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3: PHOTOS a 6. SOURCE a ‘ae 4 G Was Astronom. cal
0 Yes CO Probabiy Astronomical
No AF rilot and Nav, O Possibly Astronomical si
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE ORY: | ee ae a
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1G. BRIEF : SUMMARY OF SIGHTING V1. COMMENTS

Object observed by AF

; Shape or color given,

the aircraft,

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ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52) copy to 4o0ed AISS

Reported as 100 feet above water.

in signt for 10 minutes but was 10 miles from

A/C on over water flight.
No size,
Observers state object

Reporting officers belief object was |
‘JC tias very little vilidity. iraly
improbable «/C just off tue water (1Cc'
could be seen by A/C at 900C*® - also,
since the directicn of both A/C and Fu)
were different - nirhly improbable at
an JC would ectuy in sight for 1C win.
e-if speed was 170 knots as stated.
WWearest Air Division (3E19) r quested
to follow up by TT isp 5 Tec ve&.

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No Case (Information Only) cit Stal AS 14 November 1956
ie ss Mobile, Alabama

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UNITES P PRESS STAFF CORRE SPONDENT |
WASHINGTON» OCT. Sa--(UP) --A VETERAN AIRLINE PILOT WHO ONCE rah ea eats
DENOUNCED FLY ING, SAUCERS. AS), "BUNK" HAS REPORTED ENCOUNTERING A Cay
MYSTERLOUS UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT NEAR MOBILE, ALA pote A ‘294
CAPT ea IIR © CAPLITAL’.AIRL INES DESCRIBED THE INCIDENT IN &. 3é
‘REPORT PUBL BY. "THE UFO INVESTIGATOR,® MAGAZINE. OF. THE HOE ELS + en
NATIONAL 1 IVESTIGATIONS COMMITTEE ON AERIAL “PHENOMENA. |
“HULL WROTE AN ARTICLE FOR A PILOTS" WAGAZINE IN 19535 TITLED "THE oe
OBITUARY GF THE: FLYING SAUCERe* HIS EXPERT ENCE DESCRISED IN THE © meee.
WINVESTIGA We RES

{ "INVESTIGATOR" sete ier Woe 25.8 HE DID NOT
. SUGGEST THAT WHAT HE Sav Wi atin SAUCERe

HULL SAID HE.WAS FLYING A VISCOUNT AT ABOUT 10,900 FEET NEAR 4
iOBILE, AT 10310) Pele, WHEN HE AND HIS CO-PILOT SPQ TTED "WHAT WE | ‘
THOUGH? WAS A BRILLIANT METEOR.” ioe
“HE: SAID THE *METEOR® WAS DESCENDING RAPIDLY, BUT INSTEAD OF “BURNING
OUT. WITK THE “USUAL FLASH, “IT ABRUPTLY HALTED DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF US.”
*1T WAS AN INTENSE | BLUZ-WHITE LIGHT, APPROXIMATELY SEVEN OR EIGHT “.:
TIMES AS BRIGHT AS VENUS WHEN THIS - PLANE ET. 1S. AT its BR SHTEST os
MAGNITUDE," HULL WROTE
KE SAID HE THOUGHT THE OBJECT MIGHT BE A JET FIG HTER, “TURNING:
AWAY -FROM THE AIRLINER AND- GIVING THE PILOTS A VIEW OF {TS GLOWING © 3.)
: TAILPIPE. BUT: HE! SAID“INSTEAD OF GROWING SMALLER, THE Eiont REMAINED 4
j IN; FRONT. OF THE VISCOUNT. ESR ite
: HULL WROTE :-THAT::THE *uUro® (UNLDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT) THEN)
BEGAN A SERIES: OF VIOLENT NANEUVERS avo HARPER THAN ANY KNOWN | ALRCRAFT,..
SOMETIMES CHANGING: DIRECTION: $0. DEGREES IN..AN INSTANT.* ..IT FINALLY: |
ADDED. UP AT Mish (EXTREMELY SHARP. ANGLE AND, SHOT OUT OF SIGHT, sae,
ADDEDe.  «_  SAPRVARRRASIA LE Sto ea
MRE SAID HIS” OuN.: PLANE WAS: “ABOVE THE CLOUDS, "PRECLUDING ANY,
REFLECTIONS OF “SEARCHLIGHTS FROM BELOW." |
WaT HAVE SEEN HUNDREDS OF ADVERTISING SE ARCHLIGHTS PLAYING ON, cLows,
AND. THIS WAS NOTHING REMOTELY RELATED," HULL WROTZe:
MEIKE IST lL AM RULING OUT@AERCRAYT CAT LEAST THE ONES WE KNOW), «* 3
BALLOONS, iiISSILES OR: ANY OTHER EARTH-LAU ICHED DEVICE WITHIN MY . 7
KEN» THE ONE THING I CAN'T GET OVER IS ThE FACT THAT WHEN IT CANE, '

