, SPORTS Am F^LLBr^ijirs MIDDLETOWN* 'ut what it wa< Mr. Het* en Tucker of 5K Voun$ St dotsea't know, but she and tees-a^ers It wa like nothing they had ever seen before. "!t was very bright and fiasniDg." said Mrs. Tucker, "larger than a star "We drove into Poasttowa wo taw sparks shooting from the object. We stopped and at Qrst thought some high overhead wires were short* "But as. we . turned into a laoe. oee oi the girls said ed. f saw it moving straight ahead and verjr fast, and it .ookea like a olane. The lights weren't flashing, then arid - red and white colors were very clear. One^ said "'-Occasionally "Tt was moving in the di- rection of Middletown and since the air field was close I t.wught it would, drcie and pression along .Someone said the-hoalage appeared' to have a bubble on any. but it appeared to-be . pointed on - top the way-: the . lights-were.*. and turned, around' at the dkt so- someone called 'out that it- was taking off. It- look* ed like hot metal as it did;:'. changed.'* .:onu&aed. Th-Alr Force:.Vrill be.- in MiddletowTi tomorrow to seorMrs^' Helen-lVcker, 516 Young. St.;:and investi- gate the object she reported seeing last Thursday ^ghf. I jtut'-bope they coine up with soiae logical explaaatioo.'* dowa. So I ran to the window she said.. --t-.- and saw a bright light toward MR& . TUCKER* office m^- hail to .two miles .away; It'.was i Church, and three teen-age com- never seen anything so whiter binoculars as a bright, flashing light at I could see red spots In with 6;4S p.is. last Thursday as they the white. It was just, one big* were t&ining around. o(t the huge, great big light KXPL.\1NED Mrs. Tucker has been doing 3 Other residents m the Gratisl lot of reading since last area reportedly beard what they Until, she called Wnght-Pat- thought was a jet in ..trouble. -J tersoD Air Force Base yester- The object apparently- had day afternoon, she thought she made a large cirde. Mrs. -Tucketj might have an answer. The reported that it landed from Ihej Hughes's XV-9.A, an experimental nurcheasl and -beaded northwest! combination- helicopter and plane when it took off. .Gratis residents! which shoots out bot gases, bore reportedly heard the sound ap^ some resemblance to. what she proaching from the- south, but the! saw. But she was told it could observer there said it flew oved net -hover 'in one- spot and its her house fronr- the north, .and lights were hot as bright as the either landed or bovered-- seatlM What apparently was- the same Patrolman Jack* Barnes, who object was-sighl^ in the Gratis was on duty the night.Mrs. Tucks area just* after it was seen here, er called, reported' that- polica About 7 p.m. a wumaa. living often receive UFO reports. Buti near Gratis on. Rt 122 beard none ever fit. the description sha what she thought was >- plane gave ^ flying over her house The worn- She was- the -only one wh^ m. who declined to be identh called that, night, and It bad ::ed. said she -was ak>oe^at the been about two weeks since wed plane landed at Middletown air- time -A-atching television.*. but-it-did mallypeople -^Pi. and the lights flickered..' blinking on and off- high up. No There was a reported ' unau- 'T Utened for awhile and .t wit-h wings and- shooting ^e. area.- but this could not be veri- scu-nded more like a jet coming It is known that, an .Armco.ped. . . - cur inveatl^aticia Into your al^tln,-? on the conclusion the suhsatjnent portions of the sighting were laco Gulfatreaia 437>A ^Ich landed at spproxl e approach path of this aircraft to Mlddlctova- at and the landing runvay vas on an. azln^th'of ip and tail flashing strobe llgirts are itistalled 'operating Although there is a discrepancy of atcut flTo minutes in the reported tlae of the sighting and landing of the aircraft, it is reascnable to assume that this Brll difference in ti:ne vould rot elialnate this as a cause of the report. Si^e you 