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like falling stars without tails

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seven blips were in the area and their

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speeds were phenomenal

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but even more perplexing was their

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from the screen

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july 12 1957

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group says radar traced saucers at 3 600

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admiral knowles criticized the veil of

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secrecy that surrounds the unidentified

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flying

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objects he declared

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there's a real need to break through the

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official washington

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and get the truth to the people

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lied by plan but to come to the u2

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matter

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here was a case where we lied by

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in the light of the air force handing of

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the

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in certain cases

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that the ufos can all be explained as

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familiar objects mistakenly

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identified the question inevitably

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arises

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is the air force following a pre-range

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plan of public statements

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on strange objects is the air force

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deliberate and misleading the public

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regarding our early line about the

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captured u-2 plane

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and its pilot our statement that the

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plane was

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an innocent weather plane george v

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allen director of the u.s information

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agency said that this statement was

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secretary of state christian a herder

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said our statement was a cover story

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that was prepared for that contingency

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and under secretary of state dylan

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repeated

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we used a cover story

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which had been previously prepared

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for such an instance in this 1943-1944

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intelligence operation crossbow

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there was excellent intelligence and by

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june 1944 there was material evidence of

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the existence of quote-unquote

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hardware obtained from crashed vehicles

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in sweden his presentation blank

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showed how he had eliminated each of the

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known and probable causes of sightings

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leaving him extra terrestrial

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as the only one remaining discussion of

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washington dc radar sightings of

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unidentified object on 20th

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and 26th and 27th

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weather data is available during the

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time of the subject radar sighting for

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the 26th

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only very strong ground return

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signals have been previously observed on

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the indicators

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of the ancps-1 type radar

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located in florida

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out to ranges of about 150

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miles air traffic control at national

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airport notified

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uh boiling operations that they had

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cited strange objects on the radar

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screen

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tower operator scanned the skies

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the same unidentified roundish object

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drifting low in the sky

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about seven miles southeast

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of the bowling air force base at 2115

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eastern mr blank of life magazine called

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rupelt at his home he stated the time in

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life

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representatives were at washington

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national airport

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at the tower and that the same radar

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returns

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were observed on the 19th of july

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on the scope

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colonel rupert arrived at attic at 2200

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and called colonel thomas at 2215.

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colonel thomas stated that he had

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contacted major

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format and lieutenant holcomb a radar

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analysis both were going to washington

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national

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to see what was taking place he also

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stated that he would call the command

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post

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and have them inform eastern air defense

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forces

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at 0 0 30 eastern colonel thomas called

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captain rupaul at his home he stated

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that since 2100

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eastern the radar at washington national

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airport tower

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had been picking up objects on all

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quadrants of their scope

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major fournette and lieutenant holcomb

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were at washington national tower

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and observing the objects f-94s

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had been scrambled with no luck

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and something else was going to be tried

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what something else meant

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is unknown andrew's air force base radar

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also making contact on the 21st of july

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colonel dl bauer and captain ej ruppel

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mats headquarters at andrew air force

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base maryland to discuss the possibility

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of the mats air weather service and

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flight service

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assisting in project blue book gentlemen

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the following is quoted from the

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aircraft dispatchers log

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for the period of 2300 eastern new

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echoes from unknown and unidentified

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radar most of night at

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doa in washington cruising

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objects over blank vicinity for several

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irk pennsylvania t807 sided at three

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at level flight moving at terrific speed

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temperature 90 degrees 2.71

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wins west at 11 miles per hour no

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known aircraft in the area of the time

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of sighting he stated that a full report

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would be ready and would be delivered to

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appeared that this was going to be a hot

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incident captain rupal called

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colonel bauer in lieutenant colonel

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t-berg's office

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washington

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to get the investigation started but was

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due to the sightings of unidentified

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flying objects

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one radar in washington

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and were reported to have speeds on the

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order of 7 500

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miles per hour jet intercepts were

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attempted on the 21st of january 1951 a

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airline pilot blank of kansas city

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of some 16 years of civilian and

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flying experience claims he saw a

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strange aircraft that he was piloting

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a mid-continent airline plane over sioux

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city iowa

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he described the plane as being one and

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a half times the size of a b-29 with the

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long slender

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fuselage no engine mountings and having

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no exhaust glow

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the fuselage as the mid-continent plane

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approached the strange craft blinked its

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lights on and off about five or six

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the pilot said his plane was doing 120

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miles per hour

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while the other ship was traveling

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faster in the opposite direction

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the pilot had just turned his head from

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watching the plane pass

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where it was again going in the same

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direction and approximately 200 feet

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to port side march 10

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1950 synopsis lieutenant frank matson

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radar operator and controller uh

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ac w squadron selfridge air force base

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michigan unexplained

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blip the blip acted in a

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peculiar manner it was assumed by

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madison and parker that the unidentified

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blip

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was of an unconventional type aircraft

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observations of blip also recorded

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by enlisted personnel on duty during the

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concern period of time 1950 to control

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the position

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of local jet aircraft observations and

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control were normal until approximately

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1948 hours at which

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time it's an observed a blip on

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the uh fryscope at approximately

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forty thousand feet range in

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azimuth holding steady at

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270 degrees 68 miles flip was brilliant

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for a few seconds then

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faded and came back at a different

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five minutes later at this time other

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observed the blips and questioned it the

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estimated speed old parker mad center

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agreed that the approximate size of the

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unidentified blip would be similar

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to b36 and that the blip at times

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apparently was followed by

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vectors of various jet

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fighters in zone two and four parker and

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matson also believe that the

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erratic vertical readings could be

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deliberate on the part of the blip

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as it appeared to occur after the radar

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would hold steady on the blip

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for a period of several seconds to a

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minute or so

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madsen and parker for their estimated

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speeds to be from 420 miles an hour

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horizontal to 2 500 miles per hour

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they observed more activity to be in

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vertical range

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sure to be about 2500 miles per hour in

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a combination of vertical speed

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and horizontal speed based on various

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vectors

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derived from the instruments when

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picked up the second time to move

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laterally to a bearing of 348 degrees

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and was observed to be consistent for

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with the ppi

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