A
NICAP Project Report
Intelligence Summary
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Subject:
Maj. Fournet's Motion Study
Date: Monday, 23 March, 2009,
updated 8 March 2011
From: Mike Swords
Looking at the January 27,1953 letter to Julius Stratton
from Marshall Chadwell I came across page 8, and there
was part of Dewey Fournet's famous but not seen "motions study" of UFOs
as presented to the Robertson Panel. According to what one can
reasonably assume by looking at the page, Dewey presented 17 cases
[from which he deduced that UFOs were guided by intelligence and the
flight characteristics indicated that the intelligence was beyond
"us".] This number rings true as Ed Ruppelt says that Dewey sifted his
cases down to between ten and twenty. The page shows arrangements of
UFOs in the chosen cases, and given the strong likelihood that most if
not all of them were 1952 cases on Dewey's watch, they might be
specifically identifiable.
01. May
1,1952; George AFB [CA] case.
02. May
13
[18?]; 1952 Greenville [SC]
03. June 8,
1952; Albuquerque [NM].
04.
05. June 19/23, 1952; McChord AFB [WA] case
06. July 14,
1952; Chesapeake Bay [Nash-Fortenberry] case.
07.
08.
09. July 19, 1952;
Elkins Park [PA]
10. July 21,
1952;
Weisbaden [GERMANY]
11. July
24,1952; Carson Sink [NV]
12. July 27, 1952; Manhatten Beach [CA]
13. July 30?, 1952; Albuquerque, [NM]
14. August
3, 1952; Truth or
Consequences [NM]
15. August 3, 1952; Hamilton AFB, [CA]
16.
17. August 24,
1952; Hermanas/El Paso [TX]
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Case 1 May 1,1952 George
AFB
[CA] case.
May 1, 1952; George AFB, CA. 10:50 am. An Air Force officer and a group
of airmen in a separate
location observed a formation of five white disc-shaped objects, three
in front and two behind. The trailing objects darted around in zig-zag
motions. Suddenly the objects switched to a tight V-formation, made an
almost 90-degree turn and sped away over the mountains. The five
objects were sighted at George AFB and from a golf course
4 miles away. Observer: S/Sgt David Darbyrsira 146th Air
Police
Squadron sighted the 5 objects at at George AFB, at 1050
hours PDT, about one hour after a cloud from an atom blast was sighted
in the direction of Las Vegas.
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Case 2 could be
May
13
[18?], 1952 Greenville [SC]
May 13 (18), 1952; Greenville, SC.
10:33 p.m. (EST). Mr. James Richardson
and 3 other amateur astronomers set up telescopes at dark area of
Furman University when they saw a diamond formation of 4 oval
reddish-yellow or reddish-brown luminous objects nearly overhead and
disappeared after 3 secs motion through 12° arc [or at 12°
elevation?]. Apparent size of half dollar at arms length, 1/.4 turned
and wobbling in flight.
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Case 3 June 8, 1952
Albuquerque [NM].
June
8, 1952; Albuquerque, New Mexico. 10:50 a.m. Witnesses: Mr. and
Mrs. J.D. Markland. Four shiny objects flew straight and level in a
diamond formation.
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Case 4.
Not known yet
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Case 5.
June 19/23, 1952; McChord AFB [WA]
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Case 6. July 14, 1952 Chesapeake Bay
[Nash-Fortenberry] case.
July
14, 1952; Chesapeape Bay. About
a week before the famous Washington, D.C., radar-visual UFO sightings,
a Pan American Airways DC-4 airliner was flying southward along the
East Coast at 8,000 feet. It was a clear night with unlimited
visibility. About 8:10 p.m., Capt. William B. Nash and Second Officer
William Fortenberry suddenly saw six bright red objects rapidly
approaching the plane, but at a lower altitude. "Their shape was
clearly outlined and evidently circular," Nash reported. "The edges
were well-defined, not phosphorescent or fuzzy in the least."
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Case 7.
Not known yet
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Case 8.
Not known yet
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Case 9. July 20, 1952 Elkins
Park
[PA]
July 20, 1952; Lavalette, NJ. 12:20-12:25 a.m. 3
independent groups of
witnesses, including Seton Hall Univ. chemistry professor Dr. A. B.
Spooner (on a yacht in the Delaware River near Philadelphia), saw 2
large orange-yellow lights with some dull red color fly in trail, turn
and circle observers. First seen to the S at about 40° elevation,
then E, N, W, and S again but at elevation 80°. Stellar magnitude
about -3 to -5. AF pilot in Elkins Park estimated 10°/min angular
velocity accelerating up to 2°/sec. No sound. 5-6 mins. (Hynek UFO
Rpt pp. 73-77)
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Case 10. July 21, 1952
Weisbaden [GER] be #10?
July 21, 1952; Weisbaden,
Germany. 6:30 p.m. USAF pilot Capt. E. E.
Dougher and WAF Lt. J. J. Stong, separated by miles saw 4 bright
yellowish lights, seen by Dougher to separate, with 2 climbing and 2
flying away level in the opposite direction. Stong saw 2 reddish lights
fly in opposite directions. 10-15 mins. (Berliner)
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Case 11. The eleventh
case seems almost surely to be the July 24, 1952 Carson Sink [NV]
case.
July 24,
1952; Carson Sink, NV. Two
Pentagon Colonels in a B-25 reported three silvery triangular UFOs sped
past their bomber at an estimated speed of 1,000 mph. Official Blue
Book "unknown".
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Case 12. July 27, 1952;
Manhatten Beach , California
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Case 13. July
30th, 1952; Albuquerque, NM
July 30th, 1952;
Albuquerque, NM. 9:50 PM. At
first they appeared overhead, clustered
together in no apparent pattern, heading north. Then
they
shifted to a perfect V. the shift was done with precision. Within a
few seconds they formed a new pattern – two rows with the objects in
front
spaced at exact intervals. The “saucers” in the second row were spaced
evenly
between those in the first row. Their
shifts
in position were incredibly swift and fantastically violent – in terms
of our
experience.
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Case 14. August 3, 1952 Truth
or Consequences [NM] case.
Aug. 3, 1952. Truth or
Consequences, NM. 10:20 PM. Civilian engineer Anderson saw three
light-green cylindrical objects hovering at a 45-degree elevation in
inverted V-formation switch in echelon when one object moved, with a
rolling motion along its long axis. Disappeared by rapidly rising
vertically. (BB Rpt 8, FUFOR Index)
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Case 15. August 3, 1952;
Hamilton AFB, California
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Case 16.
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