PROJECT 1947




1947 - Lost Files





1947 - 8 July - 5:30 p.m. - HST Pearl Harbor, TH - Google Map


Witnesses:
About 100 Navy personnel
Yeoman 2c Ted Purdue
Yeoman 1c Douglas Kacherle
Seaman 1c Donald Ferguson
Yeoman Morris Kzamme
Seaman Albert Delancey

Summary:

Oblong (silvery colored like aluminum) object moving fast and slow very high up with (alternate bursts of speed) and in a (slow, zigzag flight path) going westward toward Honolulu.  Balloon flight at Weather Bureau at Honolulu at 4:35 p.m. went to the SW on prevailing winds.

Source: Bloecher Case #769



PROJECT 1947 Comment: Contemporary accounts in local newspapers said the Navy was investigating.  Capt. Ruppelt told the Honolulu Advertiser in 1952 that there was no such case in the USAF files.








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