3. OATETIME GROUP PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 2. LOCATION Gree n River Lakes a rea~ L TYPE OF OBSERVATION 12. CONCLUSIONS Was Ballaan Probably Ballaan PauiWy BeiiOOft 0 Was Aircraft .O: Ground-Viaual 0 Ground- Radar 0 Prol:tol:tly Aircraft '\ 0 ' 0 Possibly Aircraft 5. PHOtOS o. SOURCE IX Wa. AsttonoMicOI 0 Probably Aat,.,n noical D Poaaibly Aah-ic.a 7. LENGTH OF.OBSERVATION L NUMBER OP OBJECTS 9. COURSE D Other~---::---:-~-:--::--: 1 5-17 minute s one 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING Bright bluish-green obj, stayed i11 same general vicinity, but had a very erratic mofion w/varying dgrs of brightness. ATIC FORM 32:9 (REV 26 SEP 52) D lnaufficieftt Date ... E,.luati.,. stationary 0 UnlcnoWR 11. COMMENTS The star fomalhaut was low on the horizon, but in the area where th~ sighting occurred mountains raise tpe horizon lowering the obj below the horizon thus accounting for its refractigility 32. In the following sketch, imagine that you are at the point shown. Place an A" on the curved line to show how object was above the horizon (skyline) when you lirst saw lt. Place a "B' on the some curved line to ahow how high the object was above the horizon (skyline) when you last sow ft. 33. In the following larger sketch place an A" at the position the obiect was when you First aaw It, and a e" at Its f position when you lost saw it. Refer to amaller aketch as an example of how to complete the larger aketch. ~llliilloC.-- 34. What were the weather conditions at the time you saw the object? 34.1 CLOUDS (Clrcle One) c. Scattered c lauds d. Thick or heavy clouds e. Don't remember 34.3 WEATHER (Circle One) Fog, mist, or light rain c. Moderate or heavy rain e. Don't remember 34.2 WIND (Circle One) !,, ~slight breeze c. Strong w lnd d. Don't remember TEMPERATURE (Circle One) e. Don't r.emember . 35. When did you report to some official that you had seen the object? Ooy Month Year 36. Was anyone else with you at the time you saw the object? (C lrcle One) 36. 1 IF y'ou answered YES, did they see the object too? (Circle One) No 36.2 P addresses: ~heyenne, yoming Cheyenne, Wyoming 37. Was this the first time that you had seen an objec;t or obfecti like this? (Circle One) Yes 37.1 IF you answered NO, then when, where, and under what circumstances clld you see other ones? I had observed "sputnit" on one occasion duri nt; tm pas t suml'ier, I believe in July bu t nm no~ sure or the date. 38. In your opinion what do you thInk the object .was and what might have caused It? ~nknown -possibly missile with failure of flight. 39. Do you think you c:an estimate the speed of the object? (Circle One) Yet~ IF you answered YES,. then what speed would you eatimate? 40. Qo you think you c:an estimate how far away from you the object waa? (Circle One) Yes ;:) IF you answered YES, then how far away would you aay It was? 41. Please give votil"n about yourself: TELEPHONE NUMBER Please indicate any spe.cial educational training that you have had. e. Technical school _ o. Grade school ---:11 Other special training - I b. High school -~lll!k------- c. College--~ d. Post graduate ~ 42. Date you completed this questionnaire: U. S. A I R FORCE T ECHHICAL IH FORMA TIOH SHEET (SUMMARY DATA) In order that your Information moy be filed and coded as accurately as possible, please use the following spaee to write out a short description of the event that .you observed. You may re peat Information that you have already given In the questionnaire, and add any further comments, statements, or sketches that you believe ore Important. Try to present the details of the observa tlon In the order In which they occurred. Additional pages of the same size paper may b. attached If they are needed. (Do Not