1. 0 A TE TIME GP.OUP 2 -3 September 1965 J . SOUP.CE Civil ian s ( I iULT ! Pl.E) 1. NliiiRE R OF OBJECTS l~...tl1.ink '1. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION f. 1 'I'Pf: OF OBSERVATIOt'~ !jround -Visunl IJ. I HOTOS ?. PHYSICAL EVIDEt~CE PROJECT 10073 RECORD 1. LOCATION 10. CONCLUSION UNIDEHTIF.IFD 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND Ati.\LY~IS Thr;r e ttt:"l'f: f'ltl'~'l'll i,t ~.II' :trf':t !' 's< :.i:ttLi~t" k. Major David H. Griffin, Base Disaster Control Officer, Convnand Pilot (1) At this time have been unable to arrive at a probable cause of this sighting. The three observers seem t o be stable reliabl e persons, especially the t wo patrolman. I viewed the area of the si~hting and found nothing in the area that could be the probable cause ease A.FB had 5 B-47 aircraft flying in the area during this period but do not believe they had any connection with this sighting. F'OR THE COMMANDER 1 . Statement, UFO Sib~ting, Eug~n~ F. Bertrxnd Jr. s~ =- -~" 2 . Statement, UFO Si ghti..t13 , ;vid R. Hunt. 3 . Stat~meot UFO 3ighting, 4 . SIG!li T, (2) Civilian. Eugene F Bertrand Jr. Age, JO. Exeter Police Department, Exat e r N. H. Patrolman. Reliable. (3) Civilian. David R Hunt. Age, 28. Exeter Police Depart- Exeter N. H. Patrolman. Reliable. fl Weather and Winds. (l) The weather was clear with no known weather phenomenon. was a 5 degree inversion from surface to 5000 ft. (2) Winds at Pease AFB, N. H. Not. R.ec . ( 4 ) The ob ject was erratic in movement and would disappear betind trees and houses in t he area. It would then appear at a ion other t han ~here it disappeared. 'Vhen in view i t would act as a f l oating leaf. ( 5 ) Object departed on a heading of 160 degrees and was ob~erv~ until it disappeared in the distance. (6) One hour. c . Manner of Ob3~rvation. Ground -"7isual. Age,.. lE. FIEPL.V TO HEADQUARTERS 817t h COMBAT SUPPORT GROUP (SAC) UNITED STATES AIR FORCE Pease Air Force Base, New Hampshire OJ803 SUBJECT : Ini ti3.l Report of Unidentifi ed Flying Object (UFO) TO I AFCS (FTD) The f0llo~ing r eport of an unidentified flying object i s her eby submitted in accordance wit h AFR 200- 2. a . Descripti on of object. (l) Round. (2) Baseball. (3) Brig.l)t red. (4) ~ire red lihts :Li a r ow. :.) 'iisua.l sightLiP:. (2~ ub j?ct was at an ~titude of approximat~ly lC O ft and :ncren in an arc c f 135 degr ee3. (3) Ob~ect disappeared at an altitude of ap~roximately 100 f t ~ ma2. heading of appr oximately 160 degrees. .::;1::c: .::~._;:1-.: obtoin a kr:Lirlc;eoule ;\.:.r Fcr:e oke.;man \fno cou_u. :J., le) it .. L,;h t be t3 to -an trons~ortation oc .3es nc.. ,roole.:t. HEADQUA RTERS 817ch AIR D IVISION (SAC) U NITED STATES A I R F O R C E Pea3e Air F orce Base, Ne w Hampshire ""'3aL.J Concernir.[!; ro Infor.:12tion Officer a n wmsally high objects .:.n the d:.scussion of reported N. H. area sigi:l.ting \Thich have new~roaper, 1adio Pease AFB, and nwnero1s .; ho,, t ha l ve de?ortnent~ ::1e obe rs o~u -"'oer ~ i.nc; ir~d con -:e::-r.ing CLOS SICHTINC BY POLICE ANO OTHERS IN NEW HA~PSHlREa Among several ex- traordinary saucer slghtings in N -H~mpsltlU in early Septembet:, is one that occurred on the 3rd, witnesse d by a man named Norman 1'11.uscarello from the town or Exeter. ~scarallo arrived at midnight at the local police station. with a hair-rafsing story of having bean chased b.y a flying object as he was hitch- hiking along a ne3rby highway. He told t he desk officer that as he walked along the road, ~ large brilliant object at low altitude began making passes at an adjacent field. He crouched in a ditch while the UfO, which was so bril- liantly red that its sh3pa could not b9 determined, made closer passes as 1r searching ror him. Shortly thereafter t he objact dls~ppeared as quickly as i~ had appeared. Patrolman 3ertrand of the Exeter police station returned with ~uscarello to the spot. In ~st such cases, the story conclude s with the policeman having seen nothing to corroborate the original story. The anding of this case is quite diffarent. ho~ever. Officer Bertrand suggeste d that they walk into the rhld . hare t lu U'"'O had la3 t baan seen . Thera they ~are joined by another po- lice o(ficer nar~d ~avid Hunt, who had driven separ~taly to the scene. Sudden- ly, from behind a stand of t raes in t n e clack of the night, a hu ge blinding glow of light oeared. It traveled slo~lv and Mavarad slightly from side to elde. The grouo ~as stunned b y the blinding red light es the UfO moved toward them :across t:1B :":.3ld. Bertrand made a rr:ove towrd his service revo lver, but then thou~ht better of it. All three men t hen ran coward t~e police cruisers. When quastio nad on the size of the object, Officer Bertrand estimated it to be ~about :~a sizg of a house." He said that there zas a co~lete absence of sound, elCcept for the noise from a nearby farm, ~.rhere the ani.nals .uers pan- icked by the lo~-flying object and its weird r e d glow. Tne horses were meklng a tremendous co~motion and kicking at the walls of their stalls, according to tha witnesses. mg l!S. We co- WE 5-\ T nu:RE .