U.S. Air Force Analysis of Flying Objects in the United States, 1-100

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Major Edward Graham and some unidentified officers of the Alaskan Command observed a greyish balloon approximately 10 feet in diameter in the vicinity of Elmendorf Fld. flying in a NW direction following the contour of the mountains five miles away. The object was reported as flying at an altitude of 1500 feet at an estimated rate of 100 MPH; paralleling the course of a C-42 landing into a 20-mile per hour wind.

NOTE: See also incidents 41 and 38. (Info extracted from weekly Intel Summary ATC 16 July 1947)