PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS 0 Wo& Balloon Probably Balloon Po ul bl y Balloon 1. DATETIME CROUP 4. l'YPE OF OBSERVATION 0 GroundRodar 0 Woa Aircraft Probably Aircraft AGround Vi auol 0 Alrl Rodar Poulbly Aircraft 0 Woa A&tronoml cal 0 Yea 0 Probably Aatronomlcal lllllo Civilian 0 Poulbly Aatronomlcol ~7~.-L-E_N_O_T_H_O- O~B-S-E-RV_A_T_I_ON--------~-.~.~N~U~MB~E~R~O~P~OB_J_E~C~TS 9-.~C~O~U~R~SE~-------IO,Other~IDENTIFIED 0 Insufficient Data for Evaluation 6 hours one west cXXUnknown BRIE~ SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS Object observed fm two separate locat4vns through 200X telescppe by one observer & thru 4X glass by other. On observer amature astronomer, other Weather observer atlocal WX st tion. Obj subtending one minute of arc. Located about 7 dgrs to North of Venus thru/out sighting~ Obsvd fm 1515 until 2100. As Venus set w/th s time, obj disappeared as Venus set. Also disappeared w/setting of su Obj similar to balloon. Bright silver w/~and around middle. Band did not rotate but had same position thru/out sighting. High cirrus clouds appeared at 1900. Thru TX lookBd like it was made of translucent rub Thru 4X glass looked solid. Color silver thru/out sighting. Move nt w/Venus to West. Upper air currents to East. Glowed in sunlight ter sun had set. COMMENT: Unidentified. Some associat on w/Venus. Possibly parhelia ATIC PORM 329 (REV 26 BEP 52) Direo~ o~ Air roro Intelligence Dear 81r.&, tteoheabereto la a eketo-o~ en un1denti~1e4 flJiDS objec' eeen o~tr thle o1t7, or apperentl7 oTar 1~. on Apr1l . ;I966 B~or~a haTe beeD met to i~ent1f7 th UlPO, heDoe the deal7 of sen41DS" The Ul'O wee oalle4 to my tteDtion, 1 em the looel Weather .btu-eau obeerTer, end I noted it at 3:16 P.M. on the after.ooon of the date neme4 abo~ It waa apparentl~ ten desr northwest of nen1th tro.m inne~. and I at :tir~t thought 1 t weatt.r radiosonde beloon. OD oall1 the Fort Worth Weather Bureeu howeer, l learDed that there were no weatber baloona in 'the air lD thia "fic1D1ty. I than deo14a4 1t. wa~ ~r higher tban at flret I belieTe4, aD4 ran a baee of thre6 ~1lee for tr1 anglat1on readln! The an@lee little or DO 'oonergenoe, 8114 I ran aDOther b lin. 0~ the lezagth. !hie latter trianglat1on 4, eo tar ea I oolll4 d.et11m1ne wl'tb rrrr ol4 pr1 :t1o oompe con~ergeDOe of abou' th~ 4ear ~hla plaoed the UFO some 100~000 ~' u~. With an old .rifle teleeoope I ~ook eeY.erel read1~ a:a4 t1nall7 worked the objeo\ out aa aubten41ng eome~here near minute or aro,. making 1 t o"er 200 teet 1D cliame:ter. . . AD emeteur astronomer hereplaoe4 hla 200-powarteleaoope on the UPO and draw a eke.toh ot 1 t for I aeb41ng 7ou ~ OOJJ' o'f thie. The astronomer aald 1t apparentlywae moT1ng.eet 4 at about IOO mile a per hour, .though tbe up~r atr current. a wre blowing toward the eaet fer greater tban that. . I noted the UJ'O f'rom 3: I6 P .K. nnt1 dark. I aaw it lD oppoei~l~D 'wl')l tiM plane\ Vetn18J' which: I saw f while ntch!ng 'he UJ'O; end about ae.ven degrees 4ue nort~ of the plaDe\. e the planet traveled.westwara the u.ro kept 1te with re,peo~ to Venua--aeTen degreee northe I 1Dol1ne4 to \bink that lt the astronomer, C th1e otty, 1nterpre\d ae moTement Yea the.rotetlon o~ tbe earth, turning !low. a most peculiar phenomenon connected with the Ul'O the :taot that it d14 not rotat all afterDoon. Tbe raised band aronmd-1ta middle remained stetloner;r--north end south. ~ere were no appendage attacthed to the U70 whatever. It glistened in the sunlight 11ke silver, though Yr.