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CASE REFERENCE9614468

DATE OF SIGHTINGMarch 1950

REPORTED LOCATIONChattancoga Penn

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HEADQUARTERS THIRD ARMY
. FORT MCPHERSON, GEORGIA

AJACI<3 360.33 3 April 1950

SUBJECT: Unconventional Aircraft

TO: Commanding General
Air Materiel Command
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Dayton, Ohio

Attention: MCI (Control No. A-1917)
Inclosed herewith is summary of information re flying saucer

over Chattanooga, Tennessee, and newspaper clippings re unidentified
objects over Miami, Florida.

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FOR THE COMMANDING GENERAL:
JOHN MEADE
Colonel, GSC
3 Inols:

1 -S/l dtd 31 Mar 50
2 - Newspaper clipping

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FLYING SAUCER REPORTED OVER OF INFORMATION.
CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE COMINMED BY OTHCR SOURCES «

PROBABLY TRUE
POSSIGLY TRUE ... ..

On 2 Mare

ur sal aT rei View Drive, Chattanooga, Tenn
eames 615 Woodvale Avenue, Chattanoora, Tennessee, reportee to the
tanooga News-Free Press that they had sighted a flying saucer over Chattanooga at

about 1600, 28 March 1950. The sto eared in the N
ee ik rt hen, ry appe © News-Free Presse on the ote)

On 30 March 1950 both Mre. SEG were interviewe
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stated that they had sighted a round silver object in the sky heading toward Lovell ;

Field (Chattanooga Municipal Airport) and as they watched it it sudden]

disappeared,
Neither lady could state how high the object was or at what rate of end it = oe .
They were only sure that it was round and was of a silver color. (Fe2)

; On 30 March 1950, Ly EE cy. Meteorologist, Weather Bures
Field, Chattanooga, Tennessee, was interviewed and stated thet in all ethane aa’

the ladies saw was the weather balloon that is released by the

weather station at 1000
and 1600 each dey to make weather observations, Mr. Kallouist stated that the ladies
probably observed the baloon after it had reached a point where the ridge currents
wore blowing it back towards the field and also at the same moment when it reached the

right altitude for it to burst due to the atmosph than
Se ee tatinen., spheric pressure being less (3-2)

No further investigation is contempleted by this effice regarding th

is pert-~
iculer indident. Liason has been set up with the local newspapers acca sa ih ss
reports of flying objects unidentified, will be relayed to this office immediately.

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Lovell Field.

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