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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

|  1. DATE | 20 Jan 52  |
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|  3. DATE-TIME GROUP | Local 20/1920 PST SIT 21/0320 Z  |
|  5. PHOTOS | ☐ Yes ☑ No  |
|  7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | 2 Sec.  |
|  8. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING | Brilliant bluish-white, circular shaped object leaving a blue trail, traveled at a high rate of speed on a horizontal course. Object appeared to be traveling approximately 500 ft. below the clouds.  |
|  2. LOCATION | FAIRCHILD AFB, WASH.  |
| --- | --- |
|  4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION | ☑ Ground Radar ☐ Air Vessel ☐ A. Intercept Radar  |
|  6. SOURCE | 3 Airmen  |
|  8. NU…

20 Jan FAIRCHILD AFB, WASHINGTON
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EXTRACT FROM STATUS REPORT # 4

DATE: 20 Jan 52
TIME (Local): 1920
LOCATION: Spokane, Wash.
LENGTH OF TIME OBSERVED: 2 Sec.
SOUND: None
SPEED: High
ALTITUDE: Below 500'
HEADING UNKNOWN
SOURCE: Tour airmen
ACTION OR COMMENTS: Conclusions pending
DESCRIPTION OF INCIDENT: A brilliant motor-like object was observed traveling at a high rate of speed under a 500' cloud circling.

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SUMMARY: (Enter concise summary of report. Give significance in final one-sentence paragraph. List inclosures as lower left. Begin text of report on AF Form 112—Part II.)

1. At 1920 hours, 20 January 1952, I was leaving the 93d Bomb Wing Headquarters Squadron barracks with T/Sgt Harry A. Cavagnaro and T/Sgt Robert T. Barnes.

As we were about to tur…

COUNTRY United States
REPORT NO. 92ED-1-52
AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT
SUBJECT
Sighting of Unusual Object
AREA REPORTED ON NW United States (Spokane, Washington)
FROM (Agency) Hq 57th Air Division, 92d Bomb Wing H
DATE OF REPORT 23 January 1952
DATE OF REPORT 20 January 1952
PERSONNEL (General and Air Service) Hq 57th Air Division, 92d Bomb Wing H
REFERENCES (Control number, directive, previous report, etc., as applicable)
Hq 57th AD 92ID Subject: Sightings of Unusual Objects, dtd 4 Oct 51
SUMMARY: (Enter concise summary of report. Give significance in final one-sentence paragraph. Lis…

T/Sgt Cavanans

At approximately 1920 hours on 20 January 1952 I was walking from my quarters with M/Sgt Aluridus C. Holm and S/Sgt Robert T. Barnes. My attention was called by Sergeant Holm to an unidentified object travelling below the clouds at approximately 500 feet.

The object was moving silently at a terrific rate of speed as compared to any jet aircraft I have ever seen. It appeared circular in shape and was brilliant blue-white in color. I estimate that the object was approximately 3/4 to 1 mile away, and at the distance from where I stood it appeared to be slightly larger than an ora…

At 1920 hours, 20 January 1952, I was leaving the 92d Bomb Wing Head-quarters Squadron barracks with T/Sgt Harry A. Gavagnaro and S/Sgt Robert T. Barnes.

As we were about to turn from the sidewalk to the road, I looked at the beacon light to the North and saw what I thought was a shooting star slightly above the water towers.

I called Sergeant Gavagnaro's attention to it, and he remarked "That's no shooting star, Cliff." As I continued to look, I knew the object could not be a shooting star, for it was travelling at a high rate of speed -- three times the speed of any jet I have ever seen --…

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APPENDIX II
Fairchild AFB, Washington - 20 January 1952

I. DESCRIPTION OF INCIDENT

At approximately 1920 MST on 20 January 1952, two Wing Intelligence airmen noticed a bright spherical object traveling through the sky. At first it was assumed to be a meteor but then it was noted that it appeared to be traveling beneath a cloud layer. The object was traveling at a speed much faster than a jet aircraft. The object, which made no sound, was traveling in a path horizontal to the earth at an estimated 500 feet and left a blue trail. The trail seemed to come from the object in spurts.…

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ATIC, AFOIN-ATIAA-2c Subject: (Restricted) Additional Information on Sighting of Unidentified Object
92ID 000.9 (23 Feb 52) 1st Ind
HEADQUARTERS 57TH AIR DIVISION, Fairchild Air Force Base, Fairchild, Washington 13 MAR 1952
TO: Chief, Air Technical Intelligence Center, ATTN: ATIAA-2c, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio

1. As requested in paragraph 2 of basic communication, the following information is submitted:
a. Forty (40) degrees.
b. Two (2) seconds.
c. Object both appeared and disappeared at an elevation angle of forty (40) degrees.
d. Disappeared behind marshall.…