PROJECT BLUE BOOK

HEADQUARTERS FOURTH ARMY .
Offico of tho 4C of S, G=2 ———
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000.9 aKi.DB-I 26 October 1950
SUBJECT: Unidontifiod Acorial Phononona

TOs Conmanding Goncral
iir Hateriol Command
Wright Patterson Air Foreo Baso
Dayton, Ohio
ATTENTION: MCI

Tho follmring roport(s) ro unidontifiod acrinl phonomona obsorvod

at Sandia Base on dato and timo indicatod, forwarded for
your informations: '

OBSERVER DiTE TILE

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10D 24-0115 31 Ostober 195C
SPOT INTELLIGENCE REPORT
SUBJECT: Unidentified Aerial Phonomena oe I
TOs Director of Special Investigations

Headquarters, USAF
Washington 25, D0. C,.

The following information was received from Headquarters, Ath
Arny, Fort Sam Houston, Texas.

1. : On 29 Septender 1950 Geen,
ndia AFB, observed an unident
on was made at 0445 hours, at «hich time

ial object,
driving a jeep in the Igloo aroa of Sandia AFB.

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2. Petoils:

a. Date of observation - 29 September 1950.

b. Exact time of observation = 0445 hours (local).

c. Place of observation = Igloo Area, Sandia AFB.

ad. Position of observer = Igloo Area in jeep -- south road
along the fonce roing East. ,

e. Vhat attracted attention to object = Movement of lirht.

£. Number of objects and sketch of formation or prouping = ons,

@e Apparent size ~ larger ‘than jet, smaller than borber.

h. Color of object = Bluish-yellow flame, such as exheust.

i. Shape - appeared slirhtly oblong with a cut-off rear from
which flome end sparks were coming. —

je Altitude. (Angle of elevation above horizon = 0° at horizon,
90° overhead) = aprroximately 50 decrees from zero.

k. Ddirestion from observer = (Angle clockwise from north) -
50 decrees directly over Site A.

1. Distance from observer (dictance to town, bldr, etc., over
which object appeared to be) = Over A ©- aprroxinately By Rue

m. Direction of flight of object - Northwest to Southeast.

n. Tine in sight = 3-4 seconds.

©. Speed - Arrroximately 350 to 400 MPH.

pe Sound and odor = None.

; . Q. Trail - Bluish with yellow fringes. Lenrth: 4-5 feet. Flames:
. Approximately 8 fect wide.

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end similar to jet.

8. Projections = None other than fleme.

t. Maneuvers - Straicht course.

u. Manner of disappearance «- Over mountains,

v. Effect on clouds <= iione,

w. Additional information concerning object - None. |

x. Vieather conditions and licht at time of sightirg = Clear,
moon, light and warn, .
: y. Name and address of observer - Qigua
MP Company, Sandia AFB, |

___. Oeeupation and hobbies = Previous Navy service, routine

aircraft spotting instruction.

3. Action: No investigation condusted in accordance with
instructions of AFCSI letter No. 85.

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UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL OBJECTS

’ Incident No.

Date of observation 29 Sept 50 Date of Interview 29 Sept 50

Exact time of observation (local) 0/445 hours

Place of observation: Igloo Area, Sandia Base
(Map Coordinates) |

Position of observer (air, car, bldg, location or = give dotails:)

— Area _ in jeep -- south road along the fence mast

What attracted attention to objects Movement of light
Number of objects and sketch of formation or grouping: one

Apparent size (compare to known object, i.@., sun, moon, thumb or fist
at arms length): TIarger than jot, smaller than bomber,

Color of object: Bluish-yellow flame, such as exhaust

Shape (give graphic description - compare with known object)! Apneared slightly

oblong with a cut-off rear from which flane x8 ing
Altitude (Angle of elevation above horizon - 0° at horizon, 90° overhead):

Apuroximately 50 degrees from zero

Direction from observer (Angle clockwise from north): 50 gosrees directly over
Site A
Distance from observer (distonce to town, bldg, etc., over which object

