PROJECT 10073 RECORD CAR~ DATE 2. LOCATION CONCLUSION S 0 Was Balloon a Probably Balloon TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Possibly Balloon DAT ETIME GROUP 0 Was Ahcroh fl Ground-Vi suol 0 GrounciRodor 0 Pro bably Aircraft 0 AI,.. VI ~ol 0 Alrlnterr.ept Radar 0 Possibly Aircraft Wa s Astronoml col Probably Astronomical Possibly Astronomical L ENGTH 011 OBSERVATION a. HUMBER Opt OBJECTS lnsufli ci~tnt Data for Evaluation BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS half dollar. Silve r . Observed Insufficien t d~ta for a::1~lysis falling t o JO deg 0~ heading of 160 deg ATIC FORM Jl9 (RP.V 2 6 SF.P 52) JET "EXPLODES" CHASING UFO NEAR UTICA, N.Y. : The gamy but s aucer- phobic press tried oitting wits with its readership. They handed the uns u s - ecting reader a front page story without the facts, then ( see July 3 New Yor k Times) presented the facts in a separate story buried in the bac k pages. Reason: They feared public reaction to saucer tragedy, viz: Capt. Mantell. But, w i t s dn' t pit right with Ted Bloecher and others suchas Lester S . P arker o f Topeka, K a n!->as. They correl.:lted the loos e ends: Let's review one "end' --the front page story: A jet fighter returning fro m a "scramble" to investigate an "unidentified aircraft", plunged into tiny Waiesville eleven miles southwest of Utica, about 12:30 P.M., July 2,1954. The plane c rashed mto an auto and two buildings killing four persons. The Air Force in Washington announced the F-9~-C Starfire had been sent u~ on "an a ctive air defen s e inter'cept mission." According to t;he U. P. relea s e of July 3 , "Air Force spokesmen said the cockpit of the plar.e ... became un- bet;~.rably hot during the flight and that the pilot ordered his radar observer to ba!l out ... then bailed out himself at 7000 ft. " According to the A. P. release in New York Times July 3, "The air base (Griffis AFB) said, 'that fuel in the burning plane apparently had exploded when the jet They said it had not been determined whether an ~xplosion occurred while the je.t was in the air." "Later, " according to A . P., "an AF spoke sman in Washington said the inter- cepted plane was one that had failed to file a flight plan with C. A . A. or, one that drifted off its announced flight path." The U. P. and A. P . stories of disaster were essentially t rue, but because of the "disaster" angle they designated the pursued object as a "plane " rather than a . UFO. Ted Bloecher, who did some checking, told me tha t his friend, Ed Wilkenson, listened to a broadcast which described the i ncident, thus: "The jet had successfully con tacted the UFO but still could not identify it." But Ted Bloecher's real find was i n the small item buried in the New York Times' (J~ly 3) back pages. It reads: "A silvery, balloon-like object floating high over the Utica area sent residents rushing to their telephones to make inquiries of newspapers , police and radio "Tha Utica Press estimated that more than 1000 calls about the object jammed its switchboard between 6 and 10:00 P.M. It was reported sighted by residents in a twenty-five mile radius extending from Rome on the west to Frankfort, east o f Utica . "Co l . Milton F. Summer felt commandant o f the Air Force Depot a t Rome s cu d th ~ o b j e c t appeared to be a plastic b alloon about40 ft. long and partially deflated. e theorized that it was making a gradual descent and said tha t if it still wer e in the area tomorrow morning a plane .vould be sent to investigate. " A Mo h awk Airlines pilot estimated the altitude of the object at about 20,000 ft. H" said he saw a 1 ight apparently shining from it. " SUMMARY OF CIRCtJMSTANCES At 1127 Eastern Standard Time (EST), July 2, 1954 51-13559 crashed three mile s east of Westmorland (referred to as the Walesville inte r section), New York and was destroyed. The pilot and radar observer of the aircraft ejected successfully and were uninjured. However, the air- craft struck a civilian dwelling and a civilian automobile, fatally injuring a total of four persons. The aircraft