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AU’ JS T-SEPTEMBER, 1957

‘UFO Encounter Convinces Airline

| Captain, Former Skeptic

A Pwo-minule encounter with o UFO,
which quickly changed o xeptic to a be-
liever, wos recently revealed by Captoin
W, J. Hull, veteran cilot for Capital
Airlines. 10 to his experience, which
occurred os his airliner reared Mobile,
Alaboma, Coptoin Hull was widely known
among pilots for his negative views on
flying soucers.

Ino 1953 articte for THE AIRLINE PILOT
entitled “The Obituary of the Flying
Saveers” Hull accepted Dr, Donald Menzel’
netural phenomena explanation for the
UFO. Loter he agreed toa re-examination
of the evicence, but his dromatic report
wos the first hint that he had accepted the
UFO's as machines of an unknown type.

For over six monrhs Ceotain Hull with=
held tne focts from publicetion, tnen he
released the story to Civilian Soucer In-
telligence, New York, of which he isa
member, it is printed here by spacial
permission of CSI,

Or the night of November 14, 1956,
Coprain Hull was flying a Viscount four-
engine turboprop airliner from New York
ty Mabile, over o layer of ocensionally
broken clouds which enobled him to get a
look at the ground only occasionally,

“At 10:10 p.m. EST," stotes Capt. Hull,
“we were only about 60 miles from Mobile
when my co~pilot, Perer Macintosh, and |

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consider a barren sotellite devoid of
even ! lowest form of vegetable life—
or thay there is evicence me use Oa
spoce/ bese.

44 sven stide from this jowcuiative
angle, the Oreeent joce for ‘he noon
‘epains deoaly
rile outcome of whieh ey affecr the ives

tow whot we though? was a orillion! mereor.
We were flying south-scurhwes? ond it fell
across our poth From lef? to right, first be-
coming visible ot the top of rhe windshield,

"The Viscount hes wonderful visibility
upward,

"lt decelerated ropidly, just os any
meteor does when entering the denser
leyers of the earth's lower atmosphere.
We expected to see it burn out with the
customary flash which pilots often see, but
it obruptly halted directly in front of us!

"It was an Intense blue-white light,
opproximately seven of eight times as
bright as Venus when this planet is af its
brightest mognitude.

"Pete shouted, ‘What the hell is it, a
jer?"

The copilot’s First thought was thet the
obiect had teen a diving jet fighter,
turning away from the airliner, and in
deporting giving the pilots “o view right
up Its glowing toilpipe.” But Capr. Hull
knew this could no: be the onswer. He hod
often seen the glow of jer tailoipes at
night. This was not the right color, nor
did it grow smaller in size. Insteod, it
remained in front of the plane, keeping a
regular intervol.

"| quickly grabbed my microphone, "
said the Captein, “ond called the Mobile
Control Tower.

“Botes Tower, this is Capitol 77. Look
out toward the north and east ond see if
you can see o sthronge white light hovering
in the sky. “

The answer came quickly: "Capital 77,
this Is Mobile Botes Tower, We are unoble
to see much of the sky becouse of a thick
cloud cover. Do you think the object is
in our vicinity?"

“Affirmative,” replied Hull. "It looks
like o brilliont white light bulb obour one-
tenth the size of the moon, It's directly
aheed of us and at about our altitude or
slightly higher. We are right over Jackson
and have descended to 10,000 feet, Please
initiate a coll to Brookley Field Tower
and osk the controller if he can se it on
their Sig raderncoos, ”

The Brookley AFB, twenty miles surh-
east of Bertes Field, was ona military fre-
quency which the Viscount was not equiped
to work on its transmi rer.

