Adventure Magazine, March 1950

This is not a pulp magazine issue but rather official U.S. Army military documents from March 1950. The contents consist of classified correspondence and newspaper clippings regarding flying saucer sightings in South Carolina and California. The documents, stamped from Third Army Headquarters at Fort McPherson, Georgia, compile multiple eyewitness accounts and media reports, including sightings near Orangeburg and Columbia, South Carolina, where dozens of residents reported observing bright, disk-shaped objects hovering in the sky. An Army intelligence agent provided technical analysis attributing the phenomena to high-altitude aircraft vapor trails. The documents also reference a Mexican astronomer claiming the discs carried Martian visitors, and mention a dynamite salesman's account of a 46-foot spacecraft with a 23-inch occupant near Mexico City. Military authorities declared the spacecraft claim "unsubstantiated."