took off at 11:05 EST on a routine training mission. An afterburner takeoff was made and engine operation was normal. The afterburner was shut off at 2,500 feet and level flight was assumed. At the request of the ground controlled intercept (GCI) site, the mission of the aircraft was changed to airborne intercept and an afterburner climb was made to 12,000 feet. A visual sight- ing of the unidentified aircraft was made at 10,000 feet, but because of the slow speed of the unident~fied aircraft, tl1e pilot of the F- 94C employed dive brakes, flaps and, at the same time, reduced the throttle to approximately 65 per- cent rpm. After identifying the C-47 aircraft by tail number, the pilot turned his attention to a second unidentified air- craft. The GCI informed the pilot that the second unidentified aircraft was probably low and letting down for h!:f'LY TO DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE WASHINGTO N 0 C OF f'UTY INSPI:.C-O R GCNf.HA _ ~OR 1'13PECTION ANC' S AFE:T" USA~ Aircraft Accide11t Summary (Ltr, TDET/UFO, 18 Oct 1967) FTD (TDET/UFO) In response to your request, a summary of circumstances has been prepared on the 2 July 1954, F-94C accid ent (attachment 1). It i s hoped that the summary i s sufficient for your FOR THE CHIEF OF STAFF Summary of Circumstances Stren gth thro u gh Vig i lance "~::s J4.S- G. SUBJ: UF03. Cl) DESC~IPTIC:i ( A ) i\0'-~::D ( D ) HALF-DOLLFd:: ~) SILV:::R CD) O~!Z (:;:) N/ A ( F ) ;.;zGATI'lZ CG> i-.;r::GATIVE (}: ) NEGATIVS 1) i!i::G;.TIVZ ( 2 ) COL~SS CA) LO:JKil-!G I ll Gi,!!:RAL ARZA :.m:::N FIBST SIG:-:TD AZI:;t:rH CD> SLIGHT A.~CHED ( ) ~AD2D Q"i' (f.) .... ~1. ARLINGTON, VA., .:CJ?ATION -ENGINEER CIVIL, ESTII1AT -RESERVE OFFICER CCA?T>, TUO J i?13L Z5 T vr~L O'l OCCUPA7IO~ HO~SEMIFE~ ESTI~IATE -F AIRLY RELIABLE. .,-~A SC~7T~RED 25,0 OVE~CAST CD> H. ARLII~GTO:i, VA., ( A) Si<Y CLArt 23J~l 25J D~GR~ES 14 K CC) ---Comment SPACF--C!Lfl]'T L.Al-iDH!G IU CANADA (II interplanetary sabotagerli th whole planets as tne stake i s o.. ne w concept and one whi cil I feal rrill gro.v. So too, rrith the c}:l.ain reactin~ of mineral and metal stock v1hile still in the grou..11d. The nuclear phy- sics has been carefully checked by an authorit:,r. The fact s , and ny own speculati va thin.'<:ing about them are quite in line ai th material given us by G. L. and lately published in Round Robin. I hope t!le BSR rrill a - gain scoop the power -and-pelf simians on this. Thi s landing is said to h ave occurred about 5 : 00 p . m. of July 2 , and was wi t nessed by a young Canadian miner, Ennio la Sarza, 23, born in Italy. It is the first incident of the kind reported in Canada. The landing, according to this rather well-authenticated story, place on the extensive p~operties of a big ~anadian nick~l oining <:: '-l.)icaj;ed -!f.~so , . f.1ve I!!.Pe~ :{r9rq Suq.b_un, on,tari.g , about 310 niles nort of Toronto. This, be it noted, is about 150 miles from Cana- da's Flying Saucer Research Observatory . ! am indebted for details to BSR Assoc. Elder Charles BeCk, a Buffalo, N.Y. minister who travel s con- siderably, uses 'saucer'material in his radio broadcasts, and has had various interviews ~ith Washington authori t ies on this subject. Immediately after hearing the INS account of the incident, Elder Beck went to Canada (July 9 ) and had a four-hour intervien vii th La Sarza. In this he had the f i ne cooperation of Uichael Bolton, reporter for the Suebuxy Daily Star. Elder Beck, as is his custom, took his t ape recorder along and obtained a tape recorded intervie>l wi tn Ennio. Eowever, right after the talk, Ennio bec~e so disturbed about how the recording might be in violation of certain promises h e had had to make to the authorities, police, RCAF, etc., that he begged to have there- cording wiped out. Elder ~eck couxtaously complied in the boy' s p res- Elder BeCk and reporter Bolton then r etired to the Uaily Star of- fices, and between them put the story on tape from memor J . On the even- ing of July 11 this tape ~as p roadcast from a 3uffalo station, with supplementarJ comments