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Incident #19
UNCLASSIFIED

ATIC NO. --- DATE OF INFO 20 Oct 47

AF NO. --- LOCATION Dayton, Ohio

REPORT NO. --- SOURCE Male civilian

DATE OF REPORT --- DATE IN TO ATIC ---

TIME OF RECEIVING 1320 est COLOR reflected light silver

SMADE "cigar" SPEED very fast

SIZE probably large ALTITUDE very high

COURSE ENE LENGTH OF TIME OBSERVED ---

NO. IN GROUP 2 TYPE OF OBSERVATION ground

MANHATTAN

FIR --- SKETCHES --- MANHATTAN

Temporary ATIC Form 329
(2 Jan 52)

UNCLASSIFIED
Prob H/C

UNCLASSIFIED

Incident #19 -- Dayton, Ohio -- 20 October 1947

Information given here is insufficient to exclude positively the possibility that the objects observed were a close pair of fireballs, but this seems extremely unlikely. Since the length of time in sight is not stated nor the speed estimated, it is impossible to draw any definite conclusions. Assuming these to be appropriate, if one were to stretch the description to its very limits and make allowances for the remarks of an untrained observer, he could say that the "cigar-like shape" might have been an illusion caused by rapid moti…

INDEX-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS

1. Date - 20 Oct 47
2. Time - 20
3. Location - North West, Africa, Ohio
4. Name of observer - Earl
5. Occupation of observer - Farmer
6. Address of observer - 15355
7. Place of observation - 15355
8. Number of objects - 1
9. Distance of object from observer - N/S
10. Time in sight - N/S
11. Altitude - 14000 - 14000 - could not be determined
12. Speed - Very fast
13. Direction of flight - West to East but slightly to the North
14. Tactics - One object followed the other about a city block apart
15. Sound - N/S
16. Size - N/S
17. Color - Malleated light
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Witness at all in his orchard to an easterly direction when his grandma called his attention to fine money filing flares in the way "bedding" he was a lierry, looking out in a very dry light and he was free West to post but slightly to the earth. The gunman's statement right and the way cruddless which seemed to make the objects reflect the sunlight rather brilliantly. As a result the shape was not clearly evident but he distinctly observed that they did not have wings and they looked like the same longer than they were wide. They were flying together, the object of the time was to see the oth…

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:
#15, 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…