p:. "": t.CT 10073 R~CORD CARD 1 ~. ~ ~:: Cf! OBSERVATIC' , \'I' a $ c olleen Prebobiy Sollee!'\ Por.~;bly Co !loc~ 3. DAT ETIME GfWUP ::! G ound Visual s. PHOTOS c .. Vi suol C Arrlntl'rcept Roder Wo s Ai rcra f t robcbl " :. rr: 0 Y o s 0 P robably A:; t t)"l0.,, 1. LENCTH OF OBSERVATION I B. !-tU1o'\8E R OF OBJECTS ' 9. COURSE 0 , Ot her _ ----- 0 lnaufflci e n r Doo for Evolucton : .. 1 0 Unknown one.: :::c c o n d LO Clgf . 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SICHTING 11. COMMENTS S i x to t-:.;;ht obJect s v.'/::0.. t.Ct!iSh lov; in ... "\" f o rr.aLio n . C,;.~jccts c:hvu~ th~ si.z( o1 a hal f \ t1llar at a r n ' s l~.>n[th. OLj\..c..:t s a! -r>eal'cd 230 d:;r~-a z irnut! 1 djo':J-,...ared in c:. ~Uught fJ i.~ht pa1 h a~ , dgr azimll r-o Ob.;'?r:ts ncr~:; v1c.~:lcd v Jsur11. f m a dar'k- S h o r t cLrPt-on (on indic:-tl. obs<;:rv~-ri.or. PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS D Wo1 Bollooft 29 1;ugus t 1955 Pu3blo, Color ado o Prot.o~tt . ..-,.-'--...ayf .. D ~-ound-R-...a-D Wos Alrcroft -------------. AW.VIWUft-su vr ..... ...... D Pro~oWJ Ai~eroft EJX Woe ""'I eel "'a r s D P~oiHIW, Ast"icol av D PeesiWy Aetue11oicel 7. LINOTM Ofi.Geiii'IATION L NUMall Ofl OaJICTI t. COUIII two hrs & 21 minutes 0~e round ob.ject, siza of bask9tball iteld at arm's lc"lgth. Colo:-was orancie . o n~,'<ad eye; .,,/binoculars it appeared ~eddish on bottom and green on top. Objact looked lika it may hava been a ~enther balloon.w/light att~ched. O'Jject observed visually for t hours a nd twenty one minutes. Object faded ~radu~lly fm sight w/bhe direction of t he wind. ~o Renort I n Fila 1 1. COMMINTI o lnsuffict.,.t o ... ,., Eeluetiott Color:!do ~:-tSJ Caae 200, Ft. Collin and Loveland, Colo.. Aug. 2'f. 26 27, 29, 1956 Nothing timid about the Denver Pa.t head~ lines whieb pmfad a day-by-day aemunt of the acti- viti of a oYer Northeta Colorado. Tbe m~ tery object DOt only caueid the telephone lwitchboarda /I of the poJb dapartint an:di to be IWllmped with call8 but aubarnannnent to the experts who tried to explain it away. Mo.t observers that the object waa round and "intensely red." one of the witn_.., and a repolter for radio station Kcor.. said the object alowed bript red in the center, dimin- bhinl in inteftlity toward the outer borders. He said the alow waa c:onatant, rather than pulsating. "It couldn't have been a star" he said. "It waa a clear night, the stars were out, but this object was a bright red, much larger than a star, and it was moving. It looked as if it were leaving a very slight smoke trail." Another wit- ness said it was juat a little "smaller than the moon, movina very slowly in the sky. . . Sometimes it appeared Battened or diak-shaped and then it would change to a shape. Whe=-: it finally disappeared it seemed to fade out as though it were pasaing behind a cloud. The only thing wrong with that explanation is that the sky was clear in that area. There weren't any clouds." Some thought it might be Mars, but Dr. Gordon Newkirk, astronomer at the University of Colorado ruled out thia explanation, thus: "Whatever it was, it appeared in the wron1 ae,tor of the aky to be Mars." Said New- kirk, 'Moat aircraft transit the sky in a fraction of the time ... Meteorological ball00111 mrat aloft with recording instrumenb fonaerJy carried Ji1hts to aid scientists in traclrin1 thent at niaht Such lights seldom are seen on .. theae balloons nowadays, since radar alford a better method of following a balloon." A check of Lowry AFB and other air installations in the area failed to disclose any balloon release or aircraft Bight that could have accounted for t.'le phenomenon. Said Capt. George San-j denon, meteoroiOifilt at Lowry AFB, "Recurrence of the 1 Ft. Collins obje !or .uveral nithtas makaa tampereture , invenaon an Ulllibly aplanatioa ill tbie "