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UFO case file · UFO-30413

Atlantic Ocean unidentified aerial event — December 1958

CE11958-12-01

Atlantic Ocean

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Case description

On or during December 1958, at or near Atlantic Ocean, the source reports the following sequence: COMMENTS: Subject observed traveling at high speed, rose rapidly from water and disappeared. The text in the document is as follows: REFERENCE APR 29-2 PARAGRAPH 15A; (1) SHAPE (TAPERED) 3 SIZE - GALLONS OIL DRUM AT ARMS LENGTH (3) COLOR: REDDISH (4) NUMBER: : (5) NOT APPLICABLE (6) NOT REPORTED (7) RED TRAIL FIRE APPRO) . :VE MILES LONG COMPARABLE SIZE BASKETBALL. HELD ARMS LENGTH (8) 1 SOUND (9) NOT REPORTED. AZIMUTH, SW DIRECTION (3) ANGLE OF ELEVATION ON DISAPPEARANCE (GARBLED) LENGTH (SEEK) NOT REPORTED (3) MANNER OF DISAPPEARANCE FADED PAGE TWO RJEDEX 45A FROM SIGHT (32-35 SECONDS) PARAGRAPH 15C: MANNER OF OBSERVATION GROUND VISUAL NO OPTICAL AIDS. PARAGRAPH 15G: (1) WIND NW SLIGHT (2) NOT REPORTED (3) CEILING UNL (4) VIS 7 MILES (5) CLOUDS NONE (6) NO THUNDERSTORMS. PARAGRAPH 15 H THROUGH K : (1) NO UNUSUAL ACTIVITY (2) NO INTERCEPTOR IDENTIFICATION ACTION TAKEN (3) AIR TFC IN AREA: TWO JET AIRCRAFT FOUND INLAND 75 MIN AFTER SIGHTING (4) PREPARING OFFICER UNABLE TO INTERVIEW (5) USCC - POSSIBLE MISSILE. (1) NOT REPORTED. INFO TO: SAO AD-1, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI UNCLASSIFIED/FORM: REPORT OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT REFS 1359 BY DOT 59-617 FROM 945 BW AT LANGLEY AFB, VIRGINIA REPORTING AN UFO SIGHTED FROM A POINT 25 MILES NORTH OF MARSHALLBURG, N.C. OBJECT DESCENDS ABOVE HORIZON IN THE AREA CALL LATING, DISAPPEARED IN NORTHEAST. SIGHTED FOR APPROX 60-65 SECONDS, OBSERVERS LOCATION 35.46-N 79.23-W. THE OBJECT PASSED ON TO THE SOUTH OF TURMOIL 43 AT A HIGHER ALTITUDE AND FAST SPEED.

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