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PRIORITY DRAFT RECORD

ATIC NO. - - - DATE OF INFO 22 July 1949
AF NO. - - - ☑ LOCATION Peekskill, N. Y.
REPORT NO. - - - SOURCE Civilians
DATE OF REPORT - - - DATE IN TO ATIC - - -
TIME OF SIGHTING 2045 COLOR Snow White
SHAPE Disc. SITED "Terrific" M
SIZE Larger than full moon ALTITUDE - - - -
COURSE 5 LENGTH OF TIME OBSERVED - - -
NO. IN GROUP 2 TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ground
MOUND - - - MANEUVERS Whirling or Spinning
PHOTOS - - - SKETCHES - - - REMARKS: Pure white discs observed which gave an appearance of concavity, were whirling and spinning in the same direction as their flight and at a terr…

MCIAXS/GWT/amc

MCIAXS

Mr. [redacted]
Executive Secretary
Chamber of Commerce
988 Main Street
Peekskill, New York

Dear Mr. [redacted]:

Receipt of your letter, dated 25 July 1949, is respectfully acknowledged by this Headquarters.

Your reported sighting has been made a matter of record and is being incorporated into our present study of unidentified aerial objects.

Although the information submitted does not contain sufficient detail to enable positive identification, there appears to be a marked similarity between the appearance of these objects and that of plastic research balloons in fl…

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
988 MAIN STREET
PEEKSKILL, NEW YORK
TELEPHONE PEEKSKILL 9600-3601

July 25, 1959

Commanding Officer
Technical Intelligence Division
Air Materiel Command Headquarters
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Dayton, Ohio

Dear Sir:

On Friday evening, July 22nd at about 8:45 p.m., my wife and thirteen year old daughter, in company with a young man, were walking on a country road immediately in the rear of our home on the outskirts of Peekskill, New York. They saw two flying discs. I did not see them myself, but have been watching with my camera in hand, hoping they might appear agai…

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
988 MAIN STREET
PEEKSKILL, NEW YORK
TELEPHONE PEEKSKILL 3600-3601

Technical Intelligence Division Page 2. July 25, 1949

willing to give an oath to what they saw.

Another strange thing that has happened: W. L. N. A., our local radio station, is located on the hill opposite to where our home is located. They leave the air at 8:00 p.m, every evening. That is about 45 minutes before the discs were seen. The cloud into which they disappeared was almost above the station's antenna. The station has not been functioning properly. However, it was supposed to be OK on Saturday mor…

July 25, 1949

Mr. Ben Hibbs, Editor
The Saturday Evening Post
Independence Square
Philadelphia 5, Pennsylvania

Dear Sir:

I am sending you a copy of my letter to the Commanding Officer, Technical Intelligence Division, Air Material Command Headquarters, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base of Dayton, Ohio. These are facts. Maybe we've stumbled on to something. However, for safety sake, I suggest you contact the above before using any of this material. Publicity would be bad if these discs are a secret.

I made these photos to let you see the type of people who saw the discs. I asked my folks if t…