PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 1. [)ATE I 2. LOCATION 1~. CONC:LUSION5 lJ Wor. 8ulloo.1 3. OATEriME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Possibl y Bulloon O .GroundVi suol 0 Grou ncJ-Rodor 0 Wos Alrcroh 0 Pro b ob I y AI rcroft S. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE . 0 ( Was Astronomical \~')01' 0 Probably Astronomical 0 Possibly Astronomical 7. LENGTH OP OBSEfl\1 ATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJ:':CTS 0 lnsufflclont Data for Evalua ti o n S minut.Js 10. BRISP SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 0 n e b l> j ~ c;; t o Shape o f 1..1 u a r tv L' moon , ~; i z o f basketbnll, color lig h t orange .. No movement, thunder sto t' t;ts i.n a .l.'ca, dls~ppcn1ed at once. "3tationary 0 Unkno wn ll. COMMENTS Uoon in dlrai; Llon 1ptd nucl setting coi11cident with disappearn.nce of oi>jecl. ATIC FORM J:zg (REV l6 !4i'!P 52) Am FO E miZDA :ba~ES ~ MISSES, BOGIES OVER ATLJ\lll'IC ~&11,.~ 1257: Several o our members '\'mo are -vr:ith local GOC posts volunteered the follordng in.Cormation, independently from both Brooklyn and lla.nhattan posts: In the early morning hour:~ or Saturday, May 11, a jet scramble involving ' a large number of military planes took place. Our Uanhatten informant first ! reported that the planes wele headed in the general direction or Ne'\'T England, I but he had no further inf'ormation at that time. A few weeks later, however, 1 h9 was advised by o!!ieia1 personnel that two jet squadrons (about 16 planea : to each squadron) had been dispatched -one from Stewart AFB in Newburgh, N.Y. ~u:d the other from a base on Cape Cod (presumably otis AFB) -to investigate l"adar observations, by coastal. radar patrol planes and picket boats, of three bogies heading inland ~outh or Cape Cod on a southvtesterly course. No con- tact with the unknowns was made by the jets, and radar loBt track o the ob- jects at aboU't. the same time the jets arrived on the scene. No Cnse (Info"rmation OPJy) SOI.ll.'CC: v ,H .... u'av htl :.rt tN. wtg)\Mf" "!JC"" eobl .. -fh' Utetaei.ol-..~ ~,.. ]I I I I I along slowly, making this racket. It was metallic, like the metal of a silver dollar, and she est~ated it to be six or seven feet across. She assumed it was flat, but wasn't actually sure whether it was flat or round. She said it had a stem, or pipe, sticking out of the top of i t about three feet high, which :seemed to have h:>les in it from the top to the bottom. ~lhen it got some 20 feet away from beinr; c.l:i.rectly above, it stopped motion and the noise ceased. A.fter a few moments, it p1oc~eded in the same direction it had hea.ded originally, but tha noise did not resume -it was completely quiet,. "The vroman' s impression was that the object moved about 1$0 or 200 feet ;c.ay and f<;ll into some pine trees on .::1. little rise. 'l'hat night she and her husband we: up and looked in the wooded area '\'There she thought she saw the object fall, but they found nothing. It doesn't seem to me that anything actu- ally feJ.l; r.rh.atever it was probably moved rapidly a'7ay at low altitude she received an erroneous impression of the object's f alling. According to the neighbors, nith whom I talked, the two of them continued their s earch the next day. It's a rural corrununity. Finding nothing, and seeing nothing in the news- pap~rs, the husband called one of the local newspapers Wednesday night. No other reports had been received. He was most reluctant, according to the nens- paper, to 3ive cut information under those circumstances, but he and his wife a greed to let the paper publish their story anonymously. Later, the reporter called me (after he had investigated and determined for himself that they were sincere), and I went doYm and talked to them. We !oun1 nothing and we found no other people in the area. who had seen or heard the device. "I'm inclined to think the Homan saw something quite unusual. She is about 35 years of aee, and has had a high school education. Furthermore, she is fami- liar with jet aircraft, since their landing pattern passes over the area." ClATTERING UFO YAl\ES REPAIRS l!g 21, 19.57: This report eame in a letter from CSI member Jim l.teAshan, or Knoxv-llle,. Tennessee. 