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|  1. DATE - TIME GROUP | 21 June 1950 21/0935Z | LOCATION | Hamilton AFB, California  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|  3. SOURCE | Military | 10. CONCLUSION | INSUFFICIENT DATA  |
|  4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | One (five passes) | Report not in file. Card not in file. Case missing. |   |
|  5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | Not Reported. | 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS | Four nowsclippings and one extract from a "Flying Saucer" magazine constitute the only information available. Case will be evaluated if file is located.  |
|  6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION | ground visual |  |   |
|  7. COURSE | varied, straight…

# THE 1950 HAMILTON AIR FORCE BASE, CALIFORNIA CASE

The associated press carried this story: Dateline Hamilton Field, California, June 21, 1950. It was 1:35 A.M. Corporal Garland Pryor, 20, was in the field control tower with staff sergeant Ellis Lorimer, 25, a veteran with three years experience in control tower observation. Suddenly they saw an object spraying a blue-green streak of flame hurtling toward them from the direction of the nearby pacific.

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Because of the speed and the darkness, they couldn't discern its shape. Opposite the control tower, in another obs…

Disc, 'Roaring Like Thunder,' Is Reported At Hamilton Field

OAKLAND, Cal., June 21.--(AP) --The Oakland Tribune said a "disc-shaped object" roaring at an estimated speed of 1000 to 1500 miles an hour made five "passes" near Hamilton Air Force Base early today.

The newspaper quoted three Air Force non-commissioned officers who said the "flying saucer," shooting blue flame and with a "roar like thunder" dived near a beacon just north of the field.

Hamilton Field is 25 miles north of San Francisco.

Cpl. Roger G. Pryor, a control tower operator at the field, said he saw a blue flame shooting o…