PROJECT 10073 1. DATE TIME GROUP 2. LOCATION AUGUST 63 , New York 10. CONCLUSION INFORMATICll ONLY ~. NUMBER OF OBJECTS 5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS 6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Case was reported in 1966 afte r a rash of s ightings in the ~ -- A case of this t ype (rcport od 3 yea r s l a t er) is almost p.mpossible to check out nnd t he r f!forc i n reearde<l a s 8. PHOTOS 9. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE 13k 13~ ~ Fv-'IIIYJ H U~AF(JAFoi-PO) n ;J.S, J)C ~ADQUAATI!:AS FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY DIVISION AIR fi'ORCE SVSTitMS COMMAND UNIT.D ITA Ta AI" ~0--CII: W"IOHTATTI:"aON AI" I"OIIIIICII: .A.I:, OHIO Request for UFO Information ro: Hq USAF SAFOI PB (Mrs. Gaiser) Reference the attached letter requesting information on unidentified flying objects. This letter is forwarded to your office for whatever action you deem necessary. FOR 'l'HE COMMANDER lonel USAF y for Technol ogy and Subsystems YOU THE NUCLEUS OF SECURITYT 1Ays1:)ry Sato!li~:Js, Sirang~ Sp~co l!appening~ Several ollleial press releases deal ln1 with atnnae aolnas ~ on between Entb and the Moon Ia the put few monttl., le1d~ us to aummarize and ad nee some theoriei on the possible 'meanlnt of aame. In SCIENCE M1gazine for 22 Novem ber 1983, Robert Werlwas of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburah. VIr . Jinla, wrote 1bout the odd behavior of S.teiUte Anna: It seems tbe satellite u equipped with five blinking lights and ac:cordJna to .Richard B. Kenhner, Applied Ph)'llcs Lab, John HopJdns Uni they worked fine for two months, then they cut to four, then three, and flnaUy none. It appe1red as thouab the electrical system h1d 1hort eel out 1nd the Uthb could no longer wink. Then, Kershner uid, around the - of A_u~st, 1983, the Uahts started flasblng ag1Jn. WeriW.s said tbe short "lnut h1ve burned Itself out and tht. 10rt of thJaa b h1td to beliee." Kenhner, s~aklna 1t a ~nferenee of lrtJffclal satellites at the Vlrcfnia Poly Institute, 11ld Anna w1s another example of a utelllte which repaired it- while humans were helpless to do Kenhner further cited an occasion Mariner n, on its way to the vi of Venus, was .. struck by a tiny . meteorite," whJch apparently severed ot the wires from the power sup- ply. The records showed 1 jolt to the sateJiite as if an object had struck it 1nd also showed 1 correspondint power oat-off at the same time. 1 "Yet the power eventually returned, I lndicatlna the wires must have soldered the~n~elves back to their proper ~n aectiona," Werlwas reported. SWI fn referenee to the same article ID Sdeace, It aeerns both Telltar Com awnfcatloas Satellites had mysterious trouble Tebtar I refused to obey com- from the arouad on two oe- (See ll~ag I) lH~ A. P. R. 0 . BULLEili~ brilliant white flash on the Lunar sur face 60 miles from the predicted lm (Continued from I'Gge I) pad point. 90 seconds before Ranger 6 easlona. The first Ume, Bell Telephone was supposed to Impact. The Florida tclentlsta fixed it by remote eontroJ, man said he watched what he thought but the second Ume, Ia February or was Ranger 6, ao behind the moon. 1983. after all attempb to fix it failed, Ranger 8 was the Lunar probe de- the situation looked hopeless untU the al&ned to photograph the moon and SateiUte began functioning again. Ker tnnsmit those photos to earth before . 1hner'1 ~omment: "Ma)'be Jt'a Space Impact. Unfortunately the Satellite did Gremlins aaaln." . not funcUon correctly In the last few The Milwaukee Joumal for Janua17 crucial minutes and no photos were 30, 1964rp..