t o \e o I . .. ... Civ!.lim Cou-:le r:; TO A'l'IC three t!.:l~S Tha f'ir~t and in the sar..e :1 t~ot. ;;hil a the third ras surro~"'lded by nis t or original position. VNCLASSIFIED HaADQUARTKR8 THIRD ARMY eo.an41Dc Gert.l Air tenel Ch'-Patteraon Air Poroe Baae DqtoD, Ohio 11Cl (Control Bo. A-1917) lDOloeed herewith ia report re fiyi.Dg objeot seen near Spe.rtenburg, South Carolina, 22 July 1~60. lOll !BB C010UMNG GEHBRAla apt 4t4 2' July so r ~ng 'rhiDC 2...JOBfDlDI r-Oolonel, GSC IJJ of s, o-2 UNCLASSIFIF"n McCuii0U9-h at RandOm ; Flying Something SeeD Saturday 'l'het healtated to uae the wordl -ftJIDI Nucen. But V e r n o n 0WfiiM and hll brt~. Betty, IWOI'I Nrly Sunday momlnr that the# NW ICIII\ethllll while watch lftl a drive-In movie Saturday ftllbt. ADd tbe oooupenta In the aen auto w Their deacrlp- ,.. of the ob- ject In the IQ ... tba~ lt wu buplllftl' thln1. tloilpted b u t 1eneraDy 1 ahape of a rreat ! ucer. A milt .. med to aur- 1 round It and i padually dlasl ALEX M 'CULLOUGH pate u they watched. . THEIR VISION wu auppert.ed Q a conUol-tower operator at. Memorial AlrDort who told The nwa .aca ~.a.w-.,-.Saa - obJect h\l : been lichted from there. Specula Uao wu ~hat It possibly could be a pi&Mt, but nobOdy wu aure. .Tben were no reporta of dirirt tn thla area. I'm aure they all aw IOmtthlnl. Wbat wu It? .vJ:N THE C.atmalate ue .Jauplnlat aome of the Commun- JR ~paranda efforts. INS re- DCII"ti. nte Voice of Amerlca haa IMien poktnr fun In a Rlapstlck manner at MORCow at.tempt.a to : convince 8oY1et people that Amer- ... tea dropped potato bura on Com- munllt Ianda. Vernon Gwynne. " Spartanburg Journal reporter. today turned in a atory for the newspaper that he 10t unexpectedly whUe attendinl a ahow Saturday nlrht at the Starllte Drive-in TheAter on the Alhevllle Hirhway wtth hla wlfe, It. wu about a "flytnr some- thlna" that appeared In the sky neAr the theater 3 times within an Gwynne descrlbed the "thing thlA way: "I first noticed a ctoud-Uke" formation that was drlftln1 In the opposite direction of the ot.her clouds. This cloud was very low and Indistinct.. I called Betty'" at- tention tO It 11nd uked her tf she noticed anything peculiar about it. watched it took a more def- Inite ahape which was rounded on the bottom and fairly flat. "Since we wanted others to be able to corroborate our story I rot out of the car and asked 2 fellows Jn the next car to 'look up there and see tf, you see what we see?' the time they looked the aome- thlng' u aone. ''The second time I saw the cloud formlnlf in the s11me place, apper- ently out of the .clear sky. The fel lows in the car. Bett.y and I watch- ed the ahape form in the center or the 'cloud.' After about 2 or 3 mlnutea ,the 61lape disappeared About 30 minutes later all 4 of us agaln saw the shape only this time It was very clearly lighted and . had changed position. We think the milt or cloud came from with in the shape. tt Is \'ery hard to e!ttlmat.e size or dlstlmce at nl~ht ~o ""e hesitate to claim that It WM lf!ss thAn A mile from u11 And be tween one and 2.000 feet. In atti- The color nf the rnunded bot- tom was about the same as a re- flected llre on a ~liver or white surface. The size we would esti- mate to be larger than any dlrgible have ever seen. "During the 3 different tlm~ we for a period or probably 8 or 10 minutes over an houn Lime. we discussed it and a.,ked ell!h other how we were going to de- scribe tt. We are con\'lneed that. saw what nther people 5&y are 'Flyln; Saucers.'" Now lt Ia reported that the Oommunllt potato bur propa- lancla hall produced mMe JokeA In Oleebollovakta than It haa bu11. Clipping from The Spartanburg Journa 1, dated 24 July 1950. (~fternoon Edition) S9artanburg, South Carolina AHD JU:RB'I ene fn111 INS U.at , ~ht t.o _ (iYI a laqh to aomt MGJ, Chief Jua&ace Kotara TaD Clipping from The Spartunburg !Utrald Spurtanourg, ~. c., dated-24 July l9Ao. (Morning Edition) lOa Ohiet, leo 6 lww Br 1111ah ClC Det ft 11oPheraoa, Oa "JLnJD m llNCLASSIFIED On 16 July 18!0, llr. Reporter, Spartanburg Heral4 Jownal, burs, s. c. interviewd ill reprda to a PLnw !Bil{Q that reported en by him Saturday night, 22 July 1960, near Spartanburc, S. C. Kr. atated that he and hie wite, , re at the Star Li~ht DriTe In Theater, whi~h ia located rth Wee\ ot 8 burs, approxi,.tely S milea trom the oit7 limits on the AaheT111e, If. c. highY THey are attending the laat ahow, which etlrte4 at approxS.tely 2300 hours. !hey bad been aitting in their oar tohinc the picture tor only a abort 11hile When llr. noticed u object ill the aky which a round, bad a brir;bt aurtaoe aa if' a 1ipt a beinc refieoted ott it and a an eatimated thousand (2000) teet ill the air. llr stated that he ahowed the objeot to hie wite and they both tohed 1 t tor appro xi tely 2 minutes before llr ~t out of' hia automobile and went to the oar that parked next to them to abow the objeot to 2 men occupants of that oar. By that time the object had disappearedJ ho-.Ter, only a f'ew minutes later the object appeared again ill the same place. kept traot ot the objeot'a looation by: lighting from a light pole which the objeot appeared the f'irst and aeoond time just at the top of' the pole aDd a little to the ript) and -.s observed by llr. his wif'e the two oooupanta ot the other oar tor approximately 3 minutes before the object disappeared again. !