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SUDJEO'i's (Unolus1fied) Reporting o! Ini'ormtion on
Unconventional Airoratt
SPECIAL INQUmt
TOt D1rectQr of Special Investiga~iona
Headquarters, US.AF
,asbington 25, D. O.
SlNOPSISa
On 2 July 1952, ctaptain ROBERT E. m:trCAμ", lOOl Ma.eoachueett.s
AYenue, Le~o.u,.Jlau...aq.l}_~ett.s1 reported that he and two ot.ber
persons o1,served one unidentified airborne object bet'l1een 0730 and
0740 hours, wr, on 1 Jul.1 l952. No activity or condition developed
that acoounta for eighting.
DETAILS,
At appronmately 2000 hotU"e, 2 Jl.lly 1952, Capte.in ROBERT E. lIB?CAI.1',
lOOl M.aesa.chueett• Avenue, Lexington,, Massacbuaette, reported the obs-el'
vation o! on., unidentified airborne- ob~et. betl'jeen 0730 and 0740 houre
on l July 1952 tc Special Agent USLIE S. HUBBSU>. On ) July 19"52,
Captain METCALF was interviewed by Special Agent JULIUS B• .POPPltlGA, and
tu.rm.shed the foll.r than a cigar", about 100 feet in
length or slightly larger than a f olll'-engine &irline-r, having indistinct
outlines at the rear r~sembling either a vary short emaust or a blurr~d
tail section, with a narrow ridge along the top side, but t'lithout ~ings
o~ any clear aet"od,Jnamic features, Object p?'od.uced no sound, and left
~ no vapor trail ox- exhaust other than described above. Speed was estimated
,,,..- -~ to be approxima.te1.y that or jet aircraft, bu,t observer believed the object
\ "hung" in mid-air for a few aeconds on two occasions and then proceedtd.
'ADED' AT 3 YP..AR iNtF.l\~ - ONlTASSU'lED AFTER 12 ~ ~ • •
DOD. DIR 6200.lQ
DECLASSIFIED Authority NND 923007