(earrled an article by Joumal . transmitted. Furthermore, Ranger 8 Is Staff Writer Harry s. Pease which dealt the 14th Lunar Probe to fail In Its mis- wfth Ec~o's outer space problems. sion to photograph the moon. The only . Gale V.,;Highsmfth Milwaukee Astro-successful one to date Is the Russian nomlc:al SOciety Satellite Tracker, told Lunitt of October 1959. Accordin3 to Pease on Thursday, January 30, that British. spokesmen at Jodrell Bank. the Ec:bo 2 . wu not as bript' as it was, Jlusaians are having the same problem metJllnl appeared to be goinl -not . a single success since .(be 1959 around It~' every five seconds. High- shot. smith said~ the "whatever It b," seems And-on February 18, Space Scien- to come lzito view beneath the satellite tfsts were at a loss to explain the dis- ud beadecl toward the observer, thea appearence of Syncom. It had been a011e1 up and away. It It is In orbit, launched the .preceding Thursday from around tbel utellite, Its track would be Cape Kennedy. Its ultimate aim was to a mJJe lona and ball a mile wide, 1o-have been to establish an orbit that . inl \A, mUe per aeeond and that seemed would make it appear to hover motion- . too fast, aec:ordina to Highsmith. leu over a spot In the South Atlantic; Rlpsmlth conjectured that perhaps "nle launch was routine and It achieved the plutlc and aluminum bag bad orbit at 22,300 miles but then its radio ruptured, spilling out tbe seven pounds tnnsmitter came to an abrupt halt. of nd~range phosporea~nt dye which There was no recorded "jolt" as if a was suppqsed to leave a visible streak nleteorite had struck it. in the case of u a leak occurred. Mlliner U . Alter it's launch (and this tb t it %- il not generally known), a Swedish -uu a Q on y remo e y pos- slble that the dye cloud is in orbit tracking station tracked an object trail- ing Syncom, and two preceding. It is around tbe satellite, Highsmith thinks feasible that the trailing object was the there II more likelihood that the dye adhered to the balloon and the orbitting satellite's last stage, but it is not logical that the two objects which preceded ~ject Ia merely aD optical illusion Syncom were any part of the launching U\ased by aD .. inegular paint job." mechanism. Three weeki later, the satel- The balloon would not collapse If lite, all alone now, but with its trans . ruptw'ec:l, due to lack of atmospherle mitters still out, was tracked. and lo- rreaure, and the escaping gas would e:ated yia a unique method: Computers force Echo D Into a fast spin. .. aided by Doppler shUt. To date, 14 Ranien or Lunar probes And-in March, six mysterious .. or un f.aUed their miuioD-, for various phan" satellites were discovered In raiODL In the February 4, 1984 Issue Space. The U.S. and Russia disclaim of the JWwaukee Sentinel, Gale High _ ownership. The)' may be tel.ling the amitb apia bits prhlts with his user truth. Somet))ing that we can't quite Uon that the he sa Ranger 8 mash. account for . Is meddling with our arti- on the moo11. Watdllng the moon. flcial satellites. What? throuP. his flve lacb refracting tete: ICOpe at his home, be saw an elongated dark 11'8J' apot 2'h miles wtcfe by 5 mD loac. luting' about a minute, show ., 125. miles aoutb of tlie enter Plinius. Tbe apot faded out nmpletely In less. two minutes, indicating debris wu throwD sevenl miles bigb. It ta quite obyfous that Highsmith saw tbe impact of the Ranger, and if 10, what did a Flagstaff astronomer and a Florida astronomer see? The FLagstaff maa, Dr. Kat R.1kas,. uld be saw a No Case (Inro~tion ~) 1 August, 1963 WaJ sal 1, En.g1.an:l Walsall saucer The following account appeared in the W al.sall Observer on Augu.ft 2 : A mysterious circu- object projecting a beaming light, seen over Walsall Thursday last (August 1), was reported to the police for investi- The fiist reports were received at Bloxwich police sta tion at 11.30 p .m. from Mr. E. E. Dunn, of 129 Stephenson Avenue, Bloxwich, and