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Nost likely A/C ccontvrails. but nos enouch infowrst.
il, GRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS evaluate: case.

Odject went up to the Northwest. There were twin exhausts, such
as made by jet planes, bit the exhausts did not stay parallel.
Object was so a and shiny ie couldn't tell enything about,
i shape or size

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- THE INSPECTOR GENERAL ) :
Office of Special ee 2 —- |

| Tas ies 9th OSI, District
IN REPLY REFER TO: wr + Barksdale AFB, ta. |
Pies 7 November 1960 |
SPOT INTELLICFNCE REPORT | !
| SUBJECT» Reports of Unconventional Aircraft “a , 2
- 70. . Direotor of Spooial Investirations :

Readquartors United States Air Foroe
Washington sss De Ge

le SYNOPSIS: Recent roporte of sightings of unconventional air
eraft in Louiniane are, briefly, as followes

‘me A similtanocous sighting by father and gon, residents a
lew Orleans, on 10 Ootobor 1950, of a sare latitaee bright objoot at a
great altitude.

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: be Twelve (12) bright, round, diving and spinning objects .
geen from 0 window in Now Sr ineic,s on 10 or 11 Oatobor 19506

Ge The Shreveport Times of 7: Novenber 1950, in a spooial ree
port from Jonesville, described hovering objects seen by membors of a | ‘
farmor's family on 6 Novembor 1950.

: A letter to the Fditor of Tho Tiros Picayune, New Orlcana, louisiana, on
19 October 1960, described the righting of the “flying saucers” in 19476
The Now Orleans Item, on 17 October 1950, editorially, commented about

Wfiying saucers” observed by two (2) iiamd Ai Ince, pilots on the |
preceding Sunday, and by Coonanior Smalls USN, last Februarye |
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0, SEE, ond his con, Cmeeigmm, both resi-
dente of PCy ecrrarcena cree New Orloann, Louisiana, wore interviowed
‘by a Special Acgont of the Office of Spsoial Investications, on 13 and 24
October 1950, respectively, and reportod, simultaneously, the sighting of
an unconventional flying objects Details as eulmitted by the LARRIFU'as

(1) Times 0716 hours, 10 Ootobor 1900. Object was under
",, Observation from five (6) to ton (10) minutons

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Spot Intelligence Report, DO 79, 7 Now 60, eubjt Report of Unconventional

Airoraft
(8) Location: Obsorvora were in the noig¢hborhood of the
residence in the northoayt portion of New Orleang.
servation was first seen at an azimuth of approximately
46 degroes True and waa traveling in a northorly direotion,

The obsorvers estimated that the object wae flying at an
altitude of at least one (1) mile.

(3) Mannor of Observation: Vinual from the ground.
(4) Woathor Conditions: Bright sun, no clouds.
(6) Description of Objoots |

(a) Acoording a Sizo and shape of a
; joint of stove pipe, feet by 3 to 4 inchone

(b) According to SUMMMMEMMInams shaped like tho side

| whew of a saucer, 30 to 40 feet long and § to 4 feet
' thick.

 eptent (0) Object glowed bricht with a whitish=bdlue licht. Both
ee observers suw "poculiar” spots beforo their oyos for
one to two minutos after staring at the objoot.

b» revorted that tho objoot yan composed of
bright lights which glistened like fncots on a diae
mond. The objeot made no noise and left no visible
exhaust traile No estinate of speed was made. The
Objeot: fadod in the dictance until.it was a minute
apeck of light and then disappeared = not below the

horizone Domestic ducks of tho —mg™,, although |
acoustomed to the appourance of normal aircraft,
indicated alarm at the noiseless flying object.

(6) No moteordlogiloal condition wag indicated which might
account for the gigshtinge Wo physioal evidence was obtained.

(7) advised that he has been in military sere
vice and ig familiar with the appearance of normal aire

' De i Seaeaunn err mmartrermeerarerss PRU CETERS Now Orleans,
Louisiana, on 1% October 1950, reported unidont d flying objects scen
by her as followss

(1) Tires 10 or 12 Cotober 2950 (hour unlmom),.

3 (2) Location of Observers Charity Hospital, New Orleans,
, | Louisiana, Objeote ciroled in a northerly direction |

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Spot Intelligence Report, DO #9, 7 Vow 60, subje Reported Un onventional
Aircraft.

from the Honpital. Thoy wore more than a mile distant,
but “not extremely hich".

(3) Manner of Obs »rvations Visual from a window of
Hoppitale Observed for approximately two (2) hourse

(4) Denoriptions Trelve (12) shiny, apparently mettalio,
Aiving, spinning, objeotea with round bodies and short

wingse Objects were noigelons and left no visible
exhaust trailo. They appoared to be constantly
spinninge No definite pattern of formation was maine
tained. Color was bright gray to opalescont.

