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ATIC NO. _______________________

AF NO. _______________________

REPORT NO. _______________________

DATE OF REPORT _______________________

TIME OF SIGHTING Between 1400 and 1500

SHAPE ___________________________

SIZE ___________________________

COURSE ___________________________

NO. IN GROUP _____________________

BOUND ___________________________

PHASE _________ SKETCHES _________

Temporary ATIC Form 329
(2 Jan 52)

DATE OF INFO 26 Feb 1950

LOCATION Decatur, Ill.

SOURCE Female Civilian

DATE IN TO ATIC _______________

COLOR Silver flash

SPEED ____________ Terminated ___…

HEADQUARTERS
AIR MATERIEL COMMAND
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE
DAYTON, OHIO

IN REPLY ADDRESS BOTH COMMUNICATION AND ENVELOPE TO COMMANDING GENERAL, AIR MATERIEL COMMAND, ATTENTION FOLLOWING OFFICE SYMBOL:
MCIAXA

9 March 1950

Mrs. [redacted]
Good Thunder, Minnesota

Dear Mrs. Crane

Receipt of your letter dated 26 February 1950 is hereby acknowledged.

Your letter will be forwarded to the office interested in these matters.

If further information is desired you will be contacted.

Your action in writing this Command is appreciated.

Yours truly,

[signature]

PRYAN L. DAVIS
Colonel, USAF…

Good Thunder, Minnesota
Febr 26 - 1950.

"Project Saucer", Wright-Patterson Field,
Dayton Ohio -

Dear Sirs: - My husband asked me to report to you: - As we were returning home from Miami, Florida, on Sunday P.M. between 2:00 P.M. and 3:00 P.M., on Highway U.S. 36, driving west from Decatur, Ill to Springfield - we saw something to the left front of us - as of a silver flash, like we sometimes see when the sun strikes a plane - but, as we watched, there was no plane in sight - just the silver streak, about as high as the usual plane fly - we watched for a plane, anywhere in that corner of the …

7-3712-27

OTHER PLANETS SEND SAUCERS, NAVY MAN SAYS

NEW YORK, Feb. 22 (U.P.)—A Navy commander said today he is convinced that flying saucers are real space ships piloted by strangers from other planets.

Comdr. Robert B. McLaughlin, guided missiles expert and current skipper of the destroyer Bristol, told of two saucers, 20 inches in diameter, outrunning a Navy rocket.

In an article in the March issue of True magazine, the commander, identified by the magazine as an Annapolis graduate and head of the Navy unit working on classified projects at White Sands Proving Grounds, N.M., said he is c…

MARCH 1950 SIGHTINGS

|  DATE | LOCATION | OBSERVER | EVALUATION  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|  1-3 | Knoxville, Tenn | Gd RADAR | 1,2. Ground Returns 3. A/C  |
|  3 | Selfridge AFB, Mich |  | UNIDENTIFIED  |
|  4 | Grass Plains, Texas |  | A/C  |
|  5 | Vaughn, N Mexico |  | Astro (Venus)  |
|  6 | Ft Bliss, Texas |  | Astro (Venus)  |
|  8 | W-P AFB, Ohio | Air Visual | Astro (Solar Image)  |
|   |  | Gd Visual | Astro (Venus)  |
|   |  | Gd RADAR | Other (Returns fm IceClouds)  |
|  9 | Orangeburg, Columbia, S Carolina | Multi | Astro (Meteor)  |
|  9 | Selfridge AFB, Michigan |  | Balloon…