PROJECT 10073 RECORD I. LOCATION 1. DA Tl! nMI GROUP I. IOURCI! 10. CONCLUSION ciY111aa SHIP Co NUMII!R 011 OIJICn one POaaible yeaael, ATIC (a) on tile in repository. S. LENGTH 011 OBSI!RVATION 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS 5 a1autea Sav vbite lisbt proeeed1ns along horizon. No otber peculiarities 1-----------tnoted. ItO RRPOR'l' I1f FILl. 6. TYPI! OF OBSI!RVAT10N sround viaual t. PHYSICAL I!VIDINCI! LOGAN UTAH JOLTED I'Y VIOLENT EXPLOSION ..... ----r fOLLOWING MYSTERIOUS "STHEAK OF LIGHT" IN SK Yt !f.ut --,;: mt-teorite, but n:-; the evidence was by fortnu,;t 1'd\.l;rxt tt , thct theory dissirated. Here's the story, thanks to the lu.-lp. o !\&:?.-'.f!ihn Ctrrt\:ttl of Utah who probed the Salt Litke Tribune' f( :',, t . -. be tore SILENCE! s e: (I) "' On May 7,1'-;4 the Tribune rt'ported: "A 'C'onvcntion;tl n1 fall' d ot produce the crater found wc!;t of here ancl pruhin t r.:tion '8cene have been discontinued, sts sn id. In a 7 1-wu d ; fC, \ Rc - enUst& gave reasons why they ended their ul nc opinion on who or whtlt ntade the hole, or how it Wils n1arl .. "The statement, signed by J. Stewart Williams, prohssu ....... ;... ....z Aaricultural Colle(!e. L.incoln l.n Paz, director, Institute uf Uni- . versity of New Mexico and Clyde T .Ilia rdy, USAC profe.., ;or 'In the region extenrlinR from Clarkston south to Paradi:.e, l"xhauslive interro- gation o( numerOUS who saw or heard the exrlo!;ive pht'nOOlCnon at midnight on May 1 has bt'en carried out. The testimony thu! ohtain<rl ,,nd evidence recovered as a result of subsurface 01t the site of tl:e explosion west or Logan have disclosed u, .. t the crater was not prorlU\'('d hy a conventional meteorite fall. For these reasons, ope ration!> havt be<-n di !-;continued! '' And from the Tribune, May '>: "Dr. Lincoln La Paz spent his fir.,t full here, working with Dr. J.Stewart Williams nnd Dr. T.llarcly. On his arrival here Monday night, Dr. La Paz snid the hole mu::t have rnade hy a 'whopper' if it contains a meteorite. They decided to plil<'t' a fr;:nu. a round the crnter and cover it with wire mesh. Workers will stand em ntovablt-pl..nks and probe with a pipe. In this Wcty they will know they have probed every possible under the mesh. . " 'My recommendation is that we excavate until we find what made the holt., ' said Dr. La Paz, who is credited with recovering the world's Ia weighing more than one ton. " The incident occurred on May I bringing "500 phone calls" to the Logan C.ity Police Dept. Residents reJK>rted their houseti "shaken" ttnd TV vilwt !.a i'l their reception was disturbed. A check made later with Hill Air Force and Salt Lake City indicated no plant-s in the "rca Cor seve rat hours. 1\ W;\ r veteran described the 16 Ct. wide and (> Ct. hole as looking like ca ''borl\b crater." Sod was Cound scattered in all dirCl'tion!> for naort-tlwn 100 On Aug. 31, '54, I wrote Dr. Clyde T. lin rdy, st who worked on the pro- ject, asking if any substantial evidence as to its (the s) :-.our ce had been uncovered. Following Or. Hardy's reply of 11, 1' '>1: "Reference is made to your lett.fr of Aug. 11 rl". t'xplositln iln<l cr;ttcr wcbt oC Logan. Although a fireball was reported by !;cveaal JWnplt to the ground exrlosion, I am personally convinced that lhty W(' tunfust"O. One cs- pecially competent observer describes a .cround flash unly and he wa:. f.vorably situated to see all aspects of the occurrence." (Ref. File: ZO) (Signed) Clyde T. Hardy Assoc. Prof. , Dept. GPo logy C.R.I.F.O. Air Technical Intelligence Center Wright-Patterson Air Force Bnse Dayton, Ohio Reference: AFOIN - A TIAE - 5 C.rfl II. OM. Enclosed is Log of UFO and Jet activity over Cincinnati, Ohio May 5, 1954. It may help you correlate events. Also enclosed is my organization's latest edition of Newsletter. Although sometimes critical, I plan to cooperate fully with A TIC and the USAF reaarding UFO activity. In many instances people, locally, prefer to keep "saucer" sightings away from official channels, but