PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 1. DATI 2. LOCATION 12. COMCLUSIONI 0 Woe BolloDft 1 Sep 1 . San D ego, Calif o Pro~oltl, a .. a .. ,. W r Bel loon Locol 2 PM XJCt O..un .. Yltuol D GrountiRM g ~:lt i;'t GM 1 ~ IQSOOZ o Aa .. vaw.a D Alrlnterc.,t Rotlor PWr Alrcroft S. a. D Woe AttronoMicol D Yoe D Pro~oWr Att,.ntMicel 7. LINOTH OP OUIRVATIOM I. NUMIIR Oil OIJICTI 9. COURII D Other ~------ ~ In tuffl cl ont D t.r Eoluotlen 110. 1111111 011 liGHTING Large UFO pas sed over Dan Diego. ~ Lady saw it. Not 1rmgination. larger than 6 Jets and faster than anything U.S. can make. Creseent shaped with. Flashing and rotating light. ATIC POWM 321 (WaY Ia ... II) 11. COMMENTS Info received in ltr. Feb h':l. No investigation made u due to tirne lag. Case listed as insufficient data. , California Chief of Information Department of the Air Force Washington 25, D. C. RE1fERENCE: OOD Release No. 179-62, February 6 Air Force UFO Report Gentlemen: This letter is in reply to the above mentioned news release issued by the Department of Defense on February 6, 1962 regarding Air Force Unidentified Flying Object Report No. 179-62 and in answer to my letter of February 7, 1962. I appreciate your reply but ca..nnot agree 1-tith you. Ne1-ts releases will not convince the public that flying saucers do not exist. Since you think flying saucers are so unimportant, why do you bother issuing a five-page news release on the subject? Obviously, it shouldn't be worth the paper or time. Since you did bother with a five-page release, apparently there is something to be concerned about. You contradict yourself throughout the release. First, you assume that all civilian sightings are mirages, reflections, lights, balloons, etc., and then you state.that aJJ UFOs should be reported to the nearest military base as soon as possible! Why? You are mistaken in claiming that valid sightings of UFOs always concern 'the defense of the United States. Why not give your real. reasons? Why contuse people 'l You ca.J 1 your office the "Office of Aerial Phenomena." people get confused with the "National. Investigating Committee on Aerial Phenomena." However, we are not confused. Perhaps if you ca.Jl ed your office the "National Investigating Congress on Aerial. Phenomena,u people ,.;auld be even more confused. On Page 2 you give. a UFO Report Evaluation by Category and Percentage Breakdown. I notice that 175 of the sightings were considered nastronomicaJ..." Of course, since you call most UFOs reflections of Venus or meteors, this is understandable . '\3 for the 99 T~;i th ., insufficient data'', that leaves q_ui te a vTide mar gi n , doesn't it? Since these so-called objects do not give any indication of t lureat to the national security (your statement), why is the Department of Defense issuing ne'irs releases on the subject? \-lhy are phot ographs and other data confiscated from people who have evidence of flying saucers? Something is not quite right here Why insult expert civilian pilots, radar operators, and corroborating expert lrl tnesses by stating they are "startled by the appearance of weather baJ loonsu? You know as well as I do of night flying training, instrwnent flight and of the physico-psychological effects of "staring at fixed lights." Furthermore, pilots do not gaze at distant lights for long periods of time. What about the times that the pilots .AND passengers have seen "round, metal J ic objects with lights" circling the planes and performing unusual feats of which ve are uncapable? I suppose this is "mass hal 1 ucination." However s ridiculous to state that pilots and passengers "see" exactly the same hallucination. I myself have noted many times Navy jet fighters circling at high altitudes, and never yet mistook them for UFOs. They don't look round no matter how high they fly. Paragraph 2 on Page 5 gives "fire1-1ork displays and flares" also as being called UFOs.-----------------------------------This needs no comment! September ll, 1961, at 9:00 p.m. a large UFO passed over San Diego. I saw it! It was not imagination, "sun or moon dogs, a kite, a blimp, a cloud, searchlight, bird, reflection, spurious radar indication, hoa.x fireworks displ~, flare, ice crystal, plane headlights, weather balloon, hallucination, drunkenness, airplane, satellite, or any of the planets or stars." "That other explanation do you have??? It was larger than six jets a nd traveled faster than anything we can produce. It 'vas crescent-shaped and had flashing nnd rotating lights. I have a record of direction, angle of siglrting, and other corroborating data. So does NICAP. Another curious thing----on Page 3 you list lWOs sighted since do you start 'dth that date? Vlasn 't that when Mantell saw the didn't you start with 1945 or 1 940? It's strange that the two dates coincide! Yo u can't keep thi s up too much longer. I, for one, 'nll help to spread the word. And many others are helping, also. As for that news release, everyone I've showed it to has chuckled at your transparent fabrications! VTill you forever assume that all the public are idiotic children?/ Remember Lincoln's words? You would have been better off with no news release at all Sincerely, c c : NICAP