Lat e July -Early Aug 55 3. DATIT~I. OltOU' PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD CONCLUSIONS Was Ballaan D Probably Balloon Possibly Balloon Mul berry tcorners, Oh i o 4. TYPE OF OISIRVATION Cl 'Was Aircraft 0 Probably Alreraft :.0 Ground-VIsual 0 Ground Radar 0 Passihly Aircraft L a Was Astrono"'leol D Yea a Proboi.ty Astreno"'lcol XII Me civilian D Possibly Astronoffticol 7. LENGTH OP OII!RVATIOM I. NUMBER Ofl OBJ!CTS 9. COURS! Oth"'ftpiiii!I-UD;u._, 5 mins 1 stationary Insufficient Doto for Evaluation 10. IRIIP SUMM.AitY OP SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS Sheneman Case. Se e Case File. Case Fi~e Number 'rwo Case: Flla Number One and this one \Ver-a in an effoi to substantiate Case Flle: NUmber Thr.ee, whia.h is forthcoW.ng in this researah paper. D\.18 to the natucre of Flle 'l'hree, ~ve rea1ized tha~ bet.'ore we ooul.d presen'& it to tha air roroe tor eval.ua'tion we \Voul.d have to have some evidenae to baak it up. When we started our invest.1gat1ons, \Ve wsre most. skapt:ioa1;but as you ha7a and will see, there is much corre1at"ion. ami oorrobOfl'ation o,f evidence here. Thas \te oo.nsidered our search a suooess in that we dicl turn up evidence \Vhioh suppo:ro-ts cas, Flla Numb.er Three. It is our opinian,hawever, tha't each f'lle is important and oono~usive in i.tseu This file involves th.e exp:er enoe of ~. andi Mrs. \'lilloughby, Ohio. Ml'. cperates the "K1 r.l;J Radio-'reJLe.vision Stor!! an the intersec~:ion of r0t1tes 6 and! 30t R.D. 2. \'Ia inter these t\vo pao_p:Le extensivelJ and sapaJ:at. and their story stood tllt Here i.s aocouutt: "\'lritten Dec. 28., 1955. To \'{gom It 1vr~ Oorucern- on.e night .in ~a~e Ju1y or very earl.y in August, ~95! c~osad my te1evision shop and proceeded to go home just as I al.way.-s do. I drove j n th.e dri of SD3 , home and stopped the car just off tha main n1gnwa to ~va}k across the ro:ad to get. tha mall. This eveni1 it was very cloltdy am. had gotten dark ear1y-. As I reached up. to open ths maU bOSJ:: I saw this red ligh1 abo~ 1.ooo. or 800 feet away coming at me a~ a rigb. angle. I ooul.d see the outl1ns of the ana on~ ... one big red light oou:Ld be seen. The JLigll:~; when I first saw. it, looked aboutJ the size o~ a basketba1 J . It was so big i.t lookad 1 ike a transport p~ane but : could hear no motors. 'l'he saoolld or two I stood there, i.t f1ashe;d through my mind that this big p1ane was going to crash. 'r.h~ al 1 at on~e the ground was i 11 uminatad w:i.th two brjllian~ lights in a very large pattern. These lig: we:ra j n a varti.ca.l. beam or direotl.y tew~ard the grou: Then I got sc~ed. I ~Ernad ann ran back across the road! and past my car. I did nat stop> to get in it. : ran toward the house. Because if this was a big pla it \VO\U.d oraah right in oua tront y~d. WhSn I got the back of the houss, my wifs was at the back door yelled, 'Shall I tnrn on the ourtsi.de lights. Bsr t h tj met the thi'ng was right o.ver me. As I looked up at I realized this was no airplana or anything I had a seen before. I yelled back at mittri:te, 'Hell no don turn on aitY l.ights-maybe it will miss'. I vras then the back of the hou.se and I!J3i wit'e anrl children \Vera all there crying 'what is it'? 