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Original report wes clessified top-secret, Strategie Air Command requested criginal messages be destroyed, At 10240 A, M. om 3 Nov 48 two Mustang fighters of the S24 Fighter Wing were dispatched to investigate the sighting reported by Lt Com Pain, a Goast Guard pilot, wao reported the original sighting. The pilots upom resching 22,000 feet sighted the unidentified object. They kept om climbing until they reached 37,000 feet. Thay estimated the object to be another five or six tuousend fest above them, At this height the object resembled am intestine that had been inflated and it snpe red 5 to 6 times higher tham wide, Sketches vere not available. Speed was estim ted to Le about 2 mph, Heading apvroximately 45*/ First report by Strategic Air Command identified the object tentatively as a heavenly hody. BQubsequent information received by Lt Roherkwmper, Coast Guard Officer stationed at Salem idemtified the cr.ft as a comic ray equipment carrier used by KIT, Later it was definitely established that the craft sighted was a clu ter of eight balloons u-ed by MIT for commie ray research. This incident is omeidered closed in that definite identity has been established,