3. D4TETIME GROU~ PROJECT10073 RECORD CARD 2. LOC.l TION E glin AFB, Florida 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Q .GrouncA-Vi suol C Ai,.Vi sual XXGround R odor C Airlntercept RaciOP CONCLUSIONS 0 Wo s Bolloon 0 P rebobly Boll eon Possibly Balloon 0 Was Aircraft Pre bobl y Ai rcralt Po s $i W y AI rcroft 0 Wos Astfonomicol 0 Probobl y Astronomical 0 Possibly Astronomical 7. L!:NGTH O,.OISERYATION 9. COURSE R:xOtloter ~'1-J:.r ~a 1 i ':1!.crhn 0 lnsuffi cient Data r.i, !valuation 1 NE -SE 0 Un&cnown I. NUMBER opr OIJECTS '10. SRI!P SUMMAAY Of SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS J 9 objec~ picked up on radar, then The returns could b e interference 2~other picked up at 45,000 ft. the or radar malfunction. a 1iginal obj was at 39,000 ft a~ this i 1me. One obj above the other. Flight i _ .~h was not oiia straight line at any 1 ::~e, was first hea~ing NE, then SE, j n wes1:. Objects faded from radar l ~:: a lti"tude of 2 0l,800' ft. PAGE THREE RJESGL 82 BECAUSE OF RELIABLE SOURCE AND TO SUPPLY INFORMATION POSSIBLE RELATING TO SIMil.AB SlGHTINGS REPORTED TO AGENCIES BY OBSERVERS NOT AVAILABLE FOR INTERROGTION BY THIS INTELLIGENCE DIVISIONJ ~7/21342 NOV RJESGL b. Inclosure i/:2: This r adar paint v a s pr obably due to u nidentifie d o.:trcraft passing through the are a . 0 rv(0trt Ft1 HEDUSAF _., fJ COtIAT I C D~: RJESY~ 1 B F:1 2047TH AACSROt-J XH2l.L AFB ALA ro R JEDN/ COtlDR ADC ::OJ~ PH':'./ COFS H'l USAF CIRVI.3. NUN2ROUS REPORTS OF GI\OUND S IGHTINGS AND AIRBORNE SICHTINGS OF UNUSUAL OBJ ZCTS AND LIGHTS FROM EVERGREEN ALA. 30 NIL~:s NORTH- ItlZST OF NZH ORLEANS L A AND EGLI~1 AFB Fl.A . REPORT :;: oN N~t~ ORLEANS STATE:D OBJC:CT APPEARED TO BE GRS.:E:N FLARS. REPORTS ~RON EGLIN AFB P.ND FORSSI SHE:RtIAN NAS AT PNS HAVE SEVERAL GROUPS OF 3TATIO~!ARY OBJECI3 ON RADAR BETi~EEN PENSACOLA AND EGLI N AFB FLA. J-66 F:iOH EGLI:i' A73 F LA NADE VISUAL CONTACT WITH OBJE:CTS BUT RAN LOliJ J~! FUl!:L AND COULDNT COHPLZTE INT~RCEPT S.EVERAL AIRCRAFT FROt-t EGLIN ','\ i'T EMPT I NG I NTERCEPT AT PRZSENT T l [,JE S I GNC: D GO I. INS l~Y NOV RJI::S Y1. Electronic TO: AFCIN-4E4 UFO Heport FROM: AFCIN-4El DATE: 17 Dec 57 t COi- IT NR 2 AFCI1~-4E1 a/V. D .. BrJant/ jc. 1. It is difficult ~o eva~1ate the inclosed report without indications as v~ rates or speed, etc., of the target. The altitudes suggest p~ssiQ~e veat~r balloons, e..l.though the evaluation of Intelligence Officer Captain Davis may very "~ell oe correct in attributing the returns to interference or radar Qalfunction. 