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Office EB andum - UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT DATE: 8/2/50 OM SAC, Louisville SUBJECT: SEE . HIXENBAUGH's Photographs of-PFlying Saucers; INF< ORMATION “CONCERNING On June 9f Louisville Times, a newspaper of cire yalat Lon \ hed at Louisville, Kentucky, carried column cv ; jing frames of a movie camera film purporte s) moving Bron se of a flying saucer. The photo- graphs, by ALF (AL) HIXENBAUGH, Times staff photographer, were taken, HIXENBAUGH said, on a 16 mm magazine-loading movie camera. abe: news article, accompanying the photographs, stated HIXENBAUGH took 50 feet of film in which “the bright flying object shows cle bey.” The photographer, according to the article, was at Longest and Everett Avenues near his home, 2205 Longest, at 4:15 p.em., June 27, 1950, on his way to take some moving pictures of birds. The article relates that HIXENBAUGH "suddenly heard the roar of a big plane -- a twin-motored DC-3 -- and glanced over- head. At fi he thought it was a jet plane then he looked to the west of the plant, which was flying southwest toward Standi- ford Field -- and saw the large disk. It had a slight corona around it and seemed to be lower than the plane.” According to HIXENBAUGH, the object appeared "motionless for about ten seconds ... then it began to got smaller, finally vanishing into the west." The article notes that while the "saucer" appeared on ill the film HIXENBAUGH took, the airplane was out of the picture ‘leld quickly, appearing on'only about 10 feet. HIXENBAUGH, accord- ing to the article, advised military officers at Godman Field who in.turn notified flight headquarters at Wright-Patterson Field. A copy of the newspaper article and photographs are being forwarded to the Bureau as enclosures. 8 q + nN A subsequent: newspaper article stated that é 1] miditary would fly to Louisville to axatiena: h addition #2 being-printed in the Louisville Times, the move Pilm taken by HIXENBAUGH Wa&s carried on a pant 1al television network and received national Gemment’ from WALTER WINCHELL. HIXENBAUGH has received tele- phonic and written queries concerning subject matter of the picture Y s HTE/whp 4