DA'~E TIMe GROYP 2. LOCATION CONCLUSION t. HUMBER Of OBJECTS INFORMATION ONLY LEHGTH OF O&SEAVATIOH 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS TYPE OF OBSERYATIOH J . P HOTOS t . PHYSICAL EVIDENCE This case was reported in March-Apr:U 1966~ S~nce the act,il sighting had ocCurred some time ago it is aJmost imposs~ble to check it out. Also due to the time lag the pertinent, data has proba'bl.1' become distorted. Therefore this caseia conside Ol,!IQ ~ . NO C.~SE ( ItntO&\b\TION ONLY) La-wrence, t~o.ss SOURCE: CRIFO Newsletter, 3 Feb 56 ;-.? i.ned to tbe ~ above ~ an md l-!nt reJ)OI'ted by tbt ....... Tn'buaa, which :-oadw- out ol tile *'t ia doad oi ~ au ol> ; t!ct not y.c i~ struck the lide ol hou3lt oecupw.d by Mr. aad Jan. Rei Bwaatd. a&ft1J' after 1 :JO p.m. Thunday 1Mde a toad lind bole ID tbe ltou.. witia .l shatt&i iDt ol it. bllar it fell to me s~rgeant PhiUp Dt.Adamo .at police lie.dqUIII'teft .,. GOti- ~ed of the by 1Mmuud Rktard, wife Jo~rut a ..,;u,.. to the abjct atti)inl t.be house,. ucl CNi.aiA.) t::-l .r sq\ladt .at tD ~ tD iD Mra. R 1~urd statl!d that abe WM oo hlr mop ..vhea ahe saw tbe object it c2me tbru+~p..t.blt .. lir ltl a : af-~WIIII a r'escUDd.illll crMb. altar Rb;dt it tall iato the yard. Mra. T~:ckard tM object .,_.. u bil bal! a r.1anhoJ .,Cd tUt it m..t.e hoi. ia tbe ol 1 At , IDuisiana, J.trs. chanced to look out or her win- after m~dnigtrt; on August 21, she sm.,, much to her astonish- ment, a object the size ot a plane, a block and a away. ftotatina llcnr~, it a glcnr.Lng white, as clear aa the fUll moon, ard appeared to be a solid ob- ject. The glaw was bright even, ard the edges ftre clear~ detilwd. It looked like tho soup plate put tosether, but rounded at top and bot- ,There waa a r:lm eacircliDc the outer edge. The Di&bt and the slc7 clear; the weather aatu and dr3'. Att~r the object tor about ten seconds, saw it move to the aauth, then turn up on edge and shoot at high spa (a typical maneuver) She the aa nvett pretty and veey 'frightening. The 1Dtozsmation fl!QID the witness by' ot Orleans, 1n a caretul and thorough , test "I ail .l thorongbl7 cominced that it Was an honest report. I que~ioned her thoroughly b7 and had to pr'J' the facts out or her. She is certainly-not a publicity seeker, am a hoax unlik~ly' because or the non-sensational nature or the "~, the ot the obset'V'er to discuss the matter free:q Our e ceased abntpt~ when she asked me what it, was~ arr1 I ed tha~ it migtrt; be a spaceship." An addi note ot perhaps a sigui t1cance concerning her is that not onl.J" djd the incident occur on the same date the Hopkinsville, Ken- tuclq', "larding,." but the described by Urs is almost identical to the object described at (The two to1ms S00 miles ap ~ in a straight line.) C:-'.IFO tre,.:sle liter Theoe figures are not accurate Rnd the data on the si~hting are r~r too inconclusive to be of.' an:,r real value, excep t p erhaps in the c ha nce tha-t, aor:io - one elsa in the sm:1e vicL1ity, but ~lith a better vantap;a point, h'ld the oppor- tunity to observe the a?..:.:e object Hith gre-:tter detail. ~ven i f this \'lould be tha co.se, chances are tha t such an observer \'tould fo.il to record the si,?.;htine with any authority. . One thing I have failed to do is to check ~rith the \-/e:1.ther bureau an the ceiling for that date; by doing so 'ita could determine that the object \'las not be lott such-and-such al t,i tuda. I have icade half an a.tteopt to do so, but o!le party referred me to Another and they in turn to another and I baoone easily d 1 scoura.ged '\ti th this type of merry-go-round. Although My brother ~ailed to sea the object, he was convinced that I had seen the reflection of the setting sun off the fuselage of a high-flying jet. I would be inclined to agree with him but for two ~ointa: a) the object was flat white and vary definitely nJt reflections and b) the absense of any sound mt:tkes the jet explanation questionable, unless the winds \tere such a.s to elimingte the sound fro~ my position. Outs ide of a fe\1 sight inga of