S. W. Heibar, U.S.I., 103 Norris Lane, Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Maj. Walter L. Cares, U.S.A.F., NEPA Division, Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corporation, Oak Ridgo, Tennessee. D. Photographs of Objecte, If available: None. E. Objeet sighted: A light ananating in the shape of a circle, of an intensity much greater that thet of a bright moon, giving the impression of form in connection with the light. The light was white in appearance and did not show any signs of refraction into a band or continuous spectrum. This object was traveling in a Northwesterly direction, 15 to 30 degrees elevation above the horizon, and appeared to diminish considerable in size during thirty seconds of observatio To another group, the object appeared only an a bright reflection of the sun from an apparently metal surface. No accurate estimate of the object's size or range could be made fron the observation. F. Any other pertinent information: Air Ford°Kaa, Stalind Fron the Radar Log mintained by the MoChee Tyson ENCLOSURE 83947 - 265"

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2 January 1951 111th CIC, PAO #8, P. 0. Box 379, Knoxville, Tennessee. OBJECTS SIGHIND OVER OAK RIDGE, TENNESSES. F. (Continued) "0832 hours, - Atomto Inergy Commission reported atreraft over Northeast end of area - no paint. (Paint meaning indication on the radar всорев.) "0839 hours - Small paint near Southeast corner of area on 190 degree. (Magnetia bearing of objects travel.) "0845 hours - Lost contact. Fighter interception was attempted with negative results." Attached hereto are two certified true copies of the statements made by, the above mentioned observers. Attachments - 2

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STATEMENT Following is a report of the sighting of an unidentified object in the Oak Ridge Area by the undersigned. On the morning of 18 December 1950, the following personnel were riding to their work at NEPA Division, Fairchild Ingine and Airplane Cory., in the S-50 Area at Oak Ridge, Tennessee: Lt. Col. John R. Hood, USAF Cdr. E. W. Heiber, USN Major James L. Steele, USAF Jamor Welter I. Cares, USAT Mr. James R. Gray Mr. W1111am G. Frey Mc. Grey, Commander Hribar, and Major Steele were riding in the front seat; Col. Hood, Major Cares, and M'. Frey were in the rear. At approximately 0827, while riding southwest on the turnpike just outside the restrioted area, Col. Hood sighted a very bright reflestion through the windshield of the car. Major Cares, who was sit- ing beside Col. Hood and whose attention was attracted by Col. Hood's looking at the sly, sighted the same reflection. Col. Hood then called the attention of the remaining occupants of the car to the reflection. Of these, Cormander Hriber also sighted the reflection, but Mr. Gray, Mr. Frey, and Major Steele did not sight it. The reflection was visible through the front windshield of the the right. The corresponding turn of the car so placed the relative position of the reflection that it could not be seen through the left 27335 front window, which was frosted. The windshield, however, was not frosted and permitted excellent vision. The object appeared only as the bright reflection of the sun from an apperently metal surface, much as might be expected from an aircraft at a great distance. No accurate estimate of the objects size or range could be made from the observation. It appeared to be west-southwest of Oak Ridge Townsite at an angle of elevation of about 25 degrees from. the level. •/ John R. Hood, Jr. в/Edward W. Hribar s/Walter I. Carss t/JOHN R. HOOD, JR., It. Col. USAT t/EDWARD W. HRIBAR, Commander, USIN +/WATTER L. CARSS, JR., Major, USAF CERTIFIED TRUE COPY: WITLIAM B. GRAY, SAC, Knoxville, Tenn

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-CON This document contains information affecting the national defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Lews, Title 18 U. S. C., Sectione 793 and 794. Its trans- mission or the revelation of its contents in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law. December 28, 1950 SUBJECT: Visual Observation on December 19, 1950 TO : Mc. W1111am G. Frey Assistant to the Ar Plant Representative for Security Office of the AF Plant Representative Air Material Command NEPA Division Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corporation Post Office Box E Oak Ridge, Tennessee 1. On December 18, 1950, at sonetime between 0820 and 0830, the following NEPA employees were riding in a vehicle on the Turn- pike within the Controlled Area toward the NEPA Project approx- imately one mile short of the "y" cutoff to white Wing entrance and Y-12: 2. Dr. A. J. MIller Dr. V. P. Calkins Mr. J. Frank Coneybear Mr. A 0. Mooneyham Me. F. T. Bly The passengers, with the exception of Dr. Calkins, who did not attempt to participate in the viewing, observed a light emanating in the shape of a circle, of an intensity much greater than that of a bright noon, through the windshield of the vehicle. The viewers had the impression that there was form in connection with the light rather than merely a point source. The light was white in appesrence and did not show any signs of refraction into a band or continuous spectrun. It appeared to be from 15 to 30 degrees elevated above the horizontal and on an aximuth between west and northwest, and appeared to be traveling in a northwesterly direction. The impression of its traveling is due to the fact that the object appeared to diminish considerably in size during the approzimate thirty seconds during which it was viewed. The vehicle remained in motion and in following the course of the road, changed ite rel- ative position so that the object was viewed during the last few seconds from the side windows. As the vehicle proceeded down the road a near-by ridge obstructed the view of the object, and although the vehicle completed the turn toward K-25 at the "Y" intersection CON ENTIAL Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corporation NEPA Division, P. 0. Box 415, Oak Ridge, Tenn.

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CONT Mr. William G. Frey Assistant to the AF Plant Representative for Security December 28, 1950 Page 2 Subject: Visual Observation on December 18, 1950 and the passengers had a relatively clear view at points along the road, the object was not vieved again. The observers were un- able to estimate approximate size, speed, or vertical elevation; and, therefore, were not certain whether the object was over the Controlled Area or a considerable distance away. There was no vapor trail or any other visible condition within the vicinity of the object and there were no clouds which could have obscured it. The observers were unable to identify the object in terms of masa 3. to darken along the pozimeter and inner area until the light was concentrated in approximately 1:00 to 3:00 o'clock position of a very small diameter, at which point it appeared somewhat similar to a large star. The observers were not in complete agreement as to whether the object was moving at a speed which caused it to diminish in size or actually was diminishing in size without any great velocity of travel due to the darkening effect described above. NEPA Division FAIRCHILD ENGIE AND AIRPLANE CORPORALION / Gene A. Goed jen t/ GENE A. GOEDJEN Plant Protection Manager GAG: VM Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corporation KEPA Division, P. O. Box 415, Oal Ridge, Tenn. CERTIFTED TRUE COPY: WITTIAM B. GRAY, SAG, Knoxville, Tenn.

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20 January 1951 111th CIC Detachment, TAO 18, P.O. Box 379, Knoxville, Temessee OBJECTS SIGHTED OVER OAK RIDGE, TENNESSEE (In compliance with letter AJACI-360.33 General, dated 15 November 1950, Headquarters, Third Ary, Subjeet; Unconventional Aircraft, the followine is submitted. A. Location and Time of Sighting: On 1247 hours on 20 December 1950. B. Weather at Time of Sighting: At 1200 hours on 20 Decenber 1950; Ceiling - 2700 feet; broken overcast; Seven niles visibility) Temperature - 37 degrees T; Dew Point - 31 degrees; and Wind - Calm. С. Папев, Occupations, and Addresses of Witnesses: Personnel of the 663rd AC 80 Squadron, and the 5th AV Fighter Squadron, MoGhee Tyson Airport, Knoxville, Tennessee D. Photographs of Objeets, if available: None 3. ObJect Sighter: a pader 10 or to 663a flat squadron, No Do Thes Airport, Knoxville, Tennessee contained the following entry: 1247 hours. Small paint in area (Oak Ridge Controlled Ares). Very, very slow. Made perfect intercept (with F-82 Fighter aireraft) end orbit surrounding small smoke aloud." F. Any other pertinent information: This report is made because of its possible aid in deterining the identity of the numerous unidentified objecte sighted over lak Ridge, Temessee SOURCE: Personnel of 663rd Al 8W, Squadron, MeChee Tyson, Knoxville, Tennessee, and the log of the 663rd AC&W Squadron. 62-83894-265 ENCLOSURÉ

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20 January 1951 111th OIC Detachment, TAO 48, P.O. Box 379, Knoxville, Temessee OBJECES SIGHTED OVER OAR RIDGES, TENNES SIES (In compliance with letter AJACT-360.33 General, dated 15 November 1,950, Headquarters, third Arry, Subject; Unconventional Aircraft, the following in submitted. A. Location and Time of Sighting: Prom 1605 hours for about three (3) hours, on 14 December 1951, on the Radar Scopes of the 663rd AC and W Squadron, MaGhee Tyson Airport, Knoxville, Tennessee. B. Weather at the Time: At 1600 hours on 14 December 1950--"Ce1l.ing-2100 feet; Broken overcast; Seven (7) miles vialbility; Temperature- 37 degrees T.; and Wind - Southweat at thirteen (13)miles perhour. C. Named, Occupations, and Addresses of Witnesses: Personnel of the 663rd AC and W Squadron, 30th Air Diviaion, MaGhee Tyson Airport, Knoxville, Temessee, who were on duty at the time. Their occupationa are Radar operators, Supervisors, and experts. D. Photographs of Objecte, if avatlable: No photographe taken. See "j" below. E. Object Sighted: A group of targets blanketed the Radar Scopes in the area. directly over the government Atonia Energy Commission projects at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. These objects could not be identified from the radar image and a perfect fighter interception met with hegative results. I. Any other pertinent informstion: It. Robinson of the 663rd AC and W squadron, MoGhoe Tyson Airport, Knoxville, Tennessee took photographs of the scope readings with a personal, four (4) by five (5) Speed Grephis Camera, using Plus-X civilian procured f1lm, a lense opening of T-2.5, and a shutter spood varying fron twenty (20) to fourty-five (45) seconds. The negatives were printed, and forwerded to the 30th Air Division, Selfridge Air Feroo Base, Michigan, which installation printed the negatives and sent copies thereof to the 663rd A0 and W Squatron. The mmerous targets can readily identified fron the permanent rader echos by comparing the photographs. (B-2) SOURCE: Personnel and logs of the 663rd Al and. W Squadron, MaGhee Tyson Airport, Knoxville, Tennessee.

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20 Jenuary 1951 • 111th 0I0 Detachment, TAo # B, P.0. Box 379, Knoxville, Tennessee OBJECTS SIGNED OVER OAR RIDGE, TENNESSIE (in compliance with letter AJACI-360.33 General, dated 15 November 1950, Headquarters Third Aruy, Subjeot; Unconventional Aircraft, the following 1e submitted. A. Location and Time of Sighting: At 2145 hours on 16 January 1951. 3. Weather at the Time of Sighting: Clear; visibility twenty (20) mtles; Temperature - 37 degroes I.; and Wind - Southwest at five (5) miles perhour. Winda aloft: At 2000 feet - 210 degrees at 3 mote 3000 " 3 knots 4000 " - 209 " 5 knots C. Nanes, Occupations and Addresses of Witnosses: 663rd ACS. Squadron Personnel who are Radar operators. ARd Patrol Personnel, policemen at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Captains L.C.M. Clevenger and Wn. Aiken, Controllers of 663rd. D. Photographs of Objects if available: None 5. Object sighted: Two bright objects in the sky, one of which was east of MoGhee Tyson Airport and the other was west. The object to the eaut was a light, brighter than any other star, enitting intermittant glows sf various colors in the color spectrun. An aircraft attemyted interception and found that he was heading directly for a star. Weather personnel explained that the spectural reflection of the star was caused by the volurm of atmosphere and physical matter, together with heat, which mat be looked through to see a star close to the horizon. These phenomenon cauged refraction of the light rays fron the star thereby reflecting a continuous spectural change of light color. The light to the West was observed through a twenty (20) power spotting scope and the light seemed to be descending. It took about one hour to descend behind trees making it disappear from the might of obeervers. Captain Clevenger stated that this light, when viewed through the spotting scope, took on many peovliar forms, with lines, cores, taile, eto, therein, gonerally fitting the description of all "flying saucers" over desoribed to him. Shortly after this object disappeared fron sight (behind trees) ARC personnel at Oak Ridge, Tennessee reported they had sighted an object about twelve (12) miles Southeast of the K-25 Plant in the Controlled Area. They also observed the aircraft which had been sent for interception but stated the aireraft was "too far north". The aircraft made no identification, and ABC personnel later reported that they had observed a star.

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20 January 1950 111th CIC Detachment, TAO # 8, Р.О. Boz 379, Кnoхv11l6, Тепповвее OBJECIS SIGNED OVER OAK RIDGIE, TENNESSES I. Any other pertinent information: The Cormanding Officer of the 663rd AC&W Squadron, 30th Air Division, MoGhee Tyson Airport, Knoxville, Tennessee, in a letter to his Commending Offloer on 17 January 1951, Subject; Report of Unusual Incident 2145 hours 16 Jenuary 1951, stated: 1. In compliance with telephone instructions from the ADCC 17 Jamary 1951, the following unusuel incident report in herewith submitted: Date-16 January 1951 1915: An unusual airbourne object was sighted approzimately 10 miles WW of the station, the lighted object was very simtlar to a star but mich brighter and slightly larger than other visible stars at the time, as observed the object seemed to be approsimately 6,000 feet above the terrain and descending slowly. As the object appeared to be over or near the Oak Ridge Area, the ARC Patrol Headquarters was notified and their ground observer alerted. About this time some interference was noted on the Radar Scopes (AN/CPs-11 in the approximate area of the observed object; however no interference was noted on the height finder (AN/CPS-4) (See attached Form 117 dtd 17 Jan 1951 1925: Object still apparently descending, r-82 scrambled to attempt Interception, still no roport from ABC Headquarters. 1930;Similar object observed 15 to 20 miles east of station; seems to be seconding rather than descending. 1935:AF 7177 (Locally homed and piloted by assigned sg officer) C-45 -enroute CHA to tys, requested fixed to steer to tys - A/C fixed 25 miles SW of station, Pilot Major Raymond C. Care - AF 7177 requested to investigate object east of station. 1945 AF 7177 sighted subjeet object and reported it to be a star 1945:7-82 orbiting S/E corner of Oak Ridge Area no electronic or visual observation still no electronie observation by station 47. 1946:Visual observation reported by Oak Ridge Ground Observers, 12 miles southeast of K-25 area (This is in the SE corner of Oak Ridge Area) I-82 in sight and is north of object. I-82 vectored south toward object no contact, electronic or visual. Objet report 2400 feet above terrain by Oak Ridge Observers. 1955:0ak Ridge Patrol Headquarters reports that observed object determined (to be a star)

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20 Januery 1951 11.1th CIC Detachment, TAO #8, P.O. 379, Knoxville, Tennessee OBJECTS SIGHTED OVER OAK RIDGE, TENNESSEE to be a star. 2000:7-82 reports clear satling and no restrictions to visibility, stil] patroling area for possible piekuy of object, still no joy." NOTE: This 18 an extraot el the information listed in logs kept at the Radar Site by Radaz Personnel. (в-2) SOURCE: Personnel as in "C" above.

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STENDARD®FORM NO. 6P Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO .: MR. C. E. HENARICH FROM : MR. E. H. MOSSBURG SUBJECT: FLYING SAUCERS It is recommended the attached article which appeared in Look magazine January, 1951, be filed in captioned case for information purposes. DATE: February 26, 1951 Tolson Ladd Clegg. Glavin Nichols Rosen Tracy Harbo Belmont] Mohr Tele. koon Nease Gandy_ Attachment EHM : gmu G. 1. R. -7 162 - 83894 - abb IMAR. 6. 1951 5-Etm RECORDED - 9 EX-56 65 MAR 141951

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Pictured above is a Skyhook balloon 77,000 feet that altitude t published photo of a Skyhoo Dr. Urner Lid- apolis. Ide through a refracting telescopet the Office of Naval Armation of his explanation for the hundreds U.S. Dr. Lidde the right, bein PANSICS EXPOSES FLYING SAUCERS "There is no longer any need for secrecy," says Navy scientist, after finding that his own research started the "saucers" By RICHARD WILSON Chief of 1O0K Washington Bureau Mally sknooks nave been launched at Camn Rin cy heal Micue cans, Minn., out ascents have beer made everywhere, even trom aircrait carriers THe literal-minded FBI, skeptical but de: not let the flying-saucer reitement go by without getting to the bottor de, buck a protusion or suange Objeces lilue ing the American skies could not be ignored. a tuase leport by die nucreat physie. branch of the Ofice of Naval Research has sven the answer. Flying saucers were, and are, undeniably real. They are part of a basic research program of the Federal Government which is as impor- bally, 1l not so aramauc as the visitation trom Mars learea by an imaginative pubie A flying saucer is the base of a huge bal- size of an average room and draw off from it in cables enough energy to heat , where Dir struments to plumb the secrets of the cosmos in the dizzy reaches of a 100,000-foot height where the atmosphere reaches the vanishing The instruments on the balloons observe and measure the countless explosions of atom in ble dunosphere as ney are silastied oy cos me parueles nurumne in oy me oulhens tron une cord reaches or outer space. The balloons seek to break the secret of now matter is out together ov recording how 1t is biown apart. and, nnaliy, or now the count- less atomic explosions taking niace stentiv smokelessiy, namelessiy out energeticaliv the tringe of the earth's atmosphere may be reproducer under controlled concitions Chas is atomic research aimed not at oro ducing an atomie bamn but at harnessing th meroy from the decomnosition of the aton r Urner ludde chiet of the nuclear nhust branch of the Office of Naval Research is ir charge of the Skyhook-Flying Saucer project. No "Saucers" Without ONR "When this project first began," he saic "It was kept secret. Now, there is no longer we are compieteiv successtul in ou t is not too much exist today in the atomic bomb. "Some day we may learn enough so that we call pour a cup ol water mil a reactor tie and applied research. The Liddel report is con- sacrea to ve me most authoritauve scienun Avianaton ol the ryulis saucer prenorene Is far as Dr. Liddel is concerned personall ne consters mis answer Incontroveruoly rien One ol the POruns DI most convincing lactors sup- Liddel's findings is that flying or nine aisks were unneara or unull the unh s experiments in une stratosonere be. can. nere were some nients in lys. the nrst year chat strange ob ects were seen in the skies Inese reoorts mutinued in 1y4o. when sky. hooks were put in the air in large numbers and continued through 194y. hemoris dimin. ished in 1yo when the number of skyhook balloon fights were reduced lonization Chambers in the Sky Observers have agreed that the best tim of day to see what is called a flying saucer is You may he standing an a nlein in Nau Mexico or Montana. You may be flying a plane at 10,000 feet over Alabama. And there in the above you but far from But there i a You see it with our in Your companions upso it t have seen may be Flight 10, feet carrying a 167-pounc uro Ol a cloua enamber, a bea on transmitter, a melbel telescope, dul lotted- tion Canivel alu protograone coulonient the sky may appear to you to be from two to ten times the size of Venus, he evenins suar, which in certain monuns seem. to fill the heavens as it rises. If you are 10,000 reet up in an airpiane. the object may appeal continiwed on next pace,

