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Pilot" Sights Small Flying Oise
Chasing F-84 Over Japan
By the Associated Preu
UNITED STATES AIR BASE,
Northern Japan. Jan. 28.-The
United States Air Force last night
reported a small, metallic, disc­
shaped object made a controlled,
sweeping pass at an American
jet fighter-bomber and was ob­
served at very close range by
another pilot.
The report, from Air Force
intelligence files, said the sight­
ing was made over Northern
Japan at 11 :20 a.m., March 29.
1952, by Lt. David C. Brigham of
Rockford, DJ.
It was a bright, cloudless day.
Lt. Brigham said he got a very
goi
look at the object from
ab t 30 to 50 feet for about 10
sec nds.
T e
pilot
described it as
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"about eight inches in diameter,
very thin, round, and as shiny as
polished chromium; had no ap­
pannt projections and left no
exhaust trails or vapor trails."
He said it caught up with an
F-84 Thunderjet, hovered a few
moments and then shot out of
sight.
The F-84 pilot, whose
name was not revealed, did not
see it.
1t was the second disclosure
in a week by Air Force intelli­
gence of mysterious flying ob­
jects over Northern Japan near
the Russian-Siberia area.
On January 21, the Air F~ ce
disclosed that "rotating clus rs
of red, white and green lig s"
had been sighted over North rn
Japan by American airmen:
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