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MARCH FLIGHT SERVICE CENTER Merch Air Poree Base, California DMZ $60,112 i March 1949 SUBJECT: Information of Unidentified Flying Object. Commanding Generel, Air Materiel Commnd, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. ATTENTION: MOIAXO<@5. 1. Im accordance with letter, Headquarters, USAF, subjects “Reporting of Information on *Flying Dises*,” dated 6 February 1948 and Flight Service Regulation 2004, the following information of tmidentbified flying object is forwarded as received by Merch Plight Service Genter from Air Route Traffie Control, Los Angeles. @ ist Lt. John T. Smith, pilot of Air Force 7346, Tell on a round robin flight from Fresno Air Terminal, California to Los Angeles and return, reported that he was circled by a jet propelled blimp while over Sandberg Pass, about 40 miles south of Bekersfield, California at 2050 P, 28 February 1949. The speed of the object was estimated at 500 MPH, flying at an altitude of nine thousand feet. The object then disappeared on a heading of 180°. be Weather reported for Sandberg Pass at 2030 P was twenty thousand feet thin scattered clouds, visibility 10 miles, temperature 36, dew point 54, wind south 7, altimeter 3007, Ffemarks to the see quence weather were: Visibility west 1 mile, fog ceiling and visie bility variable due to scattered strates drifting over station. Conditions radically changing. Ge ‘No other information of object's size, shape, speed, or color, is available. x RALPH A. REEVE, Lt. Colonel, USAF, Information Copies to: ME MGe Chief of Steff, USAF, Weshington 26, D.C. Attn. Director of Intelligence Commander, MATS, Weshington 25,0.°. Attns Intelligence Division CO, Flight Service, Weshington 25, 9.C. Attn: A=8