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There is no chance of your ever seeing the full roundness it because you are so far below it. xou see ony the illuminated cu You see orm the luminated con soars. the light reflection side may moress vou as the gow ol an aromic encine. the wisr en the baloons instrument-nlied tall illdy impress you as the exhaust Ine suns rays may sunuse the Plastic bag with a nery glow Experienced Observers Fooled Even seasoned airmen have no way ul esuraune the size and the speed of an object they see. pes side did speed, the mind must know the nature of the object. Ex- perenceu seamen nave dirnculty estimating the distance, speed and diotter sulp unless they now its type. The balloon is un- Hence erudes enorts to familiar craft aloft. some as vere clearly the result of inaccu One report of "little men" foun in the lear Mexico City turned the unsubstantiated traveler. No one knew any- thing about it This leit a solid base of report from airplane pilots, servers and reliable laymen could not be brushed aside a thorough investigation, Dr. del said: "There is not a single liable report ofan wnich is not attributable cosmic balloons. The Death of Captain Mantell the most tragic report the nu clear physicists had to conside was. that or an Air force pilot in nentuck. A circular obtect me. tallic in appearance, was seen over a U. S. Air Force base on Jan. 7, Three fighter planes. one pi- oted by Capt. Thomas F. Mantell, in hot pursuit. From their "cauvery sow alutudes. the pal- seemed to be traveling at the ate of 360 miles an hour. Two of turned back at 18,000 Captain Mantell kept going. radioed that he would go to 000 feet and abandon the search But to closer. planes was equipped with reserve and Lius coura tay long at high altitudes Line tom in the wack heard from indicated it might have risen to studies show," said Dr. Liddel, "that Captain Mantell and oh of phe sk yee pype. cap a nook type. Cap- have where thie ceived People disks apparently time the sky Liddell as clusters of 20 to 30 bal 10 to 15 feet in diamete which are sometimes used in place of the huge shonk Under certamn conditions, they might be more visible than the sin. gie plastic bag. and would cer rainly be wno alant know their purpose. Liddel Got the Facts nicer or. Madel had sited ali the reports which appeared to have some lounaation, ne used his en- pilysteist to agencies. le is satismed that 1u ouer esearcn or exoerimenta project flas uuized anyunme even ugay resentoning a nying saucer he said, inter- The panted on to die no possi- Dr. Liddel. is considered to be the real Skyhook's distinct visual under ucheid. romatt out the similarity so clear. could at last offer visual proot of his findings. Tracing the "Saucers" General Mills is the only cest ma nuns is the the sug and de icate the total of 270 flights so far have bar titi and at Camp Rip- ley near Little Falls, Minn. University Airport, Mion enough flights have been made Irom other points however to lit er the country Balloons have as cended from Chicago, from Hollo- nan sir lorce Base and White Sands, N. M. and from aircraft carriers in both the Caribbean Sea and the racinc workers at the General Miles deronautical laboratomes advised Ur. Madel that they were able to trace lost balloons by publishec reports o1 nying saucers. the oig bags ake engineered to stav eight hours. the wise, to say ud ve a lidzard to air navigation. ou soile Have acuually stayed up more blial ou hours allangements are nade to trace the balloons, for thi lata the cosmic physicists want ar corned on page os FOR ANY TRIP - ANY TIME - IN ANY WEATHER Relax - as you See - as you Save by Greyhound ! This is a honeymoon couple - off on a pre-planned, expense paid "Amazing America" Tour The Super Coach picked up these folks right at their farm gate, takes them direct to the city Here's a housewife sightseeing on her way to visit the folks Here's her husband mighty glad he didn't have to drive Peeved with Parking? Take a Greyhound. Sh! 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Today the average freight train helps national rearmament by carrying more freight and carrying it faster than ever before in history! ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN RAILROADS WASHINGTON 6, D.C. Listen to THE RAILROAD HOUR every Monday evening on NBC Skyhook ready for ascent. "Saucers" were unheard of until ONR's ex- periments in the stratosphere began under Dr. Liddel's supervision. FLYING SAUCERS continued Bigger Skyhooks coming - then more "saucers" will fly recorded on the instruments dan- gling from them. The instruments are released electronically by par- achute at the end of the flight. The cosmic - ray experiments themselves stem from pioneer work done by Dr. Robert A. Milli- kan 30 vears ago when the bom- bardment of particles from outer space was first discovered. These peculiar phenomena were thought to be some kind of light ray from unknown source. They were later discovered to be atomic par- ticles striking at the rate of five per square inch per minute at the earth's surface. Cosmic-Ray Mystery The source of these particles is unknown. One theory firmly held for a while was that they origi- nated from explosions on the sun. Some scientists believe now that their impact and energy are so great they must originate from higher-powered galaxies outside the solar system. Whatever their source, these particles strike atoms in the earth's atmosphere, cause them to ex- plode and fill the atmosphere with atomic debris. Physicists early discovered that the higher they went in the atmos- phere the more certain they could be of recording the explosions with the greatest accuracy. Their ultimate aim is to make photo- graphs and measurements at the very fringe of the earth's atmos- phere, for all the air below that is filled in greater or lesser degree with atomic debris from the explo- sions. These explosions, of course, can- not be seen or felt by the human mechanism. But their dramatic impact on the measuring devices can be photographed with star- tling clarity Four levels of cosmic-ray ex- perimentation have been in prog- ress The first is at sea level where the bombardment is measured and photographed in devices called cloud chambers. This type of ex- perimentation also goes on at two laboratories, Mount Evans and Climax Mountain, both in Colo- rado, at 14,000 feet. A third type of experimenta- tion was carried on in three B-29 bombers, fitted out as flying lab- oratories. They flew up and down a degree of latitude toward the North Pole and away from it be- tween Fort Churchill, Manitoba, and Lima, Peru. These flying labo- ratories made their recordings at between 30,000 and 40,000 feet. The fourth type is the Skyhook project which has led to so many reports of flying saucers. But there are still more to come. General Mills and the Office of Naval Research are working on a new balloon with four times the capacity of the Skyhook, which can rise to heights of 120,000 feet. This will leave only 0.4 per cent of the earth's atmospheric envelope above the new balloon. It can safely be predicted that a year hence there will be a new wave of flying-saucer reports. A new, improved model will be ob- served by credulous and alarmed citizens of middle America. These observers will be unable to escape the conclusion that the thing in outer space is gaining on us. END

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CLASSIFIED INCOMING MESSAGE CONFIDENTIAL DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY STAFF COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE F039 REGULRE AF MSG FROM: T0 : NR: FEB 13 1951 NEAC PEPPERELL AFB NOLD CSAF WASH DC EN 0212 10 FEB 51 Text on following page. SAucent ACTION: AF INFO : 02, 03 CAF IN 97532 DA IN 131 373 01 MAR 15 1951 DA SCO FORM 22-3 15 JAN 1949 RECORDED - 137 (12 Feb 51) DECLASSIFIED Authority: NND 90986 CONFIDENTIAL filer mossluse N2: 22894512,67 MAR 8 DTG: 100400z 1) 59 12 FEB13'51 COPY NO. 28 U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1949- -0-830430

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DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR PORCE STAFF MESSAGE DIVISION INCOMING CLASSIFIED MESSAGE PARAPHRASE NOT REQUIRED. NOLIPY CRYPTOCENTER BEFORE DECLASSIFYING PRIORITY FROM: NRAC PEPPERELL ARB NPID TO : CSAP WASH D C NR : EW 0212 10 Feb 51 (DIG 100400) Unidentified objet seen at 0055% 10 Feb at 49 degrees 50 min north, 50 dogrees 03 min vest by orew of Navy 6501, VR1, Peturent River, ND. Originelly seon as heavy light in distance on the surface as lights of city. The yellowish light, like a fire in color, approsched rapidly and grew very bright and very large with a soni-circular shape. It waa on a true course of about 125 degrees, plane on a true course of 225 degrees, as 1t approached the plane it suddenly turned about almost 180 degrees and disappeared rapidly over the horizon aa a amall ball. "was torririe" S peed seen fr an angle of about 45 degrees looking down fr the plane. Crew all experienced North Atlantio fliers Lt F.W. lingdon, Lt A.ua Jones, L8 G.B. Bethune, LE NoGor KOger, LE meyer and saw object overs perlod of fr seven to eight min. Plane flying at 10,000 altitude. ACTION : OIN ADDED DIST: CAF IN g 97532 STATE, (10 Peb com- CIA, 51) OBD(SDLO), JGS MEL/rof COPY No. 10 FO "APR 49 U-309 THE MAKING OF AN EXACT COPY OF THIS MESSAGE IS FORBIDDEN U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 16-56392-2

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February 23, 1951 Mr. Jinny V. Short 910 Caddo Street REGERED Aarkadelphia, 62- 3814-26% Dear Jimmy: Your letter dated February 14, 1951, has been received. While I appreciate the concern which prompted your writing in this regard, this Bureau does not have available for distribution any material concerning so-called "flying saucers." It was thoughtful of you to bring your observations in this connection to my attention. I am enclosing some material which I thought you might like to have. Sincerely yours, J. Edgar Hoover John Edgar Hoover Director List of courses of study SA and Clerical Job Sheets 25 Tears of Identi Personnel and Services of Lab 1a0 Si NOTE: The only record located in Buftles indicated that correspondent requested and received descriptive material engerning the Bureau in 1949. Data presently enclosed is 08/9 Tolson Ladd C1088, Glavin Nichols Rosen Tracy Harbo Belmont Mohr Tele. Room Nease 3131 MANED 10 C 550 MAR 1 4 195FEB 2 4 1951

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ATION ICE ION Clogi This image contains all the information on the document. COMMUNICATI SI WASH 7 FROM NEWARK 9-20-51 DIRECTOR URGENT Flying Saucero Hyung Saucers Tele. Room UNCONVENTIONAL AIRCRAFT OBSERVED SEPTEMBER TEN AND ELEVEN, FIFTY ONE IN VICINITY FT. MONMOUTH, NJ. INDIC. ON SEPTEMBER TWENTY IN- I JER STANT, ANDREW JO REID, G-TWO FT. MONMOUTH, NJ, PROVIDED FOLLOWING REAL PORT OF UNCONVENTIONAL AIRCRAFT OBSERVED BY RADAR AT ABOVE AMY INSTALLATION. QUOTE ON SEPT. TEN, FIFTYONE, AN AN/MPG DASH ONE RADAR SET PICKED UP A FAST MOVING LOW FLYING TARGET, EXACT ALTITUDE UNDETER MINED AT APPROXIMATELY ELEVEN TEN A•M•, SOUTHEAST OF FT. MONMOUTH AT A RANGE OF ABOUT TWELVE THOUSAND YARDS• THE TARGET APPEARED TO A APPROXIMATELY FOLLOW THE COAST LINE, CHANGING ITS RANGE ONLY SLIGHTLY BUT CHANGING ITS AZIMUTH RAPIDLY. THE RADAR SET WAS SWITCHED TO FULL AIDED AZIMUTH TRACKING WHICH NORMALLY IS FAST ENOUGH TO TRACK JET AIR- CRAFT, BUT IN THIS CASE WAS TOO SLOW TO BE RESORTED TO• TARGET WAS LOST IN THE N.E. AT A RANGE OF ABOUT FOURTEEN THOUSAND YARDS. THIS TARGET ALSO PRESENTED AN UNUSUALLY STRONG RETURN FOR AIRCRAFT BEING COMPARABLE IN STRENGTH TO THAT USUALLY RECEIVED FROM A COASTAL SHIP• THE OPERATOR INITIALLY IDENTIFIED TARGET AS A SHIP AND THEN REALIZED THAT IT COULD NOT BE A SHIP AFTER HE OBSERVED ITS EXTREME SPEED. SEPTEMBER TEN, FIFTYONE, AN SCR FIVE EIGHT FOUR RADAR SET AT THREE FIFTEEN PM TRACKING A TARGET WHICH MOVED ABOUT SLOWLY IN AZIMUTH NORTH COPIES DESTROYED NOV 23. 1904 • YARDS. AT THE 5074 THIRTEEN HUNDRED FIFTY MILS 0611 4 11951 APPROXIMATELY NINETYTHREE THOUSAND ALTLEgDE. 3 ON SEPTEMBER ELEVEN, FIFTYONE, TWO SCR FIVE EIGHT FOUR RADAR SETS AT TEN FIFTY A.M. PICKED 276 UP THE SAME TARGET NORTHEAST OF FT. MONMOUTH AT AN ELEVATION ANGLE AND OG PAGE ONE 951

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PAGE TWO OF THREE HUNDRED FIFTY TO THREE HUNDRED MILS AT A RANGE OF APPROXI- MATELY THIRTY THOUSAND YARDS, APPROXIMATEALTITUDE THIRTYONE THOUSAND FEET. THE SET TRACK AUTOMATICALLY IS AZIMUTH AND ELEVATION AND WAS AIDED RANGE TRACKING AND CAPABLE OF TRACKING TARGETS UP TO A SPEED OF SEVEN HUNDRED MPH. IN THIS CASE, HOWEVER, BOTH SETS FOUND IT IM- POSSIBLE TO TRACK THE TARGET IN RANGE DUE TO ITS SPEED AND THE OPER- ATORS HAD TO RESORT TO MANUAL RANGE TRACKING IN ORDER TO HOLD THE TARGET. THE TARGET WAS TRACKED IN THIS MANNER TO THE MAXIMUM TRACK- ING RANGE OF THIRTYTWO THOUSAND YARDS. THE OPERATOR SAID THE TARGET TO BE MOVING AT A SPEED SEVERAL HUNDRED MPH HIGHER THAN THE MAXIMUM AIDED TRACKING ABILITY OF THE RADAR SETS• THIS TARGET PROVIDED AN EX- TREMELY STRONG RETURN ECHO AT TIMES EVEN THOUGH IT WAS THE MAXIMUM RANGE, HOWEVER, ECHO SIGNAL OCCASIONALLY FELL OFF TO A LEVEL BELOW NORMAL. RETURN• THESE CHANGES COINCIDED WITH MANEUVERS OF THE TARGET. ON SEPTEMBER ELEVEN, FIFTYONE AT ABOUT ONE THIRTY P.M• THE TARGET WAS PICKED UP ON AN SCR FIVE EIGHT FOUR RADAR SET THAT DISPLAYED UNUSUAL MANEUVERABILITY. TARGET WAS APPROXIMATELY OVER NAVESINK, NJ., AS IN- DICATED BY HIS TEN THOUSAND RANGE, SIX THOUSAND FEET ALTITUDE AND DUE NORTH AZIMUTH• THE TARGET REMAINED PRACTICALLY STATIONARY ON THE SCHOPE AND APPEARED TO BE HOVERING. THE OPERATOR LOOKED OUT OF THE VAN PAREND THE VEHICLE HOUSING THE RADAR SERA PAREND IN AN ATTEMPT TO SEE THE TARGET, SINCE IT WAS AT SUCH A SHORT RANGE, HOWEVER, OVER- CAST CONDITIONS PREVENTED SUCH OBSERVATION. RETURNING TO THEIR OPER- ATING POSITION THE TARGET WAS OBSERVED TO BE CHANGING IN ELEVATION AT AN EXTREMELY RAPID RATE, BUT CHANGE IN RANGE WAS SO SLOW THE OPER- END OF PAGE TWO

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PAGE THREE ATOR BELIEVED THE TARGET MUST HAVE RESEN NEARLY VERTICALLY. TARGET FIXED ITS RISE IN ELEVATION AT AN ELEVATION ANGLE OF APPROX. FIFTEEN HUNDRED MILS, AT WHICH TIME IT PROCEEDED TO MOVE AT AN EXTREMELY RAPID RATE IN RANGE IN A SOUTHERLY DIRECTION. ONCE AGAIN THE SPEED OF THE TARGET EXCEEDED THE AIDED TRACKING ABILITY OF THE SCR FIVE EIGHT FOUR SET SO THAT MANUAL TRACKING BECAME NECESSARY. RADAR TRACKED THE TAR- GET MAXIMUM RANGE OF THIRTYTWO THOUSAND YARDS AT WHICH TIME TARGET WAS AT AN ELEVATION ANGLE THREE HUNDRED MILS. THE OPERATOR DID NOT ATTEMPT TO JUDGE THE SPEED IN EXCESS OF THE AIDED TRACKING RATE OF SEVEN HUNDRED MPH. THE WEATHER WAS FAIR WHEN THE OBSERVATION WAS MADE SEPT- EMBER TENTH AND CLOUDY FOR THE SEPTEMBER ELEVENTH REPORT. UNQUOTE. ABOVE INCIDENT OBSERVED BY THREE WITNESSES WITH EXCEPTION OF FIRST INGIDENT ON SEPTEMBER TEN. ABOVE INFO FURNISHED BY REID AFTER AP- PROVAL OF G-TWO, GOVERNORS ISLAND, NY, WITH REQUEST THAT INFO BE CO- ORDINATED WITH AIR FORCE• REID ALSO ADVISED IN CONFIDENCE THAT ABOVE REPORT RECEIVED BY HIM AFTER CONSIDERABLE UNACCOUNTABLE DELAY• MC KEE END AAD PLS NK R 7 WA AS DISC

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64 Office Men UM • UNITED : GOVERNMENT TO DIRECTOR, FBI (62-83894) DATE: March 21, 1952 FROM : SAC, CHICAGO (100-18999) SUBJECT: FLYING DISCS KARL NYQUIST, INFORMANT Mr: KARL NYQUIST, an artist living at 2417 North Burling Street, Chicago, Illinois (telephone LI-9-1479) advised SA MYRON H. TRETER on March 1l, 1952 that he saw a flying disc at 9:00 AM on March 6, 1952. NYQUIST stated that he was looking out of a window at his home which window faces south, when he saw a flying disc at approximately 7,000 feet above Fullerton Avenue. The angle of elevation of the disc above the horizon was about 45 degrees. The disc came out of a cloud in the east, stopped and hung motionless in mid-air for a split second, then flew due south at great speed. He described the disc as approximately six feet in diameter, circular, white in color with a bluish tinge. The disc, he said, appeared to have been constructed out of a metal similar to aluminum. He also stated that he saw no exhaust, lights, or heard no sound connected with its movements. He noted nothing on it as to how it could maintain its even flight and believed it to have been radio controlled. He said it disappeared out of sight in approximately three seconds, estimating the speed at 600-700 miles per hour or more. He said it went so fast it appeared to flutter. When the disc disappeared from sight it was about the size of a golf ball on the southern horizon. NYQUIST made a sketch of the disc and the sketch and the above information were furnished to the local office of the Office of Special Investigations. MHT : BJB DECLASSIFIED Authority: NND 90986 RECORDED - 79 INDEXED - 19 EX -125 162-13844-990 MAR 25 1952 6 5327 57 APR 1 1952 874 SI 10 57 91

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, 0 2 Flying Sau cers Saucers NFIDENTIA: LUM 4 Delogies On 10 September 1951 as AN/MPG-1 radar set picked up a fast moving Tow flying target (exact alt undetermined) at approximately 1110 hours SE of Fort Monmouth at a range of about 12,000 yards. The target appeared to approx- imately follow the coast line changing its range only slightly but changing its azimuth rapidly. The radar set was switched to full aided azimuth tracking which normally is fast enough to track jet aft, but in this case was too slow to be resorted to. The target was lost in the NE at a range of about 14,000 yards. This target also presented an unusually strong return for an acft being comparable in strength to that usually received from a coastal ship. The operator initially identified the target as a ship and then realized that it could not be a ship after he observed its extreme On 10 September 1951, 1515 hours, an SCR 584, serial no. 433 tracked a target which moved about slowly in azimuth N of Fort Mormouth at a range of about 32,000 yds at the extremely unusual elevation angle of 1350 mils. (Altitude approxinately 93,000 ft) On 11 September 1951, 1050 hours, 2 SCR 584 serial nos. 217 and 315 picked up the same target NE of Fort Monmouth at an elevation angle of 350 to 300 mils at a range of approximately 30,000 yards. (Approximate altitude 31,000 ft) the sets track automatically in azimuth and elevation and with aided range tracking are capable of tracking targets up to a speed of 700 mph. In this case however, both sets found it impossible to track the target in range due to its speed and the operators had to resort to judged the target to be moving at a speed several hundred miles per hour target provided an extremely strong echo at times even though it was at maximum range, however the echo signal occasionally fell off to a level below normal return. These changes coincided with maneuvers of the target. On 11 September 1951 at about 130 a target was picked up on -83894 SCR 584 radar set serial no. 315 that displayed unusual maneuverability. The target was approx. over Navesink NJ as indicated by its 10,000 yard range, 6000 ft altitude and due N azimuth. The target remained practically stationary on the scope and appeared to be hovering. The operators looked out of the van in an attempt to see the target since it was at such a short range, however overcase conditions prevented such observation. Returning to their positions the target was observed to be changing its elevation at an extremely rapid rate, the change in range was so small the operators believed the target must have risen nearly vertically. The target ceased its rise in elevation at an elevation angle of approx 1500 mils at which time it proceeded to move at an extremely rapid rate in range in 4.89utherly direction once again the speed on the target exceeding the aided tracking ability of the SCR 584 so that namual tracking became necessary. The radar tracked the target to the maximum range of 32,000 yards at which time the target was at an elevation angle of 300 mils. The operators did not attempt to judge the speed in excess of the aided tracking rate of 700 mph. CONFIDENTIAL 6.001 04 1031

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STANDARD FORM NO, 64 Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO ¿Director, FBI FROM\J/ SAC, Memphis (62-0) SUBJECT: UNKNOWN SUBJECT; Flying Objects, Nashville, Tennessee INFORMATION CONCERNING DATE: 4-3-52 Lt. Commander MEIVIN MICHAEL KUHN, U. S. Navy, temporarily residing at 1900 Graybar Lane, Nashville, Tennessee, advised SAA CHARLES J. HONETOR of the Nashville Resident Agency on March 1l, 1952, at approximately 2115 pomo of the following incident. Mr. KUHN stated that approximately 10:20 p.m. on March 13, 1952, while standing in the back yard of 1900 Graybar Lane and looking toward the moon, which was then in the southwest section of the sky, he observed an object which appeared approximately 20 degrees above the horizon. It. KUHN described this object as being circular in shape, approximately one-half the size of the moon, deep bright blue in color, very vivid blue. He stated the object had a slight reddish fringe on the aft end. The object appeared to be moving from the northwest to the southeast. He stated that the object was not in his vision more than three seconds. It made no sound. Lt. KUHN stated that at the time he observed this, there were no clouds in the sky, the stars were out, and the moon was full. Lt. KUHN stated that the only way he could describe it was that it appeared to be a very high powered spotlight on a cloud, but he did not believe this could have been the cause of that which he had seen because he had not seen any spotlight or any strong search lights there during the evening. The above is being furnished for your information, and no action is contemplated by this office unless advised to the contrary• CJH: AJ RECORDED - 46 EX.99 6004 73 1952 n 20Esl THe 1A3 & 1935 WE 1043

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64 Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO WAR • Branigan FROM : E. H. Mossburgl SUBJECT: FLYING DISCS DATE: April 17, 1952 For record purposes, it is desired to point out that the April 7, 1952, issue of "Life" magazine contains ar article on page 80 entitled, "Have We Visitors From Space?" written by H. B. Darrach, Jr., and Robert Ginna relating to the captioned matter. For further reference purposes, a copy of this issue of "Life" magazine is maintained in the Bureau Library. TO SO Ladd Clegs Glavin Nichols Hoser Tracy Harbo Belmont Lohr Tole. Hoos Nease Candy EHM: ra R2 ha 57 APR 281952 RECORDED - 9 112-33894-079 APR 22 1952 *1 5 - 1 m 493

