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Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010001-0 Location Witnesses Description Vista, Calif. Student Parent Object (spindle-shaped) 8-10 smaller dropped from it, hovered, all disappeared upward. nr Marshall, Texas Family Two Parent Objects (bright lights) 6-7 smaller lights clustered and moved around stationary large ones. N. Scituate, Mass, Store Propri- etors Parent Object (dark cigar) with two large discs apparently resting on top; 3 in cluster flying nearby. Minister & wife Cressy, Launce- ton, Australia Parent Object (cigar with vertical bands) 5-6 smaller discs. Parent ob- ject descended from clouds, followed in about 2 minutes by discs, which stopped around cigar; finally rose rapidly in clouds. Toonpang, N.S.W., 5 men Australia Parent Object (round, domed) 4 small silvery v-shaped objects left and re- turned to parent object after maneuvering around at high speed. Blue Ridge Librarian Summit, Pa. Parent Object (cigar or long ellipse) and cluster of smaller hovering ob- jects; small objects streaked toward parent object, and all moved out of sight behind trees. . Witnesses interviewed by NICAP Board Member Frank Ed- wards: Cecil Bridge, fireman; Harry Eckman, engineer; Morris Ott, head brakeman; Paul Soshey, flagman; and Ed Robinson, conductor. . True Magazine, March 1950. (Case confirmed by Capt. (then Cdr.) Robert B, McLaughlin, USN, head of Navy missile tracking crew.) . Interview report by Walter N. Webb, NICAP Adviser, on file at NICAP. . Life Magazine, April 17, 1952, from Air Force Intelligence Report. NOTE . Ruppelt, Edward J., Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, S Doubleday, 1956, p. 38. . Flying, July 1950 (including pilot’s sketch), Seealso Memphis Commercial Appeal, March 22, 1950. . Monthly Weather Review, March 1904. . Baker, Robert M. L., Jr., “Analyses of Photographic Ma- terial; Photogrammetric Analysis of the Utah Film Tracking UFOs,” p. 2. (Copy on file at NICAP.) . Flying, July 1950; Life Magazine, July 21, 1947. Approved For Release 2001/04/02'! CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010001