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IF ANY OTHER SHIP IN THE MATION RELEASED A WEATHER BALLON
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NEGATIVE OR TRANSPAR ENCY
SIGHTING ATSEA
By MILITARY PERSONNE.
ON THE uss FDR
UN CLASS IFIED

Group photographer
velt while covering
Following 138 Kitvinis letter of yesterday
circumstanc the shoc tures:
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"On Septamber twentieth. mimtes
was standing on flight deck of the USS I Franklin D.
Roosevelt, biggest in the world. With me, at the time,
was Lt. helicopter pilot. It was a bright day
and there were occasional clouds in a very blue sky. As we
were taliking, I saw this round object about five hundred or a
thousand feet in the air, direetly above the end of the
chis shoot
man man aboard sent balloon up at three thirty, and says that --
it rose up and out of sight in the overcast in about fifty
secon Thi Th in color.
"The next day ther item teletype follows:
PITREAVIE, SCOTLAND, SEPT 22 (INS) RAP OPFICERS IN THE NATO
MANEUVERS OPERATIONS MAINBRACE TODAY*INVESTIGATED REPORT THAT (* Sept.20)
A FLYING SAUCER WAS SIGHTED. TEN OFICERS AND ENLISTED MEN IN
AN RAF BCMBER FLANE REPORTED YOSTEODAY THAT THOY SAW A STLVER
CIRCULAR CBJECT FOLLOWING A BRITISH PURSUIT PLANE OVER YORKSHIRE.
THEY SAID THE OBJECT HOTARY MOTION ABOUT ITS CWN AXIS, 7-3
SUDDENLY ACCELERATED BEFORE
THEY
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pressing our sincere sincere thanks thanks For for his his cooperation 13 in making the photographs available
to us. The photosraphe were The photos Ob• were enlarged by Hq U enlarged by 7 Hq USAT USAR from the from the original 2x inch 3 x & inch
sise to the present Bisei isei vertical dimension of the copie correspond to the correspond to the
coverage in coverage ginal dmal -hotographs hotographs (eniargement (enlargement ratlo. 2.25:5). These are the
only copies filed in Headquarters. An enlarged reversal
print of tached (Incl (Incl 3);it 3):it medo to show that the
1m official release.
cablto CINoNoRTH, with information cabl to CINoNoRTH, with information copy cODy dispatched 3 ispatche Oct
52 requesting information cn balloon releases information cn balloon releases mation. ation
Xessage number is AF0IN 59530. number: is Ar0IN 59s30.
4. A copycaf Opnav Motice 3820 is attached as yOur information and
rotention.
Lacls WILLIAM A. ADAMS
1. Pkg of 3 photos Colonel, USAF
2. Gy ltr rM Chief, Topical Division
dtd 2 Oct 52 Deputy y Director for Estimates
3. Photo
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is willing to make about these pictures for publication.
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Sincerely yours,
Editor
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