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PROJECT 10073 RECORD

|  1. DATE, TIME GROUP | 2. LOCATION  |
| --- | --- |
|  5 November 50 05/1945Z | Jonesville, Louisiana  |
|  3. SOURCE | 10. CONCLUSION  |
|  Civilian | INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR EVALUATION  |
|  4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | Most likely A/C contrails, but not enough information to  |
|  One | evaluated case.  |
|  5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS  |
|  Not Reported | Object went up to the Northwest. There were twin exhausts, such as made by jet planes, but the exhausts did not stay parallel. Object was so bright and shiny he couldn't tell anything about it…

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9th OSI District
Barksdale AFB, La.
7 November 1950

QUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
THE INSPECTOR GENERAL
Office of Special Investigations

IN REPLY REFER TO:

SPOT INTELLIGENCE REPORT

SUBJECT: Reports of Unconventional Aircraft

TO: Director of Special Investigations
Headquarters United States Air Force
Washington 25, D. C.

1. SYNOPSIS: Recent reports of sightings of unconventional aircraft in Louisiana are, briefly, as follows:

a. A simultaneous sighting by father and son, residents of New Orleans, on 10 October 1950, of a noiseless, bright object at a great altitude.

b.…

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Spot Intelligence Report, DO #9, 7 Nov 50, subj: Report of Unconventional Aircraft

(2) Location: Observers were in the neighborhood of the residence in the northeast portion of New Orleans. Observation was first seen at an azimuth of approximately 45 degrees True and was traveling in a northerly direction. The observers estimated that the object was flying at an altitude of at least one (1) mile.

(3) Manner of Observation: Visual from the ground.

(4) Weather Conditions: Bright sun, no clouds.

(5) Description of Object:

(a) According to Size and shape of a joint of stove pipe…

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Spot Intelligence Report, DO #9, 7 Nov 50, subj: Reported Un conventional Aircraft.

from the Hospital. They were more than a mile distant, but "not extremely high".

(3) Manner of Observation: Visual from a window of Hospital. Observed for approximately two (2) hours.

(4) Description: Twelve (12) shiny, apparently metallic, diving, spinning objects with round bodies and short wings. Objects were noiseless and left no visible exhaust trails. They appeared to be constantly spinning. No definite pattern of formation was maintained. Color was bright gray to opalescent.

(5) advised …

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Spot Intelligence Report, DO #9, 7 Nov 50, subj: Reports of Unconventional Aircraft.

A. It was said he got a pocket telescope and watched the saucer but could never see plainly what was ahead of the vapor trails. The object did not hurry; 'it took its time and disappeared from sight in about five minutes.' At the last, he stated, the vapor trail appeared to be red and then bluish.

"The book is a book declared that there were two of them things over the tractor shed and they were long and round like a cigar."

d. The New Orleans States, on 10 October 1950, carried t…

Spot Intelligence Report, DO #9, 7 Nov 50, subj: Reports of Unconventional Aircraft

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"I have kept quiet about it all this time, but now I felt I must write and tell you about it. Signed MRS.

f. The New Orleans Item of 17 October 1950, editorially, speculated concerning the sighting on the preceding Sunday, of four "saucers" in formation by Miami Airlines, Inc., pilots, and . The editorial commented on the claims of sights last February by Commander. , a USN Missile Export, and concluded, "... is it possible that the three groups of expert observers could have been mistaken about…