PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 1. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS D Woa Bolloon 8 NovcdDer 1957 Alexandria. Louisiana a Prot.ot.l, Balloon ... R _ _. D Woe AI rcroh Lecel-----------XIXG,.un .. VIav 0 Grewnw - a Preltat.ly Alrcreft GMT 09/0316Z D AI.-VIw.t D Alrlntorcopt Rotl D PosiW, Ahcroft ~ Woe Aatrena .. .acol Meteor D Yea D Prot.oWy Aatronolftlcal x He M i 1 it ary . D Possibly Aatronolftlcal 7. L.NOTH OJI.OIII!ItVATION I. NUMI!R OJI OIJ!CTS t. COURS! D Other _ 0 ln1ufflciont Dote for Evaluation D Unl.nown 10. IRIIP SUMMARY OP SIGHTING Brilliant brigl1t pink, round object, size of a quarter. Drigltt white short narrow & uneven tail, smalle r than object. Remained same si o throughout observation. Size of o h J f J c t l nc rea sed as altitude decreased. CJld oct fell vertically. Sparks we t' .1 tJ ttJVa.l ent whe n disintegrating but we r u nol g l aring ATIC PORM 329 (JU~V 26 SF.P 52) I 1. COMMENTS The description, flight path & time duration is typical of a .. Le.ke City, ~-tissourl S~cramento Celiforni~ Nort h Ct'.rolina . lafayette, louisiana Leominster lvlassachusett5 Civilia n Tullahoma, Tennesse~ (CA3E I!ISSI:NG) Deyt.on, Fairborn, Xenie, Ohio 1-'!ulti ( 3 cases) Pitcairn, Pennsylvania Waverly, Illinois Waynesville, Ohio Nissouri (CAS~ l!IS3Ir:G) Ar cadi a , ~iissouri . San Antonio Clinton.,. Pe nns ylvania ~t.. mnda, I llinoi s ~marilla J B, '.re;{as Ander son, I n::1inna Ok l ahom:1. St louie, Da nb y : issouri ~ennesaw, Georgi a Da.yton, Ohio leAin~ton, Ky/MBr i etta, Geor gia Lak e City, ~enr!es::>~e ( C~s~. tiiSS IUG) Sh reveport, Loui;i~na Shiroi AB, Jap~n .. \ tlanta rr~t~p, Flo ... i-i" ST,; of Tokyo, J:-l:;i:ln D::!:.J-ton, Ohio C~ur.~il Bluffs, Iowa ~::!:lsville Buf..::-.e.lo, New York Hup::ins, St Paul, i!i n nesota 2;cr-..:-icb, Connecticut i'.rzentin9. Da~rton, Ohio Arc;e ntlne Nili ta .. ry LOCATIO.~,! ADDI'J:IOHAL ~FOR'.:.'~D SIG5TI1~GS ( !IOT C.4SES) ?3 r zo, Nort h Dakot~ C~lii~ornie. ~>rea Cuyahoga .Fa }_J.::; Science r. i.-/S Ltr New~>:! l i :p!)inz; Ife \.;sc lippin~ Ne-.:r3c 1 i.ppi.r. Insufficient Data I nsufficient Dat~ Aircrn f't Insufficient D3t9 AGtro (VB't\113) 1. Insu.fficie r.: J~t._; 2. Astrc ('IZ!:U3) Insufficie n t Datn Insuf ficient r.at~. Insufficient Data Astro (V8TIUS) f Otr.er ( UNRSLL4BI.i~ R?"r; Aircra f t Astra ( 'Tf~NUS) I nsufficient Dnta As tro (tf8T.::OR) ft.stro (r~I'EOR) Astro (HETi~OR). Astro (t,7ETt~Cf!) Ast r o ( VErrus) InBuff icient Dat a Astra (I-1ETEOR) P.s tro (VENUS) P.stro ( VENU5) :~s tro ( T ILJS) Astro ( VJ~NUS) J...stro ("\G!rfU3) Astro (VENUS) Astro (l-!E'I.'i!!02 ) Other (SATEL~IT~) P..ircraft Inauf~icient Dit2 EV f-.li!ATIO:l 0 WPF137 YDB11 VYC141 VMA161QRA165 PP RJEDDN RJEDW~ RJEPHQ DE RJESQR 128A FM COMDR 834TH ADIV TO RJEDDNICOMDR ADC RJEDWP/COMDR AIR TECHNICAL INTELLIGENCE CENTER RJEPHQI DIRECTOR OF INTELLEGENCE UNCLASSIFIED FROM FBW/l~[NT PD 11-200. SUBJECTI UFOB. REFLERr:NCE AFR 22-2. PAR lA. BRILLIANT AND ROUND PAR 1B TO QUART PAR 1 BRIGHT PIN PAR lD ONE PAR 1E. N/A. PAR 1F. NO~E. PAR 1c. aR-IGHT WHITE ~HOar NARROW AND UNEVEN.