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Incident No. -- 3 July 1947, 1430 Hours, South Brooksville, WO a tk a This observer, an "astronomer", heard e loud roar and with difficulty observed at 50° elevation approximately ten very light-colored obiects traveling N. | have covered 1 1/2” angular jiameter in the sky, bunched together with no reguler formtion. He caloulated that at a distance of 10 miles the objects would have a speed of 1200 MPH; that their width must be 100 feet across and due to their color would be barely eines He also estimated the object would have a width of fifty feet at five miles wath a speed of 600 MPH He beli W. The group is reported to } fed they were itches of some type, owing to the lou ev d roar. In his letter he asked, "have any meteorites been reported?" + AMC Opinion; it is believed that the observer should have been able to rule out the possibility of meteorites. Reducing the estimate of distance, and correspondingly reducing the required size to that of objects such as birds or insects, then the speeds become very modest. the objects were actually five to ten miles distant, and responsible for the “unusually loud roar", it is expected that numerous other re~ ports would have been received from this section of Maine, which is thickly populated. H2¥ Declassification Authority: NND 57565