PROJECT 10073 RECORD ~TION 1. DATE TIMI MOUII 4. NUMBER 011 OIJECTI S. LENGTH 011 OBSERVATION ., Reported 6. TYPE 011 OISIRVATION Vlcleoo Pbot t. PHYSICAL I!VIDI!NCI! AFB, lew Mex1oo 10. CONCLUSION DUPJPtiCID'r DA 'Jl . ifl'ianp&t.1on oould not. be etteot.ecl. Pbotoa ot 11. IRIEII SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS different. taken b7 two etat.iou VicleOD '1'n -- .. '-.1ot. aacl trainplat.101l cotld DOt. be etteot.ecl. Pbot to Dr Jfar1ob1 at rue 1noomplet.e. Lt . Albert IBOSIR na i1 preliminar.r information concernins MX 674 test of BAA Line ot tire: 19052 30. 8" vest ot North X: tbe down ranse coordinate along the RAA line of fire Y: tbe ott range coordinate, positive to the right Z: the vertical coordinate X! : that plane tansent to the earth .. s surface through . tJe reteremce homt (o, o, 0) b. Station locations: Coordinates ot station 8: Coordinates of station 10: c. Frame rate: Five (rames per second d. Detini tiona: Azimuth Ansle: the angle the line or sight when projected into the xr plane makes with the plus X coordinate axis in a clockwise direction Elevation Angle: the acute the line of sight makes with the XY plane. e. Discussion or the 24 May 1950 film. Station 8 followed an object tor six consecutive frames, during which time the azimuth angle changed uniformly from 58019'30" to 58~6' 30". The elevation changed uniformly from 47032 '20" Station 10 followed an object for seventy-tour consecutive frames, during which time the aximuth angle changed uniformly from lo600l' 4o to 105039' 50". The elevation angle changed uniformly Unfortunately, as station 8 and 10 did not follow the same object, l:~l PERRY K. BRYANT Captain, USAF Chief, Data Reduction Unit SUBJECT: AeriaJ. Phenomena Ccmmanding Officer AF CambridGe Resco.rch Labor.:!.tory Attn: Base Directorate, Geophysical Research 230 Albany St. , Cambridse, Massachusetts l. Per request of Dr. A. 0. ~iirarchi., during recent visit to this base, the following inforrr.nt}.on. is submitt~!, _ 2. Sigbtinga were made pn 27 April ncl.: 24 Mo.y 195. f aerial phenomena during ~orr~ng do.y_;_:1.z'1~ ho~t's . .at -th1~s""' station. The sightings were made by La =rlrr, Ir.c., personnel while . engaged in tracking regular p~o~ectz with Askania Phpto- theodoli tes. It has been re:.)orted t;: objects are sighted in some n'..litlber; as many as ei.:;;ht h~se been visible at one time. The individuals making these si~htings are professional observers therefore I wotud rate their rcliaioility superior. In both cases photos were taken with Askani&s. 3. The Holloman AF Base Data. :Reduction Unit analy ed the 27 April pictures and nade a report, a copy or which I am enclosing wi 1(h the film for yo-..t:-ir!forrno.tion. It was believed that triangltlation could be effected from pictures taken on 24 May because pictures were ;;Q.!:en i'rcl':l t;-ro stations. The films were rapidly processeC. and e~:c...'TlineC. b~, Data Reduction. However, it was detemined t1~at si.;;htings \."ere made on two different objects and."triangulation could not be effected. A re.port trom Data Reduction and the films from the sighting are Incl 1-Data Red Rpt //-1 Incl #2~ta Red Report #2 Incl ~4-Map of BAFB Range ~d juat br(ore :a mi"ilc \\'as tu be rirccl. A sccunc atatiou '".)I "'t \..~' . . '-J..,.iiO,J O ~.\J:s. a called. and they reported that they abn could lee the: nbjtC'l llod~ acacions 1wung fnco action and tuok photna. On . Jc':(7RJ'K. .. etJff'tvr ... ,.llna.,in the filna, it turned nut that each was tracking a fl It ifC'I'cnt . -;-hriAht clnn n( li~ht-and a.:ain we had. M. A!\ f>rV.~iJ N If' JLriCJ...C n.:ulat~nn. \\ h:lle,cr the dnu wc:rc:, they were: impnMablc:. fVl (in the presence or Mr. Al Chop ot MC Public Relations) on Pebruar.y 4, 1955 p.m. Palos Verdes, 1. Captain been a pilot vith American Airlines since 1939, tor l He flies all types ot cawnercial airplanes. Presently he is OD rtt(CU].ar DC-6 coach service between Lo,s Angeleo and Chicaao. ne has about 15,000 flight hours, nccumulAted at the rate ot approxiately 1000 hours per year. Be is considered extremely reliable and experienced D\lr1DI the war he tlev DC-4 's ly between Uew York and &lglnd. (In 1~5 I met him at Pleatwick, Scotl.BM. - I have kna.m Will)'s Sperry since When he vas a high school boy in Tallmadge, Ohio, in the late twenties; I knew his parents well, o.nd his older brother was one or my closest triends. I taught Will.ys a rev thicgs about gliding in those ~.) Capt. s traveled a great deal, nlso flies light airplane~ on vacation trips with his wife within the USA as well as into Central aM South America. 