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ATIC HO.... DACE OF 29 June 1948
AP NO. - 1OCNTION Uniontown, Pa,
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1o48 at Eleven P,ar, I w89 June
on 'm front porch when
wuddenly I very peou
Gaw a luninus around 5,000 Fees
OV1L InaDer LVIDR the
travelling air. It
and wnin
1s0ond3. Icdilad ton
sae thraa of lane Dojacta at 8
Intervale. aDproximatdl mimuta
Arter aoelng tha seeond one we eallad
Cargeant to Police
ano Deughter attantion. Thay
the third ond. T% WAs a saw
yOry beautiful sight. 3 the second
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thls araa 31 flying areas
e would
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CAPTAINI USAF
FORECASTER
SXIBIT 71

relentl-ss second heutenant aj-
signed as permanent Nemests
Lieutenant Shirey Jisplayed a
photostatic copy of a story con-
cerning the Uniontown discs. ie
did not explain why the Air Forve
waited two nonths before investi-
gating the June Do highjinx at
Uniontown.
The celestial Spode was sighted
near Uniontown by Mrs. Margaret
Holtar, Charles Schuh and Mrs.
Catherine MacDonald and her
daughter, Catherine. The display
was over the Pittsburgh road ser-
for on June S0, the afth Wednes-
INCLASSIFIED last year
AXHIAIT It was plain to ser, hewever.
that Lueutenant Shirey didn't have
much hope of gettirg that awign-
dent. It piainiy ails for a briga-
1AL Hne generai.

PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE: --
Old Cuessing Game: Whence Cometh the Aviating Poltery? Sheep Displeased
By Central Park C
NEW YORK, July 2 UP--
Four Uniontown People Report Secing Soaring Dinner-Plates, Central Park's sheep meadow
had sheep in it Friday for the
Forewarning Editors to Brace Themselves for a Flock of Inquiries I orewvarning Editors to Brace I hemselves Jor a Flock of Inquiries first time in almost 15 years. first time in almost 15 years.
But they didn't stay long.
By Pat O'Neill phenomena strictly out of the Close as he was to the gadget, phenomena strictly of the Close as he was to the gadget, Movie makers wanted a pas- Movie makers wanted a pas-
Pal-Gazctte Stan Writer Apocalypse. Apocalypse. he had earthbound competitors toral seene. They wanfed the
The silly season is upon us The silly season is upon us Last Last year the flying year the flying saucers who saw the things from Seattle, saucers who saw the things from Seattle, park's sheep meadow with the park's shecp meadow with the
again, when the air is filled with towers of Manhattan in the
anything the mind of inquiring anythiog the mind of inquiring worked their feverish magic on a [Wash., to Salem, Mass. The switch- Wash., to Salem, Mass. The switch-
man car dream up to take the man Car dream up to take the populace which traced their source populace which traced their source boards of the nation's newspapers background. And they wanted
place of nying saucers-the whim- to Mars or Moscow. Nor was the testified to the excitement of the sheep. So they turned a dozen A A}$
sical discs that filled the skies influence of the celestial discs con- influence of the celestial discs con- people. loose in the meadow.
about this time last year. Yet it was not strange to the Within mlnutes it was an Within minutes it was an 0
fined only to the man in the editors who listened to and re- empty meadow again. One i1
For that matter the flying cylin- street.
ders have already made an ap- ders have already made an ap- Men in high command detailed corded the information. A man sheep was in the Tavern-on-the- sheep was in the Tavern-on-the- 0
pearance. The police of Union- pearance. The police of Union- military equipment - such equipment - such as named Charles Fort wrote at least named Charles Fort wrote at least Green. One g loped out into Green. One g Hoped out into P
town, Pa. spent considerable time planes and personnclto the task three books filled with data on thw Columbus Circle. Some hid in Ciml. hit i it
on June 30 allaying the common of running the things to earth. even more weird events. He col- thickets, :nd one barged into t1
excitenent experienced by Mrs. Japanese balloons, meteorologi- lected all his material from news- the park zoo. It was three C
Margaret Hollar, Charles Schuh, cal equipment, pie -plates and ipapers. hours before all the sheep were it
Mrs. Catherine MacDonald and mconbeams rewarded the search- His research showed that peo- back in the meadow.
her daugiter. Catherine. ers but nary a Man fron Mars ple are apparently eager to flout m
jAll reported a display of fiying was gleaned from the skies. sclence and see frogs falling froin u
dinner-plates in the Pittsburgh the skies, red snow and tropical trated in the early '30s. Sf
road sector. Books Go Saucers One Better glens in Greenland. Take the goldfish-eaters, for
Photographic evidence was pro- Last summer's aviating pottery instance. The piscatorial pastime lit
Traced to Mars or Moscow duced to show the discs. A Coast -whether pure china or Spode raised hell with the genus carp la
It is the time of year when city Guard aviator produced a photo deponent knoweth not-was not in all its golden declensions. it t/t}
editors brace themselves to take of what he believed to be a celes-as baleful a plece of mass sugges- had also a dubious nutritional pi
reports from citizens who see tial saucer. Ition as some of the stunts perpe- value.
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Depsth of snow on ground at time of observation,
Prerailing directions of wind for the day, --inches (and tenths). S.
asncter of day-lesr, purtiy cloody, or cioady, determined (rom sevepal obseryatdone during
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l half of a Lage iniat Platt
the obpect appeaed si the
West End of the City at Orklnd
1r. and Wet Mani at. Seemed to
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169, 171, 173, 178, 180, 182, 188, 190, 194, 195, 196, 193.
200, 201, 20 t1 . 222 237, 239.
b kookets, flares falling bodies;
4,5,6,7 12, 13. 14
108, 109,
G. Misoellansous (reflections, auroral streaners, birds, eto.:
123 159 197 100 27 231 D34

