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ommants of Preoarins Officer
Lt, Position title: inteiii-<ence ficer, Collection Operations
bivision, viractorets. of Colisetion, acy 3 Intell ice, Hesdvuorters PACA,
2, Preiiminery analrsis: (ther sivhtinys whicn occurred lerore and
softer the one reportad on suyrest a possitle exslan.tion of the above, These
} other sizhtings are described in detail in the attsched transcripts, triefly,
the alrersft commander sichted a red flashismsc licht similar to tae standard
antiecoljision lieht at anproxinately 09092, the Llivnt remalu:d ia view just
BA LAY RASA
Forward o7 tne nort epee Tor 3e@veral minutes, 1.80, sometime hetween
O850Z and 09052, tre aircratt commander heli a Lin en bis APSo/2 rodar scan
at a range of 30 smiles anc beering of approximately 225 dazres3s relative t
the airecrart, Finally, durine tiie first orbit, the navirator clanced sat
his scooe and noticed a tp at a begrins of approximately 125° end harely
: within the fiveemile ranre markers Aj bree ot these sishtings wer
| oparently made of objects at a lower altitude than tne reporting aircraft,
The first radar and visual sixhtings could nave heen of the same ohysical
Onjects th irst radar cortact mi-ht have been lost due to the 60-709
"shadow" on tne APS-42 scone reoresentine the fuselage of the aircraft,
Assumiap that the two radar hlios represented tne same ohysical ohject —
an aircreft, for example -<- that object would have had to he makine zcod a
sround speed of 175 knots, If this assumotion were corroct, the object
(or aircraft) would have been fling a converying course, at lower altitudes,
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mart of tne mission incicates that one other aircrazit was earsthound hehind the
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4 reporting aircraft. The pilot's reoort also indicates tinat another aircrart
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(C=54D 42=72523) Ilsnded at wake a few minutes ahead of the reoorting aircrart,
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ai the reader end visual sishtings were of the same object, and if oe object
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had been tne aircraft named (or another aircraft), tne Ur) reported on herein
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could have been a flare fired by that aircraft. Such rier S, cai =sts
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would also apoly -- in color and Intensity -- a pnoto-flash cartridse,
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“However, ohoto cartridces er fired down, not upward, cond there is no other
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information to suzgrest en eircrazt at a hischer altitude at the time end place
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of sightinrs, As a result of this preliminar y¥ snvestigatson, $b is determined
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that another sircraft, et a lower altitude, bired a ilere at 0914 uch
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way 23 te cause the si,htins described, Uetailed comnents on the crew members
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ag Pilot - Faurot, -illiam L., Captain, 42lst Air Hefueling
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| Scuadron. A Senior rilot, Capt Fcurot nes compiled cver 5,900 hours militar;
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J 1 nc =) 109 nours Cav a2 ani -_——, Lttp time ke ice i 1.6 . Si 2OSt& <3 eye 8. ely ~a.* muittieg
. |} engine, trausport tyne sirersaft. in Kores, Capt Faurot states that he flew
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. |} 50 ni Rt comrat misions, in "=@25 trpe aircratt, and nhac occasion to chserve
mumercus types of AAA Sire, flares, om star sneiis. ne has sven —t sino's
‘i=ea $2 ace:3racy oc S + Ll senery 2s cont ised p tue stuer infividaual
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‘yacue with resnect to tne nt of tise which may stave elizosed tetueen
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| ayents to7k olac, gs avisenced by tha notes attachet, Cant Faurct appears
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| to nave maia every effort to dascrine acc rste.zy the aven nL? OOf place,
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disapoearad while tlving between Tolcyo and Weke, ‘The rast of the crew
app@ars to have crawn the tentative conclusion that their experience may
be related to the previous disappearances,

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