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Date: To: From: Subject: Way 7, 1958 Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington 25, D. C. John Edgar Hoover, Director Federal Bureau of Investigation FRED J. BEKHOUT Tolson Ladd Nichols Belmont Clegg Glavin Harbo Rosen Tracy Mohr Tele. Rm. Nease Candy on May 5, 1952, Fred J. Eekhout called at this Bureau and advised that he is General Manager of Mouton and Company, Printers, 5 Herderstract, The Hague, Netherlands. He resides at 49 Stadhouderslaan, The Hague. He is residing at the Victoria Hotel, New York City, until Nay 16, 1952, when he will return to Europe. Bekhout advised that he has a considerable interest in electronics and has been very much interested in reports circulated during the past year or two concern- ing the ezistence oj flying saucers. He feels that there have been enough uncontradicted reports concerning such devices to indicate that they may exist in fact. He is also of the opinion that if they do exist they can be prodyced only by the United States or Russia or perhaps by thes Republic of Argentina. DEPI EIVED Mr. Bekhout indicated that he has given thought to the manner in which these devices couz&9, Lengive operated. He has concluded that since the disk shape not suitable for conventional aircraft it would be unedo only because it would provide the greatest possible surface. It is his opinion, therefore, that one of Shite devices could be operated only by reducing the air pressure above it which would cause it to rise in the air. He concedes that conventional machinery to cause such a reduction of pressure would be so bulky that its weight would prevent the device from leaving the ground. He concludes, therefore, VHB: r dm nd RECORDED - 65 INDEXED - 65 12-839942-373 MAY 10 1962/ 66 MAY 171952: MAY 8 1952 COMM - FBI

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that power to accomplish this end would have to be derived from the cracking of an atomic fuel such as heauy water. In that connection he states that the tonosphere surrounding the earth radiates positive tons toward, the earth's surface. Many of these are dissipated by combining with particles in the atmosphere with the result that positive tons are more concentrated near the earth's surface than higher above it. He reasons that a disk could be raised in the air by emitting a great quantity of negative ions through its upper surface and causing a decrease in pressure which would result in the pressure underneath the disk forcing it upward. He indicates that somewhere between the surface of the earth and the ionosphere this presaure would equalize at which point the disk could go no higher. It could then be moved horizontally by emitting negative tons in the direction in which it is desired to move. Mr. Eekhout stated that he did not feel such a device could be remote controlled since it would probably not be possible to maintain radio contact with it. He however, that the occupants of such a deutce would Se fully protected since according to the electrical theory demonstrated by Faraday's Cage the current involved in the propulsion of such a device would concentrate itself around the edges of the disk. The foregoing is furnished for your information. (NOTE ON YELLOW: Eekhout was interviewed at 2:15 p.m. by Supervisor V. H. Bailey by reference from Mr. Bureau files contain no data identifiable with him.) - 2 -

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INDEXED - 46 RECORDED - 46 62- 283894-274 May 13, 1952 Mr. W. Bo Burgess Box 147 Black Mountain, North Carolina Dear Mr. Burgess: Your letter dated May 7, 1952, has been received and I appreciate the interest prompting you to bring your observationa to my attention. Since the matter you mention may be of interest to another governmental agency, I am referring a copy of your letter to The Honorable, The Secretary of Defense, The Pentagon, Washington, D. Co, and you may wish to write him directly in this connection. Sincerely yours, John Edgar Hoover Director cops of incomint. sent to lep't. of Defense by form DIC: 9TYN S. DEPIT OF MISTIC Tolson Nichole Belmont Clear Harbo RoBen Laught tr Mohr Tele. Rm. Hol Toman dandy. 60 MAY 23 1952 10V MAILED TO MAY 14 1952 6 26 PM "5/ RECENE BERN NIGN dee

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Box 147 Black Mountain, N.C. May 7, 1952 Mr. J. Edgar Hoover c/o U. S. Dept. of Justice Washington, D. C. Dear Mr. Hoover: The motive of this letter is a sincere effort to help avoid useless waste of life, time and money. It is written with full respect to your pressing work, and to the ability of this country's scientific experts. Although your responsibilities may not be directly connected with the intended text of this letter, I sincerely hope that you will consider the possibilities, and forward the suggestions I to the proper authorities concerned. following the same trend of thought have ignored recent re- ports made by persons of undisputed experience and intelligence. The possibilities of this earth being visited by ships from outer space have been lightly suggested by some, while others believe the "objects" belong to some nation on this earth. Granted that some such objects do even belong to this country, I am sure that these suggestions will bear scientific inves- tigation and that they are entirely probable. Similar to Columbus and the egg - they may not have been given due con- sideration. These "objects" of undetermined origin" (not to be confused with our contrilled weather balloons, etc.) are in all prob- ability operated by the absorption, compression, and con- trolled emission of the sun's energy (basically electricity). As such, they probably carry a potential charge which is past our imagination. An earthly object approaching too close to the 0.U.0. would have the same effect as grounding a high- tension wire, with the total destruction of both objects as a likely result. ВЕСЕ ЛЕО Assuming that some of these ts are from outer space, we would certainly benefit considerably by establishing contact with them, where as, if such a nation as Russia should ac- quire this knowledge before us we would certainly suffer as a result 513.52 RECORDED - 46 162-83894-214 MAY 20 1952 5 761020

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BES MAY g 3.52 PM '52 MR. JONES May 9 4 54 PM °52 RECEIVED F B T US DEPT OF JUSTICE

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- 2- Whatever means of power these objects possess, thay may attain speeds far in excess of our latest rockets. It will be futile to give pursuit, or to attempt any forceful approach. From reports, we have no reason to believe these objects have anything but friendly intentions, also, they may be restrict- ed as to the distance they may approach the earth without danger. It is also my belief that given an opportunity, they will approach an earthly object, at high altitude, as close as possible without danger to either themselves or the object. If my theory approaches the truth, then these strange objects will be unable to establish contact wth the earth without our assistance. Taking the earth at an age of two billion years, having suff- ered worldly catastrophies, and set-backs, we may be as children compared to a planet of four billion years, or of equal age without catastrophies. Our scientific laws have worked well for us, however, they probably do not hold true for all planets. Lacking water and trees in the beginning we would have been an entirely different world, perhaps even further advanced. My background includes a good foundation in high-altitude flying, and in the field of electricity. Although I am well established in business, it is my desire toenter the field of research related to this subject. My name is not for publication. Very truly yours, W. B. Burglas w. B. Burgese

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION U, 3. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE COMMUNICATIONS SECTION MAY 12 1952/ ТУРЕ Mr. Tolson Mr. Ladd Mr/ Mr. Glavin Mr. Harbo. Mr. Rosen Me. Tracy Mr. Laughlin Tele. Room. Mr. Holloman_ Miss Gandy. FBI, SAVANNAH DIRECTOR, FBI 5-12-52 UR GENT 7-58 PM WED гічин SAVANNAH RIVER PLANT, ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION, ELYING DISC. AT APPROXIMATELY TEN FORTYFIVE PM, MAY TEN LAST FOUR EMPLOYEES OF DUPONT CO., EMPLOYED ON SAVANNAH RIVER PLANT NEAR ELLENTION, S. C•, SAW FOUR DISC SHAPED OBJECTS APPROACHING THE FOUR HUNDRED AREA FROM THE SOUTH, DISAPPEARING IN NORTHERNLY DIRECTION. AT APPROXIMATELY ELEVEN FIVE PM, ABOVE MENTIONED EMPLOYEES SAW TWO SIMILAR OBJECTS APPROACH FROM SOUTH AND DISAPPEAR IN NORTHERNLY DIRECTION• AT APPROXIMATELY ELEVEN TEN PM ONE SIMILAR OBJECT APPROACHED FROM THE NORTHEAST AND DISAPPEARED IN SOUTHWESTERNLY DIRECTION. ONE MORE OBJECT SIGHTED ABOUT ELEVEN FIFTEEN PM TRAVELLING FROM SOUTH TO NORTH. EMPLOYEES DESCRIBED OBJECTS AS BEING ABOUT FIFTEEN INCHES IN DIAMETER, HAVING YELLOW TO GOLD COLOR. ALL OF THESE OBJECTS WERE TRAVELLING AT HIGH RATE OF SPEED AT HIGH ALTITUTE WITHOUT ANY NOISE. EIGHTH OBJECT WHICH APPROACHED THE FOUB, HUNDRED AREA FROM NE WAS TRAVELLING AT ALTITUDE SO LOW IT HAD TO RISE TO PASS OVER SOME TALL TANKS IN FOUR HUNDRED AREA. THIS OBJECT WAS ALSO FLYING AT HIGH RATE OF SPEED AND WAS RECORDED 602-13914 Nose cany al rate is 03 . NOISELESS. WITNESSES STATED OBSERVED OBJECTS WEAVING FROM LEFT TO RIGH MAY 20 1952 17 Equ

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8 RECEIVED - H S. DEPI. OF JUSTICE F. B. S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE May 13 10 27 ẤM *52 MY 2.8 12 14 PM '52 RECEIVED-LAD FBI DEPT. OF JUST May 13 11 22 AM *5MAY 13 1B 03 AH 52 RECEIVED-OLSON FBI InS. DEPT OF JUSTICE IVED - DIRECTOR 3 10 42 AM °5: . OF JUSTICE MAY 28 REC'O ESPIONAGE SISTICE S. DEPI. 10 27 AH *52- -2. 2G. HV TO 6 MAy 13 BONOISE G958 30119ar 1d3u MAY 13 4 48 PM '52 REC'D BELMONT F. B. I. DEPT. OF JUSTICE

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1/. PAGE TWO BUT SEEMED TO HOLD GENERAL COURSE. ALSO STATED DUE TO SPEED AND ALTITUDE THEY WERE ONLY VISIBLE FOR FEW SECONDS. SAVANNAH OFFICE IS NOT ACTIVELY CONDUCTING INVESTIGATION IN THIS MATTER AND IS FURNISHING THIS INFO TO BUREAU FOR WHATEVER ACTION THEY DEEM ADVISABLE. SCHLENKER ACK AND HOLD 9-03 PM OK FBI WA SS

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CI 3311 НАДНАТИА nasse GHA 4. • TRACIVGA RECEIVED F B I COMMUNICATIONS MY 12 9 05 PM *52 TUA . A ICATARTA CONDACITME ТУЛОЛТОНБОЙ ВИ ДИТ 10 12 PM '52 STICE REC'D BELMONT F. B

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FEDERAL, BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE COMPU SENTION MAY 1 2 1952 TЕT.ЕTYРE FBI, SAVANNAH DIRECTOR, FBI 5-12-52 UR GENT 7-58 PM Mr. Tolson Ne. Ladd Mr. Nichols Belmont CleRS Chavin Mas Harbi Me. Rosco Mr. Longhlin Mr. Mohr Tele. Roota t. Holloman ss Gandy риза ure WED SAVANNAH RIVER PLANT, ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION, FLYING DISC. AT APPROXIMATELY TEN FORTYFIVE PM, MAY TEN LAST FOUR EMPLOYEES OF DUPONT CO., EMPLOYED ON SAVANNAH RIVER PLANT NEAR ELLENTION, S. C•, SAW FOUR DISC SHAPED OBJECTS APPROACHING THE FOUR HUNDRED AREA FROM THE SOUTH, DISAPPEARING IN NORTHERNLY DIRECTION. AT APPROXIMATELY ELEVEN FIVE PM, ABOVE MENTIONED EMPLOYEES SAW TWO SIMILAR OBJECTS APPROACH FROM SOUTH AND DISAPPEAR IN NORTHERNLY DIRECTION. AT APPROXIMATELY ELEVEN TEN PM ONE SIMILAR OBJECT APPROACHED FROM THE NORTHEAST AND DISAPPEARED IN SOUTHWESTERNLY DIRECTION. ONE MORE OBJECT SIGHTED ABOUT ELEVEN FIFTEEN PM TRAVELLING FROM SOUTH TO NORTH. EMPLOYEES DESCRIBED OBJECTS AS BEING ABOUT FIFTEEN INCHES IN DIAMETER, HAVING YELLOW TO GOLD COLOR, ALL OF THESE OBJECTS WERE TRAVELLING AT HIGH RATE OF SPEED AT HICH ALTITUTE WITHOUT ANY NOISE. EIGHTH OBJECT WHICH APPROACHED THE FOUR HUNDRED AREA FROM NE WAS TRAVELLING AT ALTITUDE SO LOW IT HAD TO RISE TO PASS OVER SOME TALL TANKS IN FOUR HUNDRED AREA, THIS OBJECT WAS ALSO FLYING AT HIGH RATE OF SPEED AND WAS NOISELESS. WITNESSES STATED OBSERVED OBJECTS WEAVING FROM LEFT TO RIGK files ster END PAGE ONE

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RECEIVED AY 13 10 20 AM "5.' TERNAL SECUR FBI SHEPT OF JUSTICE: 000г m ATION-LIAISON F. R T. U.S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE May 13 3 54 PM '52 May 13: 12 11 PM °3: REC'O ESPIONAGE MS DEPT. OF JUSTICE Try Z2 11 35-AM* RECIO ESPIONAGE 11S DEF) OF JUSTICE

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PAGE TWO BUT SEEMED TO HOLD GENERAL COURSE, ALSO STATED DUE TO SPEED AND ALTITUDE THEY WERE ONLY VISIBLE FOR FEW SECONDS. SAVANNAH OFFICE IS NOT ACTIVELY CONDUCTING INVESTIGATION IN THIS MATTER AND IS FURNISHING THIS INFO TO BUREAU FOR WHATEVER ACTION THEY DEEM ADVISABLE. 5-14-52 6= assisia 5/14/ra Joha Abite, Acc adured nur 5/14/52 col free o si admi SCHLENKER n 21 ACK AND HOLD N.W. Phil cox also aduised 9-03 PM OK FBI WA SS AEC + 031 stated they are conducting

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COPRELATION-LIAISON F. A [. O. S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE Mav 13 3 54 PM °52 RECEIVED inY 13 10 20 AM "5c STERNAL SECUR FBI. OF JISTICE REG'D-BELMONT NICA M14-12 10 g2 PH 352 I. 8 J 03M3234°

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URI Lulanful 2040 99/> Date: To : From: Subjeet: Мау 15, 1958 Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington 25, D. C. John Edgar Hoover, Director Federal Bureau of Inveatigation OLYING DISKS REPORTEDLY SEEN IN VICINITY OFXSAVANNAH RIVER PLANT ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION The Savannah Office of this Bureau has been informed that at appracinately 10:45 pm, May 10, 1952, four employees of the DuPont Company employed in the Sauannah River Plant near Ellenton, South Carolina, saw four disk shaped objecta approaching "the four hundred area" from the south which disappeared in a northerly direction. At approzimately 11:05 pomoon the same date the above-mentioned employees saw two sintlar objeots approach from the south and disappear in a northerly direction. At approzinately 11:10 poma similar objeet was seen by these employees approaching from the north- east and disappearing in a southwesterly direction. similar object was also sighted about 11:15 pm traveling from south to north by the same employees. The diska were described by the above-mentioned employees as being approzimately Jifteen inches in diameter and yellow to gold in color. All of the objects were allegedly traveling at a high rate of speed and at a high altitude without any noise. The disk shaped objects referred to above which approached "the four hundred area" from a northeasterly direction waa reportedly traveling at such a low altitude it had to rise to pass ouer some tall tadd. Nichols C10gE alavin Barbo Повет tracy taughl in Hohr tele. Am. Hol 1cman. = 6 MAY 29 1959 tanks which are in "the four hundred area." The employees referred to above aduised the objects were weauing from left to right but seemed to hold a general course. According to these persons because of the apeed at which the objects wer traueling they were only visible for a few seconda. RERBERED 38 162-83894-21 SECURITY COFORUATTON 17 MAY 1 5 1952 MAILED 25

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ITI POR The above data, which was prevtously furnished to your office through this Bureau's liaison representative, is being furniahed for your information and any action you desire to take in this matter. No investigation is being conducted by this Bureau. 00 - Assistant Chief of Staff, 0-2 Department of the Army The Pentagon Washington 25, D. C. Attention: Chief, Intelligence Division 0o - Director of Naual Intelligence Department of the Nauy The Pentagon Washington 25, D. C. ce - Captain John A. latera Director of Security BY SPECIAL MESSENGER Atomie Energy Commission Room 8058 333 Third Street, N. %. Washington, D. C. - 2 - SECURITY INFORMATION - €

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Mr. Poisor- Me. Ladd. hols FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION U. S. DEPARTMENT OF /USTICE COMM UNICATIONS SECTION Lavin Harbo MAY 2,6 Mr. Rosen Mr. Tracy ТЕЛЕТУРЕ Mr. Laughlin Mohr FBI LOUISVILLE Tele 5-26-52 Dom 12-37 PM CDST DIRECTOR, FBI omar Miss DEFERRED Mand RE FLYING SAUCERS, INFORMATION CONCERNING. THREE WOMEN SAW ASTRANGE OBJECTS FLOATING IN SKY OVER ASHLAND , KY. AT EIGHT FIFTY PM, EST, MAY TWENTY FIVE LAST FOR TWO OR THREE MINUTES. OBJECTS DESCRIBED AS LOOKING LIKE LARGE OYSTERS WITH FISHTAILS FLOATING LOW LIKE A CLOUD. THEY WERE OVAL IN SHAPE AND ACCORDING TO OBSERVERS COULD HAVE BEEN BALLOONS. THEY CAME IN OVER ASHLAND FROM THE NORTH, CIRCLED AND WENT BACK IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION. ABOVE INFORMATION FOR BUREAU. NO ACTION HERE. 204 S. .25 MU LONE Liture X ACK AND HOLD/ RECORDED - 5 хре 0. 2. 13294.34 1-33PM OK FBI WA JUN. 8 1952 41 12 1KJUN 18 195 (EX-83)

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ATION LIAISON S/DEPT. STICE 1 35 PM '52 COPT ATION-LIAISON F. S. DEPT. OR JUSTICE. 1*.y 27 10 35 AM °5; REC'D BELMONT F. B. I. DEPT. OF JUSTICE ' May 26 2 04 PM °52 M8. T.OM HAy 26 259 REND ESPIO * S OFP OR' 25. We me T SHOMFOINNHRDS 03213338

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NTO DA SE DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE WASHINGTON 25, D. C. 88 MAY 185% LATES ON ASS 24-185 Honorable J. Edgar Hoover Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation U. S. Department of Justice Washington 25, D. C. Received roc Date Flying SANDErs ATTN: Mr. N. V-AN 1cox, Liaison Agent l RE : Unidentified Aerial Object Sighted Geneval Area Ritchie Highway, South Baltimore, Maryland, 10:45 PM, 29 Mar 52 by Donald Stewart, 2241 Warren Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 129 Dear Sir: There is attached for your information a copy of a report by Speciay Agert Boyce Royal of this office dated May 12, 1952, in regard to the captioned subject. Your attention is invited to the statement of Mr. Donald Stewart as reflected on page 4, paragraph 7, of the report, to the effect that, at the time of the alleged sighting of this object, he had in his possession a Thompson sub-machine gun. A copy of this attachment has also been furnished the Treasury Department. No further inquiry into this matter is contemplated by the Office of Special Investigations. Sincerely, feel ence he let ser1os-12614 nт7/40/62 1 Incl es Rpt by SA Royal dtd 12 May 52 GILBERT R. LEVY Chief, Count er Intelligence Division Directorate of Special Investigations The Inspector General RECORDED - 129 c 12-8387V-108 JUN 6 1952 INDEXED - 129 20V EX-130 DECLASSIFIED Authority: NND 90986 16? 70 JUN1 9 1952 TAL SECURITY INFORMATION

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1 4 * t TITLE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE THE INSPECTOR GENERAL OFFICE OF SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS REPORT OF INVESTIGATION UNKNOY SUBJECT: Sighting of Unidentifiod Aerial Object, Ritchie Highwey, Baltimore, Maryland, 29 March 1952 INFORMATION- # FILE NO. 24-412 REPORT MADE BY BOYCE ROYAL, S/A REPORT MADE AT DO H4, Bolling AFB PERIOD 10, 12, 12. May 1952 OFFICE OF ORIGIN Hg. OST STATUS RUC DATE MAY 1 2 1952 CHARACTER Uncuthorized disclosure of information SPECIAL INQUIRY contained in this report is prohibited REFERENCE and will be considered a violation of Telephone message CI Division Hg. OSI, 9 May 1952 AFR 205-1 and AFR 205-6, paragraph 11, Investigation requested by Hq. OST prediested on inforation received fron Air Techniel Intelligence Center, Wright Patterson AFB that DONALD STEMART and (NU) TYLER had observed unconventional type aircraft on 29 March 1952 in the vicinity of Baltimore, Maryland. Intoration relayed to Air Technical Intelligence Center, Wright Patterson APB by ULIUS LOUIS AMOSS uno received it from LOU CORBIN, a news commentator, employed by station WrBR, Baltimore, wiewed, furnished intormation that DONALD STEWART, 224 Wazren Avenue and GEORGE TYLER III, 112 East Montgomery St., Baltinore, Mã., had been interviewed by him a 24, and 27 April 1952 and had reported sighting a diso- like aircraft at approximately 2045 hous, 29 March 1952 on Ritchie Highway near the intersection of US Route 301; that automobile engine stopped and paint cracked as aircraft hovered 200 feet above car. STEWART interviewed and re- lated substantially the same story which he had given CORBIN previously. RAY FOX, Engineer, Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Baltimore, Md, interviewed, advised ho had made complete emination of STEWART's vehicle at request of CORBINg including emmination with geiger counter and determined no unusual defects. AMOSS intervieved, stated had no direct Inowledge of inesdent and had merely relayed information furnished him by CORBIN; advised that severa. residents, Gibson Island, Maryland had hoard usual noises but none had observed any such aircraft. TYLER intervioved and confirmed stetement given by STEMART nowever, upon reinterview, admitted that he had not been with STEWART at the time of the alleged sighting, and had not seen any such aircraft; advised that STEWART had asked him to tell that story and that he had done so. Inter- views conducted along Ritchie Highway in vicinity of location where aircraft DISTRIBUTION ACTION COPY FORWARDED TO FILE STAMP Ha- OST (action) File 4 2 APPROVED AFHQ FORM 15 JAN 49 0-208 DONALD WHITE Colonel, USAF віна вит 83894-5078 16--57744-1 u. s. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE Replaces AFOST Form 4, 23 Jul 48, Which may be used ys ENC

