Desmoines Iowa — August 1965

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Keywords: message, initial, unclassified, lengr, ligtm, windcva, thousanl, siaattj, t7ortb, uiijs, closelj, tlessage, inocij, observeco, ipt10, jrtee, otict, tcrneo, dsceno, ltltuoe, hlsiantaneo, of3se, binocgtars, tjentifyjnc, nitfal
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4. NUM&E~ Of OIJ!CTS CONCLUSION . eal (STAR) -. s. LENGr.-+ Of OBS!RVATION 11. a~tl, SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS 2 Hours, 1; Minutes 6. TYPE oc: 08S!AVATION 7. C:lUR S E Yellar ligtm chang~ to orange am thn b1.1-green 'Wlth a! t.l.ve windcva. Oval ahaped. 1i.itb naked e~ appeared to b gl.Of~. Glow disapJ:a whl BI use.d. Initial posit:Uc::n l.S-al thousanl teet, djsappeared at 8,000 tt. Initial siAAttj:r"t( :_.., =:JJ with t~ object in fiight. to the t7ortb Speed gi r ~ [:.~. Object in si&Pt fer over tiC> hou..-a. Course sl ;ghtly . erratic. . CO~NrS: Antares (lmg 1.2) at 15 deg elevation 220 deg a ...... "" .. o Y A?.CTtJ'mJS _(Mag 0.2) at 25 de elevation 270 deg azl..1 uth .,.....:X:.;::Z::......;N.;.. _,. mere near reported po&d.tion. AHC'l'UiiJS r.ae closelj associated tdth 9. PHYSIC-''-evto!HC! tte reported observa.bla characteristics. De:.ai 1 s ani fe.aturea at txi bl ted to the tion of the ~5 year old :routh. tN(:<)J'A}NG ~.tlESSAGE DEFt\Rl.~ENT OF THE AIR FORa ST /,Ff MESSAGe BRANCH UNCLASSIFIED. SAFOS-3,) DIA-l ... ~COMING OEF,,R7.y\fNT OF 1Hf AIR FORCE ST /\FF MESSAGe BRANCH ;o BE G~:w l'rGo IJHE~J SUBSEQuENTLY OBSERVED IJJ liH B iNOCiJ..ARS GLOWING r-::A.TUqE WAS OT '/IOENT~ fo NO f"tL. T~AIL OR EXHAUST i'IAS OBSERVECo G~ S..:LNO: NONE. Ho NO OTHE:R Pf!TI~JE~H OR UNUSAL FEATURESo PART 2o DESCP.IPT10~1 OF Q;:-OBJECT: A. GLOj F TURE OF G3JC:CT FIRST :,,'J5~':: ~[?,JRTEE TO NOTr ITo B. INITIAL ALTITUDE EST ,.., All-'TP1c:-AT T Jl;,-or: O!SlP?EA?ENCE EST AT 8 THO~SAND FEET. O~ FIRST . OTICt:O S~UTH WEST OF DEZ..'-!OINE~, IOV/A TH~ri TCRNEO NORT!i AND CONT! ~lU~D "fORTH UNTIL IT FADE C. COURSE WAS SLIGHTLY ERRATIC~ 09JECT DID ~lOT CLP.13 on. DSCENO lri/,LTlTUOE" J~JECT WAS MOVING AT 6 FAT BeTE OF ,SPEED, E. OBJECT DISAPPE~?ED HlSiANTANEO'JSL'f. F. OBJECT WAS VISIBLE FG~ TWO HOIJR S ~ .,J ::I FTEEN ~/ I ' I .. :E S. PART ; ~1A~!NER OF Of3SE~V A TIJN: Ao C3]~CT WAS ORIGINA~LY OBSERVED WIT~ THE f~A~ED EYEo suas: E~!T SIGHTING WAS WITH BINOCGtARS. B .. ~iANNER Cr 09SERV,\T 10 !/AS GROU~IO V ISUALo PART 4. T li~E AND Cf SiGHT PIG~ .Av OB.JECT ',VAS S iG~ITEf} A f 06/1.;~ h~I .. 8.~o UNCLASSIFIED lt-ICOMING DEF I \R1 v\EN T OF THE AIR FORCE 5T /,FF MESSAGE BRANCH DAR~ 6~ tJENTIFYJNC tNFCR~1ATION J~ OBSERVERS: A. !NITfAL ~AGC 3 ~UCDAHJ 4 UNCLAS LS UQI~IC"'\" STUOC~T, RELIABILITY C rATHER)~ t.._::-r~ A.,. OBSERVER REPC~-:~:; 2'JLY ONE STAR 'IISiBLt: JN Tr:~ 87,0 FEET W!;\VAILA8~E TTfQ,..O F Tt1-RE UNCLASSIFIED DEFt\R7,~ENT Of THE AtR FOla UNCLASSIFIED ST I ,Ff MESSAGE SRANCH ~OENTtFICATJON WAS NOT ATTEhiPTED. 10. NO KNOWN BALLOON RELEA'5~ S JN TH AREA:~ 11. PREPARING OFFICER INTELLIGENCE 788TH RADAR SQUADRON, WAVERLY AF S, i S NO PHYS JCAL EV lC!NCE OF THE SIGHT lNG.