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TIME 8S OCT OVING NNE RPT NNX TO ssw VERY HIGH SPEED BETWEET
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Unidentified Flying Ghject over “ellavix firgort, Teoland

Iceland 1409th sir Bese Group, Kaflevik, Isalend
ll Setober 1952 % Gstea>ear 1952 Qeh
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bt edvout 721004 on S Oct 52 four ofricers of the rocently arrived 932ad ACh Su
witnessed a atreage object in tons sir sppmeching this sirpert. It was perfectly -ound,
: a7 said, excent, for on irregularity in lta treiling elem end its outilae wes raate

glotinct. Une of thom seid that it : sooned to heve depth, cnother seid that it appea«re
to be Mat, ft hed « pinklshwranze color, ond was wirtously dascrived es pele, pore
outs, tre: iwparesat, translucent. Jt initisily hed ao true beering of 35 to 40 @oy-eees and
and ‘Slovation of oveut 69 degress. It trevelled very replily on e course of shout 200
Gagrees in straight und level flight Zor about 4 seconds citer it wis first sighted.
Thon, atber dacresaing speed soneanat, ond with « slisht loss of altitude, 2% trensd
to a course of shout 133 desraas, wont into en almost vertical clind at on extrouely
high rate of wpsad, dininisned in sive oni diseppesred fron view in nbout one secon,
rs Pliogzeth var 1t teaversad en ars of obout 9D degrees in coout 6 seconds.

“Tha object leit no yiaible exhaust, vapor treil, oie turbulence or sound, accord
ing to ona of tha officers, who 1s sanlor Controller oF the 932nd fc oy. [i> was un-
eble to judge the altitude of the object, bul tro of the other officars eatiseted it at
§ to 10 thousand feat. One of then slvo estinated ita speed at 650 knots end its dte-
matar at 50 feet.

Throw was absolutely no cloud cover, vory Little surfacs wind ond no dlsslay of
northern lights at that time, tuoy seid, end 2 helf moon ellowad cood visibility.

Covaits Local GOA did not repert such a sighting, nor did cithae the “sflavits or tha
Poytjavik towers, Theres wes only ons locally bssad eirersft (a G-17) Mytng losslly
st that tine, but none of the crey renbers observed thia obisest. Tha reabher station
releases a vaather balloon at shout 21004 esch day, but the ona releesed 3 Uct 52 was
not colored. Iocal sunset was at 15374, slroat three hours prior to the sitting, so
it 45 wnltkely that the object, if 1¢ were.a balloon, could hsve bean reflecting tha
sun's reys to meka the pinkish-orangs color sscribed to it, local winds ct 21004 wears
ell less than 30 knots up to 20,900 foet, directions verying fron 309 degrees to C10
degrees. Thus naither the apparent speed of the object nor ita initial covrse conld
be accounted for by tha direction or force of tha wind, UOTE: *. . . tro men in
Roykejevils recently saw a kind of ball colng across the ey at a terrizfie mee."
wri \ wi ” 2 > 2 an ?
2uress ermunblodid”, 23 Sep 52. i , ae A if

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