1./0AlE TIME GROUP M I LI'l'.ARY 4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS 5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION o. TYPE OF OBSERVATION GROtniD VISUAL 9. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE PROJECT 10073 RECORD 2. LOCATION 10. CONCLUSION ASTHOIOMICAL: STAR/M.AD'I' Star/Plaet obaervation. Moat likely JUpiter. 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS ObJect obaetved traa both Inl ot Dobbins and traa Xno:awille. Disappeared a1maltneoualy belov horizon. NO triangulation vas made but description 5U81eata aatro sigbtin~s at Pteque Isle o r Mithcell ill Oc t aDd ~c. UNCLASSIFIED J ZDKF 1111 DE 'JEDKF 07A OP 191445Z ZNJ : :1 CG 35TH AIR DIV CD> DOBBINS AFB GA TO JEPHQ/DIR OF INTELLIGENCE HQ USAF WASHINGTON 25 DC AL INTELLIGENCE CENTER WRIGHT PATTERSON AFB OHIO 3~/CG ADC ENT ArB COLORADO SPGS COLO FLY OBRPT COC 960 ATTN: ATIAA-2C A~ OBJZCT EMITTING A BRIGHT WHITE LIGHT CHANGING TO RED AND YELLOI.V AT TIMES J.O.S OBSERVED NORTHWEST OF DOBBINS AFB 8 FE9 53 AT 2145 EST. Id C0~1PARI.30N TO RED OB')TRUCTION LIGHTS ON CO.ITROL T0 1JER AND HA.lGARS OBJECT APPEARED LARGER AND BRIGHTER. OBSERVED BY AC&W PERSONNEL ON JUTY IN AIR DEFENSE CONTROL CENTER FOR APPROXIMATZLY 1 5 MI~IJTES. lT :10VD I N EA3T TO WEST DIRECTION DISAPPEARI~lG FOM VIEW BSLOW HORIZON. FIRST REPORT RECEIVE~ FROM AC&W U~lT IN KNOXVILLE TENN AREA WHO HAD n~CEIV:.:D REPORTS AND OBSZRVED t;,E:MS.:.LVES A BRIGHT LIGHT I N T:rE SKY TO Ti1E tJEST OF K.~O~/ILLE. DISAPPA RA~ICE I N DOBBI NS ARSA CI :ciJ~D tJITH DISAPPARANCE I N KNOXVILL~ AREA. ALL SIGHTINGS ~ZR~ VISUAL NO SIGHTINGS. ~10 REPORTED AIR TRAFFIC IN AREA AT TIME. WEATHER FOR DOBBINS KNOXVILLE AND CHATTANOOGA WAS CLEAR SKIES WITH 13 TO 30 :1ILZS VISIBILITY AND NO DISCERNABLE SURFACE WINDS WINDS ALOFT AT DOBBINS .UNCLASSif-IED. Dobbins AJr Force Ba . Georgia I Description or Incident- J.tll1t.&J7 P'raonn419l observed a rcti-1elloa white stationary object from this bAse as well as JCnoxville, Tenness.,e, at 2145 EST which was observed for 15 min- u tes before slowly disappearing below the horizon. It appeared in the west. arxi was brighter than r.,d obstNction lights on the control tawer at Dobbi03. !I. Discussion ot Incident No triangulation Crom the two observing points was made which would have been extremely helpful and should be a~tempted in siehtings such as this. 'Ihe desc~ip tion and m er ot disappearance strongly suggests Rst r onomical sight.in~s at Presque Isle AFB and M1 tchel Al'll in Oc t.ober and December of 1<;52. III. Conclusion Ploba~ aatrQnOtnlcal (bright. evening a tar) UNCLASSIFIED ?LY'lNG SAUCETI3 Extract from the"Aeheville Citizen" Feb 12,1953. JB'f CH,;SES . RED OBJECT OVNR S'l'ATE ; .. ;,RINE ?L.A!l~ NO ~.:ATCH ~,0R S 'J.'R.A!UE BCDY. Cherry Point N.c. The rJiarine Corps repartee today that one of it's jet planes had chased and then lost --a red lighted object that flashed through the sky at astonishing speed rln F9F Panthe r jet fighte r pilot chased the object over coastal North Corol:iina ~:iondat night an official i.iarine Corps said, but the speedy j o t turned out to be no f.'l.atch for th~ object, whatever. it was. The fJlarine Corps statement was issued o.t headquarters o f the Second ~.;arine Air Wing here. It includ e d tre r eport of First Lt. E~ Balocco, 24, o C Antioch, Calif, tho pilot who chasen the object. Th:! statement g a v e these details: Planes at t h~ r.larine Auxilia~J Air f'.tat.ion at Eden t on, N . C . had bee n alerted by a navy signal towe r at 2;orfolk, Va, t o \~at~h ror u s ilvo r object which h a d ooo n r eported ~ ightec from the ground ov~Jr-a?} area near the Vir gin i n -~!.c. border$ 3a_occo went to the area , but sighte d nothing after cr.