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1. Letter from deted

UNITED STATES COAST GUARD
Address reply to:
Commandant 13 July 1948
U. S. Coast Guard File: INT 64 (H)
Headquarters
Washington 25, D. C.
From: Commandant, U. S. Coast Guard
TO: Commanding General, Heaiquarters Air Materiel ommand, U. S. Air
Force, Wright ,Ohio
Subj: Asrial Phenomena and Webster, South Dakota
'
There is forwarded for vour aotion a report
District, St. Louis, Mo., describing an unusual atmospheric phenomena observed
atertown and
Webster, South Dakota,
2. There is also inclosed a copy I of a letter from the Commander, 2nd
Coast Guard District, to Mr dated 7 July, l9hs, acknowledging re-
ceipt of report.
By direction the Commandant.
S. Y HAIMOND
LCDR, USCG
Chief, Intelligence
& Law Enforcement Division
Incls:

C:G.ORC.O. CONTROL AAINTENANCE SUOGET
OPFICE PGT SUPPLY FISCAL OTHERS
COORDINATION
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twenty-five minutes. We then conferred th Mr. Befor
approrimately thirty minutes. Mr. SePn ore in
their answers and shoved a willingness t nelo st'emote answer our
questions to the best, or their ability.
backrround wnicn would gualiy him as falrly reliable cbserver the incident.
Mra.2 kept a ccnstant watch on the object waiI Pfutzenreuter
was driving. Several stogs vere male and their curiosities were arouned toet
they watcned the object with intense int -rest. It is helieved that the intense
intersst of the two witnesses rakes their observations fairly reliable.

prior to the breaking u e mass, it tock on a fuzzy sembling
a large cluater of golf balla round grouo. The mass seemed to take on 3
box shane. Suddenly one ba. original nass drouped
from the center of the mas aistance about lo tines the original diameter
of the mass and bung in soace. Iamodiately two balls of the same size as the
first moved out of the sides of the mess, accelerated rapidly and came to a quick
stop yhen they reached a distance from the center of the mass eoal t the first.

original size. The relative size just orior to break up mass was
compared to the size of a hard ball be asenan as
viewed from the third base position.
3. The first centor of the
DA88 was similer to a out, howeyer, it did not take on a
parasol sear shae. The three Olay from the
Coerntiona etsion
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C O Break up completed.
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28 Bridge 29 AsTOra
Malher LAG 2K6 6 Jehnsonvile

. S of balloons,
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carrying, pe
. into parts.
the starlike tha eventual breaking up
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178, 180, 182, 188 190, 194, 195, 196, 193,.
200, 201, 209, 210, 217, 22: 237, 239.
b Rockets, flares or falling bodies:
i4 5, 6 9, 12, 13.
108, 109,
G.
, 221, 231, 234.
.
3. Hon-kstronouioal. with no

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9.
10. hours
11. Altitude 150 miles (?)
12 Speod Statiowary (hovering)
13. Diroction of flight Stationary
14. Tactics Rerained in one approximate position then disintegrated (hovered).
75. Sound Appeared to enlarge then fade out.
15. Sound Mone
16. diemeter.
17. Color Like polished aluminun
18. Shapo Changing Note sketch.
19. Odor dotectod None
Seemed to be a cluster or arts
21 Exhaust trails Particles of disintegrating mass left very faint trails
of vepor.
22. Woathor conditions Brilliantly cleer (oavu) - Wind velocitr 3 MPH
B Effoct on olouds No clouds
Skotchas or photographs Map sno isg locations of sigutings
25. Manner of disappearance Disintegrated into smaller pieces
26. Romarks: Object appeared 'as cluster of parts which renained fairly

which I was returning to, is Hecla, South ow am. The
observation was made on June 30, lols, between "., and
, to Webster
(see inclosed small rrow fl. small
plans. I notiesd a small to the north it
was 20° to the right and about 20  to north of azimuth. (Nearly overhead).
I thought at first it was an alumimum covered plane, vory high. I watched
it for a h minutes and noted no movement. My next conolusion was that it
might be a star. We gontinued driving north stopoing at about 5-lo minute
2nd Customer: Can't be a siar - i possible
3rd Custoner - Naver saw anything liks that
ware all looe na vean I latd ard a.ll:tla 3oarad,

slowly dissappee out . dirsctly
observer, The th
constant posi and hold their
until they smaller and fainter
easily be ses up. It could
sight of the object was had No other

date, to the proper authority in Washington, D. G., and, no doubt, you
will be communioated with directly by such authority should additicnal
informaticn be desired.
By direction of the pmmander, Second Guard. rict.
yours,
R. G. WILLOH
Capt, U. S.Coast Guard Raserve
Chf, Legal & Intelligencs Section
Second Coast Guard District