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| 29 Nov 54 CHARLESTON, SC
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION

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12. CONCLUSIONS

Wos Bolloon
Probably Balloon
Possibly Salioon

Was Aircraft

Probebly Aircroft

Possibly Aircroft

Was Astronomical METSOR
Probably Astronomical
Possibly Astronomical

Other
Insufficient Dota for Evaluction

Unknown

(NO CASE IN FILE)

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10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11, COMMENTS

BRILLIANT BIVE FLASH, SMOKE OR CLOUD AS OBJ IDENTIFIED AS METEOR

RESULT.

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why the world’s fastest seaplane newsmen ‘covering demonstra-|
fell apart in the air over San’ tions of late model Navy planes,

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t Diego Bay, killing a veteran test| watched in awe as the 700-mile-
} pilot ; |an- hour YF2Y-1 fighter skimmed

Charles E. Richbourg, 31, wasjoff the water, climbed, circled
killed when his jet Sea-Dart/and got as position for a me

fighter suddenly disintegrated|speed pas
Awe tu cured to horror when the

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jet came out of a shallow. dive
at high, but not supersonic, speed
and abruptly began to shudder.
For a split-second it seemed to
pitch longitudinally and a frac-
tion later it Was in flames, the
intense heat being felt on thet
Shore 300 feet below.

What happened then was pro-
gressive, rapid disintegration.
The Delta (triangular) Wing and
horizontal stabilizer flew in all
directions and the nose section
extending aft. of the‘ cockpit
hurtled forward and into the
harbor, A few hundred feet to
the right or left and burning
parts probably would have fallen
On the crowd.

Richbourg, an ex-Navy fighter
pilot, still was strapped to his
cockpit seat when reached by
company divers immediately
after the wreckage plunged into
the 40-foot depths of the bay.
He died two minutes later on a
nearby dock. '‘' °

The flyer, who joined Con-
vair in 1951 and exceeded the
speed’ of sound: in the Sea-Dart
last summer, i§ survived by: his
wife Margaret, ‘28. and two chil-
dren, Roger, 3, and Margaret,

Company and Navy officials
refused today to speculate on
the cause of, the, Ppyaterio

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PB" BARRY, Uirector 4
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I have written you previously psrtaining sie UFO reports. ia
currently preparing an editorial concerni an unidentified flying
object sighting on the night of lovember 18 . 1954 over Western

New York reportedly of which involved two Air Force jet planes from
Rome AFB, New York, (Rome, New York)

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I am writing you for confirmation and other necessary details of this
alleged incident, The revort states an unidentified flying object:

was apvroaching Niagara Falls Air sorce Base from tne general direction
of Syracuse and traveling at a slow rate of speed, It was described

as about the size of the moon when viewed by the naked eye. The moon
was visable that nicght...but in another section of the sky,

Niagara Falls! AFB allegedly received a report from one Yonah Fortner,

formerly of Buffalo, New York, concerning the approaching object.

Z am not quite certain whether he sighted the object and called
Niagara Falls AFB, or whether someone called Fortner of the on-cnmming

aeiest and Fortner then called the base,

The report further states that two jets weréisentS up Saou Bone lew Yor
Air Force Base fo an intercept, The time was allegesar

9:00 P.M. and 11:00 P.™M., perhavs earlier, I em not sure,

Tae report ends by stating the jets trailed the UFO, As the object
moved out over Lake Erie, it DIVED into the lake with the two jots
following. The UFO and jets allegedly completely disavpeared into

the lake. I have als been informed that Mr. Yonah Fortner was

quizzed by Niagara Falls AFB officials, and later questioned

by officials of Rome Air Force Base,

I would avpreciate it very mich if you will check this matter out
for me and send me the necessary information concerning this report.
This incident occured the same week a jet disappeared whilgon a

UFO intercept over the state of liichican,

THankinz you in advance for the necessary informaticn, I remain

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BOR BARRY, Director 4 VERS J. NORTON, }
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OFFICE OF

Civi. DEFENSE

OLEAN, N, Y.

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April

Public Inrormation Officer
Niasara Falls AFB
Niagara Falls, New York

Dear Sir:

baits

My name is Bob Barry, Civil Defense Director for the City of Vlean,
and News Director of Radio Station WMNS, Olean. I om preparing an
editorial concerning a UFO sichting (Unidentified Flying Object) on
the night of November 16, 195) over Vestern New York which reportedly
involved two jets from POWs AES. as

I am writing for conpirmation and other necessary information per-

taining to this sightings.

