65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 Section 004

• b~D...RD FORM NO. 64 • . •,. Ojfice Memorandum • UNITED .STATES GOVERNMENT (1), TO DIRECTOR, FBI DATE: 4-22-49 / FROM ~ C, LITTIE ROOK SUBJECT: UNKNOm{ §.J.IBJECTS;1 /ll WADE H-KllARRISON - INFORMANT v · FLYING DISCS - FoR"? SMITH, ARKANSAS (4-16-49) WADE H. HARRISON, residence address Route 1, Box 29.3, Fort Smith, Arkansas,. is employed as a Special Delivery messenger by the Fort Smith Post Office Department. HARRISON stated that at 5:25 p.m., Saturday, April 16, 1949, while delivering special delivery mail in Fort Smith, he stopped his automobile at a signal light located at the intersection of North Eleventh street and Grand Avenue. He glanced up at th? stop light and observed a brilliant object moving in a southeastern direction. He presumed tb! object was approximately 2 miles high. He got out of his automobile and pointed up With the suggestion that other automobile drivers, stopped for, the signal light, could see the object. He does not know who an:, of the other people are or what they saw. He was obliged to move on after the light changed ' and the drivers began honking their horns. He watched th3 object until it was obscured by the line of trees in that section. He estimated he watched it travel some .3 or 4 miles before he lost sight of it. He stated the weather was clear, visibility was good, and there were no clouds near the object. The object made no noise perceptible to HARRISON. However, he commented that be was stopped at an intersection where the traf fie was heavy and there was considerable noise. He first thought possibly he bad seen scne type of a r eflector on an airplane, but c ould not locate or hear a plane anywhere. ✓ HARRISON drove to the 1400 Block of North "C" Street, where he observed an Army officer, wearing the insignia of a niajor or lieutenant colonel, standing back of the of ficer's automobile. He stopped and asked the officer if he had observed the f'l.y:Lng object. The officer, name unknown to the informant, answered negat i vely and then remarked, 111 am glad other people are also reporting seeing flying objects." The of ficer then r elated t hat the day previous, Friday, April 15, 1949, while the officer was traveling oat of Oklahana City t oward Fort Smith, his wife observed a flying object in the sk;y very similar to that described by HARRISON. The officer stated h e saw the object too, but furnished no more information. DOS:crc 98-0 Enc. RfCORDfQ -119 AMSD ~-118 CO:PIES DESTROYED'· MA1 3 194~ \NDEXEO 2 7 0 NOV 18,1964-