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UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969

CASE REFERENCE9614931

DATE OF SIGHTINGMay 1950

REPORTED LOCATIONBirmingham Ala

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FORT MCPHERSON, GEORGIA

AJACI-3 360.35 10 May 1950

SUBJECT: Unconventional Aircraft

TOs Commanding General’
Air Materiel Command
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

Dayton, Ohio

Attention: MCI (Control No. A-1917)

1. Inolosed herewith is newspaper clipping from the BIRMINGHAM
POST, Birmingham, Alabama, 5 May 1950 re unidentified object sighted
over Birmingham. .

2. No further information is available.

FOR THE COMMANDING GENERAL:

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JOHN MEADE
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; AC of 8, G-2
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AJACI-3 360.33 10 May 1950

SUBJECT: Unconventional Airoraft

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

Attention: MCI (Control No, A-1917) |

1. Inclosed herewith is newspaper clipping from the BIRMINGHA}’

POST, Birmingham, Alabama, 5 May 1950 re unidentified object sighted
over Birminghan,. .

2. No further information is available.

FOR THE COMMANDING GENERAL:

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JOHN MEADE
Colonel, GSC
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3IRITINGHAM POST, & May SO

What Might Be Flying Disc
Seen Here By 7 Persons

Tail Was ‘Long '
Fiery Streak’

Birmingham had a ghostly visitor!

im the sky last night.
At least seven saw it, And
two were able give a lengthy

“We won't say it was a flying
saucer,” two Birmingham business-
men declared today. “Because we've
never seen a flying saucer. But it

D. L. Reid, a former newspaper-
Man on the staff of The Montreal
Star and now president of the
Southern Discount Corp., 5113 Far-
rell-av, said today he and his fam-
ily were return from a theater
night when were attract-
“by a bright light in the sky.”

Mr. Reid said he and his family
—and other persons in he neigh-
borhood saw a glowing object in the

to Reid,

y at the end of about 15
minutes, the object turned ver-
tically and disappeared straight up.
I'm convinced that it was operating
under its own power and that it
,; was able to make very sharp turns.”

“T've seen almost everything
while working as a newspaperman
and I'm not easily fooled. I know it
wasn't A — There wasn't a

Another Sees Tt
And backing up Reed was Charles

Belisnyder, who lives with Reed at

822 30th-s?, s, where they observed
the “spaceship.” © -

Bellsnyder, who served in the
Navy during the war, said, “I know
it definitely wasn't a searchlight. I
saw too many of those while I wak
in the Navy.” '

Mr. Bellsnyder described the
“saucer” in the beginning as &p-
pearing 10 to 12 inches across “from
where we were.” Then, he said, a
tail grew from the object until it

appeared to be about 150 feet long.'

“The tail was a long fiery streak,”
ne said. “It appeared to get bright-
tr and dimmer as we watched, Fi-
sally, after a few minutes, it turned,
went up vertically and faded out”

“I don't know whether it was a
‘lying sauce or not. I've never seen
s flying saucer. But I certainly
yever saw anything like it before.”

Belisnyder said he has lived in
3irmingham all hig life.

“I'm used to furnace reflections,”
ne said, “It wasn’t that.”

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