l)epUtJ "" tlla JOI& this inr(D."'ation to SAJ'I.L tor tor-."U"111D& Ar11ec1 sa vices SUb-Ccaaittee. COORDDATICJI : ... .. ASK ACTIVITY REPORT (Page Item 9 (Cont) Akron. Inquired it aey power line trouble had occurred in the area of esmith Lake qn 21-22 Jan 61. None was recorded; and if any trouble had occurr Ml:'. office would have had a record of it. The above contact was made as reported that there was an odor associated with the sighting as electric wires were burning. Also from the reported behavior and location ot the UFO 1 could/ should have come through near an electric high tension line located West of' hoxne ACCOMPLISBMF!NTS: ~n personal interview with interview on tape. Conducted a complete photo-recon of the area: 1n which January occurred. incident of 21 Established a friendly relationship with Mr Director of the UFO Research Conao1ttee, Akron. Established working support ot Akron Civilian Defense Office, Mrs. Became area orientated in case future incidents dictate repeated trips. contacted were very eager to cooperate and gave freely of their time Believe that the people involved with incident and contacted gave no ....... ue information -all were v ery sincere and :from. many personal debriefing experiences, Corel Nr. ----- IteM 9 (Cont) I believe that they were stating, as best they could and honestly, an exp~rience of ersonal involvement which they actually witnessed but did not, perhaps could not, understand. whatever his motivations, i s very eager and capable of honestly and unb sly assisting in UFO investigations. Local area Civilian De.fense Offices can and should be utilized -while condticting UFO investigations. ... veal area Civilian Defense organizations during UFO investisations. Utilize various Civilian UFO Organizations in any/all o the following ways: (Howeve~ it understood that the organizations do not r epresent the USAF during organizattonsl activities ! :) Conduct on the spot taped interviews plus photo reconnaissance . Perform finished studies of each factually backed up incident. Perform a stu~ of previous unexplained UFO reports . i.:: !'"i!t.l s tc~J. :...; bl'luk -:a.pea ;;o .c.::pl a.ce . w-hich is taken from th~ organization d.S evidence. A TIC DEC 60 46b Thla form aupenede ATIC rut Form 46b, which Ia obaolete. ""ASK ACTIVITY REPORT (Page Item 9 (Cont) s of the famjly went outside during the observation of the incident. It yms also br out during the interview that a similar incident occurred on 23 November 6o ,.;hile 1-lr. s away from .4kron on a business tt-ip; both incidents occurred approximately at the same time of the evening (11:05 p~m.) and behaved in a like manner; however, the ovember sighting was not reported to the officials and no public record "Has ll'\M.e of it. During the interview, showed us the location of the incident both from their oints or observation and the location of the obJects appearance/behavior. (On-the-spot hotographs were made of al 1 points. ) contact was made with Mr of the UFO "'"'liOisearch Conoo1ttee, Akron, and an interview was established. Mr brought along to the interview his assistant, Mr. t f'irst the two gentlemen were very unfriendly, due lTftinl y to previous rude treat- ment (treated hjm as a seeker of publicity, out for his own gains, a crack pot, a liar, end in general, the old idiot treatment) by both city officials and a re~resentative of he Dept of Defense. During some 7 hours of interview Mr. showe d us every consideration, took us to interviev a Mrs. e home is locate d in area of Take Nesmith, at and had also reported to sighting of a UFO during the night of Feb 61. Later during the evening ook us to his residence to review a great deal of TJ"FO work he and his committee bas compiled throughout the previous years. . lhtm 9 (Cont) While a listened and recorded taped interviews of 4 other individual sight incident of 21 Jan 61. The other sightings were by ltfr at 10:30 !