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INFORMAT: SYNOPS IS (Contia) was allegedly sighted indicated no knowledge of any such craft. Amme Arundel County Police Department had no record of reports of described aircraft. STEVART in reinterview reaffirned sighting and that TYTER had been with him at the time and had seen the aireraft. File checks Te STEPART at local police agencies negative. PBI, Baltimore Field Office records reflect STEWART fired from employment at Baltimore, Maryland, for placing a decal bearing Communist insignia on a truck belonging to the firn by whom he was employed. FBI check re TYLER, CORBIN, AMOSS negative. la SECURITY INFORMATION -€

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SECUR! CANE VITEAL DETAIIS : lo This investigation was initiated upon a request from Head- quarters OST on 9 May 1952 from It. Col. LUCIUS L, FREE, predicated upon infornation received from It. Gol. RAY W. TAYLOR, Air Technical Intelligence Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, to the effect that Col. TAYLOR had received infornation regarding an unidentified aircraft which was reported to have been seen at 2215 hours, 29 March 1952, on Ritchie Highway, south of Baltimore, Maryland. Air Technical Intelligence Center advised that the infomation had been received from ULIUS LOUIS AMOSS, a civilien. 2. This is a joint investigation of Special Agents CLIPFORD P. JONKS, OLIVER R. WEATHERHOLT, and the writer. AT WASHINOTON, D. C. 3. On 10 May 1952 It. Col. LUCIUS L. TREE, Headquarters OSI, was interviewed and furnished the writer with a copy of a TWX received from the Air Intelligence Center, Wright-Patterson AFB. Infomation con- tained in the TIX is summarized as follows: Project Blue Book, from ULTUS LOUIS ANOSS, Cibson Island, Maryland, dated 24 April 1952. The letter stated that one DONALD STEWART, residing at 2211 Warren Avenue, Baltimore 30, laryland, had observed an uncon- vential type aircraft on 29 March 1952. Present with him at the time of this observation was one INU TYLER, believed to be a seventeen year old (17) high school student. The aircraft was allegedly observed while STENART and TYLIR were driving north on Ritchie Highway, approaching Baltimore, Maryland. It was described as shaped like a large pancake and was alleged to have hovered over the automobile, killing the engine. The letter also advised that STEWART had been interviewed by a LoU CORBIN, a radio announcer of WBR, Baltimore radio station. CORBIN was described as a reserve CIC officer. The letter also stated that a Beach, Maryland, had also seen such an aircraft. À NELSON STRIEKCIRUT and wife, and a Nirs. SALLY SYMINGTON HENDERSON and Judge and Mrs. HENDERSON were all said to have heard an aerial noise on 19 April 1952 at approximately 2300 hours. The Glenn Burnie Police were said to have had many similar incidents reported but laughed them off. AT. BALTIMORE, MARXIAND 4. On 10 May 1952 It. HUBERT KETTH, U. S. Weather Bureau, Inter- national Friendship Airport, Baltimore, Maryland, advised that the weather map for 2226 hours, 29 March 1952, indicated clear sy, NI winds - eight (8) miles per hours at 2256 hours, 29 March 1952, partly 2 SECURITY INFOPMATION -- CONFIDENTIAL

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SEC INFORMATION- cloudy, NNI winds - twelve (12) miles per hour; winds aloft at one thousand (1000) feet, NW - sixteen (16) miles per hour. 5• On 10 May 1952 Mr. LOUIS B. CORBIN was interviewed at radio station WFBR in Baltimore, Maryland, and stated in substance as follows: Mr. CORBIN advised that he had received information in the latter part of April to the effect that a DONALD E. STEWART, residing at 221/ Warren Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland, had, while accompanied by Mr. GBORDE S TYLER III, observed a strange appearing aircraft on 29 March 1952. Mr. CORBIN indicated that the source of his infomation had been a newspaper reporter for one of the local newspapers, whose name he did not divulge. CORBIN related that he had for some time been interested in the "flying saucer situation", and that it had been his intention to write a documentary program for broadcast concerning that subject. He said further that inasmuch as the above incident was the first one to be brought to his attention within that area, he determined to investigate it. On 2L April 1952 CORBIN interviewed Mir. DONALD F. STEWART and ascertained that he was employed as a clerk by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. He further ascertained that the date of observation was 29 March 1952; place, Ritchie Highway near the harness track; time, 10:45 PM; weather, clear; moon and stars out; approximate length of observation, two (2) minutes; estimated altitude, two hundred (200 feet. CORBIN obtained the details of the incident and set them down in a chronological order. A photostatic reproduction of the infomation obtained in that interview is being forwarded as an inclosure to this report. CORBIN also interviewed Mr. GEORGE S. TYLER III relative to the above incident and made a similar writing, a photostatic reproduction of which is being forwarded as an inclosure to this report. CORBIN advised the writer that he was acquainted with the editor of a civilian intelligence bulletin, Mr. ULIUS LOUIS AMOSS, to whom he communicated the above infomation. Mr. CORBIN further advised that he would not release any of the information publicly and did not intend to do so until such time as the authorities completed investiga- tion of the incident. CORBIN related that when he had called the Anne Arundel County Police they had informed him that they had had numerous reports of that nature but had passed them off as harless. CORBIN stated that he had had a friend of his, RAYMOND POX, conduct a seientific examination of STEWART's automobile for the purpose of determining any unusual characteristics which might have been present. CORBIN advised that he was not a reserve CIC officer; however, he related that he had been an intelligence officer with the staff of General GEORGE S. PATTON in Europe and that he presently holds an inactive reserve commission as 3 CONTIn SECURITY INFORMATION CONFIDENTIAL

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SE INFORMATION - 40 Mr. CORBIN, during the course of the interview, made no mention of GEORGE or JOHN MASON, and when specifically questioned with regards to the two above individuals, he said that he did not recall either. 6. On 10 May 1952 the records of the FBI Field Office Baltimore, Maryland, were reviewed and reflected that DONALD PRANKLIN TENART, 224 Warren Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland, was questioned for illegal wearing of the Navy uniform in July 1948. Records also reflect that STEWART was a member of the U. S. Naval Reserve and the investigation was discontinued as no violation. These records also reflect that STEWART was fired from the Baltimore Supply Compary, Baltimore, Maryland, for placing a decal of the harmer and sickle and red star on the door of AMOSS and no derogatory infomation on LOUIS B. CORBIN, No infomation concerning reports of unconvential aircraft sighted during the past two (2) years were on record at the FBI Field office. 7• Mr. DONATD FRANKLIN STEWART was interviewed at his residence, 224 Warren Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland, on 10 May 1952, and with reference to the incident in instant case, he related in substance as follows: to Baltimore from Glenn Burnie, Maryland, via the Ritchie Highway, on 29 March 1952. They were in a 1949 Anglia Vampire, an English car, and were proceeding in a northerly direction, having just left a Howard Johnson Restaurant adjacent to the intersection of Ritchie Highway and U. Sa Highway #30l. While approximately opposite a harness track five hundred (500) yards north of the above named intersection, STEWART related, he observed a strange looking aircraft appearing on the horizon ahead of his automobile. STEWART described the aircraft as being a flat disk with a cupola or dome in the center of one side. He described the done as having what appeared to be a small porthole on one side and the shadowy outline of what appeared to be a "hatch, similar to those found on a ship". He stated that this craft approached his vehicle from a northeasterly direction and hovered above his automobile. He further described the object as being of a luminous silver color and emitting bright lights around the edges similar to neon tubing of high brilliance. He stated that at the time the incident occurred he had in the rear seat of his vehicle a Thompson sub-machine gun with which weapon he left the automobile and walked around the car several times debating as to whether or not he should fire upon the aircraft. He advised that his companion, TYLER, remained in the auto- mobile and had pleaded with him not to discharge the weapon for fear off retaliation from the airerart. Mr. STIVART declined to comment as to the origin, present whereabouts, or owner of the above named weapon. SECURLY FORMATION--H LANTE

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SECUR INFORMATION - CONFRONTIAL STEWART stated that when the aircraft came to rest above his automobile, it appeared to be "at least fifty feet (50) in diameter, and wavered slightly." While in sight the aircraft gave off a sound sinflar to that of a vacuum cleaner. STEVART averred that the aircraft maintained its position above the automobile for approximately three (3) minutes and then turned on its edge, thereby presenting its flat surface to his vision, and appeared to roll across the sky at a terrific rate of speed, greater than that of a jet plane. STEWART estimated the horizon to the southwest of his vision, towards which the object was traveling, as approximately three and one-half (32) miles from his position, and that the object as it disappeared across the horizon was approximately the dimension of a five (5) inch disk held at arm's length. He advised that when the object first appeared, it appeared to be at an angle to the horizon of fifty (50) degrees, and as he was proceeding north it appeared on the northeast horizon on the crest of a hill. also advised that during the period the object was in his vision he noticed no sign of activity within it and discerned no odor from it. STETART advised that during the time of the above observation of the aircraft there was only one other automobile in the immediate vicinity. He described this to be a 1948 Pontiac convertible, yellow, with 1952 Maryland license plates, the first three (3) digits of which vere six-zero-zero (600). He related that the car was apparently oc- cupied by a man and a woman and that the man had dismounted his auto- mobile and was looking at the aircraft, but that upon being hailed by STEWART, had returned to his automobile and driven off rapidly. It was Mr. STEWART's opinion that he did so upon seeing the aforementioned Thompson sub-nachine gun. Mr. STEWART inforned the writer/that he was not addicted to or a casual indulger of any fom of alcoholic beverages and was not under such influence at the time of the sighting. He further advised that he wore glasses only for purposes of reading and that the only obstruction to his observation of the above described aircraft was the windshield of his automobile when first sighted; however, when he emerged from the automobile he was able to observe the aircraft without any trouble. STEVART contended that the above incident had a singular effect upon his automobile in that it killed the motor and apparently magne- tized its wiring. He also stated that the above incident had resulted in the paint on his car cracking. AGENT'S NOTE: An inspection of STEllART's automobile revealed that it had been recently painted. It was ascertained from STEWART that his hobbles were the collection and handling of weapons, American History, and that his avocation was politics. He stated that he had been active in the political candidacy of a senatorial contestant of the State of Maryland and was currently leader of the political club supporting the above mentioned candidate in his ward. He advised that on the night of the 5 SECURITY INFORMATION- CONFIDENTIAL

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INFORMATION +0 .above incident he had been engaged in distributing campaign literature with reference to the above campaigning in Glenn Burnie, Maryland, and was returning to Baltimore when he observed the aireraft. During the course of the above interview STEWART appeared calm and answered all questions without hesitation and when subjected to requestioning, did not change his statements in any particular. AT BALTIMORE, MARYLAND 8. Mr. LOUIS GITEOS, 228 Warren Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland, was interviewed on 10 May 1952, and stated that he has known STEWART all his life and has found no fault with him. CITES advised that STEWART comes from a good family and he would recommend him for a position of trust. GITEOS stated that he does not believe STEWART has ever been in trouble with the police. 9. Miss MARY HOOVER, 226 Warren Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland, was interviewed on 10 May 1952 and stated that STEWART "shoots a lot of bull", usually bragging about himself and his accomplishments. Outside of talking too much, HOOVER believes that STEWART is honest, makes a good impression, does not drink, a good worker, and loyal to the government. She would recommend STEWART for a position of trust, but stated that she did not believe he could keep a secret. 10. Mrs. LOUIS GTTEOS, 220 Warren Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland, was interviewed on 10 May 1952 and stated that STEWART talks too much and likes to exaggerate. Other than that, Mrs. GITEOS would recommend STEVART for a position of trust. She considers him honest, loyal, and a good boy. 11. Mr. RAYMOND FOX, Project Engineer, Ingineering Department, Radioactive Detection Division, Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Baltimore, Naryland, was interviewed at the Maryland Yacht Club on 10 May 1952, and advised that during the latter part of April 1952 he examined the automobile described in the above paragraph with a geiger counter and could detect no radioactive reaction. He also stated that he examined the engine and all working parts of the autonobile and wes unable to detect any unusual defects or characteristics. He stated that the automobile had been repainted and that he was inclined to dis- believe the incident as it was related to him. AT TERNDALE, MARYLAND 12. On 10 May 1952 Officer J. L. GAVIN, Anne Arundel County Police Department, Ritchie Highway Sub-Station, advised that the only report relative to instant investigation that he was aware of as being received by the department was purported to have been an observation during the latter part of March by the bridge keeper, Curtis Bay Bridge, Curtis Bay, Maryland. Officer GAVIN volunteered that the proximity of that area to the Aberdeen Proving Grounds resulted in frequent noises of explosions SECURITY INFORMATION--CONT TULNTIME.

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SECU INFORMATIOR • and that the police department had many calls of inquiry but that they all, with the above exception, were reports of noise and not of the sighting of any such aireraft. Officer GAVIN stated that in his opinion it was highly unlikely that an automobile could stop for a period of three (3) minutes on a Saturday night, as during the time of the alleged incident, without several other vehicles passing by. He gave as his reasons that Ritchie Highway was an arterial highway for several outlying districts of Baltimore as well as being a por- tion of the north-gouth route from Baltimore to the Potomac Bridge, and that traffie was usually frequent at all times, and especially so during that part of the evening on weekends. AT CIBSON ISLAND, MARYLAND 13. ULIUS LOUIS AMOSS, Colonel, USA, Retired, residing at 8 Cotterhill Road, Oibson Island, Maryland, was interviewed on 1l May 1952 with reference to his knowledge of above alleged sighting of an unconventional aircraft. He stated in substance that his knowledge was third-hand and therefore he was not in a position to give detailed intomation. He advised that he was informed of the above incident by CORBIN who, in addition to the information set forth above, had told him that a GEORGE MASON and his son, JOHN MASON, purported to reside on Yacht Club Road, Riviera Beach, Maryland, also had inforna- tion with reference to instant incident. AMOSS stated that the residents of Gibson Island frequently heard noises in the night, reported like that produced by a large formation of conventional aircraft. Col. AMOSS described this noise as of a magnitude and intensity similar to a major bombing group of at least one hundred (100) planes. He advised that Mr. and Mrs. NBISON STINCHCOMB (whom he previously reported as STRIKCIRUT), and Judge and Mrs. HENDERSON, Sr., and Mrs. SALLY HENDERSON SYMINGTON had all reported loud noises of the above type on the night of Saturday, 19 April 1952, and that he had included this infomation in his letter to Ceneral ACKERMAN only as miscellaneous data. He related that the noises occurred nightly but were particularly intense on Thursday nights. Col. AMOSS inforned the writer that he had attempted to locate GEORGE and JOHN MASON but had been unable to contact them. He stated that there was no street designated Yacht Club Road at Riviera Beach, Maryland, and that the nearest approximation of that name was Club Road. He further stated that there was only one residence on Club Road and that residence was presently occupied by a Mr. GEORGE REA, whom he was unable to contact. 1l• Attempts by the writer to interview individuals named in the preceding paragraph met with negative results. SECURITY INFORMATION-€E NEID FRITIAL 0 2225L

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SECT INFORMATION AT GLENN BURNIE, MARYLAND 15. Mr. ROBBRT MEADONS, Proprietor of a Shell Service Station, located at 1501 Ritchie Highway, approximately three hundred (300) yards north of the intersection of Ritchie Highway and U. S. Route #/301, was interviewed on 1l May 1952, and advised that to the best of his recollection he had been on duty in the station on the night the above incident was said and that to kin thon Lon ga to have occurred, and that to his knowledge no such incident took place. MEADOWS related that had the aircraft traveled in the direction as alleged, he would surely have observed it; or if he had not been on duty that night, he would surely have been infomed of the incident by the man who had been on duty at the time. MEADOTS informed the writer that it was highly unlikely in his opinion that any three (3) minute period could elapse without the passage of several automobiles at the time the above incident was alleged to have occurred. above incident. AT CURTIS RAY, MARYLAND 17. Mr. MAHLEN HOLLINS, Drawbridge Operator, Curtis Bay Bridge, was interviewed on ll May 1952 and advised that he is the regular draw- bridge operator on the Curtis Bay Bridge on the 1600 hours to 2400 hours shift. HOTLINS stated he was on duty the evening of the 29th of March 1952 and that he had not observed, nor ever observed, any unconventional. aircraft. HOLLINS further advised that he did not make a report to the Anne Arundale Police Department of such an incident. AT BALTIMORE, MARYLAND On 11 May 1952 Mr. GEORGE S, TYLER III, aged sixteen (26), 112 E. Montgomery Street, Baltinore, Maryland, was interviewed at 1030 hours and repeated the same story as he related to CORBIN. One varlance in the story was that the car engine did not stop until after STEVARI and TYLER had gotten out. 19. GEORGE S. TYLER, Jr., father of GORGE S. TYLER III, was inter- viewed on 11 May 1952 and stated that STEWART is "off the bean" and "not normal"; at times he is smart, but "too smart", TYLER said his son is a little careless with the truth and he believes the story is made up. TYLER stated STEWART is a peculiar person, and he has known him for sev- eral years. TYLER thinks STEWART made it up to get his name in the papers. TYLER also stated that Ritchie Highway is very crowded and more than one person would have seen it. Mr. TYLER thinks that if his son had seen it he would have discussed it with him or some other member of the family, but he did not do so. 8 SECURITY INFORMATION - CONNDENTINE

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SECUR FORMATION - COR 20. On 11 May 1952 LOUIS F. TYLER, uncle of TYLER III, 230 Edge- ville Road, Baltimore 25, Maryland, was interviewed and stated that he does not believe his nephew's story. He stated that TYLER III can dream up fantastic stories at times. - He believes it is a hoax and thinks his nephew was talked into telling the story. 21. At approximately 1215 hours, 11 May 1952, OKORGE S. TYLER IIT was reinterviewed in the presence of his father and mother, at which time TYLER stated that STEWART had seen the "saucer" prior to the time of meeting him and that all the information which he had given was in- formation that STEWART told him. TYLER advised that he did not see a thing and had reported the description of the aircraft as STEWART had told him. He stated that STEWART had told the sighting of the aircraft to him as they retumed from Glenn Burnie, Maryland, to Baltimore, and asked him (TYLER) to affirm the report because he feared that no one would believe his story. TYLER advised that he called the newspapers, the Sun and the Post, to find out if anyone else had reported the in cident, and was inforned that several reports had been received. TYLER further stated that at first he believed the story STEWART had told him; however, he now believes that STEWART made it all up. TYLER averred that he had been in Glenn Burnie visiting friends and was waiting at a bus stop to return to Baltinore on the night of 29 March 1952, when he met STEWART who had been in Glenn Burnie posting campaign posters; that STEWART had offerred to give him a ride back to Baltimore and he had accepted; that it was on the trip back to Baltimore that STENART had related to him the sighting of the strange aircraft earlier in the evening• TYLER stated that they left Glenn Burnie at approximately 2230 hours and had driven to Baltimore without incident; that they had made no stops along the road; that he did not see any sub-machine gun in the automobile as reported by STEWART. 22, STEWART was reinterviewed at approximately 1315 hours, 11 May 1952, and stated that TYLER was with him and had witnessed the incident. STEWART denied emphatically any falsehood in the story and stated that the whole thing was the absolute truth. 23. On 12 May 1952 Special Agent OLIVER R. WBATHERHOLT interviewed Mr. HAROLD B. ISENNOCK at the Griebel Motor Company, Light and Hen- rietta streets, Baltinore, Maryland. Mr. ISENNOCK stated that work was performed on STEWART's car on 8 May; that the work perfored was ad justment of brakes, installation of clutch, adjust generator, repairing or taping the wires leading fron the generator, change oil, and lubri- He stated that the car needed only routine repairs and there was no indication of any unusual repairs. Mr. ISENIOCK advised that STEWART had traded at the garage regularly and that he considered him a "screwbal]". Review of the 9 SECURITY INFORMATION SONFIDENTIAL

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SECU / INFORMATION - CONKSENTIAL records at the garage reflected that the car had been serviced on 23 April, 8 December, 18 Decenber 1951; and 31 January, 20 March, and 8 May 1952. The records reflected that the car had been brought in for routine check-ups and repairs. There was no indication in the records that the car had been repainted. Mr. ISENNOCK stated that the ear was still the same green color; however, he could not state as to whether it had been recently repainted. He did state he knew the car had not been repainted at his garage. 2h1. On 12 May 1952 records checks at the Baltimore City Police Department, Baltimore County Police, and Maryland State Police reflected no records of STEWART. INCLOSURES FOR HEADQUARTERS OSI 1. Photostatic reproduction of information obtained from STEWART by CORBIN (with sketch) • 2. Photostatic reproduction of infomation obtained from TYLER by CORBIN. CLOSED 10 SECURITY INFORMATION -CONFIDENTIAL

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INTE S DAY -F-- APRIL 24, 1952 PROJECT NAT Ar, Donald F. Stewart ,ADDRESS: TELEPHONE NUMBER: SAratoga 1423 EMPLOYMINT : B. and 0. Railroad ---- 224 Warren Avenue, Balto. 30, MD. AGE: Clerical Work 23 DATE OR OBSERVATION: March 29, 1952 PLACE: Ritchie Highway -- Harness Track TIME OF OBSERVATION: 10:45 P.M. WEATHER: Clear --- MOON and STARS OUT APPROXIMATE LENGTH OF OBSERVATION: TNO MINUTES ESTIMATED ALTITUDE: 200 FEET DESCRIPTION OF INCIDINT: At approximatoly 10:45 P.M. on Saturday, March 29, 1952, near the Harness Truck on Ritchie Highway, The above In company with a Mr. George Tyler of East Montgomery Street in Baltimore, witnessed the following: sound similar to a vacuum cleaner attracted attention. Upon investigation,while traveling north toward Baltimore, a strange object was proceeding in the sky in an approximate north-south direction. It appeared to be moving very slowly (considerably lower than a commercial airliner). WITNESS SKETCH ATTACHED This object was estimated to be at least as large as a two motored transport plane, It hovered directly over the highway and over the automobile. After approximately two minutes, it suddenly torned perpendicular with a whirring sound and seemed to roll dow the sky with fantastic speed like a rocket. Best Possible Image

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INTERY IEW # 1 --- When the object was over the highway the car engine died suddenly and remained dead until it departed. A yellow Pontiac convertible traveling south along the highway experienced the same situation. Occupants in all cars were very frightened. The automobile, A British Ford was taken to Griebel Bakkad Motors on Light St. They over-hauled the entire car. A friend, Mr • Kenny Johnson, an electrician, in a repair shop said something about wiring being magnetized. Mr. Johnson had previously been an aviation Jet mechanic during the war • Mr. Stewart is not sufficiently familiar with the technical situation to recall his exact explanation. A check with the Glenn Burnie Folice on this date April 24th, Indicated that several times during this year the Headquarters at Glenn Burnie Police were notified concerning a curious object in the sky• The Police have always considered the source of such objects as being Aberdeen Proving Grounds. In all events the Police have not conducted a detailed investigation as a result of any such call to their headquarters. general sumnary of an appraisal made by "R.F." Several checks of the automobile apparently indicated a negative reaction.....safe to conclude that something was observed in the sky. A thorough examination of the witness suggests that it's unlikely he could have made up a story. His reported observations are aero-dynamically possible and fall into a logical sequence. Impossible at the moment to identify object or its origin.....SPECULATION: Possibly "ours".

