PROJECT BLUE BOOK

PRC0TCT 10073 RECOND CARD
DATE OF
AF II LOCATION San Jose, Calif
REPORT: NO SOURCE Civilian
TO ATIC
TIME OF EICIPIINO _ 1747 PST COLOR Fiery Tail
. putimated
SHAPT Conical Meaoured
Fatimatei
BIZE ALTITUDE EST 8OO' Mragured
COURSF LENGTH OF TIM: OBSERVED
NO. IN GROUP TYPE OF OBSERVI TTON Ground
BOUND Propeller Noise MANFUVERS
PHOTOS SKETCHES (1) REMARKS: Source stated he observed
light single engine plane giving a red
Temporary ATIC Form 329 vapor trall.
SporusJRlie (2. Jan 52)
, PROJECT 1O073 PROJECT LOO73 RECORD CARD RECORD CARI
ATIC NO ATIC NO DATE OF DATE OF eb 1950
LOCATION Berkely Calif
REPORT H REPOR SOURCE F_Army Army & Havy Officers
DATE OF MT REPOR DWRORI T14 Feb 50
DATE IN
TIME OF SICHTING__1730 PST COLOR_Trail Lookedhike
SHAPE Conical Estimuted
Measured
SIZE Estint.d
ALTITUDE 209 Measured
COURSE LENGTH OF TIM: OBSERVE
NO. IN CROUP TYPE OF Ground
. .
MANEUVERS
PHOT SKETCHES (1) REMARKS: Sources observed plane in area
going in opposite direction.
Temporary ATIC Form 329
(2 Jan 52)
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I saw at 5:50 p.m Carlos appeared
I at first to be a It was a mil
of the track at the and quite appeared
cone shaped as reported. I did not note any gray
exhaust but what looked like a tail probably
because rays of the setting sun which had dropped
behind the hills, illuminated either the object itself
or its exhaust. It traveling
at about the same speed as the train, which is rapid,
BESBY F. /HOLMES
Captain, USAF
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THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
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'Ice Cream Cone' :
Flying 1 Eaval
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Reported Over Alameda
Army Intelligence at Hamilton -
Pield yesterday was investigating -
reports that a giant, "flying Ice
cream cone" was seen drifting
southward over the Alameda VANILLA! . i.0
Naval Air Station Tuesday. ::2
Six observers-one of them an
officer at the air station-de-
scribed the object as 30 feet long. -ISAYITS RDO
It passed ov field about CHOCOLATE!
5:30 p. esday, trailing :
gray vaporous exhaust from its , 610ood
cone tip, they said. bud
The cone flew slowly south over
the air station at a height 052 TO
about s0oo feet, then tilted oln ts
abruptly on its side and headed
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Under the ConAC Letter 200-l, dated
10 October 1949, the wing report information on 'Flying
Disogs" is submi ted: .
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(1) Location and time of sighting: Over Alameda, ornia
() Weather:
(3) Names, addresses of witnesses:
Mr San Leandro. California.
Mr civilian employee at Alameda aNaval Air
Station. He works the night shift in the Power Plant.
. Mr San Leandro, California.
Mn isa civilian employee at Alameda Naval Air
cone, and the top rounded somewhat like the canopy of
a parachute.
(o) One-half z00
ordinary parachut
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(f) Heading: No definite heading. The objeot appaa) hover
. at times and then "lazily" move on to another position
. hover ragain. Mr and Mr .observed the objeot for
a period of ten (10) minutes. It finally disappeared in a
South-east direction from Alameda.
(g) Maneuverability: In addition to the movements as indicated
in (f) above, the object would change fr the perpendicular
position in flight.
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(h) Altitude: Both individuals rer
2500 to 5000 feet altitude.
(1) Sound: None.
(3) Exhaust trail: One observer states an exhaust trail appeared
to be much like that of a jet rocket. The other
states no exhaust trail observed.
Remarks: The Ass't O.D.at Alameda Naval Air Station interviewed
the two observers and indicated that he was sure they
has seen s something worth while reporting and l seemed
impressed by their story. Alameda Naval Air Station
Operations informed Hamilton Flight Service that the
only investigation that they were making was informing
Hamilton Air Fo: investigation.
FOR THE COMMANDING OFFICER: .
GEORGE PAUL
Lt Colonel, USAF
Adjutant
Letter Report DOWNGRA
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LOCATION San Jose, Calif
AF II
Civilian
REPORT: 1C
ATIC
TIM: OF EICIPINO 1747 PST Fiery Tail
nutimato
ir Conical SPEE Measured
SHAPT Eatimatci
ALTITUDE EST 8OO' Mragured
BIZE
LENGTH OF TIM: OBSHRVFI -
COURSF
TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ground
NO. IN GROUP
BOUND Propeller Noise MANEUVERS
REMARKS: Source stated he observed
PHOTOS SKETCHES light single engine plane giving a red
vapor trall.
