PROJECT 100'73 J<ECORD CARD -2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS ! June/July :95-3?~nc~r) Indi~a Wo~ 8ulloon Prol>t.bly Uclluon Do, -;i bl y 8ull oon ;G Ground-Vi ~ur1l Cl Grouold R odo r --/ocv'c"P j;.-"Pt-loros 0 Air-lnhHc&pt Rodor I 5 minutes l~GR.II!FSUMMARY o:= SIGH"f!NG ------. . ---- --ri~COMM_t:.NTS -.-- \'1 en /\~rc ruft fl ro bob I y Ai rcr11ft Pu ssi bl y Aircraft \'h.n A'ltronumi c..ol Prnbnbly A s trono.nicol P o s::i bl y ;'-.stmnomi cCII ~ In 'luffi ci ont Dut o fo r Evolvuti on fJ Unknown Obj ilUt sig!lted. SoU.!ld only. l,,h:.::-::-in3 sound . Requested investigation of s' .. )U:tds . To Like -,:-ock~t tJ?..ki . .ng o:ff. Also he are th.L\~e tirJes retu!n repor-t. Insu.t"'fici~nt d::L~q_ f:or in July. e valuation ODSERVZR Ne'..l York. ~-!3so'l. Ohio Denver, Col,j:-a..io Bridgeport, California Clesrw~ter, ?lorida~ Folder \.fincheste~, Virginia Roeland P3 Kansas Ka ze 1 ton , ! ia:-:o Kelleen, Te . Rapid City Ten Sleep, w:-:>::ling C3.pe Girard.ea.-.4, .Jackson, ~-1.:::>. Belle,Tille, :11. ~lashing ton. , !::>. C. ~:e~ Ibari~: ::>~lsiaua :~ Chi~ogo, Illinois ~3 Vand~nbers, California L3 T~xark a, T~xas -~ P~sa:le~a, C3.!.ifornia -~ 43N l71-3C~ (Pacific) Odessa, Texas _ ) S~cr3~ento, California :5-16 Clev~la~i, O~io ChicagQ, Illi~ois 15 Mil=a S R:).q!l:.on Lske, :.fichi3an !!ilitary ~1ul ti:ple ~-!llitary & ~tiltary ( PaYSIC.-\1 SPECIME~t) EV.-U. u. \ Tiorr 0 thar ( ~IISlrl'l'iRPF.i:!TATIO:I I O.F COlJVENTIO!iAL OBJECTS) ~ As tro ( ~fSTEOR ) As tro (METEOR) A!RCP..c\FT INSUFFICIENT DATA INSUF}.,ICIENT DATA Cther (FLARE DROP) !NSUF'F'ICIENT DATA INSU.ltTICIENT DATA As r.ro (~IETEOR) Astro (N~TEOR) - 1 . INS UE'E'I CIE~iT DATA 2. Other ( Iii"/E~SIO~r) I~ISUFFICIENT DATA Astra (STAR/PLAl.ifET) AIRCR.L\FT t, s tro (.NOON ) Other (UNRELIABLE As tro ( NETEOR) SATEfJ,IT.S Oth~r (UNRELIABLE REPORT}i Other (UNRELL~LE RSPOR'i'~l Oth~r (ROCK) GfiD~i'l'I FILD .A5~ro ( HETECR) A3tro (MEmr.-6R) SA TBLLITE/ . BALLOON .. I!~SUF.?ICI.SNT DATA 1 -rr JTJLY 1964 S! CiiTifiGS ADDITIOfTAL RS:?ORTEO SIGHTINGS ( NOT CASES.) Bento~, ~licnigan Spartansburg, PeP.nsylvania Toccoa, G~orgia Newark, :;~?.-Jersey Santa Sen a, Italy Cuyahc~.:l ~alls, Ohio Cleveland, Ohio Blackl ot, Idaho Spart~ls~urg, Pennsylvania Toccoa) G~orgia Nort~a~ Georgia Ohio .Ar~.a Hissvula, !-fontana ora n, -':l-o Fostori~, Ohio E'l.l'~Lt!ATIQ~ OFFiCIAL FILE COPY R:!queat ~or U~'O Infoxi118tion (r rl.s R. ~o"oertson) 3a..'<a lar . \?.B, LJ.di3na Dear 3 1.r ~;~ ~ .!..n rece1J't or ..he attached let'U!r f'rom ~.u-. a.nd :-trs. 3 .R. #1, 3pencer. Indiana. Intor:nation i n t..hl3 letter i s 3el.t' ~XJ.)l.anatorJ. .Since Bakalar 1 3 the nea..r~st ::u r 3 a .ae t o Spencer, Ind~sna, it is requested that perBonnel from your ba 3e Lnv e atigate the .:>beer.,e.,;ion in accordance rri th A:!'R 200-2. FOR TS S COM-WIDER Co lonel, USAF tcyU~J t~r Tec olo~J Li..:ld Subsystems UI'D Co~r.r:rl.ttoe evie\.;, Vo l 1 , J:o 2, Sep 6~. Penn: Shortly aft<::-::lic!r! 16ht a -:hi t o b:.\5 on on a end . " a o ie d couplo IJuna tli :-p:n ~. rtH.ch<r.:> ot.cP .. rp:od to c.::.p-;'...::'~ -::-.r:> UFO, b \tl: thuy :;oon g:v . ..