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INTERVIEW # 2. -- SUI-AY --- NAME: MR. George S. Tyler VI APRIL 27, 1952 - ADDRESS: "PROJECT EYEFUL 122 Bast Montgomery St. Balto. TELEPHONE NJMBER: BLAZA 2119 EMPLOYMENT : Southern Highschool AGE: Third Year. 17 DATE OF OBSERVATION March 29, 1952 PLACE: Ritchie Highway --- Harness Track TIME OF OBSERVATION: 10,45 P.M. WEATHER: Clear APPROXIMATE LENGTH OF OBSERVATION: A Minute or so! ESTIMATED ALTITUDE: Maybe a hundred feet or. so DESCRIPTION OF INCIDENT: (THIS WAS A TELEPHONE INTERVIEN ---- THE YOUNG MAN WAS REQUIRED TO REMAIN AT HOME TO WATCH HIS SISTER. HE WAS UNASLE TO COME TO STUDIO AS PLANNED EARLIER.) Attention was first attracted while driving north along Ritchie highway toward Baltimore. In company with Mr. Donald Stewart, a friend, a slowly-moving object was observed just ahead of the automobile. It was approximately 10:45 P.M. The engine in the car seemed to die and car drifted to a stop, the driver pulling slightly off the road. The object was approximately over the car and had no forward motion. It seemed to be tilted slightly and was giving off a yellowish-greenish light which faded and then grew intense and then fade again. The outer edges of this object which seemed to be round with a thickness toward the center, seemed to have what Mr. Tyler described as St. Elmos fire. He said that he could not say for sure whether he had observed anything that looked like a port hole. He stated he wasn't sure either whether there was another car in the exact location, but there might

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INTERVIEN # 2 --- 2 .... le beef one a fer vards soth of where he wis. He indiented that he was auite "astounded" et what he sow. He indiceted that he was slightly scared for fear people would think he and his friend had made up the story just to get some pablicity, but felt better when the newspapers had told them that others had reported a strange object in the sky. As a note of interest, the young man confided that since he got home rather late that Saturday evening his parents had confined him to the promises. He wasn't allowed to go out with the boys for awhile. PERSONAL OBSERVATION ---- Mr. Tyler seemed a Ecod deal nose conservative than his friend, lir. stewart. He Is on the LaCrosse Team at Southern Highschool. He seemed (at lesst over the phone) to be fairly Intelligent. He stated that Mr. Stewart was in his opinion a great deal more exoited about it than he was. There were severel after-thoughts occuring to him during the conversation. Some of these are as follows: The object men it departed increased in altitude and then sped off with a dazaling speed.... faster than anything he had ever seen before. He also said that its highest altitude was still considerably lower than most commercial ploner he has seen over his home. As it was increasing in height just prior to leaving he thought he could detect a highly polished surface which resembled a chrome plate. As it sped away it seemed also to have a short yellowish-greenish exhaust. All the time It was hovering, he stated the object was wavering slightly. He add this toward the end of his story.......I know this doesn't meke sense, but i'd swear the engine on that car started up on its own. To hin the car seomed to run all righo the rest of the way into baltimore. He admits the car engine starting up has him baffled. But he said definitely that 1t wasn't started by his friend. He addad....it doesn't make sense. In closing the conversation he aided again.....I'll stick to my story....we saw something and you can be sure we clin't make this up to got publicity.

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Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO • FROM : SUBJECT: 4. Ho Belmont W. A. Branigah WILLIAM ALBERT RHODES MISCELLANEOUS - INFORMATION CONCERNING FLYING DISCS DATE: June 10, 1952 PURPOSE Tolson Ladd Glavin Rosen Tracy Harbo Hohr Tole. Room Candy To recommend that Bureau Liaison contact OsI to determine whether photographs allegedly taken by the captioned individual of a flying disc in 1947 were furnished by osI to the office of Drew Pearson. BACKG RO UND Bureau files reflect that on August 29, 1947, a Mr. George Fugate, Jr., called at the Phoenix Office exhibiting credentials reflecting he represented A-2, Fourth Air Force, Hamilton Field, California. He asked an Agent to accompany him to interview William Rhodes who previously reported the photographing of a flying disc in Phoenix on the afternoon of July 7, 1947. The Phoenix Office contacted SAC Harry Kimball of the San Francisco Office and Mr. Kimball verified the fact that Fugate came to Phoenix as a representative of Colonel and it was suggested the Donald Springer of Hamilton Fiel in investigating the matter, Phoenix Office assist Fugate not but in simply talking with Dr. Rhodes. By letter dated September 4, 1947, the Phoenix Office set forth in four pages the results of this interview and stated Fugate had requested the negatives from Rhodes who did not have them in his immediate possession. Rhodes stated, however, he would deliver them to the FBI the following morning for transmittal to fugate at Hamilton Field, California. On the morning of August 30, 1947, Rhodes delivered the negatives to the Phoenix Office at which time they were: accepted with the understanding they were being given to Mr. Fugate, a representative of the Army Air Force Intelligence, United States Army, and that there was little, if any, chance of his getting the negatives back. Mr. Rhodes turned the negatives over to the FBI with the full understanding they were being given to the Air Force and he would not get them back. 18° (62-83894-80, page 4) мі 61 JUAHM: ELW жеть ww. PRECORDED A 62+83894 nur. Keay c/11/5 INDE JU 18 1952 Nºw

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COP™ ATION-LIAISON F S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE 'N !2 2 34 PM '52 ATION -LIAISON F. S. DEPTRO JOCTICE он 12 4 20 PM '5z RECEIVED-1,40 DEPT, DE JUST REC'D BELMONT TF. B. I. DEPT. OF JUSTICE JUN 12 9: 46 AM '52 JUN 12 12-37 PH °52

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On April 1?, 1950, MT. Rhodes advised the Phoenix, Office that True magazine would like to secure the photographs which he had made available to Air Force Intelligence. At that time Rhodes was referred to OSI, Fourth Air Force Base, San Francisco, California, since they had been made available to this agency by the Phoenix Office on August 30, 1947. By letter dated June 8, 1949, the Phoenix Office advised the Bureau that on the previous day Mr. Lynn C. Aldrich, OSI representative, Phoenix, Arizona, called the Phoenix Office stating he had been requested by his superiors in San Francisco to obtain detailed information concerning the negatives since Rhodes had requested their return. Aldrich pointed out that Fugate's recollection on the matter was "hazy." OfI requested and was given with Bureau approval a memorandum setting out essentially the information related above doncern- ing this matter. (62-83894, Serials 80, 184, and 225) RECENT DEVELOPMENTS On June 4, 1952, Mr. Fred of Drew Pearson, called and talked with spental Agent the office Blumenthal stated Pearson had been in contact with the captioned individual concerning photographs which Rhodes had taken of flying dises in the Phoenix area in July of 1947. Bl umen thal stated the subject told Pearson the FBI borrowed his negatives and when he asked for their return the FBI told him the negatives were not available. Blumenthal inquired whether there was any truth to Rhodes ' statement and what the Bureau knew concerning him. It appeared that Pearson was interested in using the photographs on his television program and was desirous of borrowing them from the Bureau or having them returned to the subject. Mr. Blumenthal was advised by Wick that the FBI did not have in its possession the negatives referred to by Mr. Rhodes and in fact Rhodes knew full well the FBI turned them over to Air Force Intelligence representatives, Fourth Air Force, Hamilton Field, California, on August 30, 1947, with the under- standing he might never have them returned. Blumenthal was advised the FBI did not investigate this matter, did not investigate Rhodes, and had no interest unatsoever in the matter other than to accompany the representative from Hamilton Field while interviewing Rhodes. Blumenthal was told that for these reasons, of course, we had no information concerning the reliability of Rhodes. - 2 -

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Blumenthal was most appreciative for receiving this information and said he would contact the office of Special Investigations of the Air Force for what assistance they might De to him. He said also he would straighten out Rhodes, informing him the FBI only as a courtesy to the Air Force representatives received the negatives from him and transmitted them. It has been reported that Drew Pearson, on his. of flying discs. by Pearson on his television program are those referred to in the captioned case. RECOMMENDATION In order to bring our file in this matter to an up-to-date status and to resolve the question raised by the subject, it is recommended liaison contact OSI and determine whether the photographs displayed by Pearson on his television program of June 8, 1952, are the photographs obtained from the subject in this case. Inasmuch as Blumenthal indicated he would contact the OSI concerning this matter cit is believed highly probable that is where the photographs of flying discs were obtained by Pearson's office. - 3 -

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мич STANDARD FORM NO. 64 Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO : MR. A. H. BELMONTUS DATE: June 17, 1952 FROM : V. P. KEARN SUBJECT: WILLIAM ALBERT RHODES MISCELLANEOUS - INFORMATION CONCERNING О. Tolson, Ladd CLOSE, clavin Rosen FLYING DISCS Reference is made to the memorandum captioned as above dated June 10, 1952, from Mr. Branigan to Mr. Belmont 9 1020. 100м which requested that OSI be contacted to determine if they Nease andy turned over negatives of photographs of flying discs taken by the above-captioned individual to ur. Ired Blumenthall who works for Drew Pearson. Lieutenant Colonel Leroy Barnard and Lieutenant Colonel E. M. Neville of OSI were both contacted and both advised that no inquiries had been received by OSI from Blumenthal. The Bureau's Air Force Liaison Representative then contacted Colonel C. M. Young of Air Force Intelligence (A-2) who likewise advised that no inquiries had been received by the Office of the Director of Intelligence from Blumenthal or anyone in Pearson's office. It is noted that matters involving flying dises are handled by A-2. Colonel Young advised that it was possible that any inquiries made by Drew Pearson's office would be made in the Office of the Public Information Officer of the Air Force. However, Colonel Young contacted the Public Information Office, and he was advised that no inquiries •had been received from Drew Pearson's office regarding flying dises and no photographs or negatives of photographs of flying dises had ever been furnished to Drew Pearson's office. Colonel Young advised that ordinarily when information regarding flying discs is received by Air Force representatives in the field, the information is referred to the Air Technical Intelligence Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, for research and correlation. ACTION: None. NWP:hke k 6 1 JUN 27 1952 The foregoing is for your information. 162-83894-280 NEGURDED - 16 INDEXED - 78 JUN 18 1952 5 EX. - 15

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64 Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO : Mr. Tolson DATE: June 4, 1952 FROM : L. B. Nichols SUBJECT: WILLIAM ALBERTN RHODES INFORMATION CONCERNING 9 FLYING DISCS BUREAU FILE 62-83894, Serials 80, 184, and 225 During my absence, It 11:50 A.M. today, Fred thal, in the office of Drew TOlBen Ladd Nichols Belmont Clega alavin Harbo Rosen Tracy_ Mohr Tele. Rm. Nease Pearson, called and talked with Blumenthal stated Yearson has been in contact with Rhodes (Phoenix telephone number 5-0048) concerning photographs which the above captioned took of flying dises i the Phoenix area in July of 1947. Blumenthal states that Dr. Rhodes told Pearson today that the FBI borrowed his negatives of the flying discs and when asked for their return the FBI told Rhodes the negatives were not available. Blumenthal asked whether there is any truth to this statement of Rhodes and what the FBI knew about him. It appears that Pearson is interested in using the photographs on his television program and is desirous of borrowing them from the Bureau or having them returned to Dr. Rhodes. BACKGROUND: Bureau files reflect that on August 29, 1947, a Mr. George Fugate, Jr., called at the Phoenix Office exhibiting credentials reflecting he represented A-2, Fourth Air Force, Hamilton Field, California. He asked an Agent to accompany him to interview William Rhodes who previously reported the photographing of a flying disc in Phoenix on the afternoon of July 7, 1947. The Phoenix Office contacted SAC Harry Kimball of the San Francisco Office and Mr. Kimball verified the fact that Fugate came to Phoenix as a representative of Colonel Donald Springer of Hamilton Field, and it was suggested the Phoenix Office assist Fugate not in Dr. Rhodes. investigating tABED 2-8.3894- but in simply talking with RECORDED By letter dated September 4, 1947, the Phoenix Office set forth in four pages the results of this interview and stated Fugate had requested the negatives from Rhodes who did not have them in his immediate possession. however, he would deliver them to the BI the follows g morning for trans- mittal to Fugate at Hamilton Field, California. 38. SEUL Mr. Ladd 2 JUN 18 1952 Ir. Belmont REW: md 201

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Memorandum to Mr. Tolson June 4, 1952 On the morning of August 30, 1947, Rhodes delivered the negatives to the Phoenix Office at which time they were accepted with the understanding they were being given to Mr. Fugate, a representative of the Army Air Force Intelligence, United States and that there was little, if any, chance of his getting the negatives back. Mr. Rhodes turned the negatives over to the FBI with the full understanding they were being given to the Air Force and he would not get them back. (62-83894-80, page 4) On April 17, 1950, MT. Rhodes advised the Phoenix office that True Magazine would like to secure the photographs which ne had made available to Air Force Intelligence. At that time Rhodes was referred to OSI, Fourth Air Force Base, San Francisco, Cali- fornia, since they had been made available to this agency by the Phoenix Office on August 30, 1947• By letter dated June 8, 1949, the Phoenix Office advised the Bureau that on the previous daty Mr. Lynn C. Aldrich, OSI representative, Phoenix, Arizona, called the Phoenix Office stating he had been requested by his superiors in San Francisco to obtain detailed information concerning the negatives since Rhodes had requested their return. Aldrich pointed out that Fugate's recollection on the matter was "hazy." OSI requested and was given with Bureau approval a memorandum setting out essentially the information related above concerning this matter. ACTION TAKEN: Mr. Blumenthal was advised by Wick that the FBI did not have in its possession the negatives referred to bu Mr. Rhodes and in fact Rhodes knew full well the EBI turned them over to AireForce Intelligence representatives, Fourth Air Force, Hamilton Field, California, on August 30, 1947, with the understanding he might never have them returned. Blumenthal was advised the FBI did not investigate this matter, did not investigate Rhodes, and had no interest whatsoever in the matter other than to accompany the representative from Hamilton Field while interviewing Rhodes. Blumenthal was told that for these reasons, of course, we had no information concerning the reliability of Rhodes. Blumenthal was most appreciative for receiving this infor- mation and said he would contact the office of Special Investi- gations of the Air Force for what assistance they might be to him. He said also he would straighten out Rhodes, informing him the FBI only as a courtesy to the Air force representatives received the negatives from him and transmitted them. - 4 -

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This image contains all the information on the document. Mr. Tolson June 4, 1958 L. B. Nichols WILLIAM ALBERT RHODES INTORMATION CONCERNING FLYING DISCS BUREAU FILE 62-83894, Serials 80, 184, and 225 During my absence at 11:50 A.M. today, Fred Blumen- thal, in the office of Drew Pearson, called and talked with Vick. Blumenthal stated Fearson has been in contact with Dr. W. A. Bhodes (Phoenix telephone number 5-0048) concerning photographs which the above captioned took of flying dises in the Phoentr area in July of 1947. Blumenthal states that Dr. Rhodes told Pearson today that the FBI borrowed his negotives of the fluing dises and when asited for their return the FBI told Rhodes the negatives were not available. Blumenthal asked whether there is any truth to this statement of Rhodes and what the FBI knew about him. It appears that Pearson is interested in using the photographs on his television program and is destrous of borrowing them from the Bureau of having them returned to Dr. Rhodes. BACKGROUND: Bureau files reflect that on August 29, 1947, a Mr. George Fugate, JT., called at the Phoenix Office ezhibiting credentials reflecting he represented A-2, Fourth Air Force, Hamilton Field, California. He asked an Agent to accompany him to interview William Rhodes who previously reported the photographing of a flying dise in Phoenix on the afternoon of July 7, 1947. The Phoenix Office contacted SAC Harry Kimball of the San Francisco Office and Mr. Kimball verified the fact that Fugate came to Phoenir as a representative of Colonel Donald Springer of Hamilton Field, and it was suggested the Phoenix Office assist Fugate not in inuestigating the matter, but in simply talking with Dr. Rhodes. By letter dated September 4, 1947, the Phoenia Office set forth in four pages the results of this interview and stated Fugate had requested the negatives from Rhodes who did not have then in his immedicte possession. Rhodes stated, however, he would deliver them to the FBI the following morning for trans- nittal to Fugate at Hamilton Field, California. ec - Mr. Ladd 00- Mr. Belmont

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Memorandum to Mr. Tolson •une 4, 1952 On the morning of August 30, 1947, Bhodes delivered the negatives to the Phoenix Office at which time they were accepted with the understanding they were being given to Mr. Fugate, a representative of the Army Air Force Intelligence, United States Army, and that there was little, if any, chance of his getting the negatives back. Ur. Rhodes turned the negatives over to the FBI with the full understanding they were being given to the Air Force and he would not get them back. (62-83894-80, page 4) On April 17, 1950, Mr. Rhodes advised the Phoenix Office that True Magazine would like to secure the photographs which he had made available to Air Force Intelligence. At that time Rhodes was referred to OSI, Fourth Air Force Base, San Franeisco, Cali- fornia, since they had been made avoilable to this agency by the Phoenix Office on August 30, 1947• By letter dated June 8, 1949, the Phoenix Office advised the Bureau that on the previous date Mr. Lynn C. Aldrich, 081 representative, Phoenix, Arizona, called the Phoenix Office stating he had been requested by his superiors in San Froncisco to obtain detailed information concerning the negatives since Rhodes had requested the ir return. Aldrich pointed out that Jugate's recollection on the matter was "hazy." OSI requested and was given with Bureau approval a memorondum setting out essentially the information related above concerning this matter. ACTION TAKEN: Mr. Blumenthal was advised by Wick that the FBI did not have in its possession the negatives referred to by Mr. Rhodes and in fact Rhodes knew full well the FBI turned them over to Air Force Intelligence representatives, Fourth Air Force, Hamilton Field, California, on August 30, 1947, with the understanding he might never have them returned. Blumenthal was advised the FBI did not investigate this motter, did not investigote Rhodes, and had no interest whatsoever in the motter other than to accompany the representative from Homilton Field while interviewing Rhodes. Blumenthal was told that for these reasons, of course, we had no information concerning the reliability of Rhodes. Blumenthal was most appreciative for receiving this infor mation and said he would contact the office of Special Investi- gations of the Air Force for what assistancé they might be to him. He said also he would straighten out Rhodes, informing him the FBI only as a courtesy to the Atr Force representatives received the negatives from him and transmitted them. - 2 -

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July 15, 1952 Mr. Thad W. Culmer II Post Office Boz 99 Robinson: Illinois 22-83874-043 Dear Mr. Culmer: Your letter of July 8, 1952, has been received. While I would like to be of service, the subject matter of your communication does not relate to an activity within the investigative jurisdiction of the FBI. I have, however, taken the liberty of referring a copy of your letter to The Honorable, The Secretary of the Air Force, Department of Defense Building, The Pentagon, Washington 25, D. C., who may be able to be of assistance. Sincerely yours, John Edgar Hoover Director Copy of incoming to Secretary of the Air Forcembufform letter. Tolson Ladd Nichols Belmont C1066 Qlavin Harbo Rosen_ Tracy_ Laughlin Mohr Tele. Re. Holloman Candy TEB: pa - 311 F ROOM PM 252 53 AUG 1 1952 COMM - FBI JUL 1 6.1952 MALED 18 8 BEGEIAE TER

