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PROJECT 10073

|  ATIC NO. | ---  |
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|  AF NO. | ---  |
|  REPORT NO. | ---  |
|  DATE OF REPORT | ---  |
|  TIME OF RECEIPT | ---  |
|  MARCH | ---  |
|  MILE | ---  |
|  SOURCE | ---  |
|  NO. IN GROUP | ---  |
|  MONTH | ---  |
|  CHARGES | ---  |
|  DATE OF INFO | 31 March 1940  |
| --- | --- |
|  LOCATION | Rodeo, New Mexico  |
|  SOURCE | Civilians  |
|  DATE IN TO ATIC | ---  |
|  CODE | ---  |
|  SPEED | ---  |
|  AUFITUDE | ---  |
|  LENGTH OF TIME OBSERVED | ---  |
|  TYPE OF ORGANIZATION | ---  |
|  MANEUVERS | S and L  |

Temporary ATIC Form 389
(2 Jan 52)

REMARKS: Ob…

UNCLASSIFIED
4 April 1949

Subject: Bomb or missile explosion.

To: Commanding Officer
ASU 6407
U.S. Army & U.S. Air Force
Arizona Recruiting District
132 East Pennington Street
Tucson, Arizona

On Sunday night, April 3rd, 1949, Mr. [redacted], patrolman of the Border Patrol, U.S. Immigration Service, came to my home to report the following:

A Mr. [redacted] and a Mr. [redacted] reported to Mr. [redacted] that on Thursday, 31 March 1949, Mr. [redacted] heard a plane overhead and missing. He next heard a very heavy explosion and thought that a plane had crashed. The time of day or night is…

2

UNCLASSIFIED
DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
WASHINGTON

THE INSPECTOR GENERAL USAF
17TH DISTRICT OFFICE OF SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, NEW MEXICO

DR:MEN:jbt

File No: 24-8 18 August 1949

SUBJECT: Explosion

TO: Commanding General
Air Material Command
Wright-Patterson AFB
Dayton, Ohio

ATTN: MCIAXS

1. Reference is made to letter, your headquarters, dated 5 August 1949, in which request is made for results of investigation of an alleged crash of an unidentified aerial object ten miles east of Rodeo, New Mexico on 31 March 1949.

2. At t…

UNCLASSIFIED
19D OSI 24-0 3d Ind 25 April 1949
SUBJECT: Explosion
Hq 19th District OSI (IG), USAF, Fairfield-Suisun AFB, California
TO: District Commander, 17th District OSI (IG), Kirtland AFB, New Mexico

1. Attention is invited to basic letter and inclosure attached thereto.

2. A copy of an EEI Form, to be completed on all cases involving unconventional aircraft, is forwarded for your information and such investigative action as you may deem appropriate.

3. It is requested that information copies of your reports of this investigation be furnished as follows:

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UNCLASSIFIED
CONFIDENTIAL

AMGBI-CI 1st Ind 14 April 1949
Subject: Explosion
HEADQUARTERS SIXTH ARMY, OAC of S, G-2, Presidio of San Francisco, California

TO: Office of Special Investigations, Building T-3, Presidio of San Francisco, California

For information and any action deemed necessary.

FOR THE AC OF S, G-2:

1 Incl
n/c

/s/ ROLAND H. McINTIRE
/t/ ROLAND H. McINTIRE
Lt. Colonel CMP
Chief, CI Division

19D OSI 2nd Ind 19 April 1949
Subject: Explosion
Fr Actg Detachment Commander, Presidio of S.F., California
TO: Dist. Commander, 19D OSI, Fairfield-Suisun AFB, Calif.

For information an…

UNCLASSIFIED
JBP/mm

HEADQUARTERS
AREA SERVICE UNIT 6407
ARIZONA RECRUITING DISTRICT
U. S. ARMY AND US. AIR FORCE RECRUITING SERVICE
213 North First Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona

AMWPH-c 360.33 7 April 1949

SUBJECT: Explosion

TO: Commanding Officer
Intelligence Field Office No. 2
Sixth Army
Fort MacArthur, California

1. In compliance with GO No. 4, 1948, Headquarters Sixth Army, dated 13 January 1948; and 1st Indorsement, Sixth Army, file AMGBI-C 319, dated 2 April 1948 to letter Department of the Army, file GSGID 452.1, Subject: "Unconventional Aircraft," dated 25 March 1948, the inclosed repo…

[1949]
1 - 19 APRIL SIGHTINGS

|  DATE | LOCATION | OBSERVER | EVALUATION  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|  3 | Dillon, Montana |  | UNIDENTIFIED  |
|  4 | Merced, California |  | UNIDENTIFIED  |
|  4 | Delta, California | (PHOTOS OF PHYSICAL SPECIMAN) | Other: (BALLAST RING FROM JAPANESE INCENDI CARRYING BALLOON)  |
|  4 | Dayton, Ohio |  | AIRCRAFT  |
|  5 | Salt Lake City, Utah | Multiple | Astro (METEOR)  |
|  6 | Cleveland, Ohio | Multiple | 1. INSUFFICIENT DATA 2. Astro (STARS/PLANE)  |
|  6 | Castleton, New York |  | AIRCRAFT  |
|  6 | Denver, Colorado | Multiple | BALLOON  |
|  7 | Des M…