PROJECT !C073 RECORD CA::<D l. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLU5l0NS ~ Was Onlloon 3. DATETI~o~: v.;?OUP 4. n ' PE OF OBSERVATION 0 P rvbobly Balloon -0 Possi~ly Balloon ~ Croun d-v; suo I 0 Ground-P.ador 0 Wo:s Ai rcroft 5. PHO res 6. S61JRCE 0 P robably Airc r aft 0 Possibly Aircraft 0 Was Astronomi c ol 7. LENGTH OF OBS:RVATtON 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS 0 Probably Astronomical 0 Pos .. ibly Astronomical 0 In sufficient Dcrto fo r Evolvotion _ 10 oin.; o~te ~tationary 10. BRIEP S A~Y OF SIGHTING ~---------~1 Ob j in E or NE at 20 elev cli.ln"ving erraticalJ~ ~tovement coincides ~:/that expected l1regula!" movament. Color yello~vi:h \Thite or OJ/a bal loon. Garden City i.:; to the ty;hit e . O::ca s i onal bluis h or green light fm the \.fes t Mitch.::ll AFB (about 10 mi) Obj obj. Climbed to about 30 in 3 ndn;:;. Ten lnins i-fa s probably a ballot:..n released fm. thi~ later the obj '-ra.s 40-!~5 ele v still climbing. r;t:i.tion. ~o so~i) tl~il, o r exhaust. ATIC PORliC 3l9 (REV 26 SEP S2) Gentlemen: At; b~t\veen about 5:40 and 5:50 P .!l., E.. i::> '., on Thursday, Noverr.ber 12, 1959, Hhil e on my v1ay home frolll Adelphi College, Ga1den City, Lone Isl::md, I saw \h r:1t posaibly may have been an unidentified fly in~, object . The er..act circwnstanc e s were as follovw: I was \ialking uown Cam~:-idge Avenue. a ztreet which leads so\.~th. fro:n the campus of Adelphi College, and runs along the edge of a golf coarse which adjoins Adelfhi':J co.mp~, this gol f course bFJine; to the east of Cambridge Avenue. About 'CI.vO b l oc!-:s do.m from the rear exit of the campus, at a point irhere an Eas t -tc- ,lcst street c alled Terrace Avenue joins Cambridge Avenue (:f'o:c clarification, see a~coo,::>d.!lylnG rough map), I stopped for a moment to ad..rnire the starry niL;ht sky (it was already dark; there were .few if any clouds and no fog o r haze, uu1for~anately I do not remember if there was nny ooon, but I think there was not) . It wa s then that I noticed, toward the east or e~st northeast. aboL:t 20 above the horizon, apparently above a point east of the gol .f . cour3e, an irregularly waxing and l-Taning, never 'Very bright and never completely extinguished, generally white or yellowis h - \-lhi te but occasi::mall y bluish or perhaps even f aintly greenish, point of lieht, 'Which I observed t o be slowly and err at i ca.ll y climbing. I just v ery barely could, and I am not quite certain on this point -see a hint of a dark forrn behind i t . watched it for about three to five minutes, .,.hile it climbed to a h e i ght of perhaps 300. Durin8 this interval of time, several ordinary airplanes passed by, making t!leir 0\m noise, so I could not be sure whether the unknown 1Jl-9.de any sound -though I did seem to hear, in bet~t1een the airp lane 9.nd traf:'ic noises, and sae:ningly corning frorn the directio n of the u~mm.n, a faint whirring or droning sound, or a sort of low pulsation. There was no e;Oaust, no other unknQl.-ill object oc objects appeare d there was no odor, no materials or objects fell of emanated from i t , so f a r as I could After watching a few minutes -during which. so f a r att I could tell, no one else noticed tht3 object - I continued on my uay home. About ten o r fif~een minutes l ater -I live onl y a f e w blocks from the place of the sighting -I arrived home, and before going in, and too k one more las t lo~k a t the ENE sh-y. I stil l s a w it, irregularly changing in int:nai tY, perhaps hOo or 450 above the horizon. I the n .-1ent in, and sa\.; i ~ ~o more. P. s . I would appreciate it if I what I saw, and just wha t it wa s Yo:.lr s trul y e n City South, know ~1hethcr anybody A IR 1 t:CI-NICAL IN"!"Ei. LICLt~Lt: C . TLR U N I T ~ D S T A T E ~ AI r~ F 0 R C t: ,~'RiliH fPATTI::!~Sv~l AIR FORCF tl.\5r- "J.cr: U0 Sie:.hting (J. 1. e reported slow movemant of the object seen by . rules out an a:..r~ra.i't or balloon. An astronomical plot '.'las made &nd it "~as deter- mined ~hat the full moo:l was in the location reported for -r.he obj:::ct. 2 . Du~ to the latenesa of tne report. a \leather report for the are a cannot be o:>-:ained. HoHever, it is felt that the witness was looking e.t t!l.e moon thzoue.,b. a haze layer which \la s not re~dily apparent. t{ rr..E COtiL~NDER: .:f.t1ILI?' EVAllS 1 Atch: Colo~elVUSAF Cy ltr, no date. from Deputy for Sciences and Components SAFOI-~ ~aJ Tacker/rnbb/72291 21 J::1nuary l 9o0 'l'his is -t:> sck:lowladge your receat letter conce.t"nt.a~ an unidentii'ied flying ooj~ct sig:ating at Garden City, New "iork o n 12 :ilovember 1959 The Air Foree did not receive any other repo!"ta con- cernin3 your si6hting. Til~ conclusion of the Aerospace rechni~l InteLLige:1ce Center is that you vere looking at the moon through a ha~e laye r which ~;as not readlly apparent. Sin cere ly LA~'IC!i! J. TACKRR Naj or, USAF Puolic Information Div13ton O?!i~e of Information Comeback OI-3d Reader OI-l I{EI'L Y TO AEROSPACE TECHNICAL INTELLIGENCE CE:~ fER UNITED STATES AIR FO~CE WRIGH r-PATTcP.SON AIR f-ORCE B ASE J~cnJ-4E2 Unidcnt,i.f.i.ed Flyine Obj,~cts 1 . 'l'ne at ta.ched letter uas sent to .IITI C by !! K~ns Ln rJon P.oad South, Garden Cl ty South, N. Y.. ..... appears to be one of those c e rtain suggestions to the Air ltho f c e l!:i -1. t i1.lG duty For.ce . rr.a~e J. Sugeest thD.t ~ir be informed that a.s yet the Air rorce has no rr.at e!ial ev idence t o indicate that ther~ is anyone: or anything t o cont:tct. Fnrther, thc::t scie ntists all over the \mrld ar0 constantly !j.enJlr.g si~nals into space to furthe r Olll' knmded=::e. I f there ,.,ere so:ne advanced race fro:n anotha r planet )Or systerr., it ~;mud seeT". thes e signals tIOuld have been intercepto~.....PU some attcr..pts rr.ada t o contact h. [t should b s pointed o ut to that our inve~tigators arc equi.p:>e<.l t o c ollect as ~uch scA:ent. c information a s possible when .Ll:vo~tigating reports of uni.denti''ie d a e rial phenorr.ena. l'!o data r csul ting from investigation 'oa~ o do. to r e vealed any evid.t!nca of an in<.:r3::tse of radiation of any 'tYr or any unusual electrical or rr..:l~- ncti~ dintQrbance. f Colon;l, USAF Dep-rr./ for Scienc e s and Corr.ponents Lt.r, no uate, fr