PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 2. LOCATION ~leYeland, Wos Balloon 0 Probably Balloon 3. DATE.TIME GROUP ~. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Possibly Balloon x5l Ground-VIsual D Ground-Radar 0 Was Ai rc:raft Probobl y Aircraft 0 Air-Visual D Air-Intercept Rodor Po ssi bl y Ai rc:roft 0 Was Astronomlc:ol 0 Probably Astronomical Possibly Astronomical 7. LENGTH OF.OBSERVATION a. HUMBER OF OBJECTS 9. COURSE Insufficient Doto for Evaluation 110. BRIEF SUMMARY OP SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS Daz:k grey obj shaped like wing, approx size of single engine a/c. Mn s ound. INSUFFICIEN'r DATA FOR EVAWATION ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52) HUSH HUSH HO:-J"G KONG STYLE Case 171, Hong Kong, China, Kovember 28, 1955-A letter addressed to the editor o(. the South China Morui11g Post gave an account of a strange light and a je t cavorting o\er Hong Kong. It reads as follows: "On 1[onday, Kov. 28, at 9:40--18 a.m., a n othe r pe rson and I wit- nessetl a b right light about a f e w tho usand feet over Lycmun Pass, t r o h r ig'ttt to be a reflection of any kind but a sonrcc in it;clf. First when I saw it, it was a lint; bulging at the middle, the length o f which ,,as grc:ller than a passenger aircraft. It appcnred to r.:- main s t:Jlionary umil a i\[cteor jet lf\Gk oft' from Kai 'l'ak airfichl a!ld flew towards it, seeming-ly in pursuit. Then the light gradu:1lly uecame ;:: thsc, still urighter than bdorc, moved westward slowly as it din~inishcd in size, ind icating that it was actually on a south- wes'erly course. :\o w, Yiewing from Kai Tak, the light appeared to be ova ~hau-ki-,. a n. wh.:nce it went o n a southea:>tcrly dinction, still diminishing-in size and intensity of brightness, umil it ;;;radu- ally disaJ>IJC;Hed onr Lyenn;n Pnss. All the while the li;:(ht w:~s ch:1ngin;; <LI irregular intt:rnlls front a bulging l ine into a brighter while d isc ami \'i.:c-,crsa, and tho.: surrrJund inf: mist was illumin::tteu procluci ng a nty~terious effcc~. :.\I eanw h ilc th e jet h:.tcl d i5appt:J red b:cau;;;e ,, f its d istance, only to reappear a f l!w minutes latl:r :-ntl 'No w I am qnitc certain that t h e bri:;:-ht light was neither a v isio n n o r an.rthing e lse but some kind of 'Oying saucer' r eportedly see n elst>when:. J..:ut I am iade,d surpl'iscd that such :t lr.nspicuous sight could he seen, excluding us, hy none or so few that the matter d ' d n"lt ~o into the n ewpaper, and tha t is why I did not write tmtil n o w, ha\'i1 g <:Xp(cttcl :hat the press got news o f it. D idn't any- oue ebc s.:e it? Surely the pilot who fle w the Meteor jet must ha,c s<cn it d ir ccly in front?'' Ed: .\cco~cling to my 'l'hnilaml correspondent, an editorial n ote cli,mis,cd tl c .tory with an Occidental excuse-meteorological balloon. Plcau!