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23857122-0261-64425-0005

Military Report Unclassified Released — Credibility 90% Original ↗
A report from the 5021st Air Base Squadron detailing two sightings of unidentified white lights while flying over Shemya Island in April 1949.
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733667-02-001-0040

Other Unclassified Released — Credibility 80% Original ↗
The document discusses an unidentified flying object (UFO) sighting over Alaska reported by a Japan Airlines cargo crew on November 17, 1986. The FAA has reopened its inquiry into the incident, collecting data and interviewing witnesses to identify the object.
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23857122-0261-64425-0012

Military Report Unclassified Released — Credibility 90% Original ↗
A report from the 5021st Air Base Squadron detailing two sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena near Shemya Air Force Base in April 1949.
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733667-02-001-0043

News Article Unclassified Released — Credibility 80% Original ↗
The document discusses a UFO sighting by Captain Kenju Terauchi of Japan Air Lines on November 17, 1986, during a flight over Alaska. The incident involved unusual lights and a large object that the captain believed to be of extraterrestrial origin. Despite FAA and military investigations labeling the radar evidence as artifacts, the case has revived public …
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23857122-0457-180273-0375

Foia Release Unknown Released — Credibility 1% Original ↗
COUP TD ANT TAH Engineering Division Memorandum Report No. MCREXD}O9l-18D 25 April 1919 to fly a good mrsuit curve on another airoraft in good daylight, for example, much less to close on a solitary light at night. The difficulty is due chiefly to the inability to judge distance or speed of a point | source of light. Sugcestione Suggestion works in various w…
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733667-002-002-0009

Foia Release Unclassified Released — Credibility 80% Original ↗
This document discusses a UFO sighting involving a Japanese Air Lines cargo plane on November 17, 1986, where the pilot reported being followed by an unidentified object. Air traffic controllers tracked a radar image that coincided with the pilot's report. The document also includes differing opinions on the sighting, suggesting it could be a natural phenome…
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23857122-0457-180273-0379

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…ning to Pargo, North Dakota, ina Fe5l a at approximately 2100 hours saw a small lirht in the air below hin, He was then in the traffie pattern, He dived on the light. The light gained altitude, The pilot "chased" it up to 14,000 feet, making various passes at it and attempts to ram it as he olimbed. He finally stalled out. Several inferences oan be drawn fro…
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733667-002-002-0017

News Article Unclassified Released — Credibility 90% Original ↗
A report clarifying that a bright flash seen in the sky by villagers in Northwest Alaska was not a UFO, but rather the result of Soviet rocket fuel being dumped from a newly launched rocket, Cosmos 1833.
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23857122-0457-180273-0380

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…pril 1919 manouvering or not maneuvering, It is quite possible that it was simply climbing steeply on a relat ively straight course, such as wold be taken by a lighted weather balloon, As a matter of fact, a lighted weather balloon wes released by the Fargo Weather Station within 10 minutes of the time the light was first sighted by the Fe51 pilot.e It is th…
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23857122-0457-180273-0381

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… daytime it would be the reflection of the sun from an aircraft, a wind=blow object, ate, and st nicht some direct licht source, such as an engine exhaust, the light on a weather balloon, a running licht on an alroraft, a meteor, eto.e, or lichté fran the ground or the moon reflected back by birds or ° © Tie We ad + @ 69 other objects in the > Discussion of …
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23857122-0457-180273-0382

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…nknowm size and distance against a night skye The objects may actually have been a flock of white birds, flying at a relatively low altitude and reflecting the lights of the oitye Incidents 30, 30b, 30c, and LS, lisa, lSb, lfc, led. During the same space of time (about half an hour) on the night ° of 7 January 1916 observers at Lockbourne Air Force Base, obs…
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23857122-0457-180273-0400

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…imilar manner. Here the energy (or velocity) required has more parts: (a) escape from the planet (b) escape from the star (c) enough velocity to traverse a few light years of space in reasonable time (d) deceleration toward the Sun (e) deceleration toward the Earth. The nearest "eligible" star is an object called Wolf 359 (sce reference 4, p 52), at a distan…
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23857122-0457-180273-0402

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…tars proportionately with the volume, or with the radius cubed, S, = 22 x ( r _)5, where Sg is number of eligible stars and r is the radius 16 of the volume in light years. (This formula should only be used for radii creater thah 16 lisht years. For smaller samples we call for a recount. For example, only one known eligible star other than the Sun lies withi…
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23857122-0985-434443-0042

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3 April 1952 Drough-iiiller Airport Toempl, Texas ) Statement of a. Gatecr: or a light object flying threw the air. It came fram the South ona heading of North. It flew ina stright lina. at seamed Ho be holding.4t'e altitude above the earth. : I saw cit. goming ever tie water tower fron the South. It flew over head orsa little to the west and out of sight he…
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23857122-1213-481193-0002

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…-2-63 Wing Intelligence, Moody AFB, Gae ATRE 4 Smears . mace 2 or 3 PAGES le On 28 January 1953 at avoroximately 2135 hours, SOURCE observed a unusually bright light northwest of Albany, Georgiae At the time of first sighting, object was circular in shape and SOURCE first thought it was ane other aircraft or a unusually bright star. Object was white in color…
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23857122-1213-481193-0006

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…) REPORT NO. Wing Intelligence, Moody AFB, Ga. Ao oe ea aa Cu PAGE 2 OF 3 le On 28 January 1953 at approximately 2135 hours, SOURCE observed a unusually bright light northwest of Albany, Georgia. At the time of first sighting, object was circular in shape and SOURCE first thought it was an- other aircraft or a unusually bright star, Object was white in color…
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23857122-1266-487902-0003

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…2) July 1952, Mr. Robert A, Reidel, Jr., Broadview, Illinois, upon leaving his place of employment observed three (3) large, intensely bright, self-illuminated lights in the skye Mr. Reidel states that the objects were fly- ing in a loose, widely spaced "V" formation at a point due west of his position at the time and moving toward the south. Mr. Reidel note…
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23857122-1266-487902-0007

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…OF PAGES 1s At 01352, 2 July 1952, ur. & Broadview, Illinois, upon leaving his place of employment observed three (3) large, intensely bright, seif-illuminated lights in the skys Mr. Said states that the objects were fly~ ing in a loose, widely spaced "V" formation at a point due west of his position at the time and moving toward the south. Mr. noted that th…
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23857122-1310-496480-0004

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…48 pa ae aa AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT F3G, 4602d AISS, PIAFB Pe PRESQUE ISLE, MAINE F3G-T 4A FROM (Agency) PAGE 2 OF 2 PAGES SIGHTING OF UNIDENTIFIED LIGHT VII. RELATED ACTIVITY OR CONDITIONS: No activity or condition, meteorological or otherwise, which might account for the sighting was observed or reported in the area at the time of sighting. VII…
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23857122-1352-504596-0002

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…he objects were seen for a period of from three (3) to five (5) minutes at about two thousand (2,000) feet. There were two (2) aircraft in the vicinity one (1) light plane and one (1) military type aircraft. Reporting officer heard from one of the men working in this drafting office that there were new shops opening in Parkington, Va. and that they were adve…