PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD CONCLUSIONS 0 Wos Balloon Probably Balloon 0 Possi ;,1 y Balloon DATE-TIME CROUP TYPE OF OBSERVATIO N . : lB:lt lng-:; 0 Ground-VI suol 0 Ground-Rodor Was Aircraft P robobl y AI r c r oft ''t:lr1no.rd Po ssi bl y Ai rcroft .:-:o: A i ~Vi su ol 0 Air-Intercept Roder 0:~: Was Astronomi col 1' i :cc b:.t l l Probobl y Astronoml col Possibly Astronomical LENGTH OP OBSERVATION NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9. sufficient Doto for E vol uoti on V'lr led I.; .;c .. ltr.tnl BRIEl' SUMMARY OF SICHTINC COMMENTS ... "i rh"' ing UNCLASS FROM HADIC003 EVALUATION REPORT ON HADD CIRVIS REPORT 11/13002 SLICK AIRWAYS FLIGHT 719/11 CAPT :-~NORTH 14330 WEST ODSERVED LIGHTS 1302 ZULU, POSITION FOR 3 TO 5 SECONDS. VISIBILITY CLEAR NIGHT NO MOON. LIGHT APPEARED BRIGHTNESS OF AUTOMOBILE HEADLIGHT ONE MILE AWAY AND CHANGED BRIGHTNESS. COLOR PURE WHITE. ONE LARGE LIGHT WITH FOUR SMALLER LI~HTS IN CLOSE TRAIL. CAME STRAIGHT AT AIRCRAFT LOOKED LIKE LARGE TRACER OR VERY PISTOL FLARE. BURNED OUT GRADUALLY APPEARED SOUTHWEST AND DlSSAPPEARED SOUTHWEST. FLIGHT PATH LEVEL AT VERY HIGH SPEED, 1,0~0 KNOTS OR MORE COULD HAVE BEEN METEOR EVALUATED t1ETEOR OR UNEXPLAINABLE tlATURAL PHENOMENA. 12/15032 JUL RJEZHQ RELEASE ZSL CZCSQACZCSQ/\761ZCJYA110 DE RJEZHQ 807 F~1 HQUSAF TO ATIC WPAF~---- FM COMDR HAWAIRDEF DIV HICKAM AF B TO R J EZHQ/HQ USAF WASHDC PJWF A L B/CINCNORAD ENT AFB RBHPA/CINPAC CAMP SNITH TH ZEN/PACAFCO;:C~TR HICl<AM AFB Rt{PF/CO~BARPAC BARBERS POI~T tJAS T H R3HPC/ C0, 1DARPAC DARBERS POI NT NAS T H ~ '3H PC /CO~! EAt:s ~A F RON PZA~ L HAR90U?. T H rtD:1PB/C0~1DR l\AVAL ~1ARIANAS AGA.!AS IIJ.I.S Rer.J PPC /Cml~JS OS OEt~UVP TR~.5 U !"'.. I S LP.ND CORREClEb COPY OF MESSACt PREVIOUSLY RELEASED TELEPHONED Date ;:yi? RJ~PGB/MAAIRDEFDIV ANDERSON AFB RBEPW/CNO WASHDC RBEPW/SEC OF NAVY \.JASHDC UI~CLAS/FROM HADIC 001. EVALUATION REPORT ON HADD CIRVITTZ0.695ll/1300Z BSERVED LIGHTS AT 1302 ZULU. 2940 N-150 40W, ALTITUDE 11000 FEET, OBSEVATION LASTED 5 SECONDS IN CLEAR SKY WITH TRACE OF DAYLIGliT. STARS WERE BRIGHT. PIGHTS WERE AS BRIGHT AS AN AUTOMOBILE HEADLIGHT A BLOCK AWAY, COLOR HAS ORANGE YELLOW. ONE LARGE LIGHT SUROUrlDED BY CLUSTER OF 6 OR 7 SMALLER LIGHTS. BIG LIGHT SIZE OF A DIME. LIGHTS 110VED FROM SOUTH lJJEST TO SOUTH EAST i10VING FASTER THAN ANY KNOW OBJECT DEFINATELY NOT METEOR OR SHOOTING STAR. NO TAIL VISIBLE. EVALUATSD AS Ut!SXPLAINABL NATURAL PHEN01AMNA !3Y THE HQ. 11/20052-JUL RJHPKH de~ mel, uma pr ...... Jgada loa .Voador.'~ ,~ .s 6b r e S-'0 FRANClSCO, 1l eufi> -Um pl16lo da l'an American Al1'- wa.ys informou que :esta, manb1i um grupo de !uzc:3 ~umamenl.e bri. lhants se a.pco~imou de . s.eu aviUo de pa<.sogeiiros o. gra-nde veloci. 0' dnde sobrc> o Pacifico e em Seguida d csapnreccu bruscamP-nte. Out rO& .._ quatro. pilotos de-empccSti!! a.Src:a.s que fazem o. se rvi~o sabre-o P:tc!