PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 1. DATI 2. LOCATION J. DATITIMI CROU,. ._ TY .. ! 011 OII!RVATION ~urul Vt eu.e D Ground Reder 7. I..MOTH O,.OIIIItYATION 10. IRIIII SUMMARY 011 SIGHTING I. NUMI!It 011 OIJ!CTI 11. COMMENTS 12. COMCLUSIOHI Woa Bello" D Proltoltl, Bellaaft D Wet Aircraft a Proltaltl, Aircraft D PoaetW, Aircraft 0 Wea AttrofteMicel 0 PreltoW' Aat,.MIIIIcel D PeaatW, Aat;;ftellllcel Brilliant red flashing object tl1at was moving , round anti a bout the size of a pea. Light pulsato u similar to that of a 1 igh tning btt . No definite time between flashes. No de.f.inite Specific duscription, tnaneuve~s charactezistics of hundreds of sitnila1 reports of balloo11S obser- ved near dawn or dus~. flight pattern. No so11nd, tail or exau t. Same type obj observo d b y same person tuo more times tha samu o v .. ~ning. ATIC PORM 329 (R~V 21 SltP 52) DEPARTMENT OF AFROTC DETACHMENT No. 820 BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY BOWLING GREEN, OHIO 11 Novenber 1957 Unidentified Flying Objects Reporting Conmaander Air Defense Cormand !ht Air Force Base Dolorado Springs, Colorado l. In accordance with AFR the following report is ~bmitte "' ,.$" ~ which was reeei ved. by Cadet . , t8ll Air Science Cade-t at this. . ')v\,' }c- "On 7 November 1957 at1: 45 P J) I Cad left the city. ;~ of Bowling Green, Ohio and - -eeoed_,east on Route 6 he:'lded for Clyde, Ohio. ',. As I approached the first 90 degree curve on Route 6, about five miles from Bowling Green, I r~<h.tced the speed of my car. Immediately upon coming out of the curve, I a .!\W a brillant, red flashing object that lias moving. Instead of continuing on my way around the next curve, I went straight ahead and stopped my car at 1.1 atop sign and proceeded to watch this object. It ltas dusk outside and th~ approximate time was about 6:00 P.M. w'hen first obn-,nring th~ ob jec+,, Nhir.h I estimated at about 3ll angle of ".,. ... 35 degrees with the horizon, the sky behind it \'Tas white and as it moved -~!) ,.,..,. ... upward at a.n angla or about 45 degrees, it moved into an area rlhere there . ., . l,, was black cloud3 behind it. This is when I noticed the shape of the object. rJ J -- - It was round and :\t<:~ s i.ze w~s comparable to that of a_pea. The light coming , ! " from the object was th~ most'l?ri~lant red I have ever seen. The light seemed, ;t..~/' to be similar to that of a lightening bug in the r espect that it l>uld start ~....-t out dim and then glow more brillantly. I observed the intervals between the , flashes of light and there appeared to be no definite time between flashes. l At times the object would flash with a few seconds interva and at other ~ times the interval between flashes were longer than before. /,') ...... :. . " I then turned my car around and drove to the Golden Lily, a gasoline r ~ 1, station and bar combined, which is located just off the side of ~he road *J adjacent to the curve. I went in and asked a couple of fellows if they : .. _ ,.. wanted to see something intere_sting. I estimated about four people came outt.~?-~' ! and watched the object. Two of them went rieht back in and another onmy ,, J,;).r,./- 0bqe~ve~ it fol a short time rt ~ent back in. One remaine d and we wat ed { the object until it was out of sight. After ch~ rting my pos.:.tion on a map -.-~ . concluded that the object was south of my position. The time that elapsed .. .J.}..,..~1 ...... -... between my first sightin& the qbject and \-rhen it was out of sight was about :' - ,- four minutes. The object:'' 'did not h ave any definite flight pattern. No sound _.,.. t' could be heard or no tail, trail, or exhaust could be seen, just a brillant, .. !.-... ;'- red flashing light. ~/ I the~ CQ!'ltJ.(:tt~d o!'l my 'ri1.~-to:~ard3 Clyrn, Ohio o n Ho,Jt<:' 6 . About t,.,.,0 mile 3 west of Rollersville, I noticed .mother brillant, red flashine; light, the s.~e kind a3 before. I was directly east and sighted the object out of / AFRai'C Det 620, Bowling Green State University, Unidentified Flying Objects Reporting Headquartez-a Air Defense Command, Ent Air Force Base, Colorado 1 Air Technical Intelligence Center, ATTN: AFCIN-4E4, \'/right-Patterson Air Farce Base, Ohio Ltr, BGSU, Bowling Green, Ohio, 11 Nov 57, Subj: Unidentified Flying Objects Reportina (Cont'd) the windshield directly in front ot me. The object appeared to be about 45 degrees at ~ po~ition with the horizon. It appeared to be coming downward slowl7 and to have a definite flight pattern. The time elapsed betore I lost sight or the object due to the light or oncoming carfll. I lost sight or the object and difln' t see it again. From the time ot ~ tirst sighting the object until I lost sight at it was about twenty seconds. I arrived in Cl7de, Ohio d 7:00 P.M. I went directly to girlfriend's home, which i from the city lilld.ts on Route I went into her house and told h8r family ~ experience. I decided to go back to Clyde and get 10me oil tor 11\Y car before all the gasoline stations closed. As I went out the door, I saw another one ot these brillant flashing objects. It was ver7 easy to observe the object because of the darkness or the s~. I ran into the house got the whole family; we all went outside and watched the object and the brillant, red flashing light coming from it. It seemed to me that the light was brighter from the top of the object than from the bot tom of it When I first noticed the object, it was in a northeastern position continued north and th~n procesded _ ~ ~ did not have any definite flight p.~ttern but w ~ ng up an and about. There is a Turnpike Plaza three m: h-lf'riend the lights around the plaza, I coulc see the object was a long way behind the liP,hts and seemed to be heading out towards Sandusky Bay; the light was st. ill very brillant. I then directed my line of Vision towards Clyde and saw another one of these objects. I could see th~t this one was moving because in mw line of sight was a tree and I observed the ob1ect move behind the tree. I would look at one for a while, lose sight of it and look at the other one. At times I, turning 11\Y he~d fast enough, could see both of them flashing. Finally the first one disappeared in what seemed to be clouds very far away. The second, moving behind the tree, I lost sight ot after about thirty seconds due to the lights from the city of Clyde. The first object I observed ror about three to four minutes. . From my observation, this is to my best of. lmowledge an accurate report of m;:r experience." FOR THE PROFESSOR OF AIR SCIENCE: J D. SMITH '-"" aptain, USAF