1950 05 9614980 Wilmette Ill Chicago
Document: Unidentified Aircraft Commending General Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio. Agency: Headquarters, Fifth Army. Date: 26 June 1950. S. Army's investigation into Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) in 1950. The document was released through The Black Vault, a website providing declassified government records.
- Agency
- Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
- Date
- JUL 18 · 2026
- Release
- Declassified · U.S. public record (FOIA)
- Source document
- View the primary source documenthttps://archive.org/details/1950-05-9614980-Wilmette-Ill--Chicago-
Episode notes
Document: Unidentified Aircraft Commending General Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio. Agency: Headquarters, Fifth Army. Date: 26 June 1950. Notable: This document is part of the U.S. Army's investigation into Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) in 1950. The document was released through…
Source document: https://archive.org/details/1950-05-9614980-Wilmette-Ill--Chicago-
Questions about this case
- What was 1950 05 9614980 Wilmette Ill Chicago about?
- Document: Unidentified Aircraft Commending General Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio. Agency: Headquarters, Fifth Army. Date: 26 June 1950. S. Army's investigation into Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) in 1950. The document was released through The Black Vault, a website providing declassified government records.
- Why was this case declassified?
- This material was released by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) through the U.S. declassification and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) process. The originating source document is linked in the case notes above so the citation chain is fully auditable.
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