U.S. Air Force Analysis of Flying Objects in the United States, 101-172

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IIEADf.fJARTIPS, TPiltTEENIB Ain ft,CRCE
CLAR. A~
FORCE BASE
APO 719
B-2/am
S April 1946
AG 452. 1
SUBJEC r :
Report of bighting of Unidentified ,ircraft
and/or Fl yi ng Ubj ect.
TO
Conrnandin g General,
Far East Air Forces,
APO 925,
u. -=> • . Army.
ATTN :
AC/S, A-2
1.
In compl iance with "lntelliga,ce Reouirernents - Un-identified
i\ir craft" and letters, your hea:iquarters, AG 452.l A-2, 3 11ovember 1947
and AG 452 .1 A-2, 20 ~Jarch 1948, the f ollowing incident is reported.
2.
At 163() hours on 1 Apr il 1948, the S- 2 officer of the 18t h
Fighter Gr oup contacted the A-2 Division, this headquarters, and reported
:that 1st Lt. Robert .,. ~eyers had sif:t1ted an unidentified flyin1: object.
His s tory i s as follows .
3.
On l f\pril, at 0955, 1st Lt . •~eyers was l eading a flight of
four l4) P-47 aircraft of t r.e 67th F'ipj,ter Squadron, 18th :F'iE:hter Group.
He was flying a heading of 180 degrees, al titude 1500 f eet, position 1?4
degree6 3 minutes east and 12 degr ees 52 minutes north, when he sight ed
an unidentified d:>ject approximately three ( 3) mil es east of his position
and at an estimated altitude of 1000 feet, heading of 36o degr ees .
The
object appeared to be a flyine wing type aircraft, its shape r esembled
a half moon what appeared to be a dorsal fin waR barely perceptible, the
span of t he object estimated to be t hirty feet, length t-wenty feet and
silver in co l or.
Upon sifjltint: theobject, Lt. - eyers immediately started
a l eft tum with the intenti on of intercepting and to more J:OSi tively
id 81 ti.fy this phenomena.
1'/ldle l!eyers was making a 240 degree turn, the
unidentifi ed object made a 90 degree left turn, then l evel ed out on a
headinc of 270 degrees, accelerated rapidly and disappeared f r om sight
in approximately five seoonds .
Ther e was no sound heard, ·and no exhaust
trails were observed. At the time of t he s~hting visibility was unlimited,
scattered cumulus, base 3()00 feet, tops 6000 feet.
a.
Because of the distance fr om which the sightint: was made,
no distinguishing features i .e . power \inits, larding gear, armar1ent oi,
cockpit were observed.
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