'Dadd:r, what i.s :it''? '!'his thing was no,\Y over the garag~ abou.t 50 to ~00 feat ott of' the ground-hovering thera-not mot'ling. I MoJ!a than once :Mr oolt UFORC investigators out into the ti.eld and described the actions or the unidentified flying objeot' painting out~ land marks,e~c. Ii e is thoroughl.y famili~ with the physical charaateristics of ordinar7 aircraf and, !l..e is emphatic that it was none of these. Ba.oause, ha says "This thing was almost round with a dome on i.tl I've never s~e anything like it. It \Vas hu:ga". Investigation reveal.ed from a Col.. Huxe1 in tha area that Q.nel oo~ers, doing research far the proposed Nike sights out there, were ou.t after dar.k some nigh't; after August 22, 195 and that the~ might have caused the observations. However, the Sheneman's w~e posit~ve (~) that the event happened ate ~fuly or ear]Jr Aagust beoanse that is the precise time the.yr wer ma.ving 1nto.n.their new home am (2) that this a abso~uta].y no hellioopter bee the thing he saw was huge,a'tc., and bore no resemb1anoe to such a cr~t whatsoever. :.r~e Lf\}ce: Shore Bopk, a volwn.e c:ontaining the inveati~at.ea ron r.,i\s ot a) 1 fJie businessmen , n Lake County, had thJ.s to in p~t) abourt 1Jr. Sheneman: "Technical. experience, trul.y interiiational in character lies b.ehind . the.radio te~e.vision tie~d whioh , has -.~. achieved in r.ake Ce,unty-. After making an ou.tstandin@ record in the bridge, iron and oi~ jndustr~es in No1~th Am.erioa, SoULth .America, Asia and Afrioa he has with a partner., bean operating the Kirtland Radio-- relevision Company, now the beat in the county o He \Vas born in Springfie~d, Illinois on April 22, --rend o.f dase Fi~e Number rwo- 1 ,{le-D LJ6Hr IN F'~CIVT C,c?tcJJ IN IJti-cl< S/2C .;p fJR.5Kt:-T!J/lt. I W/t[ N ltc .Jll~ t,lu?;tcflL GRrN.,.,'~u '-16Hrs t.lr liP wHcLc LuF CC(;p RES . s /lc t&': 6EAIEfi.-"J1L /l16171 AUG 1 t 1955 WILLOUGHBY t . OH I 0 CKEYHOE-1960 P OWNER OF A ~ADIO 237) 2 WI TNESSI AND TELEVISION STO~E IN WI~LOUGHBYt OHIOt ORO UP TO HIS HOME ON OUT OF HIS CA~ HE SAW A LARGE CIRCULA~ OBJECTt WITH A RIMt COME DOWN RAPIDLY OVER A NEARBY FIELOe REO LIGHT ON THE F~ONT ,---- H ET THE OB~ECT STOPPED TWO BEAMS OF LIGHT SHOT DOWNe AS THE GLOW ILLUMINATED THE GROUNDt ~== A-W~S~E~V~E~R-~AL~W~I~N~O~O~W-S~ ARO D' T EDGE OF THE HOV lNG DISCe *AT THIS POINTt EPORTEO, *I BECAME BADLY FRIGHTENED AND RAN BAt TOWARD TH HOU Ee I SO SCARED I RAN PAST MY CARt PARKED WITH THE MOTOR RUNNING. I FELT THE OCCUPANTS OF THE OB~ECT WERE FOLLOWING MEe AS I RAN UP THE DRlVE IT WAS RIGHT OVERHEAD, MOVING IN THE SAME DIRECTION I WAS RUNNING. *MY IJJIFE MET ME AT THE BACK DOOR AN.O SAIDt ** TU~N THE OUTSIDE LIGHTS ON BEFORE I HI HO SE** I SAID **HELL NOt TURN THEM OFF AND MAYBE IT WILL MISS IT** OUR CHILDREN WERE TERRIFIED AND QUICKLY GOT UNDER THE ... AFTER A MINUTEt THE FEARFULLY VENTURED A LOOK FROM THE BACK PO He N HE I C-IGHTS WERE TURNED OFF. *DOROTHY AND l STOOD THERE AND STARED UP AT ITt* STATED . tT WAS HUGE DARK SHAPEt HE SAID HoVERING LESS THAN TWO HUNDRED FEET ABOVE THE GROUND. .*IT MUST HAVE BEEN BETWEEN EIGHTY ,AND A HUNDRED FEET IN DIAMETER --~WAS SO LARGE IT EXTENDED OVER THE M~JOR PORTION OF OUR HOUSE THE'BREEZEWAV AND BEYOND THE ATTACHED. GARAGEe I NEVER HEARD ANY NOISE BUT DOROTHY INSIST. H H A F MMIN * ABR STRANGE OBJECT MOVED OVER A WOODED A~EA NEARBY ME ON OP T UP BY A WHITE GLOW FROM tNSIDEe THEN THE RACED AWAYt LEAVING THEM BADLY SHAKEN. AIR TECtmiCAL L~Tli:LLIGE~CE CT r.PEii 't~!RIGl::P-P.A.T.;.,EH~ON AI H FORCE B.:...SE , v::Io DIVISIJ;:: J.2 Jul v lCJS.) (U) Travel to Cleveland, O~io Area lia U.?O C3.s a Investi,sa-cion~ A. PURPOSE : the attention of A?IC by the u?O Ree8arch Council of Clevela~d- B. FACTUAL D.