-//;! I SMALLER THAN OBJECT. REMAINED SAME SIZE THROUGHOUT OBSERVATION. PAR lH. NONE. PAR 11. SI2E OF THt; OBJECT INCREASED AS ALTITUDE~Uhrv/d' #1lurA;y DECREASED. MADE VERTICAL DECENT. OBSERVE FIVE SECOND PAR 2A c,,'f/1-< e -e~( WAS GAZING AT MOON. PAR 2B. SIXT EVEN EGREE ELEV AT UNDETERMINED DISTANCE NORTH NORT AST FROM POINT OF OBSERVATION. PAR 2C ORT)YOR FIFT DEGRE LEV AT UNDETERMINED DISTANCE NORTH venus, the only plaMt now "VIsible In the evening, is a brilliant obiect in the sky and will soon be Joined by the wiD in ~ comin1 monthJ. Then yuu wtll tee than high in the ~th. Just abo~e Orion 1s Tauru,, th~ hull. "ith brilliant Aldebcann, and tn th~ Jdt elf th'' fiprc ~nda Auri1a. the c:h.uiotrt-r, ~th fint mapirude ~pella. leon ids, "shooting stars." . ~ .. By JAMES STOKLEY . Aldwup onlJ Venus iJ now visihl~ in the CV""iDJ, two other planets a~lf in the tx-forc sunri.le. Bright~t ot th~ is Jupitu, in the constrllation of Virgo, the virJia. It il clo1e to the bright sbr Spu:~. However. it ezcccdJ ~ sw in briULn(e about 1m tima.. Fartber t is M.us, rbin1 about an hour abad of tbc sun. Its brightneu is 2bout half that of Spica. Mtrcury and Saturn are boch too near the sun to be easily visible iD Ncwanber. of "~tan to Novanbcr is the month &rinaing one of the ,at's famous showers of mettors, or .. shootina stan," v.hich :appc:ar from about the 13th to the 16th. They are lnOit numcroos aftrr midnight, because then we arc on the forward side of the earth in its annual movement ;around the sun.. Thus, we meet them bc:uJ~n. This is different &om the evcninJC houn whm we arc on the r~o~rward part, anti sec only thOIC that catch up to us. EAST ~ROM POINT OF OBSERVATION PAR 2D OdJECT !~E~L~L~VE~R~T~I~C~AL~L~Y-_ . .~CREASED IN SIZE AS IT FELL UNTIL ATIN PAR 2 SPARKS WE PREVELENT WHEN S ATING aut WERE NOT GLAR NG PAR 2F F IV SECONI)(; PAR S'Al"1'a'0u~J) VISUAl.. PAR Ja. NAKED EYE. PAR Jc. N/A PAR 4A 0903162 NOV 57. PAR ~a. NIGHT PAR S. SAINT FRANCIS C SP ALEXANDRIA, LOUISIANA (COORDINATES AT PT OF OBSERVATIONI 3117N 9227W). PAR 6A. NIA PAR o&. ~TAFF 391ST F&S, ENGLAND AFd LOUISIANA INTEl. SPEC. REPUTAdL AND RELIASLE PAR 7A CLEAR PAR 78 DET t.l ;i f.tU 21ST WEATHER SQUADRON REPORTED WINDS .18 KNOTS 240 DEGREES AT 7G,all FEET AT 190~01Z NOV 57. ADDITIONAL DATA UNAVAILABLE PAR 7C. CLEAR PAR 7D. T\~El.VE MIL.F.:S. PAR 7E. NO CI..OUD COVERAGE PAR 7F ~VA. PAR 8. NONE REPORTED ~V SOURCE OF PAR 7~. ENGLAND AFB OPNS REPORTS ONE C-131 ENROtJT~ FtiOM i3ROOKLF:Y AFd TO BARKSDALE AFa MADE AN EMERGENCY LANDING AT ENGLAl~D AF3 AT 0.3352 ~ NOV 57. ONE ENGINE WAS INOPERATIVE. LANDING LIGHfS OF THIS AIRCRAFT W ~ I SEFORE I'r LANDED~ -AN-UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT WAS MDE TO CONTACT RAPCON SQUADRON AT EAFB FOR ADDITIONAL POSSIBLE FACTS PAR 9. NONE PAR 10. REFER TO PAR 8. NO OTHER LOCAl. AIR ACTIVITY AT TIME OF OBSERVATION. PAR 11. MSGT PAGE THREE RJESQR 108A FB~T INTEL SECTION. CAUSE COULD NOT 3E IM~EDIATELY DETERMINED SSGT VEZMAR wOULD HAV~ lN THE OPINION OF THE PREPARING OFFICR, IDE TIF lED THE AIRCRAFT l..ISTED IN PAR 8 HAD IT dEEN THE: SA11E OBJECT o Ca (Information Only) 7 November 1957 Meridian, Mississippi The following monilng, November 7th, iruclc tlriver H:Uvail Stevena said }\e en- . :; countered an age-shaped objoot on the h1gh'lrq ne~-:eridian, H:!.Asiss1pp1. FrOi~ it :.! emerged three queer-looldnll poople four-and-a-half feet. ld.r,,h--t\'/0 111en and a Y(O-'! man with "pasty-white faces and darl<: hair. Tl~ey "ch .tterad unintelligibl.y, and : "s t ok" Stevens' hand.. A oompanion corroborated his story. : : I AFTER THE F AJ~L wAS 'OVER-..... -, . .