342_HS1-416511228_319.1 Flying Discs 1949

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MARCH FLIGHT SERVICE CENTER

March Air Force Base, California

DMZ 360.112

1 March 1949

SUBJECT: Information of Unidentified Flying Object.

TO:

Commanding General,

Air Materiel Command,

Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.

ATTENTION: MCIAXO-3.

1. In accordance with letter, Headquarters, USAF, subject: "Reporting of Information on 'Flying Discs'," dated 6 February 1948 and Flight Service Regulation 200-4, the following information of

unidentified flying object is forwarded as received by March Flight Service Center from Air Route Traffic Control, Los Angeles.

a. 1st Lt. John T. Smith, pilot of Air Force 7346, T-11 on a round robin flight from Fresno Air Terminal, California to Los Angeles and return, reported that he was circled by a jet propelled

blimp while over Sandberg Pass, about 40 miles south of Bakersfield, California at 2030 P, 28 February 1949. The speed of the object was

estimated at 500 MPH, flying at an altitude of nine thousand feet.

The object then disappeared on a heading of 180°.

b. Weather reported for Sandberg Pass at 2030 P was twenty thousand feet thin scattered clouds, visibility 10 miles, temperature

36, dew point 34, wind south 7, altimeter 3007. Remarks to the se-

quence weather were: Visibility west 1 mile, fog ceiling and visi- bility variable due to scattered stratas drifting over station.

Conditions radically changing.

c. No other information of object's size, shape, speed, or color, is available.

RALPH A. REEVE,

Lt. Colonel, USAF,

Commanding.

Information Copies to:

Chief of Staff, USAF,

Washington 25, D.C.

Attn. Director of Intelligence

Commander, MATS, Washington 25, D.C.

Attn: Intelligence Division

CO, Flight Service, Washington 25, D.C.

Attn: A-2

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