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t. dn Unidentified Flying object was sighted Sumday, 9 Sententer
iSté, between 2035 ami 2055 (EST) near Big Bethel. Big Bethel is acor=
oxizataly three (3) miles north west of the Langley dir Torce Base west—
f> gate. Three civilians sighted the object and conrered it to the mom in
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| oS glacks path raled out its possibility of being the moon. Although scne
| " gleomis were in the sky, visibility was gocd. There was some chencs in - ;
3 eole> and. shape and movements, but it was gradual. ‘he opinion of all“ . |»
- <3 observers was that the object was occupled,:-tut that @ clear discription .
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“2 exseption of the noon which was waning end which set twenty (20) minutes |
"2 gi ter the ebject was seen moving cut of sight in a downvard flight peth. .
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firms the other's statements. In eddition evidence from weather reports zm

indicates that the object was cost likely the mecn.

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icht, 9 September 1956 1» ab 2035 (3ST) so Mr. Ge.
is sister-in-law Mrs, Willian aan ee gon to her
lane, Zanpton, Va, an odject ap-ca from & south
first glence the coject appeared + to be tre mocn but
ful otservation its: spsed seemed toc a for that,

ts. cE. the object » were followed till 2055 at which tizs it

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Pode | rr aon, Thee bea ngre .
2 Ze. When: pivet seen “the iS Righ sel om Peat in color and v
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“I: Platten ows and the righted Stsesah again. From tins to tine, the objeet
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“teil, or grow larger-to e diameter of 14-15 inches, As it diminished,
its color would darken. to 1 se pets. ‘The nearest distance at which it
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"9 senate gut he denknuat tate: vai ei ivek to the meon or crescent shaped,
“Its. mass seemed, fuzzy..end:-the strangest impression was that the object

mr yas ocoupled,| Mesa stated that it appeared to be a bird or.

2 Gocklike but-.shat. in the: position of the head or ccekpit therecseamad

25 te be an eecupant. wearing: seme sort.of headgear. 2x

UTES who Pirst-saw tke otjsect“at 2045 (EST), thought she saw the features
& of-a man-in the: obdject:.even te-the point of hoehns his feet.

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si, ~ 4A Ths ‘Pirst-sign of. action seen by ue
ce was: 5 a light: thet. ekot-straisht up and out. and disappeared, iirs,
is 5 ube observed -the.object- Sram her keme at 1004 fig Bethel Road, apparen:
- saw thefagme.thing but-frem the side, Her impression was that vapor shot
inks! Shear ene- end tovers. the.other es’ if to. form a circle tut feded out- :
aS at: the! peak.‘af. the curve, . lights could be seen surrounding the object:
ts  interaittently, - They. ‘Seemed to radiate out approxinately ona;foct from
2 the -edges;-The lights: were cf two (2) shapes: oblong and triangularjthe-. _
oe : erdangalar’ shape being the nest. dominant, There was no sound at anytine, ~~

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<> @ Pew hundred fset to the treetop level of 2 swenpy weeded area y to
"one mile distant, 23 which point it disappeared headed in the general
| Gizeosion of TarEtouny Virginia at "2055 (557).

bic 6: “Mddtionel a by the observers were thet special rote - °
. was takem: that ro other aircreft were in the vicinity during the tine

+het the object wes seen. There vere a few clowis in the sky but they
.- were mot near the object and no cther objects interZforad with the
visibility weick wessegcoed even theush it wan dark ct the tine,

7. wWeetsear reports st that tine ‘mistsstald seatterad clisuis at
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9, Mrs. Qips stated that hor husband wes not one siven to

hallucinaticns, butmust "See to believe," and he is positive that
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es The general area in which the object was sighted would fall within
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. Of the object very easily could have been much lercer than Li or 15
\. dnehes in diameter. Weather reports that the ~ocn was in the sane
general area and that it act at 2115 (EST) could well eccount for the .
aS. @emeending notion and also the color and increasing size since the
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hallucinaticns, butcust "See to believe," and he is positive that
unat he saw wes not the mecn,

Le During Yrld war Il, rs. was in the Signal Corps
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and it.was recieved ty the 48th Fighter Intercéptcor gquadron iste
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