Immediately ofter this rodio exchange
the UFO began to meneuver, darting bock
ard forth, rising ond falling, making ex-
tremely sharp turns, shorcer than ony
known aircraft, sometimes cronging gir
foe eae in on instant. All during
this Gispley the color ramnined a steady
brilliant bluish- white, not growing or
diminishing in size at oll.

"Macintosh and | sat there completely
flabbergasted of this winerving exhibition,”

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Captuin Hull's report continues. "1 thought
of calling the possengers over the pubiic
oddress system, but the object was cecd
ahead of us ond putting on its performance
in an crea whose ore was not large enous!
to erable anybody in the cabin to get a
view of it out the sida windows. ”

After ahalf minute or more of this strange
Flight, the UFO suddenly sropeed onc
hoverad ogain.

Abou! this time, Bates Tower coiled hack.

"Capital 77, we are trying to roise the
Brookley Tower.”

At this momen? the UFO again beger
another series of “crazy gyrations, lazy
8's, squore chondeiles," weaving with o
sort of rythmic codence through the air.
Then the object shot over the Gulf of
Mexico, rising atan extremely steep angie
and at such a fantestic speed thot it dim
inismed rapidly te a pinpoint, to disapceer
into the night.

According to Captain Hull, the mest
puzzling thing obout the performence—
lasting two minutes at least—wes thot the
object hed remoined ot the some distonce
from the plone throughoet the exhibition.

“How do we know this?" says Hull. “Jt
never increcsed in size, and yet we were
beoring down on it at more thon five miles
aminute inthe Viscount, If it wos in view
two minutes ond performing in one areo,
we should have been at least ten miles
closer to it, Now any object thar flies
certainly looks different when viewed at
such a grear varionce in distonce, So this
UFO must have monoged te remain at the
same distonce from us throughout the
entire displey."

Also, cs Captein Mull points our, the
Viscount wos "above the cious, preciuding
any reflections of seorch|i ghts from below,

“| have seen hundreds of advertising
search|'ghts playing on clouds,” Hull scys,
“and this was nothing remotely reloted.
Likewise | om summarily ruling out aircroft
(at least the ones we know}, balloons,
missiles, or amy’ other earth= launched
device within my ken. The one thing
which | can't ge? over is the foct tho!
when it came, it come steeoly downward;

when it deoorted after its amazing snow,

it went steeviy voword) Now | ask you,
is this mochine based on the corth?

"tfollowed up on this spectocular sioht-
ing ot Mobile, The control tower operctos
had reached Brookley after a slight deley,
but the controller hed seen nothing and
since no night flights were in progress
the surveillance rodor had not been ener
gized at the time.”

Cactein Muil did not report this sighting
to the press, Note word was printed about
it unti) he revecled the details to John
DuBorry, former anociate editor of TRUE,
which broke the first big Flying soucer
story in 1949, Dudarry is now presidens
of CS! of New York, @

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2 pp CAPITAL AIRLINES’ PILOTS SEE ACROBATIC NIGHT LIGHT; =
lf ULy (FS? .
(The sighting which follows is of particular interest because it was made by
an expert cbserver - a veteran airline pilot - who was formerly extremely skeptical. :
on the subject of flying saucers. In fact, in 1953 Captain wrote an article
for Airline Pilot magazine titled "The Obituary of the Flying Saucers." We reprint,
with ermission, a slightly condensed excerpt from the letter to CSI President
in which he described his experience.)

On the night of November 1h, 1956 I was flying a Viscount at high altitude
from New York to Ilobile, Alabama. We were above a layer of clouds which were occa-
sionally broken, giving us a glimpse of the ground now and then. At 10:10 p.m.
E.S.T., when only about 60 miles from Mobile, my co-pilot and I saw
what we thought was a brilliant meteor. We were flying south-southwest and it fell
across our path from left to right, first becoming visible at the top of the wind-
shield, (The Viscount has wonderful visibility upward.) It decelerated rapidly,
just as any meteor does when entering the denser layers of the earth's lower atmos-
phere, and we expected to see it burn out with the customary flash, which pilots
often see, but which people on the ground are often denied.

