PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS 31 \t~ .... q-;t 1956 W:>rthin ton Ohio a Prelt.Wy Ballaen l'I'.Y"I'"".. u -..... D Prelteltly Aircr.,t Was Asttene111ic .. D .Ne Ci \i li ~n 0 Pes' o'~l f-~lc .. a lneufftci.,.t D fer Ealuetio" un n o vn on~ ~ to S OPIIOHTINO ")n~ d t!ki=3h yellow t)bject, th~ ~i~e o! a :1al dollar at arm's langth. O't'j w:ld movin; north t~ south slowly. ATJC POWIII IB (llaY 21 ... 52) 11. COMMINTI ca..ts~ of .;ibltinJ ,, 3 probab l y the rcfl~ tion fr a spotli~l~t sketchy in~or~ation in tha ori- giPal me s3age, thi3 si~htin~ f ;:lls in to C:1 te,~ory o [''p.Lo'Jahly; .. No Case {Information Only) 26 August 1956 Tibltron, California 0.. t.Ua of bia aperieace About 7:30 thia drivin1 home, I noticed what appeared to be a flock of nine amall birda ftyint northward. They were ~rk 1ainat the blue aky and were all about tbe 1ame aaae, althOUih, bein1 able to watch then& only in I can not . . their siae or lhape. They in a clump, wtthout ri11d forn&ation, moving freely amon1 thenalvea like birds, althou1h their courae aeeiiled strailht. I believed they were birds until they behind a nearby hilL Mea10rin1 with my car speedo!aoter, I found the diltance between the point 1 of oblef!ation and a point cl01ely approdmatin1 the top of the hill ~o be one mile. They made the arc of about 60 dfllflll tn about five secondL AUowin1 for an error of 100?' on the diltance of the objects and another error of 100'? on the. angle, objects, in order to pass Juat beh1n~ the h11l, had to be traveling at least 90 mph. If my .estimatea are ~ore nearly correct, however, and the obJecb were not JUit behind the bill but over the bay at, say two milea diltance, they were travelin over 1~ mph. There. il no chance that the objects m froot of the hilL Tbe objacta were quite dark aad the hill a ... w. Sometimes an observer such objoc.ts correctly, but later begins to doubt his own judgment. About 7:30 in the evening of Au~st 26, 1956, a man driving along a highway in Ci.llifornia no- ticed a flock of about nine small birds R~ing northward, dark against the blue sky. In a random group. the~' moved freely among them- selves as birds do hut continued in a northern dinaction. The \\it ness watched the birds as car~fully us possible, but the intenrdttent glimpses possible when a man is driving a car did not a1low him to make good estimates of their size or hei~ht. 1\e\'ertheless, he guessed at their distance and calculated that they covered an arc of 6o degrees in five seconds, which would mean a speed of ahuut 1000 miles an hour. Instead of questioning the accuracy of his estimat<~. for some reason he uouhted his first identification. If the objects ('Ollld Hy 1000 miles an hour\ l1e reasoned, then they were not hirds after all, and must be fly in' saucers! [ 13] Inforr'..a tion Only ~ource: UtO Investigatcr, Voll III, No 2, April-Hay 65 RCAF JET PILOT REPORT A former RCAF Jet p&lot, now Avaataon Eclator of ttw 1'otonr., Telee?;ram, h;u; notifaed NICA P of a UFO &&~hUn he h:.ct an 1 !J;~t;, wh1le ~teU&n~ a crO!i2jCan.uta Hpt>Pd rrcord. Ldr. Rob~rt J. ChalderhoMe al~o subm&tted a bla<-k-;uul- wh&~e pr&nt of a colo:-slade he took of the obje:t, wtulf crusw~ seven nules over t he <.:anact1an Rorkat>s. The JHC'ture &3 h<m~ analyztod by a NICt\P jJhOt()tll.lilh&c advuwr, and wall bf' rt'JIOrt,d The inc&dent occut'red on Auc. 23, 1956, when