DECLASSIFIEDUSAF PROJECT BLUE BOOK · NARA T-1206
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE

PROJECT BLUE BOOK

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969
CASE REFERENCE6383111
DATE OF SIGHTINGSeptember 1952
REPORTED LOCATIONShamokin Pa
FRAMES16

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
DATE 12 LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS /
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e cep 52 Shamokin, Pa. 0 Was Bolloon
D Probably Balloon
DATE-TIME CROUP - 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Possiblytailoon
3.
1 Ground-Visual Ground-Redar Was Airercht
Locai. o Probably Arcralt
CM.T. Air-Visual Air-Intercept Rodor D Possibly Arcralt
5. PHOTOS 16. SOURCE 1 D Was Astronom..cul
nYes C Probobly Astronomica:
woman i Possibly Astronomicol
No 1
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 'S. NUMBER OF OBJECTS  9. COURSE I D Cther_..
2: Insufficient Data for Evaluation
2-3 minutes 2 a Unknown
TO. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
Grange color. Cigar shaped. Sightings
Eratie maneuvers.
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M
San Antonio, Texas
Dear M
Your recent report of unidentified aerial phenomena has been
received by the Air Technical Intelligence Center. Inclosed is a
questionnaire, which, when completed by you and returned in the
inclosed, self-addressed envelope, will aid in standardizing the
data and will complete record the rence.
Your interest repor the matte rited
. desire to be greatly appreciated.
Ti
SANANTONIO TEx1s Killy F boe, t
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fire-breathing.
monster, 10 feet tall, with a bright green body and blood-red
face" on a hillside near here.
Mrs. Kathleen May of Flatwood, green body that "seemed to glow."
scared and sick from her experi- Mrs. May said Lemon screamed
ence, said she and the boys, im in terror and fell backward as the
cluding. a 17-year-old National monster duckwalked toward ther,
Guardaman, made the find Friday and the whole party turned and
night while investigating repoits ran. She said the monster exuded
that a flying saucer had landed. an overpowering odor that so sick-
She said she and Gene Lemon, ened them they vomited for hours
the guardsman, her sons, Eddie, 13, afterward.
and Fred, 12, and Neil Nunley, 14,
Ronnie Shaver, 10, and Tommy Average net paid circulation
Hyer, also 10, all went to the hill- for August exceeded
top on the C. B. Fisher farm near
here Friday night. Daily.....2,100,000
Lemon, who was leading the
party, said he saw something move Sunday...3,850,000
in a tree, and when he shone a The Largest Daily and
flashlight on it saw the 10-foot Sun-
thing" with the flushed face and Iday Circulation in America
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Multiole Falloon
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Lake Charles, Loutsiana Airerar-
Acaindale, Vir:inie Insuffioient Date
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5 tisninaton, D. d. Mlitery Astro
Masaington, D. C. Hlitary Astro (ESEOR)
-Netonset, Itlinols Astro (METEOR)
Sante Morit, Axlttornta Airerart .
1? Fairrax. Vt:g'ntn Astro (METEOR)
12 Middletown, ten Aireratt
:? Allen, Marylan UNIDET(FIED
Flatwoods, Vast ViCAmMia Civillen Astro (METHOR)
Military Astro (METEOR)
Washington, P. Civilian Insufticient Data
Middletown, Feusyivania Multiple Astro (METEOR)
Lovingston, sto1a Multiple Astro CTEOR)
Hons Kong, Chide Civilian Insufflefent: Data
Fort Worth, The as Other (REPEECTION)
2 Allentown, Pe iiaia UNIDENNIFED
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1- Operation Vainnrlce MuLtiole UNIDENTIFLED
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has been obtained.
2. A copy
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ee: CG, SAC V0e: Chief, Air Tech Lntel Center
CO, 15th AF ATTN: ATL.
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PAGE TWO JUPRH EZ4
SUT THIS-GBJICT WAS DIFFERINT. BELIEVES IT CRASHED IN NOUNTAIN AREA.
SINILAR REPORT KADE BY CIVILIAI DTO AIR DEFENSE
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Lrs.
Fa., roported sceing two unidentiried flying
obgoots at aporoximately 20002, one
other on 8 or 1952.
lrs. to be the samo
or at least very sinilar, and describod thon as oigar-shaped
with an "orange glow base." The objeet on 6 Soptembor
was obser soconds somotina boty woen 2000 and
.0 21003 at a position. It was reported to
have moved isappeared.
the observation was shorter n she believed.
The observations were ver grand-
mother who originally called'.irg attention to both
objeets.
lirs. inability to givo this ofriee
doscriptions makes it impossiblo to deternine the exact natuure
of those objects, but jed aireraft and astronomiosl phonomema
0INCLS. remain strong pocsibilities.
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thi Dowadin io D/T MaISAR.ach.
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when returning g home. About 10: 30 p.m. a flying object or
they call flying discs. This flying object came down
within 50 feet from the car on the road, about 25 feet
height of th round. It haded a light and it stood about
60 seconds in one place an and it turns its
This object was big and round
with a nikel plated rim around edge of ths object. I
should of wrote you this before but I never did get around
to do, but as I writing you now, I came to think about it.
If the Army wants more explaining about this object, I
be willing to do so.
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Mr. rantwood, Wisconsin. believe
the letter is self-explanatory.
making proper
Thanking you
I am
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the upper ataos.hara.
The Air Fo
his obeervation. You will want to trow that his report has been
male a satter of record and is betng evalvat d by the Atr Force.
In the event eifitionel informetion on tnis matter is reguired,
Ltr to C/man )'konski fm Mr Ed April 6
"Sumary of, Investigations ying Saucers"
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SUBJECT:
(Uncl) Material for Project Blue Book
TO: Chief, Air Technical Intelligence Center '953
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Ohio
COMMENT NO.1
FROM: Current AFOIN-2A2/Capt. H.B. Smith/
Topical Division, mh/75990/43-860
Directorate of Intelligence
DCS/Operations, USAF
The inclosures are orwerded for your information, retention, and any required
ection.
Brantwood, Wisconsin if felt to deserve andard questionnaire treatuent
in view of Representative O'Xonski's interest.
M. Bhild, 2404
4 Incls MELDON H. SMITH
1. ler fr Maj. Gen. R.E.L.Eaton to Colonel, USAF
Rep. O'Konski, Directorate of
2. Photo interpretation i report fr
US Maval Photographic Interpre-
tation Center, Wash. DC dtd
4 May 53 (in dup.)
3.
Pacific Fleet dtd 25 Mar. 53
4. FLYOBRPT fr 237Oth Air Base Sq-
Long Rench California. dtd
Vhen inolosere(s) Ho.
withdren er .it attochod, the (aro)
cleesiit
with Far in algordance
205-1. "
753-6530A
GeuC PRINTING QFFICE 16-542691
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LUMINOUS OBJECT gr.aff
REFERT
On 3 Septemb late at night, four professors the Seraphic Sem-
inary in Palma, Mallorca Island, noticed a luminous disk in the sky, traveling
from west to east. They said that it could not have been a shooting star and
that they were giving the report as objectively as possible in its barest de-
tails to provide snother item fo study of the flying saucer phenomenon.
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observations in Durban, Union of South Africa, when he saw white object mov-
ing smoothly across his field of vision. After two more had appeared and
passed in same manner, he called a coworker, II
more saucers. He was able to follow one of them with a theodolite, which in-
dicated that the object was at a high altitude. It had about the same shape
as a weather balloon which was then at an altitude of
Both men time (the second
rector of the weather bureau at Natal). Their information was w
records of the local meteorological office.
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