PROJECT BLUE BOOK

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969

CASE REFERENCE9616931

DATE OF SIGHTINGSeptember 1950

REPORTED LOCATIONBirmingham Ala

FRAMES3

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ATIC HO. DATFR OF INFO_26 Sept_50...
AF 11O. Toc.aTtoriBirminghan, Ala.
SOURCE_Civilian
DATE OF O PONT _.. DATE IN TO ATIC
THM OF SL: i_._Night * COLORG Glowing
SUAME_. Cigar SPEED Mea:wa..
Esti.t
SIZL ALTITUDE. MRsur
COURSF_ LENGTH OF TIME: OBSERVED 15 Minutes
1 Ground
NO. IN GROJP TYPF OF OBSERVATION_Drive-in moVie.

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Commanding General . J
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Air Materiel Command
Wright-Patterson Air +
Dayton, Ohio
Attention:
Inclosed herewith is' newspaper . clipping POST-HERALD, '
he sky
FOR TH .
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JOHN MEADE
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Over Theater
Lo and behold-up comes an-
other flying saucer story.
This time it comes from a man
who should know what he's talking
about--Aubrey Yates, Jefferson
County sheriff's deputy who's a
licensed flier and a member of the
- Air Force Reserve.
1 Mr. Yates, who lives at 3116 Ave-
nue H, Fairfield, went to the Fair.
Park drive-in movie last night.
Midway the movie, he looked up,
1 saw a cigar-shaped object right
above the screen."
My wife saw it. too, and we
watched it for about 15 minutes,"
. said the deputy, "It looked like
cigar burning on both ends-two
+ big glows with a kind of soft glow
in between."
Then all at once, the thing dis-
appeared. "It went straight up and
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