342_HS1-416511228_319.1 Flying Discs 1949

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WRIGHT-PATTERSON FLIGHT SERVICE CENTER
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE
DAYTON, OHIO

CEN/CEL/deg

20 July 1949

SUBJECT: Report of Unidentified Flying Object

TO:

Commanding General

Air Material Command

Wright-Patterson AF Base, Ohio

ATTN: MCIAXO-3

The following report of an unidentified flying object is submitted in compliance with Flight Service Regulation 200-1. At 22026, 19 July 1949 the Wright-Patterson Flight Service Center received the following information from Cincinnati Air Route Traffic Control Center:

At 21406, Mr Neinkirchen of 2119 Cleveland Avenue, Columbus, Ohio, phone Jefferson 2956, telephoned Columbus Ohio Municipal Airport Control Tower to report the following information with respect to un-identified flying object.

a. LOCATION: Over Columbus, Ohio at 21356.

b. WEATHER: Clear sky - visibility 15 miles.

c. NAACP: Mr Neinkirchen, 2119 Cleveland Avenue, Columbus, Ohio, phone Jefferson 2956, photographer by trade - has worked with jet aircraft and engines.

d. PHOTOGRAPHS: None.

e. SKETCHES: None.

f. OBJECT SIGHTED:

(1) NUMBER: One.

(2) SHAPE: Flying wing type, swept back wings, tail but no noticeable nose - similar to present day jet aircraft.

(3) SIZE: Seemed too small for one man aircraft.

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