PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 2. LOCATION 1~. CONCLUSIONS 0 Was Balloon ... Novem J~r 1957 Duu od :l n l -F lor .i.d a 0 Pro btthl., BalI oon 0 Passi bl., Balloon .loeo1------------tl:Grounci-Visuol 0 Ground-Rodor D.irWos Aircraft 0 Probably Aircroft 0 Possibly Aircraft GMY04/ 1 9 4 D Z 0 Air-Visual 0 Air-Intercept Rador a Yes 0 ProbobtyAstr..,nomicol 0 Possibly Astronomical 12-Ho C i v i l ian " 0 lnsuffi c:ient Doto for Evoluotion 0 Unkrtown s0 v8n or eight r.t.ins 10. BRIEP SUMt.tARY OF SIGHTINC On~ roun d silver objec1: tho s ize o i a b ~t s k d t b a 11 a t arm ' s 1 c n g t h a 11 d with a tail fouz times a s l o n g us tho 9 bj, tho sam2 size. Ob j was seen liloving vcr~ slowl y s outh and was i n sigh t f o r s r;ve1 o x eigh t minutes. ATJC FORM 329 (R~V l6 SEP 52) 11. COMMENTS Cor1cur \'lith rp t ing o t'f icer t:ha t this sigl1tiJ1g was c~used b/a jet pullint: nO'i.l -persistent con- JED~1P H~57 WPD168 YDA123 VYC139 VDBY,84KBA"55 PP RJEDDN RJED~P RJEPHQ RJEPNB DE RJESKB 4D FM COMDR 66aTH ACWRON ro RJEDDN/COMDR ADC RJESKB/COMDR 35TH ADIV RJEDWP/COMDR AIR TECH INT CNTRt JEPHQ/DIR OF INT HQ USAF ItlFO RJEPNB/COMDR EADF /UNCLASSIFIED/CPS ~G17 PD UFOB PD ATTN: EADF ClO PD BALL BUT THE SAME SIZE F. HAD A TAIL 4 TIMES AS LONG AS G., SAME AS CF) PACE TWO RJESKB 4D .\ ROUTINE SCANNING UR~ENT I i'l!LITARY PATROLS REPORTED TODA THEY. AD SEEN .AN.,UN.IDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT N!AR THE SPOT ~HIRE THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB WAS EXPLODED IN 1945. THE DESCRIPTION OFFERED .BY THE TWO PATROLS FIT THE ONE OFFERED BY PZRSONS ~HO SAID THEY SA~ A FLYING OBJECT NEAR LEVELLAND, TEX., YESTERDAY THi PA.TROLS, OF TWO SOLDIERS EACH REPORTED THEY. HAD SEEN THE "'VERY BRIGHT OBJECT YESTERDAY NEAR TRINITY SITE," THE SPOT IN AN ISOLATED AREA OF WHITE SANDS PROVING GROUNDS WHERE THE FIRST TEST ATOMIC BOMB t~AS EXPLOSED. THEY SAID THEY SAW IT AT DIFFERENT TIMES YESTE~DAY. . ONE PATROL REPORTED THE OBJECT TOUCHED DOWN BRIEFLY AT THE TRINITY SITE. THE OTHER GROUP SAID IT ONLY HOVERED OVER THE SPOT. . LT. H. F .. TENNY COMPANY COMMANDER AT THE ARMY'S .. STALl.lON ... SIIE ON T~E GROUNDS, l1ADE AN INSPECTION T~IP TO THE SCENE TODAY ~ HE FOUND NO VISIBLE MARKINGS. . HE SAID HIS INVESTIGATION .WAS COMPLETED, AND THAT THE REPORT WOULD <PICKUP 3RD PGH EARLY, STARTING: WHITZ SANDS PROVING GROUNDS, N. M., NOV. 4.--(tJP>--TWO SEPARATE NILITARY PATROLS REPORTED TODAY THEY .. HAD SEEN .AN . UNIDENTIFIED FLYu~G OBJECT EARLY YESTtRDAY OVER AN ISOLATED. AREA OF THE ~HITE SANDS PROVING GROUNDS . . ... - TH DESCRIPTION OFF,ERED BY THE MILITARY PATROLS FIT THE ONE - .. REPORTED BY PL~SCNS WHO SAID THEY SAW A FLYING OBJECT NEAR L!V!LLAND YESTERDAY. , PUBLIC .INFORMATION OFFICER FOR THIS MISSILE- TEST , . PORTED OFFICIALLY TONIGHT THAT A "VERY BRIGHT~ .. OBJECT.WAS SIGHTED BY THE TWO PATROLS. . . THE REPORTS FROM THE PATROLS SAID TH OBJECT WAS SHAPED . " THE OBJECT ~4AS A~OUT 50 YARDS ABOVE TH GROUND. .. ~ .