~ object appeared a third tl a few minute later and that time it lw.d moTed and s considerably 1owr and a little more to the ri~ ot the poai tion that it s obaerved the tirat and aeoon4 time. Mr stated that the third time the obj~ appeared, the bottom, which s round and the ahape or a aauo er , Tery brightly illuminated aa it the ligbt from a big forest fire being retl.eoted trom a bright aurtaoe suspended in the air. Kr. atated that eaoh time the objeot appeared it s aurrounded by .a mat or 1m0ke, whioh he does not belieTe a oloud as the sky fts o1ear and the star could be seen ahining clearly beyond the objeo'b OD all aides. Kr. said that aa tar aa he could determine the object did not move while it s Tiaible to him and that it appeared the tirat and aeoond time in the same apot. The third time it appeared it had IIIOTed and s considerably lower and to the right of the poaition it was eeen betore. 14r-stated that it dittioult to eatite ita ai&e and altitude, but it appeared to him that the bottom eurtaoe ot the object a about two hundred ( 200) teet in diameter, waa about 2,000 teet altitude and was approximately 1200 yards where he -.a obaerving it. Mr ted that he did not know llbat the objeot but that he had neTer aeen au,ything like it betore and that UNCLASSIFIED J UNCLASSIFiED . M, hie wlte, all4 the oiJbtr I obeerver all a creed that it 1truotural appe&raDOe, ite behanor iD the air and ita tremendous 1i11 el1m1natect S.w aa,o airoratt b7 the ' ot thea, or that it ooul4 be a plaaet ud tbat it _. 1urel7 Dot an illu1ion &I it Tery . 4lltiDOtlJ 'Y all ' Oblelzterl and a 4iiOUIIion al to what it ftl &.n4 to 4eaoribe it later on tor approximately an hour after it 11&4 41aappeare4 tM laat time. Mr. 1tatec! that he c!id not try . ito brins the oojeot to anyone elaea attention, other than the .-. iD the oar nen to him, tba tir1t and aeoon4 tiae the objeot appeare4 beoau1e it wa1 not clearly Ti1ible and he thought 'it wa1 possibly a planet !be third time i~ appeared it 10 large and looked so wird that hia wife wry tr1piJene4 and he and the other 2 me, ob1ener1 agreed that it .,ulc! be beat not bring it to the attention or others &1. they were aflaid that it would oau1e hyateria. ... stated that he eo el1Di11ed OTer aeeiDs the objeot that he did get the sme1 or the other 2 men obaenera and did not know where to locate them. A.a tar &I he boWl, no one elle at the drive in theater aaw the objeot, however, a control tower operator, name unknom, at the Spartanburg Air Port the next morning aa haTing obaened a similar objeot as J:r. obaened and at approximately the same time. lAr es not oommit himaelt and say object wa1 definitely something Od ot the ordinary but he t he 1&11' what ~ther people m ve t.10ribed aa Flying Sauov On 24 July 1960, Kr.. Control Tower Operator, ~Pi. Airport, Spartanburg, S 0 , interv 1ew4 and eta ted that he on dut,. in the.control tower on a:;aturday night 22 July until 2400 houra and that he did not aee anything out or the ordinary that night &n4 4id not report haTing aec aD:(thing. 11 stated that he the artiole in the new:spaper about Mr ing the objeot, but he did DOt lalo who t the air port oould haTe 1een the object unle11 it l!r , al1o a oontrol tower operator, Who relieTed t 2400 houra that night. stated that Hr ott duty until 1600 hour a, 'rhur 27 1950 and believed to be iD Atlanta, Ga., a.t the present. (B-2) RIX ~. AVP.at ,82Dd CIO DetaobJDct FLYING SAUCER SEEN BY TWO , . VENICE YOUTHS Whit dtscrlbtd 11 a 11inc Auetl' WU Heft OVW VtDlce at 2:30 a.m. )'Ht.trda~ by Jack ulaher lnd Rahl Clark. Th~ first noticed lt. thq ald. boftrlnr abcne I WIAhinrtoft I n d Llnc:oln I .. w. lust hiPIM"nM to he drlvlnr balM," aid Jack. 19, ot f~ Rialto Avt., Vtnlce. 1 loobcl up ancl there lt Rabl, 17. ame addn Wl&nellld the ..... ... DOIMDOII, lie Ald. Jt to be about 1000 faet biP. Aid Jeelr "We r&artecl ehulnt It but It rucldenl7 took otr fast. ... 1n1 routb. It left a bhdrla white vapor and 400 flft arouad." Tbe JOQthr ct.eriW I t object .. d~4hapecl : Ill coloi. ~ t.. ':fUU( Jtf~o Lee &npl .. , Calltornla