11.A lady living some ten miles from Knoxville ran into something that shook her up considerably. I tal.'<ed to her several days after the incident. It oc- curred on Tuesday, May 21, and she didn't tell her hu3band about it until that night-, rrhen he got home. The sighting vras at 4:40 p.m. She reported seeing an oval or round object coming from a southeasterlY direction and going northnast. W'nen first notico.J the objeet was mald.ng a noise like a runaway power moner. She said it l"Tasn't too high -just above tree-top level, and it see-med to bounce rr,:.~ "'a ";et'"L~J. '"'..tr::led rt~')l.Hltl:.7 ~'"ld :>ntin:led l;o 3ive 'J.e~ :!Ol~r:J : t=- t~f'ifll t.ne 3,::"'13 sy ~::-nmd. 'h.a u.nknown mater l.al ~1-<.ld bur 'lad ~ hol9 i.."'l .ilnd :).)Coroa .::1:-1:~tlall,7 Bmb~Jded ).~1 +:be ctt:r':l, ~.)ar+.l.7 i:?. :1.J1oo~i! Pi?~ o r ~:omJnd c~o-~el. . o.n1 pi3e of 7'nat n .~J~r:t::l t"> h~ \:op~r, clS .. t::l e n';hl!::e :1~u.ft' .. All of t.hA obj~ot :..tpJ?'31.tr:l '=v td~:"lca ot i:J.~::Jctsa ~e~t;, 3V e nel:;~d ~nd :a,lidi1'1ad, !lot: all ai; -onca, as .Sl'Jtne J ) ~lld 1!lgt1 is l:-1 ev!dence. I't hardenei "i7i th a - nt!r3l.!.y ~1hiny und ~1,ooth ~Url3e~, save for the t:!.~:r nir bu.baJ.>dg and !Ji-3Ces of t.i1e st:on~J~ ::9~':):-tli of :-;:11~ p1ec~s ap_puar to h.:,.v1'1 br'1ken ott f::-Oi11 oaoh ~Jthe.r., 1~11vi:lg a J l A:;'3) s\.trtaef!. Tha :nate'r"ial "13 :r.t!t~ h. d# I t ;t~s fot.lnd a'b,-,u.t 35 r~l9t from the corner. }fo OY'!a 713s ~een or haa:rd :.11. t~.:d ~r~a "J7 .:.1~. !\rv:l~ews ~hen or nft~: tha matarl;-:~1 appf.lar~ii.. i:o chil- ~J:r~n.. 2:() ~--:.ne :;;t:i"olling ~earby? No c :.!lrs or t::..uf! :-ts ~)r rythi:!r vehi..cl3s .... 1ar~ r.!Jta~Jli3h nt:3 ~1ear',y; c~r inl:7 l1.o aot11lt:t at 2 o'olccl( 1n the mol'nin~. r:::1:l ~.;~r~e1; i!l not a tb.rou~h big~w~YJ morel~' a r~sidential 3'T;r~et. I-i1ll.Jide joyq, ";h'-'r1 ur~ nor:!ml housq :> 1cg el.)ctl-l.e C:l-al~s, 'bllt no ~:sav:-J- .i.lll.' I I AERIAL BAI.T.ET OVER ClllCINNATI 1957:.}XThe following first-hand account is sent to us by our friend and col-. league .U.n ,.,:i.~a:Ci ~l;lr, of Cincinnati: "I had~njured iny finger e arlier that day, so my wife, Dell, was driving our car i;,o the home of friends who live in Mariemont, in eastern Cincinnati, at ahout 7:45p.m.; the sun vras low on the horizon. I spotted first,, to the T'.ortmrest, numerous vapor trails ; they were in no kind of parallel pat terns (as usually s een in conventional flieht) but were crisscrossing, looping and !ormir.~ S-curves. They were e.ll in the same quadrant of the sky -apparently in some kind of maneuver. Dell and I remarked to one another on how beautiful the trails uere vrith the setting sun r eflectine cr:ilnson on them. Just a s we r eached Settle Road, vrhere our friends liv?, I saw clearly a silvery, spherical object in the center of the trails. Although I \1as in a moving car, to me the object ap!)eared stationary, while a t the same time I could also see the j ets - I counted four -which vrere moving. The jets left trails of vapor, while the object left no vl.sible exhaust. Two of the jets uere heading toward the sil- very object as thou3h it vrerc t he target, but rrhen they f;ot near, the object