PROJECT BLUE BOOK

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969

CASE REFERENCE6311298

DATE OF SIGHTINGApril 1952

REPORTED LOCATIONWashington Indiana

FRAMES6

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1825 CST 0 Was Aircraft
Locol.. Ground-Visual Ground-Rodor Probobly Aircroft
L GM.T._. O 2425 CST Air-Visual 0 Air-Intercopt Rodar D Possibly Aircralt
5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE Was Astronomicol
DYes 0 Probably Astronomicol
X No 3 male civilians 0 Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS COURSE 0 Other
Insulficiont Data for Evaluation
4 minutes 1 N 0 Unknown
0. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
Gray tail. Object first observed pear setting sun.
Spherical tail. Made 45 deg turn. Came toward observers than veered off to
Too slow for meteor. Background 95 deg heading. Had long tail then
of sources skotchy, repo as phoned to varied in size.
Atterbury AFB.
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FRAME 002 / 006paddle-gpu-200dpi

Training
2. It will be noted exists in the dates quoted. The
letter from the 2466th Air Force Reserve Training Center implies that this incident
occurred on 11 April 1952_ and gives tha weather report for 1830 hours on 10 April..
However,. Mr. Kent clearly states in his letter that the sighting was made on
1 April 1952.
3. A expres
prepared.
WILLIAM A. ADAMS
. Colonel, USAF
Deputy Chier, Evaluation Deputy Chier, Evaluatio Division
Dirsctorats of Dirsctorate of Intelligenca Intelligenca
1 Incl
Ltr fr Col. Pocock
w/ltr fr w/ltr
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TERVALS;
DOD DIR 5200.10 YEARS.
7-3712-45
UNCLASSIFIED
DDFE 696 i 16--54501-3 U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

FRAME 003 / 006paddle-gpu-200dpi

object. I sun. There several cloudy
we thought it was the same color of the red
car and got out and
watched. We e first 8s about 6:2 ming (1825). We first
saw the exhaust. It was a long streak of 'ange color We could
not tall how far away it was. It was very high conding toward UB.
Wo watched the thing for just exhaust of
the object was about 15 to 20 times the length O he object itself. We
saw it bot
2.
account of eterbury Air For Pase forecaster, It. Brack, said
that to his there was no ion in that area that
might appear as above.

FRAME 004 / 006paddle-gpu-200dpi

Eite
1 Incl: WILLIAM S. JR
to this Colonel, USAF
hq from Mr Commanding
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t the times the
length of the body.' Th a deep crange. The body looked to be
about the si 8 way
off.
hags eaoned sasned
Mr. a.
ith the Merchant Marine.
My addres ana.
Sinceraly
copy
WILLEAM S. POCOCK, JR

FRAME 006 / 006paddle-gpu-200dpi

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ALTITUDE: Very high
HEADING: ME
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. sOURCE: Civilians
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the rays of the
turned northcast an reduced the exchaust. (Restricted)
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