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CONFIDENTIAL

ATIC NO. ---
AF NO. ---
REPORT NO. ---
DATE OF REPORT ---
TIME OF SHIPPING ---
SHIPPED ---
OCTO ---
COURSE ---
NO. IN GROUP 3
BOUND Roar unlike heavy bombers
FREIGHT --- SKETCHES ---
Temporary ATIC Form 329
(Jan 52)

DATE OF INFO July 1950
LOCATION Jacksonville, Fla.
MARKS Civilian
DATE IN TO ATIC ---
COLOR Golden Light and Violet
SPEED ---
AIRFLOW 500' M
DEPTH OF THE OBSERVED ---
TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ground
MANUFACTURE Sweeping curve
Remarks: Saw 3 in 15 minute intervals.

CONFIDENTIAL
AHC

UNCLASSIFIED
38

HEADQUARTERS THIRD ARMY
FORT MCPHERSON, GEORGIA

AJACI-3 360.33 D 17 July 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 re "flying saucers" over Jacksonville, Florida.

FOR THE COMMANDING GENERAL:

s/ F. JOHN MEADE
Colonel, GSC
AC of S, G-2

3 Incls:
1. Clipping fm FLA. TIMES UNION, 14 July 50 — MISSING
2. Clipping fm MIAMI HERALD, 13 July 50
3. Clipping fm FLA. TIMES UNION, 11 July 50

DOWNGRADED AT 3 YEAR INTERVAL
…

THE FLORIDA TIMES-UNION
Jacksonville, Florida
14 July 1950

# Object Like Flying Saucer Seen by Courthouse Group

A half hundred Courthouse employes and as many passers-by were convinced yesterday they at last had joined the growing ranks of those who have seen a "flying saucer."

Scores of persons gathered on the Forsyth Street side of the county building about 3:45 P.M. yesterday to speculate upon the nature of a shiny aluminum "pin-point" clearly seen in the blue sky. The object was too high for any of its features to be distinguished, except that it apparently was round. There was nothing …

MIAMI HERALD, 13 July 1950

# Now They Roar Loudly

## Jaxons Awakened By Flying Saucers

By United Press

JACKSONVILLE — A roar coming from the sky early Wednesday awoke a number of Jacksonville residents and raised the cry, "flying saucers."

Jacksonville Journal reporter Toni Veverka was among the first to report the incident. She said she saw three objects moving at "slow speed" high in the air over the city.

"They were glowing from beneath with violet flashes forming short comet tails," she said, "and were wavering up and down like gramophone discs on uneven center."

Joe Noll, announcer…

THE FLORIDA TIMES-UNION
Jacksonville, Florida
11 July 1950

# If You Ever Had Even a Wavering Doubt, This Kills It; There Are Flying Saucers

By TONI VEVERKA

Maybe what I saw this morning wasn't a flying saucer—it was something different. And I have a witness.

That something flew over the Riverside area.

It all happened about 5 a.m., during the half way between night and day which west Floridians call "little daylight."

My early morning sleep was shocked into full awareness by a tremendous roar, quite unlike that of several bombers, in that it lacked that steady sound. Nor was it like the …