Write in This Space) On October 9, 1958 at 7:40 P.M., Mountai n Standard Time on the Moose Creek road in the Bridger National Forest, near.the Green Rive r Lakes area sone 45 miles north of Pinedale, W'yoming an unusual object was observed. The weather was quite clear with all stars be easily visible ihe object was observed by Drs as well as myself, and at about the same instance; we were sitting in a stuck pi -up truck facing south-southeast when the object was observed with the naked eye (with e yeglasses) and then with 8X35 binoculars. We got out of the truck and watched for a period of 15 to 17 minutes after which the object faded a nd could no longer be seen. !his was approximately 20 degress off the horizon, was of bright bluish-green to light green ob:Lor of varying intensity and with very quick, erratic motion; however. the obje c t stayed in too same general area at all times. It remait;ed tho brightest object in the sky, much like a very bright star, until it disappeared. At tirres, a second object seemed to be present directly to the left but I believe this was a positive after-image SECURITY CLASSIFICATION JOINT MESSAGEFORM UNCLASSIFIED SPACE BELOW RESERVED FOR COMMUNICATION CENTER PRECEDENCE TYPE MSG (Chd) ACCOUNTING ACTION ROtJTINE ORIG. OR REFERS TO BOOK MULTI aiNCJLIC A'I'IC W-P .AFB NA.TL WEA.'IHER RECORDS CTR ARCADE BLDG. THIS OENl'ER IS IN NEED OF 'mE FOlLO\aNJ WEA.'lliER INFO AND WOUlD APPBEOIATE IT Il YOUR ORGANIZATION COULD SUPPLY IT a WAS '!HERE A 'l'EMPERA'l'ORE INVERSION IN THE AREA. OF CROWHEART. WYOMING ON 7 OCT AT 7 1 40 P.M. MS'l"l IJ' SOt AT. WHAT ALTI'lUDE? OOORDINATI ON a CLASSIFICA 1'10N OF REFERENCE SPECIAL INSTRUCTlONS MD NTH YEAR Vt r. I/ SA .t:-. /i riC!. S:r~rll= })~.,.Y ~r.;c"/rr,L UNCLASSIFIED REPLACES DD ~ORM 178, I OCT 41. WHICH WIU. 81 US:<:D UNT1L UHAUWIED ASHEVILLE, N C NATIONAL WEATHER RE D~CENTER, TO WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE NEAREST RAOB STATION TO CROWHEART WYOMNL IS LANDER THEIR RAOB OCTOBER 7 1958 1615 MST SHOWED~ 1/ A SHALLOW TEMPERATURE INVERSION FROM 483 TO 475 MBS ALTITUDE OF 5980 METERS TO 6100 METERS 2/TROPOPAUSE INVERSION OCCURRED AT 210 MBS 750 METERS HEIGHTS ARE IN METERS ABOVE SEA LEVEL ROY L FOX, DIRECTOR / PLS ACKNOWLEDGE 1 MSG END GA PLS DO U HAVE A OFFICE SYMBOLE OR A NMAE NAME FOR DELIVERY PURPOSES TWX TO ATIC WP AFB DAYTON OHIO WILL THIS DO Q END GA PLS SURE WILL AND TNK REC 1 MSG 04/2105Z DJ SECURITY Cl.ASSnriCATlON JOINT MESSAGEFORM UNCLASSIFIED SPACE BELO W RESERVED FOR COMMUNICATION CENTER P RECEDENCE TYPE MSCJ (CIJea.l:) ACCOUNTINCJ O RIG. O R REFERS TO I C L ASSIFICATIO N ATIO, W-P AFB FRANCIS E. WARREN AFB, WYOMIW AT'l'N1 Il'll'EIIJ'GlNCE Ci'FICER REQ,UF:)T YOUR ORG CONTACT THE FOLLOWING INDIVIWJ,JS CONCERNING AN UFO SIGHTING BY THFl\1 ON 9 OCT 1958& DR AVE, CHEYENNE DR , CHEYENNE, DR CHEYENNE. SIEC IFICALLY, THE FOIJ.OIIDO INFO IS DESIRED& WHAT WAS THE GENERAL BmiAVIOR OF 'lHE STARS? DID THEY APPEAR AS STEADY FOINTS OJ' LICHT, OR DID THEY APPEAR 'ro TWINXLE, Fro? WAS THE :ESTIMATE OF SIZE AS SEliN THROUGH BINOCULARS OR WI'lH UNAIDID EYE? WAS THE ENTIRE MOV>ENT OF OBJECT WITHIN FIJ!l.D OF BINOCUlARS, OR WERE BINOCULARS MOVED IN au>m TO KEEP OBJEOT IN S IQHT? WAS 'lHE ELEVATION GIVJ FOR OBJECT ABOVE SURROUNDING TERRAIN, OR ABOVE OBSERVERS HORIZONTAL PLANE? IF POSSIBLE, REQUEST OBSmVERS DRAW A MAP OF AREA INDICATING THEIR PREDISE LOCATION AND NATURE OF SURROUNDING AREA, SUCH AS MOUNI'AIN UNCLABSD"IED RIEPI..ACIES DO I'OM4 t7S, l OCI .... WHICH WIU.. 11 UHD UNT1L IIEXHAUtnltD SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS MONTH YEAR SEaJRITY ClAS&IFICATIOH JOINT MBSAGEFORM -CONflNUATION SHEET UNClASSIFIED A'l'IC t W-P AFB RANGES(TR~IS. E'ro. WHAT TYPE OF WFA'JHER PRKVAIIJiD IN THE AREA. HU:OR