by El der Beck. I, in turn, made a recording of t h e storJ, ~hiCh corrects some errors in the prass reports and eives the fact s so far as they can be ascertained by carefull investigati on. La Sarza. \7as busy vlit h a painting job, on the Nickel nine p r emises, when he noted with surprise an object hurtling clo.m f rom the skies \7ith "several tioes the speed of a jet plane". He t aought it Tiould crash, but i t slo'ned down and ended b j :'levering just above the g r ound. !To one else seemed to be a r ound at the time, a pattern that seems to prevail in oost alleged saucer landines end contccts. ~uite possibly t~e saucer peop1l.e see to it that coaplicat.:tons do not set i n from t-oo r..nny persons 'oeing on hcmd at such tioes. ~S/d:-PA SSDC .S-o-craft b The ground or grass, Enn~o said, look ed scorched underneath U.."1.der- nea.th Wnere the space craf'; o7C'S T'')::._S~d, but mining officials did not permit the Elder and ot~er~ ~o ::..n~pect t h e spot. The 'saucer', Ennio re- lated, was spherical in sn~pa, ac~ut 25 feet in di ameter, and had a s et of portholes or equi-.ralont o.-rc-..:.nd it. There r1e r e rudiments of a lunding gear and s orr.ething l:.l:e u recru.ct1bl G antenna on top. Three strange beings ene:_gccl I!"Or.l t his craft. T!lcy \7er e about 13 ft. tn.ll, g reenish-blue in cclor: lli1d tho face wo.s a color or combination he had never seen bef ore. 'l hoir bodies seemed to glow, and they hn.d a single eye in the cent er of what passed for a forehead. The beings had six sets of evenly distributed arms and/or hair.y legs. The equipped with crablike claws which opened and closed spe.smodically. They also were equipped with a natural, twin antenna in the head. One of the beings started to come toward Ennio, v1ho turned a nd ran. However, the being sent a sort of hypnotic stare after Ennio that 'froze' hin in his tra s, and t hen spoke to h im in a voice t t se~med to ad - dress h im inside of h i s head (telepatr~?). The being sternly requested o r ordered Ennio to perform some task, the nature of which he has stout- ly refused to divulge, even to officialdom. He was eophatic that he uould 'rather die than do u'b.a.t they asked him to do. Anyhow, he :passed out fror.1 the firght and strain of the ord~al, and when he came to,the space craft was gone. He became, subsequently, so terrified over what 'they' had asked or ordered hin to do, and the possible consequences fro~ either compliance or refusal, that he P-as seriously considered the authorities to loCk hin up in jail as a safety measure. This, in view of nhat <1e lmo;v of space-being science, uould avail h im little. Because the p resent nearness of 1~s has been so publicised, Ennio r~as automatically quoted as saying that the space craft was frol:l !liars. Nowever, he denies any such statement, and oade it clear that he could neither lcnow nor guess ;~here they' came froo. Careful questioning by t h a Elder brought:.out t(lese additional facts. That Ennio had never heard of AdamSki, Bethururn, .~gelucci et al. of Nor does he raad scientifict\on. He had not seen any of the current 'space movies'. ~1ese facts eliminate oost of the source oaterial for a spurious story. In fact, he did not seem to understand uhat Elder BeCk meant by the t enn saucers, except in relation to coffee cups. There were, of course, the usual hints, especially by officialdom, as to the question of Er~io's sanity. In fact, in some nannar it c e about t hat one or more psychiatrists cane from Toronto to quiz Ennio about his experience. Although t h e nining officials seened to take a din view of Znnio s story, this is not abno~al as such natters go. It nay be due to the usual official reluctance in the face of the unusual or unknown; f ear of unfavor3.ble publicity for their company -or it may have been a cover-up pose in behalf of secrecy, 'security' etc. Certainly, if they really f ol t tilere was nothing to it, they v7ould not ha.ve refused to let outside i!westiga.tors inspect t:b-e allegedly scorChed landing site. As far as Elder BeCk and the re~orter co\1ld