U.S. Air Force Analysis of Flying Objects in the United States, 1-100

CHECK-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS Incident # 48a 1. Date 7 Jan 48 2. Time 1925 o'clock 3. Location Clinton County Air Field 4. Name of observer LeRoy Ziegler 5. Occupation of observer 1/3gt 6. Address of observer Clinton County AF, Wilmington, Ohio 7. Place of observation Clinton County AF Base 8. Number of objects 1 9. Distance of object from observer N/S 10. Time in sight Thirty-five minutes 11. Altitude high 12. Speed stationary for a while and then made rapid ascents and descents and then to SW with great speed 13. Direction of flight to SW 14. Tactics Vertical ascents and descents at great speed 15. Sound None 16. Size very large 17. Color Same as star 18. Shape circular - starlike - only larger 19. Odor detected N/S 20. Apparent construction N/S 21. Exhaust trails faint exhaust trail when moving up and down or from side to side 22. Weather conditions Cloudy 23. Effect on clouds Object could be seen thru clouds 24. Sketches or photographs None 25. Manner of disappearance over the horizon at about 20:00 26. Remarks: (Over)