|. _DEsLassiFieo Aurhonty AWD 27/332. ewnceylte | pencovess ar we nancn ores ee be yell to note the sinilarity of tide andon givon here is entirely too, tragoatar} he object sighted Gutd~have airoskes, o a ¢ the ay arzuos agatiet d missile. The fast. that it its having teen @ ietoor. Agvaimlarity of this inotadne to- i149 ead ass)t- Tidianapolis, ndiana == 25 July 1948 ieee aad 71e2 are being considered together by were odserved at approxinately tne sano ee of day, "tad insluae certain similarities of description. are availaste for both osjacts observed,, and, ‘although’ tuoy* erg Sonaderasty ditterent, they right conoeivably ‘ ic RAEN Sg AROS - Fepracont thai. caso soyest Yiewod on oaga/and in pluns’” Both” have ee “apeventaatony oo ‘ete shape, altnovs ch tne “scale given oy one ob= Reeves: te about theo. ‘tines that given oy the othé®. oth have 5:1 “independent of onon other. “Were ‘there ‘by ‘ihy. chance sone cial slider experiments Hers y. aay. es Going on in tuo vioinity of lndlanapolis at that tine? barring haliue ‘tions, those two incidents and incidents GAT, 40, 75,° and df seed to be the nost taygible, froithe: stand= point of deseription, of S11 those reported, and tie most dit who explain away. as’ shoor nonsense. ft should co noted that botn ineidents #181 and 152 nad- _ DECLASSIFIED ! Airbeity AWD F By LA NARA Date 2 THUOTED pathos Bag * Be eronomical explanation for the object a3 2 Feport.on ti“Tnoleont “Aas = = = Seorgse => 5 August 1949 consistent ie that a f eetsesrarig fireball, in spiteArtery ADD 27/332 Sy VA wpa, 54a == Coluous, vii -- 2 auust 1948 é ‘an out? 0, ee ‘yaceit inside, so that the a was visible recollection has reuained vivid thraughout vject.he saw could best be described as a --flouting “ellipee, Like. a wire hoop travelling slowly across the Sb ae sod adoillyw as en the hoop were being distorted. The object was th several witnosses, unbil it oo ESE G6 toagd tin ninutes, the writer had disnissed the i¢ phonomencn, perhaps & 2 oe Bocause of tho similarity covwoon this ouservution and interest rted in’ incident w1b4, stor has @ speci: tore In the recent incident, however, tho tai? apyDECLASSIFIED "|. pemcovcenarmeninons snows seine AWD 27/32) = Spies, Ohio = 81 July 4v4a 5) ‘the ost litely’ orplayssion sa-that a cluster of oniloons, or “Beene Sree for this interpretation 4s Bropeoly fumished by sot reported in:if167 proved to be a “oounty-fair"aSSiFIE ity AWD P7752, Sy VEL NARA Dats " pgmonuce arenarius aecanes Tgident 185 -- Colunus,“Onis ~2 81 vay 1da0". » which obviously rezer ‘be gonsidorad’ togocnoi. the ‘oojoct fo12 ib Proved to oe a "county reir oal~ in tae part of the country.” VuallyDECLASSIFIED "| senooicersrnetanavi cis Aurhonty AWD 27/339 “% 28 tho manner deserived, the witness states like an astindrerast shell burst or a ‘Me “Implios that the, motion of the cijoot’ 3 cone to the ~duly 1948 suggested ty the” esorip- an adbortising "iin ihe.tine of obsery d probably have giyea th ou aan Should be. noted that tho ofzo-of ‘the ob ject’ and_:Thero is no “astronomical explanavion-rorthis incident eso 0 7 The date of ocourrenco, July 4, suzrasts that the oajest toon eight have veen a gprt of sate coloration == for instance, “a Lighted Selleors or even a” "obunty rair" type ot balloon.LaSSiFIED sn 22022oye ie Atowes, it is doubly unfortunate that Fe ab hand. If cho object id lend just te (Heink ‘that even oni, dren would have piven “is te known, hotter’ the ‘enildren” *.".! even a buzzard or strange object. ~~ECLASSIFIE rset, MOD 97/222. 