. PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 1. DAT! ' ... lOCATION 10. IRII' SUMMARY 0' SIGHTING Color was bluish-white. Altitude extreme. Hovered and moved from side to side sjmilar to fre e balloon. No sound. AnC POIIIIM S29 (REV 26 81tP 52) 12. CONCLUSIONS 11. COMM!NTS Evaluated a s balloon. -f:l1t RBo~tA~. I ' ! I I O:;;ce Memorandztm tJNlThD ~TATEs c;ovERNJ\lE T TO : .14 Col Ba.7 W. ~lor FllOW : Mr-. NCCASSIF.lED Between the houra af 9 and "915 o'clock the ni~t of 16 July 1951, I ai&hted this object which I took at first glance t o be a star. I kept lookir:g for approximtely a second before I realized this object xooved . It am:eared t o be at an extreme altitnde and had tbe brilliance of an ordinary star. It red the same cbaracteriatics, 'such as bluisb-wbite 1n color; and also s eemed to D'ch ill the mnne r of a star. . . . ""e movement became very noticeable to'*ard tbe Southeast. I md a n ex- cellent reference point, aince t.he eave of the roof formed a line directly South to North in uv line of vision. I called this object to the attention of Il\Y wife , who \-as sitt i ng neaJ"by, and I asked her to corroborate the movements as 1 described them to her. !-Irs. gxeed 1n eve%) instance, and to her it appeared the object moved at extreme s,peed. From a relative standpoint the object moved perhaps two inches 1n av line of vision, and then hovered in the nanner of a helicopter. It a3.in moved in a side t o side mnner, such as a free ba.Jt;>on uould, for a considerable distance, then hovered once more. It continued on its Southeasterly course, and . becani dimmer as it entered a sort of haze at tha-t tiiiB around the moon which was approximately at 2 o'clock to uu position. I asked !J.rs. to keep watching it while I 'phoned Colonel Taylor, and \v'hi.le doing so it :p~.osed from her view. The time elapsed was approximately five minutes as described above. . From II\Y position it came from 4 o'clock and progressea. to l..L o'clock relative to tbe v reaction was the, t tb.is obJect was at a very hign a.J."i "'-41J..C', an<1 a t its height np1st ba.ve moved :..t great speed. I wa s conscious constantly of previous descriptions Md while I tried with difficulty to not be influenced by these descriptions, I will ~ the mve~nts checked. At the t ime tbere were no sounds either from traffic or from air traffic, which is characteristic of this location. hence tbere was no sound. There t4M a star in the Eastern horizon, name tulknow to me, which I also used as a reference wltlle \atching this object. The move- 6:lents were unort.lloa.ox of aey airplane, since the "flight" direction was not al.llf83S constant, but in general the object in a Southeast direction Chi , Special Projects Divn .. Pub.lic Inforaation Office UNCLASSIFIED