UFO case file · UFO-26009
Location not stated radar-visual unidentified-object report — March 9, 1950
Location Not Legible, Location not stated
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It was observed by three persons until it went out of sight. CRAIG HUNTER, DIRECTOR OF A MEDICAL SUPPLY FIRM, REPORTED A HUGH ELLIPTICAL OBJECT FLYING AT A LOW ALTITUDE IN PENNSYLVANIA. The text discusses a report of "flying saucers" or "something" seen in Mexico City on March 11, 1950. AD-4 12 MARCH 1950 Mexico Sees: * Flying Saucers --or Something MEXICO CITY, March 11 (AP) The director of a Mexican observatory where the photograph was taken, said it was 'only a picture of something round in the sky which could not be identified.' The photograph was a black square with a diagonal band of light, which the newspaper 'Excelsior' said was "probably the only picture of its kind taken within the larger countries." Luis Enrique Erro, director of the National Observatory where the photograph was taken, said it was the impression that it could have been the picture of some unknown object flying very high in the sky. More reports of flying saucers poured into the press from all over Mexico. Performing OCR on the text in the document: 'Case Information Only Source: Los Angeles Times dtd 12 March 1950 'Flying Triangle' Was Really There - That would you could believe, if only it had been a Triangle, what you saw was a flying object, and what was saw was a flying triangle. only two points, however, seemed to stand out clearly: 1. It was a flying object, and 2. The Air Force says it was an Unidentified Flying Object, but people who saw it claim it was a flying triangle. At any rate, it was a flying object, and the radar at Montrose A.F.B. did pick it up. This, at least, seems certain.' 15 March 1950 Mexico City, Mexico Trained Eyes See Mexican Saucers MEXICO CITY, March 14. - Trained aircraft observers confirmed reports today of hundreds of persons who observed "flying saucers" over this city yesterday and one at Monterrey, 580 miles north. An airline weatherman said he "thought the objects he saw were an illusion." However, the chief observer of the Mexican Aviation Company said the case was unexplained. Ruppelt, a veteran employee of the airport commander's office, said he saw all four of the objects.
Recorded details
- Local time
- 100
- Craft description
- Disc / Saucer; Reported object in Location not stated radar-visual unidentified-object report — March 9, 1950; Egg / Oval; Light Formation; Triangle / Delta
- Coordinate precision
- UNKNOWN
- Date precision
- EXACT_DAY