Imagine our consternation when this brilliant light did not burn out, but
abruptly halted directly in front of us} It was an intense blue-white light, ap-
proximately 7 or 8 times as bright as Vemis when this planet is at its brightest
magnitude, houted "What the hell is it, a jet?" His first thought, of course,
| was that the object was a diving jet fighter which had turned sharply away from us —
| and in departing, was rriving us a view right up its glowing tailpipe. Instantly I
zx knew this could not possibly be an airplane. I have seen the glow of too many jet

pipes at night not to recognize one when I see it. It was not the right color; it
| a did not diminish in size, as a departing jet fighter's exhaust should have; and it

remained motionless directly ahead of us, how far I cannot say, but it must have
been quite a few miles.

I quickly grabbed my microphone and called the Mobile Control Tower. "Bates
Tower, this is Capital 77! Look out toward the north and east and see if you can
see a strange white light hovering in the sky."

"Capital 77, this is lMobile Bates Tower. We are unable to see much of the

sky because of a thick cloud cover, Do you think the object is in our vicinity?"
: ern Avatbvon

"Affirmative. It looks like a brilliant white licht bulb - about one tenth
the size of the moon. It is directly ahead of us and at about our altitude, or
Slightly higher, ‘'e are right over Jackson, Alabama and have descended to 10,000
feet. Please initiate a call to Brookley Field Tower (Air Force Field 20 miles
southeast of Bates Tield) and ask the controller if he can see it on their big ra-
dar scope." (We did not have the military frequency crystals in ovr transmitter

to work Brookley Tower.)

Just after this exchange, the object began to maneuver. It darted hither and
yon, rising and falling in undulating flight, making sharper turns than any knorm
aircraft, sometimes changing direction 90 degrees in an instant. All the while the
color remained constant, a brilliant blue-white, and the object did not grow or les-
sen in size. @@MRMMMe and I sat there completely flabbergasted at this unnerving
exhibition. I thought of calling the passangers over the public address system, but

. the object was dead ahead of us and putting on its performance in an area whose arc

| was not large enough to enable anybody in the cabin to get a view of it out the side
windows. After a half mimute or so of this dancing, unorthodox flight the object
Suddenly became motionless arain and hovered dead still. ‘We were simply confounded

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‘by this.

Bates Tower called back. "Capital 77, we are trying to raise the Brookley
Tower."

- Right at this moment the strange light began another series of crazy gyra-
tions, lazy 8's, square chardelles, all the while weaving through the air with a
sort of rythmic, undulating cadence, the likes of which neither nor I had ever
geen. Then, apparently content at the consternation which it had wrought, the ob-
ject shot out over the Gulf of Hexico, rising at the most breathtaking angle and
at such a fantastic speed that it diminished rapidly to a pinpoint and was swal-

lowed up in the night.

This unearthly exhibition probably went on for at least two minutes, accor-
ding to our best judgment. I glanced at the clock and noted it read 10:12.

The most puzzling thing about the whole occurrence, aside from the dancing
flight, was that the object, whatever it was, had remained at the same distance
from us throughout the performance, How do we know this? It never increased in
size, and yet we were bearing down on it at more than 5 miles a minute in the Vis-
count. If it was in view two minutes and performing in one area we should have
been at least ten miles closer to it. Now, any object that flies certainly looks
different when viewed at such a great variance in distance. So this UFO must have
managed to remain at the same distance from us throughout the entire display.

If you know southern Alabama you know that it is pretty desolate country, with.
few inhabitants ard only a few small hamlets between Mobile and Montgomery up in
the middle of the state. ‘Je were above the clouds, precluding any reflections of
searchlights from below. I have seen hundreds of advertising searchlights playing

‘on clouds, and this was nothing remotely related. Likewise I am summarily ruling

out aircraft (at least the ones we know), balloons, missiles, or any other earth-
launched device within my ken. The one vhing which I can't get over is the fact
that when it came, it came steeply downward; when it arted after its amazing
exhibition, it went steeply upward: Now T ask you, is this machine based
on the earth?

I followed up on this spectacular sighting after landing at Mobile. The con-
trol tower operators had reached Brookley after a slight delay, but the controller
had seen nothing, and since no night flights were in progress, the surveillance
racer had not been energized at the time.

