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CASE REFERENCE9615244

DATE OF SIGHTINGJuly 1950

REPORTED LOCATIONPeril Strait Alaska

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From: Commandant, U. S. Coast Guard
Tos Commanding General, Air liateriel Command, Wright-Patterson air
Force Base, Dayton, Chio, Attn: L.CIaX0<-3

Subj: Unconventional Aircraft; report of sighting

There is forwarded herewith for your information a report of the
sighting of an unconventional aircraft in Peril Strait, alaska, on

8 July, 195.

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REPORT OF SIGHTING OF "FLYING DISCS" GR OTHER
PHENOMENA IN THE ATMOSPHERE

Date of sighting 8 July, 1950 Time 1400U to 1402500
Location of sighting

FURIL STH IT, ALAS: 4)

Weather conditions

OBJECT SIGHTED

Number One Heading 290 degrees true.
Two oval, discs connected by

Shape _ strut. Altitude Estimseted 15,000 feet.

Color Opaque white. Sound None heard above ship's noises.

Speed ted 350 x Exhaust trail None visible.
Size 100 feet by 60 feet Maneuverability Banks and climbs wers

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WITNESSESS
Name Address Occupati on
"CGC Hemlock (‘i:GL-217) CRCSH USCG

Ketchikan, Alaska

7 L2{1 USCG

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The above described object wos first sicshted directly overhead and observed until it
disappeared two and one-half minutes later veyond 1500 foot level of FALSE LIAL. DERG
HEAD in Peril Strait, Alaska. Object was distinctly observed below the hizhest cirrus
clouds, and it aypeared to be banking and clinbing while maintaining course. ‘while
banking and climbing, end end side views were oberved in addition to oval bottom view.

DOWNGRADED AT 3 YEAR INTE.
DECLASSIFIED AFTER 12 YEA
DOD DIR 5200.10

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Informati 10 July 1950
Serene eee ny 12 Jul 50 Wilmington, Ohie

WILMINGTON NeEWS JOURNAL
JULY 12

Flying Saucers \ _—
Seen in Sky Here

A number of Clinton county

residents saw a phenomenon in
| the western sky Monday between
9:30 and 10 P. M. which they de-
scribed as appearing to be flying,
saucers.

Heber Harcum, of Route 73,

west of Wilmington; Mrs. C. A.
Henry, Louise street; Mrs. Glenn |
Curtis, West Locust street, and
Mrs. Roy Henry, of Bennett.
road, all told the News-Journal
they had witnessed the shooting

lights in the sky.

Mrs. Roy Henry said they
looked exactly like those she -
saw a year ago between 11 P. M.
and 12 midnight, except for the
one stationary light spot which
Harcum and Mrs. C. A. Henry
also saw.

Harcum described the lights as
fuzzy revolving discs or saucers,

-not very high above the horizon
which flitted across the sky. He
said one of them went from north
to the west, seemed to turn back
toward the north for a short dis-
tance and then stopped, remain-
ing stationary, while other lights
flashed across beneath this one.

Mrs. C. A. Henry said
lights looked like “big
things which flew across the
to the Jeft at a high rate of
Some of them seemed
somewhat like a smoke ring,
Mrs. Henry added.

Mrs. Glenn Curtis, who was
driving into Wilmington on the
Port William road when she no-
ticed the lights, said they seemed
‘to be irr groups of two and would
£ross each other, traveling in op-
posite directions. She did not
see the stationary light, however.

There was no distinct appear-
ance, Mrs. Roy Henry said, de-|
scribing the lights as similar to,
a dim kerosene flame.

There were reports in Cincin-
mati of strange lights in the sky
and the Associated Press told
the News-Jouyna t Cincinnati
mete that the
lights were caused by a cloud
condition which brought about

the unusual play of light rays.

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