PROJECT 10073 RECORD = .Au3 or Sep 49 Civili~:'l 10. CONCLUSION INSUFFICinJT DATA FOR EVALUATION 11. 8~1EF SUMMARY ANO ANALYSIS bserver si~ ted an obj ect !lying over his house at ----------~ tervals. The object was !Jing NNW and naahing. '-TY?~ OF O~s;;~VATION 'Gs bluish-white. 9. ?nYS1CA~ ~VIOc~CE .l/lttiNCtASS\F\EO 0 ~ ce Memoran..,.,um , UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT MCIAXA-1, Mr. Rodgers Incident -Unidentified Object DATE: 27 March 1950 1. The following information is given gs another report of an incident which occurred between 8 P. M. and 11 P. M. in August or September 1949. 2. Mr , Building I, reported that gn unidentified object appeared o 1er his se at Oak Park on Watervaleit Avenue and appeared every 11 minutes and that he timed five of these intervals. The object appeared to be 10 north ot the elliptic circle flying north, northwest. Five flashes ocur- red during the time of passing ove r the house. The color of the ob- Ject was bluish white, somewhat of the appearance of a "lightning bug". The object appeared to be quite high. 3 This report should be filed with other such reports being held in the Performance & Characteristics Branch for future refer- ANAL '1S\S 0\V\SlON ALE A. MSTREET, JR . Lt Colonel, USAF Chief, Aircraft & Propulsion Sec Technical Analysis Division Intelligence Department UNCL.I\SSIFIED Th To' l,oug/a Rectangle1 A ~markablc phenomenon ohscn ct1 in :-\ew \lr'<acn in tiH' ~nm mer of 1949 h:u rem;unctl amnn~: the mn\t p1111lmt: of the-L n l'nowru. As an the Ch<'s.lpe:al..e Jla, <.a~. the facts .Ht' not 10 cia pute. The witness \\3~ an astronomer Chtlc Tu!.ili: .. ugh, at th.1t tu nr an charge of the ophcal amtname.-ntatann of th<' me. I.e t fmn~ pru~r.un at the \ Vhltc Snnds \fs~alt fl. 1nt:c-He h.1d thc,u\.lllds CJf hour ' uf experience in obsen mq the m~llt ~h ami "lwn \tall a '1111lc 111, had gained fame .after months of Jlatacnt \e .~rchinq of phc11u~rapluc.: plates, by locatln~ th<' 1ma~e of tlw pl:lm 1 Pluto ncar the Jlfl\llllln ong prcc.lictcd for It hv Lo" t:ll a nd l'u.l..e rm~ On the night of Auqust 20 Tnrnh.ut:h \\,1\ ~I IIIli! "ath 111, '"fc and his mothcrinI.w an tl'le ) .1rd of hi\ horne m l.a, ( rt.!,tU, ".ttda- lng the stars. There was no monn, and till' t rnmp.m :''' uf 1111 ' " " was extraord inarv, so that <' VI.'n t hc \l:lr\ of \1\ll llhl~llllue lc "'""" barely dctccta hlc by the nnlt'<l CH. "c n dc.trh " ""It \ hout 10 :45 P.M. a gl.'omtln<.allv ~paccel s,:roup uf "' 111 c t:ht rc t 1.111d c ~ of light appcar<.oU almust Jmllh nHrlu .111 ()( l11\\ 11111111111\ll\ tlu\' were windo" ),J..c" m appe.trJntc .mel 'e llu'' "" t:rtc 11 10 t olur llw Individual re<'t:ans.;lcs \\cr< fJIIIIt' \lll,tll, 11111 "ul1 r tll:lll fuur r (1\ e minutes of a rc, and tlw c dqtrce ( .tbout t\\ICC th:tt nr till' full ffillftlll , , tl u \ lllfl\o cl ""'""' lcssly in a \<'rtacal cardc path tu\\ ani ti ll' ""''" "'"'' ""' tl11 Ill divadu.1l re<.tan~o:lt.~ hc.'