PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS 0 Was Balloon 28 Feb 61 Honolulu, Hawaii o Probably Balloon 0 Ground Visual 0 Ground-Radar 0 Was Aircraft 0 Probably Aircraft GMT 0 Air-Visual 0 Air-Intercept Radar Possibly Aircraft 0 Yea b Probably Aatronomicol .l No Military 0 Possibly Astronomical 7. LENGTH OF.OBSERYATION I. NUMBER OP' OBJECTS 9. COURSE 0 Other _ to. BRIEf sUMMARY OP' stGHTINC Fine coDt1ail followed by brea.lrup into 3 parts and burnout. ATIC: FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52) 0 Insufficient D.to fer EYoluotion o Umcnow.t 11. coMMENTs No reentry this date. Therefor probably a meteor since sighting is cha. - acteristic of daylight observation of 1 -14 MARCH 1961 SIGHTINGS Spr Breok & Tioga, Norta Dakota Multi San Bernardino, California , St Albans, W. Va./Cincinnati, Obi~/ Ml:l.ti ~ OAio/Ricbmond, Indiana . _ Great Fal~a, Moatana Multi Astra. (MiTEOR) Insuft1cie3t Data . Minot, Korta Dakota Aviano, Italy Military Astro (ME~OR) . Military Vis\J&l Astro (~) -i Lakenlteata, Bn&].aad. Grand Rapil.a, MiclliiaD 42. 55N 43 .)OW (Atlaatic) Lanett, Al.ab ... 49.38N 20.26W (Atlantic) Portland, Oregon 120.o8W 55.43N British Col ia San Be rrlardino California Dallas, Texaa Caanute ArB, Illinois Heppner, Oreaon RAP' Upper Hayford, En~land Carswell AFB, Texas Osgood., In&iaa Guard IslaD4 Elkins, West Vir:~:3 West Hollywooi Ke!Waa, 'l'exaa RADAR Otaer ( WEA'tHER RETUR!IS) : . Military Astro (METEOR) Not Stated (PHYSICAL S )Otber (ALtnmiU) Military . Insufticieat Data Military Visual Eastera Airlines Insufficient Data Insufficient Data Astro { TEOR) . ! Astro (METEOR) !. Other ( l.U:SINTERPRETATlON); Astro ( S) i Astro (MARS) j Otber (WEATHER RETURNS) i As tro ( VDUS ) ~ : Astro ( M&'j'EOR) Aircraft , l _ Satellite Astro ( CAPEIJ.A) As tro (METEOR) 1. Otller (SPID~WEB) 2. UNIDDTil'I0 .ADDI'.i'IOZIAL RF.PORTED SIGHTINGS (BOT CASES) UL'li ve-:-s~ Mill ville, New Jersey Was~i~6tu & Califo~la Kansas City, Missourii. !da~o & Utall .S:tjla&"ld. P ortland, Oregon/SacrameRto, Calif Henderson, Ky/Eureka, California Perry, Iowa/Glendale) Oregon WaL1ut Creek, California Lewistv::s, Idallo S~n Die;~, Califoraia Sa~ D a, Californi3 Science ~evs Ltr Zambone (Ltr) I~ewscllppin& Moonwatch Rpt rre..,3clipping Newsclip:pini Newsclippin~ Newsclippiog NeYsclipping ll ewsclipping N ~ioiSC lippi!l ~ LI ~y..tsclip,!)int EVALU. TION AEROSPACE TECHNICAL INTELLIGENCE CENTER UNITED STATES AIR FORCE WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE Extract from Duty Officers Report AFCIN-4E2 (Maj Friend) . The following, extracted from Capt Smith's report dated 28 Feb 61, is quoted for your infotmation: By telecon from AF Warning Center in Washington around 0530; message relayed from PACAF Ol/0537Z. "Three pilots noticed fine contrail over Honolulu, Hawaii followed by breakup into three parts and burnout". Thought to.be satellite burnout. MICHAE J. sil{c F, JR. Major , USAF/ O ' l .:l LGO, St0~dey r ~porh . 'Jit;,::llh CcP' . i'!.t trl ilctl It a, i ~,f. I oj l ~!0 CASS (ll~FOIC{l\.TIOH O:JLY) Source: Faucett; Lal:epcrt, CJ.liforai.a. On February 16 ne~r Cow liountain outside of LRkeport, California the son of Mr. photogrnphed a multi-colored UFO. The object nas seen for over an hour by the entire center, a red bottom and a blue top. PDily. It had a nhite 018l .. VATO .. IO AIT .. ONOMICO JI .. IVATO ~IAZIA 01 ~"TA CA.TIOLIONE, o .. OLOONA ITALIA St ORBITaCX tion Section National Aeronautioa I520 H Street N.W. Attention Kr.E.C.nuokl8y w hineton 25, D.c and Space Administration . I have t)baerved that loday'e nAHepapere aq an unidentified object that m~ be the balloon h.