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342_HS1-416511228_319.1 Flying Discs 1949
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Ltr fr Maxwell Flight Service Center, Maxwell AF Base, Ah dtd 2 Jan lo
Subj: Unidentified Flying Objects
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Object Sighted, description:
(i) Number: One.
(2) Shape: Cigar-shaped, with short stubby wings, resembling
& rocket, also reported later as resembling a sleeve towne
target.
(3) Sizes @etimated sixty (60) feet long.
(4) Coler: Dark Blue or black.
(S) Speed: Initially estimated as 200 mph, then inercasing
to 5-600 mph.
(6) Heading: “est when first sighted, then southwest when
last sighted.
(7) Meneuverability: Apparently very maneuverable.
(8) Altitude: 1500 feet.
(9) Soumd: Similier to a helicopter.
(10) “xhaust trail: None visible.
General reomarke:
(1) “hen the object was first sighted and reported to
Plight Service at Maxwell AF Base at 1735¢ by the
Jackson Operations Offieo, an attempt was made to
investigate the ebjeot by calling all military
airfields in the area from which a jet or rocket
Flight may have originated, or at which the object
may have been sighted.
The following stations were scoutacted:
(a) Sglin AF Bage, Florida
(b) Pensacola WAS and Chevalier Field HAS, Florida
(eo) Whiting NAS, *lorida
(a) New Orleans NAS, Louisana
(@) Memphis NAS, Temnacasee
(f) New Orleans Air Route Traffic Control Center was
aise contacted.
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