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UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969

CASE REFERENCE9614995

DATE OF SIGHTINGMay 1950

REPORTED LOCATION100Mi Eastof Honshu Japan

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD

l. DATE - TIME GROUP * LOCATION
19 May 1950 100 Mi East of Honsim Japan

10. CONCLUSION

Time element differs slightly but appearance and
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11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS

Object picked up on ground Radar. Pilots ef two A/C were
6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
Air Viewal Gd RADAR

vectored to area and identified an object that looked like

a kite having dimensions ef 36 inches to 2), inches.
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Fenort of the sighting of jon nnidenti fied abject by tro é
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An object was first d: tected by rround redar and tre nilots
were given & vector at 1030%. At 1040! the nilots mede crrtact
with en object. “Several passes were mede in er effort to determine
its ider.tity. The pilots eported the ooject es oeing sintlirr
to ae box vite in apperrance ind havirg the anproxirate dinensiors ‘
of thirty inches by twenty-four inches. (Inel #1-2-3-4) Yo
visible ~ears of supporting -the object was noted end both nrilots
reported thet it appeared to pene in ste tionary. The ghbject wes
under observatio: from 1040}. to 10$2%..

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At 1000K & dropsorde wos relezsed fron un [7-29 we ther
avuabin Seaxaee aircraft in the appioxinete vicinity of the sirht'nrg.
(Inel #5) The drepsor.ce is similiar in enperrence to the renny ted
sightirg, end it resuhed the suifece #t 1015¥.

COM SNT.OF APP SOVING OFFICTK:
Since the object cennot be positively identified cs the

dropsonde, dye to the incongrmiity of the tive elenent, this
report is ‘forwarded for your informetion. §

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3: Statement by 2d Lt. C. F. Wenzel

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» } cut in the Rovky mountains 16 both watched the objecte-eprr-o-
Claim Fly Ing Dises “miles east of here. ward the mountains. Ilis son, Bill,

| Zanon said he did not believe mleane up from the field and both
‘morning. Aiter he saw t +
MONTROSE, Colo, May 21.--' shout’ 18 minutes Inter—he said:i" it’ paren veid. «“PREPTE-Wau-

(UP) — Felix Zanon, 60, who “I'm a believer now.” ..
ranches on a mesa five miles east He called his wife and said they cers all right.

of here, -_ ad came od of the

back door home morn:

_ing and saw . silver dise Davrov JOURNAL- HERALD
hovering over 2

Zanon said the object was joined

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disestion-toward Cerro sunita

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