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102 Center Street, Oxford,
called 11:35 p.m., May
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bright light
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Office Memorandum . uN1TEn sTATEs GovERNMENT
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Mr. A. H. Belmon
DATB:Ma y fl-~ 1956
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SUBJECT ~
.FLYING DISC OBSERVED
OXFORD, PENNSY.LVANIA
MAY 4, 1956
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Mr. Thom
Ga.mble,
Pennsylva.nia, telephone ll??R,
1956, and advised that he had just observed a
traveling about 2000 feet in the air toward Baltimore.
He
last saw it at the place he uxis calling the Bureau from
which uxis 121 Hodson Street, Oxford, Pennsylvania.
He
described the object as a solid, bright, yellow light,
visible from all directions which he described at one
point as being more than twice as bright and twice as big
as the headlight of an automobile and another time as
twice as bright as the evening star and it was impossible
to persuade him to describe it more specifically.
He said
the object made no noise and that dr first it uxi.s traveling
overhead about as fast as his automobile but then it speeded
up and he could not keep up with it although he uxis
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traveling at Bo miles per hour.
He said that two of his
buddies in the 'barroom where he had first observed the
object had also observed it--Cectl Pew and Raymond Dixon.
He said he had tried to call Civil Defense headquarters
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in Baltimore but no one was on duty. 13-Jdes rY!!f,1-ed-
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ACTION:
CaptainE. c. Brown, OSI, was advised.
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MAY 8 1956
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cc - Mr. Belmont
Mr. Branigan