'tmre parked ^ the hlghvay vaitlng for your daughter and dy. rwtjA this 'aircraft, "tMs gl7 all the aore reason for us' tojbelicve - thiie~ArTO'"J^' la:ad1,^"li^t Northeast Ihe aircraft at this time vas far enou^ away that ^le landing lights vould obliterate the smaller llghte frora the > strobes and beacons. At this time car r.xrrsd to the mllrc:df lUitsioa of sparks and flashing vhlch you coo^>ared to a defective i 2&ere Is one point of diserepemey here In tt as Tlorth. !Th aircraft vas approaching a heading appromi-mately parallel vlth tha Ing this slight error in d2jrectica*, the A of the aecozid phase of your sighting. I proceaa of Handing or talcing off froa the airport. Both pilots are familiar vlth the local lajsdaarhs and ground lights to the air field. Hb unusual li^.ts vere observed. }Io addltlcial vitnesaes have reported anythlz^ unusual tdiich ve can correlate vlth yoar slghti^^* ' Ons evaluation of your obaervatlen is consistent vlth the abovo laterpretatloa of tb* oetjaence of events associated vith your report ml the Iffrol ing of the Oulfstreos 347A. . Zhis case vill be carried tvo separate objects. Ihe first evaluate as as aircraft^ axul the second disappearing to the Sarthvest remains unsolved. Zhe- niC AuAWC^ OMHrwoco sr 94C0KMAV|1| OA 04OANI PAA M 8i.Jc OAt.. 4<t TtNrCMWj^ M. Post Or^iee OlTY SuiLOINt MYC. P.P.Diaer MfOOitrortN HormrsL fiet SrAr/oN Uo. f d.mO. P.P OePOT f/Mt SrAT/Ofr A/o. S Local Sus SrArtoM t/inm C/rr But Stat/on f{iCMWA9.'0if '/YuwctfhU PAAiftNO ior nMArate/tr Paam AoMiNiZTAArioN Blog. Public Ubfahy tHArr/o WGAAS MANCHESTER MEADOWS y COUNTRYSIDE GCNCPAL OFFICES M I DDLETOWN , OH lO ASOA2 WALTER C. PAGUS TPANORTATION I'ldjor Hector ^.uintanilla , USA? Chief Project 3lue Book; Vfright-pattemson AFB Dear Sir: In reply to yo'or letter of 15 ITovenber, 19^5; ''?lth reference to your iUTOSTiiaation of an unind/entified flying object; I am Gubnltting the folloving Infonnation: pilots aboard the Ai^co Steel Corporation fJulfstreaji -43T-A the undersigned; i/ho are employees of a. There vrere no unusual lights or other aircraft obssz^''ed c. The approach path of the aircraft was from the northeast over the field after which a right turn \nis e:cecuted 'westbound south:;esteriy tion for landing to the northeast on the runway heading 052 degrees. afterburner investigation assistance Very truly ^AJurc SJiJV; new t0*4>tf jeyc CCUHT COUlSt UOJIS PtAC iOWlCt ST LCs;sVf,r. s Aft. 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ST. srcviwo M. STVArTOHi on. suNurT sr TALrON ON TATLOn A^. rcNTN Ave TK>I>LCUM GRENR10GE CsS*M4fCM ST Rl.v fRMi LA RAYCTTI A/K. LAWATOn IT LiRRlffSOil , .,i -iOUlWSVILt^/ Operations helicopters negative report was given. On I6 Nov 65, called Maj Engebretsen, and asked bin to cli'eok' Radar Sectors, for iinusual.or Unidentiiled Radar Retnms Negative reports frora Local Radar Sectors, Sector Radar at Detroit, Iv?H.^D GRE&NRIDGE VANNisr Mil vcmrr pniir VEAMONt ST yr*sWNffTON WA^Nf A/C , ^Eflsrcft 5T A&LUNOTDN AO WESOCUL CGVHT WEST ALiAANONiA AO WNISMAN 0* WtLBAAMWI NO) WLOWOOO AO.* slfcssr s? WINCSOA AvC WlHdSOO iO- NI^CONSW ST. VOCOOUAN AVI. tfiTlOOLAAN Mil. WACNN COJAT weiicct OA AiLfHiAf S a^-'CvlO AQAOWAV vAn A040WAV 1^4. Novsmber 65 Night ,^ddlfcown,_.(^hip Cbs'sr'/er said t^at an object waa visible to the South and had *03en reported by several other parsons in the area. Object or similar object was observed on the previous night. Sgt Moody received call from observer. Sgt MXdy told obse. ver it was the planet Venus and to observe it on the following nigh!: if different to phone back. Next day no phone call rsceivad. about 1 hour iSSSVAT'CN Ground-Visual On tha night of lU November 1965 Sgt Moody received a telephone call from the des'f^ Sgt from the Middletovn, Ohio police station. The. Sgt informed Sgt I'ipody that an object was visible to the South and had been reported