PROJECT 10073 RECORD 1. DATE TIME GROUP 2. LOCATION 4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS 10. CONCLUSION Other (tviiSSILE ACTIVITY) Missile exer c ise in area a t time of s ighting. S. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 11, BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS 6 :linutes 6, TYPE OF OBSERVATION Air-Visual 9. PHYSICAl. EVIDENCE Ob~ect appearing as large circular area of high intensity light. With dark outer rim travelin6 at orbital speed leav- ing fai glow or trail. Doughnut appearance. Observed t o .G and looked like lig!lt as i t got closer i t was b rillian t with the center missing 2nd report of object a ppea ring like smoke ring 2 deg in diameter. Not l i ke Auror a . Ring arke r than rim around ring. Object moving ESE. FTO SfP 63 0-329 (TOE) p .... lo..e ediU- ol lhle tera _,be u .. d , DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FO~CE STAFF MESSAGE, BRANCH UHC\.ASSIFIIO MfSSAGI I N C 0 M I Sep 61) H/ns : CIN-14, ARMY-2, NA~, CMC-8, JCS-3 OSD-15, NSA-7, CIA-11 DE RJHPKH 3 ttgR220215Z FM HAW AIR DEF DIV KUNIA ANNEX HAWAII TO RJHPKM/CINCPACAF HICKA~ AFB HAWAII RBHP~/COMHAWSEAFRON PEARL HARBOR HAWAII INFO RJEZHQ/COFS USAF WASHINGTON DC RJWXBRB/CINCSAC OFFUTT AFB NEB RBEPtJ// CNO WASH DC RBEP\~/SECNAV WASH DC RJWFALB/CINCNORAD ENT AFB COLORADO FBHPA/CINCPAC CA~P HM ~ITH HAWAII RUHPFS/CINCUSARPAC FT SHAFTER HAWAII RBH?B/CINCPACFLT ~EARL HARBOR HAWAII RJAPAZ/COMUSJA?AN FUCHU AS JAPAN RUAMCR/COMUSKOREA SEOUL KOREA RUAGFL/COMUSSTDC TAIPEI TAIWAN RBHPHH/C~MHA1JISEAF?.ON KUNIA TUNNEL ANNEX UNCLAS/CIRVIS/90AC SPEED BIRD 582 PILOTED BY CAPT. GRIFFIN TO.YO TO HONOLULU. 21/ 2 000Z ?OSITION 3800N 16100W SPEED 550, TEMPEPATURE -53 DEGREES CENTIG~DE ALTITUDE 37 THOUSA~JD, HEADING 083 DEGREES ~ AG. SEEN IN SKY ABOUT 50 DEGREES ELEVATION AN 09JECT APPEARING LIKE A S~OKE RING ABOUT 2 DEGREES IN DIAMETER AND NOT LIKE AURORA. TEXTURE AND COLOR OF THE RING APPARED TO BE DARCER THAN THE RAY AROUND THE RING. CENTER OF RING CLEAR, SKY COULD BE SEEN THROUGH AS STARS WERE VISIBLE THROUGH IT THE COMPLETE PHENOMENON MOVING ESE \HTH A BEARING DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FO~! STAFF MESSAGE BRANCti UH:LA$Sifll0 MfSv.<#t OF ABOUT 100 DEGREES. THIS SIGHTING WAS VISIBLE FOR APPROXIMATELY 6 MINUTES, AT 2016Z A SPACE SHIP OR SATELLITE WAS SEEN PASSING VENUS OR REGULUS HEADING NE. WF.ATHER THROUGHOUT CLEAR. NO EVALUATION. Adv cy del to OOP-CP & CIN (22022L). TWO JET AIRLINERS ENCOUNTER UFO FLYING The confirming Pan-American report / also was logged at Honolulu. The FAA has sent for both reports, to be re- leased to NICAP if there are no official objections. AF Acr.:q flood of Beoorts BULLE1t\. The Federal Aviation has :u.st confirmed to :--;reAP the sightm~ o f a large. round flying object by two jet-airliner crews. En- countered over ::,e Pacific, Sept. 21. the m ,s:ericus device swiftl y out distanced the Boeing i07's. Reports were r adioed to FAA towers at Wake and Honolulu by Capt. R.F. Griffin, commanding a British Overseas Airways Corporation plane, and by a Pan American Airways captain. Details indicating a space machine much larger than any now possible on earth were relayed to Af Intelligence. (On Sept. 25, in a surprising press ' statement, AF HQ admitted being flooded reports of "flying objects" near \Vake Isl3nd.) Capt. Griffin said the BOAC jet was at 37,000 feet, in a gray, pre-dawn sky, \ofhen the UFO appeared. "Suddenly