~ising around f o r holr a n hour. He then took a southerlY course to return to his bas a a t illdenton. Over \/cshington, N.c. I saw whet lcokod like P~ ~eroplcna with red lights which cppaur e d below at a bout 2000n feet. What c cusad ~a, Balocco aoid, to look beck at the objec~ was the fact that tt moved from below mo 10000 rt verticarly in c matter of seconds. B~locco s nid thct he turned about nnd chAsed the object at a speed o~ bette r tha n 500 mph but wee unable to gcin on He estimated the object wns about ten mile s oway from him during the threu to r our minutes chase. At tha t distance, he s eid, the object. was about n quarter of An inch wide and three inches long, The object woa the colour of white he-ot: and it threw out a red glow behind it. It had two r e d lights on the left hand side, bouncing pnd flashing off the end, encircling an arc. . Balocco said he eeerred to gain on the object for a tizm but the plane suddenly dropped rrom his cltitu~e a,d cisappearec to- ~ards the coast. Balocco ~alled in other pla n e s to help in the search. Gaptu..in Thomns \V, Riggs wo e one of severc.:l pilots who responded. Riggs said he sighted un object flying low ne the Carolina coast but couldn't identit'y it. The Mnrine Corps s f.id it later rec~ived a cnll from Ge~old Midget, a :former living netir Orientlll., on th~ coast. Midget r~ported seeing . flash in u deaolc.te swampy area, And then o. g::-oWld fire~ t.iorine h elicopters searched the swampland and found c small f'oreat i'ire but no signs of n cresh. . . The !":!.ne Corps statement s a i d the obj~ct. w&a :f'1rs~ ci!~h~ed by a helicopter, whc i h r e p orted tho i:=cident t o th e Nc.vy "'::.-,~ ~ !lt J orfolk. . rine Grou."ld Control :nterceptor Bqus.d ron f':.lled to !llekQ :.lll.Y con~P.ct. ~ .. ~"'.::while, 3n.locco h<1d ,:1s.vared the q ase4.GI_owif1g Object ''a."""" l*rm. began c:3tch1ni up to the object as ClmRRY P OINT. N. C., Fe b. 12. 1( Jt wer e "~IUUni for him," the -Th., Marine Corps air at&tion spokesman said. Then a gain ft hart reported today that a Marine . Jd pilot chaatd a mYsterious. s peeded up. glowing object throuah the s~!es Lt. Balocco repc r ted t hat he ~.fa;" n:~abt a t m ore than ~00 d,\cd tov.ard tht c.b' ~ct a!ld saw mll &D bour. " a 6Udden t~sh,. and. i~ dlSap A ~pokesman eald tbe ' Norfolk peand . Naftl All' StatloD tower alerted Senral Saw ObJect. M&rtDe Lt. Ed BaJoeco to wr.tc h The a pokesman aald a aim llar for a, lilvtrJ obJte' 1l1hted from flub was .seen by a Navy pUot Ula pound. Lt. BaJocco wu Ill' over N or! ollc and a civUl:lD, at ~ , 20.000 feet n.-r !denteD. a.rby Orle:1t&1 .. N. c . N. Bl fle toward Cherry u. B~q reported that -the ldJh~ "1ihai Jooted obJi ,.u "the color ot white IJrplane wltb reel lilbCI... at.. throwiq:,out a sloW:' and san ObJect Waltft. \ had .._1\A,: appeared to be two apPtated \a bf ~elow me. red Jl1ht. OD the left. ~de. flub taed mt to too' bact at tngan4 bcn.afcllll off Ule end ln a was tbe ,act that 1t described arc..... . : tram below me 10,000 feet e.A l*UCC)pter' spotted the m:vs 11:11 ID matter ol aecond:i," tfrioua obJect. 10uth of Norfolk L 2181, ield. ' abot. dU!k' Mcmd:lY, the spokes- . He estlmaud that. t he' object man &ald. Gr ound control' in- LtbcNt 10 mJles from btm. . urcept or squadrona failed to make ~-.:pparted ~a\ ~ ht contact .with . Albemarle, N . C. Air "Foree Headquarters the P.entagon Washington, D.C. Dear Sirs: We the directors o f U. F. O. Research Associ~Les, would like any informatio n that you c ould give us in t h e two cases invol veing ljF O ' s r.1en t i oned b elow. Case No. 1, involves the reported destr1c ti on ~iper Cub relonging io one Fred Reagan. The incident which was to have ta!<e n place on a day i n July, 1951 when Regan's nl3ne was said to have been cut open by a UFO travPlin g at hig h soeed . The ~farine Cnr~s r~nortPd that jnt nlanes h~cJ chased a red li~ht~d obJect whicl1 h3d fla shed through the sky 1 t better than 500 milPs per hoJr. Any in!orwa~1on you could give us would h elp in our o t th tt l)f O [ H ENO~IENA. Sin cerely, Richard L. Hinson Palmer VI. Cook Scott L. Bennett Jr.