Art'q Letter ': ., uflry A'l'IC Inc1e1cnt wns by nr: .y i..:c; tir.n tor very oroonDJ.;r \In:; tl;rinp, aircro.rt. fro;a t:.Lrh HaADQUARTKM THIRD ARMY I'ORT McPHRaN, caoROIA !0 a 0---.ndin& Geaeral Air llateriel Comnand lrilht-PatterloD Air Foroe Bale Day1aon, Ohio Att.ntiona Jill (Control lo A-191'1) IDOloled herewith il ot information re sighting ot euppo1ec! tlying 1auoer oYer Orangeburg, South Carolina. lOR !BE COIIKANDING GENERAL 1 ANALYSIS DIVISION FILE flU NUMBER ...JlJ " --ltil.l L,ITIALS ~T ll~te"ARY OF INFORMATION U I Jllltlll WFG UIIDIN'rl PI!D OBJPD'r Cl'rBD OV!a ORANG'& BURG, 801l'rB CAROLIWA COOE FOR USE IN INDIVIDUAL PARMRAPH EVALUATION Of IOUM:I: OF INFORMATION: COMPLITILY .., ... 1 , A COIII'IRMtD IY OTM!R IOiiM:D .. I RIUAIIUTY UIIICNOWII P TRUTM CA .. N01 AIDGID I !he A!LAI'TA JOUIUIAL, 10 Jlaroh 1960, oarried the following artie lea "'RABORBURO, S , C,, llaroh 10 Soorea of Orangeburg residents added to the srowing number of tlyins aauoer report with the deaoription ot a disk which hovered OTer the oity tor 16 minutes, then disappeared leaving a vapor trail, s1x aaabera of the ataft or the ORANGEBURG TIMES and mmORAT said they aaw the diak Thuraday night atter Mrs. Donald Law, wife or the city ttditor, told them about it, They said it about the aize and color or a new moon, 'only "Publ aaid the disk appeared to turn slowiy in the air, tr~ vertical to parallel with the horizon and then vertical again, before dis- appearing in the western sky. , a composing room employ~ said he and tour other persona saw the disk while driving on a highway 15 miles out ot Orangeburg. Another flying saucer reported Thursday by resida1ts or Van Nuya, Cal it, who told police they saw a bright disk flying about 400 teet in the air. 1 All witneaaes aaid they were sure it not an airoratt of any known variety. f "Coapoaer ao studied the disk through a telescope. in diaaeter. and his wife said they it appeared to be 50 feet At the same time llexioan and U. S. Ooverment otfioia.la in llexioo City denied a report that a tlying saucer had crashed near the capital with a 23-inoh man aboard, "However, the Mexican governDLent newa,.per, EL BACIONAL, quoted 'a famous and reputable astronomer' as saying the n1aercua diaka reported over J.lexioo 'carry visitors troa )lara.' -rhe unidentified Uexioan aoientiat wrote that the manner ot flight and proportions or the disks 'make it obvious that they carry beings from another world.' Be said hi1 claim would be confirmed in the neat" tuture 'when one ot the diaks is obased to earth by some military plane.'" UO\VNGHADl:t l DIIIIIIIIUTION CO - THIRD ARMY {\ AJAOI-a aeo.aa IUIJliO! a 1Jnooa~ent1ona1 Alrorafla iDs General Air Materiel \Ia wriCht-Patteraon Air Poroe Baae D&)'ilon , Ohio Attationa 1101 (Control lo. A-1917) lno1oaed herew1 th ia per olippiDs re aiptins ot auppoaed fi71DC aauoer oYer Columbia, South Carolina. JOR THB COIOIANDING GBH'SRAL a Ollppla dtd 10 liar 50 JOBR llEADB Colonel, GSC IJJ ot 8, G-2 WlfHB 00Lti1BIA RECORD" New1peper Colwabia, s. r.roli a 10 Maroh 19SO ~Flying Saucers Back! Seen Over lumbia 1aJo CRAat.a IANDEU streak, a tectlon llke a fine thread, Plyin1 aaueera made a v11oroua and anothtr wide atrtak. new bid today for the newa apot~o lllht In America. One even came Sam OUver and Bob Oates, two lflUlp,ed wlth a mldaet pilot. realdenta of the Forest ~.Ill area" . In IIOuth Carollna. more and more also reported IHina the saucera. cltln from varloua sectlons re-The pair aald the dlac appeared to ported apott1n1 the brlaht. slivery be over the Fair Grounds about obJect noatlnl acrou