Cleveland Ohio — October 1955

PROJECT 10073 RECORD CAR~ Cleveland, Ob1o Venmllion, Ohio 3. DATETIM! CROU(III ... TY(III! 0, OIHitVATION Local ~und-VI-el 0 Gre.-1-Rc.d GMT02L004:2Z 0 Ai ... Via~el 0 Air-Intercept RCMI s:1vil1ADI 1. LENGTH Ofl.08HitVATIOM .. NUMBER Oft 08JECTS 9. COUitS! 10. BRIE, SUMII&AitY 0,. SICHIRtl 11. COMMENTS red 1 Or&D&e "DDJ vhi te 1 no aound, Aircraft obj f'laahed ner'7 5 see. Round, red, vbita and gzeen, obJ flaahed ever'7 5 aec. Round, brilliant wb1 te, DO remained conataDt color. ATtC FORW 329 (REV 26 II'!P 5,) CONCLUSIONS Probably BoiiOOft Po .. iWy Balloon IJX Was Ahcraft Probably Aircraft Possibly Aircraft Was Astronomical ProbabJ y Ast,.nomlcol Possibly Ast.anomlc.t Insufficient Data for Ev~luotio" Two mdles west of intersection of Route 6 and J06. Between l:JO t o 2:00 a . m. Object: Typically "flying s aucer" in shape . Thirty feet acr oss. Dome on t op. A bolt of green light struc k the grou.nd in front of as he started to run. Object landed, door slid open, and a man came out. He infonmd ......... in English, "they" were from another plan Sighting: Late July or early August (date indefinite) 1955 North of Mulberry Corner, Ohio (Int. Route 6 and 306). Object: Size described as larger than house, and as flat, circular in shape. Red 1 igh t in front, green in rear. Hovered about fifty feet in the air for about five minutes. Two spotlights threY their beams on the ground. Noise like a fan. Object then drifted away. Circular, bright orange glow, 500 bright, orange light was obserTed ot the-objeet to~dsthe.earth. feet off the ground. ~ shining tram the bot,;.am Sighting 22 October 1955 , South Euclid, Ohio. Object: Large. Wide as average house. Made gruff coarse noise. Somewhat spherical in shape. Row of yellow lights around perimeter. Tree-top height. b. Results of Interviews: (1) Sighting: Proceeded to the home arriving there at approximately 1545 hours ot 27 was no t at home, and an interview Yas held with his foster mother., ~ll's. ch produced s ome intere~t- ing info~tion regarding this case. It was disclosed that~ was an only child, si<k ly and retarded duri infant years, who was shuttled between Mrs. o fter l oss of his parents. He was legal advpted Mrs. 3 years ago. His foster i!lother i s of the inion t he did observe s omething on 29 August 1955 t claims to b. Results of Interview: have seen t he l a nding of the "saucer" ; t alked t o the oe rson who emerged from within i t , a nd who gave him a message in Englis h to the effec t (as t old t o this inves t i gator) that, " tell your leader, if there i.s another war---,o~e '11 take over! " In confid ing this event t o h i s priest. a dvisen t o tell h i s story directly to the proper a ut horit ies. Thls he has n o t done, no~ even to his foster mother. However, the peculiar as~ of this case is, that he did give this information to Mr. a member and self-styled offic i a l u~O investigator of the UFJRC. Further investigation disclosed that although is considered an i ntelligent young man and pos seses the tes ot' a good musician, he i s said t o be a bi t on the "odd" side, living in his own littl e world, and given to a large imagination. It was further learned that on the same day that t cla imed to have seen his "flying saucer, a Cleveland firm was sending up sky rockets as part of an advertising campaign. offering r ewa r d s to the finders of these rockets. It was determined that saw hese rockets and attempted to obtain one. (2) .._-n Si ghting : On the evening of the same da y ( 27 June) p r o- ceeded t o 'N'illoughby, Ohio , to the r esidence of Mr. anl~ Mrs.~ illlllkn. Mr. and Mrs. willingly gave me t heir account of the sighting they had made late July or August vf 1955. 'lhe y had no knowledge that the undersigned investigator had in his pos- session a case dossier from the UFORC. In brief . they botl:l re- peated to this investigator almost word for word thei r ~revious report t o the UP'O.RC. However, in the course of d iseu.ssion f ollow- ing their story the investigator learned that the UFORC bad bullt up thi s particular case in their report to ATIC. The pictureo aub- .:ni tted and as shown ill the ease doaale-r are no~ pictures of the area of" Mr. horae but of an area s<:m& distance avq._ Als o , s ome ot the drawillga ot the OJ'O sighted are erroneOUB accord- ing to who, apparently, reviewed th~ f or the first t~e. These were sed in t dossier. It was learned duri.D.g t his interview that Mr.