PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 2. LOCATION CONCLUSION$ 0 Was Balloon Probably Balloon 0 Poul bly Balloon 0 GroundRodor Wos AIrcraft 0 Probably Aircraft 0 Ground-Vlaual L .. l 0145-0200 0 Air lnte,{.pt Roo ar Po I W y AI rc;raft 0 Wu Aatronaml col J . LINGTH 0' OISIRVATtON Mit'~Y ~ S.GHTtN8 1. NUMBER OP' OBJECTS Object re~b~ted.in 1962 that observer wi tnessed in 1957 while on flight from San Fra-nciseo to St Louis. Obj ~. .... . QW. a/c .. and headi'ng in the opposite ... >Ci.1ra:c t ioo.". Just red 1 igh t. Speed of passing a/c. No wi11dows or other light ~stimated 1,000 ft below. Bigger than the'tailpipe ~f a jet. 11. COMMENTS 0 p robobl y Aatronoml cal Possibly Astronomlcat lnaufficient Data for Evoluot'o" C Unlcnown Object c o uld have been passing jet. C~se is o l d and evalua~ed a s insufficient d a t a . Project Flue Boo'k Information .Officer SA!i'OI-3 Hq U.SAF. Room 4C-.916 The Pentagon Belle v e . Illinois 18 Novembe r 1962 Dear Sir: This is a belated UFO repor~. I was alltfays curious whether aeyone oorrobated on this sighting. It ':rould be interest2.ng if your file s confirmed this -if not, I . just f~lt I should p 9.ss it on any way for vlhat 1tsworth; even at this late date. Date: 4 February 1957 Departed:San Francisco at 2400 hrs, 3 Feb57 On T 'IIA Constel.).a t i o n Deetlnation: St. Louis via Kansas City (I sat in the next to the l a.st seat on the ri~ht side of the e ircr Approx. 0145 or 0200, ( 4 Feb 57) I was e-s.zing out the '.'Iindow w-atching a kyli.!le, just .faintly making out the silhouette of t h e mountain t .opa. It was pretty dark r~i th. no moon~ ~f\at I noticed anyway. There ,,, ere scattered c louds as I not.ed soma etars.As I ~-~as somewh a t tired, but not sl..~&pfl 1 kept my heaq ~eaning against the window sort of day d r eaming . SUddenly, from underneath the right wing, this round dull red object comes 1nto view. I just watched 1 t pass by be~ow and past the Connie t tail. It wa.e heading strs.ight west in level flight, ju.st l .ike it was head:f 1n-g ror Friaco.-Its spe-ed . would be compared to a passing ConvS.i:r. I ha d a good 3 or 4 second look at it. All I can a~y is th~t it was round and dull red, just red. enough to make out that it was r Jund. I did'nt see anything tl'iat rooked like windows or openings. I d o r ecollect from my notes at time,. :that there was a indication of some t hing like static around the ~dge, not real obvious, .however. . ::.~: . . . . I':verw:ve-r lost any s lEep .Jver this, but I've el~,..,ays be~n 'r'ondJ-F3 . . . wha,t, it was. I . start e d to writ e t o T~'IA o-nce afte r thsf-fli~ht, but never . . . d.ld. I think if the copilot ha d seen what I saw, I b-::lieve h e woul d have ~-. made a 360 turn for another look. If your office h a s a n opinion o n this ... ~ ... ai~hting, 2: ';10Uld liite :.o hear it. I c an't g iva _a guess a s to size of <~: .. .. obJec:.t btit it haq. t o be pretty larg e for such v i e .. at t h e a ltitude we .. . . , . were tiytng,. It was a lot lik e looking up tl:e tailpipe of a j et, b u t this : : w.as slot big~er. I've thought C?-lso that i t could h a v e been someiiling lit . . up on the ground, such c. s e. red i ome of s olle :r ind. Comnarin~ he s peed !. . a.ga.1n, it would have t o have b een around 1000 ' ft. below t o -::1 ve t h e . same speed relation. The onl y thin?" "'hat bot''l e red :-.e o :: +his ,,as that I saw i t below us and not above the horizon.If _it -.~as 9bove +he hori7.bn I '.. t hink I I,J.JUld hav e forgo.tten about it. Anyha .. , I :nt.ed "'o 9s f: the i.nfo on ~s ~ tter ~f .ecor d . Ackno wl e dgement of this lEtt-r i s ot solicited .