342_HS1-416511228_319.1 Flying Discs 1949

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HqMAMA Form No. 10-530
(Rev 23 Apr. 48)

OLMSTED FLIGHT SERVICE CENTER

Olmsted Air Force Base

MIDDLETOWN, PENNSYLVANIA

Operating Location 33-8

PKB/ban

13 December 1948

MDT 000.9

SUBJECT: Unidentified Flying Objects

TO: Commanding General
Air Materiel Command
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Dayton, Ohio

ATTN: MCIAXO-3

1. In compliance with FS Regulation 200-4 dated 2 November 1948 and letter, Headquarters, USAF., Subject: "Reporting of Information on 'Flying Discs'," dated 6 February 1948 the following information is submitted:

ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF INFORMATION

1. Date of Sighting: 11 December 1948

2. Time of sighting: 2245E

3. Where sighted: See Paragrah 3b (2)

a. Ground

Not applicable

b. Air

(1) Type aircraft, speed, altitude, direction of flight.

C-45F 150 9500 ft 125 Degrees

(2) Distance & Direction from City, town or known landmark:

40 miles northwest of Martinsburg, West Virginia

(3) Clock Position of object from observer's aircraft:

12 o'clock., approximately 20 miles in front of aircraft

(4) Latitude and longitude: Approximately 39°58'N 78°20'W