'LI Iho H~DQUARTKR. THIRD ARMY AJAOt-a aeo.aa 81JB.JIC! t Unoonentlonal Airoratt TO a Oonanand.in~ General Air Materiel Ooamnand wright-Patterson Air Foroe Baae Dayton, Ohio Attention a MOt (Control Ho. A-1917) I April 1960 Iaoloaed herewith ia ot information re flying aauoer oer Ch&ttanoosa, Tennessee, and. n~wpaper olippinga re unidentified. objeota oer Miami, Florida. lOR t IB CCMIANDllO GENERAL 1 2 -Wewwpaper olippins 4t4 SO Var 60 lewapaper olippins ~ JOHN 1.tEADE T Colonel , GSO IJJ ot 8, G-2 DOWNGRADED AT I YEAR I:\'TERVA+.S DIC''SSIFIED AFTER 12 r E.4 SUMMARY OF INFORMATION PLUIO IAUCII RIPOiiiD CBAftAIOOCJA. Dll CODE FOR USE IN INDIVIDU~AL-:P~A~RAG~RA~PH~EV~AL~U'""!'A~TI~ON ....... -------1 . OF IOURCE: OF INFORMATION: COMPU:TILY IIILIAU , A COitiUIMID IY OTt:t ll ~RCa . I MOT UIUALLY IIIUAU . . . D DOUI'mJU.Y TIIUE . . . . Ml 'AUTY UWICNOft . . . . P TtiUTH CANNOT K JUDGED . . t Mr View Drin, Chattanooga, Tee., ea.4 Mre 816 e AYenue, Chattanooga, Tenneaaee, reported to the cttanoop Ptee Preaa that had aightecl a flying aauoer onr Chattanooga at about leoo, 28 Karoh 1960. Dae etoey appeared in the Newa-Free Pre on the eYening ot 29 Jlaroh 19eo. (F-6) Oil 10 lfaroh 19&0 both llrle N interviewcl and bo etated that they bid 1i1htecl a rOUDcl ellnr 1ll the k7 beading towarcl Lonll ftel4 (Chattanooga olpal Airport) and ae the)' watched it it euddenl:y dieappearecl. either laq oould etate how hip the object or at what rate ot apeecl it na fM7 are 01117 eure t it raaDCI and ot a ailnr color. (1'-2) Oil 80 llaroh 1960, lleteoroloeiat, Weather Bureau, Lonll ft.elcl, Chattanooga, Teueaaee, inteniewcl and atatecl that in .all probabil1 ty 'lba the ladiee aaw waa the wather balloon that ie releaaed by the wather atation at 1000 eaoh clay to make wather obaervationa. Ur. lallquiat atated that the lacliea probably obaerwecl the baloon af'ter it had reached a point where the ridge ourrenta wre blowtnc it baok to-.rda the field mel aleo at the aame moment sen it reached the ri[bt altitude for it to burat due to the ataQapherlo preaaure being leal than that tnelde the balloon. (B-2) 1'urtber lnnatigation ia oonte plated by tbia dtloe regarding thia part- loular tndiclent. Liaaoll haa been aet up w1 tb the local Dewapapera whereby any turtun reporta of fl71Dc objeote un1dent1f1e4, will be relayed to thia office 1nagecl1atel7