we saw this bright ring in the sky, about 50 degrees up." The British pilot described the object as round, with sharply outlined edges ~?d a "very clear hole'' in the center . It was traveling in our direction but at far greater speed. There appeared to be reflected light coming down from it. The object went over the horizon in seven Based on first reports, these points seem evident: 1. The object was not an ICBM mis sile. Nor was it a satellite re-entering the annosphere. These appear only as small balls of fire, briefly visiE>le. 2. The reflected light was from the sun, which was an hour bel ow the hori- zon. The UFO had to be very high to I catch its rays. 3. At such a high altitude, the un- device had to be extremely large (at least several hundred feet in dia- meter) for its edges and the hole to be so clearly seen by the BOAC crew. The size and description rule out all earthmade rockets, satellites or Echo- type balloons. The "doughnut" shape the jet crews reported is similar to the future space- base proposed by rocket expert \v'ernher Braun--a huge doughnut-shaped ring containing comparnnents for crews and equipment and rotating to create gra viry. At a distance, the connecting frame- work would be invisible, and from far below the space-base would appear just as Capt. Griffin described the UFO. More advanced space engineers, ex perirnenting on another planet. could have evolved the same type of space-base. ~ It is possible that what the jet crews saw was such a spacecraft f rom another DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE STAFF Mf:iSAGt BRANCii UNCLA~SifllO MfSSAGf ARMY-2, crc-8, JCS-35, NSA-7, CIA-11, OOP-2, OOP-CP-1, PKB016KHD64 7 DE RJHPKH 23 FM HAW AIR DEF DIV KUNIA ANNEX HAWAII TO RJHPKM/CINCPACAF HICKAM ArB HAWAII . RBHPQ/COMHAWSEAFRON PEARL HARBOR HAWAII INFO RJEZ Q/COFS USAF \1/ASHINGTON DC RJWXBRB/CINCSAC Orr'JTT AFB NEB RBEPW/CNO WASH DC RBEPW/ SECNAV WASH DC RJWFALB/CINCNORAD ENT ArB COLORADO RBHPA/CINCPAC CAMP HM SMITH HA'4A II RUHPFS/CINCUSARPAC FT SHAFTER HA'I/AII RBHPB/CINCPACFLT PEARL HARBOR HA'4AII RJAPAZ/COMUSJAPAN FUCHU AS JAPAN RUAMCR/COMUSKOREA SEOUL KOREA RUARFL/ COMUSSTDC TAIPEI TA I 'I/AN ~ .. ..... ~ RBHPHK/COMHAWSEAFRON KUNIA TUNNEL ANNEX OEPARlMENT OF THE AIR FORCE STAFF MFSSAGc BRANCii UNCI.ASSiflf:O MISSAGf /UNCLAS/~IRVIS: PA878 ADVISES UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT AP?EA~ED AT 1700Z. OBJECT APPEARED AAAAAAA RPI' THE ABOVE LINE AT 1700Z. OBJECT APPEARED AS A LARGE CIRCULAR AREA OF HIGH INTENSITY WITH A DARK CENTER AS SIMILAR TO AN ECLIPSE. OBJECT APPEARED TRAVELING EAST AT ORBITAL SPEED LEAVING A FAINT GLOW OF LIGHT TRAIL. AIRCRAFT PA2 VERIFIES SIGHTING OBJECT DOUGHNUT IN APPEARANCE. POSIT ION OF. AIRCRAFT AT TIME OF SIGHTING 3455N 15440E AND OBJECT APPEARED ABOr.JT 10 DEGREES OVER TI1E HORIZON AND \~ELL EAST OF THE AIRCRAFT. AIRCRAFT Tl5182 ADVISES NOTED SAME LIGHT REPORTED BY PA2. WHEN FIRST NOTED IT WAS SMALL AND BRIGHT AND AS IT GOT CLOSER IT BECAME BRILLIANT WITH THE CENTER MISSING SUCH AS A DOUGHNUT MIGHT LOOK AND RETAINED THIS APPEARANCE UNTIL LOST ON THE HORIZON. BELIEVE IT TO BE AN ELECTRICAL DISTURBANCE OF SOME KIND NOTE: Advance 21/1901Z SEP RJHPKH cy del to CIN and OOP-CP at 1605L .;~late liF t'hr thH pilota spotte~ a clouj\iliit:ai"ilped UPO at hli)\ a!titui': between Ja- pan and Mid~ Ielend. '!'be oltject lookM ) in a large eaolat riD&. and the Q-could be aeen t,h;o"(ljt of 1j.l