1. DATE tiME G~OUfl 2. LOCATION $. LENGTH OP OISIRVATIOM 11. IIIIP SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS 6. TYIIE OP OIURVATION 9. PHYSICAL IVIOIMCI The follolfini ia tor your information and/or nacassary action taken i'ronl tha report o! the Fiala \Ji!icer of tha D~ and Asst Officer o! the Day #l for the period be&iMin& oa,a, lllilq 53 to oc>,o, l2 ~ 53: call was received at l2 i~, !rom , n.,ton, (Tel No. ra~orting a fl1in6 object moving i-1\'l over te 18 near the laam1 Valley Ool:C Course. The object was observed for about 5 min. just before call \Tas made. It was first misi;aken for a star, but upon continued ooservation it appeared to be a l/2-moon-shaped, white light \rlth a red tail light. .Estimated altitude was 3000 .rt. The object moved back and forth lil~ a pandulum anu was traveling slouly. The object \vas about 50 degrees altitude from observer's residence. Capt \'/ood, ATIC Duty Officer, was given the above information at oJaJ6 EST. J. lst Lt, USAF Asst Air utant Ggneral D D I 0 9 6 ltUUCS ..... fORM I OCT ... WHICM MAY H USIO I. DATI TIMI 4. HUM II R 0' OIJICTI ~. LENGTH 0' OIIIRYATIOM I. LOCATION 11. 111P IUMMA.Y AND AMALYIII ~:-iCl'.l.IJ:Jo 6. TYPE 0' OIII.YATIOM i'QI l l"Vl- 9. PHYSICAL IYIDIMCI ATIC COHMnrra On the sue night as the attached sighting, at approximatel7 8z)O P.M., two ATIC technicians well versed in astronOII'O' also observed this object. There was no doubt in their minds but what the e.a~eet object was an extreme~ bright lt meteor which burned for about 5 to. 6 seconds on a downward path. According to these sources, the object had a green-white hue. ATIC feels that here is a goodcsample or how known phenomenon can cause widespread speculation due to an overly anxioU3 observer. The tact that a meteor sighting was carried in a Dayton paper and advertised as a possible saucer plus the fact that the Control Tower at Wright-Patterson was quoted as saying that they had no report which might explain 1t_,all m8kes for adverse pu.blicity,. and ia cent of 19$2 situations where a known object has touched ott a aaucer erase Uf4n.t\ SSIFlEP 0?11\A!liONa RSPtlt'.r '.l'be .toll~v1.ng 1tama or interest were noted in ProJect Blue Book oper3t1~na for the above data~: 1. J.':oo~saa report was recivea troa ProJect Stork, cont.r~t~ for Dlue Book, o':l 24 !tsy 1953. Si:!.htinc; reports up to O.IW inclu41ng 31 Dacem'ber 1952 have all been processed ~tnd evslua~ed. A!.l lata. for a1gilt1t~gs up t;o 'l!ld i'l- clud1D1 31 Daceaber 1952 hava 'Lt!en QInatorrecl to n~ carda. Analyst. ot data c on IBM csrds vss begun on 12 May 1953. Dy 10 June, artar completion ot th~ f'irst phase o: e.nalyais of t1~t:1 a plal1!!1L"1'14ry report will be oub:nittad to Project Blue Hook. Cne t.ilo-day evaluation conference \1!13 held d-.J:lng 23 anu ~4 P.:;uil 1953. Three A~IC represent3~1vea and four re~e~entativ~s fro~ Stork took 2. Recently an unidenti~lod f'!.yin~ obJec~ '1!13 s1Gh-t;efl ~vl!r D1yt,or. and re!)Qrteu to the 'WP ~FB C~Jntrol 'l'O".I~r. Projac:t lllUd Book :reels th&t this cue 1a a good example ot mtarepreHDtation. ot known pbenornana. The observer wa a vo.D vl:lo uightsd o.n extremely bright object ~or a very short ti: orcbing aD4 repcwte4 seeing the ..-to V-P 139 aa an un1dentU1ad f'lying 'J.'he obaWI'ter me4e the 81ght1ng at 8:~ p.m. On the same night, tvo ATIC acieati.ata sighted the sa object and described it o.a a.n extremely bright meteor lut1Dg five to alz aeconda Blld baYing a t~een-vhita vin.. There vaa no queatioD 1n tbe mhxla of theae qual1f'1ed obHrvera that th13 ob.1~c+, ".Jaa a UO\VNGRADEU AT 3 YT~ .t~ I:-~T~R\'AT..S; DECLASSIYIED J,I" f i~ YE.\TIS. lJf\lCLASS\F\ 10 Ul\!CLASSIFIED 'the al&htlq vu p.1bl1olse4 111 a Da,yton .u.cr '!'his 1a a e;ood ~le ~1 hcv know CaD v14e-apread al)eculatlon, t!t to an J.Dexper1enoecl obae:r,er. '.lYo tactors are 1ntereatln6 t o note: (1) That the 1D014ent vu oan-le4 ill a n01111pa:p1r and (2) that tba n-lwspa~ story pu'bl1clty 3iwn to knovn objectcs vhioh tow:~a otl tba "sauet:tr" hysteris Lt R. t.t. Oleo on DO,,"~'~!C'RAnF.n AT S Yf'' R INTERVALS; l>E~LA~SU'Ji ,D / . F'. ~ ~3 YEARS. UNCLASSIFIED.