PROJECT 10073 REOORD CARD 2. LOCATION o. IRII!, SUMMARY 0, StCHnMO Bullet shaped object with length of C-124. Appeared greenish fluorescent shinnnering substance with a tail and dark brown and red colored body. Object was descending at a 45 ATIC PORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52) 12. CONCLUSIONS 11. COMMENTS The initial elevation was not given, however sighting has the characteristics of a meteor sighting of long duration. ZCZCSQP~59CZCSQC485ZCJYA188 DE RJFPDA 21 TO RJWFAL/ADC ENT RJEDSQ/ATIC RJEZHQ/HQ USAF RJEZHQ/SEC OF AF INFO RJFPSD/17AF UNCLAS ODI 6-003. USAF FOR AFCIN. SEC OF AF FOR SAFIS. 17AF FOR IDC. SUBJECT UFO RZPO~T. THE FCLLOWING IS A REPORT OF A UFO SEE~ THE EVENING OF 7 JUNE 196" AT 2215Z HRS. THE FORMAT IS IN ACCORDANCE WITH PAR 15, AFR 2~0-2 DTD 14~SEP 1959. A. DESCRIPTION OF OBJECT: (1) OBLONG, IN A BULLET SHAPE, SEEMED TO OBSERVER TO BE ABOUT 2 OR 3 TI~:zs AS LAGR AS CARGO-TYPE ACFT FUSELAGE. (2) THIS 03JCT HAD NO WINGS, AND NOTHING ELSE RESEMBLING AN AIRCRAFT, THE LENGTH ~AS ABOUT THAT OF A C-124 ACFT. (3) THE BODY LOOKED TO BE OF A PAGE TWO RJFPDA 21 BROWN AND RED, COULD HAVE BEEN TAIL FLAMES, BUT OBSERVER BELIEVES IT WAS NOT EXHAUST-TYPE FLAMES. (4) ONE. (5) NEGATIVE. (6) ONLY THOSE MENTIONED IN (1), (2) AND .ITEMS (3). (7) THE OBJECT LOOKED TO THE OBSERVER LIKE A LARGE FUSELAGE OF AN AIRCRAFT AB- RUPTLY CUT OFF AT THE REAR AND WITH A POSSIBLE BURNING SUBSTANCE ~ITTING. (8) THERE WAS NO SOUND C9 NONE EXDEPT THAT THE COLOR AS INDICATED IN ITEM (3) WAS THE MOST UNUSAUAL FEATURE. B. FESCRIPTION OF COURSE OF OBJECT: (1) OBSERVER LEFT HIF BED TO GET A DRINK OF WATER AND WHILE AT THE SINK TAKING THE DRINK HE NOTICED OU OF THE CORNER OF HIS EYE THAT SOMETHING UNUSUAL WAS MOVING THOURGHT THE AIR AND SEEMED TO HAVE A FLUCTUATING OFF AND ON LIGHT EMITTING THROUGH! THE SKY OVER WHAT SEEVED TO BE NORTH WEST OF THE BitBURT AIR BASE BEACON WHICH COULD BE SEEN FROM HIS WINDOW, OBSERVER WAS IN THE TOWN OF SPEICHER GERMANY, tiliiCH IS BETWEEN BITBURG AIR BASE AND SPANGDAHLEM AIR BASE. (2) THE OBJECT WAS DESCENDING TOWARD THE OBSERVER'S HORIZON AT A 45 DEGREE ANGLE. (3) THE OBJCT VANISHED AT THE OBSEP.VER'S HORIZON LINE OF SIGHT, AT A 49 DEGREE ANGLE. (4) THE OBJECT WAS i1AKING A STRAIGHT COURSE, ON A GRADUAL DESCENT, IT DID NOT SEEM TO THE OBSERVER TO BE FASTER THAN A NORMAL JET-TYPE AIRCRAFT PAGE THREE RJFPDA 21 (5) OBJECT VANISHED AT THE OBSERVER'S HORIZON LINE OF VISION. (6) OBSERVER BELIEVED HE WATCHED THE OBJECT FOR A PERIOD OF 8 TO 11 SECONDS. C. MANNER OF OSBERVATION: (1) GROUND OBSER- VATION. C2l OBSERVER WORE GLASSES AT THE TIME FOR THE SIGHTING, NO OTHER OPTICAL AID WAS USED. (3) NON APPLICABLE. D. TIME AND DATED OF SIGHTING: (1) 1722152ULU JUN 1960. (2) NIGHT. B. LOCATION OF OBSERVER: OBSERVER WAS ON THE SECOND STORY OF AN APARTMENT HOUSE IN THE VILLAGE OF F. IDENTIFYING INFORMATION ON OBSERVER: (1) CIVILIAN: ERMAN NATIO TECHNICAL TRANSLATOR EMPLOYED BY THE R BASE GERMANY, HIS ~ILITARY SUPERIOR REPORTS THAT THE MAN IS A RELIABLE INDIVIDUAL.- G. 'WEATHER AND WINDS-ALOFT CONDITIOND AT TIME AND PLACE OF 1 SIGHTINGS: (!) WEATHER CONDITION WAS BELIEVED AT THE OBSER ER TO BE VERY CLEAR, NO CLOUDS, NO HAZE, FULL MOON, STARRY SKY. C2) SPANGDAHLEM AIR BASE WEATHER STATION REPORTED THAT, FOR THE . OBSERVER INDICATED, WEATHER WAS AS FOLLOWS: 8~13 SCATTERED, HIGH SCATTERED, WISIBILITY 12 MILES, WINDS CALM. WINDS AT 6000, 21 . DEGREES AT 15 KNOTS, AT 10000, 200 DEGREES AT 20 KNOTS, AT 16000, PAGE FOUR RJFPDA 21 20a DEGREES AT 3~ KNOTS, 2~01i, 210 DEGREES AT 40 KNOTS, 3000a 190 DEGREES AT 45 KNOTS, 5~0~0, 18; DEGREES AT 2~ KNOTS, 55000, l8Z DEGREES AT 10 KNOTS. THE WINDS WERE TAKEN BY BRUSSELS SOUNDINGS AND THEY WERE THE SAME FOR BITBURG AIR BASE WHICH IS APPROXIMATELY 10 NAUTICAL MILES FROM SPANGDAHLEM AIR BASE . (3 > 800~ SCATTERED, HIGH SCATTERED. C4> 12 NAUTICAL MILES (5) HIGH SCATTERED. (6) NONE. (7) NONE. H. NONE I. NUKOWN. J. NONE. K. COMMENTS BY PREPARING OFFICIAL: NCOIC, 49TH TACTICAL FIGHTER WING, INTELLIGENCE SECTION: THE OBSERVER SEEMED VERY ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT HIS SIGHTING BUT THE'PREPARING OFFICIAL BELIEVES, DUE TO THE FACT THAT THERE WAS A SCATTERED CLOUD COVER AND, BEING THAT THE INDIVIDUAL'S VANTAGE POINT WAS BETWEEN TWO AIR BASES, THE COULD POSSIBLE HAVE SEEN THE REFLECTION OF THE GREEN LIGHT FROM EITHER OF THE BASES BEACONS ON THE PARTIAL CLOUD COVER, OR A POSSIBLE REFLECTION ON A PASSING AIRCRAFT. 10/lo~SZ JUN RJFPDA