[BLANK] radar-visual unidentified-object report — December 30, 1947

On December 30, 1947 the Air Force directed its Air Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, to establish a project to collect and evaluate all available facts concerning "flying saucer" sightings. On December 27, 1949, after 375 reported sightings had been investigated, the Air Force announced the findings of the "flying saucer" project. The evidence at that time indicated that the majority of the reported unidentified flying objects could be accounted for as misinterpretations of various conventional objects and did not form of hyderia, meteorological phenomena, light aberrations, or hoaxes. This was at a time when the Air Force was not admitting the reality of the reported "flying saucers" and this incident identifiable at an elevation of ten to twenty-five degrees. In each instance the pilots reported that their radar led them first upward and then down toward a specific point on the ground. In addition, radar has picked up many objects first reported as "unidentified" which have later been identified as balloons, ice formations in the air, or other known aerial objects or manifestations. None of the three military departments nor any other agency in the government is experimenting with devices classified for security reasons which could account for the reports made of objects sighted, which are known to be either a hoax or the result of misidentification of natural phenomena.