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Page ID (PID)	MAXW-PBB5-798
Collection	NARA-Maxwell


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Roll Description	Maxwell Blue Book 5
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REPARING OFPCE
OF INFORMATION
DATE
IB March
Office of -the AC of S,
Headquarters Fourth Array, f''orfc San Houston,
umrstiAL uchts
COOL FOR UCC  IN  INHIVIOUAL PARAGRAPH EVALUATION
OF SOURCE
COMPLC1ELY PELIADLE        --.          A
USUALLY RELIABLE             .    .    . %   .    B
FAIRLY RELIABLE                .....    C
NOT USUALLY RELIABLE.....    D
UNRELIABLE                          ...              E
RELIABILITY UlNKNOWN
iUMMARY OF INFORMATION
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OF INFORMATION
CONFIRMED DT OTilCR SOURCES
PnOBiriLrlRijF.
POSCIDLY TRUE     .
DOUBTFULLY TRUE        ''. ".    .
IMPROBABLE     .    .
TRUTH CBNNOT BE JuDGED
 moving "lights1* appeared in tho atanosphero over W in tho vicinity
of the "Q" area, AFSWP, Camp Hood, Taxda, on -the ovaning of 17 Unroh 19U9.
\kt tho timo of theae si^itings, the alert .^aaard of the 2nd Armored Division*
 under the Aeeictant AC of S G-2 of Cgh^ liood, was in the aroa oonoerned and
 prepared to fire flares abd record inatntaont roadlngii ''of elevation and a.rlmuth*
 The purpose was to oheok the ponors of obaorvntion oi'' obsorvars wiio had
 previously reported the phenomena observed oii 6-7-0 March 191)9 d heretofore
 reported in Siramry of InforaLtlon, tliin hoadqitartors^ datod 17 March
 subjecti "Unusual Lights''."   Hotveirar, bofore this operation could be b
e eeries of 0 unusual "lights"
Coordinatos oj* lights and, tinw of
 followt
Qoordinateg
910.U0 - 855.1U
910.59 - 060.15
Tine
910-38 - 860,15
910.^2 - 855.20
91P.5O - 855.17
9X0.56 - 855.06
910.57 -
X95Q
 1958
2000
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 2.
5.
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5.
6.
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Ooordinatos wire based on dual aightings ojT each light by'' sights on tanks
of observers.    Tioe mis cloaked at ifistant! of sighting.   Captain ifoCulloughw
tho Assistant Cr*P.0 personally observed three of the limits.    Physical oharuotor-
istifS of thoso "limits" were reported as "quite difforont" frcm those roportod
on 6-7-6 March \9h9   Ono burst into a ^roen cluster*    Ono wue reddish, rmotfcar
widto*    One observer described soo* of them as similar to Very i^stol flarou.
filhile this phanunena was oooUrrin;^ a security detaobmont from the "Q" area
arrived In the vicinity of the alert orew f ran tho 2nd Amored
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