- , , fico tam~em Jnform~raiTi haver 'visto objetos niio identificados .. Um porta-voz local . da Po.n-6.400 metros de :ll l-ura. Imedlata- Amemca.n.; Aiiwe.ys disSie que a mente o coojunto de luus desa. primeira notcia foi dada pelo ca .. po.receu rumo sui. Depois de uos. pitiio George Wiboa, piloto de um dez segundos t6dns as lu1.es d esa.. aviiio de pa.ssageiros DC-7 quan-pnreceram. Tcnninou d.Jzeodo que -do v011va entre Sao Francisco e o feaomeno ocorreu 3s 6.02 hora Honolu lu a.a 6b :!Om da m:uiha, aorte-:~meriC3na do Pacffico. Nes- hora local. , S4! momento nos encoatdvamos a Er:~m luus e.dremamente-bri- lbant.n. rodeadu por tuzes meno- re..~. disae o pUoto, e acrucentou: A opro~imado do objeto sc v .. rificou quanrlo vo:'&amos a unt 1350 km. de Honolulu -acres- Depoem Outros. Dois Pouco depois outr09 d oi' pilo- 109 oa . mesmo empresa infonna.. ram pelo ddJo haver di, tinguido u me1mas h1z.e!. 0 capit:io No- hie Sprunger., que se tlirigia de Los An~le' a Honolulu. informo11 que observara os o bjetos ill 6 bo- ra' um pouco mais ao 'ul d:~ pC'e si~ao que t inh:1 o aparelho de Wil- 0 terceiro pll8to da Pan-Amo- r!can Ai rways que viu as luzee fnl o capit.~o B. G. KelleY, quo . s11ira do S5o Francisco para Ho- nolulu meia bora antes que wn. son. 0 port3-voz da Pac-Amerl. can AirwaY~ dl1Se tamb6m que-o pi16to do um aviao de pUsageirOI dt1 Canadian Pacific Airlines e o / da empro!sa de tracsportes de c:u- llil Sllkc AirwaY!, anunciaram ha- ve r di!tinguido as-luzes. Ambo. -e dirU;iam a Hocolulu. S n !<'rnncisco, 1 3 (urrr) A pilot of tho fun Americnn Ai.r-:tays inforrred t..h~tt. t'1is DX>min r, a gmo.o:pli\ group of very hri.lli a n l i Ghts a p proac!1ed his o j rcrnft at g r eat spee d over t.he Pncific e nd then disappeared s udde:tly. r:;!.):DQ.irtl Four ot~er pilots of a v iation entorprises . .;hi c h ope rate o er i', he P<lcil'ic nlso inform t~at the y have s e e n unirlcnt;i ficd objl3cts. A locnl ::pokesma.n of the Pan American Air.tays sai d that the first n otice waa ;i.ven by Captain , pilot of a passenger aircraft DC- 7 './!-len h1~ . .fa s flying bet .-Teen San Francisco a nd HliM Honolulu a t a bot:.:; 6 : 20 in ',h: morni n g local t, ill1n . "'!'h~y \iBM ve~J brilliant lichts surrounded by less e r li.;'1ts , " the pilot. said. e nd h e :tlc!:l, "'T'h c approac h of the obj~ct ook pls.c e .1:-.en 11e W"'r~' fl yin~ ~ at e. r l . f.,40J rr.etnr s alti tude. In~diately ~he set of After s ome ten seconds all the He finis!1ed by soyin r; th.qt the phen c me n on had occt;r""nd nt a bout fu ' tO? pacific t ine. km fron Honolul u. " h n . :rtded. rr .. ,J tl--tirl pilot. of 1h.q Pan Aoeric~m Air:~ay-:; 1,/hO SA'" the liz;1t:; Has Captain who l e f t San F r ancis c o for l'o nolulu a hnlf a!'l h our before The spokesman f or tl" e Pa n Amorica n Air-xays a lso sai d that th~"; pilo t of a pass~nt;er aircraft o f t he C;:~nadian Pacific A i.:' lines a nd a ri.lot; o f t~e ri'lnn.,ir;-.btl carg o tra nsport'ltion entPrnriGe~ :-:lik~ Aii\i~ts anr..IJlL ce ha.ring det'3cteo t he lio3h t s . not~ \-l':)re on thn '.v e j to fc nolulu. A similar sightin~. which saucer cnthusia!