DECLASSIFIEDUSAF PROJECT BLUE BOOK · NARA T-1206
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE

PROJECT BLUE BOOK

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969
CASE REFERENCE9614980
DATE OF SIGHTINGMay 1950
REPORTED LOCATIONWilmette Ill, Chicago
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Wright-Patterson Ar Base
Deyton, Ohio
ATTN: MCI
l. In compliance with letter, Department of the Army, QSUSA, CSGID
452.1, dated 25 March 1948, subject: Unconventional Aireraft, control
number A-1917, the following information received from
Regional cago, Illinois, warded.
Evanston,
Illinois, was interviewed and=stated in substancet At 2045
hours on the night of 16 May 1950 he and his were seated
in their parked car on the shore of Lake Michigan just south
of Wilmette Beach in Washington Park, Wilmette, Illinois, when
Mrs. called the doctor's attention strange object
in the sky over the lake. The ob,ject traveling south at
a tremendous rate of speed at first D thought
that it was a 'shooting star. While watching it Dr.s
realized that the object was r star but appeared to be
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"Flying Saucer," 25 April 1950. Request information ontinuance of
reporting of this type of information. W
GENERAL -
rae. 98c. λ
ROBERT P. BELL 1
Colonel, QSC
UNCLASSIFIED AC of S, G-2