PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSION~ 0 Was Balloon 10 t 1963 Fairfic]d Jl tin o i ~ 0 Probably Balloon Night 2130 L 'l'X 0 Wos Aircraft Local -u Ground-VIsual D Ground-Roclor Probably Aircraft Possil,l Y Aireroft ,-0 Wos Astronoml cal 7. LENGTH OP OISERVATIOM two hours, sparodic 0 Probably Astronomical D Psus\bl'l._ Astronopllc;al M1s1n~erpre~a~1on of 0 Insufficient D-ata far Ealuatlo" tiple V A tl ~"d 0 U111lnown IRIEP OF SIOHTIMO Pnor t of mu tiple sightings in Jo,nirfield by Saucer fan who visited this city durlnp, the "Flap" from thnt area. ATIC FORM .129 (lti!:V 2 BltP 52) t 1. COMMENTS 0b.irf~tf:0ulrL tw explained as an over- A~ t:iv" imnBin:,llo n Md mJr,Jntt!rpretotion o r R U('h ('<'tlVf'nti n n n 1 o b._lccts as n/ c, ~("' n:h 1 1 1\h t~: '1n d :ts t .rf'rlPt'li ca' bodies . l11td t.t r .J: f i J~ it~ ly one or thr objc(!1.~. Obnf' :'V'11. tnn lncludc:>d tele~cope ~ lgh1.lnp,s HEADQUARTERS FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY DIVISION AIR FORCE SYSTEMS COMMAND UNITED ITA TitS Alflt I"'OfltCE WlltiOHTPATTil,.SON AI,_ prOfitC aASit, OHIO REP L 'I' TO EW ATTN OF:TD sueJE~quest for UFO Information TO: Hq USAF SAF -OIPB wash 25 n c (Mrs Gaiser) Reference the attaChed letter dated 4 Oct 63, requesting information on un10.E!n't fied. flying objects. Tbis letter is forwarded to your o~fice for whatever action you deem necessary. FOR THE COMMANDER Colonel, USAF Deputy for Technology and Subsystems October 21, 1963 This is 1n response to your recent letter 1n which you report seeing an unusual light 1n the skies over Pa1rf1eld. Illinois on August lOth. The earlier sighting whioh took place at Pa1rt1eld was derinitely established as two objects. rirst the moon, and then the planet Jupiter. Your sighting is very characteristic of a large beam or light emanating from the ground to the sky, such as a searchlight or klieg light. Such a beam, when shining f rom a distance, gives the appearance of darting around the sky, stopping., then retracing its long sweep, then stopping again ':11th no apparent pattern except that chosen b y the p son or persons who control the light at 1ts source. Due to refraction, this light or lights may give the appearance or changing color. Atmospheric conditions also give strange appear- ances to otherwise easily explainable phenomena. It is impossible to give you the exact route rollowed by the Air Force investigators during their investigation of the original Fairfield sighting. They traversed the original route reported by the young man who first saw what he considered an uni- dentified rlying object, but they also went over the entire area, so that it would be d1fr1ault to report any constant route which might have been taken Since there are only a minute percentage of cases ~hich have remained unsolved, and these only because the information given to the investigators was too agar to provide enough evidence for investigation, it may be assumed that your sighting had a logical explanation. You may have seen more than one object, such as Bcho satellite plus a searchlight To date there has been no evidence submitted to or discovered by the Air Force that unidentified s1ght1ngs represent technological developments or principles beyond the range or our present day scientific knowledge. There has been nothing in the way of evidence or other data to indicate that these unidentified sighting& were extraterrestrial vehicles under intelligent control. Chicago, Illinois 60613 Sincerely, MASTON M. JACKS Major, USAF Public Inf ot-wnat1on Division Office of Infot'lfaat1on