The report I have states an Unidentified Flying Odject was traveling
at a slow rate of speed toward Niacara Falls from the direction of
Syracuse, It was described as about the size of the moon as viewed
with the naked eye. The moon was visable in another portion of the

sky that nicht,

Your base allegedly received a report from one Yoneh Fortner, of
Buffalo, New York, concerning the on-coming object. I am not quite
certain as to whether he sighted the object and called your base,
or if someome contacted him and he in turn called the base,

The report further states th 12t two jets from Rome, “ew York AFB were
sent up for an intercept. The time was allegedly between 9:00 P.li. and

11:00 P.M., perhaps earlier, I am not sure,

The report ends by statins the jets trailed the UFO. As the object
went out over Lake Srie, it DIVED into tne lske with tne two jets
following. the UFO and jets allegedly comple tely disapveared into
the lake, I have also been informed that lir. Fortner was quizzed

by your base and was also taken to rome, hew York Air Yorce “as
for further discussions thers about the UFO incident.

I would appreciate it very much if you wili check this matter out
for me and secure the necessary information regarding the incident.

Kindly contact me via letter of your findinss. This incident occured
he same week a jet plane disappeared over the state of Michican waile

nursuing an undientified flying object.

1ankine you in adavance for your help in this important matter.

TY
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Kindest versonal rerards,

HEADQOUAKTERS
26TH AIR DIVISION (SAGE) yg
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE LOL fv
HANCOCK FIELD ei
SYRACUSE 25, NEW YORK

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SUB JECT* Editorial - Unidentified Flying Object
To: ADC (ADOIN)

l, The attached letter is forwarded for your information and
necessary action.

2. This Headquarters has no knowledge of subject incident.

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Major, UssAFr

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TEL:MELROSE 2-5511 ; HEADQUARTERS {

ext; 2193 AIR DEFENSE COMMAND

UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
ENT AIR FORCE BASE
REPLY TO COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO

ATTN OF; ADOIN

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SUBJECT: Editorial - Unidentified Flying Object 5 MAY i959

To: ADCIS

The attached letter, 26CIS, Headquarters 26 Air Div,
2 May 1960, subject as above, is forwarded for your
information and any appropriate action. ADOIN has
no knowledge of cited incident.

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Director of Intelligence 2 May 60, Editorial-

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April 1960

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TEL: MELROSE 2-5511, HEADQUARTERS

ext: 2258 AIR DEFENSE COMMAND

UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
ENT AIR FORCE BASE
REPLY Te COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO

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suasect: Editorial - Unidentified Flying Object

to: Secretary of the Air Force (SAFOL)
Wash 25 DC

The attached correspondence is forwarded for your information
and necessary action in accordance with Par 4d AFR 200-2,

FOR THE COMMANDER

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2 May 60, Editorial-
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Defense, 25 April 1960

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MEMO ROUTING SLIP

CONCURRENCES, OR SIMILAR ACTIONS
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Larry- Returned herewith is letter from Bob
Barry. Also attached is another letter from hin,
almost identical, to Naagara Falls AFB with indorsements.

report during the time he mentions in the area he mentions
nor any report that rehhotely resembles it, nor anything

in that general area at that time, Note that Niagara
Falls AFB says they have no record of the incident.

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25 May 1960

Dear Mr. Barrys

This is to acknowledge your letter’ of 25 April 1960
addressed to this office, liagra Falls Air Station and
Griffiss Air Force Base, New York concerning an unidentie
fied flying object sighting of 18 November 1954 over
Western New York.

liasgra Falls Air Station and Griffiss Air Force Base
have mo record of this sighting. This sighting was not
reported to the Aerospace Technical Intelligence Center.
Griffiss Air Force Base at Rome, New York had no major aire
craft accident or missing aircraft during the month of
November 1954.

I regret I could not help you in this matter.

Sincerely,

LAWRENCE J. TACXER
Public Informetion Division
Office of Information

Mr. Bob Barry
328 N. Cth Street
Olean, New York

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NO CASE, INSUFFICIENT DATA 23 NOV 54, NORWAY ’

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AN RUMARKABLE iORMEGIAN MOAR-LANDING CASE OF ‘195k, LOW -PUSTISHE gyrth a Pemer St
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In the ifarch, 1957 issue of SIR! magazine (thanks to Theodore i/. Hill of “ood

bury, NJ. for sending it to us/\Lortvezian newspaperman Oddvar Larsen tells of an
Voie pay eld Sighting, which ne believes to be authentic. (Incidentally, publica-

ion in a magazine like SIR! might raise a i ered of whether the whole thing is
a piece of fiction; fortunately, we can attest to the bona fices of Oddvar Larsen. )
Larsen writes directly in English: the article is not @ translation.

