PROJECT 10073 RECORD ClRD 12. CONCLUSIONS ... _ D Alrcroft ece1----------.. ..-... 4-VIauel7)( ;~:\CruR .. Redet a Prol.ot.l, Alrcroft D Alrlfttrcpt R~er D PoaaiWy Alrcroft 0 Woe AetroRolftl col tot D ProltoW, Aatrolcol D He Rec 'd Ci viliaD D Poaall.ly ""'"'icol 8XOtMr Satellite OP SIGHTING AftC PORM 121 (Jt~V 26 IF.P 52) II. COMMIMTS D lneufflclont Dot lor Evoluotion D Unllnown Motioo, description confora to satellite observations. Repeated reports iodicate object identi- cal &Dd not a different one eacb tle. Pictures taken but oot forwarded itb the report. Wibou exaat tiaea and tracking data, specific identifiecatioo cannot be aade, however object very 1 a satellite I.rojeot .~.:1ue ~col~ :vr lah t-iHtters on .. ~1r Foro~ ~H~:ton, Ohio :len.r 31r: I .,ould 11:ce to .. no.-th~ follo .. il1:;: is th~ .;,ir inc !dont? oonclus ion Ci'Tilit!1 I Ootober 1961 A tboi'O\itlh -I'Ch or the UJO ftle8 at ttereOD AFB, ClaJo failed. to rnaal tbl ouea JOU nter to 1D 7CQr letter The clOHat w 0"'''4 oaa. to ana &D4 date a 1ShUDI t.Jat occurn4 at 21.07 CM.r, Jul7 ?0--L .. l9SS--... ,:Id~ object obee frc+o a c1v111AD a1rcatt tor approxtaate~ 5 aa4 cnaalwtion _. t.lat tbe 1B8 obMr'fiDI a 1 helpfUl. lll'lmiUI T. COLEMAll UJO P.ro.1ect o~t:..,.ftcer Public t1on Dl v1a101l Office ot IntonatiOD ATTI Ora i'DB/MaJor J'r1en4 M.ADQUA .. T.fltl II'O"EIGN TECHNOLOGY DIVISION AI" I'OI'C IVIT.MI COMMAND UlltTaD ITATal AIR ~ORCa WRteMT~ATTaRION AIR f'ORC AI., OHIO IIIJICT Req_uest tor tJlPO Intonation (David DaUShters) ''' llcl tiJAF (SAI'OI-3c -MaJor Colean) 1. Reference tbe attached letter to SAFOI trail Mr. dated 7 Auaust 1961 requeatiDI ion on the USAF UPO program. 2. cases referenced in Mr 1D the rrD tiles. It is poss .. ., .. reports ot their occurrance letter could not be found that these sightincs occurred but sot into Air Force ls 3. The HD tUea contained a Chicago sishtiDs which occurred at21.07Z OD 20 July 1958. This obJect wfiietf was~obsered from a civilian aircraft ;,;ely 5 seconds was concluded to be a balloon Colonel, USAF Deputy tor Science Components Civilian U. F. 0. Research DUIICTO" CHICAGO 18. ILLINOIS Major Vtll.ia '1'. Colman UFO ect Officer PQblic tl011 Di T.lsiaD, USAl aab1ngtoD 25, D.C. I bave to the outcoaae of Air Force 1n- ft8tlptiODI of two UIIO sighting in the Chicago ~ After unsuccessful a to learn the results by tins to Air torce Headquarters, I eent a ltter Oil Sept. 9, 1960 to Office ot tion Services, Chicago. OD 22 Sap 60, I received a letter signed by Major Philip Salk, who ealcl that rq letter had been "forwardeti for necessary action". On 26 Sep 60, a letter from J4t. Col. Tacker stated that he had received the letter and was ~checking the matter with the Fighter-Interceptor Sq,md- l'Cf'l vblch was stationed at OHare Air Force Base during that period. Be further stated, When we roeeivaci the 1nformatiao, it will be forwarded to yau. I have not a word since then res16 of each case tollawsa 4 lov 57 -Elllwood Park, Ill. - fire personnel in a patrol observed an abject that glowed The incident was tely reported to O'Hare AFB and the witnesses were quenioned b.1 Air Force officers. 9 .Tul 58 -Des Plaines, Ill. -early morning. Three men observed a bright red object as it passed overhead, moaaentarll7 over 0 'ilare, then take off at high The incident was reported to Des Plaines Pollee Dept. The following day, one witness ccmtacted 0 'Hare AFB and reported the sighting. The Jounaal also contacted Air Force officials. I would like to know the official conclusions in these cases in accordance with AF.R 200-2, aectina 9. ID a letter to you which accotDpanied the Juq issue or our monthly p~blicatlon, I requested a on our disagreemaat over the handling of ilhtinrs involviDI cal1' cme witness. I would still appraciate cormuent. It a DOD nevs rel~ae on the sub ect has been released ( 1n an ea1 lier letter, JCU said 1D August I would &lao like to have a OOPJ' ot t. you. Civilian U. F. 0. kesearch HICAOO 18. ILLIN Major William T. C~leman Uro Project Officer P\lblic Information Divisi~, USAF Pentagon Building Washincton 2S, D.c. Dear Major C a 3 October 