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1. DATE LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
Honolule, T.H. 0 Was Balloon
7 Jan 51 0 Probobly Balloon
. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Possibly Bulloon
Local. Ground-Visual Ground-Radar Was Aircraft
0 Probobly Aircraft
GMT. 08/0500Z Alr-Visual Air-Intercept Rudar 0 Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE Was Astronomical Meteor
Yes 0 Probably Astronomical
UNo Civilian 0 Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERYATION NUMBER OF BJECTS COURSE Other.
000 Insufficient Data valuation
One Arc Unknown
Seconds
1O. BRIEP SU MARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
Muddy orange colored flame. Shape - Oil fire Probable ting
blown by wind - Size 10 time B-J.7 - Alt 2,000
-3,0001 Object passed through three clouds
traveling in an arc Transvered ar
60 deg. Source was familiar with meteors

Washington 25
1. SYNoPSIS: Unidentified airborne
over southern shore of island of Hawalian
Stendard Time (HsT), 7 Jenuer;
2. DETAILS: At lOl5 hourS on
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solid body such only gee Lomnes.
The mess of flames appeered to veling on en crc: the object
appeared suddenly; travel ree (3) and I
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YEAR INTERVAL
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Chief, ivision, MATS, Andrews AFB, Washington
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Intelligence Officer, PACD MA ATB, APO 953
FOR THE COMMANDER:
PERRY F. O'DONNELL
3 DOWNGRADED AT 3 YEAR INTERVALS; DECLASSIFIED AFTER 12
DOD DIR 5200.10 YEARS.
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Special
Investigations, Washington 25, D.
Forwarded for your information.
FOR THE COMMANDER:
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JULIUS A. KOLB
Colonel, USAF
Deputy Inspecto General
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7 WICHITA FALLS RECORD NEWS
Flying Sauce 7 Troubles WICHITA FALLS. TEXAS
Page 2- Wed., Jan. 17, 1951
Hundreds See
Residents of the Wichita Falls Force Base control tower, the
area had "flying saucer" troub- police station, the weather bu-
les again Tuesday, but govern- reau and the Civil Aeronautics
ment ordnance officials said Association.
no such thing." All spectators wanted to
The object that was seen by stress a common belief-the ob- (Continued From Page One)
literally thousands of West Tex- ject was definitely not a bal-
ans, the government men said, loon, they said. watched the object for nearly
was a balloon released early Reports from various New 30 minutes as it moved slowly
Tuesday at White Sands Prov- Mexico and Texas communities through the sky at a height of
ing Ground, N. M. had all the trimmings of the 8,000-10,000 feet. It stopped in-
That report may end Tues- flying saucer stories, the Asso-
day's chapter of the saucer tales ciated Press reported. The ob- termittently, he said, then sud-
officially, but some folks around ject moved sharply to the right denly began climbing straight up
here were skeptical of the ex- and left. It jumped up and until it disappeared at.a height
planation. down. It even left vapor trails, of 30,000 to 40,000 feet.
Too many people saw the a report traced to the anties ot Luttrell, an Air Force reserv-
mysterious thing. Nearly every- a jet plane cavorting about 100 ist who is familiar with planes
body in Seymour turned out to miles from Artesia, N. M. and other nerial objects, said
look at it. The balloon, said the White he had seen "a lot of weather
People all the way from Sands officials, was released balloons go up, but I never saw
Cuthrie and Dickens to the im- there early Tuesday as part of one go up that fast."
mediate vicinity of Wichita Falls an ordnance conference in con- He cailed a friend, R. B.
watched the "balloon"-some of nection with the guided missile Smith, a Vernon surveyor.
thern for nearly two hours. program. Reports started to program. Reports started to Smith watched the Smith watched the "balloon" veyor.
The pilot of a light plane trickle in from Southeast New through a 40-power through a 40-power telescope.
from Hobbs, N. M., chased the Mexico and Southwest West It was traveling, he said, at an
object for more than 100 miles I Texas that another flying sau- Texas that another flying sau- angle from the ground of 44 de-
but was able to get no closer cer had been sighted. cer had been sighted. grees and 50 minutes and mov-
than 50 to 75 miles. It was between 5:30 and 6:30 ing northeast. When it began ing northeast. When it began
The Record News received p. m. that most persons in this its sudden ascent, the "balloon"
scores of telephone calls from scores of telephone calls from .1 area observed the "balloon." seemed to give off a burst of
wondering wondering witnesses, and calls Sheriff Ed Luttrell at Vernon Sheriff Ed Luttrell at Vernon orange flame, Smith declared.
came also to the Sheppard came also to the Sheppard Air l Air (Continued on Page 2) To Luttrell and Smith, the
t object resembled a "tremendous
floating light bulb"-shaped
like an inverted light buib with like an inverted light bulb with
a neck that came to a point.
It was aluminum in color.
A "very large" disc traveling
eastward at an extreme height
was what one resident of Mun-
day saw.
Clarence Fox of Lubbock no-
ticed people watching the sky
from their yards as he drove
from Lubbock to Wichita Falls
Tuesday afternoon. Eut not un-
til he reached Seymour about
5:55 p. m. and saw that nearly
everyone in town was looking
skyward did he stop.
It was then he saw "an ob-
ject apparently about 30,ooo feet
high and shaped much like a
top except that it was flat on
the bottom. It was giving off
a white light similar to fluores-
cent lighting."
Fox left Seymour about 6:15
p. m. and stopped about seven
miles from there to have an-
other look. He said the object
then appeared to be some 50 or
100 miles south of Seymour and
traveling at a high rate of
speed.
Upon reaching Wichita Falls,
the Lubbock man talked with a
truck driver who had watched
the object all the way from
Dickens. "Aiter dark," the driv-
er said, "it seemed to take on a
reddish glow."
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