Mr. M. G. Cope, Priestly Road, Bloxwich. A policeman who saw them in Stephenson Square later, was told that while they had been talking thev looked in the sky towards \Viflenhall, and saw a beaming red light Aa~hing on and off. Mr. Dunn told the policeman that it had been about 6,000 ft. up in the sky, and had circled Beech- dale E state three times. object changed from red to blue- white and remained this colour before reverting to a bright red. " It remained stationary two or three times for periods of 30 seconds, before it vanished noiselessly fr om view behind Bloxwich fire station, travellinJt in the Walsall direction. Both men were convinced that the object was not an aircraft. At 11.40 p.m., another r~port ~as receiveCl at Walsall pol1ce station from Mr. 1\. Martin, of 38 Rowan Road, whose wife hnd drawn his attention to an unidentiRed object in the sky, circling over Bescot nren. In both cases noth- ing wns seen by police officers who hnd been sent to investigate. A police !ipokesmnn told the Observer thnt \Val!iall was on a main air traffic lane and the beaming light could have been by an aircrnft." lnn:lo!l Engl:~:1d No Ca.ee (Information Only) Diamond shape The West Herts and \Vatford Observer on August g reported a well-attested sighting over which occurred on August 1, the same day that Mr. David Ogilvy of the London Flying School ~a w an object not far away at his at Carston, Herts an inci- dent reported elsewhere in this i~sue. The Oxhey report runs as follows: Fourteen-year-old Hampden schoolboy John telete saw a Hying saucer in the sky last Thur~day through his telescope, bought last October in the Portobello Road. At least, it might have been a flying saucer, but it could .have been anything . John said it was not saucer shaped and all his friends from around his home in Oakdale Road, South Oxhey, agreed that; it was very odd.' . For nearlv two hours John watched it, a~ the crowd around him became larger and lar~er. - It appeared to be stationary, but John, with the wisdom of several months' plane spotting. remarked that it must be moving to keep up the tum of the earth . .. Dennis Haisman, 14, John's next-door neighbour, was among the observers. Very ~trange,' was comment. 'I have never seen anr,thing like it before.' John dismissed the idea that it was n balloon. He had watched balloons before, he said, and they never remained so Jon~. The object he de~cribed was revolving, solid in the middle, 1 diamond-shaped and he ~aid he 1 could see through it at the edge~. , As it revolved, he ~aid, it wa~ at Arst bright and then dull alternately." 2 August, 1?6J ;::,::. ~::t Rutherfo:-rl, :!r.:r J ersey .M.LUU. ,2, jt~u~ Balls 01 Fite Seen In Mexico At 4 :21 a. m. on the 5th of August. INS. realdenta of Zltatuaro. Mlchoau n. left their beds to watch the passage and maneuvering of several .. balls of fire .. over the town. The objects maneuvered sky for some time before finally leaving at high speed. t!o Case (In.formation Only) Soarce: Salem News (From Fowler) . Rowley Meteor Of Georgetown Pyrotechnics? RO\VLEY, Aur. 8-A low tlyln~ met r about 1000 feet up waa reported bJ Orrin Bubl.-r about 9:30 last nl~;ht. A man of knowledge In nu1ny areaa, Buhler said that the ll~ht wa about the allfl on an automobile tire and t'ame froan the cllreetton of GPor~.-t~wn out of the northwc-~t 30 dt-~rees up, dls- nptlf'arlnl;' Into. the southeast. HP t>~timnt:'d that when the ohjNt. rtscmhllnr a roman t'.antllc, WM about over Row- J ,.