— In case any of your members would like to know my adi ereis, ‘you may give it
to them, You will remember me as objectively skeptical and cynically critical of
most of the purported saucer sightings. But I think you have to believe a veteran
airline pilot with 17 years of service, 15,000 hours and 3 million miles in his log-

‘book, I am seeking no publicity. I didn't report this sighting to the press and

not a word has ever been printed about it until this moment.

(CSI)

16 November 1956
No Case (Information Only) New Rochelle, L.I., N.Y.

SIGHTING REPORTS

November 16, 1956. CSI has rec i the observation b Niss
ew Rochelle, that was re Orted in News Letter #6 (p. 22). The con-
firmation comes from iS, QUE 21 of lew Rochelle. While she was
Walking her dogs near an inlct of Echo 8¥, Shortly after 10 Pem. that night, a
luminous ball with a little flame-like tail emerged from behind trees in the
northeast, and moved slowly on

object, apparently moving over

before it disappeared behind trees to
object appeared, traveling over

& minute, a second

bject was about
and "the color of yellow fire," The

ction, Undoubtedly these are

» €ven though there is a Slight discrep~
@ tio witnesses (iss thought that
st). (Compare Beirut "parade," el, pp. 123-27.)

No Case (Information Only) 17 November 1956
Gary, Indiana

1956, Nov.17-Gary, Indianna~5pmLnormous,glittering UFO traveling at fan-

tastic spped seen by Civil-Defense Chief, Ustimated alti-
tude. of-10.000ft..: Several others also saw'objects:..

‘No Case (Information Only) 18 November 1956
Dyersburg, Tennessee

IN THE MEANTIME—MORE SAUCERS! |

Case 27 byersburg and adjacent communities, Tenn.,
Nov. 18, 195$—AP reported that an ‘unidentified object
high over Northwest Tennessee caused considerable ex-
citement. Ernest Stanley, CAA official, said the object
was probably a giant balloon. Hundreds of area resi-
dents watched the object for more than an hour. It was
reported seen from Gleason, Union City and Reelfoot
Lake. Stanley estimated the height .at_75,000 feet.’

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NO CASE (INFORMATION ONLY) 24-25 November 1Y56

Pierre, South Dakota
Source: Fawcett

: |
On November 24—25 near Pierre, South :
Dakota a half—globe shaped object, giving off sparks, was photo

graphed by police radio dispatcher Smiley jg a ig. over one of the
State highways at low level. |

Case 272, Dallas, Texas, Nov. 24, 1956—4Said the Dal-
Nas Morning News: “Personnel at the Love Field control |
tower were ngog over a brilliant fiery meteor they thought
was headed for them. ‘We sat there with our mouths |
open’ declared J. J. Jobe. ‘It looked like it was going
to hit right in the middle of the field’ The phenomonon
was first sighted about 6:18 am. by Ray Pharr who
described it as ‘big as the moon’ Jobe said it was
sighted at a position about 45° up in the sky, fell at an

angle of about 20° and disappeared due south of Love
Field about 10° above the horizon. “There was a sort of |
halo around the leading edge of the main ball” described
Jobe, ‘with long sparks shooting off the tail. The center |
of the tail was completely dark. And on either side of
it flames of blue, white and green fire streamed back as
the meteor streaked towards the earth.”

Oscar Monnig, meteor expert, tried to track down the
meteorite. He said, “The one seen from Love Field must |
have been a big fellow with light fer at least 5 seconds. |
It was just an optical illusion that the thing seemed to |
fall on Dallas. I'd say that its end point was at least |
150 miles south. Monnig had one report from a motorist |
on the road between Itasca and Grandview. I called)
control towers at Bryan, Austin and San Antonio and
none had observed the meteor.” Monnig said that meteors)
have a way of dropping into lightly settled land or wil-
derness as if some intelligence were guiding them to

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27 November 1956
No Case (Information Only) Columbus, Ohio

Case 274, Columbus, Ohi, Nov. 27, 1956—Lfast for the
record, another unexplained! skyquake. Reported the Co-
lumbus Dispatch, “A mysterious blast heard Tuesday
morning by residents in the eastern and northeastern sec- |
tions of the city brought a flood of calls. A check with |
Officials at local airports revealed the blast did not result,
from any locally based planes breaking the sound bar-|
rier. The police department ... had not been able to
determine what caused the blast.” One report described.
the blast as a double explosion and said it shook. windows
and knocked small ash trays off window sills! 5 |