~ndereon e~id it looked aa it. 1\ waa made of trgnsluo&nt ailTer7 rubbe~. I .did.not obR~r it tb~u~h the. t.l- esoope, onl7 through a .:tour-po"r glaea. 3o tar I. a.bla to detl ,. the U~.dli no~ change lta ~aition with rtspe~t to the plane'-YeDU8 et aD~'":'la.-., en4 when 1't t1aall7 diaapparea; abou:t :'z:e L1t' O ~:as dO high 'tbat 1 t ~lowed ln t;;, sun116ht 1.Hlg s~tar ~= r-'-: Hl the earth'A 'l'.lrfao4t. There were som~t c~!"rue clouds ln the :~;;iPi=-atr eoout 7:00 P.t.r.,an'l it v.'!la far arov~ th ! tai aecert:tl'!led t ' ~lr height. to be II.OOO feet. My rou!h calculations may heve be~n r J~t~ of o ours~. and I think they possibly were~ I s~ Jnclined t, ... tel1ve the UFO WIIS at least IOO m1les high, aa I have talked to ~1:3nrvere a a !er v.est ae 100 miles and north 50. and nll th~=n say 1 t. a r~'3a red overhead to them. I have contacted the l leather Bureau, the Air Force baaee at :ilrc'n'Jll i~sse and Perrin Field end ell of tham say they do not have a~j !~formation on the UFO--don't know what it wa8. It was gone on t corning.o~ ~prll 5. So onch for that. No~ another: . -t?~o de after -t~ "aboTe-mention'ed UFO was see~ t;r Street, this oi ty, end.. e companion were dr1T1ng fiT& miles east of llcXinne;y the1 saw a silvery object. I fl'.."tl to eight. feet 1n diametar. slant down in e !'ield TOO yards ~rom them. They stopped the cer end the UFO. took off at .a terrific ~p~ed and disappeared. Theybthought it resembled a balloon. Another: On the night of .April I3. nine days after the,UFO w9a t-ighted over the oi t7. I wee et JJr. house looking at :--tare with him through his telescope. Start in~ to lesve at 9: I5 P .u~ I se~ two red lights shoot low over the houaa tope to theaouth. I at firs~ ~ook.them to. be jete. but by the time I r~al1z'9d they o.,~ld not po,e1blJ be .they had dlea"'~ared to the ''eto I could not aeoerteld' how far away they were, eo ee1d nothing, eave to eak And~rson 1f he had seen them or heard end lanes. He had ot. ! few de later a local!nen called me, M-r. , called and asked if I had seen any s range llghte over the oit7 e .t the time and date naaed ebQTe. I asked h1m . without leading hix to belleTe I had seen tb juet whit they looked like aDd their direction, He aid they were pale blue ana traveling weat overhead. Ee said there .. re three crt them; and 'tJhey made no eound eo far aa he could hear. With the U70e tr1anglated OD, I oould est1matet~e1r hei~ht and epee4.The7 were abou~ 160 ~eet aboTe the ground an4. they tra~ele4 o~er an aro of about 40 degreea in the estimated two ~econde the~ I obser~ed th the1 were making somewhere in tbe vicinity of I .eoo m~p.b .-viewing them trom below, ea14 there were three-o'f the~ ana the owed pale blue~-I onl7 saw two . r n a1dlt1on to-sll thia. I would like to atate that r em nd ~el18T~r in flying sauoera, but am anbmltt1ngth1a for what 1~ mAY 'ca -:vorth inview of the-.d.at you alread;r .heYe on. hand. oono~nriing Yours s1ncerel7~ . C~ptaiD U .S.Army 'Re~d. ' . t:r~ 1'l~n tof led over ~c~1nney. Texea, Apr1l.4. !956 . Redrawn fl;ting object ~ror.s or igtna l observe red t' MoXinne7, Texas ObserT,red by t Obeervetlon eqn1Pment: reneotor teleeoope ~-66X to . The uropreaented the same feoe;~d14 not revol~ or rotate,from Pol.le. until 9:00 ~.ll . ~en 1t,..d188ppear.e4.l~ the darkneee~ Director of Air Force Intelligence Army Air Foroe VJeshington, . .D.C. Dear Sir:/ cKin..