the aky about 8 :15 p. m. They deacrlbtd It thua- I:So p. m. yeatmay. ly: "The tall end was wl~e and In Columbia, Mra. John c. Brown n&,!l'owe~ down to a polnL of 301 North Trenholm road uad I don t know how many mllea her husband and daulht~r uw Jon I lt wu." Mr. Oliver uld. "I the object while they were en route thou1ht It ~as a pl~ne sky-wrlttna. t. CtlumlYJ from if,nllvlUe. )Irs. but It dldn t move. Baown aa the o ect appeared .R. T. Eaaterllnl of 511 Deerwood lUce a allver aanHt. lrith a wide (Continued On Pap Ten) Thi1 Avent witnessed the above phenomenon and it appeared as follows a The object, presumably a very flyine aircraft, was traveling in a westerly direction. At first it appeared to be a sky writer but did not make any fifurea. The ob,1ect was pro- bably go~ng on a straight couree, but the vapor trail which it left appeared to be slirhtly arched. The center or the vapor trail was quite thin and di1sipated very soon, leaving what appeared to be two 1eparate trails. The wind was blowing from Weat to East, which made it appear like the two traill were not moving very fast. 'l'he two trt\ils ot vaper hung in the air long attar the object was gone. The oratt was so high and fOing almost directly into the sum, which made it impossible this Afent to observe anything but the vapor this was first observ~ at approxim&tely 1805 dissipating trails we~e still able to ~e observed et 1825 hour To this observer, this rhenomenon /'appeared to be nothing hut the rer.ular vapor trail t trom a very hlh flying aircraft. (Continued From Pqe One) . drift, a former air corpe 1unner. btlltftl the object waa a new l)'P< of aircraft. Eaaterllna. who Ill\\ the vapor trail white en routt' tr the etty from the L6wer Rlchlancl aectlon, aald he thou~eht ~t flrat It wu a jet plane explodln~t. How- he explained, It took 12 min Itt out of alaht. A jet would have ~n 1one much sooner, he aatd. While he discarded the "man from Mara" theories, Easterllna aald he definitely thouaht the disc wat an aircraft, but waa not one known to the public at thla time. leen In Onn1ebur1 1 tn Oranltburs. 43 mtles from here, acores of residents added their : obaervatlona to the arowlna num- ber of flyln1 disc reports. Six mem~s of The Times and Democrat staff there aald they aaw the dlac after Mrs. Donald Law.j the manaalna editor, told them about lt. They said It wa11 about the size and color of a new "only brlahter." Publisher J. L. Sima said the object appeued to turn slowly In the air, from ver tl.:al to parallel with the horlzor, and then vertical again, before dis appearing In the western sky, 'Tremendoua ObJed' . At Florenc,, farmer J. W. Wai lace aaw "a tremendous object'' aomethln1 Uke an airplane and fol lo.wed by a lona tall. "It was the (ooleat-looklna' thine I ever saw," uld. "I called aome of the helpera to watch so no one would thln1 I'm crazy." ta of Sallcv. too, added confirmation to the atory of the phenomenon. And In Loa Anrelea. Calif.; Ray L. Dimmick, a dynamite salesman. returned from a trip to Mexico and aave rise toa atory about a a~:~.ce ahip 46 fHt In diameter, 90 Inches thick at the center, built of a metal harder than aluminum, powered by two motors-and manned by a cre- 1 tin-type Uttle man only 23 Inches The air force, who heard Dim mlck'a atory, declared It "absolute- ly unsubstantiated'' and said there hu ~en no word from the Mexl aovernment about auch a stranae Interloper. However, the Mexican govern El Naclonal, quoted "a ram and reputable astronomer" as aaylnar the numerous discs reported over Mexico reeenUy "carry vlattora Crom Man." o\