Big Star Magazine, December 1950

This document comprises official U.S. military correspondence and press clippings concerning an unidentified aerial object. The central content is a December 1950 newspaper article from the *News and Courier* (Charleston, South Carolina) reporting a sighting near Ellenton, South Carolina. Four witnesses—including Rev. R.D. Parkinson, a Baptist minister; neighbor Golphin Dunbar; dinner guest Bradel McCarthy; and McCarthy's twelve-year-old daughter Evelyn—reported observing a brilliantly-lighted object maneuvering in the sky for approximately ten minutes around 10:45 p.m. The object reportedly dipped, flashed, and moved in multiple directions before departing southwestward toward Georgia. The sighting occurred near the proposed site of a hydrogen bomb plant under Atomic Energy Commission consideration. Military correspondence indicates the report was forwarded through proper channels from the Third Army, Robins Air Force Base, to the Fourteenth Air Force and Air Materiel Command as part of standard unconventional aircraft reporting procedures.