PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 2. LOCATION 3. OATETIME GROUP .. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Jll Grawul Yt .. ol D Gr.und-Rodor 12. CONCLUSIONS 0 Wos Bolloon Prol,ol,ly Balloon Poui Wy Balloon D Wos Ahcroft Proltably Aircraft 0 Possibly Alrcroft Was Astronomical ProbaWy Astronomical Possibly Astronomlcaf 1. LENGTH Of.OISEIIVAT10N I. NUMI11 Ofl OBJECTS 9. COURSE a Other lXX. lnsufflclent Oato for Ewctluotion one Stationary 110. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTtNO Object tba\ looks like flytng saucer picture in book making 1pg eouDde described as beayy buzzing, ehort and continuous. Object flies at low altitude. ~low speea r 1n one aria/ 11. COMMENTS Insufficient data for eYBluation. Poait.iunal inforllfitlon and ot~Jer e s sen\ibl e lements mis~ing. We would like to recommend that your class read "The World or Flying Saucers" by Menzel and Boyd. published by Doubleday. Dr. Donald H. Menzel is an astronomer and astrophysicist. and is the Director of the Harvard College Observatory. Dr. Menzel gives many scientific explanations of how a particular phenomenon accounts for each category of Uro appearance. We think this book will be of interest to all or you. Inclosed are aevexal copies or the new Air Force Fact Sheet on the subJect of Un1dentir1ed Flying ObJects. These too will help to explain this fascinating subJect to you. The Class of Room Twenty Race Brook School 107 Gr iss Road Orange Conn. 06477 Sincerely, MASTON M. J ACJCS . MaJor, USAF Public Information Division Office of Information Dear Children s Thank you for your letter or March 18# 1964, in which you reported seeing an Qnidentified Flying Object and inclosed a very fine drawing of one like that which you obeerved. Mr. George Adamski's books are classed as science- fiction. Thie means that his writings are similar to other adventure stores you may have read 1n school such as Jules Verne s "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" or The Wizard of oz" by Frank L. Baum. These stores are exciting to read, but they are not necessarily based on fact but rather are imaginative experiences created by the author, The Air Force has investigated over 8~000 cases of reports of Unidentified Flying Objects during the past 16 years and has never found one bit of evidence that these Objects are any type or spacecraft from another planet. In almost every instance the report has turned out to be something that is familiar but seen perhaps under unusual circumstances, and therefore was not easily recognized. Sometimes experimental balloons high in the sky give a most unusual appearance. Airplanes flying overhead might look like an unusual object. Birds with shiny white chests that reflect the sunlight or the night lights from a city have resulted 1n reports of Unidenti- fied Flying Objects. Besides man made objects# there are also phenomena such as meteors comets, fireballs and the like which can really startle the imagination when seen on a dark night. Airplane pilots have been known to report Unidentified Flying Objects which turned out to be no more than large fireballs hurtling through the sky. Atmospheric conditions may account .for an ob.1ect being distorted and appearing as something else. There are any number of situations which might arise where you might ~er at the sky and see something you are certain is unusual and unearthly. But when all the rae ts are known~ it may be a common object you have seen many times before but s~ply could not recognize.