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July 8, 1952 Mr. Tolson /Mr. Ladd - Mr. Nichola! Mr. Belmont Mr. Clegg Mr. Glavin Mr. Harbo Mr. Rosen Mr. Tracy Mr. Laughlin Mr. Mohr Tele. Room Thad W. Culmer II. Mr. Holloman. Post Office Box 99 Miss Gandy. Robinson, Illinois Mr. Jo Edgar Hoover, Director Federal Bureau of Investigation Washington, District of Columbia Dear Mr. Hoover: Perhaps this is a little out of your line of endeavor, however, I feel that per- haps you or your organization might be able to give me some infornation concerning the following matter. From the first time it was written up in the press I have been keenly interested in strange celestial phenomena such as the flying discs popularly called "flying saucers." Now out of all the thousands of people who have reported sightings not all of them have had too much to drink, nor could they have been victims of optical illusions, retinal retention, or hallucinations. Some of the objects sighted could not have been jet craft, guided missiles, or rockets, neither could they all have been weather instruments. Unretouched and undoctored photographs have given evidence that someone must have seen something• It seems that both oivil and military authorities are most willing to proclaim what the objects are not. I feel there is more to the matter than meets the eye. My decision to write you was based on the thought I would get straight answers. Do you have any ideas or data on this subject? What are your opiaions? If not, where might I write for such information? Any kindness, consideration, or in formation which you can extend toward me concerning this matter will certainly be most sincerely appreciated. Very truly yours, Shaw. Cantue Thad Wa Gulner II. 7150 L BI BEGFIRED iN 1O RECORDED - 91 162-83894-283 2 JUL 24.1958 PROCESSING 1952 EX-164 4 TEN

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RECEIVED-LAU. FBI DEPT. OF JUSTIC JuL 10 2 40 PM '52 RECEIVED - NICHOLS F. B. I U.S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE JuL 10 3 35 PM '52 MR. JONES JuL 10 5.20 PM '52 S. RECEIVED F B ICE JUL HAS DEPIAFIJUSTICE RECEIVED - NICHOLS 4 U.S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE JuL 31 11 37 AM °52

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64 Office Memurunum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO :DIRECTOR, FBI FROM : SAC, WASHINGTON FIELD 62-0 DATE: July 29, 1952 SUBJECT: AERIAL OBJECTS "Flying Saucers" INFORMATION CONCERNING 1L, math On July 28, 1952, at the Weekly Intelligence Conference, Captain WILLIAM DESTAN, Office of Special Investigations, 4th Air Force Base, Bolling Field, advised the representative of the FBI, Washington Field Office, over the prior weekend, his office had received reports conceming the observation of aerial objectse Captain DEEGAN referred to a phone call made to his office by Special Agent LEONARD E. WEBSTER of the Washington Field Office, furnishing to OSI the identity of a woman who reportedly had observed an aerial object. DEEGAN praised the WFO for the expeditious noti- fication in this instance. Captain DEBAN, Colonel COLLINS, DEEGAN's superior office, and Special Agent JOHN M. deBETTINCOURT, in a conference on July 28, 1952, discussed the matter of immediate notification of OSI. This conference resulted in the request by Colonel COLLINS and Captain DEEGAN that in the event, whenever infornation is received by the FBI, in which it is alleged that someone has observed a "Flying Saucer", this information be imnediately relayed to Captain DEEGAN's office. It is to be noted that this office may be reached by dialing Code 1261 and asking for Extension 509. Captain DEEGAN said this number should be called under these circumstances at any time, day or night. Captain DEEGAN stated that the Air Force is greatly concered about this matter of aerial objects and said that the Air Force Intelligence would appreciate the execution of the requested procedure, OV mentioned above. It is suggested that the Bureau bring this matter to the attention of its night supervisors, since these night supervisors also receive complaints from persons outside of the Bureau and may receive information concerning the observation of aerial objects. JMD: NPB rally almia тад і піон RECORDED - 59 10 sri UN 62-1389 JUL 3 1 1952 28/ PTYA (Турив 8 - 2/- SEP 2 4 1952м SEP 1a 158 UNRECORDED COPY FILED IN 62 - 8533

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90K • STANDARD FORM NO. 64 Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERiMENT TO : Director, FBI FROM : SAC, Indianapolis (62-0) SUBJECT: FLYING SAUCERS SEEN NEAR THESSALON LAKE, ONTARIO CANADA, JULY 27, 1952 MISCELLANEOUS - INFORMATION CONCERNING DATE: July 31, 1952 while fishing in the back waters of Thessalon Lake, in two groups flying south at a height estimated by him to be four or five miles. Dr. McINDOO stated that the planes went over the lake, suddenly dropped objects at first thought by him to be parachutes. He continued that these objects fell straight down for a short time, then suddenly spurted vapor and at a high rate of speed flew off in a southwesterly direction. Dr. MeINDO0 was unable to identify the nationality of the planes, but stated that they had twin trails of bluish smoke. He further stated that the objects which had been dropped from the planes had a single trail of bluish smoke. He stated that he had been accompanied on his fishing trip by PAUL GADDIS, Kokomo, Indiana. Dr. McIND00 had no further information concerning instant planes or the objects dropped by them. Dr. MeINDOO was referred to the FBI by DONAID D. SMITH, President of the First National Bank of Kokomo, Indiana who advised that Dr. MeINDOO enjoyed a good reputation in Kokomo. The above UACE 'i being forwarded for the information of the no further action will be taken in this matter. Bureau in the event they desire to communicate this infor- mation to the Air Force. HSK: bjk AIR MAIL SPECIAL DELIVERY RECORDED - 45 INDEXED - 45 162-83894-6 AUG 4 1952 2 EX - 28 F

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68-83894 RECORDED-30 245 EX. - 69 REGISTERED AIR MAIL Tolson tada Nichola Belmont Cless. lavin Date: To: From: Subject: August 11, 1952 Mr. Glenn H. Bethel c/o The Commissioner Royal Canadian Mounted Police Ottawa, Ontario, Canada John Edgar Hoover - Director Federal Bureau of Investigation FLYING SAUCERS SEEN NEAR THESSALON LAKE, ONTARIO, CANADA, JULY 27, 1952 MISCELLANEOUS - INFORMATION CONCERNING Dr. R. E. McIndoo, 820 West Walnut Street, Kokomo, Indiana, on July 30, 1952, advised that on July 27, 1952, at approrimately 10:00 A.ll. while fishing in the back waters of Thessalon Lake, Ontario, Canada, he noticed a formation of bombing planes, sixteen to twenty in number, in two groups flying south at a height estimated by him to be four or five miles. Dr. McIndoo stated that the planes went over the lake and suddenly dropped objects, at first thought by him to be parachutes. He continued that these objects fell straight for a short time, then suddenly spurted vapor and at a high rate of speed flew off in a southwesterly direction. Dr. MeIndoo was unable to identify the nationality of the planes, but stated that they had twin tratls of bluish smoke. He further stated that the objects which had been dropped from the planes had single trails of bluish smoke. EAB: mes No1100 Gandy_ 68 AUG 13 19520MM - FBI AUG 1 1 1952 MAILED 30

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He stated that he had been accompanied on his fishing trip by Poul Gaddie, Kokomo, Indiana. Dr• MeIndoo had no further information concerning instant planes or the objects dropped by them. The above is furnished for your information. No further inguiries are contemplated. Tolson Ladd Peron CleES Clavi: Tele. Kowloes Candy

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64 • Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO MR. A. H. BELMONT DATE: July 29, 1952 FROM : SUBJECT: FLYING SAUCERS PURPOSE: To advise at the present time the Air force has Tracy_ fatled to arrive at any satisfactory conclusion in Helmont_ its research regarding numerous reports of flying saucers and Nonr •flying discs sighted throughout the United States. Tele. Room Noasel Candy. DETAILS: Mr. N. W. Philcot, the Bureau's Air Force Liaison Representative, made arrangements through the office of Major General John A. Samford, Director of Air Intelligence, U.S. Air Force, to receiue a briefing from Commander Randall Boyd of the Current Intelligence Branch, Estimates Division, Air Intelligence, regarding the present status of Air Intelligence research into the numerous reports regarding flying saucers and flying discs. Commander Boyd advised that Air Intelligence has set up at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, the Air Technical Intelligence Center which has been established for the purpose of coordinating, correlating and making research into all reports regarding flying saucers and flying discs. He advised that Air Force research has indicated that the sightings of flying saucers goes back several centuries and that the number of sightings reported varies with the amount of publicity. He advised that immediately if publicity appears in newspapers, the number of sightings reported increases considerably and that citizens immediately call in reporting sightings which occurred several months previously. Commander Boyd stated that these reported sightings of flying saucers are placed into three classifications by Air Intelligence: (1) Those sightings which are reported by citizens who claim they have seen flying saucers from the ground. These sightings vary in description, color and speeds. Very little credence is given to these sightings inasmuch as in most instances they are believed to be imaginative or some explainable object which actually R. (2) sightings reported by commercial or military pilots. These sightings are considered more credible RECORDED-136 NWP: hke 62-83894 - 286 AUGI 1952 6 6 AUG 8 1952

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by the Air Force inasmuch as commercial or military pilots are experienced in the air and are not the object sighted can be obtained. (3) Those sightings which are reported by pilots and for which there is additional corroboration, such as recording by radar or sighting from the ground. Commander Boyd advised that this latter classification constitutes two or three per cent of the total number of sightings, but that they are the most eredible reports received and are difficult to explain. Some of these sightings are originally reported from the ground, then are observed by pilots in the air and then are picked up by radar instruments. He stated that in reporting the sightings actually did see something in still be natural phenomena and still could be recorded on radar if there was some electrical disturbance in the sky. He stated that the flying saucers are most frequently observed in areas where there is heavy air traffic, such as Washington, D. Ces and New York City. He advised, however, that some reports are received from other parts of the country covering the entire United States and that sightings have also recently been reported as far distant as Acapulco, Merico; Korea and French Morocco. He advised that the sightings reported in the last classification have never been satisfactorily that these objecte may be a natural phenomenon or some tupe He pointed outs however, that it is still possible of atmospherical disturbance. He advised that it is not entirely impossible that the objects sighted may possibly be ships from another planet such as Mars. He advised that at the present time there is nothing to substantiate this theory but the possibility is not being overlooked. He stated that Air Intelligence is fairly certain that these objects are not ships or missiles from another nation in this world. Commander Boyd advised that intense research is being carried on presently by Air Intelligence, and at the present time when credible reportings of sightings are received, the Air Force is attempting in each instance to send up jet interceptor planes in order to - 2 -

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obtain a better view of these objects. However, recent attempts in this regard have indicated that when the pilot in the jet approaches the object it invariably fades from view. RECOMMENDATION: None. The foregoing is for your information. - 3 -

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62-83894 RECORDED - 122 62 - 83894-389 Date: August 8, 1952 ЕX-129 го: Director of Spectal Investigations The Inspector General Department of the kir Force The Pentagon Washington 25, D. C. From: John Edgar Hoover - Director Federal Bureau of Investigation Subject: AERIAL OBJECTS; "FLYING SAUCERS" MISCELLANEOUS - INFORMATION CONCERNING fr There are attached two coptes of a letter dated Post Office Boz August 1, 1952, from Porence Whitishe "Flying Saucers. ,526, Charleston, South Carolina, regarding Miss Whitish's communication has been acknowledged and she has been informed of this referral. No investigation is contemplated with regard to this matter. Attachment n KWD: mes APPROPRIATE AGENCIES AND FIELD OFFICES ADVISOD BY ROLVI SLIP (S) OF D. Lada Wichols Belmont Clegs 0Javin Harbo Tracy Hohr Tele. Re. No 11 oman Candy. 9i71 5 AUG 141982 ẶUG RECEIVED REA ROOM

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62-1 ing 8.0. Box 5 tin, • s.c. J. Edgar Malike to exper Let a 8/8/52 FloReNce-Whitish Thatse Whilich 06 • O3X3ONI 162-83894-81 RECORDED - 50 > AUG 4 1952

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Date: August 12, 1952 To : Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force RECORDED - 8 The Pentagon Washington, D. C. 42-83894- From: John Edgar Hoover, Director Federal Bureau of Investigation Subject: FLYING SAUCERS Attached are two copies of a letter from Mrs. Ora A. Tygrett dated July 31, 1952, addressed to the Har Department, c/o federa. Bureau of investigation, the contents of which are self-erplanatory. Mrs. Tygrett's letter has been acknowledged and she has been aduised of this referral. APPROPRIATR AGENCIES AND FIRED OFF COES APTESTD BYT C44: 65, 0- 2010 DATE Note furnished On Yellow Only: Previous material OSI. concerning flying saucers (62-8389)) 702son Nichola Belmont Cless. Clavin Harbo Rosen Tracy Laughtin Mohr Tele. km. 4011 oran Candy TOC: jdt 313 MAILED 66 AUG 151952 2 1963 Me FB

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They are aprati aly through right here in th Our Unitid Stater, Grader Que kept for bombe riposes. Why"We se them gui one a 2 while They dont want the Us. to Catch ano а арі саму. ч. to te Innible.

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3 Wig can Lower ten or nd them Righ; Token hide we e for an enemie flaine fum a tall q in the United State A call he the Camera i Camid, in to citican l aperated gum the ones that some. Oa Kept be on the late out or the Heft on alla chei pretend over)

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TRUE_COPY R #.1, New Palestine Indiana July 31,/52 c/o Federal Beaura of Investigation The War Dept Washington D.C. Gentlemen: Since reading & hearing over Radio about the "flying saucers," I am compelled to Write to you - I am a strong believer in our almight God & Christ our Lord. I have the faith Daniel had. I feal that these Saucers are films from a secret Camera operated by something like T.V. I do believe, They are operating through the Comuniest Party right here in the, or our Unitid States, by radar Evey Group of Saucers has a picture, the best picture are kept for bombing purposes. why"we see them just once & a while; They dont want the U.s. to catch on • To my opinion they have a way of causing them to be invisible. They can Lower them or send them high; When high theu are invisible; It could be from an enemie plaine, or from a tall building in the United States. It could be the Camera is carried, in to cities and operated from tall buildings the ones that some one seen with a tail of fire is the picture that is Kept; So lets be on the look out for the next one and follow their path. Please Keep my Name confidently. /s/ Mrs. Ora A. Tughett P.S. When they were over Washington D.C. it could a been from the Tallest building there. You might Start from the first place they were ever seen - trace back you might find the secret place. And pray with out sceasing "And have faith" Our good Bood - says do not let our seerets be known, when praying & trusting in God pray secretly into him.

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64 Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO •A. He Belmondha DATE: July 31, 1952 FROM : J. R. Higgins SUBJECT: UNUSUAL FLASHES DURING ELECTRICAL STORM, JERSEY SHORE, PA., JULY 28, 1952 HARRY H. WINCHESTER, COMPLAINANT O FlyiNg SAUCERS At 2:15 AM on July 31, 1952, Harry H. Winchester, 315 Cemetery Street, Jersey Shore, Pa., telephonically advised that in the early morning of 7-28-52, during a severe electrical storm in the area on of his residence, he had obserued seven unusual flashes in sky, each flash being accompanied by a loud report. TolBor Ladd Clogs GlavIt Nichols Rosen Tracy! HarDOl Belmont Hohr Tele. Room Nease Complainant, who appeared to be under the influence of intoxicants, called as a result of recent newspaper stories regarding phenomena allegedly observed during past week in this country. Bureau indices contain no information identifiable with the complainant. Action: File. JRH: dmd dink • 34 65 AUG 7 1952 5150 F EX. - 6 INDEXED - 34 62-83894-289 JUL. 87 1968

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August 18, 1952 62 - 83894 - 296 RECORDED - 36 EX-25 Mr. Benedicto Romero 1647 Park Avenue New York City Dear Mr. Romero: I have received your letter of July 31, 1952. The matter referred to in your letter is not within the jurisdiction of this Bureau and I have taken the liberty of forwarding a copy of your letter to the Department of the Air Force for appropriate action. Very truly yours, John Edgar Hoover Director 12 EHM: Kc cc - 1 - New York (Attachment) Tolson Ladd Kichola Belmont Glavin Tracy Laughlin Tele. Ra. GO AUG 28.1952 Bureau files fail that can be identified 546 MAILED 3 AUG 1 4 1952 COMM. - FBI reflect any information with Mr. Romero. Sira

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ALICE UNIT SEARCH SLIP Supervisor Subj:. Benedicto Exact Spelling < All References Subversive Ref. Main File Restricted to Locality of 4-22 a Room 3>08 Romere Searchen fiR Initial Date S FILE NUMBER SERIALS NR Initialed

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Misterious Matry that put ir my goverment. "Flying Plates" by thy sadl at tre Ja !!! Ja!!! You please How you are in the line and excuse me, яксицете; for my cause you dist know lauphing. what haßen I me; was sended again sixth months lepre. Her It the Dayantin y You tes with what at the New Yok fate. hopins in the atmopher th. Hyin Ja!!! Ja!!! Ja!!! ahrit that ting that should the there. And also sa y if you please

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RECORDED-29 Au gus t 14, 1952 62-83894-291 Mrs. Fred Haufe EX-2 ratrmont, Wesente West Virgini Dear Mrs. Haufe: I have received your letter of August 1, 1952, and want to thank you for making the informa- tion contained therein available to this Bureau. The matter referred to in your letter is not within the jurisdiction of this Bureau and I have taken the liberty of forwarding a copy of your letter to the Department of the Air Force Jor appropriate action. Sincerely yours, John Erect Haven Director ® IVED ZU ЕНИ: Kc cC - 1- Pittsburgh (Attachment) 13034 VOM 6 12 PM '52 NOTE: Bureau files fail to reflect any information that can be identified with Mrs. Haufe. Tolson tada Nichols 110gg alavin SO AUG 2 0 1952 Tele. Rm. Ho 11oman COMM - FEI AUG 1 1 1952 MALED 18

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CONCER RECIO BELMONT F. RECEIVE SIS TOBI AuG 13 9 26 AM 352 BAIL K00gC) H. S DEPT OF JUSTICE SaUG 14 5 15 AM '5 6E890 661560₽ RECEIVED-LA F BI SEPT OF 3US) Due 13. 5-09 PM *52 05W3 Auc 13. REGIO-TOL SEN'S OFFICE Aus 13 5 32 BM 353 ,B. I. Y. S BEBT. BE JUSTIGE N0 606

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606 FAIRMONT. IRMONT. W. AVENUE VA. PHONE 3765 August 1,1952 red 8-13-52 Hon. J.Edgar Hoover Dept.F.B.I. Washington, D.C. Dear Sir: I have been hearing so much about the objects called Flying Saucers that I begin to speculate as to whether we are the only Nation or county to witness such a display. Of course it could be that those odd objects are pest filled Radar controlled waiting to be punctured.We heve been so accused by another Nation that no doubt they have devised some diabolical plan to test on us. I am not inclined to pass those over lightly, because I believe that those gadgets can be made and controlled to the extent of great numbers in groupings. Also,I believe it is very unwise to make public the locations of sightings as many folk are prone to worry, and a state of mind like this is exactly what our enemy is seeking• Any one wise enuf to perfect such would not only know their travel distance but also their location, therefore no talk or publiC to RECORDED • neFat us in that. . • 60 RECORDED - 35 I hope that someone has had the integrity and foresight to learn where if -29 in any other country these 'things' have been seen. INDEXED - 36 - AUG 5. 1952 Thanking you in advance for the courtesy of a reply, I remain Respectfully yours

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64 *Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOYERMENT TO : Director, FBI Ceo: SAC, Cane1mmats (100-0) DATB: August 6, 1952 SUBJECT: ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATION WRITTEN IN GEFMAN LANGUAGE RECEIVED BY "CINGINNATI ENQUIRER" PERTAINING TO "FLYING SAUCERS" SECURITY MATTER - X Mr. K. DORIS of the staff of the "Cincinnati Enquirer" furnished the Cincinnati Office with the enclosed letter and envelope received anonymously at the "Cincimati Enquirer" in an envelope postmarked 7-3-52 at Cincinnati, Ohio. It will be noted that the enclosed letter is written in the German language, and I am also enclosing a rather loose translation of the letter as furnished by the "Cincinnati Enquirer." In view of the widespread interest in so-called "flying saucers," I am forwarding this material to the Bureau, with the thought in mind that the Bureau may desire to have a careful translation made of the attached letter, and the results, if deemed advisable, made available to other Goverrmental agencies. Enclosures (3) EWY : LM PINOLO, ATTACHED Memo I athent of Transl. IWNITEN RECORDED - 818162 PARED IN LAB. FOR LAB. ACHION AND REPORT T-13861 24N/e28/815 ATE IN NORMA TON CONTA T MED ISPUNCT VEERS SHORTE ASSIFIED HOTWESE. 162-83894-290 12 AUG ZZ1 1952 8-13-5° Leh 051 EAm:Ke

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SEC ITY INFORMATION - COM RECORDEU-29 EX-129 62-83894-29° Date: To: From: August 13, 1952 Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington 25, D. C. John Edgar Hoover, Director Federal Bureau of Investigation Subject: ANONYMOUS COMJUNICATION WRITTEN IN THE GERMAN LANGUAGE, RECEIVED BY THE "CINCINNATI ENQUIRER" PERTAINING TO "FLYING SAUCERS" SECURITY MATTER - X There is attached for your information and any action you desire to take in this matter a Photostat of & letter, written in German, received Jrom an anonymous source, which was addressed to the "Cincinnatt Enquirer." 4 Photostat of the envelope, in which the letter was forwarded, is attached and indicates it was matled on July 31, 1952, at Cincinnati, Ohio. For your further assistance in this matter a translation of the attached letter from the German is attached. Attachment ROOM 13 5 11 PM '52 Tolson Ladd Nichola Belmont Clegs. Clavin Harbo APRIATE, AC Tracy. Laughl tin Hohr Tele. Re Holloman Candy 10 DECLASSIFIED BY 1259 01 20 - 28-33, 81650 MAILED, A AUG 1 4 1952 •COMM- FBI SECURITY INFORMATION - 58 AUG 29 1952

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Tragende Untertasse. Seil 1944- ans probierte Waffe welche fetad sohl sehen seri emmarrig hergestelle wind ii mer Zeid viel von sich rechen macht ist eine V. Waffee, welche einen drökus ahn. nado hehen Karper had, der im Dichmesser etwa 42.50 me ich messer hat, tod an Arsening etre 45.50- automatirche beischüsen, tie nach zinhung der Scheibe, um lind im Zentrum beinliche Megu glas kügel kreisen, in der befinden sich die cess mit Konkrollgeräte fio Jerustinerrng befinden Iu sud ter tigel int nach ging kown fir hock eqplosive atombomben Eine Waffen befindes torer fichel dentschlant sagt es int eine Agpinche Vi 7 daran er selbad gearbeitet hat. tok bin swoher das de Wakheit besru dirk als eine Kakick indem volk bei Kichreiseenheit, П. ScH.