No Case (Information Only) 27 November 1956
Wisconsin, Illinois

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_ Case 273, Southern Wisconsin and Northern 11,(Nov.
, 37, 19562-The headlines in the Rockford, Ill, Morning,

Star, read: “Jets Chase Unidentified Objects, Find 5
Balloons.” Said the copy, “Variously described as orange,
red, white, blue and ‘some like the moon’, the objects were
spotted over Rockford and Belvidere. In Wisconsin, sky-
watchers saw them above Brodhead, Lodi, Watertown and
Beloit. At the air force filter center in Chicago, military
personnel said at one point their boards showed ‘five un-
identified objects.’ With help from the radar network, jet
planes roared out of Chicago, dispatched to the critical
areas by the air defense command. ‘We sent out jets to
check, I can’t tell you anything more about that, a

spokesman said at the filter center. An alert call from |
Rockiosd was recorded there at 4:46 p.m. sent in by |
John C. Gregery, executive secretary of the Winnebago
county civil defense. Aiter calling Chicago, Gregory noti- |
fied Morning Star employees who spotted one object high 7 |
in the western sky, heading due east. Switchboard opera-
tors received half dozen calls. About 5:30 p.m., members |
of a northeast side family said they spotted! objects over
the southeast section of Rockford. Gregory estimated the,
glistening object he saw was 50,000 feet high, ‘seemingly
round—perhaps a little flat at times, resembling a white |
light.’ In Chicago, a filter center spokesman said the! |
objects were weather balloons released by the General.

Mills Corporation, Minneapolis. . . .”" |
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Case. 36 Chapman, Maine, Nove 30, 1956-4 Said an AePe
report, “An Air Force jet fighter crashed and

exploded in the wilderness at Chapman just before
midni¢ht, killing the tyro occupantse The plane,
based at Presque Isle, had teken off to track 4

reported “unidentified aircraft."

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30 November 1956

No Case (Information Only)
Cincinnati, Ohio

Case 276, Cincinnati, Ohio, Nov. 30, 1956—Letting out
a sick dog at 5:55 a.m., Mrs. L. saw a strange, large and
brilliant light to her east. Dumbfounded, she watched it |
move slowly to a point about midway from her home |
and a lodge about 400 feet distance, then it stopped. In
the early morning gloom, Mrs. L. said the object, round
and glowing a soft dull olive green, stood out against the
lodge’s 50 feet high chimney. Mrs. L. estimates that the
size of the lodge was 30 x 40 feet and noted that the
object completely covered its view from her vantage
point. Making no sound, Mrs, L. said the object soon
started to move up and while doing so, turned solid red.

It disappeared behind some trees on & ridge nearby.
Mrs. L. called her husband, but he arrived on the scene |
too late for a good lock, but did see a light receding into |
the sky. The Weather Bureau was phoned, but they had»
no explanation for the phenomenon.

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Case 275, Petersburg, Indiana, ffov. 30, 1956—<From a
mass of UFO reports sent to CRIFO by Frank Edwards,
WTTYV, Indianapolis, we quote from one as follows:

“, .. Charles Malott, @ed 17 ig an employee at Pete's
Drive Inn, Petersburg. ursday at noon, young Malott
drove his truck three miles south, on State Highway 61

to give the truck a test after he had worked on it. He
turned at the top of Half Mile Hill and was driving to.
Petersburg and had gone only a half mile when he heard ™
a noise at the rear of his truck, likened to ‘three old time ji 5
thrashing machines’ all operating at the same time. He/’vU
drove off to the sice of the highway and discovered that

the noise was emitting from something that was slowly
taking to the air from behind a woods about 1,000 yards
southeast of the state highway. The object soon became
visible and was splicrical in shape, void of wings, had a
diameter of about 16 feet and a heighth of 6 to 7 feet.
After attaining a heighth cf about 150 feet, the strange
object ceased to make any sound and took off in a
northeasterly direction traveling at great speed, and at-
taining altitude until he lost sight of it. Malott is a
mechanic, and has been around airplanes and heliocopters.

