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Arero eT f mat hws Pat a ” APPROVED 1 JUNE 1948 REPORT NO. United States AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT Visual sightings of four (4) unidentified Flying Objects AREA REPORTED ON FROM (Agency) 15-mile radius at Bismark, N. Dak. | Detachment #5, 4773d Grd Obsr Squadron DATE OF REPORT DATE OF INFORMATION EVALUATION 6 August 1953 6 August 1953 Be2 PREPARED BY (Officer) SOURCE 2/Lt Charles W. Koontz Visual Sightings REFERENCES (Control number, directive, previous report, ec., as applicable) IAW AFL 200-5, 29 Apr 52, and CADF Reg 200-5, 12 Sep 52. SUMMARY: (Znter concise summary of report. Give…

eben a i) a . “AF FORM 112—PART IT « APPROVED 1 JUNE 1948 (CLASSIFICATION) S$ AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT FROM (Agency) REPORT NO. Detachment #5, 47734 Grd Obsr Sq o JOY FIRST REPORT At approximately 06/0542% an unidentified object was seen approximate 10 miles west of Bismark, North Dakota. The object was first sighted by § Sgt Wesley Harry and was verified by six other observers whose statements accompany this report. Object was large, seemed round to oblong, and changed colors from white, to orange, to red, to green, Object seemed to send out short flashes of light when maneuvering.…

4 . i‘ “| Se AF FORM 112—PART it} (CLASSIFICATION) APPROVED 1 JUNE 1948 SECURITY SM FORMATIAAM - aN A AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT FROM (Agency) | REPORT NO, Detachment #5, 47734 Grd Obsr a or (OG mcs | THIRD REPORT At approximately 06/07452 an unidentified object was seen 10-12 miles east and slightly north of Bismark, North Dakota. The object was first sighted by S/Sgt Wesley Harry and Mrs. Mike Owens. Verified by three other observers whose statements accompany this report. Object was mmaller than first two, was round to oblong, and changed colors from white, to orange, to red, to gr…

S-T1-A-T-E-M-#-N-T This is to certify that on the night of August 6, 1953, between the hours of 0500 and 08502 time I witnessed what 1 thought were four unidentified objects, The first I saw, west of Bismarck at approximately 05422. It was round, approximately 2000 to 6000 feet and moving quite erraticly. It moved inall directions, left, right, up and down with no apparent order to its movement. It was constantly changing colors. These colors were white, yellow and red. To me it seemed to have somewhat of a mist or glow surrounding it. The other three objects were seen north and east of Bismar…

S-T-A-T- E-M-E-N-? At 05352, 6 August 1953, I was at the Bismarck Filter Center to assist in alerting observer posts on unidentified objects. 1 monitored a call from GRADY at 0538Z which stated that objects were at present in Delta Bravo area. I decided to go out on the roof of the adjoining building to the filter center and observe what I could. At 0542Z, while scanning from back of building I saw a well lighted object moving at what seemed a high rate of speed towards Bismarck and approaching from the west-southwest. I immediately marked my position on the roof and sighted between power line…

Statement of 8/Sgt Wesley N, Harry (Contd) again by Mr. Wilhelm who called us and said it was north of him 2 niles and about 5 miles east, Verified again by Lt. Koontz and Mrs, Dahl. These 3 objects were observed moving about some and especially the No. 4 object which constantly changed colors from red-green-bluish-white,. At 0759Z, I called CAA and Mr. Wilhelm said a C-124 was due over Bismarck in 10 minutes, At this time No. 4 object seemed to send constant static like signals in red and green. The C-124 flew south of here at 0809Z and Mr. Wilhelm reported back to me stating that the pilot a…

CADF-43795 -533 Declassification Authority: NND 57565

S$-T-A-T-E-M-#-N-T At 060620Z Bismarck Filter Center called me while on duty at the CAA Communications station advising that they were observing unidentified objects in the vicinity of Bismerck, At first after scanning the sky nothing unusual was observed, until the approximate position in the sky was given. Then the first object at approximately 285 degrees from my position was observed with the naked eye. At first appearance it had resemblance of a bright star, but after observing object with 7X50 binoculars the object had a very definite color of bright green changing to yellow with occasio…