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New in the library The PURSUE files The Department of War's UAP release, mirrored in full: the videos, recordings and images, each beside its case file.Scans matching “Lane”220 scans · page 2
Office Memorandum · UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO : DIRECTOR, FBI January 31, 1949 DATE: FROM S.C, S.N. ANTONIO SUBJECT: PROTECTION OF VITAL INSTALLICTIONS DURE.U FILE # 65-50300 CONDITIAL Ludersfeld 2010 8/31/77 at recent Weekly Intelligence Conferences of G-2, ONI, OSI, and FD-I., in the Fourth Army…
THE DAYTON DAILY NEWS Companion To Flying Saucer, "Monster Bird" 11. PUIE. PUI. the assistant on all subjects 11:30 am, no, late afternoon white people hask paling four - five periods of 11:30, 11:30 For New York, NY and the New Jersey City area, please visit the New York Times website at www.nytime…
ANCHORAGE (AP) -- Reports of a giant winged creature seen in Southwest Alaska in recent weeks have biologists and residents puzzled. Vilagers in Togak and Manokotak say the huge bird has a wingspan of about 14-feet -- the size of a small plane -- and is much bigger than anything they have seen befor…
Fort Knox UFO incident still stirs interest CAPT. THOMAS MANTELL (LEFT) died in a plane crash while following an unidentified flying object that appeared over Fort Knox in 1948. Courtesy photo Compiled by LARRY BARNES TURKET EDITOR Tomorrow is the 57th anniversary of one of the most unusual events e…
of the planes later called reported no success." reported no success. Captain Mantell, an air hero during the Allied invasion of Normandy, was the third pilot. His mother, Mrs. Thomas F. Mantell Sr., said in Louisville she was informed that her son flew too high in his pursuit of the object and lost…
FLIER DIES CHASING A 'FLYING SAUCER' Plane Explodes Over Kentucky as That and Near States Report Strange Object LOUISVILLE, Ky., Jan. 8 (AP) Several areas of Kentucky and adjoining states were excited today over reports of a "flying saucer" which led to the death of one National Guard flier and frui…
CAPTAIN THOMAS F. MANTELL, JR. Born in Franklin, Ky., 30 June 1922. Graduated Male High School, Louisville. Joined Army Air Corps, 16 June 1942. Graduated Flight School, 30 June 1943 During WW II. Mantell assigned to 440th Troop Carrier Group, 96th Troop Carrier Squadron, 9th Air Force. Awarded Dist…
Two other members of the Kentucky National Guard, also asked to make a flying investigation of reported "flying discs" in the area near Fort Knox, returned to their Louisville base. Two Hopkinsville pilots, James Garret and William Crenshaw, said they chased a flying object which they believed to be…
CAPTAIN THOMAS F. MANTELL, JR. Born in Franklin, Ky., 30 June 1922. Graduated Male High School. Louisville. Joined Army Air Corps. 16 June 1942. Graduated Flight School, 30 June 1943. During WW II. Mantell assigned to 440th Troop Carrier Group. 96th Troop Carrier Squadron. 9th Air Force. Awarded Dis…
"Monster Bird" Reported In Flying Saucer Area By United Press BELVIDERE, Ill., April 9. — A farmer and a truck driver reported today that they had seen a bird "bigger than an airplane." They believed it might be a visitor from another planet. The giant bird was reported by Robert Price and Veryl Bab…
The Gigantic Bird Mystery That Thing in the Sky—Is It Really a Bird, or Is It a Plane or a Witch? AROVE IS A STYLIZED DRAWING OF THE "BIRD" SEED BY MR. AND MRS. CLYDE SMITH, AND BY MR. AND MRS. CLYDE SMITH. BLOW IS AN APPROXIMATION OF WHAT DR. KRISTINE DOLLAE SAWL. E. M. COLEMAN OF ALTON THOUGHT A S…
'Enormous' Bird Is Sighted Again, Flapping Over City ALTON, 111., April 24 (UP)-An "enormous" bird, first reported seabird seen flying over the outskirts of Alton shortly before noon today. E. M. Coleman, a former salesman, and his 15-year-old son James, said the bird was flying at about 500 feet an…
