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A silver-tipped object trailing IAXS RECORDING OF CONTROL NO
smoke moved slowly across the ROUTED LAXS ROUTED
northeast section of the sky IAXS
Wednesday afternoon between 4:15 IAXS 5D-OSI
and 4:25 and then slowly disap- TO
peared, seeming to dissolve from OTHER ¥
the tail forward, according to BUBJECT:
Mrs. Everett R. Johnson, Water- AXT-1 CONF... CONF..
town R. D. 2. | Project GREDGE
"We were looking to the north-
east and this meteorlike thing DISPOSITION: roject GRUDGE
rose in the east and went slowly 7 SUSPENSE Ltr
across the horizon, disappearing R.406 SUSPENSE DATE
in the north," Mrs. Johnson said.
"It hung like a silver ball right DATE DATE
in the north and then dissolved." DECIMAL
Two others who were riding RECORDED
with Mrs. Johnson saw this phe-
nomenon, her small son, Everett,
who was fascinated by the sight,
and her mother, Mrs. Daniel Mc- ESTABLISHED NO
Cargar, Watertown, R. D. 2. DATED No
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Air Materiel Command, W Air Force
Base, Dayton, Informatior received re-
flects Watertown Daily Times, Watertown, New York
released information on 12 May 1949 indicating
a silver tipped object was observed moving in
the sky between 4:15 and 4:25 P.M. on 11 May
1949. Observers who saw this object identified
as Mrs atertor
her small so and Mrs mother,
Mrs
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OSGUSAF
THOMAS F. DCYLE, JR.
Captain, USAF
Acting DISTRICT COMMANDER
23 JULY 48 AFCSI FORM 4 UNCLASSIFELT U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
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of 12 May 1949:
SILVER-TIPPED OBJECT IS OBSERVED MOVING IN SKY
A silver-tipped lobject trailing smoke moved slowly across
the northeast section of the sky Wednesday afternoon between 4:15
and 4:25 and then slowly disappeared, seeming to dissolve from the
tail forward, according to Mrs. rtown
R. D.2.
"We were looking to the northeast and this meteorlike thing
rose in the east and went slowly across the horizon, disappearing
in the north," Mrs. said. "It hung like a er ball
right in the north and then dissolved."
Two others who were riding with Mrs. saw this phe-
nomenon, her small son who was fascinated by the sight,
and her mother, Mrs , Watertown, R. D. 2.
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Interviews and checks made regarding un-
identified aerial objects reportedly seen
between 1545 and 1700 hours EST on 11 l May
1949 in the Watertown, New York area by
1 Mrs er, Mrs
and Miss all of
watertown, New York.
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ROGTE TO FILE
C. CARPENTER
Major, USAF
District Commander.
AFHQ FORM Replaces AFCSI Form 16-57744-1 U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
15 JAN 49 0-208 Retae
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trail of smoke, odor of writer ch Police Depart-
ment and Jefferson County Sherif ice, Watertowm, New York a
no information oncerning this informant. interviewed SUBJECT's
mother and she advised that attends a
local granmar school, and the she
related th normal
3. The writer also interviewed Mrs.
Route 2, Watertown, New York, housewire living concerning her alleged
observation of an object seen while driving along a rural rea near Watertown, New
York. e noint River
She said te the object moved from southeast to north-
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smoke the exact wid undred and fifty
feet to the rear om the tail and
3248 work forward unt ompletely appee ail, which also
gradually thinned finally there were no
violent movement e object and disappearance
described happene oximately inutes. Mrs.
further related that the object did to be illuminated by its ow. source

emperatu
Visibility
8.A check by of local flight edules of ercial,
private and d military airorai at ion,
proved negative.
. Mr. Assistant Technical Director of the Cornell Aero-
nautical Laboratory, Buffalo, New York was interviewed by the writer and he
stated that the Cornell Laboratory not have nv exp operaticns
in the Watertown, Ne May 1949.
10. check was made at the
the writer, and endants stated that there hed weather equipment re-
leased by that Weat Station on 11 May 1949 but advised of the possibility
of weather equipmen released at the Weather Station, Griffiss Air Force
Base, Rome, New York.

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