@ppeared to be): Over A -- approximately 6 miles

Direction of flight of object (s)1 Northwest to Southeast

Time in sight: 3.4 seconds
Speod (time to cover given angular distanoc): Approx, 350 to 400

Sound and odor: Name

Trail (color, length, width, persistonce, etc.) Bluish vith yellow fringes,

Iength: 4-5 feet, Hames: Approximately & feet wide.
nosity (visiblo by reflection, incandescence, other =- degroe of

brilliance): Brighter than exhaust observed on B-36 or Bq29 & similar to jet.
Projectiens (fins, wings, reds, antonnao, canopies, ote.) !None other than flane,

Manvuvers (turns, ent 6 ote _- skotch of flight path)? Straisht course

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GUIDE TO INVESTIGATION (Cont'd) Inoident No.
21. Mannor of disappoaranco: Over mountains
22. Effoot on clouds: None
23. Additional information concorning objoot: None
2),. Woothor conditions and light at timo of sighting: Clear, moon, light and warm

25. Namo and address of ols Tor Siti:

Ocoupation and hobbies: Previous Navy service, routine aircraft snotting

instruction.
Comments of interrogator relativo to intolligence and charactor of

observor (chock noighbors, polico dopt, FBI records, umployor, ctc.)

Did observer woar glassos, ospocially polarcid glasses nt timo of sight-

ing, or was objoct visowed through canopy, window, or othor transparont
matorial?

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According to that excellent commentator “SE you have been
withholding some "saucer" facts from the public, I plead with you to
withhold nothing. You must admit that the Air Force's contradictions in
the past, its acknowledeements and its demhls, have done it no credit,
and have made the thinkine piblic completely suspicious of it.

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May 2nd, T95L

Gentlemen :- \

IT have just finished reading 81nrelt's excellent summation

in TRU" magazine, I completely agree with allihis statements axcent that the
Air Force has no knowledge of the "landine" of a U.*.0.,

T think it most odd that the Air Force spent thousands on track-
ine down patently fictitious accornts of "little men", and syblimelv ienored
the factwal accounts of landines of U.*,.0s. such as the six foot, mrnl--.
Plowing sphere which cently alighted onto a Philadelphia field, September 30,
1950 (which, when touched by one of the policeman who Saw 3t fall, demater
Yartsed into a sticky film). It appears to me that such accounts smack too
much of the supernormal (preternatural) and are hence conveniently excluded
from A.T.I.C. files.

--_—

I note, with some interest, that vou maintain a file initialed
"C. P." into which you dump any and all letters written vo bv those interest-
ed in the "flyine saucers! I heve received some verv"odd" letters in replv .
to my "saucer" pieces in the Saturday Fvenine Post and life magazines, and I
can well svmpathize with von on this point, but I certainly trust von have the
good sense to discriminate,’ and not throw out the wheat with the chaff, simmlv
because it is in letter form.

Relative to the West Palm Beach fiasco and the Adamski bid for
publicity, shovld you read a 1953 copv of (excuse the stupid title) FAT"
magazine, vou will see where I stronely questioned the anthenticity of both
the scoutmaster's and "Professor" Adamski's "encounters! JT can smell a fraud
ten miles off. To think that the Air Force spent a fair sum to investirate
the West Palm Reach tale. Seems incredible. The West Virginia "monster"
appeared to be well wath lookine into, but appears to have been shrugged off
by Intellirence with a cute remark.

Incidentally, Adamski is booked in London halls for his lecture
tour this summer. I understand that a fellow SOUTH@RN CALIFORNIAN -—-- is
touring the United States describing his trip in a "saucer". His name: Orfeo
Anrelucci,=— a little fellow I'll swear is trying to compensate for a feelin”
of gloomy inadequacy and bore‘om in the plastics division of Lockheed Aircraft. /

SSO’

. Sincerelv,

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