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UFO. Japan

ID #1537363499
Added Wed, 19/09/2018
Author July N.
Sources
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Status
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Initial data

Initial information from sources or from an eyewitness
Incident date: 
28.08.1945
Location: 
Иво Жима
Japan

Sergeant Leonard Stringfield flew in C-46 at 10,000 feet, between the Japanese Islands of Le Chimay and Ivo Press. Suddenly the engine began to act up.It is "sprayed oil", and the C-46 began to lose altitude, dropping about 25-50 feet.

Looking out the window "starboard", he was "shocked to see three objects in the shape of drops". Carefully looking around, he decided that "three unidentifiable drops" were "the size of a dime held at arm's length". They were "brilliantly white, like burning magnesium". They "swam in a straight line through the clouds, apparently, with the same speed C-46 or so it seemed". Also, the compass seemed to have gone mad.

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Original news

Sgt. Leonard Stringfield in a C-46 were flying at 10,000 feet, between the Japanese islands of le Shima and Iwo Jima, when their “C-46 suddenly developed trouble in the left engine.” Suddenly, “the plane dipped,” and the engine struggled to keep working. It “sputtered oil” and the C-46 began to lose altitude, dropping approximately 25-50 feet.  Looking out his “starboard-side” window, he was “shocked to see three teardrop-shaped objects.” Looking carefully, he determined that the “three unidentifiable blobs” were “about the size of a dime held at arm’s length.” They were “brilliant white, like burning magnesium.” Flying in a “tight formation,” the objects “were traveling in a straight line through drifts of clouds, seemingly parallel to the C-46 and equal to its speed.” (See detailed report) Note: “magnetic-navigation instrument needles” in the cockpit “went wild.”

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Balloon/Weather Balloon

The balloon (simplified is a balloon) — an aircraft lighter than air, where the lift force is used enclosed in a sheath gas (or heated air) with a density less than the density of the surrounding air.

Distinguish between tethered, Svobodnaya and balloons — powered airships.

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