~ of the urooo is leading people to be- lieve that he and t he UJORC organization are official USAF !nYeati- gators. They present some type of card f or identification, believed to be a USAF Reserve card of s ome sort. In view of the fact that Mr. and P~S. repeated almoet t he exact story submitted in the UFO case dossier; that Mr.~ appears familiar with known types o f aircraft; a nd that he s t ill seemed frightened almost a year after his sighting. t he undersigned investigator was left with the impression that 1~. 4lllllln is sin- cere and truthful and that he did see s omething unusual and tmlcoo~ (3) S i ghting: I n the latter part of t he day (2 8 ~une)~ an attempt was made to contact . who appeara to be a s ort of " chairman" and self-designated ch UFO investigator of the organizati~n in question. Inasmuch as Mr.,..... f or the ;]lOSt part personally prepared the UFO cases and lllustratloo lo the dossier. it ~as i mport ant that some background information on this indi- vidual be obt3ined. It wa s deter~ned that did no t . end had no t lived in t he address. given t ,:> ATIC. address was ob- t ained from his ~revious land l ord. , 3n insurance sales,uan, was out of t o wn. Discussions ,.,..i t h . .-ife , who a lso observed the sighting with her hus ba nd, produced S);ne interestin g informat i on on this case. s.~was of the opin ion that, a lthough not positive , the object she obaerved was a n aircraft. Further, she gave this investigat o r the impression that her husband got interest e d in UFO.' s merel y as a h;bby, b:.1t that his i nterest "now has gr own out of han d . " 7. In accordance with a p r e- arranged p l a n i ng t .1is series of inter- views, t he final intervie w was ha d wit h Mr. the o rgan i zer and director of the UFORC. He, Mr. nd. Mr. cted t he i nve s t igations on these sightings, and s omehow ran a fe w more people who had made sighting s on this same date (22 October 19 55). From all the witnesses accounts this investigat o r is lead t o believe that all those sightings were of some type of aircraft. Strong support is lent this statement becaus e of numerous and constant aircraft flight s in and around Cleveland, from both private and municipal airfields. \~'ith USAF units located in the Cleveland Municipal Airport there are any numerous types of craft flying out of the Cleveland a rea, i.e. advertising blimps, helicopters , transports, jet types ~o n ame only a few. 8. At the c onclusion of interviews. this investigator emphasized to all i nter- viewed that although subillission of some UFO case s and reports from private citizens and organiza~ions i s appreciated by the Air Foree. ATIC and other delegated AF unit s are the only official UFO a gencies. It was strongly recommended th~t all s i gntings should be made to A.TIC or t he nearest AF base imme diately, and that if t he s i glltings were found to po ssess merit, action t o initiate a n official USAF investiga t ion through the 4602d AISS and othe r pertinent units, who have trained investigators t o handle these cases, would be taken. C. C\:ilCLUSIONS: 9 : Mr. an. i.m.preaa~onable ycung ID'D with an over- act! ve observe o r explainable phenomena. bu.t let his imagination run riot to build up a story of a flyi.ng saucer landing and'its occu- pants talking to h~ to such an extent that he now believes o r allegea to believe this fantastic s~ory himBelf. Con8idered an eccentric o r psychological manifes- tation UFO report. 10. : This was the only case of the four that did not disclose any discrepancies tween the original and present UFO report. No firm o r definite c on- clusion can be made due to lack of further information and the difficulty of g etting dditional facts fr~ the s ources due t o the length of ti~ elapsing from the f i rst report. Considered an unknown. 