PROJECT BLUE BOOK

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969

CASE REFERENCE9617368

DATE OF SIGHTINGOctober 1950

REPORTED LOCATIONPope AFB North Carolina

FRAMES6

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. AF O._. OC.iTtoN_Pope_AFB, North_Caro olina
. WFROS 1O.22 SOURCK___Airline Pilot_.
DATR OF PON_ DATE IN TO ATIC_
THE OF HIO G1620_EST COL.OR_Shiny
SAPR SPEED_- Hoa ur:
Eotilat
S 100' Diameter ALTITUDE Masur
COURST.. . LENGTH OF TUE OBS
. NO. iNGJP4 TYM: OF Aerial

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Attention
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- Inclosed herewith , re
North Carolina.
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JOHN MEADE .
Colonel, GSC
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UNCLASSIFIED DECLASSIFIED AFTER 12 YEAR..
DOD DIR 5200.10

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THE NEWS AND OBS
TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 17, 1950.
Miami Pilots
Saw 'Saucers'
Around Bragg I
Miami, Fla., Oct. 16.-(P)-What
Capt. George A. Woodward of Miami :..
saw while flying a Miami Airlines, .
Inc., DC-4 over North Carolina yes- .
terday might not have been flying. saucers but he doesn't know what
else to call them.
Woodward and Co-Pilot Williams
Bradsley of Miami reported seeing four shiny
couldn't identify. The Civil Aero- objects which they
nautics Administration office at
similar reports, the latest about three Florence, S. C., said it had received .
weeks ago. -
"We took ff from Raleigh for .
Miami at 4 p. m. (EST) and 20 min-
that looked lik utes ·later I saw four shiny objects .
ward said. balloons," Wood-
said: 'Do you see what I see?' "My co-pilot looked at me and
"I told him I did and we headed
teward them. They appeared to be about 100 feet in diameter, of some
chrome. They were thicker in the shiny substance like aluminum or F
middle and tapered off, like two
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AFCSI Ltr No. 85 BUGENE G. CCOK
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(or not attac the classification of this
downgraded to
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DECLASSIFIED AFTER R 12 YE1...
UNCLASSIFIED DOD DIR 5200.10

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observation, l0-12 secands. .
none. Objec fii_ut.
5. Observer real that paucity of detail in tiis
at 1620 EST. Pilot pursued l of time
before losing them.
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DECLASSIFIED AFTER 12 YEARS
DOD DIR 5200.10 1950
UNCLASSIFIED

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A .
suitable basis for inquiry and offers the analysis in
8. The undersigned regards the above material to be
of a classified - it.
. DOWNGRADED AT 3 YEAR INTERVALS; DECLASSIFIED AFTER 12
i DOD DIR 5200,19 YEARS.
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