>ls have publicized as a iantly lighted UFO that appcar<>d to bold a d efinite course, oc- curred at 3:02 A.:-r. on J uly 11, 1959, aho over the Pacific [18]. The pilot of a Pan American Airlines flight reported that a myster- ious bright object Hccompanied at its left by four smaller lights had approached hi~ plane at "inc-onceivnhlc speed," made a sharp right turn, and then disappeared. T he objects seemed to be flying evenly spaced in formation, and the:! pilot, who had never seen anything like it in all his years of flying, told the newspapers, ''I'm a believer, The official investigation began immediately. Four other com- mercial flights had reporte d seeing th e object at the same time. In each case, the pilot state d that the objects seemed to head straight at his plane a t high speed on a col lision course, then made a go- degree turn and disappeared. T he various reports, however, showed significant disagreem ents. Some witnesses gave the c olor as white, some as orange-yellow. Of the !>cvcral pilots, each g:we a different dcscri p liou of the "formation": a big light with four smaller lights flying at tlw hft; a big ligltt smroundcd by a cluster of s ix or seven smalltr lig ht!.; a big light followed by four smaller lights ; a big light in thv C' l 'IIIT nf a rec tangle formt>d by four small e r lights. Of the five p ilnt-; "l10 made official reports, one said the p h e nomenon was d clirul k rrot a meteor, two said it could have been a meteor, and two clil not wn tu re au opinion. The pilot-; of several other Aights state d , on landing, that they too had seen lhe objects b u t had n ot radioed a report because they ao;sumed it to be a me t eor. Aft.-r 1oapping and correlating all the o bserntlions, A TIC eom- plctt:cl the analysis and released the result to tir e press of July 14, tiHt't' rbys a fte r the s ighli11g, a rc rnarl,ably effic ient piece of wor~. r "11< lu.)ion : thr object was a firrha ll [ :w J. Tire liter tture o f flying snuccrs contains doz(:ns o f similar incidents that Jlt perfectly into the meteor patte rn. Pointing to this list of " u nitlcntiflcd"' Hying objects. saucer addicts stiH a fnrsc the Air Force for cor":e.tling tf1e "fact ... that these UFOs are actually sp:1ccships! ZCZCS~P0142CSQA 8622CJYA268 00 RJEDS!.~ DE: RJEZH~ 3 1!. TO I~iFO/ ATIC Fii 27CADD COC !!ORTON CALIF 1'0 RJI:/FAL/' ,ORAD COC ~EVPPG/WESTZRN SEA FRONTIER ~JEZJiQ/CHIEF OF STAFF USAJ; I~FO RJUZSB/CFlJCR COC u;:CLAS FRC;; 27CADD TAC G -;;:;355 PD i . CIRVIS RPT. 2 . U~ITED 21 DC6B VETERAN FLIER VISIBLY SHAKE!~ , Airli~e PilOts See Mys~ery Lights Ho nolulu {UPI) -A Pan decked below us w hen the .American Airways pilot re-object f irst appeared about ported that a mysterious ob-1,000 feet above us and to our ject approached his airliner at left. "inconceivable" speed early "My copilot, Richard Lo yesterday and t h e n d is renzen or Los Alto.s (Cal.) appeared. and FUght Engineer Robert Four other transpacif ic air Scott stared open mouthed liner pilot.s reported sighting .u the light came toward us unidentified objects. at an extremely high rate ot The pilot who made the first speed. For at l east 10 sec r eport was Capt. George Wil onds it maintained its course son, 43 years old, o r Seattle, which was on an opposite