He declares that what he saw was different from anything

he ever saw, or heard about. The object did not appear

to have any windows, nor was it equipped with a tail. It
arose vertically as though being pushed upward off the
ground by some hidden giant propellor. He saw no land-

ing gears attached to the object. He was surprised when

it arose 150 feet that all noise ceased.”5

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DECEMBER 1056 SIGRTINGS

LOCATION ORSSRYER ,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Spe
Valley City, North Pakota Multi
. Pittsburg, Pennsylvania aa
Huso, Colorado PEM
‘ Pelvicere, South Dakota SR
"h4S, Key West, Florida ii
“Nevada ee
Ridgewood, New York
‘Amh@rst, Massachusetts shee
Glenwood , Towa venilile

Medford, Oregon Western Airlines

¢ Cha ndler APS, Minnesota Military
-\oodsteck, Minnesota ae

Sants Monica, California ie em
‘Victoria, Texas BMS Sue
-Washington, D. C. I eee

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-Miami, Florida
Missoule, Montann

Cedar Falls

“Taupa, Florida
“Hamilton AFB,
-ELlloxi, Mississijpt

-Itazuke AB,

Newberryport,

Miami, Florida

Delaware, New Jersey,
- Orlando, Florida
Maine

Mexico,

' DeFuniak Springs,

Oxnard .AFB,

Fairbanks, Alasku
Gassoway, West Virvginla

Guam

-Tenver, Colorado

LOCATION

'San Luis Obispo, California
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Stow, Ohio
Patrick AFB,

Washington Hetehts., New York

Civilian GOC

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Japan Mil Air Vis/RAD

New Hanpshire

New York Area 4 Reports

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ADDITIONAL REPORTED SIGHTINGS (NOT CASES)
SOURCE

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EV ALUATION
Insufficient Date
Insufficient Data
Other (SUARCHLIG™T)

“ircraft

Tnsuf fficient Tata
Insufficient Pate
Astro (MsTSOR)
Other (CHAFY)
Astro @heoy “SOR )
Other (FLARZ)
Astro (MET=0R)
Astro (METER )
Astro (MARS)
Astro (MST=ZOR)
Aircraft

Balloon
Insufficient Inta
Other (ROCK)
Balloon

Aircraft
Astro (M&T#OR)
Palloon

1. Vis: Balloon
2. Rad: False Target
Astro (VENUS)
Aixveratt -

Astro (METEOR)
Other (MISSILE)
Other (HALLUCINATIONS)
Aircraft

Astro (METZOR)
Other (FIARS)
Aircraft
UNIDENTIFIED
Insufficient Date

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2. DESCRIITION OF COURSE OF OBJECT

A. SIGHTED WHILE LOOKING OUT AIRCRAFT WINDOW

B. DOWN

C. DOWN

D. MAINTAINED STEADY NORTH WES COURSE PARRALLE TO SIGHTING AIRCRAFT TRACK

E. DISAPPEARED FROM CIEW

F. 19 MINUTES

3. MANNER OF OBSERVATION

A. VISUAL AIR TO WATER |
B. NONE

C. C119 NUMBER AF37856 8000 FT HEADING NORTH WEST 179 KNOTS TAS
SEWART AFB TENNESSEE

4 TIME AND DATE OF SIGHTING

A. 3917482 NOVEMBER 56

B. DAY

5, LOCATIONS OF OBSERVER

3227N 7S@1W BETWEEN SMELT INTERSECTION AND CHARLESTON AFB S.C.
INDENTIFYING INFORMATION OF ALL OBSERVERS

A. CIVILIAN N/A

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B. MILITARY NAJ0R me 314TH TRP CAR GP SEKWART AFB

TENN.
7e WEATHER AND WINDS ALOFT AT TIME AND PLACE OF SIGHTING
A. OBSERVER REPORTS WEATHER WAS CLEAR NEARES REPORTING STATION CHS ©

_CLEAR 15 MILE VISIBILITY

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SURFACE 58 DEGREES/ 15 KNOTS

6920 FELT 288 DEGREES/ 3% KNOTS

19,2@@FEET 270 DEGREES/ 35 KNOTS
16,090 FEET 24% DEGREES 4@ KNOTS
20,20 FEET 24@ DEGREES/ 5@ KNOTS
30,@@@ FEET 246 DEGREES/ 12@ KNOTS

52,9¢2 FEET 249 DEGREES/ 1@@ KNOTS

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CEILING NONE
VISIBILITY EST 15 MILES
CLOUD COVER NONE
THUNDERSTORMS NONE