11. : From his obvious susceptibility to suggestion, and description of his sighting '500 feet from the ground - a light beam appearing shining towards the ground, t he object is considered an .. aircraft''pr e paratory to landing, a nd vill be p l a c e d in that category. ~ Apparently an air c r aft, but insuffici ent informat i on. 13. General: All the individuals associated with t he UFORC a ppeared to be people who, although good nmerican c itizens, have vivid imaginations anj sincerely belte ve they are helping t he UFO progr am by c~nducting their ow~ invest igati on and onalyses. I t is further concluded that in all f uture r e ports from t~is organiza~ion will probably border the fantasy side rather than on the logical or factual so necessary in resolving reported sightings D. RECOMMENDATIONS: 14. _The UFO cases investigated herein be entered individually in the UFO case tiles .under the f ollowing ca gorles (Eccentric) i.e . Other . Insufficient information. PREPARED BY: UNID E!N'riJ.f'I Bl > FLYING OBJ"ECTS u.F.o. Rasearoh aounoU Text: by Thoma ll. Comella, Direetor We of the U.F.o.R.C. are civilians interested in the security of thes.e United States. We operate on a nom-profit; basis and the. time of our investigators is donated. TWa or our .members are engineering students at Cas.e Insti.turta of 'l'echnol.ogy C~eve~and, Ohio while the others rep-reaent firrD.CJ in the insurance and busliess fiel.ds. The committee is thusly comprised: We literally st~nmh~ad onto a sighting of an unidentii"ied fJ.yi.Itg object; la'te in :h95S and ever since we h ave been studying and investigati.Dg the mat~er-in the lnterest o:t ottlr'* o~Jnerya defense. The sighting-raorta inclndaCI in this pa~er alt'8 to be;: tonnd in their original :torm; aa. atfidavi.ta, in. onr ~Ues-., _ Ths cases 818 exaot-r~s trcn t:ba llpa ot the. wi.t-neaa . and -all cnawi "88 .;or. dfagr,.. se by t.he wi.tn b1 maa]r or by a U.J'.o.R.c. statt .member with the witneaLJ aa the consul.tant. Becauae the Depart.men.1i of the Air Jroraa has set up tb& special Project BI.uebook, we tee~ it is onrr duty aa .AJDer1caJia to prepare a compl.ete report or our investigations, findings and oonolusiona and present to Air Technical Int.elligenoe for e val.uat ion r. JJJ a last word we woul.d J1ke to stat;e that our investiga- tiows are h.r no .me'P' oompl.ete. We are firmly oonvinaed that a mo:z=e thorough stlm:t at the area i.DYol. ved will turrn up other past reports am probably numerou:a n ones. In this speeia.t report to the air :roroe we have nc:Jt only present&& the sightilll! faata, bat also soientitio tacts tha~ may or ma7 not aooount far the unusual u.f.o. activity in this one area. ,Directo:rr Case Fila Number One On October 16 1955 I was driving north on Kemper Road (in Clevelandf with a girl friend. AS I approached the intersection of Kemper and Fairhill at aba~t ?:20 p.m. I noticed four yellowish gLobes over the trees. They were very bright and stood out in the dark night sky. I pointed them out to my girl friend and the two of us watched tha objects execute a gradual turn and disappear to the northeast. The turn was executed "as ir the small globes were rigidly attached to a fuselage of some sort" ~ As soon as possible I phoned my report to other investigators of the UFORO. The report was filed but nat much was done about it untill exactly one week Later, a~ 24, 1955 at 7:15 p.m. inkerton te ti.vEt UFORC member, called o report a s over the National M8leab1e Stee1 Building where he was on duty that night. Here is the text of s sighting: ~ name is I reside at ~ yfjcL..J: s old, married and ha\'~ ons child. I work for the Westi.nghousa Electrio Corpo~at.ien, 1370 Omtario Street, C1eveland 13,0hia. On the night of Oc.tober 22nd, 1955, while I ,_. ~ . work1 ng a"' the liatianaJ... MalJ .. bl.a Companies . . :..-.... ~ Technical. Center Building,.. looat'ed on tha nortllr >: ,.tf. i wee~ coruer ot Woodland and Woodb1ll Roada in the . l cit7 at C1evel.and, at approrima'telll'- 7 p.. wb1llo : -: ! on *" De~r cl.ook round did exi:t. t the rear west door o-r the Technical Center Buil.din8 aWl . proceed to walk slowly due west al.ongsida of a raiJ.road a pur toward No. 3 Deta: c1oc.k ataticm located oa the side ot a small shanty on tha north side of the railroad spur. Approximately while walking ha]fw~ to the abanty I glanced up into the sky. I noticed the sky was very c~ear and that tbe stars were shining bright]J' Ther. /A-1 7Jh, ;.., ll! were a tew searchlights circling the city. SUddenl y I happened to notice a bright orange gl.ow, oiroul.a.r ~-t.ft~ ._ ~ L,/{~ .in shape, about the size ot a l.arge marbls waul d ? k . /? I. -look like it extended an a verage arm's length away "? ;:;f[ ~ r ....... ~ f'rom your body. It was travel.ing towards me due east. .U/!,-r-~ IS'\.