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ATIC NO. ---
AF NO. ---
REPORT NO. ---
DATE OF TOPSET --- Aug 1948
DATE OF REPORT ---
TIME OF SIGHTING ---
SHAFT ---
LIST --- Light of locomotive ---
COURSE ---
NO. IN GROUP --- 1
LOUND ---
PRE TOR --- SKETCHES ---
Temporary ATIC Form 329
(2 Jan 52)

LOCATION --- Marian, Va.
SOURCE --- Private Pilot
DATE IN TO ATIC ---
COLOR ---
SPEND --- Over 300 MPH --- Unlimited
ADMITTED --- M. L. L. M.
LENGTH OF TIME OBSERVED ---
TYPE OF OBSERVATION --- Aerial
MANEUVERS ---

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DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
DIRECTORATE OF PUBLIC RELATIONS
WASHINGTON

JUL 1 1949

SUBJECT: Report of Flying Discs

TO: Commanding General
Air Materiel Command
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Dayton, Ohio

Attn: MCIAAS

1. Attached letter is forwarded for appropriate action.

2. No acknowledgment has been made by this headquarters.

BY COMMAND OF THE CHIEF OF STAFF:

W. C. ROBINSON
Captain, USAF
Executive Officer
Directorate of Public Relations

Incl
Ltr dtd 25 June 49
fr [redacted], Buffalo, N.Y.

MCIAXS/GWT/amc

MCIAXS

Mr. [redacted]
[redacted]
Buffalo 10, New York

Dear Mr. [redacted]

Receipt of your letter, dated 25 June 1949, which has been forwarded this Headquarters is respectfully acknowledged.

Your contribution has been made a matter of record and is being incorporated into our present study of unidentified aerial phenomena.

Your action in reporting this matter is appreciated.

Sincerely yours,

A. J. HEMSTREET, JR.
Lt Colonel, USAF
Acting Chief, Analysis Division
Intelligence Department

ABBOTT LUMBER COMPANY, Inc.
Local Office
Home Office
Buffalo 10, New York
Washington 1354

To U. S. Army Air Force
Pentagon Building
Washington, D. C.

Date June 25, 1949

Gentlemen:

"Flying Saucers"

A fairly recent article in the Post stated your wish for reports on this dream-world business. Last summer I saw something for which I had and have no reasonable explanation. With no further preliminaries or apologies, I'll just report as I remember the event.

I departed, alone, from Woodrum at Roanoke, Virginia for Chilhowie AP - shortly after sunset in July or August 1948. The flight was with…

ABBOTT LUMBER COMPANY, Inc.
Local Office
Home Office
Buffalo 10, New York
Washington 1354

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with my observation.

At Marion there is a break in the ridge that was to my left. There is another valley.

My light appeared to make a turn up this other valley - a turn whose radius did not appear to be out of proportion to apparent speed.

That's all I saw of it - although I looked up the valley as I came to it soon after. I felt that I should have seen it.

Naturally, it occurred to me that it might have been an aircraft. As it seemed as though the light might have been turned off after th…