Declassified UFO / UAP Document
Subject: "Flying Saucer"
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This document contains two reports of unidentified aerial phenomena from 1950, including a claim that a flying saucer was launched from a C-54 aircraft. The Fifth Army concluded that no further investigation was required.
This document, dated 14 July 1950, is a formal communication from the Headquarters Fifth Army in Chicago to the Commanding General at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. It serves to report two separate sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena in compliance with Department of the Army instructions regarding 'Unconventional Aircraft' (control number A-1917). The first report, sourced from a 6 July 1950 article in the Detroit News, details an account by a farmer named John Keller in Dowagiec, Michigan. Keller claimed that on 29 June 1950, while working in a hay field, he observed a saucer-shaped object, approximately 25 feet in diameter and 12 to 15 feet thick, being launched from the belly of a low-flying C-54 aircraft. Keller described the object as having a chrome-like top with a small protruding dome and a dull grey bottom. He stated that the object wobbled before accelerating rapidly to the south, outdistancing the C-54 in five seconds. Keller was accompanied by his two sons, Larry and Johnny, during the sighting. The second report concerns a sighting by a Dr. L. Q. Vatter on 1 July 1950 in West Chicago. Dr. Vatter described an intensely bright, soundless, round object that resembled a ball of fire. He reported that the object traveled from the north horizon to the south horizon in two seconds at a high altitude. The document concludes with a statement from the Fifth Army that no further investigation into these reports is contemplated by their headquarters.
It sort of wobbled, then shot away at a terrific speed, due south. It easily outdistanced the C-54 and was out of sight in five seconds.
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Official Assessment
No further investigation is contemplated by this headquarters.
The document summarizes two separate reports of unidentified aerial phenomena, one involving a farmer in Michigan and another by a Dr. Vatter in Chicago.