~e y, exas Attlched hereto is a sketch of an unidentified flying object seen over this oity, or apparently over it, on April 4,1956. Efforts have been made to identify the UFO, hence the dea~ of sending this report. . The UFO was called to my attention, as I am the local fe ther .bureau o.bserver, and I noted it at 3: I5 P .l\i. on the a fte moon of' the date - above.. It was apparently ten degrees northwest of nenith fr~m McKinney, and I at first thought it a weather radiosonde baloon. On calling the Fo!t ~orth Weather Bureau however, I learned that there were JlO.. ~veather-balloons_ in the a.iJ' in this vicinity. I then decided it vas far higher than at first I believed, end ran a base of three miles for a tri-englation reading. The angles showed little or no convergence, and I reL another base line of the same length. This latter trianglation showed, so far as I cotad detirmine with my old prismatic compass, a convergence of about three degrees. his placed the li1'0 some IOO ,000 feet up. V/ith an old rifle telesqope I took,several reading s and finally worked the object out as subtending so~et}lere ne~r a minute or arc, making it over 200 feet in diameter. An B!!l~eur Astronomer here placed his 200-power telescope on the UFO and drew a eke tch of it for me. I em sehding you .:E copy of this. The astronomer said it apparently was moving V" estVI~rd at about roo miles per hour, thoug h the upper air currents were blowing toward the east far greater than that. I noted. the UFO from 3: I5 P.M., until dark. I saw it '''as in opposition with the ~lanet Vo~us, which I saw vhile watching the UFO, and about seven degrees due north of the planet. As the planet travel eel westward the U;FO kept itS; station with reppect to Venus--seven de ees north. I em inclined to think that wijat the astronomer, ~this city, interpreted as movement vraa the rotation of' the earth, turning a way frqm the UFO. ~!ow, a most peculia r phenomenon connected with the U.l!,a was the fact that it did not rotate all afternoon. The raised bend around. its middle remained stationery--Y1orth .. ana. sonth. There were no epl':)endages attacthed t o the U.b'O whatever. It listened in the sunlight like silver, though Mr s"aid it lookert. as i:f it was made of translucent, slivery r ubber. I -1. id not ob::: erve it throug-h the te 1- r:sc:on . .;. on1r tr:::(:)uP:r1 a .four- -"'ov;el-?:l':l8B. deti:r-ra.!.ne, the UP.'O d i 1 not che!nge its posi-~ion ,vi th renpeut to the planet Venus At any time, end VJhen it finally disappeared, about 9:00 P .r.:., it ,_vas in the same relative position. 'l'he UFO ~::as oO hig h that it glov1e d in t ho sunlight long after dark on the earth' ~1 A'tr:face. There were some cirrus clouds in the u:pper air about 7:00 I) . I.:. ,and it vias far above them. I had ascertained their height t o be II ,00 0 feet. lliy r ough calculvti:>ns may have been far of~, of c our~e, and I think they poscibly ~ere. I am inclined to 'bel\ve the UJl'O was at least IOO miles high, a s I have talked to observers as far vest as IOO miles and north 50, and 911 them say it appeDred overhead to them. I have contacted the '.:eather Bureau, the Air l'orce bases ot Carswell .!Ase and Perrin l!'ield and ell of them Eay they do not have any information on the ill,O--don't know what it VJas. It was gone on the morning of April 5. So much for that. Hov another: On A ril 6. t\o days aft e r the ar;ove-mentioned Uli'O v~as see!(, t.u~ lir. , t, this city, and a com:panlon were driving five miles eas t of McKinney the y saw a silv ery object, f five to eight feet in diameter, slant down in a :field roo y.~rds from them. They stopped the car 8nd the U? O took off at a terrific s-peed end disappeared. They}lthought it resembled a balloon. Another: On the night of April ! 3 , nina days after the UFO \vas sighted over the city, I was at J.