2. Captain ted fraD dlCIDOry, which is a till vivid, his experience ot an encoun with an UFO on 29 May 1950. He vas flying (in the lef't seat ot the cockpit ot) a DC-6. '!be airplane had lef't Washington Airport at about 9sl0 p.m. and vas steadily cl,mbing towt"CW a 20,000' level. The weather vas clear aloft but the ground was covered by haze. There vas a tull moon about 25 above the horizon. He vas headed 2400(mag) tor Rasbville, At about 9: 30 p.m. , some seven miles west ot Mt. Vernon (while fishillg tor a map), the copilot, su44e~ s ''Watch it, watch it!" and drew his attention T-"" an tPO ahead ot them, arowing rapidly btgaer. It vas a brilliant bluish lf.ght. To avoid a possible collision they sharply banked and veered about 45 ott their course to the right while the object passed b,y on their lett side slightly higher in opposite direction tram an 11 o'clock position to a 7 o'clock apparent position. Durins this ~er the UFO happened to pass between the observers and the upper balt of the moon, showins a dark silhouette of a slender hull rem1ndtul ot a sublarine, its length about halt the moon's diameter, its he Sght traction ot tbat. The brS.Sht blue light appeared to be at the tail Ao the object had passed behind their wing the pilots banked the plane to the lett and returned towards thelr old course. Even so, the copilot discovered the object again through the right window "as though 1 t had circled behtnd them and come up after them". He then banked to the rtaht IPID tor a better nev but the uro atreo.ked acrose towards tbe behlD4 tbela. capt. it once 110re throush the pilot a to lt VeDt ott 1Dto tbe diat&Dee toll&rde the '1'wo or three aeasera alo aev a 11&ht by eDCl one atevardeas "av .othlas so b;,". the observations to the WasblnstOft tower by radio but aeltber the tower personnel nor the Waahlaston radar picked up &QJthlna atsnltlcant to coatlrm the aishtiDS- Tbe preaa heard ot the incident tbrouah the WoshiDgton tower. On the tol lovins lnterrcsated by reporters at his 1n 'l'Ulaa, Clclahona. Be ua nwapaper clippinss which he has preserved in &D alb\n ..,ns personal photosrapbs. He made no report to the Air Force lNt aaavered questions poeed by a Jor vho called him at Tulsa lDas 41ataace the PeutaaOD on 30 May. !tach learned that ''Hank M;yers, later pilot or Ptesident 'a plane, vas tlyillg an AAL airplane on the same evening and ob- aerved a brilliant bluish object between Nashville and Knoxville at such a tSme that it could vell have been the seme UFO". 3 The possibility tbat the UFO seen by :l copilot was a .. teor vaa emphat1call1 dl~counted not believe that the seemiagl.y er1atic apparent movement the object could have been an illusion produced sole~ by the three veering maneuvers or their own atrcratt. The observation or the bright light being at what they called the rear ot the oblong or cigar shaped silhouette ot the obJect an it passed tor a tleettng traction ot a second in front ot the dlak ot tbe tull moon hard to reconcile vith the brilliant vioi- b111ty ot this light 4ur1ng the earlier head-on approach pbae, unless it ia that the lum1Dous area was much larser than the erose aectlOD ot the ~ lOti: Accordlzls to tbe Almaaac the JDOOn vas tull on May 30, 1950. WBK A ....,. bw:lclent tfaat mtlht llae bewane a Unkamn In at to A.M. on a IUhhliiei's day tn tgso. A man wu 11tttn1 on the shady porch of his house, reading. Beyond the roof the sun shone brightly. Clanctng up from his book, he wu atartled to 1ee a foa matfon nf perhaps a dozen spherical shining iridescently, tnveltng toward the distant mountains. AI he watched, tl101e in the front of the procession seemed to vanish lnltandy whtle others appeared out of nowhere to join the pande at the rear. Measuring their size agnfn~t the mountain background, he decided they were "immense .. and they moved at fantastic speed, the thirty or so miles to the mountains in a matter of five or llx 10nc:ls. Too ltunned to take action, he was still num& from shock when he heard a faint "'Hello," and looked up-to realize that the little pi acr011 the sbeet was blowing soap bubbles. If the man had Jautped up when he flnt saw the objects and had rushed into the hau1e to telephone the nearest saucer club, he might never have. out that the were only bubbles [ 15] ..