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Unclassified) Unidentified Flying Object at Little Rock, ArkanBas
SPECIAL INQUIRY .

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TO: Topical Intelligence Div, Deputy Director for Estimates,”. DATE 16 ocT D2
Directorate of Intelligence, DCS/0
ATIN: Major Fournet COMMENT NO. 1. _
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1. Inclosed herewith for your information are two (2) photostat copies of a
Spot intelligence Report concerning the above subject, dated 3 October 1952.

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2. The files of this Mtrectorate contain no further information pertainiag to
this matter. Any further data received will be furnished your office.

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Photo cy Lt Colonel, USAF
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TO Ghief, Air Techateal FROM Dept of the Air Force bate UT © 9% "COMMENT NO. 1
Iatelligence Center - Hqs USAY-aFoIN Maj Pournet/cnbd/71379
Wright-Patterson AFB
Ohio

1. Inclosed report was furnished by OSI and is for your information
and retention,

2. The inconsistencies between the visual description reportei by the
observer and the attached photograph are obvious, viz. the time reported as
1000 hours while the photograph was evidently taken at night; the reported
shape and relative size as compared with the image in the photograph, etc.

3. The Photographic Division of AFCAG has evaluated the "object" as a
light fixture superimposed on the background through doubdle-exposure.

1. teak: (3 see WILLIAM A, ADAMS
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ata 3 Oct S3'w/ettcha photo - Chief, Topieal Division
Deputy Director for Zstimates

Directorate of Intelligence, DCs/0

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OO File No. 20, Subject: thidentified Flying Object at Little
Rock, Arkansas.

The evaluation of this report has been rlaced at{ 7a, Jatzee
it is impossible to proverly evaluate the information from attached
photograph and without further interview of Mrs.

3e - Copies of this report and incloeures have been
furnished General, Air Materiel Command.
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SUR WT: Uhidentified Flying Object at Little tmck, Aricnsas

73 Director of Scecial Investizations
Seadgquarters United States Air force
Washingt 25, DC.

™ SHS a ae Tg SEE Little Rock,
Arkansas, advised that at ac: tely 1900 hours on 15 Sentenber 1952,

she took a photograph of an midetified flying object which avpeared
in the sky, south of har home, at the address listed.

omloyes ED. 8.21 residence as show, who is

8. Time Corcoration, Adams Meld, Little Rock,
oo, p oa te the llth District Office of Special tt gerery
Detachment Commander, Littls Rock, arkansas, om 29 Sentember 1952, that

she was steonine from her front door, facing south, :t the ancroximate
hour and date mentioned, in preparation to take vhotozrarns of her dog
vhea ener oe Seen oe oe Ce She had in her possession a
NOe and took a photesraph of m object which was
estimated to be at eh ddhenes oF tenemetanadis fear Wade, aheub the
size of a disine, end about three stories froa the zround.

descri ve hg By Reng: pale peg ves
reverse itealf ant fale a spinning in one direction, then
fade any length of tris obser-
vation was scwevtat Less on ene atau related that the day
ab Ghar i th little or no wind and the object between her and the

flying article ws a mall wooded area vrich is show in the inclosed
chotegraph.

The original : photograph has deen revrodused at ‘is Jistri
ad are the inclosures, the ocrizinal hevine teen veturned to oe
or her reanest.

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FROM (.dgeney) | ®E°ORT NOL

Air Attache, Tripoli, Libya

AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT

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Two unidentified flyingobjects were reported by civilians in the Tripolitanizn
area of Libya on the nights of September 19 and 22, 1952.

A. Unidentified object sighted Septeaber 19, 1952:

1. A circular light with an illuminated tail, which was 20 meters in length;
moved horizontally and then disappeared in a vertical clizd. The object was silent

2. Time = 2240 Local. Observed for approximately five minutes,

3. Visual observation from the Dalsony of a Garian building, Libya.

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east at a height of 10,000 meters, It traveled a southwesterly direction for five
minutes, then disappeared in a vertical clinb.

5. The information was tnformally reported to the Sunday Ghibli, an Inglish
languaze newspaper published weekly in Tripoli, Libya. The information was care-
lessly and incompletely recormied and the published article lacked many essential

details. The editor of the Sunday Ghibli admitted freely to printing the article
for its “interest” value.

The witness of this flying object was \-. pS ee Seay

Tripoli. Reliability urxietermined.

