342_HS1-416511228_319.1 Flying Discs 1949

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16th Weather Sqdn.

Chanute Air Force Base

Chanute Field, Illinois.

5/H/a

9 December 1945

SUBJECT: Reporting of Information on "Flying Discs"

TO:

Commanding General

Air Materiel Command

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

Dayton, Ohio

ATTN: TSDIN

1. In compliance with 21029 Air Weather Group TWX 464 dated 19 November 1945 and letter, Headquarters, United States Air Force,

subject as above, 6 February 1945, the following report is submitted:

a. Chanute Air Force Base, Illinois, 0900462.

b. High scattered clouds, visibility ten miles.

c. Sgt. James E. Doty and Sgt. Eugene V. Montag, Weather Observers, Det 16/1L, 16th Weather Squadron, Chanute AFB, Illinois.

d. Photographs of objects - none available.

e. Sketches of objects - None available.

f. Object sighted:

(1) One

(2) Round

(3) Undetermined size

(4) Bright white color

(5) Two tenths of distant sky within two to three seconds.

(6) Heading from north east toward south south west.

(7) Undetermined maneuverability.

(8) Undetermined altitude.

(9) No sound

(10) Exhaust trail undetermined.

g. General remarks:

Object sighted to north east moving to south south west that resembled a skyrocket or meteor but was moving upward fifteen degrees. Object was described to be about thirty five degrees above the horizon and traversed across thirty five degrees of the horizon within three seconds and disappeared.

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