nscertain, La Sa~ is S'J-Cl"a.ft C regarded in his cor.::munity as a model ci tizon ni th a good record. He had and has nothing whatever to gain by bringin~ dovm on his head the piti- less glare of publicity -of e.n unfa.Yorable kind. Ennio told t h e Blier t!!at nQ is fully aware of this situation, and t hat he I!la.y be r ea;arded b.7 oor.te u s ' cr.:1zy but th3.t he \voulli not and could not retract his s t ory "Jy ana iota.. He is a great deal nore liisturbed by \lhat they' he.d asked hi~ to do. He i mp ressed the Elder and t ho reporter as bei ng i~telligent and lovel-headed, evan tho~ he is nuive co~cerning nhat the ros t of tha VIOrld knows as 'saucer s'. Further comt'lent by .Assoc. E.s.s . La Sa.rza' s story is, to me, a. fertile g round for some intuitive speculation and questions. First: ue do not kno~ whether the description of the space being s represents their raal identity, or samet ng they chose to as- suns upon landing, for reasons of their ovm. If the"Se were their fixed characteristics, I would say that they represent a ver,r high end advanced order of insect life froo one of our planets or even sane reoote ealactic systeo. In view of Ennio's reactions, their manner of approach etc., it \7ould seeo that 'they' or their intentions ro~ere not benign. We do have inforoation and r eports that not all space-ba ings are necessarily frie~d- l:r toward us. T'.r..us, the Guardians cay have the double job of guarding us froc the folly of our own atocic insanities, as well as hostile ~ace tText, \~t was it 'they' ~anted Ennio to do for thee? Since he cant or \1on' t tall, let us fall back on sooe educated guesses or intuitive rea.soning .A.s a starting point, v~ ~.uld the space beiggs la"ld .on tl;l!!_ p r cn!,;3es*of o. ut,.cJt.Ei'~:nini.~ company? \Thy 'irould they be interested in a youne man who has access to the nickel mine norkings? What whould he be in a uosition t o do for theo7 I f the laity will bear with me a little, I will address the physic~,, ista, Ylhose attention I will call to the periodic table. YO.u mll note that nickel has the atomic nuober 28. Right next to it we find cobalt, \ atomic n'Ur.'\ber 27. This sets the stage. Now, 26 per cent of natural nickel consists of the isotope NiCkel-GO. I f t his i s bombarde~ with neutrons, ~ t!le Ni-60 will burp out a proton, and the nickel is transfomed into noth- in& less than-Cobalt-GO: nhiCh, if I recall right, has a half-life of about five years and is on par with or superior to Radium in t erns of radioactive pot~ncy. .A. spoonful of cabal t-60 i s the radioactive eqJaJ of / all the radium eve r produced or in existence i n tha norld today. This is / wh7 tne cobalt boob is giving the ~orld a case of kir.g- size jitters. F.ith the above in mind it i s conceivable, in terns of space-being science at least, that the niCkel in a niCkel mine could be in react-\ ed into Cobalt-60, right in the ground. All i t might need would be some l siople foro of triggering fuse, i.e., a neutron emitter, to start suCh . ~ raaction. Altnough this brings to mind so~e form of radiun-berylliuc ; gadget as a neutron generating trig~orinc3; fuse; this, fart'UI.latoly, 'i<Ould / ha.rdlJ do the job, because of the largo neutron losses in the nicl-'...el in-.. / puri-cies. _, sp-cro.ft d However, t!lis little difficulty mic;ht 11ell be child's p ley to space- being science, and the y may ha,re a neutron 5-enerating fuse ~ade;et that could cha..116e o. mine--full of nickel into Cobalt- GO. All they milht need nould be soneone t o plunt it in the cine. Did the space-beinr:~s h av e La Surza in nind for this little chore? \lould they be avoiding this task t~cnsel ves because they knoll that t!'le trigeer r.tan nould be riddled 'i7i th rn.d!ation before he could truce his hand off the gadget in placing it? I f this is what the space beine;s had in mind, di d the y give up the ida a \7hen theyleft that area -or, in sooe other part of the Y:orld, at some other nickel mine, will they try a.e;ain, p e rha:Ps m th more success? Only 'they' ~ould know n:~t the objective miBh