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CASE REFERENCE9543745

DATE OF SIGHTINGJanuary 1953

REPORTED LOCATIONLarson AFB Moses Lake Washington

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Larsen Air Force Base, Washington 6 January 1953

I. Description of Incident

At 1515 Z over sixty varied military and civilian sources observed one green,
disceshaped object. The observations continued for fifteen ninutes during which
tine the object moved in a southwesterly direction while bobbing vertically and

going sideways. There was no sound, An F-9i aircraft was scrarnbled but a thirty
rinute search of the area produced negative intercept results.

II. Discussion of Incident

A check of adjacent radar sites revealed no unusual returns or activity in
the area, The winds were generally from 2l,0° below an overcast at 12,000'. Thus
the object would appoar to move against the wind since it must have been below
the clouds. There was no air traffic reported in the area,

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SUMMARY: (Enter concise 8% mmary of report. Cire significs ance in final ¢ ne-sentenc ‘ paragr: ph. List incloeures ct lower left. "Begin tert of report on AB Form 1128— Pert It)

This report conteins information concerning the

sighting by epppwoximately sixty (60) persona of the uaidentilbdd
flying odjact over LARSON AFB, WASH at 0715, 8 JAN 53.

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On 4 Jenuary 1953 the sighting of an unidentified Pying object was
reporsed by members of the 82d Fi: shtere Interceptor Sousdron, a wilt of ths

dir vatensea Command stationed at Lerson h¥3. The folloving information was
ceouresd oe Lt aE Tae tw end myself dvietine the time following the
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Hescriobions of the objeot were varied, 1e8., cigar siepad, round livs
2 Gise, sinilier to ths tailsine of a 94 but She concensus of opinion was
that it was cliroular someshat resembling a larga weather bellon aud »1) ogres
that it vas grean in color. There was no racert of Sound cownecsed with the
sighting and the naneuvors ware deseribed as bodoing, colng siiswaya but rlveys

in the came cenernl Sout) lasterly direction from the base,
Tha first sighting was at C715 end it could not be obsarved oiter 0730,

tha mejority of the observers were in the squadron sores on t14 base but
poverat rovorted seeing baa object while driving toward tos bese from EPHRATA,
HAS dy a onall town 14 miles INR of Lerson AFB. All obsarvations wece Zrom the
sround and were visuel. A cheek with radar sites in Ais vicinity show that
no uvagnal objects or activity was noted at this tindy 3 There vere no wheather

slloon lsnunohes from this besa during the reporting period.

The following weathar conditions oxisted over the bese and in the vicinity;
LiRSOY AF3S 0727 9,000* Droken, 12,000' overcast, Siurfoca winds S=S4 26%nots

with gengts up to 35xnots visibility 16 miles. et
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4,000 57 knots 220.
6,300 51 knots 231° eS
€,000 43 knots 240° oe t
19,900 35 knots 250° 5 Fa
22,000 33 knots 2 O°
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YAKIMA, WASH 6,900" 21 knots 249 S
‘sCOWA, WASH §,000' 33 knots 260°

All Personell reported the object just below cloud layer ond heading in
2. South ast direction fro# LAKSON which is ogainst tha ebove iinds aloft rerorts
fron stations surrounging this bese. io one raported the object diseppesring into
toe clouds. “ost observers reported on in to their respective jobs os this unit
commences work at 0720,

The So Commander having observed tha object requested permission to send up
f Tlighs of ¥-94 acft and this wes created. They became eirhorna at 0743 a af

rooeload airborne thirty minutes wattress nerekien with no results.

There was no reported air traffic in the vicinity end there were no knowa

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