Unresolved UAP Report Catalina Island 1952

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    AF.FORM 112--;•PARl ...I
   APPROVED I JUNE 1948
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                                            AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT
                   Unidentified flying Q,jects Reporting
    AREA REPORTE!l,ON
                   i:>outhern California
                                                                                             I807th Jir Dase Group, ?rarch Air Force Base
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    DATE-OF REPORT
                    28 August 1952
                                                              I 0/ A 25 June 1952
                                                                DATE Of INFORMATION                                         I EVALUATION
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    SUMMARY: (!i.'nter con.:~e 1ummaru or rep11rt.   Gitt signljicance in ji11/Jl one-at11Unct paragmph. Lui fn<l~rti at lou;tr ltfl. B,gn1 Ir.rt of uporl on AF Form 111-Parl //.)


             1. 8 This report of alleged ''Flying Saucers" in the vicinity o:f Santa Catalina,
        which is just off the coast of Southern California., was reported by three (3) Boy
        Scouts in summer camp (Camp Fox) on 25 June 1952. No report has been made by
        electrical. mean~ due to the time lag '!n £He receipt ot the informtion at this instal- ~
        lation.

                   2.         A swrmary of the description follows:
                   a.   The object was silver in color, altitude is uncertain, and speed       ~
        estimated. to be faster than a. conventional Jet. There was no sound observed. One (1)
        maneuver was observed which was apparently a climbing turn in:med.iately prior to its
        disappearance by disintegration.

                              b.        The occurrence was at 12'.>0 hours (PSDT).                                           Length of time observed is
        not recorded.
                  c.   The sighting was made by three (3) Boy Scouts during a hike up one of
        the mountains on Santa Catalina Island.

                  d.    No observing instruments of any sort were available.                                                                          '!'he three (3)
        observers werE: all in the same group at the time.

                  e.   No estimate of the reliability can be attempted by the reporter.                                                                                        The
        experience of the observers is probably meager at best.

                              f.        Sky conditions were clear and unl.i.Dited.                                           No r eports on wind conditions
                  g.   A rough sketch is inclosed. on two (2) of the Inclosures of wb4t the
        observers saw.




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        Incl 1. Ltr fr Clyde Vrooman
         n   2. Ltr fr Howard Howell
         " 3. Ltr fr Sam Gites
         " 4. Ltr fr Forrest E. Spriggs dtd l Jul ;2

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