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|  1. DATE - TIME GROUP | LOCATION  |
| --- | --- |
|  19 May 1950 | 100 Mi East of Honshu Japan  |
|  3. SOURCE | 10. CONCLUSION  |
|  Military AIR MAIL & FILES | Other (Dropsonde)  |
|  4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | One  |
|  Time element differs slightly but appearance and all other elements in accord with this evaluation.  |   |
|  5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS  |
|  22 Minutes Radar 12 minutes Visual | Object picked up on ground Radar. Pilots of two A/C were vectored to area and identified an object that looked like a kite having dimensions of 36 inches to 24 inches. 
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AF FORM 112—PART I
APPROVED 1 JUNE 1948
CONFIDENTIAL
DECLASSIFIED
AF19625

|  COUNTRY | Japan | REPORT No. | IR-132-50 | LEAVES (if any) | AF19625  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |

# AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT

## SUBJECT
Sighting of Unidentified Object

## AREA REPORTED ON
Honshu, Japan

## DATE OF REPORT
20 June 1950

## DATE OF INFORMATION
19 May 1950

## EVALUATION
B-3

## FREQUENCY
Maj. Edward R. McLean

## SOURCE
Two (2) F-80 Fighter Pilots

## REFERENCES (1) Initial number, direction, previous report, etc., as applicable

## SUMMARY: (Under concise summary of report. Gi
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U. S. SECRET
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GROUP 1
CONFIDENTIAL

U. S. SECRET
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1. The President's Commission, please do this. It may be never said the following statement:

On the 19th May 1943, my flight leader and I were on a regular mission. At about 10000 hours we remained a call from the hospital London, London. I intended a secret trip and picked up an eight hours. We were restored to the single. At that time many eight miles south of the town of Liberty, Scotland East. After receiving additional recourse, we were told that the target was on a heading of 20 and four miles abov
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NO CASE (INFORMATION ONLY)
SOURCE: Newspaper

21 May 1950
Montrose, Colorado

# Claim Flying Discs Observed In West

MONTROSE, Colo., May 21.-- (UP) -- Felix Zanon, 60, who ranches on a mesa five miles east of here, said he came out of the back door of his home this morning and saw a huge silver disc hovering over the city.

Zanon said the object was joined almost immediately by another of the same size, shape and color, and both moved in an easterly direction toward Cerro dammin, a cut in the Rocky mountains 16 miles east of here.

Zanon said he did not believe in "flying saucers" before 7:30

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