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UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969

CASE REFERENCE9615478

DATE OF SIGHTINGAugust 1950

REPORTED LOCATIONFrom San Franciso To Balhoa Panama Canal

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10. CONCLUSION

‘Astro (METEOR)

Cne Evaluated as a meteor observation
5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS

Matter of Seconds Odject disappeared before he could say something, the
6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION appearance was about 45 deg high ana the master am the chief: at:
| who were talking, scoochoocecoccer The object flew with unbelicvo
Ground=Vis uel able speed over the ship am disapneared into the Northeast |
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FTD sep 63 0-329 (TDE) previous editions of this form may be used.

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mate yelled:at the same time “flying saucer", The engineer on duty, |
who was aft, saw a flaming body half the size of tho setting sun

and with e never heard of speed, fly away over the ship. It did

not look like a meteor or any other clustcr of stars.

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ced withovt any ; to its actucol
existence : the = Chiaefns*s ra
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All agreed and describe that they saw a glowing frontal dark
and backwards flaming body, the time vent after sunset, however
still daylight. in the rear, it drew ycllow colored tail (oranze-
yellow). From the upper rear side it seoms that thore were a
rx te of sparks. All declared that they have never seen such a

NT: ‘Dur the MINZRVA's previous Canal |
on | ard voyase, the liaster had been intorviewod by |
a@ representative of bio-15H and was found to be a sincere and
intelli;ent individual. It is felt that, since the appearance
was witnessed and confirmed by three other individuals besides

the incident has sufficiont grounds for possidle

credonce,.

The IFI No. 0406.0400 was used as the one havin: the createst
similarity to the subject of this report. Howover, it is felt
that additional IFfI numbers siioald de provided for such amususl
occurrences and appearances.

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Meteors in the Records

The American Meteoritics Socicty, whose members specialize ir
the study of meteors and meteorites, for years have collected re-
ports of such phenomena. From a large enough number of good
descriptions of a given meteor, astronomers car analyze the data
mathematically and determine the meteor’s radiant—the point in
the heavens from which it seems to come. The meteor is then identi-
fied by its radiant and given an AMS number. The data were pub-
lished in Metcoritics, the journal of the society, and thus made
available for future research. |

The records of the society for the years 1950 to 1955 list dozens of
fireballs, many of them green, that were somehow overlooked by
saucer enthusiasts. On August 11, 1950, during the maximum of the
Perseid shower, a blue-green fireball (AMS 2336) apparently oval-
or cigar-shaped, appeared over Washington, Oregon, and Idaho at
7:30 P.M. and was reported by more than 100 witnesses. So brilliant
that it showed a noticeable disk, it flew in a horizontal path, silently
broke into three pieces, and disappeared [8, p. 379].

September 20, the same year, was a big day for meteors. At
1:35 4M, a giant firehall (AMS 2326) roared over southeastern
Illinois from north to south, leaving a luminous train visible in five
states and illuminating the sky and countryside from St. Louis to
Louisville and from Memphis to Knoxville. The final detonation,
over western Kentucky, was heard over an area 1000 miles square
and shook buildings from Paducah to Memphis. Fragments show-
ered farms over a twenty-five mile area, struck five buildings, and
penetrated one roof. About fifty pounds of meteorites dropped in
Murray, Calloway County, Kentucky, and are now in the Smith-
sonian Institution in Washington. That same night about 10:45 P.at.,,

fireballs were reported by plane crews flying over a six-state area—
Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico [9,
p. 115]. Similar fireballs that vanished without trace were reported
on September 28, 1953 (AMS 2331); October 4, 1953 (AMS 2930);

—May 15, 1954; ant! October 27, 1954 (AMS 2337).

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Several Japanese and one CIC agent reported sighting unidentified
object which appeared to be a flying saucer at approximately 21,00 K
‘11 August 1959. Reported to Aircraft Control and Warning Cite No. 6
and from there to FEAF 4-2. The Japanese weather atation in the area
received about thrity (30) calls from the people inquiring about the
Object. The CIC Agent is getting as much information as possible from
eye witnesses UIC agent located in NIIGATE, Medium altitude, color was
yellow, changed to blue and then to red, separated in tro parts and faded
out and was not seen to drop. A hissing noise was heard similar to air

released from a balloon. Estimated speed was 1 mile in 5 seconds.

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| AS ADVANCING TOWARD 1216-1463 PD FIFTH AF ADV STATES ENEMMY ERIDGE-

HEAD AT 35 DEG 25 MIi. N 128 DEG 28 MIN E REPORTED LY G2 STH ARMY TO
BE MORE THAN TWO @ REGIME! TS WITH UNKNOWN AMOUNT OF ARTILLERY PD
BRIDGE“HEAD HAS EXTENDED TO A POINT APPROXIMATELY FOUR 4 MILES EAST OF
THE RIVER PD FIFTH AF ADV REPORTS ENEMY FORCE SUPPORTED LY TEN 19
TANKS ATTACKED Un POSITIONS VICINITY 36 DEG 13 MIN 1. 128 DEG 22 MIN E
Pb ITEM S AND & CLN NO APPLICAELE INFORMATION RECEJVED PD ITEM 5 CLN

\) FEAF OSI REPORTS UNIDENTIFIED OJECT SIGHTED AT 112555K PAREN POSSIELE
FLYING SAUCER PAREN CLN DETAILSQQRRRRMBMEAIR DEFENSE CONTROLLER

| CMA FIFTH AF TELOPHONICALLY ADVISED D/I DUTY OFFICER AT 12 AUG 50 THE
’ FOLLOWING INFORMATION CLN *RECD CALL AT 1620K 12 AUG FROM AIR

' CONTROLLER AT SITE 6 RELATIVE TO AND UNIDENTIFIED OEJECT PARE! FLYING
| SAUCER PAREN BEING SIGHTED BY SEVERAL JAPANESE AND ONE CIC AGENT PD

~~ THE -OB JECT. WAS - SEEN -AT- APPROX. 2A90K -11NAPG 5@-PD.HE PAREN CONTROLLER
_ AT SITE 6 PAREN RECEIVED THE INFO FROM A JAP WEATHER STATION PD THE
JAP WEATHER STATION RECEIVED AEOUT 30 CALLS FROM THE JAPANESE PEOPLE
PD ONE CALL FROM A CIC AGENT PD THE CIC AGENT IS INVESTIGATING AND
WILL GATHER AS MUCH INFO AS POSSIELE FROM EYEWITIESSES Pag
TELEPHONICALLY ADVISED D/E DUTY OFFICER AT 2120K 12 AUC 59
THE FOLLOWING INFO CLI. “RECEIVED CALL FROM CO OF CIC AT NIIGATE THRU
[LAbCc TO SUTE 6 PD Al. EMPLOYEE OF CIC STATED THAT TIME OLJECT PASSES

CFN 1216-1455 35 25 k 128 28 E G-2 STH 2 & 1OUN 36 13 N 128
62 E 3 4&5 OSI 112335K D/I 12 50 126K 12 6 24@0K 11 56 6 EP CIC CIC