RECEIPT FOR CLASSIFIED MATERIAL RELEASED TO CONTRACTORS AND BIDDERS TO (/lrum e und ".<idre"' atz,dlvlduat , Firm o r Corpo,.tlr:Jn ) Dr. c:. J1llen F .. ynek d . .rl th:-2ont"*n Aatrophyslct~l Obscrv~tory bo Gurden Street C~:lUlbrldge ,38, MaSSdCb-..tsetts FROM (.'\'Bme, Adclre 1mcf Or.(.nl (.'.,,,.. n l Ttfle,.<tin~? Artlvrty) C 'l_:.ander Air T ... ,;hnj.c~l Jntell 1 gw~llCd C.:nti~r .'/r!ent Patter:;ol! .. \lr Ftt7'C~ Ea :1e ~ INSTRUCTIONS: 1 RELEASING ACTIVITY -Prepare form in qundruplicate and retain one copy for fo1lowup pUtposes . Cle uly indicate if material is RESTRICTED DATA. Forward one copy of receipt to the AMA Inspector Ge neral and two copies with the material being releast!d. 2. AMA INSPECTOR GENERAL -Forward for:n to the proper authority having security cognizance of the facility . . 3. CONTRACTOR OR BIDDE R-Sign the orig1nal and return to the J~eleasing Activjty, using complete address as indicated in (FROM) block above. IDENTIFICATION NR NR COPIES CLASSIFICATION DESCRIPTION, DA re AND SUBJECT original Conf1<snt1aJ fwleuJOrand.un for Reco:,~t 7 Oeto'c~r 1956. Conf:i f.ent ia.J Ne:-:o!'t..'1~Ui:t for ?ecord., l. 1 Jctobcn" 1 '1.56 aubj : (C) E 0 L R Letter t:-n!l:ni t ti:1g I f<FCE!P' l IS ACK\;0 '.\L ~JGED FOR THE MATFRit\L LISTED AOOVE. It i s rt:<"o:.niz;.:.' " .1t thi~ m~te:i2l i s CLASSIF C;:r> " nd c.;:nes \Hthin thP. purview of thi~ C< .~.tPANY'S SECURI I'Y AGRl .. Ei\1ENT. OJ\ TE SIGN E O I~ ' HORI Z E O r o .d G:'~ FOR MAT RIAL 1\.itC FOr~t 258 PREVIOUS EDITIO NS O F rHI'> rO;'ll "RE OBSOLEl:='. SIGHTING LETTER US/\f-'-RL ll RF D Reference your UFO Study: you probably already h.,vc this i lern i n your file, but, in case you don't, I will briefly outline it r1nd y tu caP contact me for full details if you want them I retired (20 years service) 1 April 1967 from the USAF. I have placed my name, rank, and serial number at the top of the page if you want to check on my authenticl ty. I was an Air Traffic Conttoller throughout my service career and utilized radar the last 16 years in tt1e control of Air Traffic. I won't bother listing the types and locations, t=tlthoush I could supply all this is needed. I have never mentioned t his incident, as I was pretty sure it is considered (or was) classified , and the only reason I fee l free to give you detai Is is b~cause you are an official government agency. In 1956, so:i'etii"le bet~te~r January and September (I can't remen bcr the exact da:e or Month), I \las on duty as Watch Supervisor at lakenheath RAF Statfor, England (a lJ5~= bac;e) in t rte Radar Air Trnffic Control Center. It Has the 5:00 p.n. to .,,.J .. :.,-shift. I ~au either four or five o t her controllers on my shift. I ~ s s':ting ai. :""e SJpervisor's Coordinating desk and received a call 0 -:-~ :,i rect :-e \ 2: tually, I'm not sure \1hich : ~ r-c it wasJ Anyway, i;. .cs c:: .: .... , thor~e 3C:\ t.J:~ it ca 11 i n g and the rudar ooerator asked me if \o.~e ,..., ; _ ~""" ~.;rgets o -ou-scopes triwelling at l+,OOO 'i1ph. :-r !1Q niles eac; t o f Sc,.: ,... t ... a ::.oi r : ~1 : 1es .est of Scul thorpe. Th e .:.-get ras~C?d directly o~. S,:_ --~rpe, ::;-.;:c--(. .. J F Station (i11s o a n USAF 5tc:: i on). h e said tre : c _ .. -.: -~ec ~-=;:1; -:-so Of und just a p peared LObe :-~I did :~c.: :orH2C~ ~ ::~t:: t:clepr.oc <".';I \. as rathe r ~o,keplil..al of t nic;; o:-~ursets ,._ .--:. ~o.,::~, e:. i i"~Cull. no.;ever, one conl oller notic-~ ~ r-,:.~-e: a~ _ . .-.t. -.a !:c - t"':is target o n all the di f fc.rnt ~copes f o r .:~-~.-~J i--:~:: : - a I co' ~d t n e GCA Uni~ at L;'!kenheath to c.ec.. if they h~c t h i s :.a-~e:::; t'"!:'i-:-:oj) as~. Tney confirme d Lhe target w1~ o n tnei r scope in . . ~ s::-: se:~r~;> ica l lc.cu~ion. As we \Jutchcd,Lhc Slil~iOrll y target s~arteo ... ,.,; a~ a soe~d o f Lv: to 600 mph in a north. northc~:.t d i :-.ction u1ti I i t rEac~= a ;:~Jin~ a:)out 20 - 'lcs north north\Jest of lak~nhe.lttl. There .. ,a.., no ~:. . s:.= .. -or:.: i l,i-u;.