3) 8inae a coupiote dosoription of this insident is ziven * "te aunorole reports. tron sts ilson Obeorvatory ard dearesen Haida dervations thoro were made with telescopes by and ince their descriptions agroe feat ‘tho eavents baltoon-1ike, there is ‘Rothing that this ees object was evidently an yntdonti fica ieo" at tho.tine! of a tmunderstom gugiosts es Fegort might we rofertod to an oxpert on ball 1izhins eae Swisther side Tig bee pocdsbte ex“Broident Besa —- - Clabes, BES RRS se ‘bed avery beh ieee Rg seteon Dessreee ‘othor reports (included with” ee Georgia == 23 July 19: ly that we “have the description of “odedont #166/-— Los Angeles, Galifernia =~ $0 august 1948 observer of this inoidont states that the object look ebg.v9s larger vhan a B28, lo does not give the die~ ie also vossicle reor. If the hour of obsorvation “chat: tue abgsks geen Wasa brickt eae, late criligits Th cons that wt ight meteor apgeuring at this tins ‘coule give the generul, i : BRE oe “leaving a. ‘thal ie srescion of a rocket nel place ax vit cash lone ae a Stvas oe. a'tndy tronenddus size or the slase vas out of Toeus. fur- horses, ‘the toleyran und summary state that the object vas travellins elusion thut the asDECLASSIFIED autetty AWD 27/322. _ Val / bad soon , head-on and Sean ow ee ae with partial siou 1, 164? O58 3 mn tino of actual exzlosions wy 1948 obably an oxplodins fire= could oasily‘explain the absence Ae appoars Brebatte ‘chat aly ono, sholl would hava boon observed.ad oven for eis ‘Geiovely digticult to taxe at face value the : om. 2 srevell ins ee even-if “seen four og through clouds” thal OGurt of Damage and his doug ore Tt seems @ firetall. dven though these two iter: oe Ls His interesting_ DECLASSIFIED Anbety AWD 27/732. By VA NARA Dats Yihy hove Joos not appear to bo any ast ronomical explanation @ Shance thet thb object’ auld have been & Process of éisintosrations ¢ 1DECLASSIFIED that ¢hore is wy astrono- mn for this incident. ‘The informétion “nical oxplaniti given is “very limited, but tt pointe definitely to the yrobability thet objects sighted vere réckets. The report indicates tl ko object was roooverad,DECLASSIFIE | pepmooucen ar NATIONAL ARCHES AbD 27/322, RESTRICTED shore Ap:nc astrononical explandtion for this incident. Perhaps~_DECUASSFIES utberty AMD 27/332 = fanaseoe ®: s sprvcboton sist and a noteorcl cal export yestigater that other rve thé conplox taetios ayes orted. ty: Houtenant: voman, atthouch th hoy were presumaply Is. it posatele, tion, tiat the pilot (S90 rovort om ineddent ©."f- =DECLASSIFIED * | neoscnarnenurousnones Auntetty AMD 97/332, Sy VA wana Ro/dstronomioal explanction for ‘his: incident. (We appedrs provable that a vatteon was under obso: ation,RS CLASSIFIE! yAln 2 7ee wo object sighted fireball, ‘the desoription of ‘the. me e outs this: white hot, with rod in with the fire- Te 4 ‘an wrasanl timo of day to sve a slow- ee : nthe early morniag thoy strike nearly pvad- nov! a ere had slowed: 4 Becton ory appreciably. Ses ishat ib is very * eee at ot ony identification, Por oxunple, one Toes the other ti (2H, Uno: says the elevation Lot 700-800 70%," Te Ab hard to seliove that thoy opjecty 7 even, thi 173, ae segtert a, ‘peat jononé} Alone, it ie approzimmtely with ‘the gotition of Venus ut the tine, pati old lave, boon notteod: at aL, wut tnoo thi! ob ee ver a Asouing Plosely at the sky (umtohing a soversmont plese HS £ "The noob at tne tine wad in giveous phaso, asd vas Orizon north of west” Lost poople are so unssod to ing of the Hoos Af that yosition in tne duytine that they