-~v-"4~ at a very slow speed anrl coming earthward at a 45 / degree angle. It evened oft as it approached oloser toward ma and as it o a me aJ most parallel to where I was standing it turned due north approximately over east 105th street. At the very time it turned due north, a singla engine reciprocating aircraft approached flying f'rom west to east and flew past me further awa y ~rom the orange unidentified flying object and at a higher altitude. Tha single engine~d plane could be heard very loud and clear. The orange object produced no aud- ib1e sound. The orange object, as it turned north, gave off what appeared to me to be tha t of beams of orange light coming from it's bottom side and traversing toward the earth. It then continued to proceed due north and disappeared over the roof tops. I then continued my rounds, en~ering the building as I did, and continued my rounds on the inside or the buildingl I left the building again on the Woodland Avebua entrance and did look up northward to see the same object coming due south toward me at a very slow rate of speed. It s e emed to flutter as it approached me. It then turned due west and proceeded to fly in that direction and disappeared again over the horizon. It wa s flying at approx- imately 500 feet above the ground at all times. I returned to the building and phoned this sight- ing to the Civil Aeronautics Flight Patro~ Center on Brookpark Road. tt After s sning to report. Elver the te~eJ;ib~rJ, I called No sooner did. I relate ~art ot, stary when .Al. u~rted out the detail.s concerning an unu.snal object that he .his wi:t'a had seelll moving over his homeo TtJ.SJ following is sighting report: "At 7:00 or 7:15 p.m. o~ October 2a, 1955 my wi~a noted a noise outside. 'What's that', she aske~. I went outside and faced east. Object was flying low to east just over the trees of neighbor's back yard. I used 5X40 glasses ann saw the following for about one-half minute. Object was large, as wide as the average housa,~ow, moving slow1y, and made a grurt, coarsa noise and a faint vibration. It is best described by me as a flying contraption. The row of yellow lights were not in a perfect~y straight line, but,described a curv~. There was something odd in the l eft-band surface. At one instant, I s aw a horizontal slit dividing this object into two sections, upper and l ower, and at another instanc e I thought there was one row of lights below and one row above t his separation. The object was at tree-top height and l ooked a s if i t were coming Believing that the ated, and in view sightings of of t h e f act that ~he objects wer e llnl.L9Ual and not in accordance w~th t !le c \.. A. 's altitude la"Jfs the three of us decided to investigate. Here are our results ~rom the original report: "Witnesses: Cleveland. Location: We were driving west when I first saw it. MOtion: To me, it was very still, and when I saw i~ fi?teen minutes Later at East 9th & Woodland, I noted that it had not moved,very far. It must have been very slow. Colo~: A row or yellow lights, south to north in direction and object moving west to east. Shape: To me~it was very long; a row of lights. Sound : No sound at alL. ALtitude: It was very low to me. ~igh~s: It had no green and red wjng lights and no tail lights. I lived on an Air Force Base. worJ~ War II; to me it was not like an airplane. It had no body, tai~, or wing that could be seen. MOtion: Moving west to east. Color: dUSt had a glimpse. Row of yellow lights. Shape: Row of lights. Souncl: None A1titude: Close to L,ooo feet. I.igbts: None Cleveland. Time: ?:00 p .m. Saturda?, October 22, l95fi. Motion: Very slow, west to east, over stores across the street. Color: Just a single row of yellow lights. Shape: None. Saw no wing or tail or bod.y. SOund: No sound. ALtitude: Was it 200 feet high? No, hell, no. Just as high as any plane. Jmy wing or tall lighi:s? Green or red? No, just the tellov1 lights. We all. stood out and watched it and we di.d not get excited about it. Thought it had something to do with the football game. (He picked up a radiator thermo: bulb and, facing east, with ends south to north~ pushed it weat to east, to show us how the lights moved.) sighting was near this location. Co.untr Club Co~or ) None. He didn't go outside. !eif5.bta) Sannti : I heard this over the p~an. unusuaL sound. It vibratta:\ e1.1. AJt.tlude: Low, mBDf airplanes tty over here. 'l'h1.s was all'terent E. Resid n.t across tram