Maplewood, OhioMay 1949

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On May 3, 4, and 6, 1949, residents of Sidney and Maplewood, Ohio reported seeing a bright silver disc-shaped object moving rapidly through the sky. The sightings prompted an Air Force investigation that centered on five separate witness accounts gathered in mid-May 1949.

The first sighting occurred on May 3 at approximately 5 a.m. (0500 hours) in Sidney. A store owner observed a shiny silver disc about five inches in diameter traveling northeast at high speed overhead. The object wobbled slightly as it climbed and descended, remained visible for roughly two minutes, made no sound, and left no trail. The weather was clear with no wind or aircraft in the area. A second witness also saw the object that morning between 9 and 9:15 a.m., describing it as oblong and about the size of a softball, traveling north in a straight line with a straight-colored trail behind it. Another witness at Cook's Spot Restaurant in Sidney reported seeing an extremely bright object about five inches across traveling south at great altitude around 8:30 a.m. the same day. A fourth witness near the restaurant corroborated this sighting, describing a round, bright, shiny object moving south at high speed.

On May 4 at approximately 6:30 p.m. (1830 hours), a woman working in her garden northwest of Port Jefferson and west of Maplewood observed an unidentified object that caught her eye with a sudden glare. The object reflected bright light when sunlight hit it and was whirling as it traveled northeast at great speed. She estimated it at six inches in diameter with a flat, round or slightly oblong shape. The object was at high altitude, visible for less than two minutes, and disappeared by fading into the sky. Like the other sightings, this one occurred in clear weather with no wind, produced no sound or trail, and no photographs were taken.

The investigation was initiated by Colonel W.R. Clingman of Air Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base following a newspaper report in the Dayton Daily News on May 7, 1949. Special Agent Roscoe Pace conducted interviews with witnesses and newspaper sources between May 12 and May 18, 1949. The Air Force file does not state a conclusion regarding what the object was. The complete case file of 11 pages is reproduced below as held by the National Archives.

Reported location

Maplewood, Ohio

Date of incident

May 1949

State / country

OH / US

Page count

11 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 5

Original case file scans

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