Temporary ATIC Form 329
(2. Jan 52)
PROJECT 10073 RECORD CA
ATIC NO . DATE OF
AF HO. LOCATION Berkely Calif
REPORT SOURCE Army & Hav officers
(2 Jan 52)
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flying toward San Jose. At about 5:57 p.m it flew almost over
our street (First Street)at about 800 feet and out out of my
sight over Santa Clara Street. It was a small single motor plane
which I could see very distinctly throwing off this red fire vapor
from its tail like this The plane
was moving slowly a slight noise of I called
. dowmstairs to the
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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 9 (AP).
Intelligence officers of the West- WA
ern Air Defense zone are check- Invest
ing on reports of a "flying ice of in
TL: cream cone." They didn't seem Gamb
: 28 excited about it.. the $.
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A spokesman at Hamilton Field out i
disclosed yesterday an investiga- offici
TevO 5 tion was being made of a report The
. by six observers--including a
2a 10 -1 "inve
Navy air officer-that a peculiar, deal
'ed cone-shaped craft was seen fly- brose
0,- ing over the Alameda naval air M. D
oC8.: onll station Tuesday. year
.ed The observers, five residents of
uc- them
out San Leandro and Lt. Comdr. J. payof
5. L. Kraker of the naval air sta- Dc
ple, tion. They said it appeared like of th
and a 30-foot ice cream cone, flew self-s
over the naval station at about gamt
5000 feet and disappeared to the inves
southeast at from 75 to 95 miles whet

iying Cone
With Vapor
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Trail Hunted
SAN FRANCISCO, Feh. & (A) x
So now it'n a "fying ice cream
cone." No fooling. The Alr Force
Is checking up on it.
Six observers, including Lt.
Comdr. J. L. Kraker of the Ala-
meda Naval Air Station, reported
seeing a giant object passing
over the station yesterday. The
report was passed along to the
western air defense zone intelli-
gence office at Hamilton Field,
which made it public torlay.
The ohservers said the ohject
looked like an ice creamcone
and flew slowly south at a height
of about 5000 feet, tralling  a
gray vaporous exhaust from its
cone tpi.
They said It then tilted abrupt-
ly on its side and headed south-
east at a speed estimated at from
75 to 95 miles an hour. They de-
scribed It as about 30 feet long.
Authorities at the air station
ald no meteorological halloons
ere up yesterday. A spokerghan
Hamilton Field nald the Air
B'orce is ,
Has found nothing.
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3 n the vertical : drifted southward,
diminishing in intensity and size, presently faded away I did
least five
minutes.
When. ahserved nlane just a little to the
way that appeared possibly uminated to
others directions.
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A CERTIFIED
2 BESBY 7. HOLLES
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Flying Ice Cream
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So Much Sherbet
Air Force I Intelnigence at Hamil- E
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ton Field yesterday pursued the trail 8
of the Bay Area's giant flying "ice-
cream cone," without getting in a
of good lick.
Six observers had reported spot- +
ting the big cone flying slowly south 8
over the Alameda Naval Air Sta-
tion late Tuesday afternoon. pme
: Intelligence officers at Western
Air Defense Comman ton
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report for the record yesterday. No . A
such cone has been reported here . .
before, they declared, outside of a VZ
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. cause this article describes so closely, the phenomenom
witnessed by my friend and self at approximately the
same hour a .I account.
We are tw World Murses (non-drinking)
My
to my home on the line which divides Oakland from
Piedmont. "*
As we witnessed this 'rvsterious' sign, I
. have seen. and
BESBY HOLMES
Captain, USAF
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HEADQUARTERS 78th FIGHTER WING
NAMILTON AIR FORCE BASE
. - HAMILTON, C IFORNIA
IN REPLY REFER TO: .
OI 373.5 14 FEB 150
SUBJECT: F Reporting of Additional ring Dises
TO Comanding General .
Air Materiel Command
Wright-Patterson Air For
. Dayton, Ohio
ATTENTION: TSDIN
1. Information contained in the inclosures is additional
information to report submitted by Letter, Hq 78th Fighter Wing,
Subjeot: Reporting of Flying Discs, 373.5,
dated 8 February 1950.
2. The inclosed information is submitted dance
with the provisions of Par 2, ConAC C Lette 49
FOR THE COMMANDING OFFICER:
GEORGE L. PAUL
LT.COL. USAF
. ADJUTANT
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