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DOW-UAP-D155 · PDF · R07
A SECRET Air Intelligence Information Report on a B-52 from Castle AFB that, during a January 1957 Strategic Air Command mission over Saudi Arabia, held an unidentified return at the 6,000-yard marker of its A-3A gunnery scope for five to seven minutes. The return was smaller than the one from a second B-52 at 5,000 yards and vanished when the bomber banked, toward the Baghdad Flight Identification Region. The form includes two hand-drawn scope sketches.
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DOW-UAP-D156 · PDF · R07
An F-86D alert pilot in the Guam range holding pattern on 31 December 1956 chased a blinking white light for about ten minutes: it turned with him, climbed over him and circled his fighter twice while he used afterburner and could not close. The preparing officer found a lighted weather balloon had been launched earlier, but noted it should have been far higher; the pilot rejected the balloon because the object maneuvered with him and accelerated past.
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DOW-UAP-D157 · PDF · R07
The Air Attache in Rome forwarded, in December 1953, Professor G. B. Sias's account of a luminous green-blue sphere crossing the sky over Sassari, Sardinia, in August 1952, appearing and vanishing in a pulsing line. His enclosure cites the Vatican Observatory director's calculation that the sphere would have been kilometers across, names two other witnesses, and ends with a request for a reward for a war orphans' institute. The officer judged Sias intelligent but 'very intense'.
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DOW-UAP-D158 · PDF · R07
A 918th AC&W Squadron report on 13 November 1953 at Prince George Airport, British Columbia: two airmen guarding a B-29 saw a blinking white-blue light, first taken for a falling star, descend to about 150 feet, hold for 30 seconds, rise straight up to about 300 feet, hold again, then leave west while climbing, about four minutes in all. They heard a humming sound for about two seconds. The intelligence officer's comment: 'Cause unknown.'
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DOW-UAP-D159 · PDF · R07
Extracts from Tempelhof air traffic control logs for 10 to 11 August 1953: one British European Airways DC-3 in the Center Corridor reported what looked like red rockets fired about a mile ahead, and a second reported a stationary red light about 20 nautical miles west of Genthin near 5,000 feet. The British Berlin Air Safety Center reported the Soviets checked and could not account for it. A Pan American pilot saw nothing that night but described ground-to-air firing there days earlier.
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DOW-UAP-D160 · PDF · R07
Radar operators of Detachment 2, 737th AC&W Squadron in French Morocco tracked returns on 16 December 1953 that shifted between V, W and M shapes, numbered one to twelve per sweep, and faded after several minutes. The site's own maintenance staff offered no cause; 316th Air Division electronics personnel listed three possibilities and the report adopts one of them as the likely cause. The case is useful as a record of how 1953 radar anomalies were closed.
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DOW-UAP-D161 · PDF · R07
The 5004th Air Intelligence Service Squadron's report on a light seen on 6 October 1953 on the southern tip of Big Diomede Island, USSR, by a 14-year-old Little Diomede resident who had kept his own nightly watch for a week. The light, flashlight-like and lasting several seconds, appeared where people had never been seen. The preparing officer floated signaling to the Alaskan mainland as a possibility while noting there was no evidence for it.
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DOW-UAP-D162 · PDF · R07
A companion 5004th AISS report: on 1 December 1953 an Alaska National Guard squad leader at Gambell, St. Lawrence Island, watched a stationary flashlight-colored light on the horizon at a true bearing of 283 degrees for about five minutes until it went out as if switched off. Airmen checked the bearing with a compass and found no other villager had seen it. With no land on that bearing, the officer could reach no conclusion and raised an unknown ship as one possibility.
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DOW-UAP-D163 · PDF · R07
The Air Attache in Stockholm forwarded a translated press account of the 17 December 1953 encounter near Hassleholm: Transair's chief pilot and crew chief saw a shining, nearly round metallic object pass about 600 meters below their DC-3 at roughly the speed of sound, with no exhaust or trail, for six to seven seconds. The Defense Staff said no Swedish aircraft was there and opened an investigation. The attache added an unflattering character sketch of the pilot from one acquaintance.
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DOW-UAP-D164 · PDF · R07
A January 1954 report from Atterbury AFB, Indiana, on a druggist and his wife near Seymour who, on a night they could not date, in a week the report places in December 1953, watched two white, cloudy ring-shaped objects in staggered formation, each with four bright points of light rotating slowly clockwise. The objects descended, hovered level, then left at an abrupt upward angle with 'Incredible speed', with no sound. The story surfaced only because the couple's doctor raised the subject; they had told just three friends.
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DOW-UAP-D177 · PDF · R07
Record cards and a teletype on a bright orange object about the size of a nickel at arm's length seen falling straight down near Avalon, Catalina Island, on 15 March 1955, for about two seconds. The 4602d AISS index card marks it possibly astronomical and too brief to merit further investigation; the Project 10073 record card checks astronomical, meteor.
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DOW-UAP-D178 · PDF · R07
A record card and teletype on a round purplish-white object an Air Force clerk watched from San Pedro on 16 November 1953: stationary over Catalina, then moving northwest toward Los Angeles on a level path for about ten minutes before fading. The card notes the motion did not match winds aloft and records Griffith Park astronomers' view that it was possibly a planet; the conclusion box reads Jupiter.
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DOW-UAP-D179 · PDF · R07
A March AFB report of 28 August 1952 on three Boy Scouts at Camp Fox who, on a hike on Santa Catalina on 25 June 1952, saw a silent silver object faster than a jet make a climbing turn and then disintegrate. The officer made no reliability estimate and called the observers' experience 'probably meager at best'. The four inclosed letters and sketches it lists are not in this two-page file.
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DOW-UAP-D181 · PDF · R07
A handwritten 1 May 1949 letter from an Avalon man to Kenneth Arnold in Boise: his wife and a school teacher saw six objects singly in the night sky on 28 April, and minutes later his wife, daughter and grandson saw four more, all going the same way. A routing card shows it reached Air Materiel Command from the 17th District at Kirtland Field in May 1949, annotated that the letter was not acknowledged; the conclusion is insufficient data.
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