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1. DATE

2. LOCATION

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25 Feb 5L__........____|_Durban, S$. Africa ta bomen Rereen
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
: 0 Wos Aircraft
Loco! Z  Ground-Vi suol 0D Ground-Roder O Prebebly Aireroft
GMT 2 /02552 a D Air- Vi suai D Air-intercept Raaar O Possibly Aircraft
“S. PHOTOS | 6. SOURCE O Was Astronomical
O Yes Q Probobly Astronomicel
GB No NOLCXGIVEN CIVILIAN 0 Possibly Astronomical
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7. LENGTH OF OSSERVATION 16. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE 1Cf Other _UNTDEX ‘TIFIED
D Insufficient Doto for Evaluation
1 xinute 1 Not given }O Unknown

10. o® 10.. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11, COMMENTS

or was bright dark red, Shape like torpedo.
purcts through a windshield from a lorry
which was stationary. It was traveling paralle
to the ground and not dropping like a star.

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Directorate of Intellizence,
Chief, Collection Control Brench,
Room 5-C-155 The Pentagon,
Department of the Air Force.

SUBITECT Report of Flying Seucers fron

Union of South Africa,

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Enclosed as of possible interest to your Depertment is
cooy of despatch No. 282 of February 25, 1951 from the
American Consulate at Durben, transmitting copies of two
erticles from local newspapers concerning the anvearence
of a torpedo-shaped object floating in the sky over the
Durdan area,

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Cony of despatch
No. 282, Feb. 26,
1951 fron Durban
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despatbsh no. 262 Duxban, South Africae
7 Yebruaxy 25, 1951.

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TORPMDO SHAPS IM Sy ;

tarea Tursoeans and some Natives caw a Lorpaceasha ped
oles, sravelliag slowly over the a area of Durban
shortly before 5 ao cloce this mornin

lire | ee Glenwood, told
the Dally News: "Va wers cmatag © €? night shifts and with twa
ConipAnloas i was sitting ia the cory while the tralier waa
full of Nasl rene As tae lorry stowoad at the corner of
Polat Road and Winder Sarow I looked ap thxenga the winde
eeveen and saw soasthing tak looked like a torpede travelling
Slowly overhead towards the Hlure, I called my companton’s
attention to is and asked the tina, & wad 4.35. :

vit yas beautifully columred, the froatk pass being bricht
xvod, the centre daric red ami the evi oeitzns ved. There was
no noise and no trail tha’ £ cowld aoa anid although I hays
peea thousands of shooting stars I w swear 4% was not a
whar for is was hravelliag parallel to the ¢ ground and nok
Cropping Like a stair.

SIS was by far pratties’ thing I have ever seen in
the sky and wa danahed it Zor abou, a oinube befors is passed
out of sight, geieg in the direction of the Blut.

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ad a Orava phess cane I’m not cure of. ‘The Natives
aes page oxml3aa oF this Lovely ching ja the i %

Natal, Daily Neva, Fobruary 21, 1951.

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Eobers G. McGrezor
American Consul.

Enclosuresé
two clippings.

Copies to: American Fubassy, Pretorti
American Consulate General, Johannesburg.

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despatch no, 282 Durban, South Africa.
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OTHSRS SAW “PTORPEDO*® OBJECT

The torpedoeshaped objes$ reported to have been seen
flying over Durban early yesterday morning was alse sean
by passengers waiting for a train at Merebank station.

ii, Say of a. Mewebank, says
a gerenp of people were standing on tho platform waiting for

the 5 a.m train when the object was seen in the sky over
the sea in the Isipingo area.

Ee saya: "It ezactky the same as the description
given dy Tir. coggemelienniaie tne Daily News yesterday but
the color to me appesarsad to be bine. It was a most beautiful
sight. It locked itke a DALE waren I first saw it, and then
it gradually became tornai@-maped, until finally it dice
appeared in the sky sumewnera neat Reunion Rocks, Tiers was
no nolsge and the objoes% seemed to ba at a low altitude .
travelling slowly. |

Mr, Douglas Rotei+sea,:a Durhan astronomer, says that
although hse cid nos’ 243 the object himself, the possibilisy
of it being a comet can definitely be ruled cut. The reports
say this objset) travelled up the coast, and comets are known
to travel only from west to “ast.

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