<~TA: 2. 'rravel c~.Ja:.rc.enced 27 June 19.56 and ter:n.i nated 29 June 1956 3 Travel was .verformed by M/Sgt Oliver D. Hill, Air Scienc.es Div-ision, AFOIN-4E4, acting in the capacity of UFO Investifator. 4. Names of persons c.:)ntacted for purposes of intervie H, information regarding the U?O sightin3s in question interr~satio~ a~c/o. Cleveland, Ohio illoughby, Ohio C13 vela:::1d a O:-.io ~1r , vrife of UF02 C z::e~ber has prepared the UFO case $ 5 Travel for the purposes stated was ap9roved after suoo~ssic~ of all ~crti: ent facts, b ackground, a1:.d reasons for recom..-nendint;; t=.is in"'re s t igation.. R-3f c rZ:::lcc: attac~ed l'~ert:ore..ndum to O:'fice of Scientific Advisor, de.t 0 d 20 Jur:e 195G, su.':lj3ct; "Briefing on UFJ Research Council and Courses of Ac~ion.u A dossier cont:::ti~:.::g details of the UFO c a s es in questio:::1 ~ogether with colored illustrations of v~c s and relate d st:rrounriing~ as dra1orn by this o~ganization, v1ere hanicarri b y Sgt. Hill to assist hi.:u in this investigation. 6. The follo,dng pra.3er1ts e. br~ef su;q:r.;ry of the ill'O c ases invest i ge. t ee.) ~3nt regarding results, opinions, impressions, a nd.other p e=tinent hig ishts intervietrs and interroe-aticns regarding ea cll intervi.;n.:ea: (i~ o~der of investigation): Brief Sl=nrc.-:.=y of Typically "i'lyin.:; sc.'..!cc.:- i'ront oJ: An!;:enln ... .:.nd t door s lid op , a brandt, i~ ? nglish, La t e July or early ;.:.: ust (date ind0:..:"'i:;.it3) 195.5 ~ Size described as largar t!'lan hou~e, a:1c as flo circt: l . in shape. Red light in i':-o::1t, g:-ze::. i:1 !'2~= !-iov~red about fifty feet in the air for e.'co-:...1. "!; fiva minuJGe s . THo spotlig!.-!.ts thrc::tr their bea.rns o n -;he 6ro ur.d. Noice lika ' fan. Ob jact then C. rifted at<~ay 22 October 1955 Cleveland, Ohio area over l05th St Circular, bright or.?_r:.gc ~:o.!~ 500 bright, orange ligh \:~s o?served of the ooject tot.-ia:A."ds the ear;;n. Sighting: 22 Octobe r 1955. 4711 Ardendale Road, South Euclid, Ohio Iarge. Wide a s average h ouse. Mad e So::e,:l"l.a t s ~herical in E::e:oe . Ro'..' of pe:'l.!:~ er. Tree-op n;3:gcn;" Results of In terv i e \'IS: nb~zndt S i ghtin : Proceedad t o the ho~c of arriving t~c::-a at ap,?roxima t ely 15 45 ho:rrs of..' 27 Jt2ne n o t at ho:r.g , and er.. ir..te:rvic~: uas held an only c:'l ild, s~u. ~ tlad be~'.J0e:l n:s para~tso He : 11s :roe "er o o lrl.l. c:.-~ b. Results of Interview: have sae:~. t~e lond ins of the saucer" ; to.l:(.::C. t o c.lr-.: .f.t:: r~on .::~v eu:ere;ed from within it, and \lho guve hL:1 o. r.:~$~:..c~ i n :::~.~:.~.J:. t o the effect (as told to this invc:.;~.;it;ato::::-) th:J."t{, "Q -'c~-1 yo.!-~ leader, if there is another Har---v:e'll t~ta ovc :- ! this event to his p~iest~ was a~vi ced "'co t e l l h:s s~=~ directly to the propor aut~o~itias. This he ias not done~ ~'l~ to his foster mother. Ho'.:aver:~ the peculiac .&> tl::is c~s::; is, that he did give this info~m~tion to Y ~ memoer and self-styled official UFO inYezt:igstor of tt.e lli'O?;C .. Further investigation disclosed that