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D. DATE· TIME GROUP 2. LOCATION
29 3en53 30/0345Z Comway, South Carolina
3. SOURCE 0. CONCLUSION
NAVY BLIIP
Civ Man
4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS Pope AFB, S. C., roported that 3 Navy blimps were in ths area at
the tine of the sighting and that it wes a great possibllity
One What lir, Hooih saw one of thow. The obaoiw -
5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION
D Minutos 2 Minut os Large oblong Lorge oblong shrpod object appearing to be a dull shrapod object appearing to be a dull gray colori gray color
6.TYPE OF OBSERVATION 6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION travdled slowly at a low altitude. ( 'dbserver flred at objectxdd aid
with a pistol and it with a pistol and it shot upward on , shot wward on a high rate of a high rate of upeed. opeed.
Cround-Visual Object carried a low Objeet carried a lor huming sound. huming sound.
7. COURSE
West
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station, he drove home and a
supper prepared for him as i usual so he on the coffee pot and sat down to read the
paper while it was heating.
A few rimutes later, he heard one his father's mules naighing at the barn.
A fow rimutes more anld a second mule began causing a c commotion, a mule that is not
easily disturbed. Then at about the sane morent, the chickens and a pen of ducks be-
gan hollering and Booth sensing something awry, grabbed calibre pistol and went
outside to investigats.
fully in ain.
The object was alrost still, like it was drifting at a pace slower than the fast
walk of a human. It was only some ten foet above the tres tops and easily visible.
It was making a vory low hurmming noise, barely detectable. Booth realizing , he was
perhaos getting the bost view in history of the long discussed "flying Saucer" yelled
200 yards ajay But the late hour had
them s soundlyasleep, and he vas not able to arouse them.
"But T still vanted to know more about this thing that was hovering arownd our
tarn, and with ay eun in hand, I went directly into the woods, easily catching w with
the objact. I walced under it, cround it, and vieved it fron all sides. It was
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Despite Booth's yelling for sore one to come
xxcccccccccCccxCcCX and in desperation aftor thds
length, of time, I ha fired I his nistol straight D at the "sauser" at a dlstance of
about 75 foet. "I heard the bullet hit the object. It nade a netallie sound and
bounced off. A bare instant after the bullet hib, the objact bogan makting considor-
ably more noise like a larce electrie motor and tock off at a high rate of speed at
about a 65 degree angle. It kept that sam until it vas completely out of
sight," said Booth.
together. When he TO Wp
Horry citizens who opinion o. dogens o2
have known Bo years. "H is a Christian
drink or present 15
And as a finishine touch, the coi poisoning enberod the affair.
have died mysceriously in Horry At least I cois
County within the last thrce tools, ALl I have diod
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shoot a flying ,saucer today dobunked 3 he ave
"woun a Navy blimp.
Lloyd C. Booth, 29, sald: ims
certainly know when I I'd
6 over ny head."
Identify planes on sight, If tho objoct I saw and shot was a plane
e or a blip, I
for aleost 30 minutos."
Booth desoribed the oraft as being circular, with the contour of an ogg sliced
direstly below from
detect ary idontifying marks or and fron both sidos, but was unable to
what aight have been a cabin on means of propwlslon He saw dim light smanatieg from
the fortard topside ar rear the undoraida tail
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unidontifiabl object fly inland at altibude,
THE HORRY DORIS SENTINEL, olina, Thursday,
February 19, 1953
BOOTH SAYS FLYTN SAUCER WAS NOT A NAVY BLEIP
Conway, S. Co ounty farmer who on Jaruary 22 became the
only man in the world to shoot flying saucer today debunked a CAA suggestion that
he right actuallz hrve "uounded" 3.Vazy hlimp.
from Glynco, Ga., to Weeksville, N. C., on January 29 and that one of them could easil
have passed ovor Horry Counby at
High hoadwinds keot the blirms low, Hall which 'spotted ore
just ten feet lines on hie land.
Booth z rejected the bl basis of his s past
the craft. He addad:
"I was with an anti-airoraft unit for 22 months
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one of then where Pooth shot it. The Navy has not
announced any such damage or ndicated any association with the shooting since the
event was reported.
Roports of flying ; saucers have been frequent in this area during the past few
weeks. One was seen near Myrtle Beach a week before the Booth shooting. A Marine
Corps jet pilot pursued and lost a strange craft along the Carolinas coast. craft along the Carolinas coast. Last
Firday, Firday, another another was seen by four people at Nyrtle was seen by four people at Myrtle Beach, heard Beach, heard by another, then seen
by six others a fow minutes later ove
Latest reports were made last night three Mrtle Beach residents saw an
unidentifiable object fly inland at taly 1000 altitude.