GESELL SOLVES BIRD MYSTERY OR DOES HE? A solution to the "bird as big as an airplane" mystery was offered today by Bill Gesell. "It was an airplane towing a glider," Gesell said. "I saw it myself." Gesell operates a farm two miles north of Belvidere on state route 76. He said he was working in a fie…
FLYING WHAT-IS-IT IS SEEN CHASING PLANE OVER CITY Police Also Get Look at It One Says It Appeared Like a Witch. New accounts of the huge bird seen over St. Louis and Alton heightened the mystery of the flying what-is-it today. Mrs. Kristine Dolezal, 2055 Russell boulevard, heard an airplane flying l…
Companion To Flying Saucer, "Monster Bird" BY PAUL DIX ST. LOUIS, April 10.—(UF) A retired Air Force colonel and a 12-year-old boy tonight locked up the report by two Beloved, BL, residents of spotting a "monster bird." It was either the same mysterious bird of gigantic size they saw or one just lik…
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 10 April 1948: Mysterious Huge Bird Reported Seen Over Glendale and Alton ScanMysterious Huge Bird Reported Seen Over Glendale and Alton A mysterious bird *et* gigantic size, similar to the one reported yesterday near Caledonia, Ill., was observed flying over Alton last Sunday by a former Army colonel, and over Glendale three months ago by James Traares, 12-year-old son of Mr…
Flying Monster In Missouri May Be Bird, Plane or Witch ST. LOUIS, Mo., April 29.—(UP)—Charles Hertenstein, ace trouble shooter for Mayor Aloys P. Kaufmann, planned his strategy today for capturing the night-flying "what's-it" that has terrified residents recently. Kaufmann assigned Hertenstein the t…
Freeport Journal-Standard, 7 April 1948: Boone County Farmer Reports Seeing Bird As Big As Airplane ScanBoone County Farmer Reports Seeing Bird As Big As Airplane Caledonia, Ill., April 7.—A Boone county farmer saw "a bird as big as an airplane" yesterday. The farmer, Robert Price, said he saw it. He couldn't have been mistaken. "I knew it was a bird," Price said. "The wings flapped, the neck was outs…
1949 1 - 30 NOVEMBER SIGHTINGS DATE LOCATION 589 2 Unity, New Hampshire 590 16 Oxford, Mississippi (NO CARDS) 571 17 Augusta, Georgia (NO CARDS) 572 18 Raceland, Louisiana 573 18 Biloxi, Mississippi OBSEVER EVALUATION 594 21 Chattanooga, Tennessee (NO CARDS) 595 21 Akita, Lahaina, Japan (NO CARDS) 5…
Flying Saucer Seen Here The flying saucers were back in the skies over Alexandria last night, and two persons who saw them said today they couldn't be anything but just that — flying saucers. Mrs Edward Wolf, 412 1-2 Madison, and her sister, Mrs. V. Dardeau, of Ville Platte, said they were sitting o…
Office Memorandum · UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO : DIRECTOR, FBI DATE: July 21,1949 FROM : SAC, NEW ORLEANS 4. URJECT: FLYING DISCS AND SAUCERS MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION CONCERNING For the Bureau's information, several citizens in the community of Alexandria, Louisiana daily paper has carried numerou…
Flying Disc Parade Grows Two strange new twists in the flying saucer parade developed today. A man said he saw one of the objects after seeing its reflection on the sidewalk and a 14-year-old girl said she saw one in broad daylight. C. S. Dupree, 1504 Fourth street, said he saw one of the mysterious…
'IT' LOOKED LIKE THIS This is Capt. Jack Adams' conception of the strange object which he and First Officer G. W. Anderson Jr. saw over Hazen, Ark., Monday night while flying a Chicago & Southern Air Lines DC-3. The drawing represents the bottom of the "saucer," with its lighted port holes. After ma…
