342_HS1-416511228_319.1 Flying Discs 1949

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13 Feb.

S.H

HEADQUARTERS

MILITARY AIR TRANSPORT SERVICE

CR 3/12

DTG 1118007

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FROM: FT PEPPERBELL, NFLD

TO: CG AMC-ATTN MCIAXO DASH THREE

INFO: CS USAF

HQ MATS

ATTN INTELLIGENCE DIVISION

REF NBR: CITE XRAY CHAFLIE ZERO ONE EIGHT ACTION

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Information copies were distributed to:

WILLIAM WELTS OF PEEPERS CROSSING AND JIM BURNES OF CURLING EAST

NEWFOUNDLAND OBSERVED BURNING OBJECT AT ZERO SIX FIVE FIVE LOCAL

TIME ONE ONE FEBRUARY FOUR NINE TRAVELING SOUTHEAST THROUGH AIR AT

ALTITUDE ONE THOUSAND FEET WHILE WAITING FOR BUS PD BUS DRIVER ALSO

SAW IT PD VISIBILITY UNLIMITED PD OBJECT CAME UP OVER HORIZON AND

DISAPPEARED BEHIND TWO THOUSAND FOOT HILL PD WHETHER IT LANDED

UNKNOWN PD VISIBLE FROM FIVE TO ONE ZERO MINUTES PD GLOWING WHEN

LIGHTED CMA FADED CMA THEN PUT ON SECOND BURST AT WHICH TIME

FLAMING EXHAUST ESTIMATED TO BE TWO HUNDRED YARDS LONG PD NO SOUND

PD WELLS WAS ONLY WITNESS INTERVIEWED PD CONSIDERED RELIABLE BY POLICE

CMA BUT IS INARTUCULATE PD REPORTED OCCURANCE BECAUSE HE THOUGHT IT

COULD BE AIRCRAFT IN TROUBLE

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Paraphrase not required. Handle as...correspondence
per paragraphs 5li and 60a(4), AR 380-5; 15 August 1948.

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Form Hq-AG-54
(28 June 1948)