Declassified UFO / UAP Document

Temporary ATIC Form 329 - Bedford, Va Sighting

📅 Summer 1948 📍 Bedford, Va 🏛 ATIC 📄 sighting_report

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TL;DR

A 1952 ATIC report form documents a 1948 sighting of large, revolving disks in Bedford, Virginia, which was ultimately classified as having insufficient data. The document also includes a 1950 newspaper column by Billy Rose detailing a separate sighting in Connecticut and discussing the broader public discourse on flying saucers.

This document consists of two parts: a formal ATIC (Air Technical Intelligence Center) sighting report form and a newspaper column titled 'Pitching Horseshoes' by Billy Rose, dated May 5, 1950. The ATIC form, dated January 2, 1952, documents a sighting that occurred in the summer of 1948 in Bedford, Virginia. The witness, identified as a female civilian, reported observing large, revolving disks at night. The form is marked with the handwritten notation 'INSUFF DATA'. The accompanying newspaper column provides a personal account of a sighting in Newtown, Connecticut, involving the author and several notable figures, including Paul Osborne, Josh Logan, and John Hersey. The author describes seeing searchlights and celestial objects that appeared to be large disks, approximately 200 feet in diameter, at an altitude of 3,000 to 5,000 feet. The objects exhibited a ghostly blue neon glow. The column also references a separate alleged incident near Wildwood, New Jersey, involving a disk that was supposedly photographed and labeled with a military secret warning. The author expresses a belief in the existence of these objects, citing his own observations and reports from others, while criticizing the government's handling of information regarding the phenomena.

I don't know what the saucers are for, but on the basis of this and other reports—plus the evidence of my own bug-eyes—I'm convicted they exist

Official Assessment

INSUFF DATA

The report indicates insufficient data to classify the sighting.

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