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UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969

CASE REFERENCE9614688

DATE OF SIGHTINGApril 1950

REPORTED LOCATIONShelby NC

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FORT MCPHERSON, GEORGIA

AJACI-3 $60.83 | 18 April 1950

SUBJECT: Unconventional Aircraft

TOs Commanding General
Air Materiel Command
Wright-Patterson Air Foroe Base

Dayton, Ohio
Attention: MCI (Control No. A-1917)

Inolosed herewith is newspaper clipping from the Raleigh,
North Carolina NEWS AND OBSERVER, 11 April 1950, re unidentified
objects sighted in Shelby, North Carolina.

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Shelby’s Veterans of Foreign Wars,
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lick, an employe o an auto parts
firm, and three children watched it
for at least two minutes.

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flame, he reported. Limerick said
it “wobbled” along its course for!
about two minutes and then shot
straight upward before disappear. h

By Shelby Residents’ _

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