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UFO. United States

ID #1600785513
Added Tue, 22/09/2020
Author July N.
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Initial data

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Incident date: 
09.1973
Location: 
военно-морская база Грейт-Лейкс
IL
United States

An RC instructor, artillery class E-4, delivering a sealed envelope to the commandant at the Quonset hut, was surprised to see a saucer 30 feet (9.1 m) in diameter and 10 feet (3 m) high resting on a wooden platform. 

Description: Silver-blue and shimmering, it narrowed like a teardrop, with a flange running along its top from one end to the other, and there were no Windows. 

ROK believed that this saucer was shot down by a missile during the third flight over the Navy ship. 

The saucer broke, falling 350 feet (106.6 m) into the water between Hawaii and the mainland. It was delivered by Glomar Explorer and shipped to Hawaii and then to Chicago.

Original news

Date: September 1973
Location: Great Lakes Naval Base, near Chicago, Illinois
Time: evening
Summary: Instructor R K, Gunnery/School Grade E-4, while delivering a sealed enveloped to the Commandant in a Quonset hut was surprised to see a saucer 30 ft in diameter and 10 ft in height resting on a wooded platform. Description: Silvery blue and shimmering, it tapered like a teardrop with a flange running along its topside from one end to the other and there were no windows. R K believed this saucer to be the one shot down on its third pass over a Navy vessel by a missile. The saucer crashed in 350 ft of water between Hawaii and the mainland. It was retrieved by a Glomar Explorer, and shipped to Hawaii and then Chicago.
Source: UFO Crash List (Original Source missing from My files)

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