St. Johns, MichiganMarch 1950

Unidentified

Summary

On March 13, 1950, the pilot of a Piper Cruiser light plane reported an object near St. Johns, Michigan, about 15 miles north of Lansing. The pilot was flying at 3,500 feet and saw the object at roughly 25,000 feet. It was heading west-northwest and moving at a very high rate of speed. No photographs or sketches were made, and the pilot could not tell its shape, color, size, sound, or trail.

The report came through a military flight service center. Officials were notified within 15 minutes by an air traffic control center. A check showed a nearby Air Force base had no jet aircraft in the Lansing area at that time. Weather included scattered to broken clouds at 3,000 feet and a higher cloud deck near 25,000 feet, with visibility of 10 to 15 miles.

The Air Force record (Project 10073, its official file for unidentified flying object reports) concluded the case was insufficient data.

Reported location

St. Johns, Michigan

Date of incident

March 1950

State / country

MI / US

Page count

2 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 7

| | PROJECT 10073 RECORD | « DATE « TIME GROU®' . 2 LOCATION 14152 13 March 50 13/=CXz St Johns, Michigan 3. SOURCE 10. CONCLUSION : Civilian Insufficient Data « NUMBER OF OBJECTS One S. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION [11 BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS Not Reported " Object heading WNW at high rate of speed. No additional infoimat 5. TYPE OF OBSERVATION information. . . Air-Visgal \ Wasa HAY A as WNW 6. PHOTOS 0 Yes Xl Ne 9. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE : : 0 Yes oH : XI Ne : FORM FTD sep 63 0-329 (TDE) Previous editions of this form may be used. lI} i 2 | | Ri on AR a cis WLS Ht v 4 i