65 hs1 834228961 62 HQ 83894 Serial 130

Summary

Serial 130 of FBI case 62-HQ-83894, a confidential summary issued by Headquarters Air Defense Command at Mitchel Field, New York, dated 12 September 1947. It compiles interviews about unidentified flying objects sighted on 4 August 1947 during a Pan American Airways Constellation flight from Gander, Newfoundland to La Guardia Field. Captain Alpheus O. Powell described a bright orange cylindrical object about a mile away and below the aircraft, while navigator Walter White reported a deep-gold elliptical object roughly 113 feet long traveling about 176 miles per hour near Boston. Later pages contain an analysis of a fast-moving light and notes on an examined object containing parts of a Nathaniel Baldwin power microphone.