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roua BEoUp
The nahyeaoldthe 6n Hlzhway Tot about saraptt with a slaided zlass oyar
a s nerth of Coaway ad it. Light was roming througn this
ToldThe State sonishe Ie strana" astect irieht*red bim cagt.n ont could 1
a sheamved tha mtsierious Ii prst hut nayer kept Tim Hrom rneatsa it.
uhagogenas on Tte dignt .n-alisating. The abject was ahout e aht or
1 NO- deep. The front aloseg Ip-
rald in delali the stak as if it sas driitir Dae ware a(
strange actial streanlined olgect slowar than the fast the jase at an angle of
A 'about 80 degrees and the back wasj
and irdicated tnat some people ruman. li- ciid it was slaped upward at an angle of de to
thought it might be connected with'faat aoota The tree topa. 0 degrees.
am- The sitdes came straignt
ef animals in his saction. Ining notse. bareiy detectable
Bentts slery Was first reported) Soorh said he yelled loud and or tiye feet and then sloped uut-
to a pape one sterye in the Flald jong lor somaone at his house near- ard and oined tne hase a! about
(Cogway) wrliten by W, Hora a bg toirows bg' eer ass sound to-deeree anule,
1 Iolerneath the Bate WTS
W t rlep
- The sty in Th 3eld bugt-ih.
I er knny yne ahoutta Us Wh-! the seheat posa
Lar Methunest Churuh ad Uarne Iact acians extending te.
eedinaly hahsinter toich wia my suh i hamd I went (1- tow tha base in a creacent shape.
wit the wa h which he is known. ieatly into the wooue caamy calea he were no matkings anvwhege
Ihere is ao toubt in the mands of, ng up sitn Ihe ohjeet. , walked ont33 d Tard fr
tnose who knqw him weil includ-junder it, arodnd ih, and tiraad i continued on pegs Sa, timn 3
Booth is a veteran of anti-aireraft Booth went to the harn, sou noth-
servire in the Lnited States and ing then brbind the btild ng. A
SC Man Tells Hawalt and has been drilled in air- ifuil moon ht up the sky An etipse
craft identification of both enemy of the moon on the same night had
some identification. every type plane. This was none of strange object.
them and didn't even faintly resern- Citizens in the area noted that at
gunport for the object. It hud no bie any of them." least 18 cows have died mysterious-
eiler; there were no exhaust Rooth said he was reluetant at ly of poisoning in Horry County
es showing. no vapor trail and first to tell nnyone about the object. within the last three weeks.
could detect no unusual odor. It even his family because the "sau- Booth said he doean't know what
simply sat there and drifted along cers" have been so widely debunked. to think about the poisonings. He
with a low numming sound as I However. his family heard his shot said he couid detect no sign of poi-
. ran around and around it getting and he told them what he had seen. sonous smell or substance from the
just as good a look as I could. I He also totd the Rev. Elwell Jones. object. Hie said a veterinarian has
watched it for at lenst 20 minutes, Baptist minister, The Rev. Mr. Jones sent the stomachs of dend cattle to
mayhe as much as 30 minutes." sald of Booth: a laboratory for analysis. He sald
"I have known Lloyd Eooth all it will take about ten daya to get
Booth said his yelling aroused no the results. Booth said cattle pol-
one. So in dasperation. he said, he and grew up together. When he says soning is "pretty widespread" over
tred his pistot straight up at the he saw somethinz. he did." the county.
"saucer" at a distance of about 73 Other Horry eitlzens say of Booth: The Fleid says: "Alt (the cows)
fret. Boola said: "He is a Christian mag who doern't have died Instantaneously: soma
oI heard the bullet hir the ohject drink or misrepresent anything." never even kicked. All have riad
It made a metallie sound and Meanwhile, other "saucer" reports from poisoninz of a caustic nature.
bourced olf. A bare instant aiter came from the area. There have been no early symp-
the bullet hit. the object bezan Booth said that about thre- peo- toms. The cows simply have fallen
making considerably more noise ple in the Brownway had seen an over and have died in an instant.
like a large electric motor and took object at about the same hour about "Two cows owned by Henry An-
off at a high rate of speed at ahout a week before he saw the object. In derson died of poisoning less than
3 65 degree angle. It kept that repiy to a question. he said that he a mile from the sighted object a
same course until it was completely did not hear of this report until the week before Booth saw it. Both
out of sight." day after he had seen the "saucer." cows were miliked and fed the even-
Hie sald residents in the Brownway ing before, but were stone dead at
He said that the noise it made sertion had reportedf the object gav- mitking time the next morning.
when it took off could have been off enough light so that a pin could Other cows have died tee same way1
heard casilv at his house if some- be seen. from Myrtie Beach througn Red
one had iistened for it. He said the Booth said this is how he first Hill and Into the Adrioa wnd Pop-
was not loud like an aircraft came to see the saucer. lar sections.
nventional design would have Booth had closed his store at "And the greateat nu.nher of hogs
saade. about iI p.mn. and driven about a have died in the area in historv.
