UFO Case Directory (Distant Encounters): “Round 3' Aluminum Object At Great Speed July 11, 1947 Elmendorf Air Force Base, Anchorage, Alaska”

(NICAP.org)

The whole UFO case report:

“Brad Sparks:

July 11, 1947. Elmendorf Air Base, Anchorage, Alaska (BBU)

11:00 a.m. (AHST). AAF Col. Bruce H. Perry and Major William E. Geyser, 59th AACS Group, saw a round 2-3 ft or 10 ft aluminum or silver-metallic spherical object travel at great speed to the S at estimated altitude of 3,000 to 4,000 ft, below scattered clouds at 10,000 ft. (Sparks; Lara Elliott/NICAP website; FBI files; BB files;  McDonald list; FOIA; Saunders/FUFOR Index) 15-20 secs 2 witnesses 1/2 Full Moon

Supplemental Notes:

Lara Elliott's recent contribution (*) supplies the clues to finally lay to rest a long-standing date confusion. This incident occurred on July 11, 1947, proven by Dan Wilson who had found a teletype sent July 12, 1947, at 0047Z, in the Project SIGN microfilm collection at BBArchive, reporting it as occurring at 2100Z on July 11. (**) Another entry in the Chrono, Sept. 17, 1947, is now resolved as a mistake, a duplicate of the July 11, 1947, case and needs to be removed.  The precursor to Project SIGN, within AMC T-2 Technical Intelligence Division, mistakenly assigned a Sept 17 date to the identical (July 11) case data back in 1947. As we can see now from Lara's work, undated copies of the case floated around to the various intelligence agencies such as the FBI (and even within the AAF) and would get assigned bogus dates.”

NICAP.org presents U.S. government (U.S. Air Force) documents that pertain to the UFO case.

http://www.nicap.org/470711elmendorf_dir.htm

Wikipedia article: “Elmendorf Air Force Base”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmendorf_Air_Force_Base

Quote from the Wikipedia article:

“Elmendorf Air Force Base (IATA: EDF, ICAO: PAED, FAA LID: EDF) is a United States military facility in Anchorage, the largest city in Alaska. Originally known as Elmendorf Field, it became Elmendorf Air Force Base after World War II, and in 2010 it merged with nearby Fort Richardson to form Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.”

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 USGS orthophoto of Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska
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UFO Journal Article: 22 March 1870 UFO Case Report

Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 1-157

(Royal Meteorological Society, UK)

Source: waterufo.net

The whole article:

“EXTRACT from the log of the bark Lady of the Lake, by Capt. F. W. Banner: Communicated by R. H. Scott, F.R.S.:  

That, upon the 22nd of March, 1870, at Lat. 5° 47' N., Long. 27° 52' W., the sailors of the Lady of the Lake saw a remarkable object, or ‘cloud,’ in the sky. They reported to the captain.

      

According to Capt. Banner, it was a cloud of circular form, with an included semicircle divided into four parts, the central dividing shaft beginning at the center of the circle and extending far outward, and then curving backward.

      

Geometricity and complexity and stability of form: and the small likelihood of a cloud maintaining such diversity of features, to say nothing of appearance of organic form.

      

The thing traveled from a point at about 20 degrees above the horizon to a point about 80 degrees above. Then it settled down to the northeast, having appeared from the south, southeast.

      

Light gray in color, or it was cloud-color. ‘It was much lower than the other clouds.’ And this datum stands out: That, whatever it may have been, it traveled against the wind. ‘It came up obliquely against the wind, and finally settled down right in the wind’s eye.’

      

For half an hour this form was visible. When it did finally disappear that was not because it disintegrated like a cloud, but because it was lost to sight in the evening darkness.

      

Capt. Banner draws the following diagram:”

http://waterufo.net/item.php?id=695

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