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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

|  1. DATE | 19 Feb 51 | 2. LOCATION | East Africa  |
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|  3. DATE-TIME GROUP | Local Morning GMT | 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION | ☐ Ground-Visual ☐ Air-Visual ☐ Ground-Radar ☐ Air-Intercept Radar  |
|  5. PHOTOS | ☑ Yes ☐ No | 6. SOURCE | Crew and Passengers  |
|  7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | 17 min | 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 1  |
|  9. COURSE | E | 10. COMMENTS | Insufficient Data for Evaluation Unknown  |

11. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING
Shape like bullet with fin. Maneuvers-climbing. Contact was made with Nairobi to see whether French Constellation a/…

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February 28, 1951
FROM: Dar es Salaam
DATE: 26
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PRIORITY: 26
REF: 6060
SUBJECT: APPEARANCE OF AN ALLEGED "FLYING SAUCER" OVER MT. KILIMANJADO, TANGANYIKA
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The Consulate reports the alleged appearance of the first "flying saucer" to be observed in East Africa which it is stated was seen about 10…

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seen in East Africa may be of some interest to the Department,

H. Gordon Minnigerode
H. Gordon Minnigerode
American Consul

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# TWO GRACES CHANNEL

The Review publishes for the first time in its columns two sightings from the past. They will probably be new to many of our readers, but our purpose in reprinting these accounts from the *Australian Flying Saucer Magazine* of May, 1962, is to correct an impression gained by the general public that sightings today are caused by misinterpretations of specialties, satellites and what are now regarded as conventional spacecraft manufactured by one or other of the powers on earth. The first Russian Spanish, it must be borne in mind, was launched in 1967. Neither Russia no…

mented that if the object was a flying machine "it was 300 years ahead of anything we have today."

Nairobi Sunday Post the following Sunday said: "If this report had come from a few isolated individuals it would soon be discounted, but it came from responsible airline officials and nine ordinary travellers." It, too, dismissed both the balloon and outrage theories, and concluded that hopes of a "natural" explanation had begun to fade. Other theories ranged from Martian visitors to radio-controlled weapons.

Fragmentary evidence accrued since then increase the sum total of knowledge but little…

— AN OUTSTANDING SIGHTING —

THE MT. KILIMANJARO ENIGMA.

February 19, 1951, dawned bright and clear at Nairobi, Kenya, Colony, East Africa.

At Nairobi West Airport, the regular Monday morning Lodestar was readied as usual for its morning flight to Mombasa, and soon passengers filed aboard, little dreaming, any of them, of what was to meet their astounded eyes barely 20 minutes later.

At 7 a.m. exactly with 9 passengers and a crew of 2 aboard, the Lodestar took off.

All went well until 7.20 a.m. when suddenly the radio officer drew the attention of his superior, Capt. J. Bicknell, to a brig…

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taking photographs, when suddenly the enormous thing began to move eastwards, slowly at first, and rising as it did so. Before it reached 40,000 ft. at which point it was ultimately lost sight of, the sides of the awesome, whale-like object were seen clearly to be without a break in their smoothness, no water or portholes relieved the harsh purity of line, no engine mounts or jet pods marred the perfectly streamlined hull.

The day being exceptionally clear, there were no cloud formations in evidence anywhere, and Capt. Bicknell calculated that in the 3 minutes of vis…

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L. ELTERMAN
27 November 1951

APPROVED:

P. H. WYCKOFF
Chief, Atmospheric Physics Laboratory

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