f.:'octurnal i-~e8ndering Lights , this is the only time I have observed ~bat might possibly have been an UFO; if the data on many of the other cases \'rere no better than mine, I r~ afraid we would be :f'orced to label the subject Bu1TK~ ", as does the astronomer Ro~,ral, Sir Harold Spencer But as fn the :f'or-wer case ~entioned above, I find nyself e~ct.re~aly per- plexed as to the limited witnesses involving sightings over t h e oetropolitan area. Either one of tl10 expl~nations must be considered: a) the ooserver(s) sQffer(s) fro~ a. subjective hallucination or b) people just do not look at t h e sky in New York City. Your vie\ts on this \'lould perhaps be most enlightning \'tant to than!<: you again any further inforlnat ion to the would be greatly appreciative. for your interest. -If you might be able to add above mentioned cases for our o-vm records, \te Saucer Inte 11 i gence of 1\ew York HEADQUARTERS 4602d AiR l;'\Ji.ELL!G::NCE s::~VJCE SQUAD:10N {ADC) EN T A I R r O " CE !lASE COLORADO SPRINGS, COLOR SUBJECT: Civilian Saucer Intelligance 'l'O: Conml?.nder Air Technical Intelligence Center ATTN: AFOIN-l1FJs llright-Patterson Air Force Base Dayton, Ohio 1. Forwarded for your :Jnfoz'laation and action is a letter received from York City, New York. 2. This correspondence was f'or.iardad by Headquarters, Eastern Air Defense Force and apparently is one of many such inquiries received from this saucer "enthusiastn by E.I\DF. 3 . . l-Te wil1 advise KUJF to forward aJ J such cor;respondenee directly to ATIC upon future receipt. FOR THE CO~IIWIDER: Personal Ltr RICID..RD B RANDT.,;: jor us.~ Assistant Adjutant Ml' CONNF.CTICtr . ~o 1. ;.'argaret J. Steele Director, Public Information Z~stcrn ~ir Jefense ~orce Rdqrs. Stewart Air Force Sase Ne\-tburgh, :~ew York Dear Col. Steele, I vtould 1 ike to thank you for to my letter to you of August 8. ew York 28, ~I.Y. your kind reply of August 13 in anstrer The following report of an UFO over the city c ame to my attention l~st . He}l York City , ltere \'tal~ing in Ri ~ters ide Park near 107th Street. on a long, silvery object high in the s\-y above the Hudson River. It \tas moving quite slowly at, firet, then sped rapidly and gracefully to the south ~ike 11 very straight silvery The apparent width was leas than the full moon ~nr) the lsngth \las equal to that of 8-10 full moons placed side by side. The~r are German and I questioned ~ .. ~rs. t length. I ha.d sorr.e trouble tryin.g; to deter~ine exactly what she raegnt in her descriptions; she s a.id that although it 'laS extremely shiny, it l'tasn t 1 ike silver or alur::inum, but in betHeen. sume she meant that the object had so~e sort of luminosity, though she didn't aeera to be sure what I meant by this. She \tas uncertairl a.s to the e:{act sh9.pe and likened it onl;!t to a silvery stick." r,'.fhen asked for det ails e.bout the t1o ends of the object, she could not give a satisfactory ans\Ter. l~r. description varied r ather abruptly from his '.life's; h e sr.\id the object a."J"Jeared to resemble more o t" a long oval. Hoilaver, lthen as:Ced i f it resembled a long cir;ar, his answer was negative. He -..ro.s ur..der the impression that the object was stationary in the sky. 3efore I am satisfied with this observation, there Bre tt!2..ny more q~stions to ask the vlitnessas. rs. re:-carked that the ~1ost interesting thing about the siGhting i'taa the f act that a pl9.ne, app~o:?..ching Ne\., Yo~k from the iotest, passed directly over the object and they felt th:1t the crew of the plane rnust surely have seen it. .ath the uas an elderly friend, !~s. , o f' the same address. She also t-litnesaed the phenonanon but e.s yet I ve hE'.d no chance to questio~ her. . 