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4AF- 1208 - I
l5 July 1947
MEMORANDUM FOR THE OFFICER IN CHARGE:
On 15 July 1947 , S/Sgt Edward R. Baker, ASN RA 39576378, 467th
AAF BU (ORD) , Squadron A, Hamilton Field , California, was interviewed
and stated as follows :
S/Sgt Baker has been in the Army ten years and
two months , twenty- six months overseas duty in the ETO, and has been in
the Air Corps for about ten months .
S/Sgt Baker stated that on 8 July
1947 , he was going to Base Cleaners from his office and was passing
along the sidewalk near the barracks of the ORD when he saw five or s~x
men pointing toward the sky , but as he was use to this around an Army
Air Base, he paid no further attention to it until a lieutenant and a
captain ahead of him stopped and pointed in the same direction .
He
stated that on glancing up he saw three objects traveling northeast
across the sky .
Two seemed to be traveling faster than an ordinary
flight of P- 80s and he estimated the altitude between 9- 10, 000 feet
and approximately 7- 10 miles away.
S/Sgt Baker stated that the two
objects in the lead appeared to be round and of a very light gray col.or,
while the object in the rear seemed to be either rotating or rolling
behind the other two .
S/Sgt Baker stated that from a distance he could
not tell exactly the shape of the one which was rolling as it appeared
to be turning over and he couldn ' t tell whether the object was flat .
The only means he had of identifying it was the fact that it seemed to
get brighter and darker as it appeared to roll .
The objects were in
sight approximately four seconds .
As he was in a hurry, he did not stop
to talk to the other men but he heard one of them remark that the one in
the rear was certainly rolling fast .
S/Sgt Baker was unable to identify
any of the other men in the group who were reported to have seen the
object .
Baker stated that it was unlike anything he had ever seen and
that he has been trying to convince himself that it was an optical
.
illusion, and yet at the same time he is certain that he saw the objects
as described . (See Exhibit I) .
NOTE :
S/Sgt Baker appears to be intelligent and is a reserved sort of
person.
He was very reluctant to discuss the subject at first and
appeared hesitant prompted by the possibility that he might be ridiculed.
He seemed to be honest and sincere in what he stated he saw , and said
frankly he was puzzled over the matter .
A signed statement by S/Sgt
Baker is attached .
1 Incl:
Exhibit I .
·~HLLIAM L. DAVIDSON, Capt , AC, ore er, 4AF