-' ON ?A1'!tOL SIGHTED 1HE OBJECT AT 2:30 A. M . , YESTERDAY, n .~L-1J ~ AND t"d.E:R SAW IT AT 8 P. M. YESTERDAY, . i Pf.Y'J . ~, A T s: . .c - '.S RADAR .UNIT DIP r.t_Q_T ~ICI< U rr--1 A~iY 0 . N. HE SAID AN INVESTIGATION WAS UNDER-., .. ' U:~Y-!0 DETERMINE AUTH TlCITY OF THE REPORTS. ' : C. THE t11LITARY POLICE: PATROLS PUT THE INFORMATION Of THE UNIDENTIFIED 03J~CT IN THEIR OFFICIAl. DAILY REPORTS. HOWEVER, THE REPORTS ~ERE ~iOT FILED ~11TH THEIR HEADQUARTERS UNTIL TODAY. P.AGGART SAID. THE PATitOLS SAW THE -; .. (n3JECT (OR OBJECTS> AT POINTS LOCATE ,~ILES NORTH OF THE t~H ITE S NDS PZOVING GROUNDS HEADQUARTE IN THE ISOLATED M.ISS Il.t I!1P~CTt<l-.. A-BomlJ Site WHITE SANDS PROVtNG ; Th~ Army today reported niat a. hug~ oval object "nearly a3 . bright as the sun" was spotted Sunday hoverinl neat bunkers , used in the first atomic bomb j explosion. I The ~i~htings were made seventeen hours apart by two ditfer~nt military police patrols' nn this southern New Mexico missile testtn~ range. Tile first :1tomk:: bomb was. touched off : on the northern edge of the area. July 16. 1945. I First Lt. ~.tiles F. Penney, commanding ... officer of the M. P.'s, said none of the men had heard radio reports or seen newspaper accounts of similar sightings in Texas yes- Both sighting were in the area ot abandoned bunkers - used by-techniciaru \vho ob- served the world's nrst atomic . explosion. Lt. Penney said one sighting wa.s made by a two-man patrol at around 8 p.-m, Sunday. Sp. 3/ c Forest R ; Oakes ana : Sp. 3 / c Barlow reoortcd that time their patrol saw a brigh t t light, Specialist. Oakeli\ thouttt hanaing abou~ 1\fty feet above the old aoom bunker. He said the "large brfght light took off at a 45 degtee. angle into the sky and started blinkina.' Then i~ disapJleared. . I This patrol estimated the \ object's s ize as "200 or 300 teet . long." ''It was very brlght," Specialist Oakes said. He said his plltrol was two or three miles we.~t of the light. The earlier sighting came at 3 a. m. Another two-man j eep patrol consi~ting ot Cpl. Glenn H. Toy and a P~. Wilbanks made tl1e report ... :\:, .. :..'~; .. :;'~ Lt. Penney quoted them ns atom bomb bunkers when i t a n an~le to the ground n nd ... _.._. ----saying they noticed a "vt>ry went w.1t. went o u t.'' 1 while bri~ht object" hitth in the s ky. A few minutes later. Cnl. T oy H e d escnbt>ct t h e obJect ns 1 H ome The object descended unt il it said, the object became re~'llabout 75 to 100 Y'"'l!'ds in diam-~ .. (', was about t\tty yards above the brtS!ht . like the sun . then fell i.n.e~er and shnpecl !:k~ a n eo;;.r. I' Al.aUQUllQUE, N.t1., NOV. 4--( UP) -THE SOUTHij51'S L~DlNG t1ZTJ!:ORIT!- C!S~! DR. LlNCO~N LA PA! SAID.TQDAY HE DOESN'T B!LI~VZ THE MYSTE~lOUS. CIGAR-Lit< OBJCT SIGHTED OVtR WEST TL~S AND NEW MEXICO LAST NIGHT CO~TA!N!D LITTLE PEOPLE FROM MARS OR VENUS. LA P.