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N. N. I. 96—1943
CONFIDENTIAL
ISSUED BY THE INTELLIGENCE DIVISION
OFFICE OF CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS
NAVY DEPARTMENT
INTELLIGENCE REPORT
Serial 1949
(Start new series each year, i. e. 1–6, 2–11)
Monograph Index Guide No.
(To correspond with SUBJECT given below. See O. I. I. Index Guide.
Make separate report for each main title.)
From DIO-11ND at San Diego Date 23 June 1949
(Ship, fleet, unit, district, office, station, or person)
Reference GNO Conf Ser 06422P32 dtd 4 Nov 1948, subj: Flying Discs - Report Of.
(Directive, correspondence, previous related report, etc., if applicable)
Source See Below. Evaluation B-3
(As official, personal observation, publication, press, conversation with—
Identify when practicable, etc.)
A-1 to 6-O etc.
AW/EM 3-10; SER. 01846—11-19-62
Subject Unidentified Flying Objects - Report Of.
(Nation reported on) (Main title as per Index guide) (Subtitles) (Make separate report for each title)
BRIEF.—(Here enter careful summary of report, containing substance succinctly stated; include important facts, names, places, dates, etc.)
BRIEF: While flying north in a private plane source, who is believed to be reliable, saw 6 or 7 "flying discs" in southern Oregon 27 May 1949. The discs are described as elongated ovals, perhaps 20' in length; they flew in a steady file formation at between 200 to 250 MPH; they appeared to be made of unpainted metal; no smoke or exhaust trails were observed.
SOURCE: LTJG Joseph C. SHELL, A5(L), USNR (Inactive), Serial #348375, of 4575 Northridge Drive, Los Angeles, California. He was commissioned Ensign 5 January 1944. Served at Corpus Christie 30 days AF(T); in Dallas two months VRF-2(D). Ferried B29's from North American Company plants. Was at Willow Grove, Pennsylvania for 30 days. Served at check-out base for ferry squadron VRF(2) at Columbus; served at Columbus until August 1945. Source then was with VRF(3) at Terminal Island, California, where he became legal and personnel officer. Was discharged from the Navy in January 1946 as LTJG.
Source holds Naval Aviator's Certificate #C-17945, plus a senior pilot's rating in the Ferry Wing of the Naval Air Transport Command. He also holds a commercial license, single and multi-engine, and flight instructor's ratings. His flight time began in 1934 and now totals over 5000 hours, of which time 1300 hours were in the U.S. Navy. Source secured a private license in 1935, a transport license in 1937, a commercial pilot's license in 1938, and a re-issue commercial pilot's license in 1945 (#184256). From March 1942 to September 1943 he was flight instructor for the Army Air Force (5 months as primary instructor at Cal-Aero, and the balance of the time as basic instructor at Lancaster, California). From September 1943 to January 1944 he flew for the Superior Oil Company of California.
Since 1940 source has been Vice-President of the Royal Petroleum Company of California, Long Beach, a concern in which he and his relations own all of the stock; he also is part-owner of three other oil producing concerns in Southern California.
Source is married and has three children. He has a B.S. and B.A. degrees from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; he also had two years of law at the University of Southern California. Source is thirty years of age, but appears to have a background of experience few men his age possess. He is believed to be conservative, sincere, absolutely reliable, and very competent.
Routing space below for the I. C. H. I.
IMY (Original and Master Data): DIO-11ND
N 15047
Op322V
EXCL.—DI USAF only.
CIA (8)
DI USAF (4) (DAB)
ID GCUSA (4)
322F2 OK 13-6 US
3216(2)
322Y (4)
322H2
322U2B5
Declassified by N15 letter, 9/28/77 concerning request 2/17
RECORDED - 80
BRUCE S. MACCABEE
7306 78 10/3/77
52 AUG 22 1949
62-8 3894-197
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