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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 “Repo”837 scans · page 4
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…
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…
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…
http://www.bluebookarchive.org/page.aspx?PageCode=NARA-PBB1-15 JANUARY - FEBRUARY - MARCH 1948 SIGHTINGS LOCATION January OBSERVER 1948 | Antarctic NOT IN FOLDER | NOT IN FOLDER (Photos) (Photos) 1948 | Warren, Minnesota (NO CARD) | PHYSICAL-G Other (HOAX) 110 | Abilene, Texas | | Insufficient Data …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
'Monster Bird' Comes To Rest; Farmer Sees Giant Heron In Field Beloit. Wis., April 16.—The "monster bird" came to rest in a Clinton pasture yesterday. That at least is the belief of S. W. Merrick, a Clinton farmer, Merrick said he saw a giant heron, with a wingspread of at least six feet, standing i…
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…
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…
'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…
"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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
LaBorde is the head man in the editorial department — the managing editor. He has been in this post since 1951, also having served as City Hall reporter and telegraph editor after coming to The Talk Town in 1945. His professional honors include the American Legion journalism award in 1955, the Farm …
Office Memorandum • UNITED-STATES GOVERNMENT TO : Director, FBI DATE: July 26, 1949 FROM : SAC, San Antonio SUBJECT: FLYING DISKS INTERNAL SECURITY - Rcc: New Orleans On July 15, 1949, the Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2, Fourth Army at the Appalachian Appalachian Valley (Texas) News on …
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…
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…
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…
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…
1948 / Nr Mobile, AL / 5 boys / Saw 1l-ft Bigfoot in swamp / STAAU p.214. c.1948 / Harrison Mills, BC / Henry Charlie / Indian on bicycle chased by Bigfoot, which kept up with him for over a mile / Witness to JG, noted TSP p.14. c.1948 / Mad Lake nr Leavenworth, WA / Clarence M. Foster / Saw thin, b…
BCSO. 12:57 a.m. — Fight reported in the 100 block of E. Washington St. ,LPD. TUESDAY, APRIL 14 TUESDAY 9:36 p.m. — Trespassing reported in the 1300 block of Citation Circle West, LPD. — A mailbox in the Citation Circle West, 9:08 p.m. - A mailbox in the 3400 block of S. CR 500 E. Whitestown, has be…
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…
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…
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 …
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 …
20 March. Over Hazen, Arkansas. The Adams/Anderson airliner encounter. (See clippings on pages 39-40) Dr. James McDonald interviewed Captain Adams on February 7,1960 and asked him if the press accounts reporting his experience were fairly accurate. Captain Adams said "yes." 20 March. Mrs. Franklin R…
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…