When questioned about his fear mile to the home of his parents, Some farmers hase jnst whole
of tiring at a strange object with where he lives. Shortly after ll:15 herds. One man alone reported
the possibility of being cut down losing 75. They d.d of
by some strange weapon, he said father's mules neighing at the barn. cholera.
his curtosity overcame his fear and Seconds later a second mule caused "all of which might add to the]
he fired at the haif wheel projecting a commotion. Then the chickens and
from the hottom. mystery. What did Booth sre?
Booth said he was sorry he took Booth grabbed 4 22 caliber pistol Why Wak it thee" Did it have
a shot at the object before it had and went outside to investizate. anything Io.da with the death of
chance to settl- down in a near- (The day before a cow of his had Horry investock?
by clearing, so he could investigate di-d suddenly and the veterinarian
further. diagnosed cause of death as poison- 5EE
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Report of Unidentified Flying Object
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Horry County, South Carolina Commanding Officer, Pope AFB, N. C.
CATEOF REPORT DATE OF INFORMATION EVALUATION
5 Mar 53 24-25 Feb 53 F--6
PREPANND BY (ONICER) SOURCE
2d Lt Earl M Crouch
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Msg IC-148 Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio Dt-time Gp 190539z Feb 53
SUMMARY: (Entercomcise suminary of repor!. Gice siguifieance in fnal ome sendence paragraph. Liat inclnstren a lower teft. Begun test of report on Af Fores 1it-Part 1l.)
Report of sighting n ucidentified flying object by th of
Conway, South Carolina at 300345z (January). Three Navy blimps reported
in the area at approximately the time of sighti probable that what Booth
saw was one of these blimps.
EARL M CROUCH
2d Lt, USAF
Investigation Officer
Approved.
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CARTER E DUNCAN CARTER E DUNCAN
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Chief, Air Technical Intelligence Center, ATTN: ATIAA-20, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
Commanding General, Ninth Air Force, ATTN: NCFOI, Pope Air Force Base, Ft Bragg, NC
File, Headquarters 44l5th Air Base Group Pope Air orce Base, Fort Bragg,
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The observe stated that the object
had a dull running,
still.
Ib was so "slow tnat the observer states that he wallked along under it and observed it
for'about twenty (2o) mimutes. It vas about twenty (20) minutes after first observing
the object , that Mr.d fired on it with a 22 caliber pistol. TEr. stated that
he heard the first shot hit the object and bounce off. It was then the object tilted
slightly and went uo at about a 65o angle at a goeed estimated to be between 600 and
700 M.P.H. No erractic moverents vere noted. The obgect was traveling practically
ad due Keat.
5. Mr. mati was the only observer Jamuary 1953.
n the statenents given to the press and to ne, Nr.otk stated that he wis very lfami-
Liar with all types airoraft. irs blimps, having served with an antl-aroraft
hnit for 22 ronths during Forld On checking on the reliability of
character, intorvieved. All testiriod that was
of the hidhast tv character, was not orone to ling, and that he wns definatolt
hot a Dublicity ge man. . on interviawing it was found that he
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with winds about four (h) M.P.H. - is the official report given to me by
the 3d Weather Squadron at Pope Air Force Base, N. C.. This correoponds to the story
iven by Booth, but not the one given by the Caa Control Tower. The report from there
Stated that I high headwinds kept the blimps om Ceor North Carolina un
usually low.
7. There was
as fragrents, photographs
pnd the like of sighting.
. There was no interceotion or dentification action taken.
11. Reports of sighting unidentified aircraft of uncoventional I design have been
boning in from the Hong County area for quite some time, but sighting is the
only one that has renorted seeing tho objects so close at hand. Inclosed with this
roport are ceveral neyspaper articles on the sighting and on other reported
sightings. One interesting sidelight gathered fron this imvestigation is that the
beople of this area are quite u upset over the deaths bf so nany of their cattle.
lain that every time one of these objects is reportedly They
hours several cows in the vicirity sighted, within tuenty-four
ay that the are found dead. The veternarians of this area
cattle have died from caustie or lead poisoning. This may or may have
ome bearing on the reported sightings.
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ask bim.
He ir quiet, introvert He is not prone to talk mnuch. He told
mo one about his experience for several days after the ineilent her than his immedi-
ate fanily.
I talked with a larga number of Mr. neighbors, including some who have
known him all his life. Everyone has said that he is a good, Christian, God-fearing
man that has never been known to lie or nisrepresent anything. Rev. , a
Botist preacher in Horry county who has known all his life, said that he was
of good character and when he told you something you could depend upon it. of good character and when he told you something you could deoend upon it. The same The sare
story is told by every y every vidual in tl vidual in that corunity Chat we have conbaeted. cormunity 7 Chat we have contacted.
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1 February 25, 1953 February 25, 1953
As far as I know fr rom uy own investigation I
as to the "flyin substantial and Mr. haracter and
past is reliable.
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