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|  1. DATE - TIME GROUP | 2. L TION  |
| --- | --- |
|  7 August 50 08/0350Z | From San Francisco to Balboa, Panama Canal  |
|  3. SOURCE | 10. CONCLUSION  |
|  Civilian | Astro (METEOR)  |
|  4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS |   |
|  One | Evaluated as a meteor observation.  |
|  5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS  |
|  Matter of Seconds | Object disappeared before he could say something, the appearance was about 45 deg high and the master and the chief who were talking, The object flew with unbelievable speed over the ship and disappeared into the Northeast direction.  |
|  6. TYP…

81-50
23 August 1950
DIO, FIFTEENTH Naval District
(s) Original written statement is for
By R. Wolpert, Master of the
Flaming serial body
6505
4505
ROCHET WEAPONS (Rocket & Furniture) - Other Rocket
1. R, Master of the motor vessel "MINERVA"
On 323M5.
DOWNGRADED AT 3 YEAR INTERVALS:
DECLASSIFIED AFTER 12 YEARS.
DOD DIR 5200.10
Unclassified

# CINCINNATI, M

The German motor vessel "MINERVA", a passenger vessel under control of American Occupation Air Service, transited the Canal Northbound on 14 August, 1950, across from Stockholm to Dantur. During the transit the Master delivered a writte…

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mate yelled at the same time "flying saucer". The engineer on duty, who was aft, saw a flaming body half the size of the setting sun and with a never heard of speed, fly away over the ship. It did not look like a meteor or any other cluster of stars.

The appearance had been noticed without any doubt to its actual existence by the Chief mate, and Engineer and the .

All agreed and describe that they saw a glowing frontal dark and backwards flaming body, the time being after sunset, however still daylight. In the rear, it drew yellow colored tail…

# Meteors in the Records

The American Meteoritics Society, whose members specialize in the study of meteors and meteorites, for years have collected reports of such phenomena. From a large enough number of good descriptions of a given meteor, astronomers can analyze the data mathematically and determine the meteor's radiant—the point in the heavens from which it seems to come. The meteor is then identified by its radiant and given an AMS number. The data were published in *Meteoritics*, the journal of the society, and thus made available for future research.

The records of the society for th…

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AUTO CO, AMIG
8-28-50

Colored Light Phenomena

MTREEP-4
MTRAKA-1
ATTN: Mr. Coons

1. The attached message received from Tokyo, Japan, is forwarded for your information.

1 Incl
Subject Message

BRUNOW W. FEILING
Colonel, USAF
Chief, Technical Analysis Div
Intelligence Department

JJR/peg
65376
B 263-D
P D-13

DOWNGRADED AT 3 YEAR INTERVALS:
DECLASSIFIED AFTER 12 YEARS.
DOD DIR 5200.10

UNCLASSIFIED

508.84861-A

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Several Japanese and one CIC agent reported sighting unidentified object which appeared to be a flying saucer at approximately 2400 K 11 August 1950. Reported to Aircraft Control and Warning Cite No. 6 and from there to FEAF A-2. The Japanese weather station in the area received about thirty (30) calls from the people inquiring about the object. The CIC Agent is getting as much information as possible from eye witnesses UIC agent located in NIIGATE. Medium altitude, color was yellow, changed to blue and then to red, separated in two parts and faded out and was not seen to drop. A…

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AS ADVANCING TOWARD 1218-1463 PD FIFTH AF ADV STATES ENEMY BRIDGE-
HEAD AT 35 DEG 25 MIN N 128 DEG 28 MIN E REPORTED BY G-2 8TH ARMY TO
BE MORE THAN TWO 2 REGIMENTS WITH UNKNOWN AMOUNT OF ARTILLERY PD
BRIDGE-HEAD HAS EXTENDED TO A POINT APPROXIMATELY FOUR 4 MILES EAST OF
THE RIVER PD FIFTH AF ADV REPORTS ENEMY FORCE SUPPORTED BY TEN 10
TANKS ATTACKED UN POSITIONS VICINITY 36 DEG 13 MIN N 128 DEG 22 MIN E
PD ITEM 3 AND 4 CLN NO APPLICABLE INFORMATION RECEIVED PD ITEM 5 CLN
FEAF OSI REPORTS UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT SIGHTED AT 112335K PAREN POSSIBLE
FLYING SAUCER PAREN …