Wash., a 19-year !'lying vet-heading to us and had it eran. He was t!yin~ a DC-7C been another aircraft it from San Francisco to Hono would have passed weiJ to lulu when, at 3:02 a.m. Hawaii our left. time (8 a .m. COT), "one in-"Suddenly the object made tensely bright white light fd-a sharp right turn at a speed lowed by four smalle" lights inconceivable ot any vehicle was seen about 1,000 miles we kno w of and the light sud- east o r Honolulu in clear denly disappeared. The smaller s kies," he said. light.s were evenly spaced and "WE WEltE cruising at 20., were. either part or the mys- example of darn good forma- tion flying." WILSON, VlSffiLY shaken, said he had never seen any- ng like this in hi s 19 years of flying. He added that he had never believed such foreign ob- jects existed . , "I'm a b eliever now," he Four other Ho nolulu-bound irliner pilots made similar re- ports at approximately the same time. M ED D E t'A t'f DE Lep~ of the Air Force :..ashlngton , lJ . C . V1r bttockninc Eder betocllnlnc -Edert moddolnde Att. Llaj or L .J . T:::tclc e r D~ar I.iaJ or Tacker, I th3.nk you very !'!JUCh for your sencilr:g r:1e sev~ral rec~nt Fact Sheets and tr:wsr.rlpt of the TV d iscussion on the .Armstrong ':'heatre. 1 nave b.,en ln t ouch wl th the Sl;edlsn lJ~fensl" Staff V;hica handles UFO- r.:':l.l.'t~rs and tiH.v ar~ i 11 C' orr.r lete agr~e:-:ent .,, i th the US Air Force reec.rd ir.g t r.,. tl o'iJl .m. As tn"r"' h"Js t-M~n sever a l T'Pc liar cu~es in s.-.ed~n tool they as as I nwo been lookic:). luto th~ mr.tter (1 beir.g no s aucPr nut). L ncsitate to an'k y ou to i:tceease your }:lnd courte?sy and "fo.:for by SPt.tiit r; mP tne cOI!Ir.1'"':1tG you -:-.it;ht have on the slghtlns, rerort~d on July 12ta 1953 by b\...~ fron i1is fll{;ht !'risco to Honolulu. 1 il . v a only the newtip ftr re~ort. It ~ ould b~ very nic~ indeed to hoar of the ou tc or.:w. As I stated in my yr':!vious rc4uPst my rnferNICP i s th~ P rl"s taPnte &~poi n~m.,nt spcretaMJ at "tnc "!1i t~ House :-l!e :mows m.:-v~ry v:err-r-, - - .... n".Svfni;cmnpe<i to t~.?r in various oi'nces"beiore t.h~ war. P.e is a :.lajor i l' t flP. 'Ji' {ll:J :-:k you To indicate that even eA~erienced observers , under the strai n of excitement, make errors in reporting, Captai ndicates that it was bright moonlight; however, the set at 0830Z, more than four hours prior to th& sighting. Captai indicates that ther e were traces of daylight. 7eti morning twilight not b a t his position until 30 minutes after the sighting. Captain ndicates the object was probably a meteor. It i s concluded that the object responsible f or this sighting was pr obably a fireball-. SJ\..li'I S- 3d/ tlaj Tacker/ n!-lb/ 72291 8 September 1959 This acknowledges your letter of 3 September 1959 regarding Unidentified FlyinQ Objects, particularly the July 11 sighting& in the Pacific. These sightings were attributed to an exceptionally b right and large meteor called a "fire ball,. or "bolide." Sincere l,y, LAWREJ.'lCE J. TACl<ER Hajor, USAF Public Information Division Office of Information Services Co;nebaci.< IS-3d Re3der IS- 1