and often known to the public as well through news stories. To pick one prominent example of the sort of things that were happening, we will pause for a moment on March 20, 1950. $ ^{26} $ It was about 9:30 p.m. when Chicago and Southern Airlines Flight 53 passed over Hazen, Arkansas on its way from…
that he was passing over U.S. Highway #70 some 15 miles north of Stuttgart, Arkansas. The first indication that something unusual was about to happen was a light in the dark sky so bright it engaged Captain Adams' attention. Said Captain Adams: "The light had an unusual bluish and brilliant glow, fl…
"My God what's that!" Reports that grabbed the most newspaper space involved encounters between UFO's and airliners, and one of the better cases took place March 20th and involved a Captain Jack Adams, and his co-pilot, G. W. Anderson, at the controls of Chicago and Southern Flight 53. At 9:29 p.m. …
UFOs and Government and Anderson that they were looking at a solid, round aerial device having no obvious method of propulsion (i.e. like jet exhausts). What did they think they'd seen? Both Adams and Anderson admitted that they had been flying saucer skeptics—but were so no longer. Then what was it…
SAUCER IS DESCRIBED IN DETAIL BY PILOTS Air Force Intelligence Wants To Interview Them NO REPORTS FROM GROUND (Continued from Page One) and visibility was perhaps 30 or 40 miles. We could see no portion of the object other than the lights," Adams said. "We've heard and read a lot about flying saucer…
NBC Press transcript, Today with Mrs. Roosevelt, page 2, featuring Jack Adams and G.W. Anderson ScanNBC PRESS -2- 1ST ADD MRS. ROOSEVELT XXX AND BEYOND. MRS. ROOSEVELT: THAT'S A VERY GOOD DESCRIPTION OF WHAT YOU SAW, CAPT. ADAMS. I'D LIKE TO ASK YOU, MR. ANDERSON, WHETHER YOU HAVE ANYTHING WHICH YOU COULD SHOW US THAT WOULD GIVE AN IDEA OF WHAT THIS WAS LIKET ANDERSON: THIS DIDPLAYED HERE APPROXIM…
'It Was Definitely Aircraft,' C. & S. Fliers Say Of Saucer On Return Here, Pilots Assert Object Seen Over Arkansas Was No Meteor—Captain Adams Believes It Was Secret Air Force Experimental Ship (Pictures on Section Page) By ROBERT GRAY The "flying saucer" which Capt. Jack Adams reported seeing over …
Arkansas Has Its Share; Pilot Sticks to His Story FROM THE FIRST; Arkansas had its share of flying saucer reports. Often the Arkansas reports have been attributed to "fireballs" or "mystery ball of fires"—sightings that probably can be described as meteors. The Arkansas Gazette of July 9, 1947, for …
TIME/PLACE OF SIGHTING: March 20, 1950, at 9:26 p.m./about 15 miles north of a "medium-sized city," according to the report, which gave no other information on locale. DURATION: 25 to 35 seconds. NUMBER OF OBSERVERS: Two. TYPE OF OBSERVER: A captain in the U.S. Air Force Reserve and a commercial air…
'Mass Flight' of Sky Disks Seen by 5000 (Editor's note: The Air Force, in Washington, issued a flat denial today that any such thing as a "flying sancer" exists. The Air Force also denied that it is trying to cover up some of its own experiments by discrediting the "flying sancer" reports. However, …
Citizens See 'Hundreds' Over Town FARMINGTON, N.M. March 17. (F)—A large group of flying saucers was reported over Farmington this morning. Some estimates placed the number at hundreds; others kept it to 20 or more, first leafing over the town and then streaking through the skies. Clayton J. Boody, …
Scores Report Seeing Saucers' Flight in Formation Over New Mexico FARMINGTON, N.M., March 17 (U.P.)—A mass flight of flying saucers over this Northwestern New Mexico oil town of 5000 population was reported today by 50 persons, including businessmen and private pilots. Detailed accounts of the fligh…
Scientists Tracked Flying Saucer Over N.M. Navy Man Tells Of Tracking This newspaper has been granted permission to reprint an art clea appearing in the book "How Scientists tracked a Flying Saucer." The article is written by Commander Robert B. McLaughlin, U. S. Navy. The article deals with an occu…