fathtle this hypoth objeot in this ons Diba te parciouloel ee y trug if one's eyecigat is ais has little correspondences sh_nontion no fex nore ‘probable that soo typo of’balloonSastro's xan nch, Californie = 25 Sostonbor 1940 sake, in several _ os cont: outiotery stubonents: diffuse objoct 7 lise of ‘ight vorous « thoy. seze0 on "apoed (very fast), lt does “not soon Leely ‘that the inoident can'be explained 1 Saran ait wish gi avedee Bho: Uesorig ton: vould Blobabdy have an axcobanlike, shapo, azreoing with HOSS, At noon a netoor outward-bound: fron oy Begecton of “the su could ‘approach earth head-on explode, and An view of the “sontliotia; desor: hole ineidents Servers wore Loot: ng at different thdig "Rare dias @ wost=vousd “vo Mniged Mipiies pluno in the view 'Y wt approximtoly that tine; ane observer may have, sdon thats he description of one ‘obsorver oh ss those once used by woather obsarveres~ Boutradictory opaai ise and tho Sidont jako’ serious ons songsruiig the existence of the Gubious personality of the reporter: attontion to tho incident imvossibt, Soptenber 1948 a 0MD IHF2 Sy VA Narn egVE waRa oes leyLASSIFIED |. 213821, Ohio == 14 Uotobor: 1948 # tronomical explanation for: this” ingident. oad of the plane was 160 1S, Sf it had Sorekgs & stigtor oo salt Balloons, © flow of Sot nigrati of relatively stutionary objects, thoy earod.to observers within ‘ad?ob jects, phond ‘poles appoar from a Wiadew ofa. ee owfd size end shape and the ctutenont thaty[- DECLASSIFIED "i spemaoucenarmewnowtinaiies futeity AWD 97/32 Sy VA _ nana. Yel Snoidoat ¥ = anion, imosota -- 20 Vetobor 1943 comminities wt tho suite vice, While thea “L. _DECLASSIFIEO Vn be ity AD 271332. ‘The desoyi zion of the inoident leaves go, quostion bus txat tho objoct observed was @fated “out'that, since the oujost was in " S8bonda, oven 8 convestional aleoradt salar poou~ fons sight have yiven tho resorted appearance.CDesLassinies ge anbety ADD 97/332futety AWD F7/32 Sy YA_ nara pa e soihé t6' bo nothing estrogonica) in tke inetothe cbjoct Lovkod Like w drona, pe: hays: it was one.8 ba toubivors a? 5aso, Seraaay, s+ 11 @etober 1943 pasa of this! “onjeoe in the shy (porte at an Pay eet ; "Where did the infor Winds aloft sexo front igte Fhinne ea. EE)poo ATTACHES sopie ‘ones neteors with sharp, fast flashes no ie al charnatertetio of slow fireballs. a|gmann a neous ones itis very unlikely thet this incident has any astrono= jo tril nor luminescence’ was’ observed, and orted hore have been a conventional ay[DECLASSIFIED jonenviarna ar ones Arbany AWD 2 732, Vel HA 1380 021 Bey cee PMo! astronomical oxplinution is possivie for thistho: > shape, observed on & radarscope,ae joveriber’ 1363 an astvonagteal ean the ! bedghtost sear in the ky. the. ghoto= ace 1 Faken of th @ cbfect cizhted doos not contradict tds, hypothesis. 2 a is amttiel y that ‘Sho object observed ws the bright janet Lee) # tgcorsrod gue day garlicr in. the southern hemisphore, 1 south and east, alaost onthe “ined ond vag very much fainter than Verus, Ifthe object seen, hore had been the canst, tha “sercons observing it eculd lay lain _ Teivas digcoverod ono day later ia sustralig the aubunn of 1bay in sproxinatois the sake position us tuae én witen 4 was seen on the sotuing of Novasher te note that uoreury hud its -reatost Tis alge of interest western olongation oa Hovenber 8, but it rose just ut the beginndi of he orsing twilight and would therefore have buen Just rising at che {tine of tais snoidént, furthersore, Hercury was much less brilliant then Venus.