&, Weather = Clear; visibility 15 miles - surface winds 130° , Knots,
Winds aloft: 2,000' 150° 12 knots
§,000' 150° 11 knots
10,000! 290° 10 knots
20,000' 240° 10 mots
30,000' 250° 2h knots
40,000' 270° 48 Knots

7. No activity or wmusual meteorological conditions,
8. No photographs or other evidence.
9. No interception or identification action taken.

160. No other alr traffic at time of siszhting.

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isual coserwation at varicu: locations in <ne city of Tripoll, Lidya.
+» Traveling, in general, on a North-South line and then disappearing
vertically. Sighted approximately ten miles North over the Mediterranean Sea at
nigh altitude (not estimated). There were contradictory reports on its movement —
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Air Attache, Tripoli, Libya | TR<12=52

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5. The information was informaly reported to the Sunday Ghibli, an English
language weekly published in Tripoli, Libya. The information was carelessly and
incompletely reported and the published article lacked many essential details,

The editor of the Sunday Ghibli ad-uitted freely to printing the article for its
"interest" value,

Witnesses were one English couple and a \elsh couple, 2ll unidentifi« 2d.
One reliable source reporting this flying odDject was -gnor . cr de calas of the
Spanish Legation in Tripoli.

6 Solid overcast 3,000'; 15 miles visivi? ty » Siguicrsin, Curface winds
LO° 22 mots. A low cressure area was centered East of Italy. 4 cold front,
sLuost stationary, was joining a troush coming out “ef the cautral desert area of
Africa. Both the cold front and the trough became o
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Winds aloft: 2,00' 90° 16 imots

5,000' 230° 17 knots

10,900' 240° 49 knots ~°

20,000' 250° 44 inots

30,000" 250° 70 knots

7. No activity or unusual neteorolovical conditions sther than those
described in Par. 6 above,

8. No photographs or other «vidence,
GS. Neo interception or identification action taken.

10. No other air traffic.

CS. Both copies of these two Sunday Ghibli articles are copied herewith vercatin:
FLYING SAUCER SEEN OVER GARIAN GE3EL | re | -

Third Libyan appearance reported

Another "Flying Saucer” has been Seén over Libyz. This is the third reported

appearance of the plienomena in’ Libya which when the "Saucers" have appeared in
other countries have puzzled scientists and military experts alike,

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‘st renorted three years azo oy an American serviceman 1+ eelue Field wro
said that 1e saw a dise hizh in the cand over the airfisis, and lately said to have
been seen over the Cyrenaica gebel by a party of Englis*men returning to Senshact
Pter a day in the mountains, the latest apreararice was last Friday night at varten.
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"Wo were sitting on the oalcony of the Suildinge”, said -ir. Mallia to the
-uryiay .Guibli, “when from the south east, flying at a height of some ten thousand

onz and this was also illuminated.

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Confirming these facts the next witnesses were a Nelsnhman and his wife walking
in the Giaddat Idris, They had arrived at the turning by the Cafe della Post which
gives a view over the sea and were startled to see a brilliant ball of light flash
across the opening. They zuessed that it was some ten miles cut to sea, and they

‘only saw it for a second or so before it was out of rance behind the buildings. It
was travelling north west to south east,

Meanwhile reports are 3till being received confirmin ng the ietails of last
week's "flying saucer".

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and his wife rerorted seeing the

d he and his wife were sitting on deck chairs i
their Garden City villa when they saw it aporoaching fk the south at ae

"It was flying at a wiht," he said, “ard over Tripoli it came down low, went
alon= vertically and then shot upwards. It was a quiet peaceful nicht and we are
quite sure it was not an aeroplane. There was positively no sound.

"My wife, who saw it a second or tvo before I did, says it lett a glowing tail,
but I did not notice that.

"Tt came and wert in about six or seven seconds. The lint seemed to 39 wu. ..
if a lamp had been extinguished rather than a ersdual disapsearance of the whole “"or
view". - . . - . *

Four Italian residents of Trincli seated on their oalconics near the Tovecco
Monopoly Suilding also report seeing the "saucer" last week.

They thought it was 8 meteorite until suddenly they realised it was going up
instead of down.

COMMENTS of” Preparing» Officer:

” Captain Morey 8. Jeffrey, Intelligence Officer, Tth Air Rescue Squadron has
injected the possibility that the unidentified object sighted 22 Se-tenber 1952
was a weather balloon. The 29th Weather Squadron, based at »heelu 15 Field, Tripoli

sends 12> “our weather Salloons daily, 2% 9300, 0900, 1500 and 2)

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while rendering this repert. Neitner ef them has had a previous similar experience

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