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CONFIDENTIAL- FINAL REPORT OF SIGHTING Organization: 1388th AAF Base Unit APO 86h, c/o Postmaster, New York, N.Y. Sighting Flying Dise or other Airborne Object. Place On board Steamship "BURGEO" enroute from Sydney, Nova Scotia to Port avr Basques, Newfoundland, about one hour out from Sydrev. Time 00152 20 July 1917. Altitude 30° off the horizon at an estinated quarters mile range. Weather Clear and dark. Reading $ NNE (30° East of True North) on horizontal plane. Speed s High velocity, stated to be faster than a tracer bul) ate Description : Observers did not see the object, they saw its flashes and all four observers agreed there were four (h) or five (5) flashes approximately one (1) second apart, and equidistant. The flashes were said to be silvery to reddish in color, and 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 shooti ng 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, Vaster of the "Burgeo", were standing on the starboard deck, and as the Captain was trying t) jescribe a previous sighting, he saw the flashes; the other four gentlemen also saw them #s described herein, and believed that it was not a meteorite or airplane because of its speed, color, and evenly spaced discharges or flashes. Ceptain 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 several ‘inae) and was headed generally to the RESI RIL. - CORFBERTINN—