1'he follotting report is of very little ir.1portance, but I include it s:.r;ply for the record ... ..., At approxicately 7:15 p.m. on Sunday, :\u~ust 1 , I -..rs.s sitting on the back porch o~ r:1y brother's apartment at ~ta~'"ord, Conn. High in the sky, at about a 65-70 eleva.tion and roughly 90 o f azimuth,= 1 sai/ .. a sruall white round object moving in approximately a southeas t headin g a t a ste9.dy rate of speed. The object vras circular 2-nd flat ~.fhite, 9.3 clearly '1S I could make out, and 1ras about one te~t:-1 the size of a ftA.ll rucon I Hatched the object ror saverB.l sec::;nds a s it passed abo7e the qloads ~-:1d d i sapp1!3a?ed momentarily fro:n vieH. Sall in3 my brother t o the porch, I '.1'3.tched it reappear and tried in vain to p o i n t it out to hi!:!. By t his tilT.e it ~ .. ,as dwindl~ng to a speck and \Then I lost si6ht o~ it, it \m.s about 40 above the horizon in the general area of the southeast quadr?...nt. I esti~a.te I ,,ras e.ble t o follo.1 it through about .?0-40 of arc in a ?eriod of about one minute !n.s,r~ le 1eut. to tb-:>r< .. .: gh.ly ~n.,r'.ll~ di t~1"<:ul ~ or .or eTal ~ te tOYarda 30m. e1 g~ t; lnp art! in,ea t1ge. te. ~1!1 a.~culd not; tber~tcre~. be c:cnfiidered '.lt!l.~ e.h pri.JDR..lly eo:~ee1na bree.~,:tW'!r the eon :1Aen t.s 1 ~.'S1.btings Reported Diree~lr (Non~ .. A7. sou.r.= ~ . Gonnl Jubl! e impcaaibl ttrm eoa~ !n tlfl'7 ata-. with alghtinp K1choln1lle, Xen'tUe~ . Cine inna ti , Ohio .. Daytcn, Ohio . Sc-llora; Nav )tlmcico C imarrotl, H&w Mex'\ cc Dr.tytoa. Ohio St~d~berg, lllinoi~ Ci!lcinnat1. Ohio Eedrord, Virsinili :. .... Lalce VtllP ~ Ind,u--:-...... t Poe~ibl7 BBllooo : Probe~: aatrooon3 oal~ . .Ao1 t rt;)Mai c.l (Continued) l;.. tr.FO Reports From For~ign Countries Astronomical Insufficient f. Unknown Foreien UFO sightings a:-a .cener~lJy diff:i C'l:.l t or to thoroughly inve.s tigu ta, or evaluate to;.;.;~rds sc."!:e f!r:n COl!- elusion. They should not therefore, be c 0:1.sidered i!l ;;..ny st::~- tistical breakdovm, which p~i~rily ccncerns ~tscl~ within the continental USA. 5 UFO Sightill2:S ReporteO. Direc~ly to 4;.'l,IC by GenE.ral CO!.'':"'t;S~)Ot:de!:ce, c~rom (Non },:F Sources, General Publ:L~ -Ca te[;ory r:v :~aports) l 2~17!. 55 -31 .tay 56 South Bend~ Indiana Cincin..T'lati, .):-;.io ~iichi ta r>ayton, Ohio Dayton, Ohio Haverto'tm, Pennsylvania Dayton, Ohio Lor.g Beach, California Paris, Ill)nois Dayton. Ohio yton, Ohio Cincinr.ati, Ohio Ochlochnde, Georgia Nicholsville, Kentucky Cincinnati, Ohio Dayton, vhio Sonora, :~eH :vi~xico C iC'li::l.rron, ~{ e~-1 i'Jiexi co Dsyton, Ohio Stroudsber~, Illinois Cincil1..t.'1a-:i. Ohio Rio, Illinois Bedford, Vi~ginia Dayton, Ohio Temple, Tex~s Lake Village, Inuiana :Probably . .:'.ircr::.ft Insufficie!'lt Lata U!'l-'<no-vln M. J '"'OY'I ?ossiJly Ealloon .As troncm.ical -.... mrorr ~er~osa Beac h , C3lifornia :urbank, California _ a 1s .ey, regan Fordland, I\lissouri Chicago, I llinois Patti1ion) Nebraska Green Bny) Hisc onsir.. North Branch, Net-T York .aa.rr is burg, Pennsylvania Arlington) 3acra~ento) California Cutleville, :'Iic~iga.n Ishpeming, :L.Iichi gan Jea c.. e) Washingto-c ~ea.; . ..:.le Tlas'nl. nr.:.toT'l_. California Rose" .. iJ.le) ,,a.i..li orr.J.a 'it:)vr.Jort ::: o l l:r.vooc, Cali f ornia ':OtV FTJ)ENTIA l. Hqs 4602d AI~ AISOP Subj: Honthly UFC3 SummaY'Iot.r, .~.ug 55 ) Investigative Efforts (ccnt) INVESTIGATDTE u~.;IT cr~NC! .us ION Flight 3-A Flight 3-A Flight 3-H LOC:ATION OF SIGHTTI.T~ Beloit, Fisconsin Green Bay, Hisconsin Arlinr.ton, VirP,inia 'VTas Astronomical{ M~l c::~ t1.. b. In addition to the above, tt.,ro (2) lirr:itcd folloH .. up investigations tv ere conducted by HearJqu~rters, i!.602c1 AISS by means of J. TIC Form 164 (U.s. Air Foree Technical Informn tion Sheet). After analysis of the above form returned by an observe r of a UFCB sighting in the L=-.s Vec~s, f.Te~Tada area, it t~as ascertaine d tha t the obser~rer 'Ha s entirely unreliable. ATIC Form 16h s ent to the obser-tTer of a UFOJ sighting c.t Akron, Chio, has not been returne d to Head- quarters for analysis. CJ CUJ<-j .-l)~i:o-n-. c. The four (L.) investigations Hhich 'tl]c:re not concluded at the ti:-:1e of the July UFCB Sumil'lary have b2cn concluded v-ri th resUlts as follo"t.rs: IHVEST IGATIVE tTI'IIT CC}JCLTJS ION Flight 1-C LCCATICN OF SIGHTT.':G China Lake l'!AS, Calif. Refo c2.rk, iT eN York Shelby, IoHa Fnk~ct-m .--I.J~