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AT MA'.Jlil:!R AIR FORC BASE, CALIFORNIA

1,. On 6 Ootober 1949 at 1116 hour•• Speoial A ent LEE Bo N LTON
0011taoted CAPT CLAREMCE P. ALB0l'• JR., A.o-581273, t tion eather Officer•
~&ther Air orce 3aae, California, rel&tiTe to weather oandi ion• in the
Tic~uity ot ~beo, California. After re•ie"in weather re orts. CaPT TALBOT
atated th&t Sandberg ·feather tat1=• Cali on:ua, reported the ak.7 oondi tic,n
c1-at" with Tiaibility ot fifty (60) mile•• wind froc Southeast at 16 knott••
temperature 81°. dew point 22°. in the weather report ot 5 Septe~ber 1949, at
12SO hour•• Sandberg Weather Station ia located approximately irteen 13)
m.lea Southeast. in line ot sight. trom lebeo• Cal11'ornia. !he weather report•
turther revealed that a pilot b.noon• tor winda aloft purposes, waa released
&t Sandberg on 6 September shortly prior to 1300 hours. ilot alloona ar•
approximately twentr-six (26) inches in diameter. Yrith IL!1 ascension 1·0.te ot
two hundred ( 200) to two hundred and sixty ( 260) ya.rd per :ni.nu te, , the
type gemrally ~ d on a clear dey~ such as reported on 6 Soptember at a. dberg.
1a white in color• CAPT TALBOT stated that. acoord.i.D to the dt~r inda
Alott Report at this time, the balloon would h Te drifted uor hwest, o
Lebeo• during the first two thouennd (2.000) toot aa~nsion, and en
IJortheut t a.rd.II Moj v•• alif'ornia.

16. Review of the reoorda at Base Operations, Mat er Air o.r~ Base,
OalitorDia. revealed that no iror ft had either rrived or e arted t.h~t
atation which could have been in the vicinity of Lebec, Californi~••
time or the sighting of th• unconventional aircraft by •••~d ......

AT MCCLELLA.N AIR FORCE E, CALIFORNIA

16. On 5 October 1949, perusal by Special Agent LEE B. OL or the
Report or Aircrart Departures, maintained by the Base 01=erations Office,
McClellan Air Force Bas•• C litornia, revealed that an L-13 type airorar,
f/47-300• piloted by CAPT G. 14. J.,IVERS, 2600 A.E.Uo, Pope Air rorce a.se,
Fort Bragg, North Carolina, departed lcClellan Air Force ase on 5 ~ pte:nber
1949 at O 32, eetimated true ir apeed one hUDdred and ton 110) miloo r
hour• with arrival at l.larch Air Force ••• California, & 13 4; L-3
airorart. t/47- 02, piloted by 1 1' LT il. K. ALLE , 260 A.B.U., ope
Bu•• Fort Bragg. lori;h Carolina, departed cClellan Air orce aae at
••tima.ted true &-ir speed one hundred and ten {110) miles per hour, and
arrived at Ontario Airport, Ontario, California, at 140' • Aa it is two
hundred and seventy (270) air milea from McClellan Air fore• as• to Le ec,
California. with a climb to aix thoua&nd (6,000) feet required, oi hty-.tive
(86) air mil•• from lAbeo to Ontario. California, an one hundred a"ld r · ve
(1°'5) air mile• from Lebeo to March ilr Force Ba••• it is osti.mated th&t
CAPT LIVERS wu OTer lAbec t approximately 1230 and LT ALLEN wu in the
aaae Tioinity at approximately 1300 how-••

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