28956908.pdf

|  1. DATE - TIME GROUP 22/1200Z 22-23 Nov 53 | 2. LOCATION Woomera, Australia  |
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|  3. SOURCE civilian | 10. CONCLUSION ASTRONOMICAL: METEORS  |
|  4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS one  |   |
|  5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION not reported | 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS 1. Green obj shaped like a saucer, flight to North at high speed. Bluish exhaust coming from rear. Disappeared several times as though above clouds. 2. Bluish green obj in flight to the North, high speed. No additional data available. 3. Two flares appearing to drop vertically in the Northwest. Orange turning to a pale blue. 4. B…

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R.A.A.F. Field Security Officer
A.R.D.U. Trials Flight
Woomera, South Australia
14th January, 1954
Reference: 8/110/2/WRA

UNCLASSIFIED

Provost Marshal
Air Force Headquarters
Melbourne

FLYING SAUCER SIGHTINGS - WOOMERA AREA

1. On the night of 22nd-23rd November, 1953, three parties of Woomera residents claim to have seen phenomenon in the sky which they claim resembled the "flying saucers" reported in the newspapers.

2. Mr. [redacted] employed in the Department of Supply Transport Office at Technical Area, Woomera stated that his wife drew his attention to an object in the sky…

UNCLASSIFIED

Air Attache, Australia IR-36-34 7 10

he saw a bright object proceeding North at a high speed at approximately 0230 hours on
the 23rd November, 1953. Shaw could not enlarge on his statement.

9. All the persons interviewed claimed to have been sober and in a normal frame of
mind and insist that they have not exaggerated their descriptions of what they saw.
They are regarded locally as being most reliable people. Their sight is good.

10. While no one would estimate the height, size or distance from the object, their
stories, which were independent of each other, and were only dis…

The Kinross Case

Some such mechanism probably explains the radar returns reported in the Kinross case, which some saucer publications cite as a proved instance in which a flying saucer attacked a plane. On the night of November 23, 1953, an Air Force jet was scrambled from Kinross Air Force Base, Michigan, to intercept an unidentified plane observed on radar. The jet successfully accomplished its mission and identified the unnknown as a Dakota, a Canadian C-47. On its return to the base, however, the Air Force jet crashed into Lake Michigan and, as often happens when a plane crashes into deep…

THE KINROSS INCIDENT

This incident was not reported to ATIC as a UFO sighting and therefore we have no case file. Due to the great amount of public interest in this incident ATIC contacted the Flying Safety Division at Norton AFB, California for information pertaining to this aircraft accident. It was determined from Norton AFB that the F-89 was scrambled to intercept an unidentified aircraft which was successfully accomplished. The aircraft was reported in as a Dakota (Canadian C-47). From the time that the F-89 started to return to base nothing of what happened is definitely known. It is pr…