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Incident # 129

ATIC NO. ---
AF NO. ---
RECEIVED NO. ---
DATE OF RECEIVED: 31 May 1948
SUBJECT: Wilmington, N. C.
SOURCE: Female Civilian
DATE IN TO ATD: ---
COLOR: ---
SPEED: First
ALTITUDE: Aufully High
LENGTH OF TIME DELIVERED: ---
TYPE OF PROPOSITION: Ground
MACHINES: ---

TERRITORY ATIC Form 309
(Form 52)

Joseph Oates

UNCLASSIFIED
UNCLASSIFIED

Incident #129 -- Wilmington, North Carolina -- 31 May 1948

Evidence in this incident is contradictory, especially concerning tactics, but from the meager description and the fact that the object emitted smoke and travelled at a high speed, the possibility of its having been a meteor is not ruled out. Apparent oblong shape might have arisen from persistence of vision of a rapidly travelling bright object.

Is there a government testing field for guided missiles near by?

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CHECK-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS

Incident #129

1. Date 31 May 1948
2. Time 1320
3. Location Wilmington, North Carolina, 34° 14' N, 77° 57' E
4. Name of observer Mrs.
5. Occupation of observer N/S
6. Address of observer
7. Place of observation Ground
8. Number of objects One
9. Distance of object from observer N/S
10. Time in sight N/S
11. Altitude awfully high
12. Speed Fast
13. Direction of flight 90°
14. Tactics None
15. Sound N/S
16. Size as large as an arm, and about 3 feet long
17. Color N/S
18. Shape Oblong
19. Odor detected N/S
20. Apparent construction N/S
21. Exhaust trails …

speed from the direction of Bluethenthal Field at 1:20 p.m., over the Cape Fear River, then veered at a low speed back towards Wrightsville, a little to the west.

The local office of the Civil Aeronautics administration discredited a supposition by Bluethenthal Field's station manager [redacted], that object could have been a P-30 plane in flight. The man said there was no such plane in the sky there at the time.

UNCLASSIFIED

AJACI-9 3 June 1948

SUBJECT: Unconventional Aircraft

TO: COMCENAMC
Wright-Patterson AFB
Dayton, Ohio

ATTN: MCI (Control No. A-1917)

Inclosed is report supporting TWX, this headquarters, dated 3 June 1948.

FOR THE COMMANDING GENERAL:

1 Incl: WALTER A. BUCK
Report (newspaper clipping) Colonel, GSC
AC of S, G-2

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The Charlotte Observer
Charlotte, N. C.
1 June 1948

MYSTERIOUS FLYING BODY IS SEEN AT WILMINGTON

WILMINGTON, May 31 - Wilmington residents today reported another mystery sky object, but it was not another flying saucer. An object which emitted smoke, was about as "Big as your arm and about three feet long" which traveled at an "awfully high altitude, and at first at a fast speed, came from the direction of Bluethenthal field at 1:20 p. m. over the Cape Fear River, then veered at a low speed back towards Wrightsville, a little to the west," Mrs. H. D. Alspach, who lives at 709 South Sixth Str…

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FR 12 CS3A/CS THIRD ARMY PORTMOTHERSON GA 31230Z
TO COMGENANC WRIGHT PATTERSON AFD DAYTON OHIO
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TN MCI PD 2013 TO DIRECTOR OF INTELLIGENCE
GSUSA CONTROL NO A-1917 PD A NEWSPAPER CLIPPING DATE LINE WILMINGTON
N C MAY THREE ONE FROM THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER CHARLOTTE N C DATED ONE
JUNE CONTAINED INFORMATION QUOTE OF A MYSTERY SKY OBJECT NOT ANOTHER
FLYING SAUCER PD AN OBJECT WHICH EMITTED SMOKE CMA GAS ABOUT AS
BIG AS YOUR ARM AND ABOUT THREE FEET LONG CMA WHICH TRAVELED AT AN
AWFULLY HIGH ALTITUDE AND AT FIRST AT A FAST SPEED CMA C…

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, 26, 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…