The Object in the Sea off Okinawa

T/Sgt Emery Guzi, assigned to the Wright Air Development Center, appeared in person before Project Blue Book staff in 1952 and "volunteered information concerning the sighting of an u/i flyob on Okinawa in Nov 50", according to a memo for record written on 25 August. "He stated that the object had fallen into the sea." He marked the spot on a map and drew a large-scale sketch. Headquarters USAF took the matter up for one purpose: "determining the feasibility of an attempt to recover or otherwise locate and examine the object".

What is on the record

Three items in DOW-UAP-D105, the US Air Force "Flying Discs" file for September to December 1952, follow the search on paper. Guzi's data "did not tally with the hydrographic chart", and Blue Book was asked to re-interrogate him. A disposition form stamped 1 September weighed two sites. His mark on the aeronautical chart pointed to Hedo Saki at the island's northern tip. There the depth of water would probably prohibit an investigation. His sketch fitted Oku better. That was a lagoon about a mile wide, and the water was very shallow.

On 2 October the intelligence office reported that large-scale maps had located "the correct spot". The water off the village of Ginama was "rather deep", and by Guzi's sketch the object had gone into at least ten fathoms. A search would mean diving over half a square mile or more. Recovery was judged impractical. The memo ends: "It is suggested that all documents pertaining to this case be filed in the event that the future status of Project Blue Book warrants a recovery attempt."

The file never says what Guzi saw. It gives no shape and no exact date, and it does not say whether he was on duty. The transcript of his interview is listed as an enclosure and was not released. The file proposes no ordinary explanation, and the research for this page found no other record of the case.

Why it sits where it does

L4 · OFFICIAL RECORD — a released government record names who saw it. Guzi is the only witness, and no independent testimony sits beside the record in the archive. A tier measures sourcing, never truth. The Air Force handled the report as a possible recovery rather than a mistake. What went into the sea off Okinawa, if anything did, is not resolved here.