Subject: Flying Disc

This memorandum, dated 10 August 1950, was issued by the Headquarters Fifth Army in Chicago, Illinois, and addressed to the Commanding General at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The document serves as a formal report regarding an Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon, submitted in compliance with a Department of the Army directive (GSUSA, CSGID 452.1) dated 25 March 1948, which established control number A-1917 for such reports. The core of the document details a sighting reported in the 'Chicago Herald-American' on 7 August 1950. According to the report, an unidentified 'flying disc' was observed over the suburb of Riverdale on 6 August 1950. The witness, a 32-year-old resident, described hearing a sound resembling an airplane before spotting a flat, circular object passing over his house. The witness noted that the object appeared too round to be an airplane and was moving at a speed that precluded it from being a balloon. The document concludes with a brief administrative statement from Lt. Colonel Innes Randolph, acting Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2, noting that no further investigation into the matter was contemplated by the Fifth Army headquarters.