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DATE OF ISSUE: April 1948
NAME OF FILING: Springfield, Ill
FROM TO: SECRET
SOURCE: Amateur Astronomer
DATE OF REPORT: __________
DATE IN TO ATIC: __________
TIME OF RECEIVING: ______ night
SUBJECT: spherical
SHEET: "twice mars"
SCREEN: SW to NE
NO. IN GROUP: 1
BOUND: ______
PHOTOS: ______ SPECTERS: ______

SUBJECT: YELLOW
SURFACE: Amatur Astronomy
DATE IN TO ATIC: ______
COLOR: yellowish red
SPEED: 10/sec
AMTROPHY: ______
LENGTH OF TIME OBSERVED: ______
TYPE OF OBSERVATION: ground
MAN-NOTES: ______

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MCIAXS/GWT/amc

MCIAXS

Mr. [redacted]
Vice President & Chief Engineer [redacted]
Springfield, Illinois

Dear Mr. [redacted]

Receipt of your letter, dated 9 June 1949, which has been forwarded this Headquarters is respectfully acknowledged.

Although the information submitted by your letter does not contain sufficient detail to definitely establish the identity of the object sighted, there is a marked similarity between the description submitted and that of a celestial phenomenon commonly referred to as bolides or fire balls. Further research on this subject at the local Public Library sh…

DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
WASHINGTON

OFFICE OF THE
DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC RELATIONS

JUL 25 1949

SUBJECT: Correspondence Pertaining to "Flying Saucers"

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

The inclosed letters which have been referred to the Chief of Staff are forwarded to you for necessary action.

BY COMMAND OF THE CHIEF OF STAFF:

1 Incl
Ltr NACA, 18 Jul 49
to Chief of Staff
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W. C. ROBINSON
Captain, USAF
Executive Officer
Directorate of Public Relations

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National Advisory Committee
for Aeronautics
1500 New Hampshire N.W.
Washington, D.C.

Attention: Mr. J. F. Victory, Secretary

Gentlemen:

The following information is given primarily for the purpose of soliciting a probable answer to observations made over the last year and which the writer trusts will not be interpreted as representing "flying saucers" or similar unidentif…

CONFIDENTIAL

Mr. J. F. Victory Page 2.

No estimate could be made of linear velocity or altitude since no sound from the object was in evidence which might indicate considerable altitude.

This letter is written with two things in mind; namely, to satisfy a curiosity and to provide proper authorities with information concerning these observations. Because of fairly frequent use of the observatory equipped with photographic recording means, the writer intends to watch for further occurrences and have available photographic records if they would be of any service to interested groups.

Very tru…