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PROJECT 1973 RECORD CARD

|  1. DATE | 15 March, 1951 | 2. LOCATION | New Delhi, India  |
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|  3. DATE-TIME GROUP | Local 1020 GMT 15/0450Z | 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION | ☑ Ground-Visual ☐ Ground-Radar ☐ Air-Visual ☐ Air-Intercept Radar  |
|  5. PHOTOS | ☐ Yes ☑ No | 6. SOURCE | Civilian  |
|  7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | 7 1/2 minutes | 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | one  |
|  9. COURSE |   | Manuvered |   |
|  10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING |   | Cigar shaped object viewed by about 25 witnesses flew over air field, made loop, and flew off to South. Initial appearance of whitish clou…

CONFIDENTIAL
UNCLASSIFIED
TT-126
21 May 52
CSAF ITEM 5
ATIAA

ATIAA

CSAF ITEM 5/CONFIDENTIAL/
SECURITY INFORMATION
TO ATIAA-2C ROTHSTEIN
FROM AFOIN-2B3 FOURNET
REF AMC ITEM 3 TT DTD 27 MAR 52 ADDRESSED
TO MAJ PARKER

PARKER SHOWED ME REF TT ITEM YESTERDAY
AND ADVISED THAT HE HAD NOT LOCATED ANY
INFO. MADE A SEARCH OF MY FILES AND FOUND AN
AA INDIA RPT RE SIGHTING OF CIGAR-LIKE
OBJECT WITHOUT SURFACES OVER NEW DELHI ON
15 MARCH 51 BY CHIEF ENGINEER OF DELHI FLYING
CLUB. RPT NBR IS AF 310198. HAVE GIVEN
COPY TO LT COFFMAN WHO WILL HAND CARRY TO
YOU. NO OTHER RPT OF SIGHTING VICINITY OF
INDIA FO…

UNCLASSIFIED
AF FORM 112 - PART I
APPROVED 11 JUN 1948

|  COUNTRY | INDEA  |
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|  ALPORT NO. | IB-24-51  |
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|  CLASSIFICATION | AF-310198  |
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AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT

|  FROM (Agency) | Air Attache, New Delhi, India  |
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|  DATE OF REPORT | 26 March 1951  |
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|  DATE OF INFORMATION | 16 March 1951  |
|  REVIEWER'S NAME | Robert L. Tillotson, Captain, USAF  |
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|  SIGNATURE | See report  |
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Request copies this report be forwarded AFOIN

|  REVIEWER | 1. Other reports references of report. Give …

UNCLASSIFIED
AF FORM 112—PART II
AFP009-1 REV 5-4

AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT

|  FROM (Agency) | REPORT NO. | PAGE 1 OF 1  |
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|  A/A India | IR-24-51 | 1  |

1. On Thursday morning 15 March 1951 an object was sighted by Mr. [redacted], along with his assistants, Mr. [redacted] and Mr. [redacted] also some twenty other mechanics and helpers professed to have witnessed this object. When interviewed by the reporting officer the stories were all the same. Dr. P. Nilakantan, educated at California Institute of Technology and now Director of the Research and Development …

UNCLASSIFIED
AF FORM 112—PART II
APPROVED 1 REV. 11-44
AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT
FROM (Agency) A/A India
REPORT NO. IR-2A-51
PAGE 1 OF 1
DATE 2

1. On Thursday morning 15 March 1951 an object was sighted by Mr. , the chief aerial engineer of the , along with his assistants, Mr. and Mr. . Also some twenty other mechanics and helpers professed to have witnessed this object. When interviewed by the reporting officer the stories were all the same. Dr. P. Nilakantan, educated at California Institute of Technology and now Director of the Research and Development Laboratory of the Director …

Call it what you like -- a Flying Saucer, a Suicide Soup Plate or a Pink Elephant. So what you may - that I am have had one over the mark and what I saw were the effects of the morning after the night before, but, whatever you say think or say is ruled out by the fact that what I and many others saw was certainly something out of the ordinary.

Before I say any more I would like to mention that I have been associated with aeronautics for over twenty years. I am an aeronautical Engineer and a Pilot and without exaggeration my eyes and ears are so trained that should there be any unusual sound o…

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considerable to all of us for a little over 7 1/2 minutes.

To be a little more descriptive I must say that this peculiar object travels at varying speeds and alters its course in such a manner that it appears to be under manual or wireless control. While travelling at slow speeds it does not smoke trail but when it accelerates it leaves a black smoke trail which turns into a whitish swirly cloud which denotes as if left by a turbine.

I estimate that when travelling at top speed the so called Flying Soucer is travelling at a speed of 2,000 miles per hour.

I do not understand why it is…