TO TIME OF SIGHTING, SOOH AS RAIN, STONM, ETC? IN ADDITION TO THE ABOVE INFO, REQUEST ANY ora~ :mm'INENT ITIMS 'lHE OESERVIRS MA.Y !UDAlL THAT MIOHT AID IN DETERMINING THE NA'l\JRE OF THEIR COORDI NA.'rt ON a .. ~ Col Retbman AlCIN4E ~ Col Hottman AFOIN-4E4s 11Y 0 MSIFICATION UNJlASSIFin> 1\> 1. I. MVI ..... I Nlllflt CW..al1 DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE WASHINGTON THE INSPEOOR GENERAL USAF lATH DISTRICT QFFICE OF SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS Lowry Air Force 8ose, Denver, Colorado SUBJEar: (U) Unidentified Flying Object, 9 October 1958, Cheyenne, Wyoming TO: IC (Wright-Patterson AFB) BC ( F E Warren AFB) le This investigation, concerning an Unidentified Flying Object, was conducted by the Office of Special Investigations at the request of the Commander, Francis E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming, on 5 in the absence of an Intelligence Officer or a 10o6th Air Intelligence Service Squadron facility. Basis for this investigation was a teletype message from Air Technical Intelligence Center, Wright- Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, a copy of which is attached. both of Cheyenne, office. Drs and explained that during a moose hunting trip some thirty (30) miles north of Pinedale, Wyoming, on 9 October 1958, at approxima.tel.y 2000 hours 00 hours 10 October 1958, Zulu Time) Wyoming, bad sighted an Unidentified ject UFO) Some two or three weeks later they wrote a letter reporting this sighting to the Unidentified Flying Objects Department, Washington 25 D.C. In latter December 1958 they received a questionnaire, in which applicable questions specified in paragraph Air Force Regulation 200-5 dated 5 February 1958 ~ere incorpo- rated. They returned the questionnaire and their answers to all ques- tions to Air Technical Intelligence Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force and subsequently received a letter of ac.knowledgement. Drs. and questions specified in referenced 'I'WX as follows: UllO ANALYSIS SHEEr ((t'fA'ff',e OV ~IVTI!~r-"'}' Astronomical Phenomena (Meteor , Comet , Planet etc'--~ Natural Phemomena (Ball Lightning, etc)~-~=:::..----------- A!roratt, Balloons, A1r8h1ps, eto. Analysis and Conclusions& ) What was the general behavior of the stars? . Stars normally seen in the sky from the observers location appeared as usual. The unidentified flying object appeared as a bril- liantly lum1 nous body, from three to five times larger than ariy celestial bodies (other than the sun and the moon) normally seen in the sky and was a light green in color--approximately equal. to a reading of 500 on the spectrograph--with possibly a slight bluish tinge It appeared sometimes as a circle, at other times as an ellipsoid and at still other ~imes as a greatly elongated ellipsoid. Its intensity of brightness varied; and it appeared to have a jerky like motion. Its path was erratic and changes of course were not effected by smoothly rounded turns, but appeared rather as sharp angles. Between ~ar corners at which changes of course occurred, the ~b Ject folloved straight course lines, sometimes in a hori~ontal direction, sometimes vertical and sometimes diagonal; it both climbed and descended on separate legs ot its course, and moved in an easterly direction at times, at other times in a westerly direction. It never retraced any leg of its course; nor did it follow any specific geometric pattern. As previously explained in their answer to the ATIC questionnaire, this appeared as a single body, although often, immediately after it had changed course, a smaller light appeared behind the main body. This they believe to have been an at'ter-ligbt" QUESTION: Did they appear as steady points of light, or