i\Y rro. i ,o.:.\T'tOfi Dovagiec, Kich SOUitt:l: L!:r:r:rn ( t' 'l'lf.l! (Jl\:~l.:t v I.J> 5 Seconds I ~AJ!t.lrvl:u~ Ra~ARKS: Farner reportect seeinc C-47 launch "flying saucer". . HF~UARTERS RFTH ARMY a IMT lft'DI MM OHDIIO 11. n Llfto 14 July19SO TO 1 Oamca~ing General Wr.lght-Patterr.on Air rorce Base Dqton, Ohio Aft'Na KOI H In OOIIp].illJloe i.tb letter, Department of the Anl.Vt OSUSA, OSQID 452,J., dated 25 kftrch 1948, aub,1ecta Unconventional Aircrnft, control nUIIIIMr A-1917, the tolloT.ing information is hereby subm.tted. ~ Detroit l!ewa - 6 Jul.7 1950 I nraruaer Tells ot Watching ()..54 Launch P'l.ying es&ucer Do.egiao, lt:ioh., July 6 A 'young, ha~workift$( farn!er not t-P.ven to aeeing thing~' ~as reported ~ato~ing a flying saucer launched from an Amy o-54. IJobn leller made the report to the Do~n7.iao newspaper, and said his two young aons would verify his stateD&en ts. ~eller eaid be watched a saucer shaped like an automobile hub cep, about 25 feet in diameter an~ 12 to lS teet thick, launched rroa a low tlying A~v ~4 on June ~9. tt:eller SAid the lMmohing took l)laCe ab~t ft quarter Of A mile from he was riding a tractor, in a ha.v rie1d. 'The !)lane ns heaciing eouth1rast at a low rate or epeed, Ill bout ,300 teet UD, .,.hen the saucer came from the belly or the plana,' be deolnred. 'l t eort or ~:obbled, then shot a'!l.ay at a terl'ific speed, due eouth. It easily outdistanced the C--54 and w~te out or sight 1n tive aeconde. It looked like a gigantic bub c:1p or halt or a el)bere. It' e to-oside looked like chrome and h~d a little ~ome prntruding, and the bottom ~as du11 ~rey. 'I didn't report it ftooner bec~u~e I ~ae afr~id my neighbors ldC!ht give me the h()r~e laugh.' Keller ..-&.r. rlth hie y 0ung aons, Larry ~nd Johnny, ~en he .,.. the launching. ' " cRADEu A'l' a x i'~tt SSIFI0 cASSIFIED AFTER ALtai-% ll~IClAs a&b3t n,ina leuoer" (oontdY SIFJED PlJina 1auoer reported eeen ~ Dr. L. o. 11~ttter, AQ:r7 s. Llor;;an ~oago 1~, Illinoil at 0109, 1 .TulJ 19~. 'r.J.nD& troa P. to I at terrific rAte or fl'Peed Oovf!lred <'~.fltP.nce troa }! hort10n to 8 bor1son 1n 2 eccnc!. o.~cr1ptiont Holm~, 1nteneelr bright, eoundlees. Not a meteor. Dr. ol.al be hAs en reteore AHI kno"1' .-Mt they look 1 ike. Th11 ob,1Pot, 11~ a b~tll or fire, the Ur. olaime, waft at a hig:h altitude end trftveled a hor1Bontal course ovwr ::eat Oh.i OP..~o." 2. lo fUrther 1nvetrt1cat1on 1e oontplated b)' thie bea trtere. FOR 'l'P.J: Oam SDI!Il ROJ)lmT DELL Oolcnel., QSO AO or S, G-2 UNCLASSIFJED