PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 2. L OCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS Bremerton, Dellint:;h:.un. Was Balloon ... \._ -, H:J..:;hington n.rc'l 0 Probably Balloon Possi ol y Balloon 3. DATETIME CROUP TYPE OF OBSERVATION 2100 Ct:Ground-Visual Ground-Radar Was Aircraft Probably AircroftRefucl Opr 0 Ai,.. Vi sua I 0 Air-In tercept Radar 0 P o s s i bl y Ai rcroft Was Astronami col Probably Ast ronomical 0 Possibly Astronomi col 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS In sufficient Dato for Eva I uati on BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING r p t s on of reel ere en E v:.llu.:lteLi. D.G refueling opr --nd. ,,:lite; l!ur:~.er< li .J investig:::.tors. cnclo::;~.l. (See case f il..:) AI R TECHNICAL INTELLIGENCE CENTER Ur-IIT ED STATES AIR FORCE WRIGHTPATTERSON AI R FORCE B ASE Clippings o n Observed Lights 5 Septembe r 1959 ro: .l\FCIN -4E4 (Major Friend) We woul d ap p reciate your comments on the three attache d clippings. Sctcntific Advisor AFCI N - 4Xl Yakima Ne w s paper 27 Aug 59 Y ottr Gitys Sor/tv Ligl~ ts in tlte SJ.t.:y, /nll Right 1\Jemo tn Dean Jones: lt'c okch, IH:riff. Your deputies weren't hitting the old jug. They r caily lights in the sky. I The unidentifiPd flymg oh1ects I hey s \W Monday ni~hc really shook u p the deputi es and a few oth"r pt.>ople in your bailiwick. didn't surprise Y1kima. Y ou see, Yakima folks hav e hc"n seeing t he li~ht 1Jff and o n l1 for a couple of m onths. Same tim~. <.arne s ta ti on . Not the s :tme cj I ;hr:; ~:wwed up here :11 8.45 1t ;\lo~d.ty n1;::ht. Well. thty wen: I ~1 fro m Yakima at prrcisely thi! same t ime. Hun~ a round ere fo r three hour5, too, j1:.t like here. appeared o r n n g e nnd white in Y:~kima, \\ h~:reas )(it- sap's deputi~s v o t e cl for nd, green and w hite. The military c:tn't s"em to J!~t to~ether on theo;e rhings. Fair- child ai r force ba!>t: at Spo:-ane told Yak1ma a w.:ek a~o today . lightc; were ~ecn a gain, th:~t they were from jc.:t-r.Jfuelin~ Ilut 1\l::Chorcl oi r l rcc h:t n e'l r T aciJma :-,\ id no, th ey aren't Yakima lig:1t-w<ttc hers a r c;omtwhat less conser\'ative th a n your m en, sheriff. The south-cenJ 1 r:~l Washingtonians say that b~ golly those lights are traveling to beat heck, but the local depui ti~s don't go that far; they'll onl~ s3y the objects hovered noise~ Jt:,;;;ly at -:0,(10(1 to :;o,ooo feet and "sometimes !!" ' e the 1mpre.:.'>10n or m otion " So you c an seP theyj\ aren't going out on any limbe:, C\ en ~lartiln limbs. ut nobodv in Y:~kim3 has l " l thi n!\ 1 II drain my swim- mint; !>0"1 and put a cQncrete t TlffiE ~-II OUR 1\IYSTEI{Y, ALL-NIGIIT FOUL-UP _ Things in Sh,y, and Everybody---But EveryUody i11 /.1.ct ny GENE GJSLEY FIRST REPORT of th e UFODi and the objects were much higher Information h ad been r elayed In jceivcd there when ''1~ office is Winking and blinking brilliant came from R oy c. J ackson, 2832 than the planes. l\1cChord field. staifEd or by a m--,-,_ ,-wa llons ~ red. g reen and blue lights, uniden-. . I . . "I've back-tracked this report n on:Jinator at homl' 1 no one JS tified flyinl! objects filled I<itsap ~enter st., ~ho descnbcd the ': "DEPUl_Y Shcncr_ Les Chne re fa r as I can and I can't pi~ i' in the office. skies last night from 8:45 to almos t Jects ns flymg at 40,000 feet altJ- ported seemg the ObJeCts fr~m W~-down," he said. "We can't find '~"l The communicat "oord inntor. midnight. tude south of the city. te~man beach and Detcchve 111 where the information is suppf'~""', tcrtay to!d T11c Sun ' last night' s Larger than an airplane , the Sheriff's d i!=patcher Don Sherrill Chrton saw_ th em from Ross .. Potnt to have come from. call from Klt.~ap , ... , lv was re- UFOB (as the air for ce calls such radioed the info rmation to all pa-and from his home at Gorst. . , ceived by the Cli}l''r ~ ' :!tachment th ings) hover<'d noisele~sly hir,h In trois in the county and all officersj S~errill said he rela~ed the infor . "_WE AR~ ell:tre~ely. 1nlcrer: j of th~ \"~shington ~ :~trot. the r;ky, somctim<'S giving the im r eported Sf'<'ing the bright-color ed matJon to th~ ~lympJa he~dqun_r-jln mfor~attOn of this kind r~ . .'I "We don't inve;.li.- '" these re- pres~ion of m otion, said several objects from d ifferent locations in Iter~ _or the CIVIl defense aJT raJd ularly .\\hen_ '~e know of no m_Jht .: ., . ports here.. Colonr I F eed said, sherirr's officers -just about a s the county. wa~,nmg systt'm. opera_lJon \\hlch could explam I . "tut we'll' sec th1' ,., investiga credible witnesse!i ns cnn be found. "IJ 0 h d I I . D They told us that _ n similar he saJd. . ''ion is bc .. un toda~ ., . . . ort rc ~r p a r~ man on report had been rccctved from ' I can t understand how &1 E!xpl;~ln111g that no lnves flg:l ~01 ey and I '' cnt onts1~? the ~f th e Centralia urea a week ago nne her e could han? ~iven nnyo--r De~eclJ\'~ B11l ~ "'1. said he tion was Instituted la5t nlf:hl lx' {c.o to look for I hem, She nil and the air force had told the [rom civil defense hcadquarte c: coun,cd C!t;ht of t " )ects, two caus<' civil dl'fen~e communlcn ~.