NONE y
NONE KNOW 35 TH AIR DIVISION WAS ADVISION WAS ADVISED OF SIGHTING

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION

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OBJECT WAS SIGHTED AT POSITION 3227N BY 7901W FLYING AT 9N ALTITUDE
OF APPROXIMATELY ONE HUNDRED FEET OVER THE WATER ON A COURSE OF

APPROXIMATELY NORTHWEST AT AN AIR SPEED OF APPROXIMATELY 170 KTS OBJECT
WAS IN SIGHT FOR APPROXIMATELY 10 MINUTES DEFINITE SIZE SHAPE CR COLOR
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TROOP CARRIER GROUP SEWART AFB TENN MAJ GRIMES WAS NAVIGATOR ON AF

37856 ON FLIGHT FROM BERMUDA TO CHARLESTON AFB S C/ UNQUOTS. ge nee
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; 1 MAY SS &.

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19. SIGHTING REPORTED BY AF37856 C119 ENROUTE ZQUK TO CHS THEY REPORT THEY
MET ANOTHER AIRCRAFT TYPE UNKNOWN HEADING EAST 2@ MINUTES PRIOR TO SIGHTIS
11. OPERATIONS OFFICE MAXWELL FLIGHT SERVICE CENTER MAXWELL AFR
ALABAMA
NO COMMENTS
12. NONE KNOWN
SIGNES GOLINSKY END
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No Case (Information Only) November (Miscellaneous)

1956, Nove30-Northants, England-A fas tysilent.,glo owing SAUCER wivh a hole |: |
in the cent ac seen at night!

1956, Hov.28—Cottonwood slilnn-LOpm-A colored Saucer with windows, seen by
_ Farmer! Hovered at about 350ft,(changed color:red, purple aad
green as it shot straight-up! ) Suan € thru Binoculars!
1956, Novy21~10 s30pmeNear Fremont, Neb-A tric ht, flashing, silver LIGHT ace

Soupeng by a terrible gust of wind lasted only few seconds}
1956, lovee Cutler, -° :20pmn-UPOs Benaiae out red, white & green flashes!
Seen in several cities , hovering ymaneuvering!+vertical flight! | |
1956, Nov417~Evening-Newington, Conre-FLASHES reported near a Utility Tower
as 2 cities plumged into darlmess! Investigation revealed |
high-voltage switchbox on tower was blasted open "as if bya |
|

; shotgun"! Police search for "pranksters"!!(Fiestroffer? )
1956, Novelij~Near Graceville,liinn-1Opnmi-A ’ big, silent,round UFO with-brillia:
red reety on its perimeter,& f fluctuating light below, seen
for 4hrs,}] Changed from blue=white or orange to red, said

another witness! It changed altitude & hovered, mea shot
: ' SW at tremendous speed!! (What?-No‘neon?7?)

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Givi HUNDRED FEET OVER THE WATER ON A COURSE OF APPROXIMATELY
NORTH WEST AT AN AIR SPEED OF APPROXIMATELY 17° KTS OPJECT WAS |
liv SIGHT FOR APPROXIMATELY 12 MINUTES DEFINITE SIZE SHAPE OR COLOR

OT DETERMINED OBJECT ASSUMED TO EE AIRCRAFT DUE TO SPEED AND

OP JECT LEFT NO WAKE OBJECT APPEARED TC BE AT A DISTANCE OF TEN

MILES FROM AIRCRAFT WHICH MADE REPORT BEARING OF O8JEC FROM AIRCRAFT

APPROX 26) DEG CITING REPORTED FY eee

314TH TROOP CARRIER GROUP SEWART AFB TENN MAJOR GRMES WAS NAVIGATOR

ON AF 37856 ON FLIGHT FROM EERMUDA TO CHARLESTON AIT S C

SIGNED GOLINSKY

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34/2134Z NOV RJEPHO

No Case (Information Only) 14 November 1956
South Dakota

was huge,thick,round &‘metallic! Brilliant light came from
an opening in the base, It swooped down to about 1,000ft,
; & hang there,about 1/2 mile away,for 5 hours,.,

1956, Novsli-S,Dakota~lam—-A grey UFO seen by truckdriver in E, sly! It

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