-Irs. and 11 year old dau~"+er, t 10:-iw"l'.m., Mr. and Mrs 10:4o p.m., and Hr. and at ~p.m., all on the night of 21 Jan and none of the people are related or were knO'wn to one another. The other people did not report their sightings of a UFO ot:ficiall.y except to Mr. who has his intel"views vith them recorded on tape. During our interview with brought out the very irritating tact or the gz eat amotant ot trouble he and other consciencious citizens have had dealing vith various officials especially with Lt Colonel Lavrence Tacker, Chief SAFOI-3d tvashington D. c. pointed out Tacker's nev book has eome very stupid and elemen- tary errors in it and indicated that this official has treated him with childish dis- ~ect. ossesses taped tel~hone conversations th T~c~er wh i ch pr~tty We also bad an interviev ith Mr of the City o~ Akron ' s Civilian Defense Office, She was v ery cooperative and has offered to us USAF representatives) the use o~ any/all of the city's services at any time -even the use of h e r offices as our headquarters in the a r e a should the need a.rise. AT I C DEC 60 46b This form auperaede A TIC Teet Form 46b, which Ia obaolet~. .. _h.H v i.-~olice Aitiinde ,,:1 " ~lrlrnr,fJPrl flyini obj!et (l'!o'Ot was dL".,Cr\~d tod.ly Akron l ,,,Hwl!tnPn by th UJo~ Akron Ar~ Relflarch 'r: _.. i.tt,r ll Cvtl'1dl. two. '-r'h~ Pulliam~ wr rre.t Uo r't:ll.~ rold ,.,, t~er~ with ll~ht lilik and. IIUJR I \\'aV r.ow Unflt'l t..'\JII~ll u IIUII. I'"~ \.'):-,l. ' Clfy l'ot.rl\.11 dP.c'trlrt tooa:.-t.u t 0 .211.1 f'n lt~ O"' n ,;\.t"ll g ;. .0 n lr.t cl the m) 51rt>ll., a ro:t n! l nirl,.n:t t:f'ld 1-'l~ tn ;: t..j C .l.J:,tl. 9 to 3. 'otl'ri to ftlf! ! ~ lt'ltf"r from t'-'O mt:lbr.tj )t' o r" ,har t. "Tha.s famuy ) h4' t . nJ Akron All'a RP I ~4?..\l'<:h Cummltr'f' pro,~tJn~j :n" i\lti!UdP o f tilt' Polic.:r DP I lnJ phnmnnn "hid\ th.,utd n~J"l,'ltf'1 ~ ~m.~lt C'O\ e i n Th,.. t rn lr~d~r' uk..,. 1 . tJ. r- w 1 n r ~ ~'~':man. Councdmcn IC) "aulde poUc ) . ..::~ PnJ-'J" :c h a nd !'Slghtj mn a more aln rrcep- . <'halr:n..a.l l ~ ~r~nct Moyl t ,ttv" ttt such rf'poru. . Thf' l~u~r will M rNd at 1 "" n:, , . . r t!'nf'rally ;>a~.:f"d Tu~o:day's City Counctl mt1!t- ..u t '.l ~. 411 t 't'l a\ tl t urft a net lnJ.: I I Plfllollf':1' lo)fllf>," ( llflli"'ol d f pf't or . ,'fH; C'O.'DJI rrt:;F. ,~nt rhe 1 r~"pnc" '~MAt th~}: had ::.s~ucer Laws Need+<l ~., The U!o .. O A..'<ron Area P.r~earch Commit~ has written hl City Coun- cil to complain about tr.e trcatm~nt ais Akron famijy received fr om the PoliO! department wh@n lt t eiPphcnPd ti:l' report the slgbt!ng or an unidcn~i ftL-'d !lying obJect hoverin~ o1~r !':es- Cijth Lake. The flyina saucer group says ~orne body at the pollee station r~.:eived h~ ri..M "with ltght talk and a laughing l&sponse: The Jetter ask~ Council to "gUide policemen to a more alert re c:fPtivity,. to reporu of this kinri . ; Our !lrst ~action was to wonder ~by the saucer -spotters didn't com- pSiln to the r.rayor, who is ex officio , llltety dJrector and boss of the police tftpartment, lnltead or t:lklng the t"Ptter to Coundl But then it dawned est us that admon1shlng the police to ta1ce UFO reportt seriously i3 only ~ of what is lnvol~ here . ~r-:-ung th~ conduct ot ns1tcrs 1 :or.t cpler sp$t.Ce, what could tht~ police have rlone about it it they 1-!.\D tak~n tlle N~s:nlth Lake ~p<)rt s~riou~ly. ahd gone out and 1M80ed the S-lllc~r? ~:The police need guidance. a 1: n~ht, but not ;ust Jn ~in~ pt)\ltP tO th.._ ... p:!J- : &lYe -:hem authority ... JJ tak~ ~a: 1cer !nto custody, fit questioning. dcba.yi.te we're liable _, rave an ln -~lan:tJrY !nddent "n-Jmd her"! .. ,.. ('Of'~( IL''-' vot~ followffi ~ . .P-l ''llll o;.llrt hf" frlr thr., T11" 'flt" C':tli'f' :lf!t>r Jo.ocop lt ' ,;Hilci l"w rt trrc-I t o thP A i r pt)t1. :l T''I At~ttnn Com:nrttcr. ' ' \ ot ~n~ d;.!rtln~t t1:1n~ Wf"r P ,diP t R _.~ ldl,.;,., ,,ivl D~nholm . p aO'-P !ttl!M., but,,~ th~ othr 2 1 r ent th~t horhf"r of ! 1 . , 'i \..TO rcportPdly '\'A3 c-lrt'i U" th.-J :1mPs PulLam, ra m th ~.>2 \\' V/atl!rloo rd. ,&....:<N1 L''"rcll to "~.Jlde polkeoj me''\ '' ;t .nc,re. Jlf'r~ rf'\''"Pfl"'j :1.