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The date was November 23, 195L--a time just after the creat landing wave in
France, when notadle sightings were being made in many viaces, amons them Italy and
Brazil. The witnesses were three little girls, ‘inne and Tora Storedal and Tora Hoy
Haugo, of Torpo, in the Hallingdal district; Anne was ten years old, the other two
vere nine, and all were frightened out of their wits. ‘s they vere coming home
from school near some woods, a black object descended rapidly from the sicy, knocked
snow from the tree tons, and stonned only a few feet above the girls' heads. They
save the following weird description of it: “It looked like a stone...like a ball
...-about ten feet across; the oie nart was black, but trimmed with yellow spots
which could hav2 been made of glass, and there were also a number of small, red
jags." The upper nart was transparent--the trees could be seen through it--and a
human or at any rate semi-human nilot was visible inside, operating controis of
some sort. oJressed in black, this man or entity had "big eyes, covered by a pair
of immense, red glasses", with which he looked straight at the girls. The craft
then rose again with a droning sound, brushing a high-tension line and striking a
shower of sparks from it; an odor compared by Tora tioy to "fried sausages" (ozone?)
filled the air; and the little girls ran for their lives.

When Larsen first heard of this story, he was naturally skeptical; but after
hearing tape recordinss of an on-the-snot investigation of the case, he was con-
vinceda that neither hoax nor helicopter could account for it. He cites, for exam-
ple, this detail given by Tora Storedal:

When the stone came down toward me it had a long, white tail behind, but when
the stone turned and moved away, the tail wernt first. That was funny, I thought."

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In the snow, there was founc and rhotorraph hed a disturbed track 25 yards long,
esumabdly made by the craft after the girls had turnec thcir backs on it.

The esearch Section is cof course not in 2 position to endorse this case, but
arsen's writing gives a favorable impression of his food sense, and the evidence
S he reports it appears food.

A striling parallel is apnarent between the Tormo case and the Hemmingford,
Cuebec landing of August 23, 195. kere too a deh ioat craft was renorted, with
‘nen" (seven feet tall) dressed in black, with "big round eyes’ (unfortunately, no
further detail is available.) The Hemmingford case's claim to acceptance likerise

‘ests principally on the good ei ssion of honesty and sanity given by the wit-
nesses (irs. Coupal and sons) in a taped interview, for which the saucer world is
miebted to investigator Dr. i.G.Uittmar of iu Sable Forks, i!.¥. (Dr. Dittmar,
director of Tane Recorded ‘0 Information Service, nenepetnly offers to cony tapes
from his collection for those who send a spool of blank tape with directions about

speed, ete. Although he does this gratis, you ought to scnd a couple of dollars
to revav him for his time.)

° RIGSY,~ DECEMBER:

‘seppe Grasso, the ‘photographer

-ocetved several days ago & Cop
‘’ a photograph taxen at Jaor-
mina, Sicily, which showed &
roup of Sicilians gazing sky-)
-ard at two disc-shaped objects.
These objects hovered over the,
‘own for two minutes before’

disappearing, according to Glu-)

who furnished the photograph)
‘9 the Rome Bureau of the The
‘United. Press and who is re-
sarded by them as reliable.

The Herald Tribune withheld
‘his photograph.from. publica-
tion pending a further check by
‘The United Press.-The United
Press. reported yesterday that
‘the original negative.of the
‘Taormina photograph. had been
‘ootained by, its Rome bureau
‘and that a.careful examinati
revealed no evidences, of; double
‘exposure, retouching or ..any
‘other known methods of fake
‘photography. © . “A SAS
. The United Press stated, “We
‘have not been able to determine
‘from the negative any evidences

of fraud whatever.”.’ [Picture
appears om Page One.], ;

Some parachute operations ap-
parently had been conducted in
the area recently,. according ‘+o
che United Press, but’no direct}
-onnection betweem the objects]
chown in the photograph from
Sicily and,parachutesewas dis-

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US. STUDYING
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Swedish, Yugoslav, Ital-)
ian Reports Checked)
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_ Cases Unexplained.

| The New York Herald Tribune- Post-Dispatch
Special Dixpatch.

NEW YORK, Dec. 10—United
| States defense ~ agencies are!
, Studying purported photographs |
taken in at least three Europeand

i countries — Sweden, Yugoslavia!

‘and Italy—of mysterious flying!
fisaucers to determine whether!

“they could be inhabited vehicles, |

- natural phenomena or frauds.
The United States Air Force's!

Air Technical Intelligence Cen- :

ter at Wright-Patterson Air)
Force Base near Dayton, O.,,

By ANSEL E. TALBERT
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‘}which is charged with investi-\}
‘| gating ail “unusual aerial phe-1}
;| nomena” having a possibile bear- ‘

ing on national defense, aiso;

photographs from abroad, {
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The Air Force said last night }
‘that its technical intelligence }
chiefs. who have been looking}
into reports of saucer, cigar and |
disk-shaped objects moving |

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still have no opinion on what
jthey might be. The Air Force
_said further that they “are not
‘any plane, missile or Weapon”
developed or under deveiop-
i ment by the United States and

jists that they are space ships
from another planet.” t

of U.S!