1961 On 10 June 1961 , a )"'ur request, I sent l'OU intoruwtion regarding a silhti.ns of an unidentified. flying object over Rushville, Nebraska ear}1' 1n J 1--~.would appreciate knowing, in accord.inceWith"An" 200-2, o)ltcome or the oi'tieial study' into this sighting. Wonld you please send a copy or the latest OOD News Release on the subject! . On 7 August 19c1, I requested infomation regarding two Chicago-area aightings. (4 Nov S7, EJ.nllood Park; 19 Jul .58, Des Ph.ines, Ill.) I have been trying to obf.i1D.1ii?crmation about these-inCidents f'or-cswr-a y-ear. It I can- not pt it through normal ehan.'lela, I may be forced to seek assistarmef, as I have done before. On 11 September 1961, I requested inforumtion regarding a series or know the otticial conclusion in this case, in accordance w1 th AFR 200-2, section a. Major, I have a considerable amotmt of patience and I teel you are competent tor the work you are doing. I hope you will provide the intorna- tion requesting, thereby insuring that both these chracteristics will -- unchanged. ~incerely; Civilian UFO Research %D AD earlier letter I to 70'1 tbe lcbtt rw ..at.t.caec1 S.a pnftoua oorre8PCDI*ace !be latet or Oil tM wbJect ot uro. ia I lacl 70U tb18 N~ MWral ! .. vlU be Mftal ..a betoze an tact aMet 1 publ1hecl Cldaaso 18, Il 1 s rm WIXJ.TAM T. COLF.MAN I JR. llajor, USAF UIO Project otflcer Public -:: t1on ntv11cm Qfftce of t10D apparently 80 per cent the t Flying L ject Reported Seen in N. Japan SAPPORO, Hokkaldo (Kyodo) -"JI'l.)'lnr aaucera'' are back qaln In Japan. An object resembllnr a ftylna aucer waa reported oblerved In IJaht over the Chiton U.s. Air BaH In .outhweatern Hok JWdo Thursday night. CRITOSE (UPI)-Air force Lt. Col. l~aa Harpole, Chltoae taformaUon offtcer, said flatly Ja reaponae to Inquiries that .._o 1ucb Incident occurred" at the base. Jt II belleYed, oweyer, that aecarlty re1ula t1oa8 woald preYent the air Ioree fro ftportln aa ldeatlaed object eYea If oae lteea Mea. A maintenance worker at the baH claimed to have seen the object at around 9:10 p.m. A man on duty at the base's eontrol tower allo reported aeelq with the naked eye a redcUah atar-IJke object movlq alowly from the aouth to the north at a height of aome 300 feet at the westem end of the U.S. Air Force radar waa re- ported to have caught an unidentified object clrcUng over the base and mo\lng toward the .outh at around 9:20 p.m. The U.S. Air Baae In Mlsawa, Prefecture, and the U.S. Far East Command In To- kyo were Immediately notlfted. Rlkuo Iwal, 29, a Tranaporta tlon Ministry Clvll Aviation ofB cial atatloned at Chltose, said there were no aircraft from Chltose base In ftight at the He added that the weather wa good. Therefore, he did not believe that ft was a natural phenomenon. It is the second time an unidentified flying object had been reported detected at Chl tose base. The last instance was in the summer of last year. In Tokyo, a ceremony com memoraUng the third annlver- aary of the founding of the Ja- pan Fly1ng Saucer Research So- ciety Is scheduled to be held thls afternoon at the Nambu Rosen .Kalkan Hall in Oimachi, Shlnagawa Ward. Hajlme Shlmura, an expert on flying saucers, will JIVe a lecture confirming the exist ence of the strange objects re- ported to have been seen by many people around the world. Literature on flying saucers will be eXhibited and put on sale at the hall. The hall is located about a two-minutes walk from the 01 Station on the Kelhin Line of the National Rallways fboenix, Arizona Central Rev Jerae7 ' wa ll& .. uato laa Vepa, lfeva4a Spring Iake, Mlchipn T1op, North Dakota Dayton, Ohio ton, Texaa Rev York State Jlbnca Cit7, 1958 SIOHTIIlS. EVALUATION Other (POOR PHOTO PROCESfO Other {UNRBIJABU: REPORT) Other (CONFLICTINO DATA) Inautticient Data Other (CHAFF) Insufficient Data Astro (MARS) Bapid City South Dakota Insutticient Data Insufficient Data Aircraft . Insufficient Data Fort lavaca, Troy Hill, New Jersey Malmstrom AFB, Montana Dayton, Ohio Great -'Neck, ~vittown1 Arkansas . Shrewsberry, New Jersey Warwick Parrish Tripoli, Libya Cbal mette Concord, Cal.i:tornia Wadsworth, Ohio North Dakota New Mexico Trent, Texas Collinsville, Illinois Arvada, Colorado Ose l Island, Gult o:t Fin J and Olean, New York ltbntauk, New York Erie, Pennsylvania Breckenrid3~, Texas I.tncoln, Omaha, Nebraska Rock Springs & Rawlins, Wyoming Aatro ( M!:.