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ATIC NO. ---
DATE OF INFO 27 Dec 1949
AF NO. ---
LOCATION Los Alamos, N. W.
REPORT NO. ---
SOURCE Tech. Personnel
DATE OF REPORT 6 Jan 1950
DATE IN TO ATIC ---
TIME OF RECEIVING 1310
COLOR ---
SPEED ---
ALTITUDE --- H
COUR---
LENGTH OF TIME OBSERVED ---
TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ground
MANEUVERS Diving
Vapor trail appeared which apparently during and then disappeared. The object appeared to hang motionless just above the southern horizon for a moment and then went south at a high rate of speed, leaving a vapor trail.

SIGNATURE AND DATE
ATIC Form 329

UNCLASSIFIED
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6. Mrs. MERTIE DICKENS, RD #3, Trumansburg, New York was interviewed and stated that on 28 December 1949 she was at her home all day and did not see the objects described by Mrs. [redacted] and her children, nor did she hear any airplanes flying overhead that day. She further states that later than evening, Mrs. [redacted] called her and asked whether or not she had seen the objects which were seen near her home. She stated that she did not know of anyone in that vicinity who had seen the objects, except Mrs. [redacted] and her children.

7. Mrs. [redacted], Trumansb…

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12. This Agent interviewed Mr. [redacted] Operations Officer for the Robinson Airlines, Ithaca, New York. Mr. [redacted] made a check of the records and stated that there was no weather apparatus used on 28 December 1949 or at any time during the month of December. He further states that he observed the article in the Ithaca newspaper and had questioned the pilots flying Robinson aircraft in this vicinity on that date. He further states that it is possible that Mrs. [redacted] may have seen one of the Robinson Airliners, which is a DC-3, which landed at the Ithaca Airport at 1535…

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HEADQUARTERS THIRD ARMY
FORT MCPHERSON, GEORGIA

AJACI-3 360.33 4 January 1950

SUBJECT: Unconventional Aircraft

TO: Commanding General
Air Materiel Command
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Dayton, Ohio

Attention: MCI (Control No. A-1917)

Inclosed herewith are newspaper clippings and summary of information re strange objects in sky over Charlotte and Hamlet, North Carolina.

FOR THE COMMANDING GENERAL:

for JOHN MEADE
Colonel, GSC
AC of S, G-2

6 Incls:
1 - S/I dtd 29 Dec 49
2-6 Clippings

DOWNGRADED AT 3 YEAR INTERVALS
DECLASSIFIED AFTER 12 YEARS
DOD DIR 5200.10

511

UNCLASSIF…

UNCLASSIFIED
SUMMARY OF INFORMATION
DATE 29 December 1949
PREPARING OFFICE CIC Field Area Office No. 10, P.O. Box 2525, Charlotte, N.C.
SUBJECT Unconventional and Unidentified Aircraft Sighted at Hamlet, N.C. and Pageland, S.C.
CODE FOR USE IN INDIVIDUAL PARAGRAPH EVALUATION
OF SOURCE: OF INFORMATION:
COMPLETELY RELIABLE A CONFIRMED BY OTHER SOURCES
USUALLY RELIABLE B PROBABLY TRUE
FAIRLY RELIABLE C POSISLY TRUE
NOT USUALLY RELIABLE D OUSISTFULLY TRUE
UNRELIABLE E IMPROBABLE
RELIABILITY UNKNOWN F TRUTH CANNOT BE JUDGED

SUMMARY OF INFORMATION
Confirming telephoned report on this date, informat…

UNCLASSIFIED
SUMMARY OF INFORMATION
DATE 29 December 1949

|  PREPARING OFFICE | CIC Field Area Office No. 10, P.O. Box 2525, Charlotte, N.C.  |
| --- | --- |
|  SUBJECT | CODE FOR USE IN INDIVIDUAL PARAGRAPH EVALUATION  |
|  Unconventional and Unidentified Aircraft Sighted at Hamlet, N.C. and Pageland, S.C. | OF INFORMATION:  |
|   | COMPLETELY RELIABLE A COMPRIMED BY OTHER SOURCES 1  |
|   | USUALLY RELIABLE B PROBABLY TRUE 2  |
|   | FAIRLY RELIABLE C POSSIBLY TRUE 3  |
|   | NOT USUALLY RELIABLE D OUNTELLY TRUE 4  |
|   | UNRELIABLE E IMPROBABLE 5  |
|   | RELIABILITY UNKNOWN F TRUTH CANNO…

Charlotte Observer - 31 December 1949.

# Cigar-Shaped 'Thing' Over City Identified As B-36 Vapor Trail

A ghostly silver tube suspended in cloudless skies brought new visions of air-going cigars to mystified Charlotteans yesterday. But the strange, oblong object that has been reported streaking over the Carolinas since Wednesday had been shorn of its mystery last night.

The control tower at Municipal airport identified "the thing" conclusively as the vapor trail of an Air Force B-36, flying high and fast 40,000 feet over the city.

The tube-like object, visible over Charlotte for 15 minutes …

"THE STATE" Newspaper
Columbia, S. Carolina
29 December 1949

# Strange Craft Is Reported Seen in NC

Hamlet, N. C., Dec. 28—(AP)—A strange unidentified aircraft, resembling a balloon or a blimp, was reportedly flying “erratically” over Hamlet today, apparently out of control.

Several residents, including two pilots, gave various reports of the craft, as “heading straight down and leveling off,” and “turning over.” One observer said he thought he saw something resembling a man drop from the craft and one pilot, who chased it in a airplane, said it appeared to be from 20 to 30 feet in diameter…