PROJECT 10073 RECORD DAlE TIME GROUP 2. LOCATION ::. ~.OIH:CE 10. CONCLUSION 1 . NUMBER OF OBJECTS 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS 5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION E/A Photos of (a; r J I ,; ('P r .j, i l.l,r!rl f ~r C''Ta lll-" t.i "n . Or.i r~r.ts 6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION XKYea Ret.umc d to 0\-mer 9. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE fo rH<.~ r d nd t n r~ i'l PEEK PHOTOS (EMULSION FLA'.VS) Cape Kennedy, Flori~ MEMO FOR THE RECORD: Photos by labra, Fla of Gemini 5 Launch (Aug 65) Conversation with Sgt Moody and Lt Alexander of Patrick AFB, Fla phone area They bad received the films (two slides) from James Peek. They were film defects. RCA Quality Control Personnel did analysis. Proved that it was defects in the film. t to their information officer, Colonel Coleman. The photo analysis had been typed and given to Colonel Coleman. Colonel Colemen bad been b out of town and had tried to get in touch w1 does not have a telephone and messages must be left for him. Colonel Coleman a letter describing the analysis. Patrick PFB had not made copies of the pictures. The letter by Colonel Coleman was objective. Lt Alexander wil l $end us copies of the photo anaysis and Colonel Colemans letter to Mr Peek along with a letter from Lt Alexander describing what the pictures were of. P Oct 6c:; ,,,.. :''1l l.!j Lt . . -.l exancie r at Patrici< Air ?or~e 3ase and reaueoted that he :;end a .:opy Jf the PI r =?ort. No~3: GEMINI 5 LAUNCHED 21 Auguat 1965 f Malabar, flo~tda, did for evaluation. The fil~ ~as analyze d at results of the analysia indicated that the fil~. The film has been returned to SIJbmi t his uro film to the Air rorca Patrick Air force 8ase, F"lorida. The the objects depicted were defects in I checked around and found out about the radio area. Radio station wmAL obtained a tape of the York) by contract and used it on 24 September 1965. show ou were on in this (11llR, New It has been returned to I a111 h~ppy to be of assistance in providing you with this information. SARA B. HUNT, Civil Branch Co~nity Relations Division Office of Information, Pentagon. ~shington. o.c HEADQUARTERS AIR FORCE EASTERN TEST RANGE AIR FORCE SYSTEM S COMMAND NITED STATES AIR F ORCE PATRIC K AIR FORCE B ASE. FLORID A 32925 October 1965 suBJECT: Defective Film Report To: Fl'D (TDEW/Sgt Moody) Wright-Patterson AFB 1. Attached is a copy of the RCA report you requested. 2. The pictures were taken by Mr. during the launch of Gemini 4 and supposedly containe UFO's. As a result of the attached report, and hour interview between Lt Col w. T . Coleman a further report will be prepared. FOR THE CO NDER DANIEL B . WILLIAMS Lt Colonel, USAF Director, Evaluation and Applications Memo, Photographic Quality Con- trol, RCA, 23 Sep 65, l repro cy IIC.l WIILZ TOT ~CT. '-'n'OC API, n.a;oA r., Lt. Alennder Srrer&l. alitba with ~ cc1 pot vae .ulaitted tar opin1ca at the 1~rc1 r1 tbele 1a411 '!'be writer mlaitte4 tbe 1d ali~ to two otber ea;aericcad pictuZ"e dAd'ect ~. 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UFOs l?hofcogra ed at GT -5 launch LENSMAN GETS PHOTOGRAPHS AT GEMINI LAUNCH MALABAR-The Gemini 5 flight that took astronauts Cooper and Conrad o n their . record-breaking eight-day orbit may have attracked -more not from earthlings. According to James R . Peek, 47, of ~ownship Road, at least three, pos- ~sbly four, unidentified flying ob- Jects were seen by him in the vicinity of the Cape within seconds of lift- An he has pictures to prove it. Peek, a senior engineering l.lbora tory technictan, optics expert. and ex- perienced amateur photographer, wls out on his front lawn like thousands of other Brevard residents that his- t o ric mornine. But in his case, he got there a few seconds too bee to see the actual lift-off. H e says he had his c.1mera all set to grab a few pictures of the bunch, but having missed it, wls not going to take any photograps. As he was about to return to his house, he says he saw an object tr:neling at very high speed mO\ing in a westerly direction in the vicinity of the launch area. looked like a silver of brilliant green phosphorescent light just east of the contrail left by the rocket," Peek said. "It made a sort of S-turn in and around the contrail, became ellip- tical in shape as turned, then chang- ed into a dearly defined disc." Peek hastily aimed his 3~mm camera fitted with a 35mm lens at object and took a picture. The object van ished towards t h e south. Peek said he tried t o take another cou p le of shots of th e object bdore it vanished. but o wning to the small v iew afforded in his camera ,iew f in de r, \\'as not sure that he was sue But when his color film returned from the prctclssc~r~. hl: '' w t h.tt he h:~J been more suncs-ful th.tn hc His first shut show~ .1 It cht crcln blur across the tr.lmp.tremr. but the second show s not one objctt. but three of them. Peck said the brilltJnlc uf the nb jects was not Jue to rdlecceJ sun light, but c:1mc: from the: obrcct~ themsc:l'"cs. " I'll IMt ttl~t this will ruOy uise Hell down ~t SAC." r you :1re interested tn the scicnti fie investiptton o f UFOs, the Inter pbnetarr In tell i~encc 11f U niJcnt i. ieJ Fl~ing Objects, (IIOUFO) i:. the o rganization for you. A mem- bership free or!!antzauon with ~.ooo members located tn the U .S. and 28 forei~n countries, bJckcJ by a Scien tific Panel of scienttst . The main purpose to Jdd wh:lt information we can to help sol'e the UFO mystery. The JIOUFO tS not tr}inJ.: to prove th:1t UFOs arc tntcrpiJnetuy space ship or .1 !!Overnmcnr prorect. only that 'iomcthin,c is there .. 1nd to get people tn Jpprolc h the subject w1th Jn open mtnd .tnd til let them h:~ve a working knowlcd,~.:c n f the inform.t t10n that tS l\"ai!Jble. Nn Crs~, Informati on Source: Sa,tcer News, r~JI' Kr~rmi.', . ~TION PICTURE Of UFO IN fLORIOAs An article from the Orlando (florida) Sentinel, dated S -2ls~, tells of a man named James R. Peek who photo- graphed a UFO within seconds of the recant Gemini 5 take-off. Peek was watch- ing the blast-off from his home not far from e Kennedy when he noticed an object traveling at very high speed, moving in a westerly direction in the vi- cinity of the launch area. He said it looked like a " sliver of brilliant green phosphorescent light," just east of the contrail left by the Gemini 5 rocket. Peak hastily aimed his JSmm camera, and took some color footage before the ob- ject vanished toward the south. Upon getting tho film bock from the processor, ha saw that he had been mora successful than he thought. The film shows not one but three brilliant objects in motion. contactee Howard ~anger, who also lives near Cape Kennedy, sent ue this clipping. He writes that he went to inte rview ~r. Peek, but arrived a couple of hours too late, as the Air force had already picked up the film. Peak expects to get his movie back from the Air force, and will then notify ~nger. who hee promised to notify us. See the letter ot the top of Page 5 for eore recant information about this