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10073 RECORD PAID Incident #123

ATIC NO. ---
AF NO. ---
REPORT NO. ---
DATE OF REPORT ---
TIME OF SIGHTING 2330
SHAPE Resembled huge fowl
SIZE bigger than an airplane
COURSE ---
NO. IN GROUP 1
LOUIS ---
PURPOSE --- SKETCHES ---
Temporary ATIC Form 329
(2 Jan 52)

DATE OF INFO 11 April 1948
LOCATION 4 mi. N of Alton, Ill
SOURCE Ex USAF COL
DATE IN TO ATIC ---
COLOR ---
SPEED ---
ATTITUDE ---
LENGTH OF TIME OBSERVED ---
TYPE OF OBSERVATION auto
MANEURERS flapped its wings
JAN BIRD

UNCLASSIFIED

Incident #123 -- Alton, Illinois -- 11 April 1948

There is nothing of astronomical character in this incident.

If one considers Colonel Siegmund's statements apart from the considerably less reliable ones of other observers, it would seem that the object may really have been a bird.

CHECK-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS

Incident # 123

1. Date 11 April 1948
2. Time 2330
3. Location 4 miles north of Alton, Illinois
4. Name of observer Col
5. Occupation of observer Former Commandant of the Air Base
6. Address of observer , Alton, Ill.
7. Place of observation 4 miles north of Alton, Ill - ground
8. Number of objects 1
9. Distance of object from observer N/S
10. Time in sight N/S
11. Altitude N/S
12. Speed N/S
13. Direction of flight N/S
14. Tactics "flapped its wings"
15. Sound N/S
16. Size "bigger than an airplane"
17. Color N/S
18. Shape Resembled a huge foul and not a…

said he didn't see any flapping of wings but he was sure it was a huge fowl and not a type of aircraft. He was riding with a companion, Col. [redacted]. Head of Western Military Academy, at the time [redacted] however, was talking to a farmer and didn't see it. Siagnund said he didn't mention it to him as it seemed too incredible.

Note: A child, [redacted], age 12, said he saw the bird flying over his home in suburban Glendale, Mo., some 3 months previous.

The Selvidere report quoted [redacted] as saying the bird was "bigger than an airplane" and flapped its wings.

RELIABILITY: Impossible t…

THE DAYTON DAILY NEWS

# Companion To Flying Saucer, "Monster Bird"

BY PAUL DIX
ST. LOUIS, April 10. — (UP)
A retired Air Force colonel and a 12-year-old boy tonight backed up the report by two Belvidere, Ill., residents of spotting a "monster bird."
It was either the same mysterious bird of gigantic size they saw or one just like it, they said.
Col. W. F. Siegmund, former commandant of the air base at Kearns, Utah, said he observed the creature at about 11:30 a. m. last Sunday while horse-bak riding four miles north of Alton, Ill.
James Trares, 12, said he saw the bird flying over his home i…

Dr HYNEK'S EVALUATIONS EXTRACTED FROM PROJECT GRUDGE REPORT.

INCIDENT INDEX

1. Astronomical

a. High probability:
#26, 27, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 48, 49, 59, 60, 66, 69, 70, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 101, 102, 103, 104, 116, 119, 132, 136, 140, 147, 148, 158, 174, 184, 185, 187, 197, 203, 204, 208, 216, 219, 238.

b. Fair or low probability:
#19, 20, 23, 24, 28, 35, 36, 46, 50, 63, 67, 80, 82, 93, 100, 112, 120, 121, 129, 130, 144, 153, 165, 166, 167, 175, 192, 199, 202, 205, 220, 230, 240.

2. Non-astronomical but suggestive of other explanations

a. Balloons or ordinary aircraft:
#3, 11, 22, 41, 42…