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Official reports, hearing transcripts, case files and releases: the paper behind the cases. 2,872 documents, 2,610 mirrored with their text, 53,529 pages indexed, so a search reads inside them and lands on the page.
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 “disc”455 scans · page 3
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 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…
4 More Say They Saw 'Saucer' Here Another flying saucer made its appearance here last night, according to four persons who now are eligible to attend the "i-saw-a-flying saucer" convention here next December. Mrs. Andrew Rino, 1619 Warshauer street, reported to the Town Talk today that she, her husb…
IN REPLY REFER TO: 32-0 9th CSI District Barksdale AFB, La. 9 August 1949 SUBJECT: Project Grudge - Alleged Convention at Alexandria, Louisiana Subversive Activity TO: District Commander 5th OSI District (IO) Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Dayton, Ohio 1. Reference is made to letter, your Headquart…
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…
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 …
Daniel Vandervoort I am. this City Pearl line: All these from many are of reason many examples stand bright here for adventuring progression of life different times are shown here picked up on a defect at allitude now 10 000 feet reached are speech of our offspring answer - it is not of Jepay source…
Samuel Vandervort Washington, N.C. Rimelia For today have not whilst month termed on a short town halt to meet you comming on old subject On Oct. 1949 Inked your to committal on object are held dotted over documents. Your name is Clyde Gunnell Henry Stewart with District 051 to committal. Old Clyde …
In Norwood Norwood fiddle singer, reappeared Sunday night, the immediate consequence being a number of stiff necks Monday. The day's first appeared in the 800,000-candlepower search. Paul church six-weeks ago. Some nine reference Sim.…
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 …
349. | 671 | March 20[22?31?],1950.40 miles E of Little Rock,N of Stuttgart,Ark.9:26[9:29?]p.m.Chicago & Southern Airlines Capt.Jack Adams and First Officer G.W. Anderson,Jr.,flying a DC-3 at 2,000 ft heading W from Memphis to Little Rock,saw a 100 ft flat cylinder-section circular disc[or body of o…
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…
'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…
NBC Press transcript, Today with Mrs. Roosevelt, page 1, featuring Jack Adams and G.W. Anderson ScanNBC PRESS -1- TODAY WITH MRS. ROOSEVELT FOUR DEMOCRATIC SENATORS TODAY DEFENDED THE ADMINISTRATION AGAINST REPUBLICAN CHARGES OF "HANDOUT STATISM" AND WASTE AND SEVERELY CRITICIZED "RECKLESS ATTACKS" ON MEMBERS OF THE STATE DEPARTMENT. THE SPOKESMEN WERE SENATORS CLINTON P. 'ANDERSON OF NEW MEXICO, …
THE FLYING SAUCERS- FACT OR FICTION? By CURTIS FULLER Editor of FLYING When observers as experienced as airline pilots say they've seen strange objects in the sky, they deserve a respectful hearing. THE night of March 31, 1950, was dark and clear. The Chicago and Southern Air Lines DC-3 had taken of…
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…
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…
"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…
CAPT. JACK ADAMS C.&S.'s Pilot Adams would not swear that the ship he saw had circular shape indicated, but the circular arrangement of "portholes" seemed to indicate that it was a disc. 1950…
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…
a C & S pilot making the trip as a passenger." $ ^{233} $ The Adams-Anderson sighting sparked interest nationwide. Mrs. Roosevelt, the widow of the late President, even invited the two airline pilots to appear with her on television.254 All of America's top news commentators like Walter Kiernan, Dre…
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…
"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…
