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1950-51(?)

# Ball of Fire Seen In Southern Skies

## Object, Visible 500 Miles, Quickly Burns Out

NEW ORLEANS, June 23 (UP). —A great ball of fire visible for 500 miles burned for a few seconds high in the southern sky tonight and then gümmered out, leaving a curving trail of glowing vapor.

R. M. Kiser, senior air traffic controller of the Civil Aeronautics Administration here, said the gleaming object was seen from Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Houston, Tex., and a plane 250 miles southward over the Gulf of Mexico.

In Jackson, Miss., City Fireman Bert Kyzar said: "It looked like a grapefruit and was …

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UNCLASSIFIED
UNCLASSIFIED
OKLAHOMA CITY AIR MATERIEL AREA
TINKER AIR FORCE BASE
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA
IN REPLY REFER TO: OCAL/GGH:pjh
28 June 1950

OCAI
SUBJECT: Intelligence Report

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

1. The attached intelligence report is forwarded as an item of possible interest.

FOR THE COMMANDING GENERAL:

George G. Hamilton
Captain, USAF
Chief, Intelligence Section
Personnel and Administration

1 Incl
Intelligence Report, 308th
Reconn Group, TAFB, no date.

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UNCLASSIFIED
OFFICE OF THE INTELLIGENCE OFFICER
308TH RECONNAISSANCE GROUP (WEATHER)
Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma

SUBJECT: Intelligence Report

TO: Commander
Military Air Transport Service
Andrews Air Force Base
Washington 25, D.C.

ATTN: Director of Plans, Intelligence Division

1. Reference radio this Headquarters, dated 241800 CST, June 1950, (essentially restated in paragraph two below).

2. At 231940 CST June 1950 crew members flying a routine "Pelican" weather reconnaissance mission over the Gulf of Mexico noted what appeared to be a huge ball of fire falling in a spiral discent from…

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"A very bright zigzag path of light which appeared to extend from a base of 30 miles to a height of 50-70 miles. It remained visible for approximately 20-30 minutes, seeming to elongate itself in an upward motion, and then later seeming to dive toward the earth."

Sgt. -
Radio Operator

"At 1940 CST, 24 June 1950, flying on a routine Pelican at 10,000 feet, course about thirty degrees, ground speed 173 knots, position 26°50'N 86°05'W, a brilliant light was observed high in the sky at what seemed a great distance at a relative bearing of about 80°. The light proceeded earthward at what …

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A series of fairly accurate radio fixes were obtained which showed the aircraft at the following positions:

1940 CST - 26°50'N 86°05'W
1944 CST - 27°05'N 85°56'W (Turned to heading of 326°)
2000 CST - 27°30'N 86°40'W

A series of visual bearings taken on the light trail during this period showed it to be over the vicinity of 28°45'N, 89°45'W."

1st Lt., USAF
Navigator

LEWIS L. HOWES
1st Lt., USAF
Intelligence Officer

cc - OCAMA Int Division

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DECLASSIFIED AFTER 12 YEARS.
DOD DIR 5200.10

UNCLASSIFIED

HEADQUARTERS THIRD ARMY
Fort McPherson, Georgia

AJACI-5 360.33 29 June 1950

SUBJECT: Unconventional Object in Air

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

Attention: MCI (Control No. A-1917)

Inclosed herewith is information re flying objects sighted in Mobile, Alabama.

FOR THE COMMANDING GENERAL:

1 Incl:
S/I dtd 26 Jun 50,
w/newspaper clipping,
dtd 25 Jun 50

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

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UNCLASSIFIED
SUMMARY OF INFORMATION DATE
26 June 1950

PREPARING OFFICE
Field Area Office No 6, P O Box 1384, Mobile 8 Alabama

SUBJECT
Fireball Seen Over Mobile
(Mobile Press Register)
25 June 1950

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Redondo Beach, Calif.
Source: Dayton Journal 1 old

# Plane Passengers Watch "Saucer"

LOS ANGELES, June 27. — (AP)—United Airlines today disclosed the largest flying saucer report:

First officer David Stewart of Redondo Beach, Calif., today told a news conference that his crew of five and some 25 passengers watched a brilliantly-glowing object speed through the desert sky Saturday night. 243-44 Stewart said the object was more cigar-shaped than the previously reported pancake-shaped "saucers."

He said his ship was flying at 14,000 feet and that the object flew a parallel course for 20 miles…