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| Office Memorsedum - UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT 7 ro ve | t _— OM BAC, ‘Los Angeles ate ET SUBJECT: *ESYING ‘DISK REPORT TION CONCERNIMI ? Director, ysl DATE: May 13, 1949 a . eo: he = Nog Pope “e On May 5, 19,9 Qo reporter for the Sun-Star newspaper, Merced, California, advised Special Agent xiii that hia paper had bean contacted by Lt. Col. STANLEY JACOBS, Intelligence b7 Officer, Castle Air Force Base, Marced, California, relative to any reporte that the newspaper aight have racelved concerning "flying disks® . in the Merced vicinity. . aie s ee ae Rt aA stated a clese friend ef his, ohe Merced, bad advised him that he had obsefved « "Ye, strange object, and as be is in the Air Cerps Reserve, he reported same & o to the Intelligence Officer at Castle Field. Om the same date Mr. GEORGE BREWER, Detachment Comaander, Office ef Special Investigations, Castle Air Force Base, Merced, California, advised SA ‘that he had heard that an individual had reported seeing a "flying disk” to the Intelligence Office at the Base but that the Intelligence Officer had not furnished the information to him. ater on the sane date contacted SA Q@aQ@innd exhibited a letter written by STANLEY F. JACOBS, Lt. Col., USAF, Adjutant (Intellicence Officer) te Commanding General, Air Material Command, Wright-Patterson hac “AFB, Wright Field, Ohio. This letter contained a statement given by Mr. which read as fellows: "I had ocoasion to step from wy home, located approximately one mile west ef the town of Merced. on the night “of April 45 “1949, at approximately 2220, My attention was diverted to a@ clicking noise of considerable intensity. I stopped on the sidewalk about 20 feet from the front stepe and recognised the source of . this clicking to be in the sky in an area about 40 degrees from the surface of the earth in an easteriy direction. The sky cendition was 20000 thin breken with 12 miles visibility and surface winds ware reported as north nine M.P.H. at Castle Air Force weather station. My home ia approximately seven wiles south of Castle Air Force Base and in an area soaewhat sheltered fron surfacé winds ;and no appreciable surface wind waa apparent at the time the aural observation was made. After about ten seconds of lock tnd inte the area described previously as being the source of this sound, object was observed blanking out stars in desoribing a flight path in 2 west or northwesterly direction. Only ene object was apparent, ite shape ean be described as only # solid mass. Its sise can be estimited as four _ or five feet in diameter in keeping with an estimated altitude of con siderably less than 1000 (ene theusand) feet. Color waa shown by the - reflection of ground lights en enly twe eccasions, and | to be , . 4 . ’ , * e- be hyade ctapaterett nage aC ET eae 1002442 _ “RECORDED - 110 [e225 —/¢; WHJ:Jae ee -—! “Tn a eben tlh COPIES PESTROYED | te fn ee Py 74 wows BR TOGA th a