85 m.NW Jacksonville, Fla., March 1950March 1950

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Summary

On March 23, 1950, at 12:30 a.m., 85 miles northwest of Jacksonville, Florida, 1st Lt. J. K. Hahn piloted a C-47 aircraft with crew members T/Sgt. L. E. Young, 1st Lt. R. D. Putnam, S/Sgt. Ruby J. Dodd, and others. At about 12:30 a.m., Lt. Hahn observed a blue-white flame approximately 50 to 75 feet long approaching the aircraft from below at very high speed, with no lights visible. The flame appeared to come from a jet aircraft's exhaust. Lt. Hahn pulled the C-47 sharply upward to 1 o'clock. Looking back, the flame had completely disappeared. Neither the co-pilot nor engineer noticed anything. T/Sgt. Young, from the cargo bay window, also saw the blue-white flame approach but observed no object it could have come from. The Air Force evaluation was not specified in the available pages.

Reported location

85 m.NW Jacksonville, Fla., March 1950

Date of incident

March 1950

State / country

? / XX

Page count

3 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 7

[Page 1: Record card, partially illegible] DATE OF SIGHTING: 23 March 1950 LOCATION: 85 m.N.W Jacksonville, Fla. SOURCE: Army Letter DATE OF REPORT: 29 March 1950 TIME OF SIGHTING: 0030 [illegible] DURATION: [illegible] SIZE: 50' - 75' long COURSE: 150° NO. IN GROUP: 1 WORDS: [illegible] PERSON: SKETCHING [illegible] TEMPORARY AFIC FORM 329 (d Jan 52) COLOR: Blue white flare ALTITUDE: Very high AIRCRAFT: [illegible] LENGTH OF THE OBJECT: Aerial TYPE OF OBSERVATION: Aerial REMARKS: C-47 pilot airborne N.W of Jax noticed flare coming in rapidly from all o'clock. Pulled up to avert collision and lost the object.