PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS Melville AS, labrador Was Balloon Probol.ly Balloon PouiWy Balloon 3. OATEeTIME OROUP 4. TYPE OF OIS!RVATION x 0 Wot Aircraft Local 0 Ground-Vhuel u CreuttdRodor 0 Proltahly Aircraft D Woe Aettonomlcol II y o.Radar Scope military D Probably Aatronomlcal D Poaelbly Aatronomlcol 7. LENGTH Ofl OIIERVATION hrs 53 mins I. NUMBER OP OB.IECTS t. COURSE 0 lneufflclont Oato for Evoluotion two va r .t P.rl 10. IAIEfl 0, SIGHTING 1 I. Two obJs with normal paint on height finde r of size about t that of n/c observed l'or almos1. ] hrs. Objs were 2 miles apart. IntiAl pickup on HRI at 80,000 ft 112 deg azimuth &3 miles disappearance at 1o6 dcg azimuth 74 miles height fluctuated between 6o,OOO to 80,000 f1. vertical movement. No~l AP. T-33 nlrhorne not get visual contact. 2 flight~ werE" scrambl for identification and could get Radn~ plckup no visual contact. Three fJ1~ht~ nnd () a, .. ~- , c r r nmble d 1n attcmp~ Lo gain vi.Hunl eoutucll. without success. ATIC FORM J29 (RKV 26 S&P 52) Negatives of scope forwarded Annlysl s submitted to Electronics ~rnrwh for evaluation. Balloon vi th rqda r corne r reflec~o r considcrd ns the most probable cause. Transparent ualloon would be difficult ~n see from a/c travelJng At high speed, yet. lrould he plckect up on eJr r n t~ rcept., Radar. (See analy~ is) 6'ls t AC I S'lu:;edrrm (i\:,C) POSTAGE AND. FEES PAID UMIT0 S TATES AU FORCE OffiCIAL BUSINESS T i- ,: 11: r j l 1 her,omcu~ Br,o~nch AOC FORM Ue., Ot C " HI!AOQUARTERS FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY DIVISION AIR FORCE SYSTEMS COMMAND UNITilO .TATES AI"' I"O .. Cil W"'IGHTPATTK .. SON AI"' I"O .. Cil BASE, OHIO Evaluation o UFO Report from Melville AS, Labrador To: T.DEW (Capt Quintanilla) 1. Since visual contact of the target was not made in this case, it is impossible to state ~th certainty w.hat caused the returns on the radars. 2. Equipment maltunction can be ruled out, sin~e several radars displayed the same target; and anomalous propagation appears to be unlikely 3 From the activity of the target it appears that the most logical explanation is a balloon, possibly carrying a radar corner reflector. This would not necessarily be a balloon released by our people, or even by one of the westem countries. Balloons have been lmown to travel hundreds of miles, and the relatively small lateral travel, coupled w1 th the variation in altitude from 6,000 ft to 8,000 ft would be typical of a balloon. If the balloon were small and silver or transparent, it might well be next to impossible to see visually, .yet would be easily detected by the radars. VlNCENT D BRY.A.NT FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY DIVISION,AFSC UNCLASSifiED UN CLASSIFIED FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY DIVISION,AFSC UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY DIVISION,AFSC UNCLASSIFIED UNCLlSSiflED FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY DIVISION,AFSC UNCLASSIFIED FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY DIVISION,AFSC UNCLASSIFIED UN CLASSIFIED FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY DIVISION,AFSC UNCLASSIFIED UU ClASSIFIED FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY DIVISlOM,Al ~t UNCLASSIFIED FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY DIVISION,AFSC UNCLASSIFIED FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY DIVISION,AFSC UNCLASSIFIED UN CLASSIFIED FO.REIGN TECHNOLOGY DIVISION,AFSC UN CLASSIFIED UN CLASSifi(D FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY DIVISION,At}"' UHClJ\SSlflED 5 Auguatl963 vill~AS, Labrador UNUSUAL RADAR SCOPE PHOTOs CO~'T~ CT, CO '.JT ll CT C') \'TACT. 841ST AIRCRAFT CONTROL AND WARNING SQUADRON (ADC) United States Air Force APO 877, New York, New York ,.. A.ir _;oorce ~ystems Comm:and .:'oreic..= r.:'~ctnolot;y .Jivi sion ;:) - Z ""erial .Cheno:n~na .3ranch .r ight F o1tterson .:L~3, Oh i o 111! '?~closed elev~n (11 ) neg .tives ar:-t.vc (2) ~)hoto~r ... ~;h.3 of e:.1ch