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This NICAP-hosted Blue Book file, credited to Brad Sparks, collects 1949 US Air Force Office of Special Investigations reports on a disc seen over the Rogue River near Gold Beach, Oregon, on 24 May 1949. It includes signed statements from fishing party members, among them staff from the NACA Ames Laboratory at Moffett Field, along with character references and interview forms. The witnesses describe a silvery circular object with a fin that flew silently. Investigators noted that radar test kites might have drifted that far north.
“Moffett Field”8 pages
: countr : auth: C/S USAF: : 28 Jul 49: HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE THE INSPECTOR GENERAL OFFICE OF SPECIAL INVESTIGATION REPORT OF INVESTIGATION FILE NO. 24-14 DATE JUL 28 1949 TITLE UNCONVENTIONAL AIRCRAFT (PROJECT SIGN) Sighted at Rogue River, Oregon, on 24 May 1949 REPORT MADE AT DO #19, Fairfield-Suisun AFB PERIOD 17, 18, 19, 20 July 1949 OFFICE OF ORIGIN DO #19, Fairfield-Suisun AFB STATUS PENDING CHARACTER Special Inquiry REFERENCE Pending Report of S/A CHARLES E. BROOKS, 19th District OSI, File No. 24-14, dtd 20 July 1949 SYNOPSIS The Civil Aeronautics Authority, San Francisco, California, disclosed that there are numerous air carriers in this area, of which a very small per cent file any type of schedule or clearance for flights. Weather report for the vicinity of Gold Beach, Oregon, not available in this area, but can be obtained from the Airways Communications Station, Medford, Oregon. No radar installations in the area of California or Oregon are near enough or powerful enough to have recorded unusual readings at Gold Beach, Oregon, on 24 May 1949. The Air Force Early Warning Radar Stations in the Bay Area reported nothing unidentified on 24 May 1949 for the Gold Beach, Oregon, area as these stations have insufficient range for that great a distance. DOWNGRADED AT 3 YEAR INTERVALS DECLASSIFIED AFTER 12 YEARS. DQD DIR 5200.10 DISTRIBUTION CG, AMC (Action) DO #5 OSI Hqs Dir of Intell, 4th Air Force (Info cy) DO #20 File ACTION COPY FORWARDED TO Commanding General Air Materiel Command Wright-Patterson AFB Dayton, Ohio FILE STAMP APPROVED JOHN G. SWOPE Colonel, USAF SNAMA-Nov 48-100M
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