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PROTECTED RECORD CA D

ATIC NO. ---
AF NO. ---
REPORT NO. ---
DATE OF REPORT ---
TIME OF SIGHTING ---
SHAPE Oval
SIZE ---
COURSE ---
NO. IN GROUP 2
HOUND ---
PHOTOS --- SKETCHES ---

DATE OF INFO 27 Oct 1949
LOCATION Guntown, Miss.
SOURCE Female Civilian
DATE IN TO ATIC ---
COLOR Shiny like aluminum
SPEED ---
ALTITUDE --- Not sure
HESURED ---
LENGTH OF TIME OBSERVED ---
TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ground
MANEUVERS ---
REMARKS: Woman saw ovals in sky dropping material which looked like spider webs.

Temporary ATIC Form 329
(2 Jan 52)

CONFIDENTIAL

UNCLASSIFIED
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MCIAXA-1
MCIAXA-1/HWS/rm

Mrs.
Guntown, Mississippi

Dear Mrs.

Your letter of 3 November 1949, is hereby acknowledged.

The information you provided has been included in our study of aerial phenomena.

Your action in writing this Command is appreciated.

Sincerely yours,

CARL B. LINDSTRAND
Lt Colonel, USAF
Actg Chief, Technical Analysis Div
Intelligence Department

UNCLASSIFIED
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COPY
Guntown, Miss.
Nov 3, 49

Technical Intelligence Division
Air Materiel Command Headquarters
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Dayton, Ohio

Gentlemen:

On Oct 27, about 12:30 o'clock P.M. I was in my yard when I happened to look up and saw something in the sky coming from the North. There were two of them—each one of them was two oval shaped objects. The ovals were fastened together with a fastener that seemed to be flexible. They were high and going fast. They shined brightly like new aluminum would in the sunlight. The fastener shined like the oval objects. I could see the fastener sag be…

faster than the ovals I had seen fastened together. It seemed about a foot in size. It would turn the end in the direction it was going. In 3 or 4 seconds the side would turn in that direction. It did not turn all the way around. It just seemed to swing half way around. It had passed overhead. I saw it jar, seemed like it stopped. I thought it was going to change its course, but it did not. A small bright something shot from the oval. It went southeast. It went much faster than the oval. It was about the size of a large star. It was bright like a star. It was not large enough for me to see the…

again; it had vanished.

At 3 o'clock I looked up again. There were two of the ovals almost overhead. Each one of them had a tail not anything like a plane, just a shining something that looked to be about one inch wide to me. It was flexible. I could see it plainly. The ovals were going over each other, then around each other; then one of them would go under the other one as they moved I could plainly see that each one of them had a tail. I watched them maybe 3 minutes, while I watched, I decided they were trying to get in position to hitch together. If those tails had been fastened together …

UNCLASSIFIED
HEADQUARTERS THIRD ARMY
FORT MCPHERSON, GEORGIA

27 OCT 49
Knoxville, Tenn.

AJACI-3 360.33 31 October 1949

SUBJECT: Unconventional Aircraft

TO: Commanding General
Air Materiel Command
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Dayton, Ohio

Attention: MCI (Control No. A-1917)

Inclosed herewith is summary of information re flying objects sighted near Knoxville, Tennessee.

FOR THE COMMANDING GENERAL:

JOHN MEADE
Colonel, GSC
AC of S, G-2

1 Incl:
S/I dtd 29 Oct 49

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

UNCLASSIFIED

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UNCLASSIFIED
SUMMARY OF INFORMATION
DATE 29 October 1949

PREPARING OFFICE
CIC FAO 78, P.O. Box, 379, Knoxville, Tennessee

SUBJECT
Unidentified Flying Objects
sighted near Knoxville, Tenn.

CODE FOR USE IN INDIVIDUAL PARAGRAPH EVALUATION
OF SOURCE:
OF INFORMATION:
COMPLETELY RELIABLE A
COMPRISED BY OTHER SOURCES
USUALLY RELIABLE B
PROBABLY TRUE
FAIRLY RELIABLE C
POSUALLY TRUE
NOT USUALLY RELIABLE D
DOUBTFULLY TRUE
UNRELIABLE E
IMPROBABLE
RELIABILITY UNKNOWN F
TRUTH CANNOT BE JUDGED

SUMMARY OF INFORMATION
On 28 October 1949, THE KNOXVILLE NEWS-SENTINEL carried an article which
stated that a M…

again; it had vanished.

At 3 o'clock I looked up again. There were two of the ovals almost overhead. Each one of them had a tail not anything like a plane, just a shining something that looked to be about one inch wide to me. It was flexible. I could see it plainly. The ovals were going over each other, then around each other; then one of them would go under the other one as they moved I could plainly see that each one of them had a tail. I watched them maybe 3 minutes, while I watched, I decided they were trying to get in position to hitch together. If those tails had been fastened together …