23857122-1259-487587-0006

oe | RES TRI re) 2 y res AF FORM 112—PART Il ‘oo eee We) APPROVED 1 JUNE 1948 AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT FROM (Agency) REPORT NO. 17th AcawW Squadron, Duncanville,|< BOUT gy ; races 22-1 S) 2 cS PAGE 6 OF 7 PAGES He said a number of pilots gathered in the tower to watch the spectacle. Mr. Moore said he'd been a pilot for 27 years, worked, in the tower for i years, and "I should know a.plane or a star by now. ‘his wasn't either! Military Officers at Dallas Naval Air Station, Hensley Field and the Duncanville radar station said the object was not seen by any personnel at those stations. The Perrin Air force Base at “herman, however, reported sighting an "“un- identifiable" object. Police Dispatcher L. P. passons said he had several calls on the mystery object about 2 a.m. and that a number of cruising police cars also began call-— ing in. Dispatcher Passons and several policemen climbed to the roof of City Hall. "It looked like a big star, but it seemed to change colors," he declared. e @ & "MOST BEAUTIFUL" Through a 40-power telescope the object appeared "as an arrow" in shape to Iinwood Martin, 732 W. Clarendon. "It had swept back wings with a red glow toward the front, the wings blue and the center white. It moved Perwass and then backward ous seemed to be going higher all the time." Mr. Martin said the colors were "the most beautiful I've ever seen." First report on the mystery object came to Love Field at 7:30 p.m. from aman at Paris, Tex.. The Paris man got into his. car and chased the object, which he believed was traveling at an altitude of 3,500 feet, to Cooper, Tex. Commenting on the possibility thatiwhat. the watchers saw might have been planet, EH. M. Brewer, president of the Texas Astronomers Society, said only two planets, Jupiter and Venus, were at all bright this time of the year. o e ® LITTLE. CHANCE OF. MISTAKE Venus, he said, sets at 9 p.m. and Jupiter about midnight. Mr. Brewer believed skilled observers, such as many who reported seeing the object, could not possibly have mistaken the planet Jupiter: for anything else. Cndr. R. N. Grunbock, public information officer at Dallas Naval Air station, said no reports of a sighting were made by the control tower watch there. He “said no airerare. was sent up. Nor was there any-report from watch standers at Hensley Field on a ) sighting. Major Hugh T. Arthur at the Duncanville radar station said e— > quipment there was, down for maintenance at the time of the sighting. Station » observers. there, however, did not se¢é the AY a After. reading the above article we called mr. Marcus Fs Fechenbach to -werlfy the statements printed in the Herald's article. He said that they were erroneous in-many respects. The following is Me. Fechéenbach's statement of his: obser pvations. <7 BAR OY Bena ee Mt note: THIS DOCUMENT Roun INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE OF THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE ESPIONAGE ACT.50U.S.C.— _ "BLAND. AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR THE REVELATION OF ITS CONTENTS IN ANY MANNER TO. AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS PROHIBITED BY LAW, _ IT MAY NOT BE REPRODUCED IN WHOLE OR IN PART, BY OTHER 7 a EXCEPT BY PERMISSION OF THE DIRECTOR OF INTELLIGENCE, USAF e 3 : poaaer a s-cuRIeY. INE MAT on - : Declassification Authority: NND 57565