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SUBJECT: Unconventional Aircraft

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Attention: MCI (Control No. A-1917)

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- ‘Inoloset herewith are newspaper olippings re "flying saucers
over Jacksonville, Florida.

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JOHN MEADE
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2. Clipping fm MIAMI HERALD, 135 July 50
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Jacksonville, Florida
Uy, July 1950

employes and as many passers-
by were convinced yesterday
they at last had joined the

g ranks of those who
ve seen a “flying saucer.”

‘ Scores of persons gathered on
the Forsyth Street side of the
county building about 3:45 P. M.
yesterday to speculate upon the
nature of a shiny aluminum
“pin-point” clearly seen in the

_ blue sky. The object was too

high for any of its features to
‘be distinguished, except that it
“apparently was round. There
-was nothing comparative by
which to measure its size, al-

Dbject Like Flying Saucer
_ Seen by Courthouse Group

A half hundred Courthouse

though while the crowd watched
two jet planes passed well be-
neath it and their wing span
seemed about twice the diameter
of the sphere.

Conservative spectators
guessed the object might have
been a large weather obsServa-
tion balloon. It apparently hov-
ered in one spot, laterally, while
slowly drifting upward until it
disappeared from view.

The object emitted no fiery
jets and no noise of any kind
was heard from it. But a hun-
dred people went back about
their workaday tasks saying,
“Well, at last I’ve seen a ‘flying

| saucer’!”

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By United Press.
JACKSONVLLE — A roar coming from the sky carty |
‘| Wednesday awoke a number of Jacksonyille residents and raised
the cry, “flying saucers.”

Jacksonville Journal reporter Toni Veverka was among the
first to report the incident. She said she saw three objects moving
at “slow speed” high in the air over the city.

“They were glowing from beneath with violet flashes form-

MIAMI HERALD, 13 July 1950

\Jaxons Awakened By F lying Saucers

jing short comet tails,” she said, “and were wavering up and
idown like gramophone discs on uneven center.”

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Joe Noll, announcer at radio station WMBR, said he saw
three of the objects at 4 a. m., “flashing a red light, flying
concentric circles at about 15,000 feet.”

Still another report said the objects were moving “like a
ball of fire.”

Consensus among those who saw the objects was that they
were between 20 and 30 feet in diameter.

The military services repeatedly have denied knowledge of
“flying saucers.”

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THE FLORIDA TIMES-UNION
Jacksonville, Florida
11 July 1950

‘If You Ever Had Even a Wawvering Doubt;

This Kills It; There Are Flying Saucers

By TONI VEVERKA
a what I saw this morning
wasn't «a saucer—it was
something different. And I have a
witness.

That something flew over the
area.
Tt all happened about 5 a.m., dur-

- gng the half way between night and
- day which west Floridians call “lit-

tle daylight.”

My early morning sleep was
shocked into full awareness by a
tremendous roar, quite unlike that
of several bombers, in that it lacked
that steady sound. Nor was it like
the whine of a streaking jet.

Like the man in “The Night Be-
fore Christmas.” I jumped to the

5, window to eee what was the matter.

Gah sd tes acta, 06 cen
fees altitude, was coming —

|golden light. The machine carried
+ Agate lights. It didn’t need
m,

The entire object seemed scuf-
fused (from beneath) with a glow
that surged with each increase of

the roar, It increased and dimin-
ished at a rate something like one
would count one-two-three—pause;
one-two-three—pause.

The thing was curving toward the
northwestward. As it I
could see violet and great flashes
spurting into a short comet's tail.
Viewed from the rear, and in the
growing light, the thing seemed to
waver in an up and down move-
ment, similar to thet of a gramo-
phone disc on an uneven center.

Far to the northwestward the not-
so-fast-moving object made «a
sweeping curve and returned, ap-

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parently, from te atarting point.

Then tented “? vigit by the win-
dow. If there had been one, may be
it would return—or there might be
more.

The watch was rewarded in about
15 minutes. Only this time the
thing was much higher. It followed
the approximate course of the first
visitor.

In another 15 minutes, a third
came.

After seeing three of the early
morning visitors, it was easy to im-
agine the woods may be full of them.

One thing is certain! It is no
inter-planetarv machine. It is bound
to have the made in America stanip'
on it.

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