Squactroa\ Ldr. Chalderhose and Flt. Lt. Ralph AMi Wt>re speedansr w""stwa rd. The UFO appears as a very br&Cht, oblon~t shape With fuzzy out- lane m the p&cture, but ,. deacrlbed aa hav&nc been "~harply ,1~ f&ned to t~e naked eye. A second ptcture, tai(en a !t:w manutco~ latt-r from abov~ ~torm clouda at41 ,000 fMt. bowed that ttwli ro tad remauwd tat&onary. Canadian Rockies No c~se (Information Only) 27 August 1956 Fairh3ven, Massachusetts CaM 202, Fairhaven, Maa, A \II. 2 7, 1956 Miu Nornaa MeUo tella of an oblervation made by her aunt I and uncle. She writes: "At about 3:25 a.m., Mrs. F. w. Bence was startled by a brilliant light coming through the east window. The light had not been there 25 min- uta earlier when Mr. Bence had awakened. The objece, which wu motion!-, appered to be about tbe of a grapefruit anCl wu quite oa the horiaon. Mr. Bence went to watch the object and w a ~mall red- dish light to the ri1ht of it. Thera waa Do aouncL Mr. and Mn. Bence continued watching it until it faded away about one-half hour later. Twenty-five minutes later, Mrs. Bence looked again and the object was back, altboup Dot u bri&ht. At this time it began to move boriaontally back and forth in the ume area. About 5 a.m., it faded away u if into a miat." No Case (Information Only) 30 Au gust 195f' Eureka, California Case 203, Eureka, Auc,. 30, 1956 Tbe New Orleana Tia:e1 Picayune reported, three persons saw a meteor" early Thursday as they drove toward Eureka. One obaerver 1eid it waa the biat fireball he bad ever seen, and that it lit the hi1hway aa bript aa clay.ll ~o Case (Information Only) 30 August 1956 Williamstown, Kentucky t;ase 204, \Yalliamatowa, Ky., 11:30 p.m., Aug, 3U, 1956 Drivinl toward WalliamatoWD, the Director of a Cincinnati m:mufacturer saw a large bril liant ovoid suddenly zip frou1 west to east across the horizon. "It was so low," she said, "it looked as though it were going to hit the ground." The object, oval-shaped and as large as a dime held at arna's length, looked "green on one side and white on the other" but she said the speed was so great that the true colors were indistinguish able. Noticeable, however, was a bright halation or glow around the object. Another \Vitness, and a friend of the Research Director, was also driving south aoout a block behind when she saw the same object. Her tallied, and .. aard tbat the object to be slantina ill toward eartb. . . No Case (Information Only) Cincinnati, Ohio A paonainent lawyer phoned the writer describing a single white liaht zigza11inl to the north as though it were "followinl a heavenly saw". Its ftiaht was jerky, he said, like a .. boat bein& rowed in thruata upoo the water" and rythmicallY it Biclrereci off and on makin1 no IOUDd. The object into infinity No Case (Information Only) 30 August 1956 London, England ~o Case (Information Only) 31 August 1956 Cincinnati, Ohio Cate 206, CiDcinn1ti, Ohio. 6 p.m., Auc. 31, 1956 Harry Baston drivin1 in hnvy tr1ftic stopped long enough to get a good glimp.ie of a solid device shaped like a muthrocnn. He said the object was intentely white and quite large in the clear sky and was traveling in a str::~ight line to the south. At one time the object teemed to out, tlid Baaton, but reappeared atill tautb much Peyto~, Colora=o !~i!SSII!G) Zuquar.1!~h ':ashin~tor.t Denver, .Coloreco (CAS~MISSI1~) Nichigan rn.:.:ton, Ohio . i.:.er+:., i :ichi Gil~'!r Springs, Mary lane ~ashin6ton, D. c. 