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This Federal Bureau of Investigation file section compiles 1950 to 1952 reports of unidentified aerial objects shared with the FBI. Most of it is an Air Force OSI investigation, dated May 12, 1952, into Donald Stewart's claim that a disc hovered over his car on Ritchie Highway near Baltimore. His companion George Tyler III later admitted he saw nothing. The file also covers disks seen at the Savannah River Plant, radar and visual sightings over Oak Ridge, a Fairbanks, Alaska jet pilot report, and an Ashland, Kentucky sighting.
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cloudy, NN5 wind. - twelve (12) miles per hour; w...ds aloft at one thousand (1000) feet, NN6 - sixteen (16) miles per hour. 5. On 10 May 1952 Mr. LOCIS E. CORBIN was interviewed at radio station WFBR in Baltimore, Maryland, and stated in substance as follows: Mr. CORDIN advised that he had received information in the latter part of April to the effect that a DONALD FOSTERART, residing at had, while accompanied by Mr. GEORGE SXTYLER III, observed a strange appearing aircraft on 29 March 1952. Mr. CORDIN indicated that the source of his information had been a newspaper reporter for one of the local newspapers, whose name he did not divulge. CORDIN related that he had for some time been interested in the "flying saucer situation", and that it had been his intention to write a documentary program for broadcast concerning that subject. He said further that inasmuch as the above incident was the first one to be brought to his attention within that area, he determined to investigate it. On 24 April 1952 CORBIN interviewed Mr. DONALD F. STEJART and ascertained that he was employed as a clerk by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. He further ascertained that the date of observation was 29 March 1952; place, Ritchie Highway near the harness track; time, 10:45 PM; weather, clear; moon and stars out; approximate length of observation, two (2) minutes; estimated altitude, two hundred (200) feet. CORBIN obtained the details of the incident and set them down in a chronological order. A photostatic reproduction of the information obtained in that interview is being forwarded as an inclusion to this report. CORBIN also interviewed Mr. GEORGE S. TYL'R III relative to the above incident and made a similar writing, a photostatic reproduction of which is being forwarded as an inclusion to this report. CORBIN advised the writer that he was acquainted with the editor of a civilian intelligence bulletin, Mr. ULIUS LOUIS ANOSS, to whom he communicated the above information. Mr. CORBIN further advised that he would not release any of the information publicly and did not intend to do so until such time as the authorities completed investigation of the incident. CORBIN related that when he had called the Anne Arundel County Police they had informed him that they had had numerous reports of that nature but had passed them off as harmless. CORBIN stated that he had had a friend of his, RAYMOND FOX, conduct a scientific examination of STEWART's automobile for the purpose of determining any unusual characteristics which might have been present. CORBIN advised that he was not a reserve CIC officer; however, he related that he had been an intelligence officer with the staff of General GEORGE S. PATTON in Europe and that he presently holds an inactive reserve commission as lieutenant colonel, 0-375036.
FOIA release, from the fbi-vault collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 56 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.