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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 2m

4/They assure the Bureau that they are closely monitoring the situation and will provide updates if any relevant information arises.

Source:
Memo from D. M. Ladd to [J. Edgar Hoover], “Flying Saucers, Flying Discs, Green Fireballs,” October 9, 1950;
www.nicap.org/docs/501009_...

Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 2m

3/The investigation has not found evidence that the sightings involve spaceships or missiles from other planets or countries. OSI also notes that the complaints they receive show no clear pattern of activity.

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 2m

2/informing him that the Bureau liaison learned that investigations into aerial phenomena are being conducted by the US Air Force Office of Special Investigations at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio.

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 2m

#ufosky #Ufo #Ufohistory
Today in UFO History - FBI Director Updated On UFOs
October 9, 1950 —
1/Agent D. Milton (“Mickey”) Ladd writes to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover,

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 14m

"Kareeta Business," Round Robin 2, no. 11;
borderlandsciences.org/journal/vol/...

"Kareeta Business" | The Round Robin [Vol. 2, No. 11, November 1946]

A follow-up to previous reports of the October 9, 1946 appearance of the ether ship Kareeta - from the Round Robin (Vol. 2, No. 11, November 1946)

borderlandsciences.org

Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 14m

“Welcome? Kareeta!” Round Robin 2, no. 10 (1946): 3–7;
borderlandsciences.org/journal/vol/...

"WELCOME KAREETA!" | The Round Robin [Vol. 2, No. 10, October 1946]

A collection of witness testimonial, comment, and editorial on the October 9, 1946 appearance of the ether ship Kareeta - from the Round Robin (Vol. 2, No. 10, October 1946)

borderlandsciences.org

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 14m

Kook Science, "Mark Probert";
hatch.kookscience.com/wiki/Mark_Pr...

Mark Probert - Kook Science

hatch.kookscience.com

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 14m

Wikipedia, "George Adamski";
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...

George Adamski - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 14m

Curt Collins, “1946, Before Saucers, Kareeta: UFO Contact in California,” The Saucers That Time Forgot, August 8, 2017;
[Credit to @CurtCollins579 for the Layne/Probert photos and most of the news clips, you should read his article]
thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2017/08/1946...

1946, Before Saucers, Kareeta: UFO Contact in California

Flying Saucer tales that UFO history has overlooked or would rather forget.

thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 14m

Jerome Clark, The UFO Encyclopedia, 3rd Ed., pp. 298, 455;
Jerome Clark, The UFO Encyclopedia, 4th Ed., pp. 338-339, 500;

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 14m

Colin Bennett, Looking for Orthon, Paraview, 2001, pp. 28–29;

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 14m

UFOs and Flying Saucers No. 10 (May 1978);

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 14m

Harold T. Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, Citadel, 1954, pp. 41–48;

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 14m

Leslie and Adamski, Flying Saucers Have Landed, British Book Centre, 1953, pp. 172–174;

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 14m

"'Space Ship' Seen by San Diegans Trying To Contact Earth," Marine Corps Chevron, October 18, 1946;

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 14m

"Flash or Superman?," Brisbane (Queensland) Courier-Mail, October 16, 1946;

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 14m

"U.S. Reports On 'Space Ship Of Other Planet," Adelaide (S.A.) News, October 16, 1946;

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 14m

"San Diegoans See (?) Visitor," Eugene (Ore.) Register-Guard, October 14, 1946;

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 14m

Sources:
“Sparks Fly As Comet Passes Earth,” Los Angeles (Calif.) Daily News, October 10, 1946, pp. 3,4;

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 14m

3/Others in San Diego see an object with a long, tube-shaped fuselage, giant wings, and two red lights. The medium Mark Probert later tells the press that he has established psychic communication with the occupants and the object is called the Kareeta. [Eberhart]

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 14m

2/hovering above the mountain ridge south of Mount Palomar, California. He claims to meet a military officer a few weeks later who assures him that the object was indeed from another world.

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 14m

#ufosky #ufo #Ufohistory
Today in Pre-UFO History - The Kareeta Conctact
October 9, 1946 — Mount Palomar, CA
1/Evening. George Adamski and some associates are watching a meteor shower associated with Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner when they see a “gigantic spacecraft” ...

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 29m

2/Exhaustive investigations of German technical personnel and US and UK sources reveal no confirmation of German involvement with the phenomena. [Eberhart]

Source:
Macdonald–Quesada correspondence, October 1945;

Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 29m

#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory
Today in UFO History - "Balls of Fire"
October 9, 1945 —
1/Brig. Gen. George C. McDonald, AAF director of intelligence, writes to Maj. Gen. Elwood Richard Quesada in answer to a request for the investigation into wartime “balls of fire.”

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 40m

Carl W. Feindt, Water and UFOs database, Report #1113;
web.archive.org/web/20191010...

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