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CASE REFERENCE9619290

DATE OF SIGHTINGDecember 1950

REPORTED LOCATIONCharleston S C

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HEADQUARTERS THIRD ARMY
Office of AC of S, G2
Fort NoFPherson, Georgia
AJACI<S 360,33

SUBJECT: Unconventional Aircraft

TOs Commanding General
Hq 14th Air Force
Robins AFB, Macon, Georgia

ATTENTION: Direotor of Intelligence

Inclosed herewith is newspaper clipping from the NZ AND COURIER,

8 December 1950

Charleston, South Carolina, 5 December 1950, re unusual object in the

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FOR THE COMMANDING GENERAL:

J MEADE
Colonel, GSC
AC of 5, G-2

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As stated above

Int 360 ; lst Ind
Hq Fourteenth Air Force, Robins Air Force Base, Ga.

1 4 DEC 195¢

TO: Commanding Generel, Air Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson AFB,

Dayton, Ohio, Attn: —MGiS A XA

Forwarded your headquarters in accordance with letter=*Headouarters
USAF, dated 8 Sep 50, subject: "Reporting of Information on“Unconventional
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FOR THE COMMANDING GENERAL:

LS. | OVMELL
CAPTAIN, USAF
Asst. Air Adjutant General

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ELLENTON, Dec. 2. (:': Were
flying saucers spying on the pro-
site of the nation’s first
hydrogen bomb plant last, night? : :
Four persons told today of see-
ing a strange, brilliantly-lighted ob-
ject in the sky about 10:45 p. m.
It dipped up and down and flashed
back and forth for about 10 min-.
utes before it flew out of sight, one
eye-witness said.
This town is in the midst of the.
vast tract which the Atomic Ener-
gy commission has selected for
the site of the multi-million dollar
H-bomb plant which will be under
construction by early 1951.
The Rev. R. D. Parkinson, a Bap-
“tist minister, said he was reluctant ,
to talk about flying saucers be- . '
cause everyone- was already excit- 4
ed about having to abandon the |
town to make room for the H-
bomb. ; fa
“People probably think we're,
crazy down here anyhow,” he said.
He said it seemed unlikely any-
one would try to make a secret
flight over the erea in a craft as
well lighted as the object he saw, |

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.. but he felt he,should report it any- s/ §
how. :
a e The pastor said Golphin Dunbar, |

a neighbor, first spotted the “sau- |
cer” and called him outside to look
at it. Iradell McCarthy, of Aiken ,a |
dinner guest, .and his 12-year-old
daughter, Evelon, came along. '
. : According to Dunbar, “it looked
like a great, big white star with
back and forth and up and down”
-. . | over the town. :
Parkinson said the red lights:
were no longer visible when he got ‘* ‘
out in:the yard. By that time, “it
looked like four stars together and
was moving away. It was moving |
| away toward Georgia in a south-
westerly direction.

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