1. TIME O~OUP 4. NUMBER Of OBJECTS 1D llaroh 1950 PROJECT 10073 RECORD "' LOCATION San Bema rdo Santiag"', Valparaiso , Chile 10. CONCLUSION Ast~ (vnrus) The Director of the ObservatoryAstronO'\Y of the Universiey of Plot Rutland, r.ade a statement t>o the local press that what tho people were seei.n8 was the Planet VENUS which is cle visible thu S. LENGTH Of OBSERVATION Hct, Reported 6. TYPE Of OBSERVA nON Or-curd -Viaua.l. 9. ftHYSICAL EVIDENCI Observers saw a silver colored, statlona17 Gbject in the sane relative poal tion as was witnessed by tha local puplic the p-eceding dq, arr:l after carei\11 observation concluded it to be the planet Vt2flB anl net, a ~ di ac. Count171 Chile Report. No. IR-42-50 Subject a fl7lna Diaca Prcaa Air Attache, Chile Date of Report.a 30 M1r 50 Date of intonu.tiona cUJTent IYaluation: F-Q Paepared b71 Har&"J L. Mitchell, Major, USAF Source& Rewapaper report and peraonal observations ot Air Attache Ottice personnel 1. nytns diac! are beins "seen" in nrious parts or Chile. First si,r;hting was at ta Ar.-a, lat 53 06' s, lons 70053'Won 11 Mar at noon. Man7 inhabitants or the it7 witnessed this phenomena which appeared northeast of the city and traveled toward he aouthwest. Usual description was given-extreme altitude, silver in color, shaped like a ping-pong ball. The Director ot the Observatorio Astronomico of the University ot Chile, Prot. Frederico Rutland, made a statement to the local press that what the people were seeing was the planet Venue which is clearly visible this time or year at that latitude. 2. Second sight.ing or a disc took place in the Santiago area, San Bernardo and Valparaiso on the 24th and 25th of March with the usual description given by the populace being quoted in the local press 3. Third sighting of a disc occurred 28 March between 1330 and 1410 over Santiago, Chile. Downtown area wa with people looking into the sky observing this M/Sgt. assigned to this office as a 502, per- eonal.l.y observed an object t at an extreme rate of speed and altitude. (See attached statement and diagram.) COMMrr: On 29 March this observer saw a silver colored, stationary object in the same relative position as was witnessed b,y the local populace the preceding day, and after caretul observation concluded it to be the planet Venus and not a fiying disc. Professor Rutland (par l) repeated his statement to the press today that the object had to be Venua. local press has headlined "tlying disc" dispatches from all countries reporting sighting a JAY P. 'ftiOMAS, Lt ~1, USAF Air Attache Stateaent and diagram ot MISRt Patterson HARRY L. MITCHaL Major, USAF Assistant Air Attache