‘|plans to analyze the data andj}

-througn the skies since =

that “‘no authentic evidence ex- }

~| disagreed “we are taking the

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j} which Streaked over Belgrade

|for Yugoslav Government said

quickly explained by Air Force
@ scientists and analysts as obvious
their viewers, who
_ confused natural phenomena in-)
| cluding reilections on clouds, or)

objects such as weather balloons, |
jwith “flying saucers.” The Air}
) Force Savs that comparatively}

few are deliberate hoaxes. About
1G pes ceil’ constitute observa- |

' Many sightings have been
:

} mistakes by
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,;which there is no apparent ex-
| planation of any kind.

; Italian Photograph.

Among the photographs being
Studied is one taken at Taori- i)
mina, Sicily, which showed a
group of Sicilians gazing sky-
ward in the direction of two
disk-shaped objects. These ob-
jects hovered over the town for
about two minutes before dis-
appearing, according to Giusep- |
pe Grasso, the photographer.

Clare Booth Luce, United

'} States Ambassador to Italy, is

SAUCER PHOTOS:

among the hundreds of persons
abroad who have reported see-
ing unusual phenomena in the
skies, although she stressed that |
she had no idea what it might |
be. Dr. Rafaele Bendandi, an

Italian astronomer of consider- ||
able repute, has offered an |
opinion that the mysterious ob- |
jects seen with increasing fre- |
quency are “human made.”

Yugoslay Saucer.

In Yugoslavia, Dr. Milorad
Protic, also an astronomer,
Stated that a glowing object

‘going due east, and was report-
ed in many other parts of the
nation, “could not be a meteor-
ite because it flew horizontally
on a fixed course.” A spokesman

that although other scientists

matter very seriously and con- |
ne a thorough investiza-|
on.”

Sweden's defense ministry has
‘disclosed that photographs were
taken two months ago with a
telephoto lens of an object which
passed over southern Sweden
;“at exceptionally high speed”
about 19,000 feet high. This
object went northward and was
under observation “from hori-
zon to horizon.” No announce-
ment has been made by Sweden
as to what it believes the object
| was.

' In France, which has been
|the origin of more recent “fly-
ing saucer’ reports than any
other nation in Europe, the
;Magazine Express regarded as
‘the voice of Premier Pierre
|Mendes-France, has offered a
reward of, 10,000.000 francs
fabout $28,570) to the first per- |
son to bring a visitor from outer |
space into its offices, '

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SUMMARY OF BASIC COCUMENT; FILE NO., TYPE, SOURCE, DATE, ee Cohort tile, if hassified) seri 0 t tion Pa Me teori t e, Recovery da
owner - 25 Nov 54, Sylacauga, Alabama; Mrs. . Weight - § 108s, & ounces. Color
Dull Black. Estimated Type - Aerolite Type Meteorite, proodably member of the Andromid
snower, occuring between 24 Nov & 7 Dec.

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SUMMARY OF BASIC DOCUMENT: FILE NO., TYPE, SOURCE, DATE, SUBJECT (Short title, if chassified) Description - Meteorite. Recovery az
owner - 25 Nov 54, Sylacauga, Alabama; Mrs. H. Hodges. Weight - o ibs, 6 ounces. Color
Dull Black. Estimated Type - Aerolite Type Meteorite, probably member of the Andromid
shower, occuring between 24 Nov & 7 Dec.

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1. Meteorite
2. Photographs (dup) 3 copies eacn

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real, but officials say-

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Air Force to Probe New ‘Flying Saucers

Sy Ansel E. Talbert
The United States armed
services are receiving few re-
orts of mysterious. alrsorn
tacts this year but in Eue-
me a mass of recen: “Aying
reports has caused
serious investigations in sev-
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Yugoslavia and Italy —pur-
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mysterious flying objects were
taken and are being stucied
by defense agencies to deter-
mine whether they could be
inhabited vehicles, natural
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investigating all “unusual
aerial phenomena” having a
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defense, also plans to analyze !Continucd on page 14, columnS

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Over Europe

the data and. photcgrapns
tom abroad. The Air Force
said officially last night that
its technical intelligence
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into reports of saucer, cigar
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.
The Air Force is Studying so-
called flying saucer sightings
in foreign countries as well
as those reported in the
United States. _ '

The photograph, made at
| Taormina, Sicily, showed
. Sicilians lookin at to disk-
shaped o ects. It was made
by Gitiséppe Grasso, a photog-
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