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Ojfic;~~Memo& dum. UNITED STA­
GOVERNMENT
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DATE:
4-10-56
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SUBJECT:
stiYIA L. RICHARDS
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Miss Rtchards on 4/9/56 reiorted the following rather
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On 4/5/56 Miss Rich rds left Washington by car with her
fiance, Joseph L. Morris, Jr. (employee of National Security Agency),
to go to Morven, North Carolina to meet the
orris family.
Around
5 a. m. on 4/6/56 as dawn was breaking and while driving on Route 1
north of Henderson, North Carolina, the pair was startled by what
appeared to be a round low-flying object coming directly towards
the car.
The object appeared to pass over the car and
iss Richards
turned to see it appear to speed up and then veer off out of sight.
She and Mr. Morrts both felt they had seen something unuaual which was
difficult to explain and certainly did not appear to be an optical
illusion.
Miss Richards stated the object as she saw it appeared
round, was spinning and was bright as though containing a series of
lights in a 2ig-zag pattern.
The object appeared to be fl ying very
low as it came towards them, moving at great speed and gaue of/ no
particular sound.
The object, to the best of her belief, was at
least as wide a
the highway and appeared no more than two to four
feet in thickness.
Miss Richards, who is one of our best employees, stated
hereto/ore she has placed little credence in ''.flytng saucer" stories
and felt that had she and her boyfriend not seen the same object she
would be inclined to think she had imagined something.
She
appreciates that what they saw may have been some kind of optical
illusion; however, at the time the object appeared very real to them.
1 RECOMMENDATION:
If you agree, it ts recommended that this memorandum be
referred to the Liaison Section of the Domestic Intelligence Division
for possible referral to any int?rested military agencies.
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