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PROJECT 10073 RECORD

|  DATE - TIME GROUP | 15 May 1949 15/0855-0900Z | 2. LOCATION | Hickam AFB, Hawaii  |
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|  3. SOURCE | Military | 10. CONCLUSION | Astro (METEORS)  |
|  4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | Two |  |   |
|  5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | 5 Minutes | 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS | Object circular tapering no tail, tail two or three times as long as diameter. Size by visual appearance about the size of softball tapering to tail. Top from light orange top back white bottom from and back orange. Maneuverability good to be sighted in two different positions at differen…

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Commanding General
Pacific Air Command
Hickam AF Base
Oahu, T. H.

H. W. Smith
Lt, USAF
Special Analysis Section
Analysis Division
6-6398 MCIAXS

A. J. HEMSTREET, JR.
Lt Colonel, USAF
Actg Chief, Analysis Div.
Intelligence Department

Commanding General
Pacific Air Command
Hickam AF Base
Oahu, T. H.

REQUEST WRITTEN REPORT CMA REURAD ZERO ONE NAN DASH CHARLIE DASH ONE THIRTY EIGHT CMA TO COMGENPACAIROOM FROM COMCENAMC CMA PER AIR INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM FOUR CMA DATED FIFTEEN FEBRUARY NINETEEN FORTY NINE BE FORWARDED

Astro (m-10003)
DOWNGRADED AT 3 YEA…

TSAG05 NO. 12
OPGP JEDC
1949 MAY 20 07:54
XFM JHA 317/COMGENPACAIRCOM 192156Z
TO JEPC/CS USAF WASH DC
JEDC/COMGEN WRIGHT PAT AFB OHIO
AF GRNC
1943 MAY 12 07 45
*Paraphrase not required. Read c. LUHE
for paragraph 51 i and 60a (4), AR 380-5*
site
01N-C-138 ACTION ATTN DIR OF INTELLIGENCE
CS USAF AND ATTN MCIAXO-3 WPAFB. UNIDENTIFIED OBJECTS
SIGHTED AT APPROXIMATELY 21 DEGREES 5 MINUTES NORTH LATITUDE 157
DEGREES 30 MINUTES WEST LONGITUDE. VIEWED FROM GROUND, HICKAM AIR
FORCE BASE AT 150855Z AGAIN AT 150900Z MAY 1949. WEATHER
SCATTERED CLOUDS WITH THREE TENTHS ALTOSTRATES 9,000 FEET, ONE TENTH
C…

OF SOFTBALL TAPERING TO TAIL. TOP FRONT LIGHT ORANGE TOP BACK
WHITE BOTTOM FRONT AND BACK ORANGE. SPFED IN EXCESS OF 500 MILES
PER HOUR HEADING NORTHERLY DIRECTION FIRST SIGHTING, 25 DEGREE
DIVE SECOND SIGHTING. MANEUVERABILITY GOOD TO BE SIGHTED IN TWO
DIFFERENT POSITIONS AT DIFFERENT ALTITUDE WITHIN INDICATED TIME
INTERVAL. ALTITUDE FIRST SIGHTING 6 OR 7,000 FEET SECOND SIGHTING
DIVE BEGINNING 9 OR 10,000 FEET DISAPPEARING BEHIND CLOUD. NO
SOUND OR EXHAUST TRAIL. OBJECT TRAVELING IN HORIZONTAL PATH WHEN
SIGHTED THE FIRST TIME/

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