2. For your intoxmation, this branch, recognizing its inability to give adequate attention to these reports, and lacking personnel versed in weather characteristics, etc., has reco:ca:~ended to the Electronics Division that i:cJ:Iediate action be taken to secure the sezvices of a cocpetent consultant who can intelligentlY evabtate these reports and provide answers to the field which will satisfy them GORDON C .-r :...,.Colonel, USAF ~"""CIN -4El Pagf' I of FM TYNDALL AFB FLA ~515552 r " TO ENT AFB COLO _, ~ 35TH AIR DIV DEF DOBBINS AFB GA . . ~ ... 'i J ~ AF SECURITY OFFICE ATIC WPAFB O.,.. '. \-/,, n AF SPECIAL SECURITY OFFICE EADF STEWART AFB NYU . ~ FROt1 Gtii-OS 10L. HEADQUARTERS USAF FOR DIRECTOR OF ' . ', ! INTELLIGENCE. UFOB. THIS MESSAGE IN 12 PARTS'"'?PART 1CA) N/A (B) .!(:,-; I ""',"" N/A CC) N/A CD) ONLY 1 OBJECT UNTIL. 214SZ~NOVEr~BER 57, THEN ANOTHER OBJECT APPEARED AT 45000 FEET. THE OR.IGINAL OBJECT ~vAS AT 39000 FEET AT THIS TIME. CE> 1 OBJECT ABOVE THE OTHER AT 21492. (F) ~;/A (G) N/A CH> N/A .C!l. THE UNUSUAL FEATUR.E OF THIS REPORT .WAS THE FLORIDA. CALL SIGN OF THE STATION TRACKIN T WAS DEMON. 578 ACWRON SEARCH RADAR WAS ON THE AIR AT THIS TIME. THE AN/FPS-2Z SEARCH SET OF THE 578 ACWRON DID NOT PICK UP ANY OBJECTS THAT COULD BE CORRELATED WITH THE TRAC!< :OwMON WAS l'RACK1NG. HOWEVER THE AREA THE OBJECTS WERE IN WAS SCANNED CAREFULLY BY THE 67S TAC ON. AT THIS . . Sl RECEIVE t~ T-ITU-DE-~BJ WAS IN 8) APPROXIMATE 10 DEGREES ANGLE~o ELEVATION FROM EGLIN AFB FPS-1~ 999 DEGREES AXIMUTH FROM EGLIN/AFB FPS-1&. (C) APPROXIMATELY 2 AND 1/2 DEGREES ANGLE OF ELEVATION /~ FROM. EGLIN AFB AN/FPS-16. QJ90 DEGREES AXIMUTH FR.OM EGLIN AFB AN/FPS-1~ CD) FLIGHT PATH ~AS NOT ON A STRAIGHT LINE AT ANY TIME. FIRST ~ P.OSITION OF UFOB WAS GFEA 2838-AT 2037Z HEAtiNG NORTHEAST, ALTITUDE 52000 FEET, AT 21072 POSITION WAS GJEA 4a21 AT 1~00~0 FEET, AT 2l24Z POSITION WAS GJEA '836 HEADING EAST,.ALTITUDE 1~500Z FEET, AT 21272 POSITION WAS GJFA i237 HEADING NORTHEAST ALTITUDE 90000 FEET, AT 213~Z POSITION WAS GJFA 1134,HEADI~IG SCUTHEAST AT s1;00 FEET. AT 2133Z POSITION WAS GJFA 1134 HEADING SOUTHEAST AT 810a0 FEET. AT 2133Z POSITION WAS GJFA 0236. REVERSED DIRECTION TO ~EST ALTITUDE 73~00 FEET. AT 2142Z POSITION GJFA ~235. UFCB STATIONARY AT THIS TIME. ALTITUDE. 52000 FEET AT 2145Z POSITION GJFA DIRECTION NORTH ALTITUDE 4'00a FEET. AT 2149Z POSITION PAGE THREE GJFA 1237 DIRECTION NORT~EAST. 2 UFOB AT THIS TIME. 1 AT ALTITUDE 390 FEET AND THE OT~ER AT 4'101 FEET. AT 220SZ POSITION WAS GJFA 3214 HEADING SOUTHEAST ALTITUDE 24~0~ FEET. AT 22102 UFOB FADED FROM RADAR AT POSITION GJFA 3219 ALTITUDE 214801 FEET. THE UFOB S PICKED UP BY EGLIN AFB AT 21372, AT THIS TIME THE RATE OF DESCENT :iA 1033 FEET PER ~5 ECON ( ) FADED FR R ( ) HO 33 MINUTES PART 3. (A) GROUND-ELECTRCNIC <RADAR) AN/FPS-15. (B) N/A (C) NEGATIVE PART 4. (A) NONRADAR FROM .2037Z 5 NOVEMBER 57 TO 2210Z 5. NOVENBER 57. (B) DAY. PART ' EGLIN AFB, FLORIDA SITE NUMBER A-19. PART 6. CA.) N/A (B) UNKNOWN-EGLIN AFB SAID THEY MAKE A REPORT ALSO. PART 7. (A) TYNDALL AFB, FLORIDA 210~Z 5 NOVEMBER 57. S000 SCATTERED HIGH CVERCAST, VISIBILITY 7, TEMPERATURE 75 WINDS WEST NORTHWEST S, ALTIMETER 3~.02 I~JCHES. TYNDALL ~ AFB FLORitA 2200Z 5 NOVEMBER 57. 