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DATES OF INFO June 1948
LIGHTING Galveston, Texas
SUBJECT Male Civilian
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REMARKS: Proved to be hoax

Frequency ATTN Form 329
(6 Jan 48)

194

Beaumont, Texas
March 4, 1948

Gentleman:

I have just finished reading in article in the Saturday Evening Post entitled, "What You Can Believe About Flying Saucer". I am a sane young man, 18, and I still don't believe what I saw last summer at Gilchrist Beach (a summer village resort on the road to Galveston Texas). I have never repeated this information to my friends, who were at the "Lunch and" etc. to anyone.

It was in early June of 1948 a clear sky night.

E. M. P. 59

It was very late, around midnight, when I went out for a quick swim. The beach was deserted, except for a few lights in the nearby cabins. As I neared the water I heard a loud roaring noise and when I quickly looked back over my shoulder I saw this object sailing over the telephone poles which run by the highway. I have estimated at a twelve, or thirteen foot span and about the same length. It gradually descended towards the water at about a forty-mile

Top view

This is about all of the information that I could supply you. But I still don't believe what I saw.

Sincerely yours,

Beaumont, Texas.

done, and crashed and sunk into the water about a 150 yds off shore. I was very curious and swam out a little ways off-shore and I saw all floating on the water. If I remember correctly there was a distinct odor of kerosene or burnt cooking fat. I am a model plane builder and I have seen minitune fit engines, fashioned after the one that was attached to the "Buzz-bomb" that was used on Oxford in the last war. I found no debris floating on any other evidence of it. I have made a sketch as well as I g. could.

RE395
OUT FILE

UNCLASSIFIED

Project "Grudge"
5D CSI
ATTN: Mr. MCIAXS 13 May 49 1

1. It is requested that your office initiate an investigation of the sighting and apparent crash of an unidentified flying object as reported by inclosed letter.

1 Incl: Ltr, 3/4/48, fr

W. R. CLINGERMAN
Colonel, USAF
Chief, Analysis Division
Intelligence Department

GNT/amc
6-6398
Bldg 288
Post 218-B

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