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1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS —_
n " Wos Balloon
19 Feb 51 East Africa | Probably Belioon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Possibly Balloon
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GMT a. aa 4 D Air- Vi suai © Air-Intercopt Rodar Possibly Aircraft
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a J No \. Crew and Passengers sf Possibly Astronomical
?. LENGTM OF OBSERVATION 6 NUMBER OF OBJECTS - %. COURSE Other a
Pomemenant Dota for Evaluation
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| 27 min |b a. E y.
12. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING ‘ll, COMMENTS

Shape like bullet with fin, Meneuvers~climbinz, Insufficient data for evaluation. Foote!
Contact was made with Nairobi to see whether | were taken but are not in file,

French Constallation a/c bound from Eastleigh
to Tannarive, whose course was apprx that of
the flying saucer. Only info gather was that
the French a/e was about 17,5000 ft,

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SUBJECT: APPEARANCE OF AN ALLEGED "FLYLIG SAUCER4 OVER NY RILDMANADO ,TANGANZINA Es

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A} Tha Consulate reports the alloyed aopearanes of the first c

; WPlying gaucer" to be observed in Fast Afsiea which it is stated »

4 Yaa sown about 19,000 fest above lie. Kilimanjaro tha ROSAS of 6

Z | Fouracy 1. LAL “by the crew and pasaungars of the East African “i

Aivvays "Lodestar* pione while flying from laieobi to Mr es Salaam, .

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x ¥rom dessriptions given ty the crow end passengers thes ss

2 object, although tossed a “Mlyltoag saucer*® appeared to be bullet N

* chaped with ea fin at one ond. It waa observed through binomlars -—

ot by several of the pagsengars and wis declared to have thres 2

S faflaiio stripes along the body as vell as beirg mpatallic, As :

» goon os the agly ing saucer® was observed, contact vas made with A

Faixobi ty radio to nacaxtain whether ths French Constellation
élireratt bound from kastleigh to Tnamvarive, whose cousse way
enproxtmately in the direstion of the “flying gaucer* could have
been nuistaken for it tat no information could be furnished beyond
the stetement that tha cruising altitude of ths French plane vas
about 17,500 feet

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improper prepara

Sho “saucer * was seen for about 17 minutes by both tae
creyv and passengers of tha Lodeatar after which it began w cliab
rapi@.y aud swve eastward toward the ecast. It waa stated by
cous of the passengers that ty tha naked ave ths "sancer” appeared
like s ed git star although through biromlucs its shape was
relatively cloar. One of ths passengars, Nr,
oa SaaS ia Pept to hava takea a picture of the ePlying
eauces Aitbough the Consgulase attespted to contact iir.
4ta ee orts vere wifortumataly unusucesssful end he is reported
to have cuparted for Zanzibar the following mrning after bis
arkival in Der «3 Seal Oo it is alse roported that a color fila
wag tukon of the objevt hy Mr pom — =a eiso en American,
who was alwexd “he plane,” hits is alleged to hays used

3) fows af Tila +o Vehoet” the "S2xeeec* and to be eeniiden’s that

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to wake Gertaia that th ca vada ne uliatakce concerniag the
"4 Meauver’ , qa ‘autor of thy paune, obtained the
ren) vigoatices Of all of the nia» pastenge.s to a doctwaant stating
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—AN CUSSTANDING S)SHTING

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Pobruary 19, 1951, dawned bright ana clecr at Nairobi, Konya,
Colony, Zast Africa,

At Nairobi West Airport, thse re, ular jonday morning, Lodestar
was readied 2s ususl for its morning flight to Lio, vasa, and soon
passongors filed aboard, littlo dreaming, cuy of them, of what wis to
most thoir astounded ayes baruly 20 minutes later,

at 7 a.m. exactly witn 9) passen,ers and = crew of 2 aboard,
the Lodustar took off,

all went well until 7.20 a,m. wnen suddenly tne radio officer
Grew the attention of his spperior Capt. J, Bicknell, to w briynt
object Like a wnite star, apparently nan in, motionless oasily °
10,000 ft, above it, ‘Kiliminjaro.

Capt, Bicknell's first reaction, he said leter, was to say’
nothing, Tho two watched tne strange obycct for 5 minutos, tnen, as
it showed no signs of vanisning, ‘informed the passungurs, One began
promptly stuaying tne oddity, amazealy through a powerful pair of
ficld-glasses, whilst the radio officer flasaca an excitcd call to
- Bastleigh noarby, giving cn account and description of the thing.

