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UFO case file · UFO-26709

Location not stated radar-visual unidentified-object report — September 21, 1952

CE1Location not stated1952-09-21

Location Not Legible, Location not stated

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Case description

On or during September 21, 1952, at or near Location not stated, the source reports the following sequence: IR 305-52 (LEAVE BLANK) DATE AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT SUBJECT Report of Flying Saucers seen Over Hong Kong AREA REPORTED ON Hong Kong FROM (Agency) Air Liaison Office, Hong Kong DATE OF REPORT 22 September 1952 DATE SUBMITTED/ROUTED 13 September 1952 PERPARED BY (Name, address, previous report, etc.) Frederick W. List inclosures at lower left. The following article appeared in the 15 September 1952 edition of the Hong Kong “South China Morning Post”: FLYING SAUCERS REPORTED SEEN OVER HONG KONG Taipei, 15 Sept. A radio officer, whose hobby is the studying of electronics, said today that he had been able to witness the passage over Hong Kong of 15 “flying saucers.” The informant, who asked that his name be withheld, added that the flying objects appeared over Hong Kong at 1:45 a.m. on Saturday. He said that they passed over the Colony toward the southeast in an arciform formation. Light was fluorescent and the altitude could not be determined, but while on their way, the objects passed through a small cloud and light was seen through the cloud. This is the first time that reports have been made of flying saucers in Hong Kong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Further information will be reported if it becomes available. List inclosures at lower left. Membere of an operatic concert audience near Bukiting last night reported seeing a brightly illuminated semi-circular object travelling at great speed and high altitude from west to east at about 19.15 hours. MCNEE Colonel, GAF Ass’t Air LO Comments of Appraising Officers: Analysis by the British Joint Services of the flying saucer in the Major Swans case. Specialist Air Scholars arte differarition in the RADF misde reported ene sound in seen incomplete in the near overnight me into echelar the LOCON reports from denmark, it is on coincidental to the supposedly optical einformation the second wera correlation tow happening possibly of APPROVED: WILLIAM E.

Recorded details

Local time
1:45 a.m.
Craft description
Disc / Saucer; Light Formation; Reported object in Location not stated radar-visual unidentified-object report — September 21, 1952
Coordinate precision
UNKNOWN
Date precision
EXACT_DAY

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