-t'lndr&l uwh~ (L) And R~ss. --A.P. Wireph'oto J RECORD ASCENT OODISts . . RAPID CITY, S. D., Nov. !>. <JP> -With a record a scension of more than '14 n1iles to their credit, .two Navy balloonists rested here today after a descent to earth a lot fRster than they had anticipated. Cmdrs. Malcolm D . Ross, 37, and L. Lewis 43 both of \Vash-We think we will stay with the v cu1 D . C., riding a gondol<l at-oo~ as ong as we can, . hed to a 128-foot helium balloon, radioed. . ~eache!d 76,000 feet yesterday over broken land of South D;tkota AT 70,000 FEET, the drop sla ~ ..... nd Nebraska. ened and the men reported had ,.started taking pictures." Tbey reached that height hvo ,. . , , and 50 minutes after they We d.Idn t g~t a~! wo.r~ done, rted upward -from a natural one of th sald. but Jt s Jo'\oe 1>0\~J in the Black Hills near Rapid up there. ty. From that same natural bowl Their rate ot fall continued, hn\Jli.J balloon had soared 72,395 ever, at 1000 to 3000 feet per ,,.,.p in 1935 to set the record Ross ute. They had strapped themselv Lewis brok~. to their seats after ejecting ballast . . . in an attempt to regain balance h However, Capt Iven C. Kmche-the balloon. oe, 1n a Bell X-2 rocket plane, "W k' k d . maLue a higher-126,000 feet-but ,e ~ e out e~erythmg _tha t a1 flight last August at Ed-W;tsn t n~tled down, the y s<11d. Air Force base CaL When ~e gondola fell t o .... , . ' ground Wlth a gentle thud, the men hopped out, complaining only tha UP AT ?8,000 feet, th~ two men were unable to hear clearly. later said, ''It was dark as night." They sipped some coffee a nli rad!o~d their height bl\c k to ~arth. ' 'Ihen they started down The first 20,000 feet !ound things going as scheduled at 1000 feet minute drop. _ _ But then somethfng happened- Ross and Lewis a11id they didn't what-.:.and tbeir fall r11te MJl1, co.-~ i '-te.~ attempt. said. flight \\-ill be made if there. is a chan for the better in the \vealher outlook. . ':t The bad "'eather forecast ln vol\es the area throuch which the balloon would. drif~: than the launcbJnc altefn~. " ~tratobo"f' near Rapid Otl~l ;in. Morten L. ..., RAPID atf, I . .u ..... bJJoan i floan Strato to mU at here,. for tOdY tau poatponed leut 0111 Clpt. Norman Barr aald l'rttllll. Tbe tMclleal. the wu.ptpoMd became obviGUI tions would the Navy, of tbe fllabt. said tortq would be tbe first. day the hellooft atttinl Qaactr .. M.o I. Lewis and Lt. Cmrt. M. D. ~i could take off~ . l Wincll up to 40 mil u hcMq- 1 and blowiq IDOW rqed Friday bt 1 the area where the bellooft will ' Launcbinl of tbe plutic: balloon \\ill be made on tbe first aood mominc from standpoint of weather eonditiont, Barr aaicL