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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

|  1. DATE | 1 April 52 | 2. LOCATION | Washington, Indiana  |
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|  3. DATE-TIME GROUP | Local 1825 CST GMT 072425 CST | 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION | ☑ Ground-Visual ☐ Ground-Redor ☐ Air-Visual ☐ Air-Intercept Redor  |
|  5. PHOTOS | ☐ Yes ☑ No | 6. SOURCE | 3 male civilians  |
|  7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | 4 minutes | 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 1  |
|  9. COURSE | NE | 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING | Gray color with deep orange tail. Spherical tail. Made 45 deg turn. Too slow for meteor. Background of sources sketchy, report was phoned to Atterbury A…

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SECURITY CLASSIFICATION (If any)
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|  FILE NO. | AT1AA | SUBJECT | (Revised) | Material for Project Blue Book  |
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|  TO Chief, Air Technical Intelligence Center, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio | FROM Dept of the AF | DATE 1 MAY 1952 | COMMENT NO. 1  |
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|   | AFOIN-2B3 | Capt Fournet/55894 | Jnsuff Pa  |

1. The attached letter, with inclosure, from the 2466th Air Force Reserve Training Center is forwarded for information and retention.

2. It will be noted that some confusion exists in the dates quoted. The lett…

HEADQUARTERS
2466TH AIR FORCE RESERVE TRAINING CENTER
Attorney Air Force Base
Columbus, Indiana

2466A 360 11 April 1952

SUBJECT: Reporting of Information on Unidentified Flying Objects

TO: Director of Intelligence
DCS/O, Headquarters, USAF
ATTN: AFOIN-C/CC
Pentagon Building
Washington 25, D. C.

1. Mr. Harold Kent, 114 East 48th Street, Bloomington, Indiana, reported to this headquarters at 1300, 11 April, 1952, that he and two friends (James Turpin, 314 1/2 10th Street, Bloomington, Indiana, and Donald Kelley (Mil)) had sighted a flying saucer. His statement follows.

(a) "I was driving wi…

2466A 360 SUBJECT: Reporting of Information on Unidentified Flying Objects

3. Base operations had one plane that might have been in that area at that time: a C-46, #2385, piloted by a Lt. [redacted], which left Atterbury Air Force Base at 1826, approximately one minute later than the time Mr. [redacted] said he saw the object.

4. Witnesses are not experienced at such observation. The sun was just setting, and the light may not have been good. No action taken; no physical evidence.

5. Official weather at 1830 10 April: scattered clouds at 1300 feet, overcast at 2100, nine miles visibility, w…

April 11, 1952
Bloomington, Indiana

SUBJECT: UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT

Dear Sir,

I phoned in this report to the Officer of the Day the date of this letter. I will try to explain what I saw.

The three of us were on our way to Texas on April the 1st, we were traveling directly west, our location was about eight miles east of Washington Indiana.

We saw a long streak of constant light in the sky in the west, right above the setting sun. The color was the same as the sun's rays at that time of day (6:25) That was the time we first sighted it. At first we thought it was just part of the sun co…

EXTRACT FROM STATUS REPORT # 7

DATE: 11 Apr 52
TIME (Local): 1825
LOCATION: Washington, Ind.
LENGTH OF TIME OBSERVED: 4 Min.
SOUND: Unknown
SPEED: Unknown
ALTITUDE: Very high
HEADING: HE
SOURCE: Civilians
ACTION OR COMMENTS: Could be the vapor trail of an aircraft being struck by the rays of the setting sun.
DESCRIPTION OF INCIDENT: Streck of deep orange came toward sources from the west, turned northeast and reduced the exhaust. (Restricted)