Experienced civilian pilots (multiple; reported flying object incidents)

1949-04-28 / Virginia / unresolved

The U.S. Air Force Directorate of Intelligence issued Air Intelligence Report No. 100-203-79, "Analysis of Flying Object Incidents in the United States," Study No. 203, dated April 28, 1949. The study examined approximately 210 reported incidents involving flying objects, described in three categories: disk-shaped, rough cigar-shaped, and balls of fire, with observers including U.S. Weather Bureau personnel, USAF rated officers, and experienced civilian pilots.

Disk-shaped flying objects, described as strange metallic disks, observed through theodolite at Richmond Weather Bureau