PROJECT 1947

I have been intending to write you since last March when I saw your name and picture with your wife and child in The Sunday Haerald.  I have an experience with flying objects in March 3rd. or 4th. Sunday 1947.  I approached a fiying field just on the outskirts of Augusta, Maine.  Early in the morning between 6 and 7, I could see in the distance round scaling objects over the field from a height and distance about three of them and my be four.  I went by the end of the field at a lower level.  When I did I saw (sic) one of them thought they were un-conventional aircraft.  They were like pie plates upside down, scaled and sailed through the air.  Exhaust came out of the edges. I would judge they were at least 60 to 75 feet in diameter.  I was about 500 feet from the one I describe.  I could not identify any other features as they whirled too fast.  I reported them to air corps and they did not call me a liar.  No one has believed me.  Some one has said they were due to draughts of air.  I saw no air drafts.  They were machines.  Never saw them again although I went by the field many times.

Jan 5, 1963

Sincerely,    
Dr Burton W. Trask.

Domed Saucers        March 3, 1947
MAINE 6:45 AM
DAY       

PLEASE FILL IN AND RETURN TO GEORGE D. FAWCETT, YMCA, WOBURN MASS.

FAWCETT "Flying Saucer" FILE
(Report on "Unidentified Flying Objects")

MONTH  Jan  DAY  13  YEAR 1963   (Date Questionaire Was Answered)

NAME OF OBSERVER AND ANY OTHER EYEWITNESSES   Dr. Burton W. Trask, M.D. 

NAME OF HOMETOWN, STATE, COUNTY, & COUNTRY   Togus, Maine at that time
                                                                              Kennebec County USA

DATE OF SIGHTING (MONTH, DAY, & YEAR) March. 3rd Sunday, 1947 Augusta,
                                                                Maine, Kennebec

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GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF OBJECT OR OBJECTS SEEN (Number, size, shape, color, performance, weather conditions, height, time of sighting (Approximately), length of time observed, speed, movement,direction, sound, unusual features, sketch of object or objects, was it reported to newspapers or radio stations, if so what was the name of the newspaper or radio station, and the date and place that the report was published or announced??  Please mail photos or fragments.)

Three to four.  60 to 75 feet or more.  Round.  Aluminum color.  Scaled and flyed through the air.  Cloudy to sunny spring weather.  Under 500 feet.  Right after day break (6:45) AM.  Just minutes as I was driving 50 miles per hour.  Speed of a bird flying reasonably fast.  Flying and scaling in a North and South direction over air field. Sound not determined.  Not reported.

EXPRESS YOUR BELIEF ON THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS (1) Where the objects come from?  (2) What the objects are?  (3) What do you believe powers them along?

Not too far away.  Unconventional flying machines.  Something that produces black exhaust smoke.  In puffs.

PRESENT OCCUPATION & POSITION  Physician MD, Radiologist in private practice.

EYEWITNESSES SIGNATURE  None alone in the car at the time.

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March 3, 1947