Dut.ch ~ng!r.eer Dutch ~lectrical engineer, testing volt- a~ 11 1'\ft on roo!" or rac~.ory' oboerved ~d ;:>..,ot.or.raph~ brl.cht. 1 icht which so \or ce ident.i.- ti.~ it. as a tl)'ing a"'ucer Object attect.ed measuring instruments which .ource wa.a photographing when obJect. appear~d. .INFORMAnoM REPORT ... . .. 'lb S.a a ot a Fl71Dc Saucer oiabt.iq v1 \h accoapaqytna pbot.o- srapu. .U ta a atat...-rxoa \be Ro;ral Betherlancta Hetaorolosical IM\1t.wt.e, \be The ao\ul tora ot the report 11acla b7 the \a. aa!diq ie the aa tba\ v'biala be prepared tor We raagaaina. tbeN \8 a npaper olippiq aDCl tranalation tbat appeared ins laacHDI JM\el Oiw8p&per. w.aa .J. ''iiiCilft Lt Col, US.ll Air AtkObe 1. Pho\e VHr CorMr aenectol' 2. Pbe\o -vHP-Held Strenct;h Meter S. ll"pape.r Cllpplzaca 1 ~ CSAD (w/e Ineia) Uti'OlMAIIO. AI'CIIIII JMI N.\TIOMAL OfnM9I 0# THI UHITIDITATf.S *'lfHIM ~ MENII*I Of'nt! E".riQM.c;! leT'. I U. S.C- ITST~ OITMtllllVa.ATION 0# ITS CO""Df'IS Ill Alt't MA,.Mil TOM UM~IUZU NRSCMIS PAOHIS&T0 l Y U. : ta 0111 Pto:Rf, 1Y ontU 1lWt Uftf11D 5T.ATiS ~ FOIICI A~K.:IQ, DCrn DY PERMI'iStOit OF ~i Oll'tiCTOt1 f6 ~tASSirlED (t'L.A5 Jt~lC-' :-lON) AF FORM 112_,ART II. fiPPitOVEO I Jl.NE IMI AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT AirA, 'l'M Rape, lfetherlaDda FoUowiq 11 a letter troa Mr Radio Enaineer, employed by th~ Netharlan<!a Cabl.G Fact.oJ7, Delft, dated 8 "'l'his letter oo to 701l tron( ..the industrial town betllaen RotterdaJI and The Hague in 'the .Retberlanda;;. !he Dutch Cable vorka are situated in this town a nd I ara vorlcin1 tnthe Pb7aical Laboratory or thia tacto%7. Last week I vaa ukina teat a on a V .H.F. antenne which ia con3truct.ed on top of the root. (Se picture No 1). Tbia antenna is a so callod corner reflector, freq- uena,r 119.) Me/a Before this antenna I was rnakina neasureJaenta with a field st.ronut.h mL:ltu~. On a curtain aom8nt I go~ ~he ~ r eading ot ~ indication inst~ent and I tuo~ 1:17 Z:tiss Ikon ca:nera to veri7 this readina while r;ry assistant Hr hol d ~he tield strength inatrwaent (See picture lio 2). Th<!realter I asked M to go downstairs to get a soldering iron. I wwnt on makioc testa and at 4alS C.E.S.T. (3alS O.M.T.) I load~d th8 ca~r' to .nake aobtber picture ot ths inc:tl.cator and then I suddenq eav a bricht silver light. ;.1oving at a tremendoua speed and COTiting tro11 rq right side, (South direction Rotte rd.'ll'l) It looked like a ailYer V2 rocket. (We had a rocket lauacher just a tow mile3 fro~ our hoM durin& the var). !here vaa no sound to hear but when "the thing" ca.~ closll!r it tumecl tOll&rds me and looked like a bright silver round plate. I thouzht it m!ght be a flying saucer. !a I still holded ~ ~ra I only pushed tha shutter (T 1/250 sec) without looking in the viov tinier because there was no time to lose. Than I looked at the tield stren.~h matBr and I noticed a strong dip in tho metor d3!lcction ot the indicating instrw.nt. !he saucer disarpeared vi.th a trenendoua speed per- pandicular to the earth surface. (Ti~ ba3S C.B.S.T. 3:35 G.li.T.) I iiiUI8diat.e11' rushed to the PhOt.ograjlhic La bon tory where--~! de- veloped tl".e neeativa (glaas 9 x 12 c11) and we both &ot the t.i".rill or looking at th~ tir:st neg-*ive or what we thought was a tqing saucer. hoM I phoned "Th Tolearaat" one ot the leadina newspapers in the lletherl:1nca and the next day head editor Mr and I went to the l~eteorological lnatitute in the Bll\ (near Utrecht). The experts were Yer'T excited about t.hia photo. 'l'hq thoqht the bright corona arouDd the saucer could be due to ultra Yiolet rays and f"urthen110re detorJ &tion because the lens or rv caaera vas tul] opened without using the diaphralll (I had no time ~o lose. I o~ tried to nake a photo in the shortest po:Jaible ti) Radio Engineer Fol.lovlna is a t Institute, to Lon ot a.letter from the Royal Nstherlancb Heteorolo&tcal datecl 1 Sept..Oer 19S2a It wi.ll probabq interest you to know which are the results of the Jneas~..re""\ent3 on l3at Thursday. The place where you have photographed the phenonon is situated 20 degree' south ot the east. The center ot tha disk is aituated 20 deerees above the horizon. The diameter ia 9 dagre3a. When you atat,e that ~ou have only seen the middle part o! the disk, t hll diameter :m1st atill be ) degrees, or 6 tillles the diameter ot the sun. For this reason it is :till a gzeat. puasle to me that not a streu ot inquiries have reached Jt.N.N.I., . reoftr as, on account ot the dense traffic on the road between Rotterdam anc The ague, it ahou~ hav been aeau extreaq well, because the aun did not interfere. or thio roason the phenomnon reaina tor me a great QUfltJ'7 JR&rk. Final.J.y I like to rerd.nd you ot your prollise to c1 ve ae a li at or all p ..r sona . did ring you up or wrote to you. For this I thank you in antici~ation. I also express rq thanks tor yoar t.1Cltft during the investigation." The Assistant Director ot the Third IT r..w r. ,, ,n: :: rfJ,(')J UV:IJ m \',lf~U: 0:1 l' l l'ARl ', OY l)lt!fot I. I&.N IJtUll~ :..TI\Ti.