PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS 0 Was Balloon 0 P robably Balloon Possiilly Balloon 3. OATETIME GROUP ... TYPE OF OBSERVATION o :Ground Visual GroundRodor 0 Was Aircraft P robobl y Ai rc raft l l!/l).;OZ. 0 Ai,.. Vi suol 0 A ir Intercept Radar Possibly Ai rcroft Was Astronomi col o : Probably Astronomica( '5ffJ:E.t:. Po ssi bl y Astronomical W~ 7. L ENGTH OF OBSERVATION NUMBER OF OBJECTS 0 In sufficient Data for Evaluation DRIEP SUMMARY Of' SIGHTING :s.a:n i I. -;_nt;qu.t A'nC FORM ~2t (Jit&V 21 llaP !12) COUNTRY O F ACIIVITY REPORTIN G Ill: PORT NO. A~R =NT~LLIGENCE INFORMAT~ON REPORT COUNTRY OR AREA REPORT CONCERNS DATE OF I N FORMA liON INDIA 14 Jul 59 ACTIVHY SU9MHTIN O REPORT DATE O F COLLECliO N ( L,.ur hl~nlr) SRI STATUS (If applicabl~) OAir A, New Delhi, IDiia 21 Jul 59 CANCElED/COMPLETE PREPA'tiNO INDIVIDUA L DATE OF REPORT CANCElED/ I NCOM,LETf M aj Bente M York, Actg Air A NAME O R D!:SCRIPTIO N O F SOURCE REFERENCES (HAIR s .. hjw, Flying Saucers SUMMARY (Cirw '"'""'"'' whic h hishlighu rbt ...,:;,,., /tt"rl of ,..,.,., , ;"' f IIJ H rcJ o" AF Form 1/1. Lilt iMior"'" ind .. Jinz nomhtr of copttr A DDITION.t.L I NFORMATION O N (Dtt) This report transllli ts information on the possible s ighting of Flying Saucers BJ'J, T A M YCRK t.~aj or, USAF Act g /..ir At tache DISf RI!IUfiOM JY 0RI01NAf01t (E:o:ctpr US.II' ,,.J tdt. (ndoNit Dopl lfl?: on.l ,,p,., ~lo mc!o r, il JHiic.J.It) CINCUSAf'E (Mas Dup Oz) WARHI H O : Thit dot""'"'' t Oiftittt ;,. fo morion ffccrittr tbt nllon l dt/<flt< ~1 ,;,. U11J1td Sr.11tt ,.;,;,;,. ,;,, Mun.nr of tht E1po"J L...wr, Titl~ 11, U.S.C., Srcrio 1'JJ ,.,.,J 1?4. Itt lt;>rumiuiott o r tnt r<wiJtio~ of itt cont<tlll ;,. "'Y '""""" to ,.,. n rhoriuJ pt110fl iJ p rohil>irril AF FORM 112-PART It APPROVED I JUNE 19.18 AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMA TJON REPORT lo On 21 July 1959 , Mro Secretary Economic of this Embassy, j substd. tted the following by Of 1 ce and~ "At about 9 P.M. on Tuesday, Ju.l,-14 1959, I observed some strange lights passing through tha sky, which I thought might be WQl"th reporting to youo My !and.ly and I were sitting on our roof terrace a.fter dinner ~Nhen I noticed a light moT.i.ng across the sky at corusiderable aPeedo I thought at first that 1 t was an airplane, but than became aware of the following unnsual characteristics: The light was so bright and so plainly visible that it seemed to have come !'1-om an airpla~ flying at lass than 2,000 feet a.."ld less than one mile distant. Such an airplane would have been plainly eudible rut we heard no soundo The light tranl.led from the left side U:> the right side of my field of vision; an airplane travelling that djreotion would show its green starboard light-this light waa a stead.T light orange-red, about the brightness ot a medium bright star moved i.o a straight line from east to west, about 40 -500 above the horizontal-o I was looking sooth aDd first noticed 1 t at a compass heading of about 1700 and lost 1 t at about 2J00 o We woo.ld not hav-e thought mare about it except that during the next I 15 minutes we saw six more llghta, all of the same color, but wi t.h var'7i!lg brightnaas arxl all monng in straight linda w1 thout SOUOOo All disappeared a s if they had been e:xtinguishedo The second llgbt moed in the same direction a s the first, but at a sllgbtl.y lower altitude; the next two were to the west of na, moving in a .oorth- ea.sterl7 direction at sllgh tly different elevations; th., next lll07ed from north to to the Wo9St of UlS, one moved from west to east, (disappearing iYhen 1 t r each ed a point about due south ot us), and the last moved east t o west, also to J.be south of uao ~esther cocdi t1ooawere about like this that enning a the temperature was about 85, there was a light breeze from the east, the s!.t:y .,.,as alaa.r e:xcep t fQl" a smell patch of fluffy clouds to the s<Aith and a low front in tbe west" 2o ~t.Wil:S OF 'lHE ~AftkeH~ ~'FIC~a The IrxUall Air .Foree neather Stat1on at Palam Airport, New Delhi (within ~n mile s of' the sighting) had a 15 '.empernture inversion between .3,000 ar..d 5,000 f'a.t at 1500 Indian Standard Time on 14 July 1959. At .2200 Iaiian Standard Time, the weather stetion did not ahotr an inveraiono