PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 12. CONCLUSIONS Wolfe City, Texas Wos Balloon Probably Balloon L TYPE OF OBSERVATION Possibly Balloon 3. OATETIME GROUP L\1 Gro"'"d-Visual 0 Graund-Rocfar Wos Ahcrah Probably Aircraft 29Lo6oo-o1ooz 0 AI,.. Vlwuof 0 Alrlntercept Roder Possibly AI rcroft Was Astronomi col Probably Astronomical Possibly Astronomical 7. LENGTH OF O!SERVATION HUMBER OF OBJECTS 9. COURSE 0 In suffi clent Oat a for Evoluoti on one varied 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS ttot ion pulsat 1ng. Appeared fran 45 altitude Request for additi onal info~tion sent. to horizon. No direction given. Had general No reply. No conclusi on can be dravn on appearance of star or planet. Occasional inforcation given, except that possible flashes of bright white light. Also no state- s ighting of JUpiter with atmospheric went as t o notion other than that it moved refraction caused object to f l u ctuate. f a ster than a/c at t1ces and appeared t o Jupiter also reported f r om several change direction suddenly. other southern states during this time 4T1C POPM Jl? (R~V 16 RI'P 51) SAFJI-3d/l Jrn3rd/7229l 17 October 196o This is to ackrlovledge your undated letter to tbe Commander, USAF UFO Project concerning the sighting by you of sn unidentified flying objeet on 28 September. ~our letter contain~d insufficient information for a valid coneluaion. T~erefore, ye aak that you and one ot the other witneaaea compte~ the attached Air Force Quest1onnairea and forward the com- pleted do cuments to the Co::c:mander, Aero s pace Tacbn1c3l Intelligence Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio for their analysis and evalua~ion. Sincerely, LAWRENCE J. TACAER Lt. Colonel, USAF Public Information Divisi~n Office of Information oceback OI -3d The Wolfe City Public Schools WOLFE CITY, TEXAS Bo.rd of Edu~lion USAF UFO Project Washington. D. C. I would like to report what I genuinely believe to have been a U~O s ighting o n the evenlng of September 28, due east of this communi t y between the hours of 2400 and 6100. I am not an habitual writer of letter s o f thi s nor a "crank". Indeed, I am an Air Force Reservist and am quite well aware of the necessity of frank and e reporting of thing s of this natureo have three witnesses t o this sighting who will corroborate my story t o the extent that they observe d the UFO. I took great care to ascatain that wha t I was observing was not a conventional ai~ ~raft (of any sort k nown to me), was not behaving in the manner one would expect of a satellite, or a guided missile . From my window, the object moved from approximately forty-five degrees from the horiz e n down to approximately twenty. It had the general a~ax appear~nce of a star or planet except that it pulsated regularly from white to ora nge, red, and green. (Its motions would tend to rule out Mars or any other celestial body. ) At this latter position it appeared to be hovering while occasionally bobbing up and down and darting from side to side. Brilli ant flashes of white light were occa- sionally seen. Occasionally it would remain perfectlytstill or move in a gen er a l upward direction. I got into my car and drove out on the highway t o observe i t better. According to its brightness and rela- tiv e position on the horizon and i n relation to my two positions of obs8rvat1on , it ~as suffictentl7 clos~ f~r ~e to hav~ ea3llJ h~ard j 1 t or :-ociprocal engines if t;hey ,vere inco.r-;>orated. Its mocions .vere. qulte too sudden in direction and high in spee d to have confu3ed it with craft of thls sort. Driving bac k to town I l ted thre~ mAn, rr..r. ner of Wolfe City, a r.tr. _ , ::.an-a another person who s ghted i t with me and observed 1\.!tS\-mqt s and color changes. bbject then moved s teadily u p wardD '- :rho .vould be inGa:-eS\;dd. t'-.alllng, I re~.urned nome and wateh~d uncil 0100 hours 'Hh e n I began to realize that my eyes were no longe.c de- pendable and I began to imagine that I saw several; bodies which must have been stars were moving slightly, no dou~ \rumanlfestion of my eyes from fati gueo ' i ~ AEROSPACE TECHNICAL INTELLIGENCE CENTER UNITED HATES AIR FORCE WRIGHT-?ATTERSOH AIR FORCE BASE ATTN o F: AfCIN-4E2x lTFO Sighting (.Err.tr.itt c. Nitchell) ros S,'\..o;-OI-Jd (L/Col Tacker) Please forward t wo questionnaires to hL~self and one of the other witnesses. is attached for your inforrr~tion. FuR THE CCli'tt-W ER: h{ILIP G. E'IANS Colonel, USAF Deputy for Sci ence d Components A copy of Hr Boercf of Eduulion T h e W o I fe City P u b I i c S c h o o Is SIDNEY WASSON, Superintendent WOLFE CITY, TEXAS To make sure that I was not deluding myself about the original object, however I recall making several checks, to wit: 1. The object exhibited a light of a lower temperature than any observed stars, their being considerably more blue. 2 . It exhibited motion relative to fixed bodies which, it seemed to me, negated the idea that my eyes were playing tricks on me (until latsr). 3 . I made a quick mental note o r its relative position to a couple of constellations which I think I could skethh out at least roughly, thus ruling in or out stars. ],._. I have observed the color changes of Mars before. I do not believe I could have confused the two. In my observation o f many aircraft during four years active dut y at James Connally and Lackland Air Force Bases I must definitely assert that no aircraft can move that fast or change direction that suddenly, in my opinion. I have made notes in a little more detail if it would be of va l uB S ln:er-ely, l,l ' lc /} ~itt c. Mitchell Wolfe City, Texas SAFOI-3<1 (L/Col Tackor) Pl .... f'onrard tvo quesU.onM tres to .,.,.. himaelt and one ot the other vitneeeoa. l~ attacbtd tor you:r 1nt'anoat1ca. complat.i.on by A cow a !ir M.itche.ll's letter PHILIP O. SIAJ4S Colonel, USA? no elate rr De;>ut,y for Science &"ld Ccaponents