~ drpot. it. ~mltted a bunt of lit:ht nnd then another, before It hlacked out. One "ho~ attention 1\'&1 focused on the rJsJnr of the ~;or~eou~ m oon about 9 k, pondtored the thought that Buhler's meteor could well be a taK end of George- town' lUth annlvena17 11reworka oelebratioL Salem, !!assn.chuset t s Caee86 Chica o Illinoie-Au 3 CHICAGOANS I 'LIGHT IN SKY' It wt.a w aw a. ,_, II Tid TlrMUJri& Gila _,.1111. till ol w.,. de q llberlff wbo MW ~object in tbl nicb* It)' liter M bacl I fi'ertd I frantiC' can ftotD farnw" w~ Mid tM .llght had ! ~ hi.!J SOtl far lr> m~ and 1 \V&a betih~ng h~ -m bom~ . . I Spoees:nt!ll !~ t..~ woat..~ bureau atJd Nil~ plaGetatium 1' I ~ thtr 1aww notbin& about . the Ulfli. a. Dr. All~ Hynek, dwr m ol utrooomy ~t N~ ;...-..n uni'V'!n1t; and d.irector ol U. uuhusitya Dnrbona ...... ltllr), who al Ia the air foree'a official ('1(BI'Jitaftt on lunic:JmtHied flyiDI objecta. said he wUl aa inv~gatioll. , Retunm1 lar.t niaht ftCNn a , conf~ence at Wri&btPat~ alr focce Mse, Daycoa. o . .twae .. Ud dlseuainl limillt r.,. ta. Dr. Hynd nid he bid luufflcleat data te com IIMIIt &be w., .. eoull&)' pJte. 6 August, 1963 Fd1 nburg, Scotland Edinburgh revisited The Edinburgh Evening Dis patch on August 6 reported: Another unidentified fiying ob iect has been sighted in Edin burgh. At 4 a.m. today 16-year- old Robert Brown, of 14 L oganlea Terrace, a vanboy with Smith's Bakeries at Hawkhill, saw an aircraft shaped like a spinning top with a Rat bottom' hovering over the city. " I heard a " wheeing " noise nud it was in my vision for two or three minutes. 1t was twice the size of an aeroplane, but was travelling very slowly , said .. He added : It wa~ !lilver and ~hiny and Hying C')Uite lnw. It took off, climbing in the direction Arthur's Seat.' . No Case (IntorDJi4tion ~) 7 August, 1963 Bil ston, England Bilston boy sees saucer On August 8, the '\Volvcr,amp- ton ExJ>ress and Star told the following story of a Bil~ton hoy's sighting: " A my~terious Hying object which passed over Bilston late last night startled a 15-yenr old bov . . . and his father dial- led 999 to tell the police. "The boy, Peter Jones, of 28 Hincks Street, a pupil at Bilston Grammar School, was in Parkfield Road, Ettingshall , at about 10.30 p .m . when he spotted The Thing . Three friends with him also saw it as well. The object, he says, was circular in shape, slightly than the moon, and was travelling low in the sky from Wolverhampton towards Bilston. it moved slowly along it changed colour fro m red to pink and then white. Now and then it enapted a bright trail similar to a Today Peter was fishing at Bridgnorth, but his father, Mr. ie Jones, told the Express and , Star: At first I thought he was pulling my leg, or tliat perhaps he had seen the moon, balloons show or perhaps the lighttJ , of an aircraft. But he insisted that it couldn"t have been any of these things. He wasn't satisfied until I had told the police and tried to find out if anyone else had seen ., Bilston /olice say they have not receive reports of any other sightings and the object remains unideniiBed." . s Lights Chasing Autos J.10tr.':':' lf> .om. time, lnd then moved otf neighror artor spotting the light. ti ~stwerd. Tile two said they watched the Those r: Hght for about 30 minutes. They alciH IJ\ t!. co. MOUNT Vfli'DOft police Mid nlfte said the mysterioua obj~ was ha\ ' t. ca. persons rerorted seeing the lights. 1 "h, ::ht. red, about the stze of a Throughout the week resident,., , I \:asc.tub and 400 to 500 feet high.'' :.i :~ayor Fairfield, Ill., 32 miles east n' Harry Bh:w; . . f..:-N one Mount Vernon, have repor'e" Ro.,oERT .a fonner Ar of the lights .:r.. along mysterioua ~ghta in the sky. A my pilot who aaw the light, aaid j the c~ntralia ~"'- nday night team from Scott Alr Foree Base, it appeared about the same color between 10 anCl l ... ;~.m. When the Belleville, m., plana ~ iDveatl and intensity a radJo tower southbound -:ar turned otf and sate the lncidentl. . . . ..._ stoppod Biii>op uid. the light Biahop, wbo Uv" DOrth o/. wanung light and aeamed t.o