S<XIRc;J-; MT Ill 'l'O A'l'JC 'l'Utl~ <'r-:;tnJrl'lilJ2._Qj. lOlt~C ~--- Ll~IIG'l'H Ol~ 1'Hf' CJ'Of.l.!lVEll Over one &in WI H'IDI PMK 80ULIMD 26 Septembor 1950 IUBJ!CT "Pire Balli" or "Plying sauoere" ~a~Uing General Wr1&htPatterean Air .lTfth UCI Fozooe BaH le In with letter D~partasnt or the Amy, CSGID 452.1, dated 26 JJaroh lMS, 1\.lbjeota "Unoonventianal A.irorart, oontrol numoor A-1917, intormat1an reoe1ved tram Fifth Ar.my.Regional Office, Denv3r, Colorado, ia .ubm1ttedt "et. 22 September 1960, a reliable souroe reported that while he waa driving between Kit Carson and Cheyonne Ylelh, Colorado, at 1049 hours an 20 September 1960, he observed t1 vs (5) obj.,ota in the aky which ho 4eeor1bed aa 'tire-balls' or 'flying saucers. Two (2) of thea~ obj~cts were fairly large and appearftd to be three to seven teet in dUlmet,r and aaucer shaped or epher1oal. They looked aa if they were masses of glowing JroltGil metal. \Then fir at ob10rved thoy appeared to be hovering at .o altitude or about 600 feet, at any rate, dofinitoly below the oloud oeiling. They ho.ered tor about ono minute ard then prooeoded aoros s tm road along whioh informant waa driving, at a speed e st1mated to be about 200 miles per hour. While oroeaing the road, three (3) amallor objeots, aleo apparently intemally illwninated, o&J!B fran out of or from bohind the two (2) larger onee. lmlllediately therearter the three (3) analler objeota alipecl themselves with the two (2) larger one T~reupon all the objeote r;reatly inoreaeed epeed knd ohanged thl!lir direotion toward the vertioal, nay trom the earth. Their speed upon challging oourse waa juqecl to be approximately 2,0UO milea per hour, They then almoet immedi- ately disappeared from 11~. Informant oould not determine wheth9r they ha4 moved out or eight or whether the light withill the objects had boen elll!denly turned ott. The apparition waa also aeen by a truok dri oy.,r who t.d .topped hie truok tor tho purpose or getting a better view of th~ objeots." 2. No further 1nve.t1catlon is contemplated by thie headquart~r. IJ.OIMJ., GSC Aoting AC ot Na:A.SSIFJ ... il!'