-\:-:D LOOKED at it (or at \e ast 10 minutes. ~ly 'Jra:.:l kept tei.:mg me that this doesn't happen- but it was. righl :n iront of my eyes. There was. no tall. no wings, and again, no 50\..:;D. It ho\ered there. sul\ about 100 feet awa,. slrt o floated and wobbled. 1 con't know what it was .. -\11 l can say is that 1t was there. and tnree of us saw it together." Newspaper people and town official.; ,ouch for the reli of the two policemen. Lt. Cottrell. their superior, said ii he didn't ~Heve the policemen he'd put them in a locked room and give em blocks to p\ay with." 'But the wno.e story is on the police blotter," said the lieutenant. 'U I bad seen that thing and 1 was all alone, no- bodY e\se would have ever beard about it. " ..,ector ~1r~tanilla, J r . , .a;o:-, ''SAF C~ief, 2roject Blue Boo~ .:ri~ht Pa_tterson AFB i)ayton, Cnio !)ear )ir: !)ecen~bcr 2 J , l ~65 Since we have not heard fro~1 yoH s ince o u r letter to you of December 2, \.ol e are tvriting this to req\.test some kind of answer , since we are still upset about what after the Pentagon released its news saying t hat \ve have just seen star s or planets , o r h i gh altitude a~r exerc~seso As ~e mentioned in o u r letter to you , it could n o t have been t~e operation " Bi g Blast" you mention, since the ti:ne of o.1r sightin~ was near lya an h o u r after that e>:e=cise, a n d it may not e v e n ~ave b e e n t~e sa~e date , si:tce rot; r e:er to our sightin~ a s 3eotcmber 2o Our sig~tin~ tJa s on Septe:nber 3 . I n addition , as we mentioned, :ve e r e bo fa:nili e r with all t h e B-47' s and a -52' s and :eliiop t e r a~d jet ~i~hters \vhich are -oln~ over t~i s pl~c~ all :~a ti:ne. JD too ol that ~tl. ~ertrand had ~, r y e a = s ~f ref~eli oerience in the Air Force, ~---:no.'S :cc:\..:.lar ai::craft o: all k inds. I t is im1Jorta:1t l, .:cec .:..: . .::1a air, and ic .3.~ absol!tcl.y '-iilent,f7ith :t~-~. a~d :-~o neac-~o~;~: ::rned co1ol~c~l r~d. Ic .. . :ac ':>ot.~2!"~ ...:s the 'ilOsc is -c 1ac r.:aL"'l/ oeople .~re think i!1tz r.::ac 1ex -~:-:? eit':1e:-lyi:l; or :1.::>t intellig eriC cnm..tg:1Z to t.2ll tt'-e c.:..::::=::~nce .Jet'.vee n ,._,~1at \re sa~.' a n d s ... "l-:letnin? o rdi.1ary. aosol~ce_y t a case of mista:~en &dentity. : e ~ot~ ::eel that it s 1er y i ortant =Jr o~r j o o s and o u r r~r:>..:::acio:1s, ~o '?;e.t s o me ~'ind o: lett e r :-o~ you to S?Y that t~1e stor :r ~-r.~ch tne :?entago-:1 put ou t Pas i.1ot c r'..:e ; ~t co..:l c 1ot p ossibly b e , b e ca-_tse \;e u e r e the p e ople t,ho sav1 this; not t-t..e Dontaoo"' Can vou please let ~s hear fron y o u us soo~ as p o ssible. S incerel y , ~abley's Report~ Visitors from Outer Space? ~y JACK J\tABLEY WILLARD LIBBY. Nobel prize winner. former Univer- Jity of Chicago professor, now at the University of California at Los Angeles, states in the September Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists that life "in all probability oc- curs widely in other stellar systems." JACK MAILaY He suggests life on other planets may be millions of years more ad- vanced than that on Earth. Later I want to do a whole column on Dr. Libby's lucid explanation of man's in the physical universe. The r eference to t>r. Libby today is to lend some weight to the idea that there is life out there, and with a mil lion-year jump on us in developing intelligence, they just might be visit- mg us. we senr a rrymg saucer to :'-Jorthwestern's Dr. Allen J . Hynek. air force consultant on un- identified flying objects , says people like to see things. I'll go Dr. Hynek one step !anher. People like to belie,e things. I i!nd it fascinatin~ to believe there probably are space ships ilying close to earth. EARLY ~ SEPTE)IBER. an unidentified fly in~ object I .. .-as reported at Exeter. ~. H. Joh:l Fuller , a colum:1ist in The Saturday Renew. was eurio\!s enough to fol:ow up the re- pQrt. He piece.: t~'stether :.:0:1s stllry: Policeman EIJ~ene ~:tra:1c. en routine patroi shortly alter midnight Sept. 3, pulled up beside a parked car on I Route 101 and found two women visibly disturbed. They said an airborne ob5ect. bright red and flasning, trailer! them for nearly 12 miles. Bertrand, a Korean war veteran, was skeptical. He :nade a rounne radio report, and inued his patrol. At :! a. m .. :\or:nan )1uscarello, 13, ran into the Exeter pollee station in near hysterics. He said he was hitchhiking home, look