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Flogende Untertasse . Seil 1944- ansprabiette Waffe welche fetal sohl schan ser emmating hergestelld wind in mir Zeit viel von sich rechen macht st eine V. Waffee, welche einn Drokis cilm. lichen Darper hal, Der im Dischernesse etra42.50 M Dich messt hat, Ardd an Aussening etric 45-50 ahrtomatische Heischüsen, Die nach Zin ing Der Scheibe, un eine im Zentreino befinliche pleai glankügel keisen, in de befinden sich zie chess mit Kondrollgeräte fir fernstenernng befinden Insud ter thigel ans nach gung Rown fir hock egplosise atombomben, bire Waffen lefinded ua van 30-35000 Km eufweisen, U. Waffen Kaustons sowr Riesel Dentschlant sagt es art eine Aypische i 7 claran er selbe gearbeitet hat. Ich bin soh dar die Wahheit besre derk als eine Kakick midam volk bei Kichreissenheil . П. ScH.

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Plregende Untertasse. •Seil Seil ans probisite Waffe welche jetat siche schan sers emmäg hergestelld wind und an Zeif viel von sich rechen macht ist eine V. paffee, welche einen Drökis cihn. me abrich messer hat, tadl an Aussensing etwa 45.50 chutomatirche Keischüsen, Die nach brüning Der Schaibe, im eine im Zentino befindliche prequi glas kugel Ressen, in der befinder sich die chess mit Kontrollgeräte führ Feinsteneinng befinden In seid Der thigel ist nach gering Rann für hock eqpelosine Citombomben viere Waffen befinded sich in Pensengle Han mit Kam einen Coloniali ua van 30 - 35000 /m efreisen, U. Waffen Kanstons torer Rieted deutschlant sagt es int eine Appische V. 7 daran er selbad gearbeitet hat. tok bin woher dar die Wahheit besser dit als eine Kakink inten Volk bei dichtweiseinheit. H. ScH.

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FLYING SAUCERS Since 1944 there have been experimental weapons which should new be in preduction. The one about which there has been se mueh discussion 1s a V-Weapon which has a disc-like round body, about 48.50 metres in ? diameter and has by way of emission 45 to 50 autematic (word not logible). With the setting off of the disc these rotate around a sensitive plexi-glass sphere in the center in which aro located the - (werd not logible) and guiding apparatus for distance flights. Insido the sphere there is alse enough space for high explosive aton bembs. These weapons - (not logiblo) and show an effective range of from 30 to 35,000 kilemetres. V-Weapon Konstrus (Tochnician?) Riedel (or Riedet),Germany, says It is a typical V-Weapon on which he himself worked. I am positive that the truth is better than keeping the peoplo in ignorance • H. Sch. This letter is written apparently by & not highly literete persen with undeveloped handwriting. It is ny opinion that he is not making up what

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2 • he has written. If I were handling this, I should turn his letter ever to the FBI or some other investigating agency to see if he knews anything mere• F.Y. August 4, 1952

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THE JUL 3: 930PM 7952 CINCINNATI ENQUIRER UNITED STATES POSTAGE CENTS 2

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Wirding sulf Me Edger Hoover a furlines to let you know a few lt things that the Hown mint should know. for an of US Dakeps stop the peopefrom Broad Casting hou tar thae blying sanue aue going and Whue The then at INEXEDAI& renson Lustin is in 68AN6 131952'1 y some thing Niem

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that is Coming our hue by raido activity and late they will he sending the atomis Bomb Qunhue so tu to stop thins au now geting the distance And they sind out and and thin our peopu ties Where they su at and that is they want to know. Catur on they will sind Suicide planes isthout air pisito hen to bomb. uzie M. Taylor meRg /→/ AU/ORI

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August 13, 1952 Mr. W. H. Jennings 3096 Hazelmary Zone 17 Michigan Pontiags Might 944 RECORDED-30 Dear Mr. Jennings: I have received your letter of August 5, 1952, and want to thank you for making the informa- tion contained therein available to this Bureau. FX. - 69 The matter referred to in your letter is not within the jurisdiction of this Bureau and I have taken the ltberty of forwarding a copy of vour. letter to the Department of the Air Force for appropriate action. Very truly yours, Tolson Ladd Nichola Beinont C1088 5840G 20 1952 John Edgar Hoover Director S AF cc - 1 - Detroit RECEIVED REMI AuG 13 6 12 Note for Detroit: Mr. Jennings advised the Bureau, in hig Letter, of his theory regarding flying saucers. Mr. Jennings' opinion flying saucers are manufactured by General Electric or General Motors Research Laboratories, consist of aluminum tanks filled with helium gas under pressure, and work on magnetic principles. EHM: KC N MATED BR •AUG 14 1952 COmM - -BI

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DOES PRECIO BELMONT F 109 5e STICE RECIO-TOL SOV'S OFFICE 9 26 AM 352 ÁUG 13: 5.32 PM. 52 U.S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE RECEIVED-LA RECEIVE -BAIL NO B I 8 ISEPT BE JUSTI MOS DEPT OF JUSTICE: 09 PH 952 25 PM?5

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ANN 1 ontian, mich aog 5'52 -сля Flying DIsas 8-13-52 F. BI. Wask De. ЕНт: Ke Sentlemeni- Lan, sins. I have a theany on the so called Plying savress. I dont know mhere to rsite to expres my opinion. But yours is the best gice in the land w. IX Jennings uten it comes ta investigations. If and whinel get ready to comt a crime miltepperte get cought kursoke it. oncess are real chen RECORDED - 134 INDEXED - 134 62-83894- in my opinion ely AUG 6 1952. planet. a would de welling to • MossBing My are de Bian chilita Teenl (or )

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(21 Elective on Seneral Matus Rechoih Labritoris. dam not an electrican all kno about Elect is to gial ahold of one mire at a time on alternating current and lex wit curent strethy alone. Its my openion that these dises or what have you are alumenom tanks filled mich Heilam gas unde a lot of preasure. and permenent magenit (pous pullone) tailt on ther sides with the north polls outside. 30ISAr do/1030 Timetal objet approacks them. they are sapuled at the same 3G. WY 20 01 sped asthe approacking a ffet.

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(3) Then you look at it from that slant You can see they can never be conger o no mata how fast the persuing plane goes thy retreat at the dame spout. One good way to check that would e to have thee plane ta prand at the angles The relenting offect could not cross in front fang aftle plans it wored have to go straight alead. You try and yes the northpole of a magnet and southpile te comes and

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(4) Ive seen a steel has hang in spore at auto shows, it was mesily tea poles pusting against each ache entral I pulling to gather. as Rush your watch sa pere of steel trough a demagnet tiger and you with see what elmean Al a plane mere epiped meth a magnet y afout two a 3 Gs and the notch pole pointed at the nose of the plame or stock out ahead of the propelly a foot of two think those saveers would he cought, Respectfally fus Penter mi

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SERVICE UNIT SEARCH SLIP Subj:_ *Supervisor W.H Exact Spelling All References Subversive Ref. Main File Restricted to Locality of 4 - 22a Room 3708 Searchers Initial Date FILE NUMBER SERIALS 29-5/80 Willin # Junni 1171 - 16 - 321 1188 - 36400. Willin Kasy feming.

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64 Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO Director, FBI DATE: 8/7/52 FROM: SUBJECT: SAC, Philadelphia FLYING SAUCERS At the weekly liaison conference held in the Philadelphia Office on August 5, 1952, Major H. B. ELIRIDGE advised that OSI is no longer interested in receiving reports concerning flying saucers. The above is submitted for the Bureau's information. Phistor JLK : ERG RECORDED - 76 Letter to SAC, Philadephe 8/5/2 NWP 24 AUG IT 1952 42 - 83 734 395 03

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RECORDED-29 SAC, PHILADELPHIA DIRECTOR, FBI FLYING SAUCERS OSI LIAISON August 15, 1952 (62-03804) - 345 Reurlet August 7, 1952, in which you stated that at a weekly liaison conference held in Philadelphia Major H. B. Eldridge advised that OSI is no longer interested in receiving reports concerning flying saucers. OSI, as the official Air Force liaison agency, has agreed to accept reports regarding flying saucers and to transmit these reports to the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, where all information pertaining to flying saucers is coordinated. If Major Eldridge still insists that he does not desire to receive reports regarding flying saucers, you should advise the Bureau and the matter will be discussed further with OSI Headquarters in Washington, D. C. wwpshkehle INT. TOlBOn] Ladd NIchols Belmont Clegrad Clavin_ Harbo Rosen Tracy Mohr Tele. Rm._ Nease Gandy 60 AỨG 2 01952 MAILED AUG 1 5 1952 CÔMM. FBI GIG 13 N 33 6N P2 DEBL DE INCLICE LBI SECEIAED NVIF MOON

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August 5, 1952 RECORDED - 57 INDEXED - 57 62-83814-276 Mr. Dewey I wilson 2727 Maryland Avenue D. JAWI/SON Baltimore 18, Marylana Dear Mr. Wilson: Your letter postmarked July 30, 1952, has been received, and I appreciate the interest prompting you to bring your comments to my attention. Since your communication may be of interest to another governmental agency, I am taking the liberty of forwarding a copy of it to The Honorable, The Secre- tary of the Air Force, Department of Defense Building, The Pentagon, Washington 25, D. C. Sincerely yours, John Edgar Hoover Director DIC: ank:mfo fil СоСору of incoming sent short form. the Secretary of the Air Force Tolson Ladd Xichols Beinont Cless Clavin Harbo Tracy Laughl in Mohr Tele. Re 368 гр Candy 65 AUG 14:352 д/х. V.B COMM FB AUG 5 1952 •MAILED 28

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2727 Mar Rant are Baltimore 18 mo 7. B"] - July 28-1952 washn dc Dear sir, OFlYiNg SAUCERS I would like to submit a Theory that may heat to a solution of what the Flying sancers real fighte. These objects Cones te Radio delevision Beams luminating moist Vapor, not unlike phosphous on rain soaked wood in Certam seasmo - The northern Rights "amora Borealuo" have mainfestes themate bor gearo, setting up Electro magnetian + East potential which distante normal. Telegraph Communications. The light es are somerchat like a Fan + Can he seen as far soutt. at is my opinion RECOOED FL ly 83874-296 Saners Cuments onto a No comes Changes it to glous - ghis Electrically 4 mel interceptose

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be overtake ant would grows Dimmer impressin outdistances the persuer with a great Bust of spur - This is submittis as a shery as y do not have the power on facilities to prove on dispire. But o submit a suggestin wherely a test Canes he these sancus appea again Have the ar. y all Broncasto the air ano chock not Change. To on on at Hoven 9 2S/99TFE 1674 belient that, it the an an in beth me ne Crude to more Learnes perbons than Some salution

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T COPY 2727 Maryland ave Baltimore 18 MD July 28-1952 J. Edgar Hoover F.B.I. Washn DC • Dear sir, I would like to submit a theory that may lead to a solution of what the Flying saucers really are-these objects could be Lights. caused by Radio Television Beams illuminating moist vapor, not unlike phosphous on rain soaked wood in certain seasons-the northern lights "aurora Borealus" have manifested themselves for years, setting up Electro magne- tism & Earth potential which distorts normal Telegraph Communications. The lights are somewhat like a Fan & can be seen as far south as Equator- It is my opinion that Flying Saucers are Electrically induced currents onto a space (small clouds) and causing it to glow- this cloud being charged Electrically and a magnetic polarity being same as the interceptor it can never be overtaken, and would if persued gradually grow Dimmer & disappear giving the impression that it out distanced the persuer with a great Burst of speed. This is submitted as a theory as I do not have the power or facilities to prove or disprove. But I submit a suggestion whereby a test could be made. When these saucers appear again Have the TV & all Broadcasts silenced from the air and check for results-this may not change immediately, as other Elements in this Build up can not be turned off or on at a given signal. However I firmly believe that, if the idea as set forth in my crude way is submitted to more learned persons then I some solution is inevitable. /s/ Dewey T. Wilson

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STANDARO FORM NO. 64 Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO : W. A. Branigan DATE: August 12, 1952 FROM SUBJECT: E. H. Mossburglar FLYING DISKS N' Tolson Ladd Clegg. Glavin Nichols Rosen Tracy Harbo Belmont Mohr Tele. Room Nease Gandy entitled There is attached a copy of a periodical "Sunday Graphic" dated July 6, 1952, received by the Bureau from the Office of the Legal Attache, American Embassy, London, England. It is desired that the attached periodical containing an article relating to the captioned matter be filed in the captioned file. Attachment TENC 44 5. {t- ENCLO, ATTACHIN RECORDED - 44 | 62- 83894- INDEXED - 44 2 AUG 13 195k 58 AUG 28 1051

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Look VOLUME 16, NUMBER 13 JUNE 17, 1952 62-83894-281 This might be a picture of flying saucers taken at night over Arizona or New Mexico. It was in fact taken in Dr. Menzel's laboratory at Harvard University. THE TRUTH ABOUT FLYING SAUCERS One of America's leading astronomers goes into his laboratory at Harvard and disposes of the flying-saucer myth. He adds sim- ple instructions for making flying saucers in your own kitchen By Dr. DONALD H. MENZEL Donald H. Menzel is professor of astrophys- ics and associate diree- tor of solar research at Harvard University. His work on flying sau- cers was done in re- sponse to a request from LOOK. The Air Force has expressed a lively interest in it. SUPPOSE that I should be especially well qualified to write about flying saucers since I happen to be one of the few persons who has actually seen one. My solar studies take me frequently to Colorado and New Mexico, and I was at the Holloman Air Base, near Alamogordo, N. M., at the height of the flying-saucer scare. That very morning, I had glimpsed what seemed to be several saucers moving overhead-until I focused my eyes more clearly and recognized the objects as weather balloons. That after- noon, I expressed my belief that most of the saucers could be thus explained. But others in the group-including several well-known sei- entists-indicated that there was probably more to the saucer story than that. Early that evening, I had my second attack of saucers. I was in the back seat of an auto- mobile, being driven toward Alamogordo and admiring the full moon as it rose over Sacra- mento Peak toward the east. A few degrees north of the moon, I noticed what seemed to be a bright star, and then a second star not far from the first. Casually, I assumed that they were Castor and Pollux in the constellation of CONTINUED 35

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100 FLYING SAUCERS continued Orderly processes of natural laws explain saucers These are the Lubbock Lights, as photographed Aug. 30, 1951, over Lubbock, Texas, by 18-year-old Carl Hart, Jr. Gemini. Then, very suddenly, I realized that Gemini was a winter object; the two stars had to be something else. Like most astronomers, I am always hope- ful of finding a nova (exploding star) which can be seen with the naked eye, so I rapidly opened the window of the car for a better look. I could bring neither of these objects into clear focus, although nearby Antares was sharp. Both hazy disks shone with a slightly bluish light. They were, in a sense, "flying" simply because they were elevated. Suddenly, alive to the fact that I was seeing something unusual, I asked the driver to stop. We climbed out of the car just in time to see the saucer literally fade away as mysteriously as they had ap- peared. I reported the occurrence in detail to the Air Force. I later found that an English meteorologist, Edward J. Lowe, had recorded a similar phe- nomenon as long ago as 1838-similar except for the fact he saw four instead of two ghostly images flying near the moon. Perhaps you expect me to say, at this point, that I can explain exactly what I saw that evening. I am sorry to disappoint you. I cannot. I have certain ideas on the subject, but they are only hypotheses-reasonable but not yet fully confirmed. I shall explain those ideas, but first let me say what I do Not believe. I do Not believe that what I saw, or anything anyone has re- ported seeing, were missiles or messengers or vehicles from the moon or Mars or space. I do Not believe they were missiles or messengers or vehicles from Russia or any other foreign country. Indeed, how simple science and life would be if every time we encountered some seem- ingly inexplicable fact, we could blame it on some outside force over which we have no control. Such a mode of thought is as old as man himself. Our prehistoric ancestors personalized all the forces of nature. Gods blew the winds, threw lightning bolts and stoked the fires that belch forth from volcanic craters. Brilliant showers of meteors have made men fear that the end of the world was immi- nent. The ancients have interpreted a solar eclipse, as a dragon devouring the sun and re- joiced when their beating drums and weapons frightened the dragon away. How simple this type of science. No labo- ratory experiment to prove or test the hypo- theses. No complicated mathematics to study the details of the process. Nothing to argue about here. For each new and unexplained fact, we invent a new god-or assume the exist- ence of a superintelligence. How simple-and how wrong! Centuries of civilization have taught us the futility of inventing mysterious forces and superhuman beings. You could explain any- thing that way. Such explanations, however, are completely useless and nature falls into chaos, subject to the whim of a pagan deity instead of to the orderly processes of natural laws. "An Uncivilized Attitude" As a scientist, I am not bothered if I can- not give a complete, iron-clad explanation for every phenomenon I meet. Unraveling the puzzles of science is my business-as well as my pleasure. I find the world still full of unsolved problems. I look for the explanations, but I do not arbitrarily invent forces that make expla- nation unnecessary. Why, then, have so many civilized people chosen to adopt an uncivilized attitude toward flying saucers? I think there are three reasons: First, flying saucers are unusual. All of us are used to regularity. We naturally attribute mystery to the unusual. Second, we are all nervous. We live in a world that has suddenly become hostile. We have unleashed forces we cannot control; many persons fear we are heading toward a war that will end in the destruction of civilization. Third, people enjoy being frightened a little. They go to Boris Karloff double features. But such analysis should concern the psy- chologist rather than the natural scientist, so let me hasten back to our flying saucers. First of all, we must recognize that "flying saucers," in the public mind, cover a wide va- riety of objects and phenomena. Some of them, we can almost immediately dispose of, al- though the mere fact of their misinterpretation has been one of the chief difficulties men have encountered in getting at the basic truth. A man sitting in the park on a calm sum- mer afternoon scarcely realizes how intense the winds aloft may be. Perhaps real gales exist, with speeds in excess of 60 miles an hour, different layers moving in opposite directions. Light, flat objects such as newspapers or kites can be caught in an occasional whirlwind and lifted to enormous heights, where they may fly for hundreds of miles before they again reach the ground. Weather balloons, which are often released in groups rather than singly, are not at all uncommon. Indeed, most such objects lose their true identity when viewed against the sky. And it is extremely hard to recognize them. Occasional reflections from distant planes or even from the backs of high-flying birds account for some of the reports. The planet Venus has, on many occasions, produced its own series of sensations. Few people seem to realize that this planet, when at greatest bril- liance, can be plainly seen in the daytime. I floating cirrus clouds overlie it, the planet ma give the illusion of being in rapid motion. Mr people find it difficult to focus their eyes o distant object; hence, they see a bright blur the sky and thus give rise to another flyir saucer story. 36

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"costumes execuled by BROOKS* This familiar theater-program credit represents a $2,000,000-a-year gross business, costuming everything from Broadway stars to circus elephants Routine sight at Brooks: a show girl hur- rying off to try on her next new costume. THE 39-year-old Brooks Costume Com- pany is the biggest in the business. It is responsible for the eye appeal of 80 per cent of Broadway's current musicals. It does a large part of New York's TV-cos- tume business and will open a TV service branch in Hollywood shortly. Brooks' big- gest regular customer is the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus, with its annual $300,000 wardrobe. And for $400,000, Brooks costumed Cecil B. de Mille's movie about that circus. Arena skating shows like Hollywood Ice Revue, Sonja Henie's Ice Show, Holiday on Ice run about $200,000 for costumes - three times most Broadway show budgets. The bulk of Brooks' business, how- ever, does not come from its big customers like Roxy and Radio City shows, Guys and Dolls chorus lines, The King and I cos- Produced by PATRICIA COFFIN tumes. It comes from the 175-odd shows Brooks outfits weekly for universities, drama clubs, church societies, junior leagues, civic pageants, summer theaters and municipal operas all over the country. Brooks has 135,000 costumes for rent, from $2000 ball gowns once owned by Mrs. Rob- ert Ogden Goelet to Indian costumes from Annie Get Your Gun. For $10 a night, the lead in a Northwestern University play goes on in a gown once worn by Maude Adams, Bea Lillie or Mary Martin. This is possible because of suave, sil- ver-haired James E. Stroock's policy of buying back the costumes he was origi- nally paid a fat fee to make. "He's king of his own state," says producer John Mur- ray Anderson. Famous for his nicknames, he calls Stroock, president of Brooks, "The Pope," "because he is so omnipotent." CONTINUED A wardrobe is born: designer Irene Sharaff with pro- ducers Ben Segal, Chandler Cowles in Stroock's office. First, costumes are made in drab muslin, tried on for freedom of movement. Later, best materials are used. Irene Sharaff discusses Paul Hartman's vice-presidential pants for Of Thee I Sing.

