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VINEYARD ITAVEN.,

6 May 1949

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fschnical Intelligence Division,
Air Materiel Comuand,

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Gentlemen - “his is 4 Site of an ooservation made at
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Vineyard Saven, Island of Martha's Vineyard, before dawn on

a day last Fall. I did not make a note of the date but it
co-incided closely with the arrival of a squadron of jet

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planes at Otis Air Basa, Camp Edwards, Cape Cod,

The observation was made from a large sad¢ond floor
window facing northeast toward th
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I went into the room with the northeast window without
turning on the light as I wanted to look ont over the harbor
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sky chains of luminous discs moving in swift evolution

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he individual discs in the chains had thse appearance of

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OSing about the size of tne head of a safety matcn, and the
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chains about the length of a matchesticks,

T ecole the ehains were faint shadas or iy}2 Layenaer

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My first reaction was of incredulity, 1 turned away fron

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the window, we nit FO a dark corner of the room to make sure

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swept up, glidea and dived, interweaving as they traced their
their paths. Movement was co-ordinated and there was no feeling
that the chains would collide.

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Ihe chains did not have the appearance of strunz beads,

but gave the impression that the discs over-lappned slightly,

like fish scales, as if the discs were set obliquely to the axis,
it was this positioning which produced the effect of the elements
of the chains being discs with the flat surfa i h

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f thought at first that what I was seeing had something to
do with the je! lanes which 1 knew wera schedule 2d) to ar

Against this was the fact that the storm was bloi hard that
it was imoossible flying weather for pre-jet ah lso the
movement of the chains was so swift and involved and concentrated

that I couldn't imagine planes going through such manouvers,

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I thought of exhaust gases or tracer-flares, but the chains
apoearad to be self-propelled and guided, They were luminous and
with a faint haletion, but there were no comet-tails or streams or
iwishes of light.

Attenpting to find a relative descriptive of wnat I was
Seeing, | thought of the back-ground patterns of Disney's "Fantasia"

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of the chains were like the bursts from "f :
Chemselves reminded me of star-cnains from exploded rockets, but
with two sssential points of difference:

(1) Thay appeared to be propelled, not floating,
(2) In general they were horizontal, sorebimes up-tilted,

but never vertical,

{ judged the chains dipped to not less than 3000 feeb above
the Cape and rose to several times that height,

As daybreak began the display diminished, There were fewer
and fewer chains and finally nona, I had been watching for from
five to ten minutes.

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nothing, for il felt that ofners must nave =i 3 occurence anc
there would be reports of it fher® were none =r sn or
subsaquentiy. In mid-morning I told my wif 2% iad seen, an
we agreed to say nothing, believing there ila ae Account
snere have been none,

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- virtually forgotten until tha re-newed ouoliclty given tna sudject

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Vne statement 1 believe should be addad is that, having of
seen the Northern Lights, the display tha >t

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t hope this information may be of use to you.