Form: 97 Case Directory
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 20:54:32 +0000 (GMT)
From: Francis Ridge
Subject: Old Photo, July 1953, Muskogee, OK
Cat: 8
To: CE, SHG

Re: http://www.nicap.org/images/cup.gif

July, 1953; Muskogee, Oaklahoma
The "flying cup" photo appears in Max Miller's 1957 monograph, Flying Saucers: Fact or Fiction, Trend Book 145  (1957) (p. 104). Miller says that there is no information available about photograph. He credits Augie Roberts for the photo. Blue Book listed as hoax, which it probably was.

My file copy of the photo has the caption: "Now we have the cup to go with the saucer. No data is available on this photo, therefore its value to the UFO researcher is considered to be quite questionable. COURTESY AUGUST C. ROBERTS".

Interesting is the fact that there were a number of sightings in Oaklahoma. Five in fact, two of which were with photos. All but one were written off as balloons. One was a searchlite. All but one came from Tinker AFB; the other from Stillwater. The Muskogee photo was not listed because it occurred during the summer and no month was given.
BB Sightings List - July 1-15, 1953
BB Sightings List - July 16-31, 1953

Francis Ridge

Dan Wilson located the Spot Intelligence Report in the BB files below, which also included a poor rendition of the photo.

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Tom DeMary was able to locate a better in the BB files.

Tom DeMary:
The "flying cup" photo appears in Max Miller's 1957 monograph, Flying Saucers: Fact or Fiction, Trend Book 145  (1957) (p. 104). Miller says that there is no information available about photograph. He credits Augie Roberts for the photo.

Better Photo Found In BB Files - NARA-PBB93 317-318 - DeMary
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Dan Wilson: 
This document below is also available on Project Blue Book Nara Roll number 18.
       The Photo was taken in the Summer of 1953 by Mr. mmmmmm    of Tulsa, Oklahoma. At 1400 hours he took a photo of an unidentified flying object which appeared in the sky on the eastern outskirts of Muskogee, Oklahoma. See:
http://www.bluebookarchive.org/page.aspx?PageCode=NARA-PBB90-1122
 
  
 
Page ID (PID)  NARA-PBB90-1122
Collection  National Archives (NARA)
Roll Description  NARA Blue Book Roll 90
Document Code  T1206-90
 
Frames  1122 - 1124
 
 
 
 
 Object is quite difficult to see on this frame below. Look at the top of the image.
 
 
Inverted image