PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS 0 Was Balloon 4 December 1958 Day ton z Ohio o Probably Balloon p 0!! sl bl Y Boll oon O:'Ground Vi suol 0 Ground Rod or 0 Was Aircraft 0 P rabobl y Ai rcroft 0 Po:osibly Aircraft 0 Air-Vi suol 0 A ir-Intercept Radar 0 Was Astronorni col ct.\' 0 P robably Astronomical ct N~ Civilian 0 Possibly Astronomical 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION B. NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9. COURSE 0 Other _ 'blX In sufficient Data for Evaluation 0 Unlcnown 10. BRIEF 5UMMAR'f OP SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS Faash of light accompanied by a muffle retortJ An orange sphere, size of grapefrnit to the west. Object was above trees and houses, but not high. Description is typica l of lightening ; however, witness should be familiar with this phe nomena. Case evaluated a s insufficient data. ATIC FOR)f 32? (RP.V 26 SY.P S2) ..... Dayton, .. Ohto ... ; '. My 'husband a_;ld I had jus t . retired It wa s rainin~. home faces north. and three bedroom windows are on t h e north f acing th!t . front ya .. On_e.-~1~do~.~ is ~n the. west . ;ca curtains coy\r the lower ~alf . th~ . -~do~s - th~ ~ppe~ part~ are_ e osed . I first n Jticed a fl:ash of . l~ghtthrough'the west window and thought of 11~1tning alt ough t here was nor-sound~ Soon,. .. there was a sec.ond:. rlash accompan1 e d b y 8.! muffled retort andmy' .. hu~b~d and' I . w~nt to: the we'st window .. A third fla~h.and retort. came as ne reached the window before I did. I .had light .. was" more Intense than the first time. M saw &j_;~,e~plo_.sion. i~t~e west .. ByJ the .'ti!De. I reached the, window a fourth fJ:ash ~came_,.and:I looked.out,'the front windows and saw a great. flash of says that he at the extremity . Since-I looked north ~,: .... . .l~Sht-~orange-yellowwith_pink did'not.~s.ee the.obJect_1n the wes.t. flash..1n':the front-: .. yard. I looked west after -exploded" a gain when I saw the the flash and observed an - or.arig~. s.pl;e , about~ <the ~ize of, a grapefru1 t in '(or b~yond?) . the area of the Paul Weloh~homes. The objec t wa s a bove the tre e s a n d house ~ops but n o t hlgh:.1n i'th_e .sky, .. rather: more .on the horizon. It glowed orang e in colo.r be-'' tween~. ex'pi'o sions'~ .-After the 'fourth' flaali. , or u exp1o sion u,., 1 t: glo;ned . ' . three: or . .: r-our secon~s, ... then d1 sa.ppeared . ~-. It did~ not move a way or grow dim~ but went out. as one would t urn off an electric 11 ~ht b ulb. The object did not, change size except during the "explos1o ns"--t l: e n :th e brillianc e exten:1ed 1 t .' s size about ten fold . rhe terrain falls-sharply in:the'west. beyond the ~elch homes so one would assu~e t h i s o bject to be either air bo rne to b e seen or be on the top of some object in t h e Welch area. I could not s e e a path of 11g..l-].t from t h e object to our yard~ It seemed like light being shot a.s a bullet, leaving the object and e~plodinp; in the yard. The ac- companying noise The nexplosions" about t e n to fifteen second s first, we thought some electr i - shorting in back of n e ighbor's d1 sclosed no electrical-disturbances or service on night .. photography the horne unti l the "explosions" of morning t~is calls in Of .!..ecember.