Nclembe:z: 3. OATETIMI! GROUP LI!NOTH 0, OBSERVATION 20 minutes BRIEII SUMMAftY 0, SICHTINO PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD I 2. LOCATION S udan E. Af~jca 4. TYPEd' OBSERVATION XX Ground-VI suol 0 GroundRoc:lor 0 A iro Visual 0 Alrlntercept Rada r NUMBER 0, OBJECTS 11. COI.'.MENTS CONCLUSIONS Wos Balloon 0 Probabl y Bolloon P ossibly Balloon Wos Aircraft P ro bob I y AI rcroh 0 Possibly AIrcraft Was Astronoml cal 0 Probobl y Astronomica l 0 Possibly Astronomical 0 In suff i cient Data for Evaluot i o n Object resemblin g small From description West moving to t he East c h a nging a Noctilucent course slightly the Nor t h where it disappeared. Round mass that stayed together. Night clear with moon. Smoky or colorless object. Shape ied slightly though mass remained the same. Disppearance due to loss of reflection the s u n ' s rays. Believed ATIC ~ORW 32? (JU~V 7ft 9Y.P Sl) r .. A tonic T~sting ,bolllDission -J ., Cape Canaveral, Florida Chali f Via ~::un:ruk Sudan E . Afr Chali, vi;;. Kurr:ruk Sudan E. Afr ica . ~ ~ , I t llought you might b'~ interested. in a strange phenoc.ene. lTe vri tnessed over- ;f' ,."~F.ead on th~ 1st of. this month. Also, per{l.aps. you cou l d give~us some information ~ or expla:ce~ipp. !'f what .we~'sa7. I shall try t o exp!ain it. \ ... , . . . : "t.;f,.'. in the.: 'tlest:~l~It.l~fadt"@:lly '\.rorked i.ts ' '-my overhead, then seemed to change cm.u-se ' ~:;~}J .. ;~nd go No-.i-th .'where it gradUally disapp eared from viel'r, t hough it had only gone f,:"1~...F a little \'mys North. From the tine He first SalT 'it until i t disappea r e d \'13.S a _ , , til:le la.pse of possible t"Vrenty minutes.. . .. . , ; .. , '\:L It 'rtas a round mass, much 1 ike a cloud and stayed together. The night \ras ~c ~ .. clea r and. starry with a sliver of c.oon. To get an. estimate of size \re held;up . ~ a 6 inch saucer and .c.oved back to where vTe could see it just c overed the x:.ass. From Hhere we stood to t h e saucer li2..s t ;Tel ve feet. \~e d have no idea on the !. ;. . height of the formation, though it \'JaS ouch higher than clouds and appeared ~ , sooe\Th.at like a moon though it did not retain one constant shape. As for ;:. . .,_: ~ . c;:olour i t appeared almost a~ colourles s, or a Sl!lolrey silver. thus vro.s ~: t.lIO hours do\m. lThen 'Vie first noticed the cloud". I supposed that the mass '\'18.5 \ .. travelling East\-m.rd around the earth and as it C8.1:le overhead lre.s getting out : of the rays of the sun, hence "VV'B.S disappearing to our vievr, but ~hy lTould it . .:~appear to travel north before it disap:?eared? ; ' I . . . Could this have been the. formed by the lrater that Has released by you in one of y~ur tests?. That seems the most logical explanation, ho~reve~, . ~e wondered if it could have been a mass of radioacti v e fallout from_ a recent \ testt It did not disintegrate when disappearing, the last vre saw of it it ~ still retained the same size and sr...ape. : . .... \ 1.-.J.:\:. ' r \olOUld apprecia1;.e hearing from Y<;>U if you have any expla.l'l.B.tion for t his. :.-.'1e .are missionarie~ in .:the Republic of the Sudan, ,situated about. 10 degrees i The re~ction :of ;~me-.of the loc.al peopl~ .. ,~s ;~ooewhat humorous. Some thought it "VJaS a spirit" of somekind and vrere scared out o f their Hits. Many cane running ,to ask what it \ras. ;fe d Iike to be able to tell them defjnitely,_ if. yo~,W0Uld r_ave anyJidea:3. ; I Tl:a::1k you very much , Sincerely yours .. AEROGRAM ME .Stnd~rs nomt ond odrlrtss.- IF ANYTHING IS ENCLOSED THIS LETTER r-tAY BE SENT _yJW I ~,r.iv y LU.'j, tJO'jiU 11Jo -.J