8 0 SCATTERED VISIBILITY 7, TEr1PERATURE 59 DEW POINT 55 WINDS WEST 6, ALTIMETER 3 0.02. EGLIN AFB FLORIDA 210~2 5 NOVEMBER 57. HIGH OVERCAST VISIBILITY 10 ~ WINDS NOR!}{ 6. EGLIN AFB FLORIDA 2200Z 5 NOVEMBER 57 -:~ HIGH OVERCAST, BISIBILITY 1~. t~INDS NORTH 6. (B) SURFACE 39.10 DEGREES 8 KNOTS ~011 FEET, NONE, 5000 FEET, 310 DEGREES, 21 KNOTS 1~0~1 FEET, 290 DEGREES, 25 KNOTS 1600~ FEET, 15~00 FEET, 290 DEGREES, b~ 49 KNOTS 2~111 FEET, 28~ DEGREES, 45 KNOTS 3~0~0 FEET, 300 DEGREES, 7a KNOTS 5i00 UNKNOWN. 80000 FEET, UNKNOWN (C) CEILING, TYNDALL AFB HIGH, EGLIN AFB HIGH CD) VISIBILITY TYNDAL AFB 7 MILES, EGLIN ~ AFB 1~ MILES CEl TYNDALL AFB SCATTERED AND OVERCAST, EGLIN AFB, OVERCAST Ci) NEGATIVE PART s. NEGATIVE PART 9. AT 2221Z ' NOV 57 AT-33 WAS .SCRAMBLED FROM 47'6 AIR DEF SQ AT TYNDALL AFB FLA TO CHECK ~ OUT THE AREA THE UFOB WAS IN. AT 22A4Z THE T-33 WAS AIRBORNE AND wAS VECTORED.INTO THE AREA THAT THE UFOB WAS IN, AT ALTITUDES FROM 3!U0ZQJ FEET TO 3900QJ FEET, HOWEVER THE RESULTS WERE NEGATIV-E: .. -.. . J) TilE T-33 SEARCHED THE AREA FROM 22452 5 NOV UNTIL APPROXIMATELY ::. 23 557 -'- NoY_'7_._ NO IN.0RMA!l.ON.-.Ott~AN UEOB . .l.N THAI. AREA WAS _R~P_ORr.EIL_ _ SEEN BY THE T-33 PART 10. THERE WAS 8 F1132' S AT 41000 FEET IN A . .: ~ . ~) 45 TO 50 MILE AREA OF THE UFOB AND l& B-57 AT 4~000 FEET IN ABOUT .... THE SAME AREA. THESE TRACKS-WERE BEING CONTROLLED BY THE 678 ACWRON. PART 11. INTELLIGENCE OFFICER CAPTAIN CHARLES N DAVIS. COMMENTS OF PREPA2ING OFFICER. THE ORIGINAL RADAR RETURN MAY w~LL HAVE !EEN EITHER ELECTRONIC INTERFERENCE OR A MALFUNCTION SINCE THE EQUIPMENT Is UNDERGOING TESTS. THE SUBSEQUENT RETURNS Cl?.s-:;r:cnhJn Car:celled PROBABLY WERE AIRCRAFT WHICH WERE ERRONEOUSLY CORRELATED TO THE TARGET PICKED BY THE FPS-16. THERE WERE SEVERAL OF OUR F-102-A'S IN THE IMMEDIATE VICINITY. IT IS SIGNIFICANT THAT THE LAST PLOTS w~RE AT NORMAL JET ALTITUDES. PART 12. OVERLAY ON PATH OF UFOB J . IS AVAILABLE AT 578 ACWRON, TYNDALL AFB, FLORII:A IF NEEDED. NOTEI P~ASON FCR DELAY IN REPORT WAS INFORMATION FROM EGLIN AFB COULD NOT BE OBTAINED UNTIL THE MORNING OF 5 NOVEMBER '7 ---. DISPOSITION FORM SrL"URITY CLASSIFICATION (lf ur) ?COMMENT HO. 1 Classification C~mcelled e11 to ttAJ ~) PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS 0 Wos Balloon 3. OATETIM! GROUP .E lin i'd?