are willing to turn over the details to me for anal- ysis. Others, aware of, or as members of CRIFO, keep me in- formed of all UFO events. Such was the case May 5, when Herbert Clark, who is a member of CRIFO, phoned me of UFO-Jet activity. Through this cooperation, I was able to see the UFO myself and thus gather other pertinent reports from people in the city. Sincerely, R.EPOR T OF U. F. 0. AND JET ACTIVITY OVER CINCINNATI AREA By Leonard H. Stringfield Director of Civilian Reaearcll Interplanetary Flying Objects 7017 Britton Avenue Cincinnati Z7, Ohio DATE: May 5, 1954 WEATHER: Temperature about 40-45 degrees. Sky cloudless, crescent moon to the city' northest. Stars out, prevailing light haze. No winds . (Time questionable. Not dark yet.) Standing alone, looking due north from front porch of home, observed two separate pinpoint flashes of deep blue light, intense like an arc weldels torch. Both flashes were about 10 degrees elevation from horizon and about 10 degrees apart. I could not determine any substance be- hind the flashes and passed them off as optical phenomena. Received the following report by telephone from Mr. Hyman Lapirow, of 1930 Stevens Ave. Mt. Healthy, Ohio:' Mr. Lapirow reports sighting a strin(l of five or six yellow -white Uahta looking like "portholes", in of Mt. Healthy, Ohio. . Althouah, he claimed, the objects made a "loud throbbing noise", he was positive they were not jeta. He said when the lights changed their eastward course to veer north, the lights remained in linear order, showing no swerve or break. One light, he added, seemed to fade off and on, or pulsate at intervals. He estimated the objects to be the size of a silver dollar held at arm's length, about Z.OOO ft. in altitude and flying about Z00-300 mph. Mr. Lapirow emphasized the perfect straight line in which the objects flew, and said it left him fee apprehensive .. me. From the front of his home on Strathmore Drive, a northwest, he observed a glowing yellow light (9:45) dissimilar to aircraft aipal or navigation liahts, movin1 a lowly ( approx: ZOO-ZZ5 mph) to the W. S. W. Object in view for one half minute. Two minutes later two jets appeared on scene coming from southeast. They made a 360 degree circle of immediate vi- cinity. The yellow object was soundless. I phoned the Cincinnati Lunken Airport Control Tower. Operator, Miss Edith Harmon said the tower was unaware of UFO and/or jets in the area. 10:00 P.M.. I phone Herb Clark e: Lunken Airport phone call. 10:10 P.M. ar wife and Mr. and Mrs. Larry Thomas of same address witness a large brilliant, white, ellipsoid, hovering in the north- east near vicinity of Madiera and Indian Pill. Clark's home is 680 ft. elevation: the object appeared at about 8Z5 elevation. Size of object can be compared with a half dollar held at arm's length. It blinked interu&ittently at about one second intervals for about 3 or 4 minutes, then vanished, not reappearing. The object was aoundless. No jets in general area during the "hovering" incident. Received the following report by telephone from Mr. and Mrs. Donald Krueger, Indian Hill. Mrs. Krueger reported the incident to the Indian Hill Ranger Headquarters, May S. I have verilication of Mra. Krueger' phone call to the Rangers from that office. Lookina toward Miami and Demar Rd . about a quarter mile from their hoane, Mr. and Mra. Krueger watched a large, round, glow- ina white object hoYer for mor4t than 20 minutes. Flashing at 2 second intervals, the object had a yellowish center and a nebulous rather than a clear-cut outline and made. no sound. Certain that the object waa a self-luminous solid device under someone' control, Mr . Krueger said that it twice shifted position, dropping below a line of trees out of sight. Concerned, Mrs. Krueger phoned the Rangers. During her absence, Mr. Krueger watched the object reappear to its oriainal position, about 400 ft. above their elevation which is 725 ft. On another occasion the body of light shifted slightly from south to