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1388th AAF RAse Unit
AP0 864, ~/o Postmaster, New York, N.Y.
Flying Dj sc or other airborne object.
Codroy, N~wroundland, 59co3 • W Long.; 1,7o50, N Lat.
OOJOZ hours, 11 July 1947.
Appro"ld.mately 6.000 feet.
Clear; at dusk.
From northwest heading eastward.
Very hieh velocity.
Disc shat>eli; was reported as being the she of a
barrel-head, ~inner-plate arvt. ~ize of a plane
that is flyL~g high.
The trail i ave t he whole
object the appearance of a cone.
Flame color ed with a trail of a lighter name ~nlor.
Mr. John Legge, Mr. lb. Ev&ns and Albert Samm.9 of
Codroy, N~wfoundland.
Mr. Legge and Mr. Evans were standing 011tside Mr. Legge 's
store when they both sighted the o bjec+..
Both "len stated
t hat the di sc was very bright with an after-r,1.ow which
made the object look like a cone. It was a very clear
night. In s!)ite of the high velocity of the fiyin g
object, they said they ~ould not possibly have mistaken
it for a plane or a r~lling star. Besides the two Men,
the object ffllS sighted by Albert Sam:ns; he rP-portert what
he had seen t.o his mother.
Mrs. Samms stated t hat Albert
was in no way a larmed about it, he w~s alor.e and on hi s
way hC1mo when he sighted it, arxl watched it llhile it wae
in si ~t.
'-ll)ert was quite convinced fran the color and
behaviour of the object that it was not a plane, but
de!'inately sa:ie !'lytng objPJct.
The inforinant, Vr. Legce, is believed to be reliable.
H'i is ·a man of approxim11.tely .forty; has had considerable
experience as f oreman ot B•1chan3 l!ir,e, Newfoundland, where
he was in charcc of three hundt-ed m~n.
During the war,
Mr. Legee was si mamber of a civilian volunteer Air
D-,uction Corps.
With that >, ckg:round, Vr. Legge stAted
that he felt sure thlit the object he had seen was eorne-/
thing new which he had never seen before.
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