> to " h report~ PPT Nr----- ltem 9 (Cont) We believe that by utilizing the Civilian UFO organizations two things readily realized: l. Gain an:y/al l available information that may contribute to the solutions of UFO reports via the most economical means available to responsible USAF/ATIC departments. 2. Realize a veey amicable aDd responsible relat .. w between offices of the DOD come increasingly more antago- and the American Public which duriDS the past years nistic in many areas to include ... ssinnal int RONST T. SMITH Captain, USAP EARL J. WOLF JR. Captain, USAF PPT Mr.----- IteM 9 (Cent) AT 1 C DEC 60 46b Thla fnrm auperaedea A TIC Teal Form 46b, which Ia obaolete. DATA PROCESSING DIVISION CLIMATIC CENTER, USAF Air Weather Service (MATS) lie, North Carolina ATTN OF: CCDPD/HHOE SUBJECT: Data for Akron, Ohio TO: Aerospace Technical Intell:i gence Center ATTN: AFCIN 4E 2X Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio 1. Reference: Your telephone requests on 17 ~rch 1961 and 24 rch 1961, and our letter 20 March 1961, subject: Data for Akron, Ohio and 2. We are inclosing photographic copies of hour~ surface observations for Akron-Canton Airport, Ohio for the period 16 t hrough 26 January 1961 which is the balance of data requested by your first telephone conver- sation. Included also is the period for Akron requested in your second .3. Copies of additional data requested in your second call are being prepared as listed below: a. Surface hourly observations for 21 through 25 Nov 1960 from Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Toledo. . b. Winds aloft observations for 21 through 25 Nov 1960 from Toledo, Ohio. c. Radiosonde adia9atic charts for 21 through 25 Nov 60 from Pittsburgh. 4. Copies of these data will be forwarded by 31 Mar 1961. FOR THE DIRECT<R ?AL.LA.S L. TI~, JR. U Captain, USAF , , Administrative Officer Data f/Akron, Ohio ATTN OF: CCDPD/HHOO DATA PROCESSING DIVISION CLIMATIC CENTER, USAF Air Weather Service CMA TS) Ashevelle, North Corotina SUBJECT: Copy of Surface and Upper Air Data TO: Aerospace Technical Intelligence Center Attn: AFCIN LtE2X tfright-Patterson AFB, Ohio 1. Reference: Your telephone request 24 I4arch 1961 and our letter subject: Data for Akron, Ohio. 2 . \ve are for\-la.rding photographic copies of the follo,dng data: a. Surface ho,trly obse~rations for 21 through 25 Nov 1960 from Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Toledo U. s. Weather Bureau stations. liinds aloft observations for 22 through 25 Nov 1960 from Ohio. No obnervations were taken on the 21 Nov 1960. c. Radiosonde adiabatic charts for 21 through 25 Nov 1960 from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 3. Surfaca data for Akron, Ohio \"rere forHa.rded in the ship;nent FOR 'firE DI~TOR PALLAS L. TYE, Ja. I Administrative Officar 3fc & U/A data VIA AIRlIAIL DATA PROCESSING DIVISION CLIMATIC CENTER, USAF Air Weather Service <MATS) Asheville, North Carolina ATTN OF: CCDPD/HHOO SUBJECT: 1'/BAN-.31 Adiabatic Charts for Pittsburgh TO: Aerospace Technical Intelligence Center ATTN: AFCIN 4E2X \~ight-Patterson AFB, Ohio 1. Reference: Your telephone call 31 Nar 1961. 2. lie are inclosing photocopies of adiabatic charts from Pittsburgh for 21 through 25 Nov 1960. Ue regret the oversight in our shipment 27 l-Iar 1961. \VBA!J-31 f/Pittsburgh U.S. AIR .FORCE TECHNICAL .INFORMATION SHEET This questionnaire .has been prepared :so that you .con give the U.S. Air Force as much Information .as possible :concerning the unidentified .aerial phenomenon that you hove observed. Please .try to onswer.os many questions.os.you possibly.cdn. The information that you give will be used for research purposes,.ond will be regorded.os confidential material. Your name willnot be used in.connectlon .with any. statements, .conclusions, .or publications .without your perm_ission. We request .this personal Information :so that, if.it 1s deenoed necessary, we moycontact you for further details. 1. When did you .... the obiect? (Circle One): (Circle.One}: a. .eastern") (Circle One): a. Daylight Saving b. Standard b. CentNir c. Mountain d. Pacific