3. DATITIMI O .. OW PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 2. LOCATION South tills, Montana 12. CONCLUSIONS Was Balloon Probably Oolloon Ponibty Anlloon 1430 15()0 Cl Was Aircraft Locol - lllGtound-Vfauol 0 GrounciRador Probably Aircraft Pn nl bl Y Aircraft S. PHOTOS 0 Wos Aatronaml col 0 Probably Astronomical 0 Possibly Astronomical 7. LI!NOTH Ofl OISI .. VATION I. NUMBER or OBJECTS 9. COURSE 30 ndn One 0 Insufficient Oota for Evaluation 10. l .. llfl SUMMA .. Y OP SIGHTING Object described as ball or .3 pointed star silver or bluish white. Appearing and disappearing against background of' bl~e sky. In flight to east. Appeared to be very high. Also reported from NW Airlines. ATJC PORM 329 (R&V 26 I&P 52) 11. COMMENTS Balloon released f'rom Great Falls ARB at 1400. In !light to East. Object evaluated as this ba] 1 oon. Af fORPfl112-PART I Af'f'ROV(O I JU!>.E 1911 RtPORT NO. /' Ill ANI\) AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT U~de~tified Aerial Object AREA REF'OR rtO ON OAT OF R9'0RT PREPARED BY ( 01/ortr) ~UMMAAY: (l'tl.lu CMCiN '"m'"'' ofrtpqrl . Girt llg,.lflcunu l11 finul Vlit.,rultttet puru~r.,pll. LtJJ tn.lonorn Gl lou tr '<fl. lfr , m lr It of ,,,,r.rt VII . I r I 'rl /. rorl II) 1. On 2J 19;1 source call from a parnC'n id~nti.t.,rir~ herself as lira 11reat Fo.lls, l O;'lt.uncl, .Jho reported .that she ghted an unicent ed nerial object over ti.e c1ty of Grc"t !\:,113 betweftn 14JO and 1500 hours {liDT) on 22 Uay 1951. The woc.:1n :>t a ted that the otJ:j~ct,, \'lhich \7as silver or a bluis!1 white shade, appeared to be shaped like a lxdl ot' c:.. three-pointed stnr und gave ott a glow simil.3.r to t hat ot an electric li~ht bulb. During the visual observation, t"he object disappeared from sic~t occasionally CJ.?idu~t the blue baekgroWld but consistently rc.:1ppeared acains t the s.we blue b1ck round. 7he object appeared to tho v::>server to b e at very high altitude w.nd t-:an movin~ slo 'Ily in ~ ceneral nest-to-east dircctiono 2. Source cor:t.actcd the Great Falls AFB ne:.th er dct.ch:.!mt 3Ild the Core Fi e l d i'.-e:1ther station. The for.:;cr had no i:en.thor balloons in tl.e air .'1t th:.t tiro, b ut the latter rep01tc d that t-~0.1 iud r~:!.o.2sed a balloon :.t 14GJ hours on 22 ~.:ay 195l o This ba3.loon vra:> nhit e and noved i n a .:est-to-east riirec-ion in its <.!ncc nt. J. A Great Falls radio scei~ the s~a unidentifie d station reported tha(, a t.o:rthiiGSt Airline3 pi l ot .... !Jrn+ 00 ncr in J .1'b ..! JCt. s~ ro .ilar Anothe r ne.:sco.st 0::1 23 ::..ay l 'j5l rO(JOrtec! -... ~:. an .:.dentificd oLj~-.ct cescription was sir~tcd c-1e:' ::~:;as City LsiiJ. Capt:un , U3.~F APPj1QVI.:D: ttOfL"TH, , ' , . ~NT~U ... "''fliCJI ,'IATIC,~l.\liHTI:.(, tllrt;Aal~i.Al r tl r u tHLIIIIIl ,_,rA1lt;\', !Ill' 11rr r"::l'. ol '' C'"IOr.:~ .-. 1 ' IT MAY !.ur I<Et'fiOOIJC!"O l'i .'illvtl on 1n ,.,, n. UY <Jill 11 1111\i: WIIILO .tt.ll, A:l' 1~1\Cl r . .:t 11, r .... ~, tl rl'f lllt : a . 1 : m a uu, r INn tc.r r.c.r.l,:.Ar.