PI~OJECT 10073 RECORD CARD LOCATlON 12. CONCLUSION~ OATETIM~ G?.O'JP TYPE OF OBSERVA'riON Crount'-Vi suol 0 Ground R ':!dar 0 Air-Visunl a Air-lntcrc o p t Radar 2) No C:ivili.J.n 7. L~NGTH OF .0:3SERVATION NUMBER OF OBJECTS 10. BRIEF SUMI-IA~"' OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS 0 Woo; Balloon Pro b ably Balloon 0 P ossibly Bolloo n D Wo:. Airc:roft 0 Probably Aircraft D Possibly Aircraft 0 Was Astronomi col 0 Probably Astronomical 0 Possibly A~tronomh-:ol tJ Insufficient Octo for Evaluation Ll.irect:i.on large e nough t o do it, bnt .i.(;ft: it no: pror::r.;t nay .--the:r reports to us_,-~'. ~o a.t t_h:.:.t Jm-1 sa.rne t h i n g 0::1 s~v~ral FreD d.oe ,-; llot intend to })ltr .:;ue fu:ct~ac~ OCCClS.) l O U S . ATIC FOR M 329 (REV :.16 SEP 52) l t. Ct l I fft ..-t.' Th~ lecter Ll.''l.d "erospace you wi.ll find :!.s th~ .;J.n ; one I sent to Gen~ra.l Hills t Btl.lloo u art'lr~nt in lfinn0apolis Minnesota. I r~ce i verl t.'.n uhich -rca.d a.n f nllo . .,~: rea.d wich con.::;id~r~.ble interc=.;t yom letter of Septe.-n"uer 6 ln the s lcy :t!'l. recent day'>. you descr.:.o~ :r. ... "!.ny s traL1.ge sights which you so.w in ''ThG G~ner1.l Mills Company, the Uni.ve:t sity of lt!i.n..'l'le::>ota, the G . T . 8ehj ~1 dahl Com:.i'.DJ'"., ~-'ld Rav e n In:l,lstries, all withln o. few hu..'ldrecl rule::; of Ni!mea.!.Jo.i.is , ha.v~ b :l ::-eleasing ;.;any "tal l oon::;. He rele;J.sed t'\vO on ~3;ptc?:~])er o . It i s ent i r:}ly :possiol~ t.ha:t the sights you. ss.w 1.rere theJe balloons , e .. <ce:p-c that y o'JX' description d)es no~ ~"'it the pa.ylo3.ds t h 9.t -,~ h.).ppened t o be :flyin;;. I ,_,rond~r wheth~r you are a.~...rare of ~he f~.ct that the U. S . Air Fo~ce ha.s been in,1esti:;a.tin3 for yecu ... s rt-:p o::-ts by c i tizcr:.s of this count:-y orL strange objec t s in the sky. 'fhey call these !:>lf,..'lt s "U!t ... O" or U;lidentified Flyi~ Objects . M3.~ intelligen t and res~onsible peop l e h3.Ye worn to ~eeing these si s. A book bas baen itten abou L chi~, i n fact it has been the ooject of a televis i:>n proc.cram and articles in Life mag:tzine. a:-: r.a.l~ing the lioe~: of returning y our letter \rhich you sent to u s e.!1d I sug.;est t,:.:.t you senrl i t t c -:he U. S . Air Force ut Hrit;ht-Po.ttej.,-son Air Force Be.s<;, Ohio, e::1:.. ::;~t t heir state~e~t 5 . Goo d Lu c k." I hesitated quite a while in sending this letter :ln the hope o f g:1.th~ring a:iditior...a.: informat.ton. C:;. a-:.:y clear ni.ghts no~ we are e.ble to see so~ things in th~ skj which are sjoi}_a: to our previous sightings in every respect except one--they no longer move. I t has been expl~ined to m~ that these things c ould b e stars .;ith air currents causing t h e flashing; and. so they could be, but TJha t about the on.es that moved? Up until this y ear, I have never seen stars fla.::;hing . such distir.ct colors. Even throu6h 7 x 50 bi.:aoculars the colors are very d i stinct. I would like to add that I have not since seen anything to rese:nble the thir..g with s o na.ny lights that T..Te!lt ove r oLt.r house. I hope you have some a.nsT..;ers to t~ese questio='able occurr~nces and that y ou will sene ~hem co me as soo~ as ~ossible. Than.l{ you, Chippe~;a Fall3 , Viis. I .Jra "'rrriti ':!g to y ou at tl.c suc:~est i.oJ. of our lo-..o.l o. q'J.c::sr.lon which has sev;~ral ut' U 3 e;,.'tre 2ly c .tr .lo~.ts. ~c've ~een i n the sky. It:~... .J.bout ~o--:!e obj::ct.:; It :lll started nbout; four W\"! ~ks ago. He were wo.tchln:.; a thL)g in the k.r vhlch appeared to be a 3tnr but 1-r~ts flashing red and green. A.fcc1 ::t lung t iLte it ~;tartcd to move from below a. n~ar ~:rcctr to tile side nn d the n up O"'cl" th~ t.op ot' i.t. Being vary excited I called the nea.re.5t TV station rt.nd clle Chipp~\:a Falls Police Department getting no expla.na;tion. I tri~d to l.:Ollt.J.ct thto:? ~!. .r<)->S~ HeJ.ther Bureau, but got no a.nswer. Finally I c;ot o.n exr>la.nat ton from the Eau Police Dapa.rtneut which 33-t isfied me. An officer told me that it wa::~ .. ore then likely a. wea.cher balloon reflecting a city's floreucaut lit;hts. I co"J.lcn .. t think of any city in that direction larse enough to clo it, but I left -Lt eo o.t that 8J17...-s.y. About thr~e weeks later w~ saw the sane thing in th~ sv.ne dir-... ctio:n ll1TE. Mta~ wa.tching it 'for a while we started looking a_ound to see 11' t~er~ ~e1 oth~rs. T~en we saw wb3.t appeared to b~ the same type o.f thln3 only g_dl-~e e ~ay f~her off in the opposite direction, about SSW. Afte r Gtuuding stlll for aboux 15 ~inutes it suddenly started to reave very rapidly. We saw it ~acing in an ea3terly direction faster than a.ny jet plo.ne I've ever witnessed. It !!!OVcd a long way end was still moving when we left for home to call somewhere to tell of wr_at -;:~ had seen. I contacted the airport in Eau Claire. The ~.n there said he could see the one in the north, but vras uncertain as to ''hat it was. He sug- ge~ted that it might be a weather balloon too. When I told him of the speed of the second one he said it ~y have go