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S ??.I~.; GS CCLO::ADO IlJFO RJEDFL COH:~ -~ETH ADI,J CDE! > t.'/P AF~ DAYTON 0:-110 RJEDUP COilD2 AI~ T:CH!~ICfl.L I~:TF.:LLIGE!:CF: CEI~TER HP AFB OHIO /U 1: C L A S/ E FCDO P~ IAU AFR 2C~-2 THE FOL RJPT IS This letter 13 1n aw~r to your inq_uir7 a~ut the a.:t,;Jerier:ce ! ~:ad. a fa~ years agO on a ~1ght1ng. ~he "stor7 on ~l~1ng 3au~srs jeing gi -h~ed 1n l'ar10U8 ;arts of the UnitBd 3tates r.ad -il::-eai7 :Ja~ome f:l.lrly well :01~wn. I ~er3onall' :nust adell t I loo:~ed U!JO:l tc1s sub- ject ~ith s)e~t1o1aa ~nd aenerul disbelief. :hen this ha ened: Ot: or about ugust 20, 19:\6 or '~'1 (It 1s bard to ~in~o 1nt the e ct . date now, but it waa the !1rat Yon6&7 ot tee ~nn. Sta~e Fair) I wao iri Ylng.-home t .he last nevfaboy trom tile Sta ts Fair tr l.P, I had a grou}) ot six bo:,ra to return home to towns t:-om .1h.1te ~ear to Hinkley. &t acout~ll:30 P. y., while nearine Qia home, we auddsll~ a.w, (and ~or tl'Nhlle I oo idered it to be a false 1 ge of a so-called. 'flyin& 34~cer') a laree ob~eot 'coasting' 1n tha ~alan~ si~e ot me. keep- ing at a ~erteot parallel to the sz-ound, a1ll~e 1 t as nlgilt I waa unable to get 11 _poritive per3.P8Ct1T O'! thls Obje~t, but g'.lessed lt to be about a m1le or two 7 trom ua. T)e bo7 w1 th me became ex- tra .. lr frightened, and I t admit, so was I. !he otJeo~ a are4 to be about a lle or two 7 from us. the obJect a;9e d to be a~out the a1ze ot a 3 story house and about hal~-blook long. ~ben, it oaae to a atoR and 'parked' rllbt in the ~ By I ha4 ato ed the oar also, ana we toth ~atched ln a zement. I wa able to get .,. w1ta about me again u::d l..~o~ad a.t 1t 1n a ~ra obserYlDg &tti tule. .rhe tr1(;ht socewhat le~t !!;e too, since the obJaet no longer a9 red to be a threat. I was a~l to make a visual desariRiion o~ it in m7 cind ao ~s t to tor1et whqt I 'tiaUl& ~:.e shape ot tbl obJeet -.as '1:a_iloss1ble to Ll:f est1rnat1oD as it a~ge3red too blunt to be able to traYel as ta~t as lt d1d wheB ' it le~t. Inatead ot the en~ be~ ta~ered to s ~o1~t, it app 4 blnnt, as tae ll end of eu. There was a doce-11ke atr'~cture _i:.roportioD to the entire atn~tnre, it -.as not. Yeey hi~.h. I was a at enre I able to aee 1na1de ot the 4Dae jet t sAw not hi~ other thea thia huse bbtnt-aba~ped obJeot, glowina in a de~1nite amo~-re4, with a -...ow haze enc1rol1ng ita entirety. ~hen it le:tt, larietl7, 1 t w1 th &cil a bnrai ot a pee,:_ t!u t I would est1- te lt reaahed lta top Reed atter the 1n1t1~l bhrust was male. ! ::dard no noise at an,-t ime during this a i~ht ing. I broueht the bo7 ho~e telling him, don t let 1 t bother you "Ne saw an unusual re- tlaction ot some mort". Later I telt I =-1 ~sYe ~andle1 it 1neorro l~ but he was ao fri~ht~ned I thougnt 1t best to Q1~1cize it then. ~bo~t 2 ho~s l~tr I ~as home, having 1ec1lei ~o era3~ the in~ident r::-ae~ my r.11m, not eYn bttin.g ':!1Y w1:rt lcl~ of it. 3b.e was a;,a4ce 4 a~nsed something waa "rong and t~ou~t I ha~ sx;~ria~cei bein~ ~t the .ic,~ne ot 9-n &8oident. I haYe !:1ven cloda to a mill:.on mile:i -b7 cu l:l :ne :past 20 years ot news;a~tlr .,.>rk, about 1 / 4 o"! it cei!l;--a!ter t;, . .!~ ~ll not, !l:Ye a ~ural or lo~ical ex~l.!!&:1o~. a~.:! I .vou.:..u : ... a1nly liie ~o :!ind one to~ -::: ia. This latter 13 1n er to your in(!uiry aoou