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HEADQUARTERS THIRD ARMY
FORT McPHERSON, GEORGIA
AJACI-3 360.55 10 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 newspaper clipping from the Raleigh,
North Carolina, NEWS AND OBSERVER, 6 April 1950, re unidentified
object sighted in Hertford, North Carolina.
FOR THE COMMANDING GENERAL:
Ny typ 3
JOHN MEADE
Colonel, GSC
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Ahoskie, April 5.—It wasn't a fily-|W®
ing saucer, neither was it a con-
ventional flying machine, but half
a hundred people.or more late one
afternoon this week
anne ie
Tae cbben, frst neled Or group
a
a in front of Wright's Mar-
on Academy Street, was de-
pee ee as Reliant sad jn color in shape,
soundless,
watched an
object
htly light
way
Savy 7 Wright's
oe had the object in- view five
or more. Still other groups
Rhue Street saw the object,
ous motorists—attracted by
F
au
—_— meee eee ee ee
APT. 6. 1990.
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~ Elongated Object Sighted In Hertford
By LUCIUS BLANCHARD.
those staring skyward-—stopped to|was able to observe it five minytes
Among those who saw the object
were Fred Wright, proprietor of
the market, W. L. Hopkins, member
of Ahoskie Town Council; Buxton
Harrell, Rhue Street merchant; Jake
Lawrence, Robert Anderson, and
others. J. N. Vann, former legis-
lator, was said to have seen the
object from his farm near Ahoskie.
Hopkins said the sun had set but
that the sky was still light and
cloudless. He described it as res
u sha very bright red
an the i traili end.
He could n how far away it
western | was, but he observed the size to be
about long and to
three inches thick, the actual
of course, po ge ing on the dis-
tance, He said it did pot appear
ta_be-moving very rapidly» since he
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‘116 miles west of Ahosk
or more
Descriptiuns gained from other
witnesses varied but slightly from
that given by Hopkins, Wright de-
scribed it as about the shape of a
short neon tube. The sky was clear,
he said, and the object maintained
a steady speed and a steady course,
growing fainter and fainter until it
faded from view. Some witnesses
described it as cigar-shaped.
Hopkins, an Army veteran of the
war, said it was not a balloon, a
conventional aircraft, the exhaust
from an airplane engine, or the
setting sun reflected on a cloud.
All agreed there was no sound and
that it resembled nothing they had,
ever seen before. None would at-
tempt to say what it was, and no
one described it «uz a “flying sau-
cer.”
At the same time in
jlar Object was observed. It differed
from the object seen here only in
that it was ing at
a_lower alti and was descr
white The shape was
escr as the same, on the gen-
‘eral lines of a bis cigar, tapering
to the trailing end. Among those
who saw the object at Woodland
were Mrs. Herman Morris, her
daughter, June, and her son, Ronnie,
Mrs. Paul McDaniel and her son,!
Bobby, and Mrs. Earl Martin. Eye-
witnesses at Woodland also describ-
ed the object as soundless and one
witness estimated it to be about
1B-fest-inlength. .