Pulp Magazine Cover, June 1950

This document is not a pulp magazine but rather a military report. It consists of an Air Force memorandum dated 27 June 1950 from Headquarters Third Army (Fort McPherson, Georgia) to the Air Materiel Command regarding an unconventional aerial object sighted in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The report documents a telephone call received from the Editor of the Tuscaloosa Sun describing a sighting by 20-30 witnesses on 23 June 1950 at approximately 1300 hours. The object was characterized as a flaming red cross moving slowly across the sky at roughly 5,000 feet altitude, visible for approximately 30 minutes before disappearing into a thunderhead cloud. The report includes evaluation ratings for the source, witnesses, and information quality.