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Original report wes cleasified top-secret, Strategic Air Command requested original messages be destroyed, At 102h0.A, M. om 3 Nov 48 two Mustang fighters of the 824 Fighter Wing were dispatehed to investigate the sighting reported by Lt Com Pain, a Goast Guard pilot, wao reported the original sighting. The pilots upom recching 22,000 feet sighted the unidentified object. Tosy kept om climbing until they reached 37,000 feet. Thay estimated the object to be another five or six thousend fest above them, At this height the object resembled am intestine that hed been inflated and At enpe red 5 to 6 times higher tham wide, Sketches vere mot 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. e Bubsequent information received by Lt Roherkemper, Coast Guard Officer stationed at Salem idemtified the craft as a cosmic ray equipment carrier used by MIT, Later it ws definitely established that the craft sighted was a clu ter of eight balloons ued by MIT for commie ray research. This incident ie oomeidered cloved in that definite identity has been established, fp ee rte renin