~ All! IO;l~t: ll':nlCi i ), O<Ctl'l V f tr:.:.\o.~.:r:>:IOI" IIJ I t:.LC .I.I ( (.r" U!ICLASSIFIED AF FORM 112..:....PAIIT II (Cl.A ~.,IFir\ TIONl A!'l>ftOVEU I J U !liE 1?41 AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT The Baaue, Natherlands Followinl is a translation ot an article which appeared in the new3paper 'Ni!)uws van S7RANGE Pm:No:~NON PHOTOG~ -'rH~D ' and at, the auae time our countrr has at last his flying s~ucer! lh.i:nsi ........... lo.oloJI ~s a young woman the enlgilftatic phenomenon t-.aa, for a f mi seconds, froliced in th13 s -.r 1nd'~tstrioua would hllVil disappeared again, unnotic::d in t.he haz~ or th'1 .~ther it' a young man had not been able to arrnst it in it For whereas th~ intsllect can only regizter and ~ieest i mpressiona, the phQ~o- r-r~ph s~3aka plain language. . Tuesday mol."IU.ng the young :\diO mechanic etlployed by the .Jeth- ~rland.J Cable Factory, was ed on tha root of tln weak current factory testtn,, higb frequency cablaa. For that purpo3e he h3d with him a larg(j pl:J.te ca1.1ar~ (ZeisJ Ikon vith a t6.) lana) in Yiow of photographin6 the position o! some indic ion 1nst.1!.'t~ents. He w-as alrea~ tor soJile time cnn')-ing out this job and just. on tha point king another pl~tograph, for vhich pu~ose he had his camera fixed, when ha sud- -=tnl;; noticed an extreaeq bright light. which waa, as app-!ared lat~r, rrtoving from KIUD OP ROCKET' ....... zed his ca.11era, bald it towards the light and vithout lookinz into hi.:~ ewi'imhr, t.<~ok the snapshot. Arter th3 plate was dev .:loped tha result pro;~d to b9 ucces3~ul beyond expectatio'!l as shown b7 the reproduction nbove It approached as some kind or a rocketi which produced very much lieht" old lator on. "I~ had th9n the shap3 of a coaster ~oving hori~ont.ally. It t pl~d over auddenl7 and shot practica~,. 1=errendicularly into the air. J.t about hat l~oneQt I took tha snap. Th~t t-rhole or the 1~11s t~chni cal training lflst more than 10 to 1$ seconds. Th..-in!"3 to rem91ftber all the C.etails vary well. Th& tim9 It vaa o~ a matter ot 1nat.ancea. The thing approached, the eye and t.h brain ...... OW& register it. N7hot thou1ht: You never know, it might be a flying saucer " pressed the button of the camera and -extraordinaey pe~mllarity -lookJd t:1en . t. tha meanr1n1 instnu~ent.s vbich were abou~ him. They da'riated ent.irel,y and only back to their normal position ver.y This atteuwon I have gone with Hr ~tyhot to the Royal Neth~rland..s Heteorologieal itute at the ~lt.. There, with great speed, a conference was organized or n n ber chief's ot sections who Yere very anxious to put this young "saucar resaateher" hrough his pac" ... . - After a debate ot one hour their conclusion \-las that this observation had buen n,.A.,.."r import.a11t". As tar as is known unique in this country. They t..-uuld in"7~3tiga.t.~t he natter further on the basis ot the nega.ti ve ot the p hotograph ot the camarR 'l.dth -~M the plate uaa talcea. . It was aacertainad that the eno~us size ~hich the objact (or rcfl3ction) pro- on ~he photograph 1nuat be an optical illusion, as the great beam or light which troll it ma7 have formed a halo on the plate which made it appear so larc;e beyond ~ proportiona. . Another posaibilit7 which -was suggested at the K.N.l~. I. was, t hat the viz on the .. ..,.wwgrapb can be a conaequence ot the invisible (ultra vloltJt) rays, which th3 eye not see but which are registered by the photographic plate. The "devi~t.ion" ot he band or the 11\easure instrwaenta might ba due to an electro-magn .. t.ic dist.nrbauca pr to a magnetic influence of the moving coil galvano tar. hat. whao the matter of tact question is put what rlid r~a Uy hap: en?", the oiantists k .. p their mouth shut and then also roason keep silent, and o~y i~agina- lon is let loo . liOJEliii~IX....:'I!i't.'lflO~ITAI~:":It,:mro~Aflllll.t.l :f'lt,~TIrr,.\rtll:.'l ,;-n;1 : ,,, 1H:.:U~Irtll~-r/\T~';'.'IIII!I,'!tt' 1\F',IH:Itu;o "'l' : t ":'l ''',., .~,-.~'11 H :: \f :" I tjC P.O:i'ilOOUCLO IN \'.IIOU:. 0~ lrl P.'lkf, DY Ofrt.:lt ft'AI UNIT[U STAIC:.> f, l!f Hl' (L NjU:r: IL"i , L>Uf'a il.' 1-.i!:ll:::tC:IJ 1&\C l>::u .. ;ll, U!lCL\SSii'IED