Declassified UFO / UAP Document
Unconventional Aircraft - Shelby, North Carolina Sighting
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This document is a military memorandum transmitting a newspaper report of an unidentified aerial object sighting in Shelby, North Carolina, on April 8, 1950. The report describes a silent, aluminum-colored, round object that performed unusual maneuvers before disappearing.
This document consists of a memorandum from Headquarters Third Army, dated April 13, 1950, addressed to the Commanding General of the Air Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The memorandum serves as a transmittal for a newspaper clipping from the Raleigh, North Carolina 'News and Observer' dated April 11, 1950. The clipping details a sighting of an unidentified object over Shelby, North Carolina, on Saturday, April 8, 1950. According to the report, Paul Limerick, the commander of the local Veterans of Foreign Wars, along with an employee of an auto parts firm named Doane Mulick and three children, observed the object for at least two minutes. The witnesses described the object as aluminum-colored and round, but not shaped like an airplane. It reportedly traveled on a horizontal southwesterly course without producing any noise, smoke, or flame. The witnesses noted that the object 'wobbled' along its course before suddenly shooting straight upward and disappearing. The military correspondence includes a handwritten notation on the first page indicating 'INSUFF DATA', suggesting that the information provided was insufficient for further identification or analysis by the Air Materiel Command.
Limerick described it as aluminum colored but not in the shape of an airplane. Apparently round, it followed a horizontal southwesterly course without making any noise or giving out any smoke or flame, he reported.
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Official Assessment
INSUFF DATA
The report describes an unidentified aerial object sighted by civilians in Shelby, North Carolina, on April 8, 1950. The object was described as aluminum-colored, round, and silent, exhibiting a wobbling motion before ascending vertically.
Witnesses
- Paul Limerickcommander of Shelby's Veterans of Foreign WarsVeterans of Foreign Wars
- Doane Mulickemploye of an auto parts firmauto parts firm
Key Persons
- John MeadeColonel, GSC, AC of S, G-2