(.unc. furt '''"'" 111 d , till' 'I'"' ,,( tJ., c1unp bcc:amc smaller. the. ht:hh lllrllf el llr"" "'' " ""' r.ulr cl flfllll \ \\ SOme '}5 tO ~0 tlq~rCt S ahmc tfll' hurr11111 Tlu \ J..ul lwt II Ill \1 lot for about thr cx SHnntl' "" Tuuola.mclt "''" dul 11111 " , . tl .. la:.:lol' for only about ': s<'Cnnch Itt lun tlu' ci"'JIIll . .rc el I " (,. 1 tlu\ S<'t'mt'tf Q diflll\f' (;tr<>t.'nl\h Clem llllc rt 1111111 C IIIII.( ,1 \fl.lll u( 'I 1 111\h spots of Iicht. of her hushand. nntl tlat'\ nttrrhutcl tlw cl,lftfllltt "' tluar cJ, "np tions to thb t.lifltrtnc.<' '" '~on. of rmanAles or to note ~urn<' ntlur fc:llnn'' lw ''multfl cl '"""' l.oh r he lmmroiatd\' rC'conlc.d the Lut~ nf tlw ol"''''''"'" '"' 11 lu cl till' pattern of the formatwn md ntotcd In~ unpr.,qnu tlt tlw Iicht' had ~n p.trt of a ricad \lntlllrrc II!' .adclccl. " I 11:1\t cluno rluu1 sands of hours of n11:ht ,~,. " atcl11nC:. hnt 111 \l' r '"' .1 "I! Itt "' stran~te as this" A rC'(lOrt of tlu' "dllmc: "" fur\\.trelt II 111 \ar l'flrtt' ofliclaiJ, "ho could ftntl no npl.m.111nn l'FO tlllhn\1,1\l\ uulu "'t lnftly pron O\tnct'tl th<' phcnomcnon a h11t:c fh 1111! ' "'u r-.111 tuh'r pretatlon th:at the "aiOl ss lumsl'lf ne' rT m.ule. The OttOUnts ~1\c:n to the-puhl1c unf.,rtunJic h \llfler frnm \ ,trlllll( distortionJ of fact In liS Cassanelr:~lal..c. "arnnt: of Jlll\\llal "'''nr' from othe r planets, Life \lat:a11nc. andutlc'tl thc Turnh.nacla "chtmt: u one ol the key C35CS and an a tt'nS<'nt<'ncc dMcnptrnn m:ln.tt!t'<l to include at least siJC masstnt<'fll('nts, some nf "h1ch :ulclnl tn the uncanny mature of the enc:1dc nt. Accordm~ to thas snmrn.lry [ 11) the year waJ 19-fS ( it was 19-f9). the tam<' w:t, :tbout 11 oo r'f. (It was 10:45 P.M.), the lights were tr:~,clm~ muth to nort h ( they Wfte moving northwest ro southeast ); the ohtcct had on O\':tl shnpc (Tombaugfa did not sptt1fy a sh:ape ): the htthts e \hehttro a ~l:nc ( t hey were of low luminosity); their spced was too fast for :t plane, too slow for a meteor ( no estimate of speed was ,ttiven) . On n nation wide TV show broadcast in 1958 the director of ~ICAP statcd spe dJcally that Tombaugh had obscned a cic:arshape<.l ohtcct wtth liahted portholes [ 12}. An artist's conception of the UFO in one publicatJon [ 13] depicts a Jon~. ta pered ship with a line nf li~hted windows, wholly unrelated to Tombaugh' s own sketch, whaeh shows no unifying structu~. me~ly sill small rectangles arranged as though eec:h oae were at the COlDer ol a hexagon (see Figure 18). PINAL GALLEY PROOF Calley gg THE WORLD Of FLYI~C SAUCERS Flaurc 18 Sc.uchle~otlet ~honulj,! ou t loud~ ( ' ) tluuu~:lo ,J,~:Ioth (11\!\!' ur dWI)' lltmo~phrrc, Ju.tht t1111C fll.ullh \ 1\ohJt, I Ill tluuui(Je lllllhopJo tJ1111 cloud la)crs and InA\!'' m tl"'h .otmm pl ocrt 11 1 ''" J .. ud 1.1\ "' tluouodo c le;ar ntmOJflht r(', nu lol(lll twoc \ 1\ololo . f 111 1111 muh lfllt tluu du111l J,,, 1 ' oo hght cone 'I) ollie. ltccpon~ nn orwn monel on tlot pu"alulat' uf onto rpl.uut.ar\ travtl, T omh:wgh lumwU h.a~ 111''1 r \11Jlpurlt d tlu ' ll.lto , Jup "'" r prctation so attnhuhd 111 lama 111 praut hut lo,l\ '"""'I' oo\1 vanous pos)t hll ,.,pJ.tn.tllllll\-111\l'<.l\ or lou.J, alluuuu.oh