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BIRD BELIEVED EXTINCT FOUND NEAR TE ANAU P.A. P.A. INVERCARGILL, Nov. 21. Generally believed to have been extinct, the notornis, a flightless bird of the swamp hen type, was seen and photographed in the Te Anau district during the week-end by a party led by Dr G. B. Orbell. The notornis was last see…
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When asked if he had pictures of the "little men" reportedly found dead in their space ships, if he had seen them himself, or if he knew of anyone by name who had, Newton replied: "All will come out finally, but don't pin me down with questions I will not answer."…
TO : DIRECTOR, FBI DATE: March 22, 1950 FROM : GUY HOTTEL, SAC, WASHINGTON 14. 1 SUBJECT: FLYING SAUCERS INFORMATION CONCERNING Flying Discs or Flying Saucers The following information was furnished to SA R. H. KURTZMAN by KARL HOWE, Special Investigator, Sex Squad, Metropolitan Police Department: A…
Scientist Says Flying Saucer Pilots Will Land Within Year 'LITTLE MEN IN SAUCER' DUE SOON TO EXPLORE EARTH, SAVANT SAYS Geophysicist Sees Saucers Landing Soon Thinks Pilots From Other Planet About Ready to Visit Earth Denver, Oct. 19. Denver geophysicist Silas M. Newton, who believes flying saucers …
Birdman Seen Near Chehalis CHEHALIS, Jan'. 21-(UP) The state of Washington, where the first flying saucers were reported, outdid itself today. A woman reported that she had sighted a "flying man." Mrs. Bernice Zaikowski, 61, Chehalis, said she saw a man with wings attached to his back fly over her b…
Saw Winged Man Flying About Over Her Barn-Maybe CHEHALIS, Jan. 21. - A They are seeing things in the skies in these parts again-this time a "whozit-whatzit." Mrs. Bernice Zaikowski, 61, who reported a "birdman" flipping around the roof of her barn earlier this month, could hear a "sizzing and whizzi…
Mr. Eastern Air Lines Miami, Fla. The following is a report of an unidentified aircraft which was sighted by and me, as we were twenty miles southwest of Montgomery, Ala. July 24, 1948, as we were on Eastern's trip 576. At 2:45 A. M. we were cruising at 5,000 feet when there came, what looked like a…
A cable from PEAP reported that an unidentified aircraft was sighted both visually and by radar by radar and radar radar observer on a Wakarau plane. There was no evidence of an interception. The sighting occurred at night; however, there was sufficient evidence to indicate that 6 unidentified aircr…
UFOs with Radar? In the fall of 1948, Project Sign received a report from Kyushu, Japan, describing the encounter of an F-61 aircraft with from two to six unidentified flying objects. Intelligence reports from Far East air forces indicated that…
The airmen felt obliged to consider the possibility that their six attempted intercepts involved more than one unknown. Hemphill mentions that, in the first attempted intercept, "the target put on a tremendous burst of speed and dived so fast that we were unable to attack it." After this head-on int…
aircraft I was familiar with, so I immediately contacted my Ground Control Station and asked for information regarding any aircraft flying in the area. The ground control radar reported no other aircraft and at no time could they pick up the UFO. Hemphill stated that he again caught "just a fleeting…
UNCLASSIFIED Vertical tail surfaces very well if present, airtail tail surfaces unaccustomed at overcrowded visual angles. Mane also a large underside at overcrowded visual angles. Guerreion aileronable. Sencor or dreamstate if present. Ported into rear tower, all but discernible. Power of propeller…
DR J. ALLEN HYNK 135 the UFOS might have "carried radar warning equipment," because the "object seemed cognizant of the whereabouts of the F-61 at all times." At the time, we placed at least at 11:05 PM on October 15, 1948, some 50 miles northwest of Fukushu, off the northwest coast of Kyushu. A sta…
STATEMENT 28 January 1949 1. I, OLIVIE HEPHILL Jr., lt. lt. USAF AO-78-150, see 26, do hereby make the following statement: 2. Present Duty: Assistant Operations Officer and Night Fighter Pilot, with the 16th Fighter Squadron, 3427th Fighter Group (A7) AO 95. 3. On the night of 15 October 1948 by ra…
123. 218 Oct, 15, 1948. About 50 miles NW (at 330° from) Fukuoka, Japan (at 34°00' N, 130°00' E). 11:05 p.m. (intermittently to 1:30 a.m.?) USAF pilot 1st Lt. Oliver Hemphill Jr. and radar observer 2nd Lt. Barton Halter flying a P-61 "Black Widow" night fighter made 6 interceptions of the same or di…
NARCAPTR - 6 Date of Report: 12-02 visible canopy, wings, power section or tail assembly - is consistent with a target of very much smaller radar cross-section than the F-61 of any maneuver, making it a very much more magnified target even than the "intermittently" detected F-61. Of six AI contacts …
136 THE HYNEK UPO REPORT On the fourth interception, the pilot called to me that we had been passed from above from the rear by our target. I picked up the target as it went off my second plane. I picked up the target as it went off my second plane. On the fifth and sixth interceptions, the target a…
soon. I realized at this time that it did not look like any type aircraft I was familiar with, so I immediately contacted my Groom. Control Station and asked for information regarding any aircraft flying in the area. The Ground Control Station informed me there were no other aircraft in the area. I …
NACRETR 6 Date of Expire 12:02 PAGE 3 LOCATION: SOURCES: Hynek 1978 135 Kyushu McDouglas 1968 (House Symp.) 69 Japan 65 RAIDER'S VISION: 10 episodes overall (60 episodes episodes) EVALUATIONS: Blue Book - unknown PRECISION: At 2365 s at 2 a.m. F1 Black Widow night-fighter was flying off the NW coast…
Date of Observation 15 Oct 48 Date of Interview Date time (local) 2305 Place of observation Pasuoka Area Between Shigamo Shima 3540'W by 1820'00"N and Pass Shima 3824'45"W-12824'00"E, Japan Aircraft pip of unknown aircraft appearing on airborne radar 6 20-30 ft. long N/3 Like aircraft, stubby, clean…
1. Case 35. Fukuoka, Japan, October 15, 1948. A very early radar-UFO case, still held as an official Unidentified, involved an attempted interception of the unknown object by an F-61 flying near Fukuoka, Japan, at about 11:00 p.m. local time on 10/15/48. The official file on this incident is lengthy…
UNCLASSIFIED Chief of Staff United States Air Force Washington, 25, D. C. ATTN: APOEI Collections Branch 1. On the 3 October 1945, the following representatives of this Command interrogated witnesses involved in the North Dakota incident of 1 October 1945 which occurred from 2100 to 2127 hours Centr…
MEMORANDUM SUBJECT: Incident #172, Fargo, N. Dakota, dated 1 Oct '48 TO: Mr. Money 1. Per your request for telecon condensation: a. Command Representatives interrogated witnesses involved in Incident #172 on the 3 Oct '18. b. Newspaper reports were confirmed as being substantially correct. c. Summar…
Subject: Project "SIGH" AIR INSPECTOR When the object began evasive tactics the F-51 pilot utilized maximum authorized power. (Engine seal for military power was not broken.) However, the object out-turned, out-speeded and out-climbed the F-51 in every instance. Contact was lost twenty-seven minutes…
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