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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE 2. LOCATION (IN OCBAN) 12. CONCLUSIONS
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Zz : 15 Mi SE Ocean Cit Maryland 0 Was Balloon
27 July 1954 3 72 Ey OQ Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION O Possibly Balloon
Local 1500 % Ground- Vi sual OQ Ground-Rador s bestia ég
27/ 20002 S Possibly Aircreft
Cnt . D Air Visuol D Air-Intercept Radar ORS hy /Aareraty
5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE O Was Astronomical
0 Yes Q Probably Astronomical
16 No Civilian QO Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE (£ Other MOKE POT
QO Insufficient Dota for Evaluation
15 Minutes 2. Q Unknown
10, BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
Red ball of fire entered to water.

Extensive Naval. activity in area,
Identified as Smoke Pot.

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1. Transmitted herewith for your information is one (1) con
of Raport of Investigation of Special Agent WILLIA! J. DENNIS, mR
District Office No. 21, dated 3 August 1954, file 53-(24)-11, subject
as above.

Ze Subsequent to writing the attached report, tha District
Commander, DO #21, was advised by the District Intelligence Officer,
5th Naval District, that investigation by his Ck revealed a
witness who approached near enough to the object in question to

identify it as a smoke pot. The District In ai Ligence Officer is
of the opinion that ths reported movement of the object can be
accounted for by 2ason of smoka beinz blown away from tha object

by the wind. The District Intelligence Officer acvised that there

was extensive naval ROCRIAy 4 in the erea of sudject ate Oe and that
a helicoster operating in tha vicinity observed pene stereoe 2 dunnage

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ne area. The District Intellizence Officer belis- shat ths

sd during some ns yal axercise in which no 2ttempt was

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3. No further investigative action is contemplated and the
files of the Office of Special Investigations are considered closed.

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File No: 53-(24)-11

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1. This investigation was initiated on 30 July 1954 by the
District Cormeandcr upon ye ae eucosvoe fro: and at the tcleophonic
request of Captain WILLIAI L. LOSSMS, District Intelligence Office

(DIO), 5th Naval piste. focal. Va. The DIO advised that his C
had roceived information from their Baltimore Office to the cffect that
at 1500 hours, 27 July 1954, indivicuels aboard two fishing vessels
located southoast of Occan City, lid., observeec an object variously
cescribea as a red ball or a ball of ree flac, which entered the water
apprezdinately 15 miles southeast of Ocean City. The witnesses stated
that they cbserved the object for approxinatcly 15 minutes ond
ariously estimated the spoecd to be from 8 to 2k kmots. One witness
obsurvee the object through binoculars. Sorc of the witncesscs statod
that the object traveled submerged part of the bilicy others that it
traveled on the surface. The DIO further advised that the water in the
areca in question is too shallow to permit the ecreration cf a submarine
at Snorkel depth and no Navel craft of that type were in the vicinity
at the tine of sighting. The DIO requestcd OSI to aotermine whether
any Langley “FD activity or the National ..dvisory Cormittce for Jcro-
nautics could account for subject sighting.
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3. On 30 July 1954 DLE SCHEFEL, Ist Lt, US.F, 0 2094381, Insc

Operations, wes telephonically contacted anc after revicwing his reccrds,
acvised that Langley -FB had not lost any aircraft on 27 July 19545 that

there had been no reported loss of aircraft wing tip tanks on 27 July
1954 and further that Langley .FB aircraft do nct conduct firing or berbing
practice over the area in question.

kL. On 30 July 1954, ir. .cting Engincer-in-Charcc: ,
Pilotless .ircraft Rescarch Station, Nationel ..dvisory Committce for

.eronautics, Termpere lic, Va. (iallops Island, ¥e.), was telcphonicall;
contacted by —, stated in effect that on 27 July 1954 his
orgonizetion fired a 2-1/2" rocket and 2 Research Model. The rissiles

wore tracked by radar. The 2-1/2" rockct struck the weter approximatcly
5500 yaras from the point of launching. The Rescarch Medcl struck the
water approximately 5000 yards fron the point of launching. The noints

of impect of the missiles wore apnroximetcly 30 idles fron Subjcct sisht-
ins, QQ isee that no attarwt is made to recover such missiles.

Oo odvisec that during the past three months his orgonize-

on has not launched any missiles which have a fuel expectancy of ficrc
than three (3) seconds ane that the rrissiles cited above landec within
an area of two hundred yards from the impact points indicated above

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FILE NO, DATE

53-(24,)-11 3 Ausust 1954 js
REPORT MADE BY :

WILLIAM: <7. DENNIS, JR, S/a

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REPORT MADE AT

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(Confidential)
Unidentified Object sishted 15 miles

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30 July 1954

Southeast of Ocean City, Nd.,

OFFICE OF ORIGIN

1500 hours, 27 July 1954 DO ;;21, Langley AFE, V

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CLOSED

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TiITIAL REPORT
DOWNGRADED A® 2 YEAR ister: 5005
DECLASSIFIED AFTER iz tins.n.

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Investigation requestec by District Intellisence
Officer, 5th Naval District, to determine if any
Lansley AFE activity was responsible for an un-
identified object observed approximately 15 niles
southeast of Ocean City, Ha. 27 July 1954. In-
vestization revealec no Air rorce activity at
LAFB which could account for the sighting. NACA
Station, Wallops Islanc, Va., advised thet they
fired a rocket and a- Research Model on 27 July
1954, but that-the points of impact of these
missiles as checke?, by radar’ were approsdcats]
30 miles from Subject sighting.

UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS
AND WILL BE CONSIDERED A VIOLATION OF AFR 205-1 AND AFR 205-6.

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