Declassified UFO / UAP Document
U.S. Air Force Technical Information Sheet - 10 November 1953
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This document contains a U.S. Air Force sighting report from 1953 identifying an object in Dayton, Ohio, as a meteor, alongside unrelated reports of anomalous film findings and a comet sighting.
This document contains a collection of reports and technical information sheets regarding unidentified aerial phenomena. The primary report details a sighting on November 10, 1953, in Dayton, Ohio. A witness, while driving across the West Third Street Bridge, observed a single, orange, fiery object with constant brightness traveling west at a high rate of speed. The observation lasted approximately two seconds before the object disappeared behind a hill. The official conclusion, recorded by an investigator named Fitch, identified the object as a meteor. The document also includes a newsletter from the Civilian Saucer Intelligence (CSI) group, which discusses a separate incident involving Mrs. Ethel Coleman of Lebanon, Ohio. On November 14, 1953, Mrs. Coleman captured images of a small, round, milk-glass object resembling a moon on film while attempting to photograph Mercury during an eclipse. The newsletter details the analysis of this film by various individuals, including Herbert Clark and Ken Hock, and presents a hypothesis that the object was a material, non-metal device operating under remote control. Finally, the document includes a Hydrographic Bulletin report from November 11, 1953, regarding a comet sighting in the North Pacific by Mr. Antonio G. Pista aboard the SS. President Fillmore. The report describes a dark blue comet that illuminated the sky and sea, leaving a trail that glowed for five minutes.
If the object cannot be resolved as a lenticular phenomenon, and, with all other avenues to solution theoretically closed, only one feasible explanation remains; the object is a material, but non metal device, spherical in shape and operates under remote control.
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Official Assessment
Astronomical (Meteor)
Interrogation by phone revealed cause of sighting probably a meteor.
Witnesses
Key Persons
- Ethel ColemanWitness of a separate incident in Lebanon, Ohio
- Herbert ClarkAnalyst
- Ken HockFilm analyst
- Antonio G. PistaWitness of a separate incident in North Pacific
- Carl F. A. JohnsonMaster of SS. President Fillmore