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15. Sourd none
16. Sizo N/S
17 Color Luminous
20 Apparent construction N/3 - transparent
21. Exhaust trails trail of light t about I yard long
22. Woathor conditions storny and cloudy
23. Effoct on clouds sky beneath base of clouds -
lightning could be m1 1t
2l Skotches or photographs vague sketch
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25. Manner of f disappearanoe lost sight of - obstructed by neighboring houses
Romarcsa. Corer

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— > at we + Tt sah , ve bad
At approximately 11, M, on the,29¢g.0f June AMM saw
te , teneehrt ice Latt il;
uainowe oval-shamped object sa a@ meat clatter rolling

J Long on its edges. 1% avveared to bs gong very fast since i%
ai sappeared in about 5 to 10 seconds. It was without sound or odor

bus seemed to have a tail wrich extended adout a yard or so.

sive
nimaites later, witness saw a second object and after another five
nimite interval a third object ws observed. They anveared in tas
Southwest and flew %

o the Northeast, The we ther wos cloudy «ita
lightning and rolling timnder. The objects flew over the Uakland St

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area or ons vo the side of 1% (Hast of

(Rast of Oakland St.) They traveled
rbons 1,0 ‘and them disanvearsed benind the houses across tia
streat from the yitnesses,

(Ltnesses;

11 Altitude M/S
1.2 Speod very fast
13. Diroeticn of flight from Southwest to Northeast
1 Tactics rolled along on its edge
15, Sound m No sound
15. Sizo "platter
20 Apparent construction 3/s - luminons
21.
22. Woathor conditions cloudy with lightaing and rolling thunder
23. Bffoot on cloude 1/s
2 Skatohes or photographs None
25 Farmer o2 dtsaspretned Tlev obstrcted by neigaboring boues
26. Ranarks: (over)

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11. Altitudo 6,000 ft
12. Speod 100 MPH
13. Diroction of flight NE- sighted in west
11, Tactics straight & level
15. 15. Sourd Sound none
16. 16 Sizo Sizo half of a large meat platter (l-l/2') half f of a large meat platter (l-l/2')
17. Color N/S 1 luminous
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20 Apparent construction N/S
21. Tchaust srails 1/5
22. Woathor conditions partly cloudy
23. Effoct on clouds N/S
2 Akotches or photographs none
25. datmar of ilegrearnnoe W/s UNCLA
26. Romarks: (orer)
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H 20 Attention is lavited to the encloved newa eli.noing of the
Pittoburgh Postadasette atating have sightad
02 urddonti2led aerial phencnena,
3o Is is ranuested your intorview thogo Lodividuals and
obtain signe grauhie stateents as to the anoalim oisorved, It ia
frther roqissted that thn observers ialieate the following aalient
foctorg: location, date arnd time of aighting, weathor conditions at the
Bry) hoto
color, apood,
sure. Care phould be xorcised in the interview in order
Bo oxrid farthmr yibliolty in this matter,
a
de Looal telatyre aequence of matnor comitionn and the
lolt aport at the tise of the aithoiwt(3) a dbaloed
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