Bastloigh's suggestion flashed in return was that the object
might bo a drifting Metcoroligics1 balloon, but checkin, on tnat
possibility, after inspecting the. eni,uatic object for Several min-
utes, Capt. Bicxncoll found that tas wore he oxaiinea it, the less it
could possibly be wista«ccn for «. bulloon, It was a aull silver colour
and marked at re,uler antervals slong tny fuselage witn vertical dura
! bands, The cntire outline, hu Bruna, was unuistaxcadly distinct; nor,
' tnou,n it appeared to bo incredibly distant, wes its snaryp outtLine
obscured in the least detcit by intervuoning haze

vag. Bicknell estimated tne thing wus over 200 rt. long, bullct-
shaped, and apparently constructud of metal which snone brigntly, On
first dachtine it, the Lodestar was hvading roughly towards it, and
watching it closoly as they opproaciicd, Capt, Bicknell purccivid anotinur
Gutail, Tho thing possessed a~ square-cut vertical fin at ons ond,
There were no signs of movement, it was absolutuly stationary.

“So it remained for 17 minutes. Passongers of the Lodester were
now taking turns with the fiold-rlesses sn + : wh aii had caiiens 3

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taking photographs, when suddenly tne enormous thing began to move
oastwards, slowly at first, and rising as it did so, Bofore it
reached 40,000 ft, at ‘which point j* “1s “Lbimately Lost si,nt of,
_ ths sides of the awosomo, whalu-like object wers seen cluarly te
be without a brec« in thoir smoothness, no w. ...8 dr porthoi
rolioved tho harsh purity of Line, no se wounts or got pods
marred the perfectly strosinlincd hull. 4 and Nd

The day being vxcuptionally clear, thuro were no cloud for
mations im ovidence auywhere, and Capt, #icancvll calculated that in
' the 3 minutes of visible movement, tnc buLlot-sncped objuct covered
60 miles; that in othur words, its Spoud coula have been nothing
short of 1,000 u,p.h, during the period of observed flight, It

Loft behind no vapour trail and to oll whe saw it, nad ho visiblo
moans of propulsion,

‘During an interview some days lnter, Capt, Bicknell said thist
his imprussion was thet tho unidentificd thia, was some kina of
fiying machine, and with this,nis radio officer, e kr.D.W, Merrifield,
unhesitatingly agrecd, \ 'mirage' was suggested as tha possibls
‘cousG, ‘but the radio officer discounted it, "hirages are rorely
’ goon without cloud", he started, “nor would that explain the objuct's
movenent", Hs commonted tnat if the object was a flyin, mochine
“it was 500 years anvad or anything we have today”.

Wairsbi “Sundcy Post* tne followin, Sunday said: "If this
-Teport nad come from 2 few isolatva individuals it woula sven be
discounted But it csiwoe from responsible airline officials and
nino ordinary travelicrs", It too, diswissed oota tic balloon and
'mirage' theories, and concluded tnat hopes or a “natural” expldna-
tion had begun to fade Other theorios ran,ea from Maritan visitors
to radio-controlled weapons, |

Fragmentary evidence accrucd since then increases the sum
total of knowledge but little, U.S,"LIFE" Magazine early in 1952,
published a sketch of theo objoct, which showed it to closely resemble
an ordinary lipstick tube lying on its side, More recently, in
connection wita learning the whereabouts of the photographs taken
from Capt, Bicknell's plane, the australicon Flyin; Saucor Bureau’
learnt that "the only «Known public photoyraph of the object shows)
a blurred spot on the film", aA motion picturu film taken ‘by another
‘passenger wes “quity clozr* wa learn, but the same reliable source
Stated, cither laconically or ominously, it is hard to tall which,
that "the man with film is supposed to have disaypeared”,

So the caso stands, at present, one of the wost puzzling and
enigmatic unoxplained Saucer Sightings recorded in Australian
ae Saucer Bureau Filus.

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. | ( U9 February 1950
( Rodeo, New Mexics
ASTRO (METEOR)

__19. Feb..1951 - A 0-54 pilot reported a green flare or rocket observed
in the vicinity of Rodeo, N.M. Its motion was vertical
end passed the plane at 9000 ft. Investigators believed

this to be a meteor.

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