north. Mr. Krueger said it made one final shift south again before it suddenly blinked out and disappeared. Although jets were heard later, Mr. Krueger ruled out as answers: electrostatic phenomena, a star. jets. heliocopte r, auto headlights and searchlights. It was something that neither person had ever before seen. While He continued to watch the northeast sky, Mrs. Clark regarding their latest sighting. . With 10x50 binoculars, I went outdoors. Sighted dim red object, about 15 degrees above horizon, flying swiftly from the northeast -- the identical point where Clark and others had viewed the object novering. Caught object instantly in binoculars. Jtappeared grayish red, the frontal portion glowing brighter than its tail. I had a momentary impression that the object was trianaular in shape and ttat somethina dark and solid was behind the glowing redness. Thru binoculars the object had a tendency to pulsate or throb in ita southwest flight. In view about 4 seconds and traveling faster than the fastest jet observed during the night's activity, the object disappeared behind a large tree which obscured by field of vision. At this instant my wife tardily came to the scene. We both loo):t_ed at the return,. but saw nothing. !,.hi' left me to conclu e t h m d r an u ar turn, ts course from S. W. s ent and no jets were in the area. (Approx. ) Learned the following report frorri the Indian Hill Ranger Station, May 'I Ranger patrolling on Demar Ave., in Indian Hill reported to his headquarters, having seen a moving red, aerial object traveling front west to east. He stopped hi::; c:u to object, which he said'was silent. He said the ohjec;t was definitely not a jet. I watcheu what to be a hright variegated drop vcarti"ally in sky. Possibly an :'lquarid, whose source i.i 1n S. W. squal'e of ( Time approx.) I phoned Control r, Airport to the "red" sighting. A !\tiss Harmon radic{d to a tvl r. rninf(, flying a Cessna in airport vicinity, to "check unidentified rt-d ob- ject flying southwest." Later learned that Be:-ning saw nothing. Clark relates: Larry Thomas and himseli ob:terved jets circling in area on three different occasions. I st group: l jets traveled from South to No!'th while one ile\ in direction. lnd group: l jets circled at 360 degrees angle. 3 rd 1 jet, solo, !Lew S. W. to N. E. I witnessed flight of two jets directly one flying behind tht other due Ncuth. Herb Clark, in car, arrived at my house. l\1uch impres:.;ed by his r1ng isc =iighting. Clark and I two more flights of jets flying in dual formation. Clark phoned Dr. Gough of the Ground Ob'iervers Corps. I phoned City Editor of Cincinnati Enquirer. He was unaware of UFO and jet activity. Clark and I drove to highest point of Indian Hill, ft. elevation, or more. Saw no jet activity. Clark witnessed a meteor. Ob- served two transport planea in fliaht near Lunken airport. Clark, on way home, heard jet in vicinity. EVALUATION: The teatimony of 10 people verifies the fact that a UFO plus jets were in eastern pol'tion of Cincinnati, May 5, 1954. Although meteors were to be expected, ..... coming fl'om Constellation Pegasus, May 4-6, the silent, red '>bject I viewed at 10:14 was not a meteor, or a jet. The object's swift horizontal flight and its en- .iii 11 an turn ruled out all conventional eteorological explanations. The Indian Hill anger (name unknown) who wit- . " , l'essed a flying silent red object about the same time also was positive that what Jf"'" ft'{'''"he saw was not a jet. All parties agreed that the hovering object was a solid and intelligently controlled the Clarks and and the rs ver.ify the .. ob)eCla poaltlon. S1gnil1cantly, the reel flying obJect was w1tnessed mov1ng to and from the same a rea. UFO's exiatence, ita eolidity ancl ita intelligent control. I ) BY HAMY . ,YO saua1 ,.. all .,,,. the ClncinMtl's alu.l W1411wad!V aae lUI tbiJ " . ,.. nw tMA oaiRddental, but ftw " c:oupM ftl Mun &My put on " d" ahlw. l..t.'Oftard H. 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