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conditions exist, flying saucers become likely spread out horizontally to form a thin layer of smoke and haze. This ceiling occurs at the point of highest temperature. Smoke, dust and all kinds of general haze tend to collect in this layer. From below or above, you may not be aware of its existence. But as you pass through it, you see a fine black line extending from horizon to horizon. On that famous day in June, 1947, when Kenneth Arnold of Boise, Idaho, spotted from his private plane nine distant saucers moving at "fantastic speeds" along the slopes of Mt. 'Rainier, he may well have been flying not too far from one of these layers of inversion haze. His was the observation that touched off the saucer scare. Let us turn to the official Air Force release and quote Arnold himself: "I could see their outline quite plainly against the snow as they pproached the mountain. They flew very close to the mountain tops, directly south to south- east down the hog's back of the range, flying like geese. I watched for about three minutes -a chain of saucerlike things at least five miles long, swerving in and out of the high mountain peaks. They were flat like a pie pan and so shiny they reflected the sun like a mirror." In Arnold's own story, there are several clues that should have pointed out the answer long ago. Anyone familiar with mountains knows that the ridges, where ascending cur- rents of air from opposite sides meet and mix, are subject to the most violent drafts. From the Harvard and University of Colorado observa- tory at Climax, Colo., I have observed with a telescope the blowing snow on the ridges of 14,000-foot peaks, and have noted the billow- ing gusts rage along the "hog's back." It is indeed highly probable that the slopes of Mt. Rainier are equally turbulent. And, if their turbulence reaches upward into the haze, the warped layers would reflect sunlight and a progression of moves would make the crests seem to move with phenomenal speed. And if you doubt whether mere bending or crinkling of a hazy layer could cause the bright reflection, note how a fold of a lace curtain-or piece of cheesecloth-similarly re- fleets the light. The reflection is brightest when the curvature is sharpest. Most daytime saucers are a variant of this phenomenon. The mirage effect is here of secondary importance. The "ghost" balloons are perhaps the sim- plest of all mirage phenomena. The balloon itself is responsible. As it "punctures" some fairly high inversion, a large bubble of colder air settles down from above, forming in effect a sort of supermagnifying lens or telescope. This imperfect lens of air forms an image of the balloon. And, as the lens changes its size and shape, the distorted image darts wildly around, with phenomenal speed-like a reflec- tion of the sun from a hand mirror. To demonstrate some of these effects - chiefly those associated with the luminous night saucers-I prepared a simple laboratory experiment, as follows: I filled a cylindrical jar half full of benzene and carefully floated a layer of acetone on top. Gentle stirring pro- duced a narrow region where the chemical composition changed slowly upward. Benzene has optical qualities analogous to those of cold air and acetone to those of warm air. I thus reproduced in a small space what would ordi- narily require miles of terrestrial atmosphere. The liquids produce remarkable effects. A beam of light, focused diagonally up- ward from a small slide projector, would or- dinarily strike the ceiling. But caught in the "inversion layer," the beam obediently curved downward. Tiny globules of glycerine emulsi- fied in the benzene scattered the light and made the beam visible. The original circular pinhole used in the projector was distorted into an oval shape and clearly marked with some pat- tern suggesting a surface structure. Laboratory "Saucers" Any motion of the liquid-produced as the result of a rocking-made the saucer slip about. Turbulence, caused by a dolionto stirring of the medium near the light beam, gave dozens of flying disks. The color effects, resulting in part from the glycerine globules, were star- tling and beautiful. Finally, when I replaced the single pinhole with a row that simulated distant street lights, the resulting images be- haved and looked like the Lubbock Lights These considerations do not explain every- thing. The green fire balls are still something of a mystery, though many will prove to be meteors. Prof. Fred L. Whipple of Harvard has called my attention to the fact that the color probably arises from the presence of magne- sion in the meteor itsell. This metal, well known to be an abundant constituent of the rock meteors, emits green light when incan- descent. The reported slowness of motion may be due to great distance, associated with the clarity of the desert skies. This mirage-phenomena theory includes tre flying saucers seen on radarscopes. The same sort of conditions which cause optical mirages cause radar mirages as well, as any radar expert will hasten to tell you. They cause television mirages too. Everyone knows cases where a television station, normally miles out of range, suddenly comes in powerful and steady. Also, the stress laid on the optical pecu- liarities of air over deserts should not be mis- leading. The temperature inversions of which I speak are common over the desert (and over coastal waters) but they are not limited to such areas. They can appear anywhere, and do. A bad smog, for example, is usually a sign of a temperature inversion. But they are more frequent over deserts, which explains in part the fact that saucer reports are more frequent over deserts. You, too, can have flying saucers in your home. Perhaps not as elaborate as the ones I have just described, but nevertheless adequate to demonstrate some of the effects. You may simulate the gradual bending that causes a mirage by using a sharp reflection at a water surface. Fill the kitchen sink to the brim and set up a candle or row of candles close to the edge along one side. A box with a series of pinholes illuminated by a light or candle is even better. Now face the lights from the opposite side of the sink, keeping your eye close to the water surface and see the bright reflections. Now have someone gently stir the water and pro- duce waves. The lights will float and travel- and even show the disklike form character- istic of a reflection from the trough of a wave. One can even reproduce the saucers with light reflected from the surface of coffee in a cup. As I have said earlier, these experiments are suggestive rather than definitive. More work is necessary to prove the phenomenon. The analysis indicates, however, a clear plan for future study and research. I believe that these experiments will eventually cause the saucer scare to vanish - most appropriately, into thin air, the region that gave birth to it. END The forces entrusted with the defense of the U. S. from the skies still must look for "Aying saucers." In its next issue, Look will tell the story of this secret hunt by our aerial defenders. In normal air, light from the ground simply spreacs out into space. Outside its range, where the earth curves away, there is darkness and no strange phenomena. With a temperature inversion, light bends in refracting layer of air. A ray of light will thus be seen in areas far distant from its source. Drawing by Al Ewers WARM AIR REFRACTING AIR LAYER COLD SURFACE

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FLYING SAUCERS continued Wherever certain well-known ai luminous by night. They may appear singly, in clusters or fly in precise geometrical forma- tion. The best-defined patterns of this type have been called the Lubbock Lights, since their best-known appearance was in Lubbock, Texas. They have, however, appeared else- where. Next, we have the mysterious balls of green fire. Are they or are they not related to the luminous "Foo Fighters" that occasionally seem to accompany a plane or even engage it in a mysterious sort of shadowboxing? Finally, there are the "ghost" saucers that seem to hover suspiciously around a freshly launched balloon, and rush off at some unprecedented speed-presumably to report their findings. At least four such ghosts have been reliably re- ported. Many of the records refer to some tre- mendous distance or speed. And here I ask this question: How can an observer on the ground from a single station and with his eyes alone, give a reliable estimate of all three figures: distance, size and speed? If you think that this is easy, try it sometime-on the moon, for ex- ample. The reported saucers move at varied an- gular speeds, either sideways or vertical. Their unknown actual speed depends on how far away they actually are. They may "veer" sharply at any given moment. At times, the images are extremely brilliant. Sometimes, they show a trace of structure, which some observers have associated with "windows" or "portholes" of a space craft. They move without sound and hence seem to be controlled without any normal forces of power that we would ascribe to a craft on earth. The objects are generally round or oval and bear no resemblance to any known air- craft already built or being built on earth. But are we justified in reversing these arguments and saying that, since no terrestrial craft could have such properties and since no human beings could withstand the tremendous buffeting that the flying saucers seem to get, the objects must perforce space ships manned by beings of decidedly nonhuman characteristics? I ask again: Is this sweeping conclusion justified? Or shall we accept tem- porarily what seems to be a much more rea- sonable alternative: that the flying saucers are not material objects at all? The one thing that can respond instan- taneously to force is a light beam. You can stand at the foot of a high mountain and with a hand mirror flash a signal from base to peak and back again, a distance of more than 10 miles, in a tenth of a second or less. But, if we see something flashing over cliff and forest with a speed of 100 miles a second or accelerat- ing with a force 1000 times greater than that of gravity, must we conclude that it is a manned craft? An Optical Phenomenon? Let us, then, accept as a working hypoth- esis the idea that saucers may be an optical phenomenon-though nonetheless real. To me as a scientist, this was the only course along which to proceed. And the hypoth- esis that these were optical phenomena, tak- ing place primarily in desert regions, inevit- ably brought the next logical consideration to my mind. In the science of atmospherics, there is a well-known condition known as "temperature inversion." It is simple enough. Normally, the air grows colder as one goes farther up from the surface of the earth. But sometimes the reverse is true, and a layer of warm air over- lies layers of colder air. During the war, I was a member and later chairman of the Wave Propagation Committee of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, which conducted a series of tests on the desert. We were studying radar images; but light behaves, in many ways like radar. What we learned about the desert applies as much to light as to radar. We learned that temperature inversions were, as we had expected, extremely common on the desert. During the day, the desert is ex- tremely hot. At night (or even during the day under certain cloud conditions), the ground rapidly cools off. But the air cools more slowly. Thus, the air cools more quickly where it actu- ally is in contact with the ground, but for some distance continues to get warmer with hight. Then, well away from the ground, it begins to become cooler again. Scientists have long known that regions of the atmosphere wherein the temperature changes rapidly with height can cause a mi- rage. Mirage. That is the key to the whole prob- lem of saucers. And, working on that assump- tion, I have been able to reproduce in the labo- ratory most of the essential features of the saucers. Much more study, both theoretical and experimental, is necessary before we shall un- derstand this complicated problem in all its details. I am confident, however, that we can eventually produce and observe the phenom- enon at about any time we wish to Mirage. A mirage is fundamentally an image caused by a lens of air. Since air lenses are almost never perfect, the world we see through them is distorted and unreal. Like seeing through spectacles that do not fit your eyes. Or looking in one of those highly curved mirrors in an amusement park. And yet you see mirages every day, with- out really knowing it. As you drive along a highway on a hot day, the dark asphalt in the distance seems to be covered with water-a film that evaporates as the car advances. This is the ordinary mirage we familiarly associate with the desert: the thirsty traveler, the vision of a receding lake, and only sand. The water, of course, is an image of the sky, projected against the distant landscape. The light rays that produce the illusion traverse a path that is concave upward. But give us a cool layer of air at the ground, as in the desert at night, and light rays will curve in the reverse direction, following along the surface of the earth. City Lights Become "Saucers" Where the daytime mirage projects the image of the sky against the earth, the night- time desert variety projects the image of the earth against the sky. And hence, if we have distant lights-such as those of a city-these lights will appear to float in the sky. Moreover, if the intervening air contains waves or is tur- bulent to any degree, the lights will appear to move, riding in on the crest of a wave, like ripples of moonlight on the ocean. If the source is a line of distant street lamps, the images appear to fly in formation-the Lubbock Light phenomenon. One further property of these temperature inversions serves to emphasize the effect and undoubtedly contributes to the daytime sau- cers. Daytime inversions are fairly common, but they usually lie higher than the ones that occur at night on the desert. You can often see them-or at least recognize their existence. A column of smoke from a distant chimney will sometimes rise smoothly upward and then The clear air of the desert, and the lack of buildings or of hills, make it possible to see long distances; increase the number of observed events. In the city, the angle of vision is small and the sky is full of smoke and dust. Thus, even if conditions were perfect for "saucers," fewer would be observed over cities. ANGLE OF VISION ANGL SION

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Photographed by Arthur Rothstein Dr. Menzel begins setting up his apparatus, using a large glass jar, benzene and acetone. "hese "lights" were one of many sets of "saucers" made by Dr. Menzel in his laboratory. Note the "mother ship." But by no means all of the objects can be so dismissed. After we have eliminated the false saucers and the erroneous reports that we trace to misidentification, there do remain a number that we cannot completely write off. Such as the ones I saw myself. The first question we are called upon to answer is this: If these objects are natural objects, why did they suddenly appear for the first time in 1947? An honest question and a basic one; for if it cannot be answered, we are in difficulties. But the answer is simple: They were seen in the skies long before 1947. Scien- tific literature is full of them. England Had Durham Lights Take, for example, the Lubbock Lights, which appeared in the sky near Lubbock. Texas, last summer and were photographed. Similar phenomena have been long reported. England was mildly excited over the Durham Lights almost a century ago. In 1897, our papers were filled with stories about a mysterious cigar-shaped airship seen at odd places over the country. The lights and men aboard were clearly visible. Finally, the great inventor Thomas A. Edison himself dis- posed of the rumor. Here is a quotation from the magazine Nature for May 25, 1893: "During a recent wintry cruise in H.M.S. Caroline, a curious phenomenon was seen.... Unusual lights were reported by the officer of the watch. They ap- peared sometimes as a mass, at others spread out in an irregular line. They bore north until I lost sight of them about midnight. ... The globes of fire altered in their formation... now in a massed group with an outlying light, then the isolated one would disappear and the others would take the form of a crescent of diamonds." The account also mentioned a "looming mirage." of which I shall have more to say later. This report interests me for two reasons: First, it would almost serve as a description of the Lubbock Lights. Second, my own theory of the Lubbock tested in my laboratory, before I found this account in Nature-and my theory directly as- sociates looming mirages with the lights. The next question is quite natural: Even granting that these phenomena have a long history, why are they so much more frequent today than in the past? List the places where flying saucers have been seen, and you will notice that the great majority were reported in very hot areas, over deserts-in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. For years, these states were sparsely settled. But since the war began, they are the areas in which the most startling population growth has been tallied. Irrigation has brought farmers in. The dry heat has made tourist havens of Phoenix and Tucson. The air age has made these flat, clear-skied areas the natural locations for great bomber and fighter bases. Finally, atomic energy has chosen New Mexico In brief, there are more eyes to scan the heavens. Hence, more is seen. The answer is as simple as that. The clear skies are themselves a partial answer. Beyond two or three miles, especially toward the horizon, the milky haze cuts down visibility in Eastern areas. In the West, one is accustomed to seeing a mountain peak more than 150 miles away. Finally, the most important question of all: It the saucers aren't superhuman or con- trolled by superhumans, what are they? First, we must study the reports. A careful analysis of all the available data indicates that-after we have subtracted the balloons, papers, distant planes. Venus and the like-a substantial amount of reliable but un- explained material still remains. into several definite patterns: ovals, disks or other patterns, either shining silver by day or Acetone floating on benzene simulates air levels; lens effect distorts Dr. Menzel's face. A glass rod seems to bend as it passes from one liquid to other. Light bends in this way. A light shining through the liquids bends at the meeting point. Same is true in air lavers.

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SB ITY INFORMATION - € 62-83894 Tolson Ladd Richols Be Imont Clegs Olavin Barbo Date: To: From: Subjeet: August 11, 1958 Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington 25, D. C. John Edgar Hoover - Director Federal Bureau of Investigation FLYING SAUCERS SEEN NEAR THESSALON LAKE, ONTARIO, CANADA, JULY 27, 1952 MISCELLANEOUS - INFORVATION CONCERNING APPROPRIATE AGENCIES AND FIELD OFFICES SLIP (S) OF.. DATE 91122 Dr. R. B. McIndoo, 820 West Walnut Street, Kokomo, Indiana, on July 30, 1952, advised that on July 27, at approximately 10:00 A. M. while fishing in the back 1952, waters of Thessalon Lake, Ontario, Canada, he noticed a formation of bombing planes, sirteen to twenty in numbello in two groups flying south at a height estimated by him be four or five miles. DT. MeIndoo stated that the planes went over the lake and suddenly dropped objects, at first thought by him to be parachutes. He continued that these objects fell straight for a short time, then suddenly spurted vapor and at a high rate of speed flew off in a southwesterl: direction. Dr. MeIndoo was unable to identifu the nationaltty of the planes, but stated that they had twin trails of blutah smoke. He further stated that the objects which had been dropped from the planes had single trails of bluish EAB: me s SECURITY INFORMATION - COYE RECORDED-86 1 6214 AUG 13 1952 EX. - 69 80 49.8 COMM — FBI AUG 1 1 1952 MAILED 27 ih Tele. Ra. Nol lon - 58 AUG 191952

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SECURITY INFORMATION - Co He stated that he had been accompanied on his fishing trip by Paul Gaddis, Kokomo, Indiana. Dr. MeIndoo had no further information concerning instant planes or the objects dropped by them. No further inquiries are contemplated in thia matter. However, if additional information is received by this Bureau, you will be promptly advised. Tolson Ladd Nichols Be Imont Clegs Chavin Barbo Rosen Tracy. Hohr Tele. Ra Holloman Candy, - - SECURITY INFORMATION - €

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Auguat 21, 1952 RECORDED - 64 62-88814-27 urs. Nellie T. Dull Route 3 Staunton, Virginta Dear Mrs. Dull: I wish to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated August 12, 1952, addressed Atr force Intelligence, the Justice Department, and this Bureau. A careful review of the contente of your communication fails to reflect that the subject matter contained therein ta within the jurisdiction of this Bureau. Sincerely yours, John Edgar Hoover Director CC - 2 - Richmond - with copy of incoming KWD:rel :mes 400 2S. Nd 8E → 0N334 125m Tolson LACC Nichola Belmont Секс] Giavin Harbo Trees. Tele. Rm. - 0AUG 28 1952 Note: Bufiles fail to reflect any identifiable record on the addressee. Ner MAILEB 10 AUG 2 9 1962 COMM.ERl BECEI

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NO 49 : SORTET RECIO-TOI SON'S OFFICE RECEIVEL - MAIL ROOK FBI N. S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE AUG 22 | 36 PM °5:

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Staunter, Me. Ronte 3 august 12,1962 Air Forse Intelligence F. b. Justice Dept. Flying SAUCERS Fellam mere the same letter to all three Departme he easy to pind out when did ms scott start his experiment? which office did my letter go through? was my litter placed on file? It had a retum add If you cannet lind it that proves it was destro and the inforation used. I have much better working proof of my theory than ns scott, which has heen before me all along, until l hit upon the idea, The solution should met have been penlished, There is great dead more to it than that, which I can eyslam, The idla should have been worked out thoroughly and secretty. Rainmakers could probally do a great deal I harm with the RECORDED - 61 I here is a possibill 2,99 That it could mediDEXeD 61" 8289 different type of air warfare. The ais perce cod posibly use it has. bing saucens which the emery couled use against us

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in cone nor ming Saucera possibly could he wal aten and hydregen home or lo them. astronomers could use the inforation la predit chant outrer planeto or planetar in a warfare, This information could he opene trip to the moon. Dues the an force wish me to keep my inpartion to myself or shall l give a statement to the press P my country comes first if the information should he kept secret. I signed my other letter respecpully, when a lady from Virgina page her respecto te the air Force she expect the an frice to pay its respects right back to her. Respectfully, mrs NelleT. Dull Route 3 staunten virgina MAS. NELLiE I XDOLD

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COPY Staunton, Va. Route 3 August 12, 1952 Air Force Intelligence f. B. I. Justice Dept. Fellow Americans, I am writing the same letter to all three Departments. On August Ist, I wrote a letter, and mailed it on August 2nd, to the Air Force Intelligence telling my views of a flying saucer. In about four days the physicist Noel Scott gave out a report of findings identical to my report. Now if I have hit upon the meaning of a flying saucer I would like to get the credit for it. I have reason to believe my ideas have been hi-jacked. It should be easy to find out. When did Mr. Scott start his experiment? Which office did my letter through? Was my letter placed on file? It had a return address. If you cannot find it that proves it was destroyed and the information used. I have much better working proof of my theory than Mr. Scott, which has been before me all along, until I hit upon the idea. The solution should not have been published. There is a great deal more to it than that, which I can explain. The idea should have been worked out thoroughly and secretly. Rainmakers could probably do a great deal of harm with the answer. There is a possibility that it could mean an entirely different type of air warfare. The Air Force could possibly use it for defensive warfare. It could lead to man-made flying saucers which the enemy could use against us. Man-made flying saucers possibly could be used in conjunction with atom and hydrogen bombs or to destroy them. Astronomers could use the information to predict about other planets or planetary warfare. This information could be of use in a trip to the moon. Does the Air Force wish me to keep my impressions to myself or shall I give a statement to the press? My Country comes first if the information should be kept secret. I signed my other letter "respectfully." When a lady from Virginia pays her respects to the Air Force she expects the Air Force to pay its respects right back to her. Respectfully, Mrs. Nellie T. Dull Route 3 Staunton, Virginia

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SERVICE UNIT 4-22a SEARCH SLIP Supervisor LAs Room 3306 subs: Mis: Nellie I. Dull Exact Spelling All References Subversive Ref. Main File Restricted to Locality of Searchers Initial Date FILE NUMBER SERIALS m - Nellie Initialed

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August 8, 1952 Miss. Florenge Whitish Post Office Bor 526 Charleston, South Carolina Dear Viss Whitish: Fbymg SAUCERS I wish to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated August 1, 1952. Since the matter referred to therein is within the jurisdiction of the Department of the Air Force, • I have taken the liberty of forwarding a copy of your letter to that Agency• Your interest and cooperation in furnishing this material are appreciated. Sincerely yours, John Edgar Hoover Director KWD: mes Note: Bufiles reflect no record concerning Florencen Whitish. cc - 1 - SAC, Savannah (with copy of incoming) 24 PM '52 30/ Ladd Xichola C1eв8. Clavin Tracy Laughl1n roh? Tele. Rm. Gandy_ T 6 AUG 2 01952 RECORDED - 68162- INDEXED AUG 13 11952 21811 COMM - FB AUG 1 1.1952 MAILED 28

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Me som MOITED 19. 9188. REC'O-TOI SON'S OFFICE 2 03 PM 352 U.S. DEPT, OF JUSTICE RECEIVE FBI NS DEPT OF JUSTICE RUG 11 3 09 PM 5) REC'D BELMONT F. B. STICE 11 21 AM °52