~r. house looking at stars with him through his telescope. Stal'ting to leave at 9:I5 P . !.r . I saw two red lights shoot low over the houa~ tops to the south. I at first took them to be jets, but by the time I r eal1.zed they could not }Jossibly be. they had disa"peared to the uest. I could not ascertain how far away they were, so said nothing , seve to ask Andrson if he ha d seen them or heard and planes. He had not. A few de later a local !nan called me, l\i s, called and asked if I had seen any s r ange lights over the city at the time and date named al>ove. I asked him, without leading him to believe I had seen them, just what they looked like and their direction, He said they were pale blue and traveling west overhead. He said there were three of them, and they made no sound so far as he could hear. ':. i th the u:Pos tr langlated on, I could estimate their heieht and speed. ~'hey were al)out !50 feet obove the ground and, as they traveled over en sro of about 40 degrees in the estimated two s e conds that I observed them, they were making sor.ne\.here in the vicinity of I,BOO m.p.h. Mr , vie~ing them from below, s~id there were three of the, and the glowed pale blue. I only saw two and they ~ere red. In a ddition to all thJ.s, I ~ould like to h eli.ever in flying s 2ucers , b u t am submi ttin;~ r ;_;rth i. n via\'' o:: tr::: i~1iia :you t.J.Jre=3rl:;r r,:n;e Yours sincere l y , state that I am no this :f~r w~Gt it rne y o n l!~t ~1 <.;(FlCel'nin[~ Unidentofled flying object observered over !;cLlnney, Texas, April 4 , I 956 Redrawn fror:1 or i glne 1 by Capt . Roy b'.l!all. Observffed b;y , I\lcKinne y, T exa s Observation e~uipment: 6"" reflector telesoope,55x to 200x mag. The UFO present~ d the same face, did not P.M. until 9:00 P .1I., when it disappeared ln revolve or rotate, the narkness PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS 0 Was Balloon 6 Aori 1 1956 McKinney, Texas o Probably Balloon Possibly Balloon Local----------JOJGrounciVIsual 0 Ground-Radar Was Aircraft 0 Probably Aircraft Po ul bl Y Aircraft 5. PHOTOS . 6. SOURCE 0 Wa Astronomical 0 Probably Astronomical XLXNa Civilian . 0 PoulblyAatronomleal 7. LENOTH OP OBSERVATION I. NUMBER OP OBJECTS 9. COURSE 0, Other--~--=-- - OC~n suffl elent Data for E val uotlon not renorted land.takediff 0 Unknown 10. BRIEP SUMMARY OP SIGHTING 1 I. COMMENTS Insufficient data for evaluation. No duration or mention of time that obj stopped. No mention of Silvery object 5-s in diameter slant down into a field about 100 yards from observers. Witness stopped car a object took off at terrific speed & disappeared. Resembled a balloon. time that it took obj to disappear or manner od disappearance includ~d. Second had report. ATIC FORM 329 (RBV 26 8BP 52) The UFO \':ss s o h-ipzh th"i\~ 1 t g low_,d in the s:Jnltg..llt long a!tdr dsrk on the ~arth' P. ~.lr faoe,. There wera .some c1rrue clouds -in the i . u_ppar etr about 7!00 ?.~.!~,and it \~a far above tr.eo. l' ted aa~ortaJu8tt' tr. Jir height to be !I ,000 f~ot .. rx!y r{}U!Jh O(lloulat1ons TJ'..M:J hav~ be~o I f a r of:f. ot o oor e,. flntl I tb1nk 't~e-y poasibl:r we~-~t,. I s:-n lncllned to belive the U)'O il.;as st least IOO ~ilea hlgh, as I r.a,8' .tal"ked to t. o't3e-rvere as 'fm.-~.sst aa IOO miles and north 60,. arid 911 them s~7 it snpear~d overhea1 to thso ... ! h$Ts oontaoted th& vJas.t.her l3u.r~ttu.~ the Air b,oro 'be~ea at .. c :revrsll :3ase anti Perrin l?ield e n-J 1111 of th ~ esy thej do not hs~a B.":'..J !.n.for7n&t11JD Oil the U:f0--d~n t know what. 1 t 1.a~ . It-W89 gone OD