38_143685_box7_Incident_Summaries_1-100

Department of War · Document

38_143685_box7_Incident_Summaries_1-100 is indexed as a Department of War record. Each of these incident summaries includes a "Check-List Unidentified Flying Objects" that contains details about the incident. Many summaries also include witness lists or statements and other narrative reports or descriptions.

Notable / anomalous element

• Witnesses were walking when they observed a peculiar reddish light. (OCR text, page 120)
• The intense brightness of the phenomena pierced thru a heavy layer of clouds passing intermittently over the area and obscured other celestial phenomena. (OCR text, page 97)
• The object appeared extremely small and therefore the altitude could not be estimated. (OCR text, page 194)
• Minozewski observed a strange metallic disk on three occasions thru the theodolite while making his pibal observation during a six months period. (OCR text, page 170)

Details

• MVE ATataers wa MAIER BEF MOI FER enroute to his office and before entering heard one of the local aircraft in the traffic pattern. (OCR text, page 3)
• Newmen, T/Set Joseph Ruvolo ena Miss Jeannette Merie Scotte, Witnesses ell verified the sighting end the direction of the objects all three stated thet the objects were mving towerd Mojave, Calif. (OCR text, page 3)
• Witness was sure it was not an opticel illusion or that the objects were not: weather balloons since they treveled egainst preveiling wind and since the speed at which they traveled and the horizontal direction taken indicated that they were not weather belloons, Furthermore they could not remain at } the seme. (OCR text, page 3)
• the time the additional personnel had arrived at the sme the original objects had disappeared due to the speed at which they were re 5 traveling. (OCR text, page 3)
• Eveluation: Confirmed by other sources, Witnesses: S/Set Gerald BE, Newmen T/Set Joceoh Ruvolo. (OCR text, page 3)
• Pointing up in a direction directly above the group he asked them to expldin what they saw. (OCR text, page 5)
• She listened cerefuily for a few minutes but could hear no drone such as occasioned by any eirereft. (OCR text, page 5)
• Some three or four mimes after the objects had nearly disappeared she saw another flying object similar to the above-mentioned objects. (OCR text, page 5)

Tags: War Department, Unidentified object, Aircraft, Discs, Drone, Lights