PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 3. DATETIME CROUP 2. LOCATION 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION C Ground VI aual 7. LENGTH OF oas:;:tVATIOH 10. 8RIEP SUMMARY OF SIGHTING l . .a Air-Vi auol 3. ~UMBER OP OBJECTS c .l:t.e 0.l I.IV-J , I ATIC P'O.RM 329 (R!tll : 6 SEP 52) CONCLUSIONS 0 Was Balloon Probohly Balloon Possibly Balloon Was Aircraft D Probably Aircraft 0 Poaslbl y Aircraft 0 GroundRadar 0 Air-Intercept Radar Was Astronomical J.'i ~ Probably Astronomical Possibly Astronomlct~l 0 Insufficient Data for Evoluatlon I)E? RTMENt OF THE AIR FORCI IT ;\FF ~cSS-'8E DIVISION fNCO~JN8 MESSABE /NYOIN RPT NYOIN THREE ZERO PD FOR AFCIN AND SAFIS RPT SAFIS PD UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS PO UFO RPT UFO PD AIRLINE PILOT FLIGHT NR RPT NR 3KA RPT BKA FIV=: XERO SEABOARD AND '110RLD AIRt1JAYS SHANNON TO GANDER TO MCGUIRE PO ONE OBYECT THAT APPEARED TO BE A ROCKET CO~lE REENTERING THE AT~OSPHERE FROM A HIGH AXIMUTH ON A PARABOLIC CURVE ENDING UP IN ALMOST VERTICAL DESCENT CMM HEADING ABOUT ONE ONE XERO DEG CMM HIGH TEMPERATURE BLUE DASH WHITE LIGHT CMM EXTREMELY BRIGHT FOR ABOUT olr~ERO SECONDS PD OBYECT THEN EMITTED A LONG TAI L 0? BRIGHT RED AND ORANGE VISIBLE FLA~ES FOR ABOUT TWO SECONDS 3~rORE IT EXPLODED LIKE A SKYROCKET PD NO SOUND WAS HEARD PD VISIBLE TO NAKED EYE DURING NIGHTTIME PO THE OBYECT WAS NOT LIKE A METORITE Or WHICH THE CBSERVER HAS . , SEEN FREQUENTLY PD THE OBYECT APPEARED LARGER THAN A B~SKETBALL l f>i"''!V10US E:::liTIO~lt o,-THI S FORM ~lAY !lC: U.:i!:O , ozp.~:~Tt ENT OF THE AIR FORCE STJ\rF ~,ESSAQe DIVISIOH p a g e 2 or 3 PD SIERRA AND WHISKEY ALFA SLANT CHARLIE WAS AT POSITION FIVE TWO TWO FIVE ~!OVEMBER CMM THREE TWO FOUR XERO WHISKEY HEADING TvJO EIGHT ~IV E DEGREES MAGNETIC CMM t.lnEN SIGHTING OBYEC T AT THREE XERO SLANT XERO TWO XERO XERO XULU PD THE ALF~ SL~NT CHARL.IE WAS AT ON~ TWO XERO XERO XERO FEET WITH NO CLOUDS EITHER ABOVE OR 8LOW PD OBYECT APPEARED SOUTH OF THIS POSITION AT AN UNKN0 1IN RANGE PD INFORMATION PASSE9_oBYL.OBSJ.,RVE~ OCEAN STATION QUOTE CHARL ~ U~QUOTE BETWEEN XERO TWO XERO FIVE XULU AND X r~ "R 0 7 .,, 0 N E X E R 0 X U L lJ ? D T vl 0 S fx AD IV C M M N 0 T I~ I ED AT OK~ T;G ?OUR FIVE XULU ?D PARA FOUR DELTA PRN TWO PRN NOT COMPLIED W!TH SINCE NO AL?A CHARLIE AND WHISKEY NEAR THAT AREA PD CAPT BA?~ETT CMM TDY R?T TOY CMM ALFA ONE NOTIFIED C CAPT GUILFOYLE PRN RESERVE INTELL OFFICER PRN COULD NOT BE FOUND I N BOQ RPT 80Q ?D MR RPT MR CONTROLLER DOT RPT DOT UPON LANDING AT GANDER GANDER WOULD ~OT ACCEPT CIRVIS ZERO FIVE FOUR FfVE ZULU F ROl't! PI LOT PD PRN SAID THIS IS A UNIT FUNCTION AND DOT IS NOT REQUIRED TS ? JCESS THE~ PD PRN ALFA PD DESCRIPTIO~ OF THE OBYECT CLN PRN ONE ?RN ROUND PRN TWO PRN BASKETBALL PRN THREE PRN BLUE WHITE LIGHT PRN FOUR PRN ONE PRN SIX PRN OBYECT EMITTED A LONG TR~IL OF BRIGHT RED AND ORANGE FLAMES FOR ABOUT TWO SECONDS PD PP~1 S~VEN PRN SAME AS PRN SIX PRN PRN EIGHT PRN NOT APPLICA9J_E PR~/IOU'3 EO r!ONS O;r THIS FCR M DEPARTME~T OF THE AIR FORCE STAFF rnESSAGE DIVISION H~COMING MESSAGE PRN NINE ?RN NONE PRN ONE ZERO PRN NOT APPLICABLE BRf\VO PD PARIBOLIC CURVE ENDING UP IN ALMOST VERTICAL DESCENT HEADING ONE ONE ZERO nEG PO PRN ONE PRN UNKNOWN PRN TWO PRN UNKNOWN PRN FOUR PRN UNKNOWN PRN FIVE PRN TWO EIGHT FIVE DEG MAG RPT ~AG PRN SIX PRN PARABOLIC CURVE PRN SEVEN ?RN NONE PRN EIGHT PRN EXPLODED PRN NINE ?R~ APPROXIMATELY ONE7IVE SECONDS CHARLIE PD t1ANNER OF OBSERVATION CLN PRN ONE PRN NOT APPLICABLE PRN TWO PRN AIRCRAPT BKA RPT BKA FIVE XERO SEABOARD AND b'ORLD AIRWAYS PRN THREE PRN NO PR~l FOUR PRN NOT A PLICABLE DELTA PD THREE XERO YULY XERO TWO X O XERO XULU E:HO PD AIRBORNE FOXTROT PD IDENTIFYING INFORMATION ON OBS~RVER CLN PRN ONE PRN MR RPT MR CMM NEW JERSEY PRN THREE PRN UNKNOWN PRN FOUR PRN UNKNOWN PRN FIVE P~N THREE FIVE GOLF PD CLEAR HOTEL PD NO PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE OBJECT WERE TAKEN PD SCP DASH FOUR Pn<::VI'?US E:.OITJONS OF THIS FORM