> to tnis speed-i l \.Ja'" ... c onc;,tClnL f r on Lll" SC'conJ i~ I cal led and reportd <1ll t h e f<1ctc.. ... ' thi. p,d,tl, ; H l1d ing ~cJl" o rpr Gf.,\'c;; initiJ I r e p ort, to till: /th Air Oiv i s i(," Cnln!llf:HHI Pot;l .1t Lc,nciCln. TIP!)' in t u r n notifiecl 3rd 1\ir Fo r ce Cn.nmand Posl dnd nad th2n h'oh:~d i nto the line. I also hooked in my local AFB Co~manding Officer and my Un~t (AFCS Communications Squadron) Commander on my switchboard. And there could have others hooked in also that I was not aware of. I repeated all the facts known to this point and continued to give a detailed report on the target's movements and location. The target made several changes in location, always in straight line, always at about 600 mph and always from a standing or stationary point to his next stop at constant speed -no build-up in speed at 11 -these changes in location varied from 8 miles to 20 miles in length- no set pattern at any time. Time spent stationary between movements also varied from 3Q or ~minutes to 5 or 6 minutes (possibly even longer as I was busy answering questions-listening to theories, guesses, etc . that the conference line people were saying. This continued for some time. After I lmgine about 30 to ~5 minutes, it was decided to scramble two RAF interceptors to investigate. This was done I believe by 3rd Air Force calling the RAF and, fter hearing what the score was, they scrambled one aircraft. [The second got off after as I will mention later.] The interceptor aircraft took off from an RAF Station near London and approached Lakenheath from the southwest. Radio and radar contact was estblished with the RAF intercept aircraft at a point about 30 to 35 miles southwest of Lakenheath inbound to Lakenheath. On initial contact we gave the interceptor pilot all t he background i~fornation on the UFO, his (the lnterce~tor) present distance and bearin; fro~ Lakenheatl1, the UFO's (which stationary at the ti~e) cistance anc oearing from Lakenh~ath. We explained we did not know the altitude o~ the UFO : ~'e could assume his altitude was above 1,500 feet and below 2:,COJ feet, c .J 2 t o the operational characteristics of the radar (C?S-5 ty raca~, I belie.ci. ~;so we mentioned the report fro~ the C47 over Scu;t~or~e ~,at relaye: :~e story about the ligtlt which passed belo .... '1in . His a~ti~- ::e was S.GGO eet. We :~-e~:a:ely :ss~e~ -ea dings to t~e in:erceptor to guide hiM to the UFO. T~e C -~-aineo s:a:: c-ary through6~:. ~his vectoring of the intercept 1ircraf: c~-:1~e~. ~e con t -wally gave t~c ;~tcrcept air cr~ft his heading to the_;:; a-.~ :;is dista:"ce f .. co the Ur~ e:t a;>~r-oximately 1 t o 2 mile inlervals. Shortl) a=- .. \. e told t"''c intercept airc'"~ .. :~ 1as one-half mile from the UFO and it \-.as ! Je-o'cloc~ fro-. iiis posit:.:,n, r.e suid. Roger, Lakenheath, l'v~ got my ; ... ~s ocked on him." 7iien he pausec t1:1c said, '"Where did he go? Do you stil: ~:,e n:M~' We re~:.eo, "Roger, i t a;~eared he got behid you and tt.'s stf 1 :"'ere. ~Thc:-e , .. .;:ic :-.ow two tar;ets; one behind 'IH' other, same speed, Vr~ close, out t~o se~arate distinct targets. Tne ~:rst -ovement by tne UFO was so 1ift (circling behind the in:erce~to-!. I ~issed it entirely, but it was seen by the o ther controllers. Ho .. ever, :-= fact that this had occurred \:as confirmed by the pi lot o f the interce~t:>r. The pi lot of the interceptor told us fle \<~oulcl t ry to shake the vFO ano .:>J:~ try it again. He tried everything-he climbcu , divi!d, circled, et~ . tL.: : - e ur:'O acted li~e i t was glued righ l behind him, ah-1e~ys the Sd:1~ ais:arice, ter; close. but we ah1ays had t\'IO distinct targets. [Note: Target :-eso1~..:;..,-c~. our radar at the range they \lerc from the antC'nn::~ (rlbout 10 t o 30 1..i ies. a i \ in the southe r l y sectors from Lakenhcath) \llould be between 2CJ a~d 5u:> feet probably. Closer than t hat \lie \<Jotdd h, "" r,ot o ne 1 argct r rom botn aircraft and UFO. t-'.ost srecifications s ay 500 feet i s the minimum, but I Hope this helps in some small way to assist in your UFO investigation . Carpi n ter California 93013 stc ins pi~c~ ~cen on radar . y ?~r in: e .. ~eJ r -point o at radar s ~;,~;~ .: locked on ~FO. Of COlORADo Dr. 1. Allen HYDaJc Smi tbaonla:t AatroJ)Jl7aical Cbser9atory 6o Garden Street O&lll)ftdtle J8. l\IMssachUMttu Dr. 1-iynoks Ret,-rence ia :gacle to rq l ttllr ot i O !IoT&lJbar 19.56 in whic:1 I tate4 that I ~oul~ aen4 you the fin~lize4 materi~l on tha ~ukeDheat~ ea~a. -n- cloaad y ..m A' ill tincl :-..'2 ll2 on tha fina l ineatie-~ticns ,.._,g,,:::-diog ~1.is :3. C'