-. been l~unohed trom Wallops IalBnd b~e and n missed or not under control. DA!It I96f Pebru~ I6 TIWBt (U.T.) I9h 45N COCIDIJIA'I'!B 1 --:R.A. IIh 40 Deal + 33 approx. I' o~nnot be the satellite loho I because in theese d~ys t~i3 s~tellite is ~911 6beertable in the eYenins going in \lppoaite direction. I am orx, I am not in a position to give you turtbe~ informations, ~ut durine thi obaert9tlon I operating with a telescope photoarsphing. Sinoerel,, dr. u. Usll'Ol~o No Case (Information Only) 19 February 1961 . Berlin Heights, Ohio . .Oat Pe'bNaJ7'~19'th' a: 1 t.ranp ataaile h1 t a e IIMrT Berliza Heigh t , .laale4 wi til. nob to roe U. t 1 t. b~oa .. a . :, ot. _ala ta Oil the roof before talling to the lfOWld. Vhen the owners ot the tana oucb later, the object ba4 aplit 1Dto ral piece which were acattered o'er th. e14 steps. 'lh larpt. chunk 1 about four inchea b7 tvo iDCbel, aDd ia cl uy.~t aenral atrata ot tra.nalucent rock. ~ top l1.7e.r reaembl litoae, No case.(Information Only) 22 February 1961 conroe, Hempstead & Ellington Field, Texas .... ~,!r.c IAUJ 0:. Obj t -nppeerod tG be obou~ 200 feet ott ia..a..'fla "~ect . a hip nte ot s~ed .That vee and variaua uDtta troa . to .Hou.tou. Tbe tiDe voa about 10 p. n. l.Det n1Jht. Tbo object J'eterrad to vee an eluaive "uDidentitied tlyiDg object". The tiret sighting V!lB near Conroe b7 a P.ighva1 potrol Unit. He descri the "thing" aa o bright,silem light. Aaother !lllbvoJ Patrol unit ct Hempeteod a lao aav the object.An Air Force epckaeu~B at Field necr Houston eaid that there wore no oi11tory slrcartt in that ar.He a lao aa 1d thqt their rador would not pick up objects os low. ea 200 teet., Bouton Internctionel, Airport also said thtlt they Jmev llothing or Sn7 eir cot1Yity in the erae.Tha rnder 3ppar~tus bere wos not in operetion at the tioa.Dr. Dsl.a F.. ppar,bead ot the Dept. ot Oceonogr~phJ' end :tetoorology soid he lmev ot nr:>thilll thltt. could baYa ~uaed the bright li~t. (College Station,Taxaa ,Bat'tttllOD, ATTI ora AFCIN-4X2 AEROSPACE TECHNICAL INTELLIGENCE CENTER UNITED STATES AIR FORCE WRIGHTPATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE SUI.IECTa Extract from Duty Officers' Report 27 Fe b 61 TO AFCIN-4E2, (Maj Friend) The following, extracted from Capt Morton's Report dated 24 Feb 61, is quoted for your information: 1905 hours, received call from Capt Mack, Information Officer, Washington DC for in tion on UFO in that area. Contacted Naj Friend who said there was no information pertaining to t hat UFO. Called Capt :Hack to relay t he negative rer>ort. NICHAEL J. S liaj o r , USAF . No Case (Information Only) 28 February Lakeville-:,=.: 1961 Hass~chusetts On February 28, 1961 an.elongatad UFO, yellow with a dark red edge nnd surrounded by nblack smoke" illtu:.lina. tad tho ground for 5 minutes ne~r a house at Lakeville, Massachusetts. It caused the -failure of electric lights in tha house, but whon the UFO moved 7rrom the area the house lights oame on again. On its second pass , above the house an odor like 'fat burning' was detected. ~-