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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 “CIA”459 scans · page 3
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…
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…
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…
Did Monster Fly Over This Way? CARROLLTON-A bird with a 30 footwingspread, that used only the tips of its wings in flight, was seen Wednesday along the Missouri River in southern Carroll county by Harold Brotherton and his two uncles. The monstrous bird, believed to be the one spied in the St. Louis…
After 21 Years Col. Siegmund Has Served Olin, Retired on July 1 EAST ALTON, July 2—Col. Walter F. Siegmund, former general sales manager, Olin Industries, Inc. retired from the company July 1, after 21 years of service. Col. Siegmund joined Western Cartridge Co., in November, 1931, as a special repr…
An employee in the supersonic laboratory of an aeronautical laboratory and some other employees of this lab, were by a river, 2-1/2 miles from its mouth, when they saw an object. The time was about 1700 hours on May 24, 1949. The object was reflecting sunlight when observed by naked eye. However, he…
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 Saucer Conclave Here Is Called Off The convention of flying saucer witnesses is off, for the time being at least. Officials of the Young Men's Business Club said today the convention is being postponed because of a lack of out-of-state reservations. They said only eight persons from outside L…
Plan Convention of Flying Saucer Witnesses Here A convention of all persons who have seen flying saucers was being planned for Alexandria today by the Young Men's Business Club. Flying discs were reported seen over Alexandria twice this week. Seven persons who said they saw them would be eligible as…
SPECIAL DEVICES CENTER BANDS POINT, PORT WASHINGTON LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK May 23 10 p.m. 20 MAY 1949 3137 Front: Commanding Officer and Director Mas: The Chief of Naval Operations Attn: Office of Naval Intelligence Via: The Chief of Naval Research Subj: Lighting of Unidentified Object—Report of Encl…
St. Stephen's Evangelical Lutheran Church 1611 BRENTWOOD ROAD, N. E. (One block north of Rhode Island Ave. West of 17th St.) Washington, D. C. Reply to: Rev. Luther Miles Schulze, S. T. M., Pastor 1647 Varnum Place N. E. Washington 17, D. C. Phone: DUpont 7591 Sundays Worship Service - - - 11 A. M. …
Reverend Duther M. Schulze 1611 Brentwood Road N.E. Washington, D.C. Dear Mr. Schulze: I am writing you briefly just to support what Mrs. Rhine wrote you. I am deeply interested in this case and want to help in any way I can. I think Dr. Winfred Overholzer at St. Elizabeth might take an interest in …
Stojka dnia 23/VII.1949 r. Pierwszych słowach mego listu musze Wam podac do wiadomosci co i jak sie przedstawia sprawa zniw na stojce to juz u nas wykoszo no zyto ukosiłismy dwanascie kupek na tym pierwszym kawałku a tam na gnoju 38 kupek a na amelinie to idziemy dopiero kosic to nie wiem co ukosimy…
'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…
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…
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…
'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 …
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…
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…
'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, …
Flying Saucer Film Taken Over by AF GREAT FALLS, Mont. (P)—Nick Mariana says that the Air Force has taken his color movies of two dives that burst over a baseball park here Aug. 15. He said he turned the color films over to the air technical command here at the request of a special investigator of t…
INFORMATION FROM FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS REPORT NO. 00 -W-23682 CD NO. COUNTRY Germany SUBJECT Military; Scientific DATE OF INFORMATION 1952 HOW PUBLISHED Daily newspaper DATE DIST. 23 AUG 1952 WHERE PUBLISHED Athena DATE PUBLISHED 9 Jul 1952 NO. OF PAGES 2 THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMAT…
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…
BARNES THEN STATES: 'BEFORE NOTIFYING THE AIR FORCE...OUR TECHNICIANS HAD CAREFULLY CHECKED THE EQUIPMENT TO MAKE CERTAIN THAT IT WAS OPERATING PERFECTLY...' "THERE IS NO OTHER CONCLUSION I CAN REACH BUT THAT FOR SIX HOURS ON THE MORNING OF THE 20TH OF JULY THEY WASHINGTON, THEY WERE NOT ORDINARY AI…
Casablanca, Maroc-Presse, 16 Jul 52 Two inhabitants of Chichaua report having seen three "white fires" in the sky at 2130 hours on 13 July 1952. Meansville, it is reported from Louis Gentil that at 2130 hours on 12 July 1952, several persons saw a yellow flying disk, about 30 centimeters in diameter…
Unusual flying objects were also reported seen at Boussiakou and Baulhaut between 2100 and 2200 hours on 13 July 1952. LUMINOUS OBJECT SEEK NEAR CASABLANCA -- Casablanca, Maroc-Presse, 15 Jul 52 Forty persona have reported that at 2200 hours on 13 July 1952, they observed a "luminous flying object" …
C RAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY C CRICAL INTELLIGENCE ADMIN INFORMATION FROM FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO. COUNTRY French Morocco French West Africa DATE OF INFORMATION 1952 SUBJECT Military - Unidentified aircraft HOW PUBLISHED Daily newspapers DATE DIST. 2 Sept 1952 WHERE PUBLISHED Dakar;…
LANGUAGE French THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION Newspapers as indicated. UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS OVER MOROCCO AND FRENCH WEST AFRICA EYEWITNESS REPORTS SAUCER OVER DAKAR -- Conakry, La Guinea Francaise, 12 Jul 52 EYKWITNESS REPORTS SAUCE OVER France-Afrique / Bakar weekly/ reports the statement …
Glowing Monster Sought In West Virginia Hills Woman, Boys Report Fire-Breathing Giant Was Discovered Near Spot Where Flying Saucers Were Seen Landing SUTTON, W. Va. — UP — Eye witnesses' accounts of a tail, glowing monster with a blood-red face skulking in the hills divided Braxton County today into…
BRAXTON COUNTY MONSTER lives again in this lantern being displayed by John Gibson, past president and an associate member of the Braxton County Jaycees. Mrs. Kathleen May, who saw the monster in 1952, called the replica "a pretty good likeness." (Staff Photo by Ferrell Friend)…
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…
Saucer Report Sparks Air Force Probe By United Press WASHINGTON — The Air Force said Wednesday a "preliminary report" on the reported sighting of eight "flying saucers" over Norfolk, Va., Monday night has been received at the Air Technical Intelligence Center, Dayton, O. The "saucers" were reported …
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…
Miami Pilots Spot 8 Saucers Flying In Formation By JOHN F. BONNER Herald Staff Writer Two Miami airlines pilots said Tuesday they saw 1,000-mile-an hour flying saucers in formation over Chesapeake Bay. They said eight of the "things" 100 feet in diameter and "glowing like hot coals," passed directly…
DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE WASHINGTON 25, D. C. The Inspector General USAF Miami Detachment 7th OSI District Office of Special Investigations Miami International Airport, Miami, Florida CIH/ra 15 July 1952 SUBJECT: SIGHTED UNCONVENTIONAL TYPE AIRCRAFT BY TWO PIL…
TOPCLIFFE AIRMEN "FLYING SAUCER" "Incredible Speed" He is Flight Lieutenant John William Kilburn (31), of Thornhill, Cumberland, who has been in the R.A.F. for 16 years, 11 of them as aircrew. He said: "I noticed a white object and assumed that its height was between 10,000 and 20,000 feet. It was f…
horizontally in space with four angles located 90 degrees apart on the rim. If you stood back and watched the wheel rotated, any one light on the rim would get brighter as the wheel turned and the light came closer. Then as the light started to recede, it would get dimmer and dimmer until it disappe…
