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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

DATE OF INFO 19 Sept 1950
LOCATION POPLAR BLUFF, MO.
SOURCE N 6 pilot & others (newspaper rpt)
DATE IN TO ATIC
COLOR
SPEED
ALTITUDE
LENGTH OF TIME OBSERVED 5 HOURS
TYPE OF OBSERVATION Aerial
MANEUVERS
REMARKS: Pilot flew toward object in F-51 and reported he was sure object was some kind of weather balloon.

Temporary ATIC Form 329
(2 Jan 52)

|  ATIC NO. | DATE OF INFO 19 Sept 1950  |
| --- | --- |
|  AF NO. | LOCATION POPLAR BLUFF, MO.  |
|  REPORT NO. | SOURCE N 6 pilot & others (newspaper rpt)  |
|  DATE OF REPORT | DATE IN TO ATIC  |
|  TIME OF SIG…

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UNCLASSIFIED

HEADQUARTERS THIRD ARMY
FORT MCPHERSON, GEORGIA

AJACI-3 360.33 22 September 1950

SUBJECT: Unconventional Aircraft

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

Attention: MCI (Control No. A-1917)

Inclosed herewith is newspaper clipping from the PRESS-SCIMITAR, Memphis, Tennessee, 19 September 1950, re unusual object in the sky.

FOR THE COMMANDING GENERAL:

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

1 Incl: 2
As stated above

250 SEP 50

File
G. M. Eade

509.4
contd

UNCLASSIFIED

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# Pilot Views Flying Saucer And Calls It a Balloon
*Memphis Press-Scenarios 19 Sept*

## Hovered Over Poplar Bluff for 5 Hours
### Yesterday: 'Like Silver Marble'

Poplar Bluff's "flying saucer," which hovered over the Missouri city for about five hours yesterday, was just an errant weather balloon, the Memphis Air National Guard pilot who got closest to it, said today.

"It looked like a big silver marble," said Lt. Claude Haverty, 35 Belieair Drive. "It was some kind of weather balloon, I'm sure."

Various residents of Poplar Bluff had described their aerial mystery visitor as looking li…

AF FORM 112—PART II
APPROVED 1 JUNE 1948
AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT
FROM (Agency) Intelligence Division, Hq MATS Andrews AFB, Washington 25, D.C.
REPORT NO. IR-291-50
PAGE 3 OF 3 PAGES

"g. Pilot emphasized that it was possible there was no connection between the object and the lights seen after dark."

Percy E. Sutton
Captain, USAF

DOWNGRADED AT 3 YEAR INTERVALS
DECLASSIFIED AFTER 12 YEARS.
DOD DIR 5200.10

NOTE: THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE OF THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE ESPIONAGE ACT, 50 U.S.C. 31 AND 32. AMENDED UNTIL TRANSMISS…

NO CASE (INFORMATION ONLY)
SOURCE: New York World Telegram and Sun
(Astro Meteor)
20 September 1950
Kentucky, Tennessee Area

# Meteor Blast In Sky Rocks 2-State Area

NASHVILLE, Sept. 20 (AP). — A meteor flashed through the sky to the west of here early today and apparently exploded in the air, jarring an area from Paducah, Ky., to Memphis, Tenn.

The Illinois Central Railroad dispatcher in Paducah said reports from all along his line to Memphis told of an explosion.

He said a railroad signalman at Covington, Tenn., 40 miles north of Memphis, told of seeing a ball of fire in the sky getting …

AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT

FROM (Agency) Intelligence Division, Hq MATS Andrews AF Base, Washington, D.C. REPORT NO. IR-291-50 PAGE 2 OF 3 PAGES

The Commanding Officer, Maxwell Flight Service Center, Maxwell AF Base, Alabama, has forwarded the following report of an unidentified aerial object sighted in Missouri on 19 September 1950:

"a. At 1630C, 19 September 1950, Malden Radio was advised by telephone that an unidentified object had been sighted over Poplar Bluff, Missouri. At approximately 1640C, Malden Radio had the object in sight. A Tennessee National Guard F-51, from Memphis…