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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 “Ian”814 scans · page 5
July 1995 GOVERNMENT RECORDS Results of a Search for Records Concerning the 1947 Crash Near Roswell, New Mexico THE ROSWELL REPORT BEST QUALITY INSTITUTED 1 Fact versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert Headquarters United States Air Force 1995 A Die-Hard Issue CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-9…
Date: 24 May 94 STATEMENT OF WITNESS Place: Washington I Sheridan W.Cavitt hereby state that Richard L. Weaver was identified to me as a Colonel, USAF. I do hereby voluntarily and of my own free will make the following statement without having been subjected to any coercion, unlawful influence or un…
Roswell Daily Record Movies as Usual Levees broke and flood waters rolled into the town of Grand Tower, ill. but while the manager of this movie theater sweeps out the water that has entered the lobby, these youngsters are standing in line for tickets for the night's performance. (AP Wirephoto). Som…
"Flying Saucer" Found In New Mexico A "FLYING SAUCER" has been found by the U.S. Army Air Force on a ranch near Roswell Airfield, in New Mexico. Lieutenant Haught, the Public Relations Officer at Roswell, announced yesterday that the "find" had been made "some time last week." In a statement he said…
Top of the Roswell Daily Record front page: RAAF Captures Flying Saucer on Ranch in Roswell Region ScanRoswell Daily Record tablished 1888 5¢ PER COPY he rolled into the town of Grand Tower, Ill. movie theater sweeps out the water that has waters are standing in line for tickets for the photo). Claims Army Is Stacking Courts Martial Indiana Senator Lays Protest Before Patterson Washington, July 8 (AP…
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…
Heleno de Freitas para o futebol uruguai cruzeiros pelo "passe" do centro avante Heleno, que já se prepara para reaparecer nas fileiras do Botafogo, tendo, mesmo, reiniciado seus treinos. Diz-se que o Nacional fez essa oferta porque deseja a solução do "caso" com grande rapidez. Quando estamos remet…
1. DATE·TIME GROUP 24 Jun 47 | 2. LOCATION Mr. Rainer, Washington 3. SOURCE Civilian | 10. CONCLUSION Other (MIRAGE) KENNETH ARNOLD SIGHTING 4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS Nine 5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 23-3 minutes | 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS Observer sighted a large circular objects heading west. They a…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
"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…
'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…
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…
UNCLASSIFIED Inocident g123 -- Alton, Illinois -- 11 April 1940 There is nothing of astronomical character in this incident. If one considers Johnel Stagnund's statements apart from the considerably less reliable ones of other observers, it would seem that the object may really have been a bird.…
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…
ONE SCHOOL OF THOUGHT HOLDS THE BIRD TO BE A WANDERING ALBATROSS, PICTURED HERE IN FLIGHT, WHICH SOMETIMES HAS BEEN A MISTAKEN. ACCORDING TO BIRD EXPERTS, IS THAT A WANDERING ALBATROSS WOULD NEVER WANDER THE FAR FROM THE OCEAN. THE GREAT BLUE HERON HAS ALSO BEEN ADVANCED AS THE SOLUTION TO THE MYSTE…
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 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…
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…
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…
STRANGE CONVENTION ALEXANDRIA, La.—Mrs. Elliza Taylor of Valdosta, Ga., became the first person to seek reservations for the convention of flying saucer witnesses here Dec. 10. Mrs. Taylor was one of 50 persons invited by the Young Men's Business Club to attend the unorthodox convention to be held "…
FLYING SAUCERS, AGAIN The Young Men's Business Club of Alexandria, Louisiana, is planning a convention for all persons who have ever seen flying saucers. ...Every day in our bank there's a convention of people who have seen the wisdom of doing their banking with us. American Bank OF CARLSBAD Member …
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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 …
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. …