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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 “RAF”389 scans · page 2
"Thet were almost bald. Their heads were large and round. Their legs were long as compared to ours; they were 30 cent. taller than Higgins, whose height was m.1.80. What most struck him was that they all looked alike, as if they were twins- those putside the craft and those inside it, who were not w…
In These United States Supersonic Flying Saucers Sighted by Idaho Pilot Speed Estimated at 1,200 Miles an Hour When Seen 10,000 Feet Up Near Mt. Rainier PENDLETON, Ore., June 25.—F. NINE INHIBITIVE MOUSES like objects flying at "inhibitile" speed at 10,000 feet altitude were reported here by Kenath …
New "Saucer" Reports At Biscay, Killarney (TRUTH'S SPECIAL SERVICE.) LONDON, Saturday. After a lull of a few days in world-wide reports of "flying saucers," and various explanations of the phenomena, two fresh reports have been received from places as widely separated as the Bay of Biscay and the La…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Ho parlato con un disco volante Bruno Facchini chiese cortesemente: “Buona sera, posso aiutarvi in qualche cosa?”, I misteriosi uomini in scafandro risposero: “Gurr!... gurr!,” A altra volta Gianmarco la proseguente autobiografica di Buona sera, posso aiutarvi in qualche cosa?”, I misteriosi uomini …
1950 SIGHTINGS THE CHICAGO AND SOUTHERN AIRLINES-STUTTGART,ARKANSAS SIGHTING EARLY IN 1950, THE UNITED PRESS CARRIED THIS STORY, TOLD THEM BY TWO CHICAGO AND SOUTHERN AIRLINES PILOTS, CAPTAIN JACK ADAMS AND FIRST OFFICER G.W. ANDERSON. THE DATELINE WAS MARCH 21: "WE WERE HEADED FOR LITTLE ROCK, ABOU…
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…
Flying Saucers (Continued from page 17) of the accounts are more interesting and inexplicable than those described in this article, but we have confined this to only four reports. All involve sightings by airliner crews—in each case by both pilots and copilots. We have confined the descriptions of s…
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…
was under observation, and Capt. experience in observing various types of aircraft including the F-86, Capt. stated that the object was traveling at least 1000 miles per hour, giving this as a very conservative figure. He could see no signs or indications of exhaust flames, jet or otherwise. 5. The …
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…
Category 11 Case Directory SIGHTINGS FROM AIRCRAFT Preliminary Rating: 5 AVCAT is a special project being conducted by NICAP, with the help and cooperation of the original compiler of AIRCAT, Dr. Richard Haines, and other sources, to create a comprehensive listing of sightings from aircraft with det…
"We've heard and read a lot about flying saucers and were as skeptical as anyone else,' smiled co-pilot Anderson. 'But when you see something with your own eyes, you have to believe it."229 As the pilots put it, "we were flabbergasted." Captain Adams' next flight took him to Memphis, Tennessee. Upon…
HEADQUARTERS 516th TROOP CARRIER WING MEMPHIS MUNICIPAL AIRPORT MEMPHIS, TENN. 22 March 1950 79-9 80-8 SUBJECT: INTERROGATION OF OBSERVER OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT - TO: DIRECTOR OF INTELLIGENCE U. S. AIR FORCE, WASHINGTON, D. C. AF169066 1. Capt. on, a member of the 516th Troop Carrier Wing, wa…
'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…
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SOUTHERN CROSS THE SOUTHERN CROSS YOUR WORLD MOREER BETTER. DO YOU GIVE IT! Published Weekly with the Approval of the Archbishop, Bishop and Venerable Apostle of Southern Africa No. 1629. Vol. XXXL. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1951. Pricer 44. THE 'SOUTHERN CROSS' Quarter 4/7 Ball-Year 5/7 Year 15/4 Year…
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…
PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 1. DATE 19 Pob 51 | 2. LOCATION East Africa | 12. CONCLUSIONS □ Was Battles Passed? □ Possible Battles 2. DATE-TIME GROUP Local Morning | 3. TYPE OF OBSERVATION □ Ground Vessel □ Ground Boat | □ Ground Boat □ Ground Boat 3. PHOTOS 20 No | 4. SOURCE Crew and Passengers | □ A…
FLYING SAUCERS SNAPPED Govin passengers and two members of the crew of an East African Airways aircraft flying from Nairobi to Addis Ababa during the daylight hours that a flying saucer hovering over Mount Kilimanjaro Two American passengers took low clear pictures with photos taken and another phot…