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—RESTFRICTED we D 1 JUNE 1948 REPORT NO. (LEAVE BLANK) ~ eh oN United States Lies 53 AE 553206 oe AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT Unidentified Flying Object AREA REPORTED ON yew FROM (Agency) Fort Davis, Texas 97th Bomb Wing, 810th Air Div, Biggs AFB, Te DATE OF REPORT — ~~ | DATE OF INFORMATION | “EVALUATION 1 May 1953 19 April 1953 Fe6 PREPARED BY (Officer) SFA ES INCH CRON OHNE Ya | SOURCE H. B. BENTZ, Capt, USAF, Dir/Intel Mr. A. V. Chapin, Ft. Davis, Texas "REFERENCES (Control number, directive, previous report, etc., as applicable) SaF ICP, 15 dug 5200 SUMMARY: (Enter concise summary…

Py 0, Box 545 Ft. Davis, Texas April 20, 1953 Civil Aeronautics Administration Communications Branch Marfa Air Field Marfa, Texas Dear Sir: Yesterday, on April 19th, about 1:20 P, M., while observing a vapor trail just west of Ft, Davis, from horizon to horizon, and from northwest to southeast, I observed an object which appeared to be floating just west of the vapor trail, about half- way between Ft. Davis and your air field at Marfa. I at first thought it may have been a balloon released by the plane that made the vapor trail, as it appeared to be about the same altitude, but was not of a sp…