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August 19, 1953 New Haven Signboard Case New Haven, CT On Sunday, May 6, 2007, I received a call from researcher Bruno Molon, who wanted to know what we had on the New Haven case. I had known about it and was aware of the photos which I had on file from a magazine published in the 1950's. Other than that, that's all I had. Armed with some notes from Bruno I sent out an email to the A-Team. Before the day was over I had a message from Dan Wilson. He had found some Blue Book documents. My check with Google turned up some notes from Keyhoe's book, "Flying Saucer Conspiracy": August 19, 1953: East New Haven, Connecticut
(pg. 30)
A small round object -- flaming like red-hot iron -- plunged
from the sky, flashing past cars and pedestrians. It had pierced
a metal billboard at Middletone Avenue and Front Street. After
crashing though the heavy-gauge steel, the mysterious object had angled
sharply upward, streaked over the trees, then vanished. Its upward
course and the strange copper deposits it left on the billboard showed
that it was no ordinary fireball. If it were a missile or
something that had fallen from a saucer, Intelligence would have had
good reason to be alarmed. But no pilot had been involved unless
some UFO encounter had been kept secret.August 19, 1953: East New Haven (pg. 233-234) Hundreds of residents had heard a whistling and a thunderous roar, followed by a blast which shook doors and windows and momentarily dimmed house lights. Out-of-door witnesses told Joseph Barbieri and August C. Roberts (representing another inquiry group known as 'SPACE') that a red ball of fall -- trailing sparks -- had smashed through the steel signboard as if it were tissue paper. Then angling upward, it streaked on, barely missing a passing automobile. Barabieri secured a section of the signboard and attempted to get an analysis of the strange yellow deposits around the edge of the hole. Balked in his attempt, he turned the problem over to Mrs. Coral Lorenzen of the UFO investigation group APRO (Aerial Phenomena Research Organization). She was a competent private astronomer aided by her electronics expert husband. An analysis was then made by the Anderson Laboratories at Milwaukee and the Chicago Spectrographic Service Laboratory. Both confirmed that the gold-colored metal found in the pits around the hole was definitely copper. "It is my opinion, Mrs. Lorenzen wrote in sending me the analysis, "that the object was a missile of some type which had gone out-of-control and come too close to the ground." Francis Ridge |
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