PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 2. LOCATION 3. OATETIME GROUP :-: 0 : Grcund Visual S. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS 0 Ground-Rodor 0 Air-Intercept Rodor oi.t{? sr CONCLUSIONS 0 Was Balloon Probohly Balloon 0 Poui bly Ball~:~on D Was AIrcraft P robabl )' Ai rcr oft 0 Possibly Airr.raft Was Astronomi col 0 Probably Astronomical 0 Poaslbly Astronomical In sufficient Doto for Evaluation 0 Unlcnown 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING ('Olor whi.tG. Gi>jec,:, a,Jvln.; r.t.!:;~t i;'i::.>t.H' li1r~L0Cl' 11. COMMENTS ATIC J'ORN Jl? (RP.V 26 SJ~P 52) PP itJE:DSQ RJEDDN RJEPNB RJEDFL.. RJEPHQ DE RJEDPW 5 Fila CO:'iDR 30TH AIR D !VISION DE \VI LLOW RUN AF STA PELLEVILll MICH TO RJEDDN/Cm1DR ADC ENT .AFB COLO SPRINGS COLO RJEDF!:fAIR TECHNICAL INTELLIGANCE CENTER WRIGHT PATTERSON AF8 _9_[1_0 RJPHQ/DIRECTOR OF I NTELL!Gt:NCE HQ USAF l!!ASHINGTON 25 D C I li~.fO.. R~EPN.E/COtviDR-EASTERN. A-IR DE.FENSi: FO,RCE STE!HART AF-e NY I /U~CLASS// CCC :?PJ 1 /JF05/ 1. A. STAR SHAPED F. MOVING MUCH FASTER THAN SPUTNIK A. SPt:ED-SP UTNIK E.-fADAL tUT LI J<:!: -METEOR F. FOUR - FIVE SCM 3 . A. VISUAL FRO~! GROUND B .. NIGHT 5. A. 42 DEGREES 15 NORTH -- 8 . Ai':N AR ROR DIRECTOR AT UNIVERSITY OF MICH. OBSERVATCRY . . 7. A. HAZY-MOON AND S"fARS VISIELE 1. A, liAZY -t100N AND STARS VI SIBLE B. A. NONE 11. CA?T SENIOR CONTROLLER ADCC/ MR !3. WAS DEFI NITELY dOT SPUTNIK OR i"~ETECR Dr. J . Allen Hynek THE OBSERVATORY UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN Smithsonian Astrophy~ical Obse~vatory 60 G.:i::den Street Camb't' idge 38, Nassachusetts Dear Allen: ~Uny thanks for your letter of March and you should b y now h a v e received a copy of my letter tion of the voting del on-; Of course, name should a ppear in place of I am amused by the matter of the UFO report. It so happe ns that on the evening in question I was out looking for Sputnik II l<Ti th a friend of mine who ,.10rks for the government. We did not see the Sputnik, because it passed over earlier than the predicted time, but I was rather start l e d to observe a stellar-like object, which appeared in the northeast a t an altitude of abo~t 30 and move d v ery rapidly, in about three or four seconds, in,.1..rather f lat traject ory across the sky before it disappeared almost directl y in the west. I commented tha t because of its spee d and direction, the object could not be the Sputnik. I had also never seen a m2teor with s uch a long path, at leas t considering i t s relatively low brightness of about the firs t magnitude. }~ friend insisted that it ought to be reported and h ence I did. It probably was a meteor. With best regards, I am