:"ROJECT 10073 RECORD 1. OJ. -r: T i.'.\E GROUP d . NUMBER OF OBJECTS 5. LENGTH o;-= OBSE~1JA (I ON SD"'ro.:c 30 ae ~ o. TYPE OF 0 3SEM'I A'ii'JN 9. PH f StC).L EVIDENCE 2. LOCA r;o,_. 10. CONCLUS10 N POSSI3LE A!RCR.~""T CoDDDenta : / Since aour~ce ~s riding in an automobile , it 13 b elieved tha t ob,j .. .,g a n o t p roper}Jr obaerved. There ia grea t :po ssibll t y t."'lat ob J u~s an a / c at a far distance r~flecting the r ays of The :JU!l. No ~he~lt on a / c 1:1 the area. 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND MUL YSIS lfouaual lU!D1ncus obj was sigh~ed in the rJE a~rox 4o deg 'lb ove h t.>rizon. ftlhen first si.;!lte d o b j i o p:! !l.r~d to b~ statior.ar) :l'ld. 1 5 ::Je~or.d3 late r the bri~tncss apo~<t.t"ed to dlmini3h ... n t ii !~ro~d t.o move i n nn 'Z d i r e ction . )h) '"'l.s last J bservPd FTD SEP 6 3 0329 (TOE) Prevto'u ul1. u :')f lhl e fon"'' C'll' b u .. d. DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE ":"HE ,:,PECTO~ GENERAL USAF 4,,. . ..,,-::-~1::-"'FFICE O F !iPECIAL INVFSTIG~TIONS Si~hti !lg of Gnidentifi9d Aeri.U Jbjecta on 26 F~bruary 1953, at Xingsville, r~yl d, -s Haren 195J, at. 3al ~imore, :t:J.ry1a.."ld !t~aE:n' F. ?LOTT, Capt., TJS~i: Co r.unandi n g tft!ne ral H~adqu vter:s CoJiVft.;!'ld, US -\F 1 . l'his H 1 !d ha.J recei 7ed two (2) Su..-nmary o f I nr'or-nation !tep orr..J ~rc~ t~e Balti~r~ Re~i~nal Jt'~lce, 109th C~C Detacr-~at, ~ubjact: ..Ji~hting of an JnU3'JU Luminous .\drial Ob ject, .:ll t.et.l 12 '!arcl: and 2 ) H~ch 1 953. 1 h.J ~t! ~lJI'li'Tta.rY of Infor:naticn Repons ar~ s~ t. for t n ~3rbat~ as foll,"s: naetween 07 ~) m n 07hl hours, 26 Febr-J.acy 1953, CJ.:)tai n, {aJ.ica.l Servi.c a Corps, Chig.f' of Radiological Hygiene Di rision, J.nJy mvirorutental Health Laboratory, A:r:r1y Chemical Cent~r, '!aryland, who was driving alone in his auto110bile in a westerly di- r~c~ion on u.s. Route 1, to tnr~e miles west of King!ville, !ary1and, sighted an tulU.!Ual. 1wuinou aerial object in the northeast :'CJ Tha object to be self illuminated a."ld about .forty degrees above the horizon. esti ,ted the surface brightness and color ter.~perature to be about the same as that o.f the. s~m which at th3t ti .ms part.l7 obecmed by clouds in the southeast sky. A la]er of medium ark gray stratus clouds, at an estimated altitude o.f 7,000 to 10,000 feet, ilere 1D the 3ame part of the sky, but ila.S unable to de- ~e r 'ldne whether t.he object ;ras be~een h:L11 and the clo,ld3, t.he midst t ... o ob,ject '1ld C' al.Li'ica t i ons as an oos~rrer are :" folio .;s : 2il ~) ~rL;i:m c ' r..eol C7 F=!;;a-l:!sses. y-Ie has :1 '1ach~lo:-o~'.:; ::i~nca t~a :?nenonena : ~ h:.. 1as used li'"';:lt. 'l.~nomena 'lS a ""':l:fSit;ist. ir. c;n."'lect.ion r~ 1 .f'. ~r:L-nan A!l of_' :..-:d on ~or a oeriod of ei,.)lt. - .,-i!"s. On numF!r'11l.3 ~cca3i :)r. s o bser1ed r~nec~ 1.)n3 from air- :=~t. and pyro~ch:u.c flarss ous kinds and observ3d no sim.:jlarit7 in c.:>lor, bril~ance and ~hape be~9n the l~0us a erial ~bj~c~ and ar:r ~hin~ he haa JOsdl"Ved be.l:>re. h:>urs, 26 ?ebruary 1953, an a!;ent o: thi.:l >ffic e r e-r;urned a ~?ot one hlmdr we~t of the int~rsec-:i on of ?org e 2oad u. s. ~oute 1 st obs :.he ob :~ c.. A cOJmpas3 was sig~ted_on ~he soot in t. -Where f :rst ~bser1ea t.he objec~ _..,I~ a re2r.ding of -... u?vy de~re~s was ob .\. c :,ect( ~-v -:.1e Chur~hvi.!la