ell" ~:r"'""' lights, or rtOt-ctwn~ of J:ruunc.J ln:lot' :u:.ull\t tlw lwnoratl.ar\ uf .111 Inversion laHr an th<" .ur or tht\f. til\ 111\1 f\11111 tlll'11r\ \C'IIII\ tho most proh:~hlt Tlw 1." cr an )lith a t '"' """' It,,,,. lot t n 1' \trt "" h or (''ltrcmdv \\tak. otllt'r\\ISt' ot \Hnold h.l\t' dollllllt'cltlw l oro~lot ness of till' fnint )l..tf\ he \\:I\ ul l\t 'f\ au).: .h 111 ti ll' C:lw''Jli",,L, l\.1\ c ;uc, the tn) \lt"riclll< rcll.am:l,~ '" n lllllllluhtc-.11\ tl w 'PH o.al II I'll of some unutue cornlunatum of t.lfllllll\l.allh' 1111I1Ltl\ 111 l11 ro pc-.att-d. Couclatann~ wcn acltal fur till fnru1.1111111 uf ""'" , lo.orph loc-.ali1.cd imt"r\lons thc "<':'ltlat"r "a' d,.or. tlw cl.l\ la.ul lwo 11 ''"' small hm[Xr:aturc an\crsaun ""''"'!: at .1 rd.tll\1 h lm' 1l ,,,111111 and smoL(', hal.<'. nr tlmt tlllll"<.tallt: 111 :'1 """ 111111 I, I\ c r at ,, rd.otl\1 h low altitud(' were the prl'rt'!JIII\111'' that .ahnn't tnt.amh ''"" tl Some unit no" n c.tiiJC-111 tlw 'acanoh of .111 .mfa1ld tlu rt' .m '""" pouibilitlcs-rould hn'" prcKluccd a npplc on tlw than h.11c 1." r This ripple, tlppon t: the h:..cc I .a' c r .at a ) hJ,:ht anch. wuhl ''"I' rrfkoctcd the l1!dttccl '"nclows of a hoti\C, :as the rapplt pru~:n,.,.d in a wavelalcc motion :alom: tilt' l.tHr. tht n Oct.tum "cnalcl h.l\ I ' moved as dtd the rectancd"s nf laJ:hl. Condat1nns of rcfrat.t uln .tt the Interface would have reflected the "a'<' upw:lfu Tombaugh has rccentl~ surnm:ma..cJ has ronvtc.taons on tht tntore UFO p~mcn.a as well as on Ius o"n sa~:htang "From my own studaes of the Sflhn s\Stem I c:.nnot entlrt,un any serious posstbility for intelli~:ent ltfc on the other pl:lnets. not ~tars (the pl.met to "hieh I have devoted ron)tdcr:~hle oblervation and study over the past thtrtyfive years ). The lo~t)II<.'S ol visitations from planets revolvfnt: around the nearer stars is st:.g pri.D&. In consideration of the hunclretls of mtlltons of years on the seoJoaic: time scale when such vasitattons m:1y posstbly ha' e oc: c:uned, the odds of a single visat tn a gtven century or nullennaum are ~rwhelmingly against such an e'ent. A much more ltltely source of e11planataon is some natural optical phenomenon In our own atmosphere In my 19-49 st~httng the fatnt oess of the object, togethtt wath the manner of f:tding 10 intensaty u it traveled away from zentth towards the southeastern honzon, ls quite suggestive of a rc8cction from an optical bound.\1)' or su rface of slight contrast in refractive mdc:<, as In an anverslon larer. 1 have never seen anything IJL.e It ~fore or smce, and I have spent a lot of time where the nat;ht sl.y could be seen well. This suggests that the pMnomenon aO\ohcs a comparatively rare set ol conditionJ or earc:umstanCC$ to produce at. but notlung hl.e the . 1 -,30 SEPI'EMBiR~SIGHI'INGS Grand Rapids, Miehigan (NO C:JIDS) XDoXYille, Ten"eaaee Uexandria, LolUina Lebec, Celitornia Military (PHaros) Eaat ot R.no, NeTada (Mountain HaDe Military UB, Idaho) Clark A..