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No Case (Information Only) _ 10 Aug 1956 Minneapolis to Stevens (Lb, DAYTON, OHIO, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 195 Point, i | : ; ‘Wis. “Ob f.?? feet with 490 pounds of instru-} 2 Navy Men Ride y Hoo ments but no passencers. : BR I +, od 1 P On today’s flight, the Pa ) T M Al d hook” balloon = reached 0,000 | aivoon O G- L e tutu € feet in a flight én which no rec- ord was attempted. The world’s altitude record for balloons was set nearly 21 years ago by two Army Air Corps flyers who Special to The Journal Herald : ; ’ Aud The New York He “oe The balloonists were Lt. Cmdr. WASHINGTO ue. 10*-Two! M. c…

No Case (Information Only) Case 186, Pittsiburgh, Pa, Aug. 11, 1956—Said the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph: “Mrs. Florence Stauffer re- ported watching a ‘bright steel-gray ship’ for more than two hours on Saturday morning. She said, ‘I don’t imagine things. I really saw this thing.” Said Mrs. Stauffer, ‘it apparently came from the direction of East Liberty, hovered about for two hours and then disappeared in a westerly direction. The object was circular and real bright’ "12 11 August 1956 Pittsburg, Pennsylvania alll = — = —_— = —— eS Se oe een eee

7, ,~o ye ee re! ee oe eee. ee a. No Case (Information Only) Case 187, Parkersburg, ing to the Parkersburg 9:30 p.m. by reliable observers. his family had a 15-second view be ject disappeered. The obje “orange-silver” color considerably Size and altitude could not be deter to be traveling at 4 un-aircraft-like movements. observer said it came shooting star at first. east at a high rate of asking for verification of the sightin “At least three resi All three witnesses said nd and appeared to be “orange- Said the newsp2per, ing the mysterious aer the object looked rou silver” in color, One obser…

| OF reer Pete PERNA! WET oR eg) + oe 7 , 4 ig meer so i rey x Lew oo? bb ee Se er tM “ tl i ar ne ck — " ve — ey i ' j ' re © Pe, pote AW , Mee » 1A ERTL ARR IT ee  nermy SPQ! Dek. CINE ee , t] No Case (Information Only) 14 August 1956 Cortland & Ithaca, N.Y. In a letter to CRIFO, Lynn Strauff writes in part, “Around 2 am. a very clear night my brother, age 11 and myself, : age 27 were on a hill overlooking Cortland and at a point | ; Case 188, Cortland and Ithaca, N.Y., August 14, 1956— 7 ) which should put Cortland in the southwest. We saw two ms faint reddish objects move slowly from the s…