PROJECT BLUE BOOK

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969

CASE REFERENCE6792872

DATE OF SIGHTINGMarch 1949

REPORTED LOCATIONHonolulu Hawaii

FRAMES4

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PROJECT 1 10073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
-Honolulu,Hovaii 0 Was Balloon
14 Har 19149 1 Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Pessibly Balloon
4.
Local- X Ground-Vigual 0 Ground-Rodar 0 Was Aireraft
- Drobably Aireraft
GMT_. UR 0 AinVisual Air-intercept Radar 0 Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS 6 SOURCE 0 Was Astronomicai
CYes CL Probably Astronomieal
Civ . Pesaibly Agrrooanical
RNo
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION B. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE 0 Othar.
C Insufhcient Data for Evaluation
10 Unxnown
Unle 1 Unk 1
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
Source feels obi yas deft: Itly a

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sight-
ing of objec 3. March
1949, en from Honolulu to Canton Island.
Interviev Palo Alto,
California, revealed the object he saw could -
not possibly h He stated his
reason fcr writing reason fcr lson servatory
celest: body oody
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DECLASSIFIED AFTER 12 YEARS
DOD DIR 5200.10
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DISTRIBUTION ACTION COPY FORWARDED TO FILE STAMP
CG, AMC (action cys) 4 Commanding General
DO # 5 2 Air Materiel Command
OSI Hqs
File 2 Dayton, Chio
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APPROVED
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JOHN G. SWOPE
Colonel, USAF
.DISTR IEIED
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e Alto, Calif fornia, stated that the ob-
ject sighted by him mentioned in his letter Mount Wilson
Observatory no manner or anything
but a celestial body. Mr. was very emphatic that it
could not have been an aircraft in any form and that he so
stated in his letter. Mr. stated his reason for writing
the letter was the unusual size of the celestial body which
he took to be a meteor but which nmight have been a comet.
Mr. I stated that obj not have
been man made.

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tion by Special Agent COKS. DO #19. da August 19.
garding this in oident.
donriel
Inel OERCME M. BRAUN
R/I dtd 2 Aug 49 Aoting Distriot Commander
NF-O-5 OCT 48 15M AUG 12