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# PROSPECT 10073 RECORD CARD

## ATIC NO.
## DATE OF INFO 7 Feb 1950

## AF NO.
## LOCATION San Jose, Calif

## REPORT NO.
## SOURCE Civilian

## DATE OF REPORT 14 Feb 50
## DATE IN TO ATIC

## TIME OF SIGHTING 1747 PST

## COLOR Fiery Tail

## SHAPE Conical
## SPEED slow
## ESTIMATED Measured

## SIZE
## ALTITUDE EST 800'
## Measured

## COURSE
## LENGTH OF TIME OBSERVED

## NO. IN GROUP 1
## TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ground

## SOUND Propeller Noise
## MANEUVERS

## PHOTOS
## SKETCHES (1)
## REMARKS: Source stated he observed light single engine plane giving a red vapor trail.

## Temporary A…

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# PROVED

PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

ATIC NO. ---

AF NO. ---

REPORT NO. ---

DATE OF REPORT 14 Feb 50

TIME OF SIGHTING 1747 PST

SHAPE Conical

SIZE ---

COURSE ---

NO. IN GROUP 1

SOUND Propeller Noise

PHOTOS --- SKETCHES (1)

Temporary ATIC Form 329
(2 Jan 52)

DATE OF INFO 7 Feb 1950

LOCATION San Jose, Calif

SOURCE Civilian

DATE IN TO ATIC ---

COLOR Fiery Tail

SPEED slow

ALTITUDE EST 800' Estimated Measured Estimated Measured

LNGTH OF TIME OBSERVED ---

TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ground

MANEUVERS ---

REMARKS: Source stated he observed light single engine plane giving a red vapo…

February 9th 1950

Hamilton Field Air Base
California

Gentlemen:-

I am enclosing a clipping from our San Jose paper about a "flying ice cream cone".

I wish to inform you that I have seen it, first when it appeared to be over our western mountain range coming from the west toward San Jose and this was when I looked out of my shop window at 5:47 p.m. on Tuesday.

It attracted my attention because it looked like a small comet turning slowly upward and again leveling off

flying toward San Jose. At about 5:57 p.m. it flew almost over our street (First Street) at about 800 feet and out of my sig…

24 THURS., FEB. 9, 1950 SAN JOSE EVENING NEWS

ICE CREAM CONE
INVESTIGATED
BY AIR DEFENSE

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 9 (AP). Intelligence officers of the Western Air Defense zone are checking on reports of a "flying ice cream cone." They didn't seem excited about it.

A spokesman at Hamilton Field disclosed yesterday an investigation was being made of a report by six observers—including a Navy air officer—that a peculiar, cone-shaped craft was seen flying over the Alameda naval air station Tuesday.

The observers, five residents of San Leandro and Lt. Comdr. J. L. Kraker of the naval air station. Th…

# Flying Cone With Vapor Trail Hunted

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 8 (AP) So now it's a "flying ice cream cone." No fooling. The Air Force is checking up on it.

Six observers, including Lt. Comdr. J. L. Kraker of the Alameda Naval Air Station, reported seeing a giant object passing over the station yesterday. The report was passed along to the western air defense zone intelligence office at Hamilton Field, which made it public today.

The observers said the object looked like an ice cream cone and flew slowly south at a height of about 5000 feet, trailing a gray vaporous exhaust from its cone tpi.

T…

COLONEL ROLAND W. PINGER 53 Tunnel Road Berkeley 5, California
U.S.A. Retired
Feb. 9, 1959

Memo for Intelligence Officer
Hamilton Field, Cal.

I saw this "Cone", also, and pointed it out to three University
of California students (names unknown), and to my son Edward Pinger
(Lt Commander U.S.N.R.), who had called at the University to drive me
home.

From the roadway just west of the Greek Theater it appeared like
this:

← looked like sparks from a large exhaust

Without changing its angle with the vertical it drifted southward,
diminishing in intensity and size, and presently faded away. I di…

Feb 10th '50

# Flying Ice Cream Cone Could Be So Much Sherbet

Air Force Intelligence at Hamilton Field yesterday pursued the trail of the Bay Area's giant flying "ice-cream cone," without getting in a good lick.

Six observers had reported spotting the big cone flying slowly south over the Alameda Naval Air Station late Tuesday afternoon.

Intelligence officers at Western Air Defense Command, Hamilton Field, were unable to evaluate the report for the record yesterday. No such cone has been reported here before, they declared, outside of a soda jerk's nightmare.

Incl 2"

Piedmont XI
California

Friday, Feb. 10th., '50
***

To:-
Army Intelligence
Hamilton Field,
Marin Co.,
Calif.

My Dear Sirs,

In the interest of possible facts, and because this article describes so closely, the phenomenon witnessed by my friend and self at approximately the same hour and day, I offer this account.

We are two World War I Nurses (non-drinking) My friend had driven me from her home in East Oakland, to my home on the line which divides Oakland from Piedmont.

As we witnessed this 'mysterious' sign, I Remarked to her, 'let us remember what we have seen, and watch for rep…