PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 12. CONCLUSIONS 2. LOCATION ~ Wos Balloon Spolcane Wa-"'inaton 0 Proboltly Balloon O&l =-===-------0 Pouil>ly Balloon 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 3. DAT!TIM! CftOUI' G ~v - 0 Ground-R-_.or 0 Was Airrrofl oco ~ rounv- 0 Proltoltly A ircraft GMT 29/fusz o AI,.Vhual 0 A ir-Intercept R adar Poui Wy Aircraft 0 P roltobl y A st ronoml col Military 0 Pouiltly Astronomical 1. NUMBER 0, OBJECTS 9. COURSE 7. L!NOTH 0' OIS!ftVATIOM 4 min plus 1 SE Rising 0 Insufficient Doto for Evoluotion 10. BAll' SUMMAftV 0, SICHTINO Elliptical object. nat in appearonce, light t a n color. No noise or exhaust. lfuved over observer location from WNW slow:cy at est i.rn..~te< altitude or 2500 to 3000 rt. In wallo~ing canner. Hovered and disappeared rising rapdily at 60 deg angle. Disappeared tro!Jl sight in app~mate 20 sec after object started to ascend. ATIC ow ut <v ueu n> 1 1. COMMENTS \lind s from~mw at 6,000 ft plua. Object moving with wind and rising. Object sil?Jlted from TC a/c at 0943 40 mi SX or Spokane \'lash. Described as circular and glistening. Case evaluated as balloon si~ting. l16'lH FIGH'I'f<R-DWERCEPI'OR S~U.ADRON Geiger Field Spokane, Washington SUBJECT: Beport ot Infonnation on Unconventional Aircraft Commanc11Jl& General Air Uater1e1 Cagrmnc1 A.T'IN s ltCIS \lrlgh t~a tteraon A1 r Force Base Dayton, Ohio 1. Ill accordance w1 th the provisions of paragraphs 4 and 5, Air Defense Command Letter 200-1, dated ll April 1951, subject as above, the following report ot an unconventional aircratt or object, nhich was sighted over this tield, is forwarded for your information: a. Description-The object \T<as elliptical and flat in appearance, similar to a lar~ sheet or paper or a thin aircraft ~rlng. It nas light sWl tan color. Uo noise nor visiblo oxhaust were present. The object LlOVed over the field from the \1NW slowly,at approA:imately 2500-3000 ft above the surface (estimated), in a wallowing tl8nner. It hovered over the field and then ascended rapidly out ot sight at approximately a 60 degree angle. b. The object was sighted at approximately 0918P, 29 l.:ay 195!...) Duration ot sight, approx1 mately 4 minutes. It disappeared ftvm .sj in appro xi rna tely 20 seconds after it star ted to ascend. c. The object waa sighted with the naked eye by observers on t he ground. No aircratt waa in the air over the field at the time, nor were radar obserTationa attempted. d. Source ot information is reliable and authentic, 2 officers (pilots) and 2 airmen reported s eeing the object. e. \leather conditions over the field at the tir.:.e the object rras sighted nere: (l) Surface observation Geiger Field, US ~7eather Bureau .UNCLASSIFIED U~lC[ASSIFIED GFG 319.1 SUbject: Report of Information on Unconventional Aircraft (2) Winds aloft, Geiger Fiel d , US ~ea Bur l600Z 2. In the opinion of the station weather officer, neither the convective activity nor the synoptic situation over the area could likely have caused a large piece of paper to float in the air and ascend at tine of incident. Towering cnnru1us clouds wer e observed t o the N and 1~ over the mountains, but there were no clouds directly over the field at the time of incident. 3. Shortly thereafter, at approximately 0943?, a passenger in a T-6 aircraft approximately 40 mles S.:t or Geiger ~"'ield enroute to Larson AFB at approximately 3500 ft aQove the surface, sighted an object high in the sky to t he SE of' t he aircraft. The object was eported to be circular and had a glistening appearance. Duration of sight-approT1mately 20 seconds. FO?. T"dE ca:t~IDTIIG OFb-:LCER: ROBSRT ld ROBIHS N Captain USAF :OECLASSlF1 ~D Al .... H. 1::! YEARS.