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PROJECT 10073 RECORD

|  1. DATE ,TIME GROUP 7 April 49 07/2245Z | 2. LOCATION San Bernardino, California 305  |
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|  3. SOURCE Military | 10. CONCLUSION 1. INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR EVALUATION 2. Other (PARACHUTES)  |
|  4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS 1. One 2. Multiple  |   |
|  5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 1. 405 sec 2. Not Reported | 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS 1. Observer sighted a red and gray object which appeared to be tumbling in a forward direction. It was seen for a few seconds. 2. Observers sighted what appeared to be four parachutes except that no shroud lines or bodies could be seen…

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Incident: 305

Name and address of observer: Lt. Edwin B. Reeser
Lt. Marvin M. Van Salter

Occupation and hobbies:
Pilots

Comments of Interrogator relative to intelligence and character of observer(s):

NARRATIVE SUMMARY: After seeing object described and other white objects similar to parachutes but without shroud lines or bodies were noticed floating in sky at 1000' a part.

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305
7 April 49
INCIDENT NO: 19 April 49

1. Date of Observation 1445 - 1500 Date of Interview
2. Exact Time (local) Riverside, Calif.
3. Place of Observation Air T-6 at 8000'
4. Position of observer
5. What attracted attention to object.
6. Number of objects
7. Apparent size Red & Grey
8. Color of object
9. Shape Like Wing Tip Tank
10. Altitude
11. Direction from observer
12. Distance from observer Easternly
13. Direction of flight of object(s)
14. Time in sight
15. Speed
16. Sound and odor
17. Trail
18. Luminosity
19. Projections
20. Maneuvers
21. Manner of disappearance
22. …

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Basic ltr: Report, Subj: Rep on Flying Discs, dtd 19 Apr 49, to: Intel Officer, SBAD, fr Lt Van Salter and Lt Reeser

2d Ind SSAI/EDS/mlo

Hq SBAD, San Bernardino Air Force Base, California, 22 April 1949.

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

Forwarded for your information.

FOR THE COMMANDING OFFICER:

EVERETT D. ELKINS
Major, USAF
Intelligence Officer

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DOWNGRADED AT 3 YEAR INTERVAL
DECLASSIFIED AFTER 12 YEARS.
DOD DIR 5200.10
41-576

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Subject: Report on Flying Discs 19 Apr 49

which is usually associated with jets. However, the first object which I
saw answered quite well to all this talk of discs which has been going
around. It was definitely tumbling and and was smaller than our T-6. As
our movement was relative however, I won't say in which direction it was
moving other than it was northerly. I might add here that on one of the
news programs of the following day, a reporter announced that three work-
ers in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, had seen a disc.

MARVIN M. VAN SALTER
1st Lt, AF CAL NG

Edwin B. Reeser
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UNCLASSIFIED
19 Apr 49

SUBJECT: Report on Flying Discs

TO: Major Everett D. Elkins
Intelligence Officer
San Bernardino AFB,
San Bernardino, Calif.

1. On the afternoon of April 7, 1949, between the hours of 1445 and 1500, Lt. Edwin B. Reeser and I, were in a National Guard T-6, working the radio range at Riverside. I was in the front seat acting as observer, and Lt. Reeser was in the rear seat under the hood making his approach down the northwest leg toward the high cone. We were at approximately 8000 feet, and just before we got to the cone of silence, I told Lt. Reeser to lose a thousand f…