Form 97-BB
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 16:50:48 +0100 (BST)
From: daniel wilson <daniejon2000@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: June 28, 1947, 30 miles NW of Lake Mead, Nevada (BBU)
Category: 11
To: Francis Ridge <nicap@insightbb.com>

 
June 28, 1947. 30 miles NW of Lake Mead, Nevada (BBU)
3:15 [1:15 PST?] p.m. AAF pilot Lt. E. B. Armstrong from Brook AAF, San Antonio, Texas, flying F-51 fighter at 6,000 ft saw a tight formation of 5-6 white circular 3 ft objects off his right wing heading 120° [about ESE] at 6,000 ft at 285 mph. (Ruppelt p. 19; FOIA; FUFOR Index; Bloecher 1967).
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June 28, 1947, 30 miles NW of Lake Mead, Nevada (BBU)
 
    1st  Lt. Eric B. Armstrong, Brooks Field, San Antonio, Texas, while flying a P-51 fighter at 10,000 feet observed 5 or 6 circular objects flying smoothly in close formation. Objects were approximately 36 inches in diamter. Time of sighting was 1515 CST.
 
 
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PAGE INFO
Page ID (PID) :  MAXW-PBB2-848
Collection :  Maxwell Blue Book
Roll Description :  Project Blue Book Roll 2
   
Frames  848 - 853