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1. DATE i ee ee GrouP LOCATION

21 June 1950 21/09352 Hesilton AFB, California

10. CONCLUSION
INSUFFICIENT DATA

Roport not in file. Card net in filo, Case missinz.

4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS
Qe (five passos)

S. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION /11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS
Not Reported. " Four nowsclippings ard om cxtract from a "Flizing Saucer"
magazine constitute tho only infor=aticn availablo. Vase
Oe will be evaluatod if file is located.
ground visual |
7. COURSE

varied, straight flich °

6, PHOTOS

O Yes
No

9% PHYSICAL EVIDENCE

0 Yes °
Zi No

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THE 1950 HAMILTON AIR FORCE BASE, CALIFORNIA CASE:

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CARRIED THIS STORY: DATELINE KaATON BECAUSE OF THE SPEED AND THE DARKNESS, THEY
FIELD, CALIFORNIA, JUNE 21,1950. IT WAS 1:35 AM CORPORAL COULDN'T DISCERN ITS SHAPE. OPPOSITE THE COM
GARTAND PRYOR, 26 wis Wi THE FIELO CONTROL TOWER WITH TROL TOWER, IN ANOTHER OBSERVATION POST,
STAPF SERGEANT ELUS LORIMER, 25, A VETERAN WITH THALE STAFF SERGEANT VIRGIL CAPPURO, 36, ALSO
VEARS EXPERIENCE IN CONTROL TOWER OBSERVATION, $1)0- = WATCHED AS THE STRANGE CRAFT MADE THREE
OEMLY THEY SAW AN OBJECT SPRAYING A BLUE-GREEN STREAK SEPARATE PASSES ACROSS THE FIELD...

OF FLAME HURTLING TOWARD THEM FROM THE OIRECTION OF — *

“THe £/AST REPORT ON THE
MYSTERY (OBJECT) CREDITED IT
WITH a SPEED OF 7/000 TO
(300 WILES AN HOUR’ LORMER
WAS ASKED ABOUT THIS, HE SAID:

(it 1S VERY DIFFICULT TO
fae ATE SPEED, HEIGHT, AND

“AT WEDNESOAY AFTERNOON'S
NEWS CONFERENCE... $/S6T.
LORIMER SAID:

THE EXHAUST OR ‘TAK OF THE
CRAFT ‘RESEMBLED THE FLAME

The story THEN STATED: “4/A FORCE
INTELLIGENCE MEN QUESTIONED THE
THREE OBSERVERS 411 MORNING. HEAD-
QUARTERS OF THE FOURTH AIR FORCE HERE
HAD WO COMMENT. IT 1S SAID A REPORT WAS
GEING MADE TO WASHINGTON. OFFICERS OF A BLOW TORCH’.(I) KNEW IT
WERE TIGHT LIPPED. BUT MAJOR JAMES E. WASN'T A JET PLANE BECAUSE OF
JOHNSTON, PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER, | TME GREAT RATE OF SPEED AND

SAD: BECAUSE A JET PLANE, WHICH
THERE WERE WO PLANES OVER HAMILTON \ (I AM) USED TO WATCHING
FIELO AT THE J/ME THE MYSTERY OBJECT] \_sHOwS NO FLAME.” /
was MEPORTED, AND NONE LANDED 4 : S
NG THE PAE- DAWN. —

DISTANCE AT NIGHT.”

“THe F/AST REPORT WEDNESDAY
MORNING FROM THE FIELD QUOTED THE

IT OBSERVERS AS SAYING THE OBVECT
TWICE on '\MOARED’ ACROSS THE SKY. BUT AT

THREE TIMES f =F WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON'S NEWS CON-

THE SPEED OF ©. +}: ERENCE THEY SAID:

A JET?