shot away to the northwest. Its speed uas almost double that of t he jets, al- though I cannot say if the l atter were at full. throttle. Tlhen we got to our f r iends' home, I could still see partial v apor trails in the sky, but nothing else. The aerial ballet had c entered mainly in the sky north of Cincinnati. "Next. morning at work I l earned that others had seen the t do3fight. ' George Wright, of our Sales Department, came down to my office voluntarily to describe .what ho had seen. He described the UFO as bigger than the jets, looking like p0lisl~ed aluminum,' disc-shaped and rrithout any protruding parts. He explain- ed that he could distinguish the jets easily, and said he believed he counted six. He added that most or the show nas too confusing to relate J but he clearly remembered one occasion when the jets closed in and the UFO receded or maneuver-. ed in such a way that it eluded them easUy. Ylright also described another ma- neuver: the UFO was stationary and when jets closed in in pairs it shot away to the 1rest, le~Ting the jets far behind; Yr~en other jets appro~ched to inter-- c~pt' from the other end, the object reversed its course. Wright was certain 'that it wa.s a direct, horizontal rever3al -no loop, or hairpin turnt The UFO then disappea.-ed. "Both l'lrig!'lt. and I euessed that t he pertonnance took place at about 25,000 feet. We ~greed that the apparent size of the object was larger than the d'et -9 ~ parha.ps tmce :1s large. On the same morning that I got Wri~ht 3 report I j5hon- ed the Air Filter Center in Columbus; they took my report, ..,but denie d a:IlY UFO activity the evenin~ before GREEN FIRECALL OVER 'WESTERN JERSEY eyl }Jay 29 . 1957: In \fashington, He11 Jersey, CSI member Julia l.laaker had taken he r dog out into the backyard of her ho:me when she saw a brilliant green fireball pass i overhead.. The time 11:10 p.m. Suddenly becoming aware or a bright lieht thn.t illuminated the lanAscape. Miss llteaker looked toward the north northwest and saw, about 6SO above the northern horizon, an intensely brilliant green fire- ball which moved rapidly south southeast in a smooth trajector,y across t he ze- n! th, The angular meaS\trement or the fireball vras slightly l e3s than that of the f'ull moon, The brilliant green of the main body was surrounded with "spar- kles" ot.white and green about the edges. It was entirely circular except for a very sli;r)lt dragging protuberance at the rear. Trailing behind the fireball were more or the green and white "sparkles." lJiss Meaker writes: "After an innant o! viewing, a band about one half" the Tli.dth of the intensely bright grean di3!c seemed to encircle the fireball. This band vtas a bright red-purple. I believe that this red-purple rine was an illusion due to eye-fatigue. It was clearly t he complementary color to the burning-copper-salts green of the body proper. The brilliance of the fireball's light vrould account !or tha ring's appearL.,g so quickly after I first saw the object." The fireball crossed th-9 z g.oith a.11d 11as about 40 dc~es from the southern horizon when it suddenly ex- ploded, ~ilentlz. "At the instant or explosion, it was in shape like a rain- drop Tthen it strikes the ground: a distinct center with very s.rnall fine par- tieles ~urroundi~ it. For an instant (perhaps as long as a second) after thie, a shower of gxeen and vrhi te sparkles hung in the air uhere the fireball had b een. u It had been in view for no more than six seconds. lJiss Meaker's lucid da~cription of the phenomenon clearly points out the typical characteristics or the green fireball type of UFO. \7e are indebted to her for an unusually care- ful mxi detailed report. OV r:!~CAST ov~nc ll<. .. ~f