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PROJECT 10073 RECORD

DATE OF INFO 6 Dec 1950

LOCATION Ft. Myers, Fla.

SOURCE Civilian

DATE OF REPORT

TIME OF SIGHTING 1700

SHAPE

SIZE 75' (14' thick tapering to 3')

COURSE NW

NO. IN GROUP 1

BOUND

PHASE SKETCHES

Temporary ATIC Form 329
(2 Jan 52)

LOCATION

LOCATION Ft. Myers, Fla.

SOURCE Civilian

DATE IN TO ATIC

COLOR Silver, Orange, Red & white

SPEED Greater than

ALTITUDE 3000' Measured

LENGTH OF TIME OBSERVED 7 Min

TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ground

MANEUVERS Hovered then NW flight

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HEADQUARTERS THIRD ARMY
Office of AC of S, G-2
Fort McPherson, Georgia
UNCLASSIFIED
32
AJACI-3 360.33 11 December 1950
SUBJECT: Unconventional Aircraft
TO: Commanding General
Hq 14th Air Force
Robins AFB, Macon, Georgia
ATTENTION: Director of Intelligence

Inclosed herewith is clipping from a Tampa, Florida, newspaper re "saucer" reported over Fort Myers, Florida.

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

1 Incl:
As stated above

Int 360 1st Ind

Hq Fourteenth Air Force, Robins Air Force Base, Ga. 14 DEC 1950

TO: Commanding General, Air Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio. Attn:
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'Saucer' Reported Over Ft. Myers
Special to The Times

Ft. Myers, Dec. 7. A 75-foot silver flying saucer with welded seams and four jets hovered over the North side here yesterday for seven minutes according to Harry Lamp, U. S. airplane purchasing agent during World War II.

Lamp said he and four boys, one his son, spotted the craft about 5 P. M. at 3000 feet and that he inspected it through 10-power binoculars. He said it was 14 feet thick at the middle and three feet at the edges with a revolving center extending to within four feet of the edge. The boundary of the moving part was orange an
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CONFIDENTIAL

UNCLASSIFIED

On 7 December 1950 also stated that no weather balloons were airborne in the Oak Ridge area. Krs revealed that no unusual releases of radio active particles were made during the above period.

On 7 December 1950 Major R. C. Care, USAF Defense Area Commander stated that two (2) aircraft were flying in the Oak Ridge area during the above sightings. One was described as an F-82 fighter which is painted black and an aluminum C-45. Both aircraft during this period were in the south end of the Controlled Area of Oak Ridge which is about fourteen (14) miles south of the tw

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