Guam (Agana), September 1950September 1950

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Summary

In September 1950, a man near Agana, Guam reported seeing a circular, flat object about 600 to 1000 feet wide hovering roughly half a mile offshore. He said the object was about 300 feet above the water and that he could see portholes on it with blue gas coming out. He did not report the incident immediately. Instead, he returned to Dallas in July 1950 (according to the file, though the date is confusing), and years later wrote to the Air Force about what he had seen.

When the Air Force investigated, they found no radar reports, no other witnesses, and no records of any UFO sighting over Guam in September 1950. Military officials noted that an object that large would almost certainly have been seen by many people on the ground and would have been picked up by radar. They also questioned why the man had waited years before reporting the sighting.

The Air Force's analysis suggested the witness may have observed a rare lenticular cloud formation, a lens-shaped cloud that can look unusual in certain atmospheric conditions. Officials noted the witness appeared to be "an eccentric" and possibly "a publicity seeker." In later correspondence with the Air Force, the witness claimed the same spacecraft had been following him for years and had struck him with a "stunning ray" dozens of times, which the Air Force concluded were hoaxes. The official evaluation was probably a balloon, though the file indicates the most likely explanation was a lenticular cloud.

The full case file is reproduced below as held by the National Archives, consisting of 15 scanned pages.

Reported location

Guam (Agana), September 1950

Date of incident

September 1950

State / country

? / XX

Page count

15 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 7

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 15

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28938302