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FINAL REPORT OF SIGHTING
1388th AAF Base Unit
APO 86h, c/o Postmaster, New York, N.Y.
Flying Disc or other Airborne Object,
On board Steamship "BURGEO" enroute from Sydney,
Nova Scotia to Port avr Basques, Newfoundland,
about one hour out from Sydnev.
0015Z 20 July 19h7.
30° off the horizon at an estirated quartey mile range,
Clear and dark,
NNE (30° East of True North) on horizontal plane.
High velocity, stated to be faster than a tracer bullet.
Observers did not see the object, they saw its flashes
and all four observers agreed there were four (hk) or
five (5) flashes approximately one (1) second apart
and equidistant. The flashes were said to be silvery
to reddish in color, an? were described by two observ-
ers to be like those of a Fire Fly only larger and at
equal intervals, and did not look like a shoot! ne star
or airplane.
Messrs Maitland, Larkin, Douglas and Hamilton of
Hamilton, Metcalfe and Kansas City Bridge Companies
which concern is doing the construction at Harmon Field.
The four gentlemen (noted in Par.10) and Captain Gullage,
Master of the "Burgeo", were standing on the starboard
deck, and as the Captain was trying t) Jjescribe a previous
sighting, he saw the flashes; the other four gentlemen
also saw them es described herein, and believed that it
was not a meteorite or airplane because of its speed,
color, and evenly spaced discharges or flashes,
Captain Gullage told the four gentlemen that he had seen
the same thing at approximately the same time and location
(ship's position) on the evening of 15 July 1917, except
at that time, the object or flashes were traveling faster
and frequently hanging course (he said it changed course
abruptly severel ‘ande} and was headed generally to the
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