Ottawa Canada — May 1960

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Keywords: ottawa, airport, igroun, groun4aodor, paaelbly, bsuved, mayizl8, cburse, fjversion, w1taess, roechi, towprds, liffe, rpurt, reperting, etound, lccrf, rrtcp, rackliff, ircrrft, pportr, tnrpst, tnfor1, ishtids, resard
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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS Ottawa, 0 Woa Balloon 0 Probably BaiiOOft ai W., Boll oon 0 Woe Aircraft Local ;~ ---------I;IGroun .. YIIu.e D Groun4Aodor D Probablr Aircraft 6o D AI,.Yiauol D Airlntorcopt Ao4 D PoaeiWy Aircraft S. 0 Woe Astronomical 0 Probably Aatronomlcol 0 Paaelbly Aetronomlcal 7. LENGTH 011 OIIIIVATIOM Hot stated I. MUMIIR OP OIJICTI t. COURSI one z1s-zaa C:X lneufflcient Data for Evaluation 0 Unlcnown 10. IRIIP OP IIOMTIMO ObJect o'bsuved as a 1 MaYizl8 1D one sen- eral direction but with spurts to oDe side or the other while on a c cburse As lisbt approached it sed tbroush a cloud which save it a " eftect. No SO'IDd. In- ion recei in letter. Observed by civilian and member of Canadian Air Force. Request for additional. information not Initial observation as a/c comjng in to land at local airport. I I. COMMIMTS . ,a+s possible lisht retraction trom. fos and 1 fjVersion. However w1taess airport no craft were in area at that t:lme. Without additional no conclusion can be reached. DF;ar Sir: On Mond~y y 9, at the Ottawa River (F.Pst bound) approx. 2.15 A.~t. l'.'hilf' ~riving I ohserved tl1P. following-a A light in th~ sky (~ich I fir~t t~ought'to be ~n ~ircr~ft l onding light) was ap?roechi:lg from the eest towPrds Roc:<liffe airport. '~Y ettention wa~ first drown to t~e lig,t when it sud~enly m~de a s~ort rpurt sideways then c~ntinued on then repeRting this ~ovement . I stopped the c~r and ~y~elf Along ~t~ P. ~e~ber of. t~e ~ir forcP, wh9 was a passeng~r in my C3r got out ~nd ~toorl on the street to w2tc~ it ~hen this object came closer it pa~s~d ~ehind a cloud ~nd en it rlid t!1e light !n~d~ P, h~lo etound t~e ol)ject. There wr;r. no ~ound Rt all r'nd 'IVf' ~tood ther~ ,, tc"1ing it until tt niso.pP"r~c -:lut of ~i.ght. The liCJ"lt fro!'!l the obje~t , s brighter t~Pn " strtr nnd t~e rno~t rem~rkn~le t,jng :.lo ll t the obj ~c ~ ;c-n the Vi".'' it ~oulrl d n tt e l de'n"~rs P t it cont. i nu e~ it r "ourrc . The ~oll::>'/'1:1'~ "'~Orni.n~ I .'i?~\Pd -+:'lc C!"lntrol tom~r if Pny :'ircr~f't ~ .... d bee.n i. n t,1e : i. r n t. thL t ti rre :-il~ I , told t~n t t"l.:..re 7T ~ not. I f:rrtl-tcr c~ec1<f~d rd t.l-) Jur loc::ll rd rli"'1.P~ ~n(l t~e7.r f'l~o r~drl tlt?+ ~o fli ~'1tr- ~1f''i btrn i.n the vic ,.d t,y . I :--p':l~<P to onP nf m1r 0ff'"lccrF r 1d '1.e dvi:"Pd me to coat.:Jct ~'our o rrtcP. I ~m :-!"1:Jlo.t o(l "'u t R.C . ~.t'. Rackliff~ (!)c_)t of Construct.i.O"l ~n~ r.n;:::tnl~ri:l;) nne I r~::-!il:i"l" '"lith;~ircrrft ::1d trer e 'n'"'VC'lj''=:lt:,~ Pnd I::> .rure tl,_;:~t +}"~') o'\...ject in qu tion w~s no~ ~n e~r~rrft. !fT.;ng rn'"'rJ co.uir.er::'~-1' n~..,.G r Pportr ~\-.0'1+ ;tr.,n-e o'1~actf in you . t your c nY" i~ : ur:: . l the ppe~r~nce w~ic~ mryy h~ of 4~tnrpst v:~.~ t C"l'lr~e tnfor1~tion me jn rPt;.srds to t!i:::: object. VP'f:f truly, P.~ J Sl~ht~s : ?HtLX? o. I'IAHS Col~l, tBAF Deplty t~ 8c l. c~, l t,z-21 tf.ay 60 tr 1o-3d/Tacker/Jt/7229l . 'tbl 1a 'to tbe ishtiDS ~ JOUr recent letter resard!Ds WD1dentlt1e4 r1J1Ds Object. Yoaar letter eonta1Da 1nauf'r1cient tion f'or a valid concluaioD. Tberetore, request you the attacbe4 Air Queat1onna1rea :lD to the sight- ing end f'orward the ted paper to the Aerospace Tech- nical Intelligence Center, Wright-Patterson Air Foree Base, S1ncere1.1' LAWRDCI J. TACK:SR Lt. Col., USAP Publlc IDf'on.tion Division ~f'tce o~ t1on V io-3d comeback io-1 reader