did they appear to tv111kle? ANSWER: The light did not .twinkle although, as previously pointed out, it varied in intensity--sometimes brighter, then dintrner tJlen brighter again. QUESTION: Was the estimate of size as seen through binoculars or w1 th unaided eye? ANSWER: Eoth. Celestial bodies normally seen were the basis of comparison. QUESTION: Was the entire movement of object within field of bino- culars, or vere binoculars moved in order to keep object ANSWER: The entire movement of the object was within the field of the binoculars, although it occurred over almost the entire field of vision of the binoculars as they were held in a fixed position of aim. :Binoculars used have a power of 8 x 30; and the angle aubtended is 8.5 degrees. QUESTION: Was the elevation given for obJect above surromiding terrain, or above observers' horizontal plane? ANSWER: Above the observers horizontal plane. If poss'ible, request observers dra\lt a map of area indicating their precise location and nature of sur- rounding area, such as mountain ranges, trees, etc. Neither :rel t that he could draw. an exact map of the area. Thoy vere able to establish their sighting- time posi tion accurate to within one-quarter ( t) of a mile, on a United States Geological Survey topo- graphical. contour map of the Fremont Peak, Wyoming area, a .copy of which is attached. As indicated by the "X" on this ma.pJ their position was approximately ~3 degrees and l9 minutes North latitude, 109 degrees and 55 minutes West longitude. They stood at the north edge of a meadow approximately one-quarter mile in die:meter and observed the object over a "saddle" or lower ground elevation, occurring between Little Sheep Mountain and the mountain peak next adjacent to the southeast of Little Sheep Mountain. No trees or other visual obstructions intervened between ob- servers and object. The nearest trees iri line of sight were on the ~ar side of the meadow, which ex- tended across the "saddle" center. Only the top of these trees were visible, and they lrere well beJ.ow the line of sight from observers to object. QUESTION: 'What type of weather prevailed in the area prior to time of sighting, such as rain, storm, etc.? ANSWER: Sky was completel.y clear, with no clouds; visibility unlimited; no wind; temperature approximately 32 degrees Fahrenheit. QUmTION: In addition to the above information, request a.oy other pertinent 1 tems the observers may recall that might aid in determining the nature of their sighting. ANSWER: Both said the obJect disappeared some seventeen (17) to twenty (20) minutes atter their initial sighting- that ts brilliance :f'aded graduaJJ y as it disappeared. Dr. explained that be had previously observed SPUrNIK w1 th the Mked eye, and that SPUrNIK appeared to be of approximatel-y the sMe size as and similar in its tumbling effect to, the obJect sighted by him and his companions. He pointed out the following dissimilarities: a. Referenced UFO was greenish in color SPUTNIK appeared to be yellowish orange; b. Referenced UFO' s light was of brighter 1nten- s1 ty than that of SPtJrNIK; and c. Referenced UFO described an extremely irregular, erratic pattern of flight, whereas SPW'NIK traveled a smoothly arcing course. They said the moon was not in evid4!nce. They did not be.lieve any of the vision was due to effects of beat waves or aurora boreaJ.is. Both Dr. and Dr. that neither of them nor Dr is color-nd and that none of them had imbibed in beverages during the entire day of 9 October .1958 1959, Dr. MOORE telepbonicaJ ly confirmed Dr s answers to referenced questions. Lt . Colonel, USAF District Commander l. TWX fr I ATIC 2. Map of Fremont Pe&k Wyoming, a.rea UNITED STATES DIPAfn'loiEHT N' 'fliP. I NTERIOR ' OEOLOOICAL SURVEY