~j, U'lor.:d P. 0 ProboblyBalloon ... TYPE OF OBSERVATION ~-------1 0 Possibly Balloon 0 Ground Vi aual tJ Gro"nd R odor 0 Was AI rcroft :n 7 .probably Ai rcroft GMT ~O:Air-VIaual 0 Air-Intercept Radar Possibly Aircraft 5. PHOTOS J. SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical 0 Ya 0 Prol>ot,ly Astronomical b No 'ii 1 i t ;:u y 0 Possibly Astronomieol 7. LENGTH OF O&SERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9. COURSE 0 Other:-----:-- -~- 0 Insufficient Ooto lor E"'oluotion 0 Unlcnown t wo "IN.: , v~tl'i.Jd 10. BRIEII SUMMARY Of SIGHTING Norm~'tl r~d~r retu1n o f Lwo o h ject .:i wll:h s~cond obj trniling: r i ;,b t wing of lead~r with apptoximate l y 1/2 n i .Lo s c 0auatj.on. 11. COMMENTS P :uba bly ..:ouv,)l t :.iun~l ~wid~.::-ntifiGd ATIC PORN 32? (R~V 2fJ SY.r Sl) SQA2~8 YDD1li3 VYD1.33GLA121 PP RJEDDN RJEDSQ DE RJESGL 82 F~2 COMDR APGC ~ TO RJEDDN/ COM DR ADC RJEDSQ/COMDR ATIC UNCLASSIFIED FROM DCS/0-0&T/ID 8136 UFOB REPORT. PASS TO DIRECTOR OF I NTELLIGENCE. P.EFERENCE PARAGRAPH 7D, AFR 200-2. THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS SUBMITTED: C1) (A) NORMAL RADAR RETURN; CD> TtiO; (E > LEM~NT OF ruo WITH SECOND OBJECT TRAILING RIGHT WING OF LEADER WITH APPROXIMATELY 1/2 l~ILE SEPARATION} <2) <A> CBESTVIET.tl CAA AIRAYS STATION REPORTED SIGHTINGS TO NEW ORJ .. EANS ARTCC, WHO REQUESTED ASSIST OF EGLIN RAPCONJ <B > 22 DEGREE ELEVATION, 348 t~GREE AZIMUTH FROM CRESTVIEW iLA.; (C) RADAR BEARING 280 DEGREES, 32 NAUTICA4 MILES FROM EGLIN; CD> FIRST OBSERVED COURSE ~2~ DESREES, TURNED APPROXIMATELY 6" DEGREES IN EIGHT MINUTES TO PAGE TtiO RJESGL S2 HEADING OF 270 DECREES, SPEED 60 TO 80 KNOTSJ CE) LOST RADAR CONTACT I N VICINITY OJ' WHIING NAS, APPROXIMATELY 31 MILES WEST NORTHW~ST OF J;,c()tl= 2,_ (~. E.-GLif\1 R ~PCONJ Cl') ~PPROXIMATEI:Y-3'9J-MINUTES)--C3 ) -CA > -RADAR -CE GLIN ------------ RAPCO) CPNI18A ON 40 MILE SEARCHJ (4) <A> 26~15 TO 260245J <B> NIGHTJ C5 EGLIN AFB, FLAeJ (6) CB) TECH SGT GERALD Je GREEN AND AIRMAN SECOND CLASS DAVID KNOGHT, BOTH OF 1n0 AACS SQUAtRON, RADAR OPERATORS, SOURCE COMPLETELY RELIABLEJ (7) CA) Ct.EARj CB) SURFACE CALM 6000 FEET 35~ DEGREES 18 KNOTS, 16 320 DEGREES 25 J<Nors, 20 001 FEET 310 DEGREES 28 KNOTS, 30,019 FEET :2 8~ DEGREES 6!5 KNOTS 000 FEE1' 25 0 DEGREES 86 J<NOTSJ CC) UNLlMITE:Dj CD> 10 MILESJ CE) NONEJ CF) NONEJ <8> EASTERLY JET STREAM AT APPROXIMATELY 37 009 FEETJ (9) RAPCON OPERATOR DIVRTED BS6 NUMBER 5'.31 t, HOME. STATION HURLBURT FIELD <FIELD NUMBER 9, EGLIN RESERVATION> TO AREA. REPORTED SEEING TWO LIGHTS BELOW B66 ALTITUDE OF 37 A~LS, IDENTIFICATION NOT POSITVJ (10) THREE r100, ON B66, ONE C119 IN LOCAL AREA, POSITIVE RADAR CONTACT UITH ALL KNOWN AIRCRAJ'T IN AREA) (11) CAPTAIN WILl.I AM M. LYONS, !HI EF INTELLIGENCE DIVISION, HEADQUARTERS APGC EGLI'N AFB. SIGHTING )T UNUSUAL. PROBABL~COMVENTIONAL AIFCRAFT. REPORT SUBMitTED