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AF FORM 112 APPROVED 1 JUNE 1948 et ae REPORT NO. Sara: 3 Zz ae AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION ibe SUSJECT FLYOBRPT ‘AREA REPORTED ON FROM (Agency) Wino Training and erations Canandaigua Lake, Gannett Hill, New York . Sampson EB,. ee DATE OF REPORT DATE OF INFORMATION EVALUATION 4 February 1953 29 November 1952 PREPARED BY (Officer) SOURCE DONALD L. MYERS, LT., USAF Letter — REFERENCES (Control number, directive, previous report, ete., as applicable) SUMMARY: (Enter concise summary of report. Give significance in final one-sentence paragraph. List inclosures at lower left. Begin text of report o…

TRUE COPY U BASE would please me very much if you would tell me if a very large number of Tlares were dropped near Sampson, Sunday evening, November 23, 1952. Here is why: On that evening at 5 pm, the writer, Rochester 9, N. Y.; and stopped deer hunting with bow and arrow and came out of tne woods on the highest peak of Gannett Hill, west of Canandaigua Lake. No stars were visible. It was raining lightly and visibility was poor, ia we could see the outline of South Hill on the Last side of Canadaigua Lake. Above South Hill were four extremely bright white lights. By compass they were slightly …

AF FORM 112 APPROVED 1 JUNE 1948 REPORT NO. “KELLER O a 24 AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT SUBJECT FLYOBRPT AREA REPORTED ON ‘ Fhom (Agency) Wing Training and Operations Canandaigua Lake, Gannett Hill, New York . Sam apogee DATE OF REPORT DATE OF INFORMATION EVALUATION 6 February 1953 29 November 1952 PREPARED BY (Officer) SOURCE DONALD L. MYERS, LT., USAF Letter from Harold B. Smith REFERENCES (Control number, directive, previous report, etc., as applicable) SUMMARY: (Enter concise summary of report. Give significance in final one-sentence paragraph. List inclosures at lower left. Begin t…

TRUE COPY HAROLD B. SMITH 640 Melville Street Rochester 9, New York November 29, 1952 OFFICER IN CHARGE OF FLARES SAMPSON ATR BASE SAMPSON, N. Y. Dear Sir: It would please me very much if you would tell me if a very large number of Tlares were dropped near Sampson, Sunday evening, November 23, 1952. Here is why: On that evening at 5 pm, the writer, Harold B. Smith, 640 Melville St., Rochester 9, N. Y., and Carl Finsterwalder, 124 Devonshire Court, stopped deer hunting with bow and arrow and came out of the woods on the highest peak of Gannett Hill, west of Canandaigua Lake. No stars were visib…