~, Philippine Cooae Bay, Labrador Boston, Nev York (NO CARIB) We a\ Pari3, Maine (NO CAf\03) Lubbock, Texa (NO C~qts) Sayannab, Georgia {NO CAnDS) Scotts'bl~tt, Nebraaka {NO CARDS) Seottablutt, Ne'braaka {NO C~) 14.lt5 -l20.'22B (JapD) (NO cA.l'1:6) Mi1itary 32.05N -l06..sow (La Cruses, New Mexico Military (NO CARIS) Crittis A.~. Rcme New York (NO CARLS) Military Hoouett, New Hapahire {NO C~) Military '.Winchendon, 1-tasa. {NO CARDS) Lexington, Nebraska (NO Cs.RDS > Enid, Oklaha.Da { Ii O CARtS) Hu:abold t, Nebraska {NO CARDS) Camp Holabird, Maryland (NO CARDS) Honolulu, Havaii (NO CA..liDS) A'DOITIOI.'lAt. REPORTED SIGHTINioS ( Nar CASES) BV Al U.A.T I ON l.atro (ME'n:OR) A.stro (METBOR) l. BAil.OQN 2. Other (MISIN'I'ERP~ CONVENTIONAL OBJJ::CTS) Other (CONT&DS) Aatro (METEORS) Probable AIRCRU'T Pivba'ble Other {WCKS) PJ:vbable AlRCRAn C()4)RDINATION ATSC for -.,., 10.501 .OJUTANT OINIIAL ;;. !JCIAXA_ } :HIIf OF ADMIN. lll INSI'ICTOI "'ILIC IlLATIONS IUOOI ADVOCATI IASI C. 0 . lL70 vereity errace Ann l.rtor, ~-~ich4,an Receipt of 7our letter, ~ated 11 January 1950, is "cknawledged. You o~ be assurftd the tn!o~ation you provirled will bo given propor consideratio~. tour action in writing this Can~and ie appreciat.,d. I our a truly isflU1.CY.. ". T Fn PIO Colonel, U~AF ChiM!, 7ech ~nalysia Division Intelligence Department ANALYSIS DIVISION FILE .. FliE N~MB.ER UNCLASS\F\Eu Wf.W NOV a IIDM CINTIAL fiLl COPY Refer to :ciAXA- 1 [. Dee.r Sir, ~ith regar d to your letter o~ give Pn eccow1t o-f' two strang e b nces. ~ The first occurred in 1944, ,. t'nrob"'h~,r i"~vc J intorntation on it a.lrea.dy . It WC'S in t!"' e:;s,Rrin 'Q) enrly ~ : VTP. S i n the e.rm~r at Ce.JT\p 3 reck !B. 1.;r. , \'!h n at lee.st fifty of us soldiers observed 'tne ~J:y ove ePd, "I e. diri,gi ble she ped vrin .. 1les s e.ircre.ft, s ver y o.nd metr lli c , (rocket sha9ed) flyins north at hic h sp~:;d~(~e;b;o~u~t~n~o~o~rl~rf,h~)~---.- I t was noon. The Chice~o Tribune carrie~ week ~bout reports of the creft. It seemed t h e direction of Tennesoee , t hru ! .. entuc}~f, le.st seen hee.din.; out over LcJ.:e ::ichi.:;e.n. to have come other w~.s this sun-;er vent, _1 ... _1 0 p . m. on U. ~1. 1 6 10 miles west of '-rPr..d -~piclar-.1n ~1e ::~::r t o the ..;outh. : ~ .rife e.nd I sighted moment arily in t h e s~-y a sn1.dn.en :'1"' ~h of 1 ;. :;~ t and P red e.nd green cone of flAme s shootin5 e.cros ~ the s~:y, . There a.re no e.irr>orts, sea.rchli:;hts, ~nd t here .:ere n o :pla:1ec in the vicinit y . The tre~il of fle.me seeme't t o be fron ~e.r out spac e , and origin~.tecl nenr t h e moon which wrs hi.;h i n the sky e.t t h i s time I he.ve hee.rd mA.ny reports of s~ucer~ "'nd green cones of f l ame as seen by na.ny of my friends, who vrere very ~erious and reliebl e in t~oir renorts. 'l.'\10 vreek s e.~o the report c~..me over the r ed.io the.t a craft of the type I mention in my fir3t ~r r re.ph ~an been en flying ~cross Alaska at speeds faster than creditec to e.ny of our ple.nes. This ne:1s never t;ot e.ny further. e.m g lod to be of service whene,rer possible in the investi gation of these phenomen\ which he.ve intri.;ued me. UNCLi\~Sit u ..