PROJECT BLUE BOOK

FD 26/2002
ATIC NC ,26 Feb 1950
AF IIO. LOCATION Decatur, Il1.
RFPOKT 1IO. SOURCE_ Female Civilian
DATE OF PORT * DATE IN TO ATIC.
THM OF CTAING COLOR.S Silver flash
SHALR - SPCED Men:ure.
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Dear Mre. Crane /
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Receipt of your letter dated Pebruary 1950 is
hereby acknowledged.
Your letter will warded to the office interested
in these matters.
If further information is desired you will be contacted.
Your action: iting this Command i . ciated.
MCIAXA : .*
Yours truly,
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7-3712-27
OTHER PLANETS SEND
SAUCERS, NAVY MAN SAYS
NEW V YORK, Feb. 8 22 (UP)-A Navy commander
said today he i is convinced that flying saucers are real
space ships piloted by strangers from other planets.
Comdr. Robert B. McLaughlin, guided missiles
expert and current skipper of the destroyer Bristol,
told of two saucers, 20 inches in diameter. outrunning
Navy rocket.
In an article in the March issue of True magazine,
the commander, identified by the magazine as an
Annapolis graduate and head of the Navy unit work-
irig A on classified projects at White Sands Proving
Grounds, N.M., said he is convinced"these disks are
space ships from another planet, operated by animate,
intelligent beings." -
L.A. TIMES 23 FE8 50
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1-3- Spniu Knoxville, Tenh Gd RADAR
3 Selfridge AFB, Mich UNIDENTIFIED
Grass Plains, Texas A/c
Vaughn, N Mexico Astro (Venus)
Ft Bliss, Texas Astro (Venus)
W-P AFB Ohio Air Visual Astro (Solar I Image)
Gd Visual Astro (Venus)
Gd RADAR Other (Returns f'm
9 Orangeburg, Golumbia,S Carolina Miti Astro (Meteor)
9 SelfridgeAFB, Michigan Balloon
10 Bethel, Conn Other (Psychological)
11 3 Biggs Astro (Venus)
a Chile Multi Astro (Venus)
Holloman AFB, N Mexico Insufficient Data
St Johns, Mich Insufficient Data
13393399 Piggett, Arkansas Balloon
Pacific Beach, Washington Insufficient Data
Guatamala Insufficient Data
Little Silver, N Jersey Other (Contrails)
Red Bank, N Jersey "1
FairHaven, Waterwich, N ersey 3
Ft Monmouth, N Jersey 81
1Z817 Roslyn, L I A/CBoNco
17 Little Rock, Arkansas Little Rock, Arkansas A/C A
9& F9& Bradford, Ill A/c A/c
N York, N York Astro (Moon)
20 Stuttgart, Arkansas Stuttgart, UNIDENTIFIED UNIDENTIFIED
22 Montpelier, ermont nt Other (Reflection)
I 23 85 mi NW Jacksonville, Fla Military Air Astro Meteor) Meteor)
24 24 Sandia Army Base, N e, N Mexdico Mexico 4 4 Soldiers Balloon.
24-25 Chile Civilians Insufficient Data Data
26 Adamant, Vermont A/C
26 Brunswick, Ga A/C A/C
27 Motubu, Okinawa Military RADAR UNIDENTIFIED UNIDENTIFLED
2Chattanooga, Tenn Jalloon
Santiago, Chile UNIDENTIFIED
** Hibbing, Minn Astro (Meteor)
MarrowboreLake, Tenn UNIDENTIFED
Maxwell AFB, Alabama Insufficient Data
Sioux City, Iowa Balloon
Sioux City, Iowa Other (Debris
Pittsburgh, Pa Balloon
Selma, Ala 4 Civilians A/C
ADDITIONAL ORTED SIGHTINGS (NOT CASES)
DATE LOCATION SOURCE OBSERVER
DR Mar Hawthonre, Calif Los Angeles Times PHOTO
DR Mar Mexico Newspapers (Landing w/men)
DR Mar Baldwin Hills, Calif Newspapers (P.S
DR Mar N Mexico-Colo Newspapers
DR Mar Pennsylvania Keyhoe
2 Mexico City, Mexico Newspaper
11 LaCresenta, Calif Newspaper
13 Mexico City, Mexico Newspaper
26 Wash, D C Newspaper
27 Hong Kong, China Newspaper American Seamen
DR30 Meditteranean Area Newspaper Multi
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