Analysis of Flying Object Incidents in the United States, 1948

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APPENDIX II011
SEIEC.CED REPORTS (I!' FLYnrn OBJECT INCIDENTS
A nunber ot reports on unidentified fly;l.ng objects come trom
observer• fflio, beonuas o! their teobnioal background and experience do
not appear to be infiuenoed by unfounded senaationallam nor ino,linod to
report explahable phena1uma as new types 0£ airborne devices.
Some of .
the detailB of their reports are presented in this appendix~ slang with
those from posDibly le3s reliable sources who have reported evidence
which is of such a nature that it cannot be entirely ignored.
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2. Descriptions ot Bifi'}liticant :inoidente, arranged ohronologically,
,
follow.a
a. During April 1947, two employeea ot tbs wentber Bureau
Statioa at Richmond, Virginia reported aee1ng a stranee metallic diak
cm three ooc&aion• through the "tbeodolite while_. making PIBAL observa­
t.ion•• One observation was at 15,000 feet when a disk waa followed for
15 seconds. The diak appeared metallic, ■baped 10tt10thing liko an ellip1e
with a flat bottaa and a ro\ll'ld top. It appeared balcnY the balloon and
waa much larger in Bise. The di ■k appeared to be moving rather rapidly,
altboue)l it waa impouaible to eatimate its apsed. The otb!tr obaervationa
""'"' Jllllda at 27,000 t eet :in like manner.
b. The tollorin1 lit0Xlth, Byron B. Savage, a f ield engl.noer f or
:""Hiii!\rt1.n
, iWl>oned a diak tlying near hiu homo in
eot no thought to be at an alt itude
eet, and waa novinR toward t he north
feet on a courM of ))0 d•~os,
, Nevada, an .ill' force lieutenant r~
oiroular object , in cloea tormat1on auia_.
t
Yelin at an
etimated •P d of 28S mil•• pol' hour. Thi• ei6ht1ng
occurred on~ June 1947.