THE KALISZEWSKI-MOORE STATEMENTS A U.P. DISPATCH, DATELINE, MINNEAPOLIS, MN, I 12, 1952, CARRIED THE STATEMENTS OF TWO TOP BALLONLAND EXPERTS. THE STORY WERE LIKE THIS: J.C. KALISZSWEN, SUPERVISOR OF OLAL SPECIAL HIGH PRESS UNIDENTIFIED OBJECTS WHILE MAKING TWO SEPARATE AIRPLANE TRIPS OVER MINNEAPOL…
New development adds to saga of 'Lubbock Lights' phenomena By Jeff South Update Staff Writer The mystery of the "Lubbock Lights," a V-shaped string of illuminated objects which flew over the muo city 26 years ago, is now more baffling than ever. In the latest development, computer-assisted scientist…
Cine Film May Show "Saucer" From Our Own Correspondent MOMBASA, Sunday. The 11 people in the East African Airways Lodestar have a strange object in the city near Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzanian authorities say to accept it as one of the country's anomalies which an American scientist has said are the e…
SUBJECT: APPEARANCE OF AN ALLIANCE "FLYING SAUGCER" OVER KT. KILDMANJARO, RANGANVIKA The Cumulative report the alleged appearance of the first "flying monarch" to be observed in East Africa includes the arrival of the monarch in Botswana on February 19, 1919 by the owe and passengers of the East Afr…
I was sitting close to the astronomer, Dr. George Adamski, at Lions club yesterday when he told about meeting face-to-face with a man from Outer Space—the planet Venus, to be specific. * * * Every now and then Dr. Adamski would seem to look directly at me and his quick black eyes would pierce sharpl…
"Ring Around" column by Justin Hammond PAGE SIX MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1953. CORONA DAILY INDEPENDENT. CORONA, CALIF. Friday I promised to tell you a little more about what Dr. George Adamski told the Lions club about meeting a man from the planet Venus. Over the weekend a number of people have mentioned…
'FLYING SAUCER' JOINS IN 'MAINBRACE' FLYING SAUCEER ENTERED EXERCISE MAINBRACE today following impact from the RAF station at Toptalite (Yorks), of a white object thrown, which accelerated at a speed in excess of a shooting star. Three die in Dakota crash THREE PEOPLE were killed and one seriously i…
'SAUCER' CHASED R JET PLANE Say 6 Airmen NOT Smoke-Ring Or Weather Balloon, Says Pilot By Sunday Dispatch Reporter SERIOUS investigation was being made last night by the R.A.F. into the mystery of a silvery-white object that chased a Meteor jet-plane over Yorkshire during "Exercise Mainbrace." It wa…
Un communiqué officiel de la R.A.F. annonce : (De notre env. special perm. A. de SEGONZAC LONDRES, 20 septembre. (per telephone). NE doucoupe volante a participé à l'exercice « Grande Vergue » . C'est officiel. Un communique de la R.A.F. la revue. La nouvelle s'transmise ce matin au ministeur de l'A…
Il y a trente ans les soucoupes volantes En abordant ce dossier » soucouples volantes » (voir Le Provençal » du 26 octobre), si nous 'métemptions guère les connaissances de nos jours, on OVNI par contre c'est avec la plus grande prudence que nous nous sommes engages sur le chemin des extra-terrestre…
1,000 Miles An Hour Miami Pilots Spot Eight Saucers In Formation Continued from Page 1 taneous—they wheeled up on their edges, still in formation, then flattened out again and went off in almost the opposite direction. "When they were up on their sides, we could see a dark rim around their edges. Th…
Miami Pilots Spot 8 Sau By JOHN F. BONNER Harold Stuff Weller Two Mastai airlines pilots said Tuesday they saw 1,000 miles an hour flying around in formation over Chesapeake Bay. They say eight of the "inspire" 100 feet in diameter and "glowing like hot boa," passed directly beneath their Pan Americ…