PROJECT BLUE BOOK

PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

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- CONCLUSIONS

Was Balloon

Probably Balloon

Madagascer (Tarrytown N.Y.) Possibly Balloon

4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
© Ground-Visvet N/A 0 Ground-Reder

3. DATE-TIME GROUP

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Letter from civilian stating that "flying
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Also included are three sketches of SaucerSe {a5 Hoax, No manufacturing sight in

Madagascer,

ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)

D Air Visuel 0 Air-Intercept Radar Possibly Aircroft
‘SOURCE Was Astronomical
Probably Astronomical
Civilian Possibly “owe
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE Other
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N/ A N/ A N / A Unknown
10. BRIEP SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS

While makak sketches show condiguaration
which could probably fly. Case evaluated

UNCLASSIFIED

SUBJECT: Evaluation of Madagascar Possibility

le Stateman's Yearbook, 1950, cites an increase in imports which is not
reflected in exports between the years 1947 and 1948 as follows:

2247 1948
Exports 138,0 140. 57

Same source indicates that industry is largely of a light or domestic
nature; i.e., manufacture of straw hats, beef canning and salting, The bulk
of the exports comprise raw materials. Imports for the large part comprise
heavy machinery and parts, with only a normal component of textiles and goods
for domestic goods. It is to be noted that the break in imports vs, exports is
of a magnitude which would support some manufacturing activity other than that
which is acknowledged by Statémans Yearbook, and that the increment of 100,000
tons occurs at time of initiation of Grudge,

2e j Communication facilities on the island have been increased almost 10
fold in the last 8 year period to nearly 16,000 miles of roads, The railroads
have not largely been increase inasmuch as the terrain is mountainous and hence
unsuitable. Telephone and telegraphic facilities are now extremely good,
Zonsidering that the population is still for the most part aboriginal in
character,

3. It is also to be noted that the French accomplished an extensive
political revision in Madagascar in 19/46, when they included several Antactica
and coastal islands to this possession, admitted representatives to the French
assemblages and caused a rearrangement so that French military chiefs actually
function as vice-vovernors.

4. Selection of MEP of a site on the West coast is at least satisfactory
for the requirements of a manufacturing site, in that the East coast is subject
to rainfall of a tropical nature, and is associated with unhealthful low terrain
so that the European population finds itself - best adapted to the West coast,

5° indicates a site on the West coast which seems to be about 10
miles East of the seaport, Tulear, on a river in Southwest Madagascar, It should
be interesting to examine Encyclopedia Britannica Atlas supplement for 1944, for
the river on which Tulear is situated was omitted from their Atlas, This brings
to mind a practice during WW II of omitting certain island bases from the maps,
Only low possibility is believed to exist along these lines of reasoning.

6. Population of Madagascar is on the order of 4,000,000, with a population
density of 16 per square mile when averaged over a relatively uninhabited inland,
and is considered sufficiently large as a iszanpower pcol. Recently, there has been
established a technical college in Tananarive. The native talent has for centuries
been demonstrated in complex metal working, with reports of intricate chains in
silver, and has elaborate works in brass and copper as have ever been accomplished
in Europe. It is considered therefore that there exists a possibility to utilize

native manpower for manufacturhng purposes.

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1. Attached is a copy of a letter from Mr. QQggiesie requesting
information on two UFO reports.

2. Mr. is quoting Major Keyhoe concerning a sighting which was
supposed to have occurred at White Sands, New Mexico, on 14 July 1951.

A thorough search of FTD files indicates that if such a sighting was
made it was not reported to the Air Force. -

The sighting you qbte fron Major Keyhosts book which is
have on 14 July 1951 was evidently not

the Air ’ A thorough search of the comlete
st aetves the Aerospace Technical Intelligence

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