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This document is a memorandum from the Federal Aviation Administration regarding an unidentified traffic sighting reported by Japan Airlines Flight 1628 on November 18, 1986. It indicates that radar data did not confirm the reported traffic and mentions ongoing checks for further information.

This document outlines the execution of a plan related to a UAP incident in Alaska during 1986-1987, detailing the timeline of events, media interactions, and agency responses to public interest and FOIA requests.

This document reports a sighting of an unidentified flying object by crew members of a reconnaissance squadron in Alaska on March 9, 1949. The object was observed at approximately 4,000 feet with an estimated speed of 200 knots.

A report detailing the sighting of an unidentified object resembling a flare by a pilot flying at 9,000 feet over the Alaskan Sea Frontier in February 1950.

This report discusses Swedish perceptions of guided missile sightings over Sweden in 1949, indicating that they were largely considered natural phenomena or misidentified aircraft, despite the recovery of a V-2 missile from German experiments during WWII.

…ears to be an attempt on the part of the observer to in fer that these objects were possibly the same as those reported in (intident No. 17), there are several major differences, notably as Dr. Hynek points out (appeB), that these objects had tails, and that the inferred Size, as determined from the estimated distance, is quite different. Dr. Valley (App D) …

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…uminous spaces of irregular configuration. (These latter spaces probably are regions where the sinuosities of path became involved and tortuous or are areas of major discharge where darts originated or terminated). Some paths show a beaded struc- ture (alternate luminous and dark spaces). Color r , described in individual cases by different colors but mostly…

(a ” ami} - = ee oo ~ TECHNICAL REPORT No 102-AC 1:9/15~-100 erpgenears © oS RES FER sg RTE A ‘ gir 4 306 30 UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS Project "GRUDGE" —_,. a, ’ f a . ~ a = * . bAL ces eS «CA et te , August l9i)¢ HEADQUARTERS “a! Ls AIR MATERIEL COMBAND WRIGHT - PAT TERSON AER FORCE BASE wz i ie : iy ; 29 Ts Tt. DECLASSIFIED .| ol a re ae Sec. 5.4 a 0) A …

…-79 AIR INTELLIGENCE ere yee La OF LZ Coss Investigation of Alleg Saucers t YO ipa] worth, Texas oes quarters sine h Air Force DATE OF INFORMATION 9 - Ql April Major Delton Snith ‘ = Pear SAG January IEF ERENCES (Control. nay moder, @ dole, previous re ore 3 4 g 50" as applicable) » sudject: "Reporting of Info 5 smation on Unconventional Aircraft" The Fort W…

…to the Z.I. ¢ also claims to have protested in 1947 to the 0.1.0. - , i at Langley Field, Virginia, against the puolic sale of ITY equipment. DALTON SMITH oa ' Major, USA? . Asst to Director of Intelligence ot 3: ts te hts AT ON Shik Lh | lial Oil, d y » he A Png 4 q % fi i 2 4 j i i 1 3 a { 3 a lone AEFRIGFING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE OF THE UNITED STATES WITHI…

… Headquarters Eighth Air Force DATE OF REPORT DATE OF INFORMATION EVALUATION ef April 1950 9 = 21 April 1950 F-5 PREPARED BY (Officer) SOURCE Ira M. Maxey, and Major Dalton Smith Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 April 1950 REFERENCES (Control number, directive, previous ist etc., as applicable) Letter, SAC 31 January 1950, subject: "Reporting'of Information on U…

…ter his return to the Z.I1. Mr. Maxey also claims to have protested in 1947 to the C.1.C. at Langley Field, Virginia, against the public sale of IFF equipment, Major, USAF Asst to Director of Intelligence NOTE: THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE OF THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE ESPIONAGE ACT, 50 U. S. C.— 31 AND 3…

…gence, Ninth Texas | Air Force (Adv), Fort Hood, Texas DATE OF saccades DATE OF INFORMATION EVALUATION 9 April 1952 3-6 April 1952 PREPARED BY (Officer) SOURCE Major Joseph We. Hensley, Exec Dir of Intel REFERENCES (Control number, directive, previous report, etc., as applicable) TWX SAF (Adv) 0621152 SUMMARY: (Enter concise summary of report. Give significa…

…ning the sighting by appooximately sixty (60) persons of the unidentifidd flying objact over LARSON AFB, WASH at 0715, 8 JAN 53. Ee co, ee CHARLES W FINNEGAN : Major USAF Wing Intelligence Officer onan ceil Co (aan iS Bian Bilan. nS Wd ot .. Re oe pra me ae DECLASSIFIED £,0, 11652, Sec. 3(£} and 5{D} or (&) USA .MEMD.... JULI? Rrrree sis Data Ybsosp \ eke Ba…

…tion from thse base. DEN ear sion —ahiaten a snaiatinosin ansermttiercoanieatin . . The first sighting was at 0715 and it could not be observed after 0730. The majority of the observera were in the squadron area on the base but several reported seeing the objact while driving toward the base from EPHRATA, WASH, a small town 14 miles NNX of Iarson AFB. All ob…

…olina Directorate of Intellicence DATE OF REPORT DATE OF INFORMATION EVALUATION 16 July 1952 7 July 1952 Bod PREPARED BY (Officer) SOURCE PREDERICK H, WILCCOK, MAJOR, USAF REFERENCES (Control number, directive, previous report, etc., as applicable) APL 200-5 dated 29 April 1952 .. Pe ee ee ee SUMMARY: (Enter concise summary of report. Give significance in fi…

…orcia DATE OF REPORT DATE OF INFORMATION EVALUATION if e rs 3 February 1953 28 January 195? Pn6 PREPARED BY (Officer) SOURCE FRANK. C. O'BANNON, Cant ain, USAF Major Hal W, Lamb, 93h) A REFERENCES (Control number, directive, previous report, etc., as applicable) AML Noy 200-5 dtd 29 April 1952 ¢ TWX GI Vibha ate 30 January 1953 SUMMARY: (Enter concise summar…

AF FORM 112—PART I cence ye (Guassirica i E | APPROVED 1 JUNE 193 auiril aha | <P RERORPNTT Se Se eo" SI LEAVE BLAR v [ | UNTTED STATES . a ee He Ps AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT ‘SUBJECT YSRPT AREA REPORTED ON FROM (Agency) a 4 re » Aibany, Georcia eau Wing Intellisence DATE OF REPORT DATE OF INFORMATION | EVALUATION 3 Febru 1953 28 Januar ? r- PREPAR…

…g 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. …