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2 July

ATTN NO. _____________________________________________________________________________________________
DATE 2 July 50

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SERIAL NO. _____________________________________________________________________________________________
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UNCLASSIFIED
HEADQUARTERS THIRD ARMY
FORT MCPHERSON, GEORGIA
32
MICH
AJACI-3 360.33 11 July 1950
SUBJECT: Unconventional Aircraft
TO: Commanding General
Air Materiel Command
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Dayton, Ohio
Attention: MCI (Control No. A-1917)

Inclosed herewith is newspaper clipping from the NEWS AND OBSERVER, Raleigh, North Carolina, 3 July 1950 re "flying saucers" reported over Raleigh.

FOR THE COMMANDING GENERAL:

JOHN MEADE
Colonel, GSC
AC of S, G-2

1 Incl:
Clipping dtd 3 July 50

UNCLASSIFIED
507.3

1930 JUL 12 AM 9 03
0 JUL 12 16:03
WASHINGTON
JUL 12 16:03

AND OBSERVER, RALEIGH, N. C., MONDAY MORNING, JULY 3, 1930.

Saucers Sighted

Louis Polier, local architectural engineer, last night reported seeing nine "flying saucers" pass over Raleigh, headed in a northwesterly direction.

Polier said each of the nine objects "glowed" rather brightly, but did not appear to be planes with windows, as some saucers have been described. In the darkness, he said, he could not estimate their altitude, so could gain no idea of their speed. They were in "ragged" formation of threes. No noise accompanied …

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Source: New York Hereld XXX

July 5, 1950
Los Angeles, California

# Sees Circular Object Flying at 500 M.P.H.

LOS ANGELES, July 6 (AP).—William Grant, twenty-six former Marine Corps aerial photographer, today reported seeing a brilliantly lighted circular object in the sky last midnight. He estimated the object was fifty feet in circumference and when first seen was about 1,000 feet overhead. Its speed at first was about 100 miles an hour, then increased to about 500 miles an hour before disappearing behind the Hollywood hills, he said. “It was in sight about forty-…