-.uf today. "They were a ?ark <:ivil defense pt'ople to 'slav out I he 'light treatment.' ' er . Green moun': ., on7 over tlons appar ently "hop.ged do\\ n," o~jccl, ~lore or less of _a crrcle or air force operations'," Sherrill j "In fact, we have gotten repN 13elfalr and the rc ' .,r a !. 1\TcChord air for ce officers ,;nhf wrlh a hghl at tllc cx~enor. The s.~id of such treatment before a nd ,. tween Eremrncn J''' very briiJjant and kept .. .. r lha,e deliberately had pe rsons r<!' ns hard to dt'!'nl"-" .vbat they theJ h\ld no lcnowledgc of \lh:lt chnng ing from r ed to g reen to The_ CJ\JI ~c.cn_se headquarters the base to riJOr t flying objccLo: :1') .,,.re li!<!!," Clif~o i:l. "They the objects might hal'e hc<'n. while. called oack JJ mmutcs later <~ndj ,. k' d f t tm t "Th 1 s::~id the information had been r e-see ' nat rea en ~. . ere were no m J Jta ry opera-' ' J would say thev were at 50 000 : go The 'dry run' calls have rloaon may b.\'e 1:,.,: :"n Illusion !Ions in that area t ha t we bow or: '. layed to McChord f1eld and that the b h dl d , rom looking at th,.~, -" long." . 5aid Col. J . R. Re~d. d rpul} C'om feet because there " ere cornnercJal a ir force knew of the operation." ways cen we an e . " I th!nk l'll d-'1 '1 J:v swim man<'er of ;\ lcChord :1ir ba!'e " .'/c planc3 in the a r which were ~ol Colonel Reed toda\' said he was CIVIL DEFEXSE hcadqJar: .. ., m!nt; pnol and pm , rmeot top ,, ill, begin :tn in\'esligation today. ' : high \\'e cou!d famtly hear them, un;~blc lo find any r ecord that the in Olympia said that cails a rc over it," Cltil on 5 ' DIRECTORATE OF INTELLIGENCE 25TH ftJR DIVISION (SAGE) United States Air Force McChord Air Force Base, Washington ATTN OF: 250DI SUBJECT: Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) TO: Air Technical Intelligence Center ATTN: Major Friend, .AFCIN 4E4 Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio 1 . Your request or information on UFO s in the Bremerton, Washing- ton area has been referred to the Chief of Intelligence, 25th Air Divi- sion, HcChord Air Force Base, Washington. Intelligence records show that from Br e merton since 1 Jul y 1959 . day perlod. UFO reports have been received r eports occurred within a two On 24 July 19) 9 at 20)0 hours PST, observers in Br emerton re- ported seeing red, green and white lights in the sky wes t of Bremerton. Approximately two hours later a report was received from Port Orchard stating yellow- orarlge lights were visable over the city of Bremerton. ACRON maintaining air survelliance in the Bremerton area was con- t acted and they informed intelligence that SAC aircraft were lying night training missions in the area of sighting. On 25 Jul y 1959 at 2100 hours PST another report of UFO was r ec eivt:d from Brem.,rton wbich stated blue and white lights were vis- able in the sky west of B~emerton. The responsible ACRON was con- tacted and survelliance personnel stated SAC refuelers were in the area of sighting at the time of sighting. ) . Intelligence has identified these Bremerton UF'0 s as lights and flares aminating from known friendly sources and has notified base ISO personnel of our findings. Intelligence considers these reports closed and does not contemplate taking any further action on them. l1ajo.:-, USA!o, Director of Intelligence t'FO Si ghtings, State of Washington SAFOt-Jd (Maj L. J. Tacker) 1. It. waa brought to the attcant1on of ATIC by CongrosBD".an State of Washington, that during July ~ugua~ o! 1959, there were a n\llWer or aightL"lgs o.f unidentified fiying objects in the areas of Brawtrton, !akima, Bellingham, (ll'l.d HoquiaM, Washington. 2 . Those objects were U.escribed a s red, green, -,bite, blue, and yellow by the va.rioua tdtnedseaJ aU. sighting s occurring at night. J . A'!'IC contacted thos 25th Air Division, :1cChord AFB, Wa~hington and raq~sted an 1nvetrt.igation of these stghtings. The Directorate o! Intelligence o the 25th Air Division in!'or:CObd Al' IC 'On 1 5 Septe.rr.ber 1959 that. these lights reaulted .from fl.ares aa:anating frot'll known friendl.y tsources. A te1apho~le call to the base ca:-.ma."'lder, McChord AF.9, 11rushlngton dote:nUnad that these .friendly sources were SAC aircraft contiucting a rot\lell.ng mssion 1n the area. 4. I'!# ia requttated that Congres~ To"'lesson be in.fol"::l~d of ou.r finill.nga concerning t.hestt s'l.ghtings. I t ia requestod that the 1-attar be addrea.sed tot Congresan 6th District Washington State r\)R 'l'H~ CO~DERt i>H!LIP o. EVANS Colonel, tJS' Deputy for Sclences and Components