USAF record 28956229
28956229
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1. DATE - TIME GROUP 3 September 53 4/09/53
2. LOCATION Modesto, California
3. SOURCE [REDACTED]
4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS One
5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION [ILLEGIBLE] ONCE
6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION [ILLEGIBLE] ONCE
7. COURSE Not reported
8. PHOTOS Yes (PHOTO ONLY)
9. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE No
10. CONCLUSION [REDACTED]
11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS A photograph of an [ILLEGIBLE] shaped object was taken with a special graphic camera (film exposed) on a newspaper photographer The observer was not unattended on top of a building between the hours of 10:00 and 12:00 for purposes of photographing an object which he saw as an airliner.
Note: A c-47[a] ground observer crew noted an /c with a landing light in a traffic pattern at Modesto Airport several times during the interval that exposure was made It was the opinion of reporting officer that [ILLEGIBLE] object on the photo was the result of the flash of an /c landing light.
Form FTD SEP 53 0-329 (TDE) Modesto, Cal. (photo neg) b-7
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- Page 1 1. DATE - TIME GROUP 3 September 53 4/09/53 2. LOCATION Modesto, California 3. SOURCE [REDACTED] 4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS One 5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION [ILLEGIBLE] ONCE 6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION [ILLEGIBLE]…
- Page 2 1953 SEP 14 10:06 ACTION [HW: 1] [HW: 2] [HW: 3] [HW: 4] STAMP: ILLEGIBLE
- Page 3 JOINT MESSAGEFORM COMMUNICATIONS CENTER NO 81P 17 FROM: (Originator) [REDACTED] TO: COMDR CASTLE AT BASE CALIFORNIA [HW: JwPJM] INFO: FROM: APOIN-ATIAS-9-3-E FOR 93rd Bomb Wg Reurnmsg ODCI 5120 dta…
- Page 4 PM COMDRA 93D BOMWG CASTLE AFB CALIF TO JEPHQ HQ USAF WASHDC JEDUP/COMDRWRIGHT PATTERSON AFB OHIO JEDEN/COMDR ENT AFB COLO JEDNH/COMDSAC OFFUTT AFB NEBR JWPRI/COMDRAF 15 MARCH AFB CALIF ODCI 5122.…
- Page 5 Wing Intelligence Castle AF Base, California 1. The preparing officer in company with an OSI agent and a Castle AF Base PIO representative drove to Modesto, California on 3 September 1953 to view a…
- Page 6 AD086 WP0572 XY8155 XDB113 CXA182 JIPUH 221 [HW: Action] [HW: B) ATAE-5] [HW: Atta] [HW: + P file] RR JEDPH JUPRH 222 DE JUPUH 93 R 132248Z FH CONDR BMW 93 CASTLE AFS CALIF TO JEDPH/COMDR ATIC WRIGHT…
- Page 7 UNITED STATES FLYOB/PT Modesto, California HQ, 93d Bomb Wing, Castle AFB, California 11 September 1953 3 September 1953 P-6 Major Roy E. Judith Various civilians TT 933N (N), ODGI 5120 Forwarded…
- Page 8 UNCLASSIFIED [REDACTED] Wing Intelligence Castle AF Base, California 3 3 3. Comments of Preparing Officer: It is the opinion of the preparing officer that the elliptical light in the photograph is…
- Page 9 flying in the vicinity of Modesto Airport. Civil Defense ground observers on duty during the time exposure noted what they believed was a small aircraft with landing light on, flying the traffic…
- Page 10 MODESTO, CALIFORNIA 3 SEPTEMBER 1953 A newspaper photographer and a news reporter, for the same paper, saw a yellowish white light at 7:45 p.m., PDT, 3 September 1953. The light seemed to be about…