1. OA Te TI~E GACIJP 2. LOCATION 14 .roveaber 64 l5/03zt~ orooklyn, Nel., York 4. HUMBER OF OBJECTS 10. CONCLUSION Astro nonli cal (!-!ErroR) IFonn 164 sent. Object has speed ani flight char acteristics of m teJ put no tail and not very bright. Very likely a meteor. IFfonn is 2 -3 Seconds 6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ground-Visual 9. PHYSICAL EYIDEHCI Object streaking across sky. 1st mg bluish white color. No tail, looked like satellite except much faster. Flight from Orion (25 deg elevation) to t he horizon in 2- 3 seconds.. Orio1 a t 115 deg azinruth. Object Has rotmd arrl small like a star. 24 November 1964 'fb1a 1s 1n repl7 to your recent letter 1n which you reported obaerving an object 1n the aq. Attached 1a an rtD 164.. It 1a requested that you complete tbe tozu 1n the greatest detail possible and return it to thia ott1ce tor further evaluation. J rD :ro:rw 164 Brooklp, Hew York, 11230 . Sincerely, MASTOJI M. JACKS MaJor, USJJ - Chief, Pictorial Branch Public tion Div1a1on orrice or Intoxuation Dept~' o:f Air Foree Project Blue Book(SAF-OlPB) On Sat y night,' l0:37P.'!I EST in New York(Brooklyn) I sighted an object streaking across the sky) It seemed to originate(as i:f it _ was turned on by , ,a switCh) very close to the s tar a etelguise in the constellation of' Orion~ The direction in w hich it traveled was from ---f.a-i:P.l.-bP-i--ght {a-bout-1-st-magni.tude}-and-the ool&r- ef-t-he s-ta-r Rigel-....!:t----j luish white ;It was round and was very small-.t.be s.i~e Q! how a st .. Qo4.--l appeaasJ It was moving pretty rast-it went :from Betelguist to t he horison. in. about 2-3seconds ~ It had no taii~at al~ and ac~ually looted lik& a sate1lite would look but it was much :faster~' I have a :fairly gooa knowledge in atronum;y and so I~ made a list of things it could you can only see lrcllloons one-halt hour a:ftwr sunse t and this was in the middle o:f the night; airplaDe-no-no blihking lights, no outline of plane, no noise, too :fast. !As you see I have c hecked off mos t 1 of the t hings it c ould possibl 7 be.-I called up t h e Air Force Base (Floyd Bennet F'ieiCI)a.D:rtneyt-old me to wr:rte o llou-.-r -ope you- (a t!:~oo-ra) :if-roY 'IT . a..t OFFICE of I z.~"!"1"'1'f Dept. of t he Air Force ProJect Blue Book(SAF-OlPB) WaalU.ngton D.C. 20330