VERBATIM STORY TO FACILITATE DRAMATIZAT
1.4, THEY (WE), —€06. on

DIO YOU ADD [HESE HAMES TO YOuR|
EVER-GROWING LIST, AIR FORCES.
MEN WHO'D BEEN DEEMED TAvSET-
WORTHY AND COMPETENT ENOUVEN
TO GUIDE O/244/0N8 OF DOLL AAS
1% AIMCRAFPT TO SAFE LANDINEE
AT HAMILTON? 010 THE “ain
(TELL (@aNCE BEN HO" OUES-
TIOWTOS THE THREE OOSERVERS
ALL MORNING swSTAUCT THEe TO
CHANGE THEIR STORIES SO THAT
THE AFTEANOON STATEMENTS OID
WOT CO/NCIDEN WITH THE FIAST
MORMINE ATPOCRTS? AND IF 40,
OWT? HAT B10 YOU ROW TNAT
YOU O10a'T WANT US TO Know?

Disc, ‘Roaris.z Like Thunde.,’
s Reported At Hamilton Field

OAKLAND, Cal, June 271...‘ | other pass north of the ficld, | They described ite aproach alt
~- The Gakiand Trimone said a | then levee made three more ap. | tude St between 2000 and 5008

“diac shaped object" roaring’ at proaches. | feet.
an eatimated speed of 1000 to The Tribune said the airmen | The men said the sky wae
130 miles an hour made five ribed the object an circular, clear oer Hamilton Field, ak

in the center and tapering | though high foe prevailed else
to the sides. They ured binor- . where in the San Francisco Bay
ra in following ita course, | area.

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| ‘Flying Saucer’ Seen Sure They Saw

Shooting Blue Flame

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—“The Oakland Tribune” said | Hamilton Field, Calif., June 21
a “disk-shaped object” roaring | (U.P).—Three Air Force trained ob-

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's Report Seeing “Saucer”
Air Base On West Coast

HAMILTON FIELD, Calif., June 21—(AP)—Three airmen told
of sighting a mysterious flying object over their base, traveling

it repeatedly

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ven sald they have seen them|®t today's news conference that
tless times at night.
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r the three observers

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Force headquarters at Wash-
ion said it had received no in-/ talking today, said he then saw
tion about the Incident.
first report on the Hamilton | passes across the ficid.

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@ great rate of speed,” and spraying a blue-green flame.
It was first sighted at 1:35 «. m., they told newsmen, and they’

But because of the speed and the darkness, they couldn't discern

he was the first to see the inter-

all} Pryor was in the field control
the|tower. He called it to the atten-
Ellis Lorimer, 25,

nr was be-|of Burbank, Calif, who had had
sent to Washington, Officers| three years’ experience in control

tower observation.
Lorimer, who did most of the

the craft make three separate

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at an estimated speed of 1,000
to 1,500 miles an hour made five
“passes” near Hamilton Air

Force non-commissioned offi-
cers who said the “flying sau-
cer,” shooting blue flame and
with a “roar like thunder,” dived
near a beacon just north of the
field. Corporal Roger G. Pryor,
a control tower operator at the
field, said he saw a blue flame
shooting out as the saucer
flashed by from the southwest
and headed northeast. “The
Tribune” said Corporal Pryor’s
observation was verified by Staff
Sergeant Ellis R. Lorimer, an-
other control tower operator,
and Staff Sergeant Virgil Cap-
puro, member of the airways
communications staff.

servers in the traffic control tower
at Hamilton Field reported they

saw a “NyMP disc” make from.

three to five passes over the air

shape. Force Base early today. The | base early today. /
os sous ® by bata! Gt Gea Poo. & newspaper quoted three Air| They said the aerial * object,

emitting a

2,000 to 5,000 feet. The control
operators said they followed the
dise with binoculars. . They esti-
mated its speed at “between 1,000
and 1,500 miles an hour.”

Blue Flame Seen.

Cpl. Roger Pr control tower
operator, firs spotted the object
As it sped across the beacon. At
first, he said, he thought it was
falling star but he changed his
mind when the object held its a\ti-
tude, turned, and made anotier
pass of the air base.

S/Sgt. Ellis Lorimer and Svt.
Virgil Cappuro, both tower op oir?
tors, saw the dise in the e'var,
early-morning sky. They said the
object trailed blue flame behir.! it
“like an acetylene torch.”

Air Force officers at the} s-«
had no comment to make.

“thunder-like roar,” ;
buzzed the field at an altitude of i