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Ae ——————————— << UNITED STATES 4iR FORCE + “THe Inspectc = GENERAL OFFICE OF SPECIALSINVESTIGATIONS BRT uate aT REPORT OF INVESTIGATION @pecial Agen’ La> S. €1h 1ST LANson > MADE or > : MISCELLANEOUS sy eee» wield, Veen (PROJeiT *sTON*) 5a April 19h9 OFFICE OF ORIGIN BO 76, WALL A78, W111 Fisid, dich STATUS e : Siscellaneous CHARACTER REFERENCE pe asians es . > ss Verbal request of District Commander, 16th OSI (1G) DIST, MAil APB, Mill Fid, dish SYNOPSIS Investigation requested by “aptain PELEAN 2. SURMETT, Gistrict Consamder, M6th District, OST (1G), Hill Air Force Base, Hill F. Utah. Captai…

Declassification Authority: NND 923007

1. This investigation is predicated upon request by Captain PELHAM R. BURNEY District Commander, 16th District OSI (IG), Hill Air Force Base, Hill Field, Captain BURNETT's request was based on a telephone conversation between BURN and LEO J, WULTY, Agent in Charge, Salt Lake City Office, Federal Bureau of Ty vestigation, Salt Lake City, Utah at 1130 hours MST, 5 April 1919. NULTY repé that he had received reports from the Sheriff's Office, Cache County, Logan, U and Sheriff's Office, Weber County, Ogden, Utah indicating that people in thos counties had observed some sort of phenomena in the sk…

degrees from the southwest. PETERSEN called his helper's attention to the pheno and the helper, CECIL W. KUNZ, put the time of the observation at exactly 0950 ha MST. KUNZ stated that he had just taken his watch out to see if it wasn't tine g@ fora break for coffee at the time, KUNZ substantiated PETERSEN's description 0 : sphenomena, Both PETERSEN and KUNZ stated that about two minutes after the hd disappeared they heard two explosions in the direction they had last t the object. Both men stated that it was definitely two explosions and Fexplosion with an accompanying echo. PETERSEN and MUNZ …

6D 7-4 . DETAILS: 4 time. He described the object further as being either a very bright reflection o . light such as is made by a powerful arc light. VALDEN PITCHER said that he had had a phobia about falling stars since childhood and for that reason was quite «x cited by what he had witnessed. BROWN PITCHER, VALDEV'S brother, substantiated fact that VALDEN had run over to his, BROWN'S house and told him what he had see pointing out the smoke or vapor left by the object. BROWN PITCHER reported the incident to the Sheriff's Office at Logan, Utah. The smoke and vapor, according ; the two PITCHER…

a SD &7-2 DETAILS: (Cont‘4) CRAIN wes definite that he 4m the sir after the explosigm. 1h. Om 6 April 1919, interviewed and stet @ large ball of fire Seid there QF vapor, DORIS nen fi }y was descending very rapi@ly West sad resembled « trace bullet with the exception DOPIS placed the time Of his observation at « few minutes before Ute was iiterviewed and stated th explosions @¢ 1000 hours MsTJ fhe Strest Arsenal in near Ghe village of Taylor, Utah. AO April 1949, j &>h4 ~ssg U GOSGrve a r 16. ). Niet , LEPOts, UpSe ys ai. Was mitt pul Js ae z eWO As DOUGLAS DORIS, é that he was near in the sky…

Declassification Authority: NND 923007

STAIES; (Cont'd) epproximately sixty degrees. The bluish light first observed by PIZROTTI Qures42 inte © brilifent white bell of light before it disappeared in the air at 925 degrees from the control tower. PIEROTTI further described the object as seeming huge when first observed, gradually diminishing in size in its descent. He was unable to estimete the direction the object wes traveling with much SeCuragy but thought it would be roughly northwest. THEODORE R. MARTIN, Chief Aire port Traffic Controller, CAA, Munieipel Airport, Salt Lake City, Utah substanti- ates eTeRoTTiIts description of t…