~z, _HEAD OF THE MtTZORITlCS INSTITUTE OF tHE UNIVERSITY OF N!~ ~1ZXICO, S~ID THE OBJECT ~AS "EITHER MAN-MADEw OR COULD BE ATTRIBUT~D TO "'METEOR IT !C PHE.~OMENON." . , HE SAID STORIES' OF THE .. POSSIBILITY OF A "SPACE SHIP" FROM ANOTHER PLANET MOTIVATED BY MAGNETIC FIELD FORCES "HAS NOT BEEN TAKEN S~!tlOUSLY BY SCIZ."'TISTS. BUT HE INDICATED IT WAS ~zNTIR!LY POSSIBLE" THAT TH! OBJECT WAS MAN~ADE. LA P.\z SAID HE HAS RS:CEI.VtD CAJ.T.S TODAY FROM "THROUGHOUT THE AREA,. MADE BY PEOPLE WHO REPORTZDLY SIGHTED THE MYSTEaiOUS OSJECT. AMONG Trt!~ WERE METEORITE WATCH~RSw WHO OBSLqVED THE RED, ClG~R-SaAPED PHENOML'ICN THROUGH "BREAKS IN AN UNUSUALLY CLOUDY SKY CIGAR-LIK! OBJ!:CTS AND OTHER SUCH OBJECTS, GLO'tNING RED, GREZ~, AND PRACTICALLY VIIRY COLOR OF THE RAINBOW, HAVE BEEN SIGHTED OV!R THE SOUTH ~JESTERN DESERT FAIRLY FREQUENTLY ~ITHIN THE LAST 10 YEARS. LA PAZ . SAID ALL REPORTS~ INCLUDING THOSE MADE TODAY, WERE_FOR~ARDED TO THE OIFICIAL GROUP AT ~RIGHT PATTERSON AIR FORCZ BASE IN OHIO WHICH IS INVESTIGATING SUCH PHENOMENON As for the White Sands sightings, the AF explanntion spenks of lights seen by ~ j planes patrolling the area." 'l'his is the tlr st mention an~,"w'here of plane~; all the , ne~.7spaper accounts said lichts Vlere seen by tvro t,k,-man J.eep patrols -by one at 3 : a.m. and by an~ther at 8 p.m. the S3J!le day (Nov. 3). Didn't the A:F knon about the jeeps? Did it know about them and prefer to ignore them, and why? Or were they merely being careless about their >jlO.,OOO facts? Were t.he liehts also seen by planL.;? I ~iha.tever the reason for this discrepancy., we can test the AF conclusions only against I the reports or the jeep observerr1. Says the AF: "The reports of the plane pilots were apparently explainable by the planet Venus :tn an unusually favorable positior. for observation, or by cloud formations around the moon." So far a.s the jeeps are \ concerned, the first explanation is all wrong and the second is preposterous. ~ Venus . is NEVER visible at all at J o'clock in the morning, and on November 3 it, had 'set at 7:30 p.m., half an hour before the second jeep patrol saw a~ything. As for the al- ternate explanation sugeested, the soldiers' descriptions of wha.t they saw {pa.ge 2) indicates that such celestial acrobatics of "cloud formations around the moon" {in Ne;r Mexico s notoriously clear skie3) were never seen before nor since. r .. HAD I\ TAIL 4 TIMES AS LONG SAM:S: SIZE PAGE T\JO RJESKB 4D A. ROUTINE SCANNING C. 15 DEGREES n;-'soJJTlt)VERY SLOtJLY NO MANEUVERS E. FADE OUT A. GROUND VISUAL _.,.,/ HOUSEWIFE I . HOUSEt~IFE DUNEDIN FLA. HOUSEWIFE PAGE THREE RJESKB ,'\ . VERY CLEAR D. UNLIMITED 10. NO DISCERNABLE TRAFFIC I N SITING AREA 11. SENIOR DIRECTOR, ~ET, PU_LLING NON-PERSISTI;NT CQ{iiRAILS . CtJ;v c. t,/jr I'' ~}G/1G41Z NOV RJ~KB