(6) EP advised that sho has flow as a passenger
| on private airplanes many tinese

(6) No physioal evidence waa obtainable. No motooro-
logical conditions wore reported which could have
accounted for this sightings

Oe The Ehrovaport Times of 7 Rovember 1950, carried the

following account of “flyin; discs" roportedly pirhted by momborgs of @
family of Jonosville, Louisiana, on & November 1950s

"Jonesville, Nov 6 (Special) © ‘Flying saucers?

made their first reported appearance over Catahoula

| oot - at the little rivor fern of mga

southrent of Jonerville.

"About 1:45 pom. QAM, the fanily cool, was

- on hor way hone after washing the dinner cishos, She

rushed back into the Qijimmmhoure shouting, ‘there's
ghosts dono come after mo right in the broad open day=
lighte They*s hovoring right out there over the trace

tor snaed.'

"Six memorr, of tho@@Bllk family rushed outnide

to g00 the saucer, which by that time had risen to

an astimated height of 50 feet above the cround,

. BeYeo Mg caid what they saw was 'so bright and

shiny we couldn't tell anything about ite shape or
cise.’

“Ag thoy watched, he said, the caucera went up

‘to the northwst. There wore twin oxhausts, such

as made by jot planos, but the exhausts did not et
parallel, he said.s

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Spot Intelligence Report, DO 7/9, 7 Kov 605 subst Reports of Unconventional

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following report of the oObsorvationa made by the
shaped Ako a saucer", the oldor Gare rovounteds "It was ahaped like

ois broad.e” He caid it was loafing alons, “ovay, ‘way upe
over’

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paid ho fot a pooket toloscope and watched
tho saucer but could never nace plainly what wos aloud
of the vapor trailae The objoot did not hurrys ‘it took
| §te time and disappeared from eight in about Sivo mimitose*
At tho last, he dated, the vapor trail appvarod to be red
_ ona then bluishe ;

* Tho dE 00k doclared that there were two of thon
things over tho tractor we ond they were. long, and round
like a cigar." :

de The Now Orleanea Staton,on 10 October 1950, ‘ourriod tho |
IS « "It wann't

said the slowflying objoot had no wings and mada "no noise whate.
"It wae extra brirht, not like the sun was shining on a plano,"

paide “It wan blinking like o stare From whore wo wera ‘ghia; .
appeared to be 20 to 24 inches lone It was extremely highe"

-’ , gadd they watchod the objoot for about five minutese It was moving ina
‘\  gorthorly direction, he saide He dicn't nay whothor it wacsiaped like a
loaf ical abeneees broad or the Amorican style rectangular loaf.

@- The following lottor wan printed in = Now Orleans Times

SEES e of 19 Octobor 19508

fy "Rditor, The Times-Picayune © "IT road orain this
. norning of thoso two pilots who didn't believe in
"flying saucora’ but who hessinaie nd Bow thom and now
» beliove,s

| "Some time aro a soldier in Arizona gaid ho sawa.
pooket shipe Well, you can tell that noldior that he —

—wagn't-seeing- things becauss I believe I saw it tooe

"You soe it wos this rmye Back in 1947 we wore out
on the lake shrimpinge It was just before sundorn,e I
was lying on my back on the top step of the seawall, when
‘, IZ had the fooling that somebody was staring at moe Voll,
‘ I turned my head and looked seround me, but nobody was |

2 Jooking at me

. "All of a guddon I looked up at the sky and thero

‘was this objecte It looked to me, at tho momont like
a big rooke I kopt my oyes on it and called to the

- others to look at it, but all of a sudden it mado two

_ puffe of flame and smoke and was fone, It traveled a
- Jittle way with tho first aps but with the second

=. it was <aate

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7 Spot Intelligence Report, DO {'0, 7 Nov 60,
"I have kept quiet about Jt all this time, but

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f. The Now Orleans Ttom of 17 Ootober 10950, editorially, specu=
lated concerning the « ng ou the procedi un

our “gaucero"

. int tion Miemi Airlinos, Ince, a
The odi tod on tho claims of sights last

bruary by Corwin cor ae: » @ USN Misoile Export, and

concluded, "sees is it popsiblo that the throe froups of expert observers
could have been mistaken about cons

ng them? The Air Force, which claing
to have spont two yoors investi ating such roporta, ras said ‘definitoly
mistakense® We hesitate to oall the Air Forco Investigpators lierse Likee

wise, we hesitate to quostion the eyport opinion of trainod acrial observors
and airplane pilotae

1 In fact, we don't dare say what ve Leliove about
flying saucers. ,

subjs Reporte of Unconventional

Be ACTION» None contemplated by this headquarters,

JOUN Ce TK
Lt Colonel, USAF

, Dintrict Co-mandor

Copies furnisheds
«CG, ANC, Attns LiCIS
(in duplicate)

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