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…es- over or jumps the gaps at breaks produces a brilliant {llumination at the gaps that may be mistaken for ball lithtninc. A piece of wire with attached light object that is car- ried aloft by the gusty winds and turbulence attending a thundorstorm or tornado may serve to facilitate cone duction of lightning currents and yield streamers at its ends during d…

…ing Division Memorandum Report Noe MC REXD=69l.-18D 26 April 1919 These conditions are largely lacking in the case of the data available on unidentified flying objects. It is impossible to say with any assurance what any partioular individual in this series of 2¥2 reports was actually observing at any particular time, t is only possible © to examine the accu…

…AIR MATERIEL COMMAQD ENGINEERING DIVISION MOREXDO/PMF /maf MEMORANDUM REFORT ON 28 April i9l9 SUBJECT: Psychological Analysis of Reports of Unidentified Aerial Objects SECTION: Aero Medical Laboratory SERIAL NO.: MCREXD=69)»15D Expenditure Order Now HlieZS be FURPOSEs 1. At the request of the Technical Intelligence Division, Intelligence Department, AMC, an …

…and behavior of a balloon if it was this he saw. e. Incident No. 163 bears a fair description of the appearance of a large plastic balloon in sunset light. The object's disappearance could be accounted for either by its movement into the earth's sunset shadow or by natural defocusing of the observer's eyes. This incident § , could possibly have been balloon …

… 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 distance of 8.0 light years. It is small, having an absolute mag- nitude’ of. 16.6. ann te uvyoloe? of "ned dwarfs" which make up more than half of…

…velopment Cfice, Deputy Chief of Staff, Materiel Nashineton 25, D.C, Dear General Putt: Please refer to your letter of 18 November 1948 relative to the "flying object” problem and to Mr. Collbohm's reply dated 24 November 1948. In paragraph (b) of the reply, ir. Collbohm pronised (among other things) to send a discussion of the "special design and performanc…

…il after the film was developed, (3) ",.., they were moving fast and they (S) was reluctant to estimate appeared to i six or seven miles away. the Shee vil the objects and did not He described the objects as tailless | estimate the distance from him, or ~ craft and beet. Not like a saucer the distance bdeteen objects.* but more like a banana...." Speed was e…

…, using 1/25th of a second exposure and a diaphragm stop of f-l1,. The film used was 620 Superpan Press, Mr. Maxey developed the negatives at his home, (7) ... objects he said definitely were (7) Mr, Maxey says that he did not report some type aircraft, a type which he to the paper they were definitely had never seen before," aircraft, nor that they were ban…

…ag Abaddon AL eR nod dat Piensa eae Hq Fifth Air Force, APO 710 INT IR-U/AC-10 Py wi 3 YF, PAGE r—f — PAGES the pilot cid not get over excited on observing the object but tried his best to overtaxe, observe and report it. it aneis a Be ake =a Lt. Hae Sketch (QPsiznting) : ntell Req Div/Office of Deputy Ae Intelligence \ fe Nos MENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFEC…

…PO. 710 INT IR-U/AC-10 S72 oY ; —s pacE 2 oo 2 PAGES - FROM (Agency) ty 2 £41, AR ng. Fil vn L By a | 5 2 the pilot: did not’ get over excited on observing the object but tried his best to overtake, observe and report it, a\ & ‘ oak. L Inels E. E. SWANK lst Lt. USAF Sketch (Petty-Sighting) Intell Req Div/Office of Deputy for Intelligence ON D. SIMP nel, USAF…

…16/5 = 7/026/607 Ze No activity or condition, meteorological or otherwises was present .. witch might account for the sighting, he Wo physical evidences i ‘Uns object again but this was usucessful.. je Huber ani type of local aircraft airborne at the tine of of the sighting + TAKACWRe , 5 ee a ee Declassification Authority: NND 57565 Qe phates sd aatapi to o…

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…-sentence shidteatarn: List ladiecures at lower left. Begin text of report om AF Form 1tPmt JE Pain ay: This once contains Af oretion on an unidentified aerial object as. re= port ted to this teenie al anrovEn Headquarters Fifth Amy. ' ota! 4 iS or 2. Subfectfreport was Eavesti cated by ee Grady Woodham, Post 3-2 OrPLoery Camp. lucas, Sanlt: who eee meng in …

…1948 so Ve es REPORT NO. artot 1-52 uf Vie (LEAVE BLANK) bf Gu fee 4) AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT (/) . Reporting of Information on Unidentified Flying Objects AREA REPORTED ON FROM (Agency) AF FORM 112—PART | (CLASSIFICATION) COUNTRY United States Michigan Director of Intellizence, Hqs Tenth AF DATE OF REPORT DATE OF INFORMATION EVALUATION 30 April …

…pril 52 when light at a point about 2000 about two minutes. Speed Visibility was five to 10 miles ana However, the two officers reported they c i .Shape to the object, except it appeared to be a white circle of lizht | << pproximately two feet in diameter. added that it: weminded him of the exhaust of a Jet. plane... : — DECLASSIFIED “~~ Of LbaL C.D rekerine…

…1 negative. On the night of this observation, few people were out doors beceuse of the severe cold. This might account for the lack of other observations. This object may have been a low meteor, producing a sound. Lee GLEN D PARRISH lst Lt., USAF Director of Intelligence NOTE: THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE OF THE UNITED ST…

…112—PART | eee Zt (CLASSIFICATION) APPPOVED I JUNE 1948 NTRY ae aD ae 3 ae ee i" Y 0 u x | AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT | REPORT OF UNIDENTIF IED FLYING OBJECT AREA REPORTED ON FROM (Agency) LARSON AFB, WASH | INTEL OFF 62D TROOP CARRIER WING (H DATE OF REPORT DATE OF INFORMATION EVALUATION 19 JAN 53 8 JAN 53_ De’ PREPARED BY (Officer) ; SOURCE Yaj CH…

…Barer on 7 July 1952, at 2015 hours during a low, scattered overcast, ae , of the 3250 Technical Training by a nebula with a trail of isolated red lights. This object was traveling in a northerly direction nebila was constant with no indications of atmosph eric Pdaistance: was visable for about three seconds and appeared to be at a heic five thousand feet. I…

… a good knowledge of the subject. As he expressed it, "Be— cause of so many reports that later proved to be mass hallucinations and distorted views of material objects, I am rather skeptical about moet of the stories on Flying Saucers, I hesttated before turning in a record of ny observation.” 2, ee is mown to the section of Air Materiel Command handling the…

… NO. VR~C-$3 PAGE 3 OF hy PAGES Mrs Helmer observed generally the same thing Sergeant Helmer saw, however, due to near-sightedness was not able to observe this object for more than 15 seconds after sighting it. RUDOLPH’ H PESTALOZZI Capt, USAF Chief, Intel Div NOTE: THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE OF THE UNITED STATES WITHIN…