-r-EOR) Military (Vis & RADAR) Aircraft (RADAR REPORT) Multi Aircraft (NAVIGATION LIGH'J Nev York Mil & Civ Aircraft Military Air/Vis Astro (ME:.-TEOR) Military (RADAR) Coast Guard Multi (Mil & Civ) Insufficient Data Insufficient Data Astro ( J.m'l'EOR) . Aircraft Insufficient Data Other (BRASS TUBING) Insufficient Data As~ro (ME'I1DR) Astro (ME'l'EOR) Astro (METEOR) Astro (METEOR) Insufficient Data Astro (METEOR) Other (MISSILE) . Insufficient Data Aircraft (REFV~L OPR) Astro ( Ml!lf'EOR) Astro (METEOR) Insufficient Data ADDITIONAL REPORtED SIGHUNGS (NOT CASES) Fayetteville, North Carolina Washington, D. C. Bev Jersey . Science News Ltr Nevaclipping Xewaclippiag In J/1, can~ l/1 . . / tbe earth at a speed ot .~ UOU:. obJect t171118 about IJ50 Jan . f tor the 12th t!M at 1950 houra 1ocal aa hour seen over Udiae . : 1 puraue4 b Jt which took pb t . .,... on Aus. 1(9 The obJect . . - C0\1IIt171 Ital7 lbbjectt Report ot Unidentified FlJing Objects lbu'Cet Italian newspaper ALTO ADmB Otticera Robert o. Linda.,., Major, USAr, AAirA UNCIASSIPIBD IC #1 Rone AP It 11976bO Rpt #1 IR-.389-SB Agency1 OAirA, ..... D.R.t 10 Sep SB D.I.t 22 Aug SB Rett BAIR b60 J ArR 200-2 J A-2S06 and Project SPACE TRACK/as available 1. The following is a translation or an article which appeared in the 22 August 19S8 issue ot tb.e Italian newspaper ALTO ADIGE (Bolzano) 1 A .~THE SK! OVER UDINB . Udine, 21 AlJI S8 -A iijeterious tl.Jing object is periodicall)" in the Friuli sky. Ma!Jl' people, tor eo , have been convinced that it is a nying The origin ot this belief lies 1n the appearance ot a ln~noua object 1n the ale)" bow that region, which , taken place aince last July under various tor.af although with evident aiilarities. n July, in tact, the passage baa been reported ot a highly . lnmi nous object Vboae identification at ill remaiu a Then, 8 Auauat, punctual l7, 11: I lone wldoh MDUeate iteelt rarel.7 but wtd.ch I c01Jl4 wrif7 through picture I took daft tbe paat tew nightl ill those ? ld.nutea 50 aeo , the conatant tiM ot appearance of the objeot. the pN1enoe of the t1renre, as Mll1' haw dubbed the l\11dnoua object, , hovewr, noticed bJ fti'J' m&ft7 people vhoee teatimoft7' cannot be doubted. It n aleo at Grado by' bather, 1111 Stefan on., Director ot the Land Conaort1um of the Grado Diatrict, hu stated. Furthermore, a group ot -teur aatronomere of Ud1ne haft succeeded in c out a moat interesting apen.nt. Mondq ewnina :lll the open countr7 over a distance ot 10 kilometers cameras ha.e been placed which have photographed the object during its the alc7 of l'riul1. It appeare calculations based on trigonomet17 the height ot the tiref174t 11 about bSO and its epeed reaches ..., 4.S eecond, equal to 16,SOO kilometers per hour. Tuesday at the t:t.e the tiref174t vu pue1111 owr Udine, a squadron of Italiaa 38\ plane vu 1D ru.,htJ th11 unit hu its base in the nearbf' drpol'\ of Jl1wlto. It il beliewd that the haw photographed the object v1 th tbe 110at HDii ti.,. are endowed vi th. . 2 COMMmr or TH1 REPORTIRl ortiCDa Th11 ottice has requested various to~iee located thropghout to turniah additional_informati8n odn the !ightings1d and DQieibly 1dent11Y the o te seen over7nUI1, -udfile, and ra o dur~ug July an Augu~t.ae e~ther Ruaeian or ted.Statee satellites. Karch 1m #1 NODI Bpt I IR389-S8 8ft17' night in the elcy above a silent flying object appears which, it is reported emits an ttent light ot considerable intensity. vu the first and second "tlying saucera were sighted and studied b,y Professor D.lno di Colbertaldo, a teacher ot the i-tilan Universit7 who in this season is li~ ill uli, but the which takes place also over the city and villages ot the area, was by almost the entire population. The professor is now studing the photographs taken w1. th a powertul tele- object:lw lens during the passages ot the J17