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'lhie repllea to )'O'ar letter of lfo.ember 21, 1967. We nppreeiated leol'lllD& ot ,oar nmaaunl experience alld. llill file 1'0Ur letter tor llltorutiOD purposes. fat this late date lt would be 1mpraet1ca1 to undertAke ta detailed 1nveetigut10D. It 1a important that a "ltDeaa report hla obaerntloD ae eoon aa possible. 'l'b1s ennblem Alr l'orce DM178t• to pertora o comprebeaeln 1Dnut1gutlon.
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In case thia is of interest I like to report that about June 1950 my w1re and I were travel1n~ north from Denver Colorado and at aboutx•xJI J
4a)O AM near Forth Coll1nal I si~hted an object that for all 1ntcnt and ~ purpose I thou~ht to be a shootinF star. However, 1t disappeared below the horizon and shot back out at about the same angle 1t came downm and disaappeared as indicated 1n the followin~ sketch.
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If it had not botmced back out I would have thou~ht 1t merely to be a shooting star and probably would not even have remembered 1t. When 1t bo~ced back out my wife also saw it. As credentials I like to state that I am a Civil Engineer and have done a good deal of research work. The speed of the object is best described by the t•Kxx fact that I thought it to be a shooting star. For A metheor to ~mKKKaxmtt bounce off the atmosphere I undeastand to be impossible. Would appreciate your opinion as to the possible connection with un1den-t1fie~ flyin~ objects. If more accurate dates are of value I th1nck they can be obtained. At the time I reported it to the Denver Post but they made no responoe to it • .
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, 29 (Info) Williamaville, Ill(rfevaclipping) 30 -Bt John • a Newfoundland 31 ,st John's Newfoundland
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Sighter and wife prefer anonytnity. Place: Mt. Waahinaton, Cincinnati, Ohio. Mr. R's aeronautical experience is extensive. He is a member of C. A. A.; waa flight engineer 11 yeara.
Mr. R.. observed the object while sitting in his backyard. A dark spot, being odd in ahape first caught his eye. He deacribes the object as "wingless and fuaelage shaped" climbing up at a 60 degree angle into a sunny sky filled with cumulua cloud• .
After a quick acceleration, the grayish metallic object reached its new elevation at 16 to 180 00 feet, then stalled for about 10 seconds. While calling hla wife to witness the event, Mr. R watched the object dive back to its original elevation before levelling off and racing westward across the Cincinnati aide a.
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Mr. R's integrity like that of Mr is above reproach: both are experi-enced in aircraft and balloon iden tion and meteorological phenomena. Both object• are unexplained unless we are willing to accept the Interplanetary ex-
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