-leary o t" th~ obj"c: t Sightinas nt S~::aton Burn :' Ill tht i':t'\\f:t~tlt-upon : 1\ rw ~::-: '! Cltrrutirlt. o f.Junc 2fi: ":-,[r. l~lwin Vipond , 'u111w host' .1l :'lt.or lioN: Jnn, S<ou Jlurn, ":\'::: .. *iu1lwrl.lm..l, and hi, w tfc. EiJc.,n, \nd bcforC' you rn:kc a t rilC'k t:' t h e h rt: r b ting too ~1n1n~.' c ~ --.~ imnginr this . !1 ,,;-.s quite \.;-..,-:.J and his wife both o;;o.w tlw fi. :;: 'H H r time: 2 a.nr. tocl.ly . . Viptu1d told the L~'oenill!! Ch,..,i.ll': ' f t w.1s nltot night nnd we ! :..~ \, t: i')t'dnmrn window opcu. 'l'hcp \-t' lwnrd thio; loud bltl.i'in~ noi:;,: ltke the hi~h p it c hed uuuing of n ~j')lll'1tn1 top. lt kqll clmninl{ on and 0:1 until 1 w c111 tu tht winr!ow to sec wh,\t was C<lu,ir.g i t'. " '1 loo!,c.;J tip :Hid dwre, hig h i n the sky, wa<> tlw s.l\wc:(, rin{c:d in nn c l,ctric blur: light. The whol~: s-nrcr sctrncd to ltc pu6ating up o.nrl do,,n.' '\\fr. Vipo11tl, \ho ju1111:d hi5 wift .tt th~ w indvw. audctl: 'I cuuld harJlr bdicvc n1y c~c-s. The s:ttu.cr h:IS .nn\'ing in ;ur C:l\1 to wc.~t dircc- ,n. Thtn i t ,hnt UjlWO\rds no! nut nf sight .' "rile cnuplr feel ~11rc tint scmconc c!w rn..t~ h .wc ,;t'l'll the sau(rr. Saicl h :. . v tro!Tic (Ill thr: rn:d for rhat t imc tf dw m n m in~i nod ~nrnont rn 1 J'lt ::wr 'lr;t:n tt. (Credit tn i\fr. I larry Lnrrl.) A repro duction of 1\1. Pierre Leger's photograph whi ch appeared in Owst Fmncc cf July 2. The photograph was talten at midnight, June 27 \\'ithin .t ten chys interval, two inhahit:mts o f S:tint-Rcm~-dcs::".lont_? witn.eso;ed a celestial phcn- orn<'non whic h cnu ld not f.'lil to came astonishment. Ou::sl Frar:o: in its i .. ;;uc of.July 2 as!.-s: ''\\'hat was it? Thnt i" d it1ir.u:t o s.:y . .Ptrhaps it w as an a rtificial satellite CH' cv~n :..::1 o bject of c:.;:ra-trrrcstri a l ~ L Pict 1 c T.A, ... :: designer, a nd i1is :not her wf"rC n'l\tlt'inp; from .1-.. :': i to fr ie nd:; looked towards the ~ky wltcn "a ~on ,,f ball of a n jmprcssivc white lt1111inol-ity", to yuvtc 1vLLeg~r's own tlc..:scription, v.-w; l-t,n to t r:1.vd ;Lcross t he sky from dt<: north- west towarc.b the south-east. 1\L Leger and his tnr>tltcr w.,;tc able to obscrve the obj\'cl for al1ont twclvt: mittutc.~. Tht'n the thing d \,.;apparccl. On S.ll, t .. d:-t::,Jun e ?.7, at about midni~ht ~J.Lcg-<'r ...,...,,1.<; nt w ni:.~ from the cinema ,.,hen O IICC ::l~ain he ~..tw the olljcd \vhich seemed to be-hovering nnd thea ad vnnrmg wry slow! y. He r ushed in to the home, called to his mother and grabbed his camera. Fo r a bout twelve minute$ the-y both wntc hecl the lJbjcct 'vhic-h wa.s ckarly clistinguillhed from the stars hy its grea t si7.e and intensity. "Then 1 sci1.cd my camera at)d with my shutter open I followed the convolutions of this o bject wltir.lt rncJvc:d without any noise whntsoevcr," Pien~ Lq~rr explained to tbc newspaper reporter. The Out~sl Franct' declared that i t was tuw.blc lo nflcr anr explanatio n oft he phenowcno n , tltough in n cnpt- io n to the photograph it d escribes it as ''di:;turbi11g." 1l mmt be born in mimi that M.l .egcr ''<t" moving his c;\nH:m. with the shutter ttpcn so th. p a th of tt,wcl shown iu the photognph is not the true trajc:dory. N cvcr tltclcss, ~ L Ltt~c r' !) rcm,trk th.lt the ol~jcc:t was much lar~r 1han any s t:\r io; amply dcmon-;tr.\tccl by the wirlth of tlw impreo;sion on the photographic pbt(. (Cr~dit to Mme. Saunier)