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Case FileNARA NAID 28933594 · T1206 Roll 4

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Rethimnon, Crete, March 1949 - Incident Number: 269March 1949

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Summary

The OCR text is too severely garbled to support an accurate summary of substantive case details. While the first few pages show discernible references to unusual lights observed near Rethimnon, Crete in March 1949, the vast majority of the document (pages 5-22) deteriorates into nearly illegible character strings that cannot be reliably parsed for factual content.

In Rethimnon, Crete, during March 1949, witnesses reported unusual moving lights in the night sky. Military observers were deployed to the area with instruments to record the phenomenon. The exact nature, behavior, and official conclusions regarding these sightings cannot be determined from the available OCR reproduction. This case file is held by the National Archives, consisting of 25 pages of declassified government records.

Reported location

Rethimnon, Crete, March 1949 - Incident Number: 269

Date of incident

March 1949

State / country

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Page count

25 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 4

Original case file scans

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