1. DAlE TIM! GROUP 2. LOCATION PROJECT 10073 RECORD 28 February 66 ' NUML'ER OF OIJECTI s. LENGTH OF OISERVATION 1 l/4 Hours 6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ground-Visual Stationary 9. PHYSICAL EVIDINCE FTD SEP 63 0-329 (TOE) 10. CONCLUSION Aetro (VENUS) 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS Object was the size of a grapei'!uit and was veey brl~t \<ilite It was as a.nr other celestial boc:ly. No vapor trail or exhaus1 and no sound was observed. WUS RA 'Xl.U'/ was on the EasterYborimn and rising at 0445 hrure local time. Its stellar nagnitude was -4.3. There is ~o reason to believe that the Soviet Venus Probe had any effect the brightness of the planet. (3 Witnesses) J 6~ yn~ I qbb \N I ft.IC-Col'f,tf 11-NP~R Massachusetts Wright-Patt Da)tcm, Ohio Attention: PROJECT BLUEBOOK 'Paraehute~ Leo'- It F~B If'' Stir. Area' parachutbt ct a.rtcr a ~c toPas tht1 mornlnl was solved whel tlM C!ertaiD . U.S. Ceaat Guard' l~nUfied the niNt'l ~.1 ... ' . ~.i ,;~..r , ~ Jrom Jlansoom Air Force Baae In Although pollee and fire ofn currert . ' ' . = ~ Weltwood reported the jet boom might. : : ....... : . ~ .. : appeared lower to the ground study .'"' :~ trouble, areardlng t.o authoiitle11. elect.id . ' , ~ : The JPeCUlnUun that a jet pilot Duri . . . .~ . .. . may have parat'hutcd tn eafety David .. : : when bia plane wns in dirfieulty ch~ . .. . .. . ~ started wtien Medford Patrolman Demo . . , . John Cerapeua who was on whole ' Ct -sehooJ lrarfie .dUtJ near the lnoom .. ford-stoneham liM .,Uecl the K what he thought wu a p:~raebute. Speak When he heard the lOll~ blast MlUm at' 1:05 a.m. th1a prompted him to ~e. sean the 1kJ llne. As be did he Kelly. Sf'Otted the objeet which ree llk'mt .. ~led a parachutist. Kel Jm~Mflately thiJ slgbtint was wont reported to Hanseom Air Force Houlf Offtclala and tho Coast Guard in was BoMon. A he ll eo p t e r was wat I launched and a aearch began. time ; . 11te weather' balloon and .We He. . boom which was termed aft Com;. unavnidahle eolneidcnoe y,as con au io. . . desefnd about the time the 10itie why . . : : ~: ;. : . . ~ hftom blast wat hMrd. They aMd Cnfi i t ' . -, .... . .. it waa und~rstandlble how tht carr . .'" balloon WIIS mllltaten u par ule .. ; :, " UFu LuG . S:OS AM EST :llGAP !.ftSS. I!J':;rF.SfiGJ:.'.t'ING SUBCOMMI'r!E~ CllAIHj. /U.: Ra~ond E,, Fcn1lor 13 Frim1d Court., \~enha~ J llassaobi1setts PLACE: FultoD St. , Medford, Mass 'l'el. l.o8-l.Sl5 C.L. Carapezza, FeUsway, Medford, Massach~ts Medtord, Massachuaet phoned iDto local Radio Stations Radio Station WEEI Boston Massa~usetta SIGH JNG DESCRiiTICIN 01? UFO Mi heard a loud SOllie boom aDd looked ~ to see not aD aircr but a parachute-SAaped obj eel; moving a lowly ;,orv-:;s the-sky :f":c!!! west to east. tie attracted the attent10D of Officer Carapezsa who was seated 1D a cruiser. Carapesza stated that the bo011 &book the car. O.tticer Carapezza sighted the object eadly. Both agreed that ita appart size aa grea't as or greater tban t.be full mooDi, that 1~ was white; that it looked like a parachute canoPJ without sbroua lines rather a baUOOD and it was moviDg east.erly. No det. Aircraft; was s or heard 1D the vicinity. Others reponed to WBEI that a flasb o~ fire was seeD to e:aanate the objec$. H&DSCOJI AFB UFO seet.ion repeatedi'What they had heard em WlCEI l>ut denied ay further knowledge on the subject. '!be Coa~ Gua1'Cl 1Dfox1Ded WEEI that a we a ballooD was responsible and that Hanscom AFB launche.d. it. I ))hODed He AFB wea'Cther and was ~old they had not launched a balloon. I phODed Air Force earch Labs, APB and was told that they had launched a 1 weathar baUoom at 7:57 AM. l U.s. Weather, LogaD Airport, Boston infonaed me that the vilid was NW ! at 15-25 mpb.. Tlie balloon would have been dri~mg south-easterly l aga:-eeing a tely with the witnesses' observaticms. The sky was l crys~al cle~ -no cloud coYer. i !~"~TALl' .:r: :o-: The ballooD was a Radio-Sonde tn>e about 17' in diameter. 1 It carried a pac about 10" square suspended by a ablgle cord. It is i parachuted by a 2' parach\&e at ballooD burst.. The balloO'D must haTe ! beeD . Yeil' y. low to have appeared ao larg~ as I was mforwed that at. 3 mi"~ after laUDch such a balloon could Dot be seem with the unaided UFO REPOR'r - . 2/16/66 -Medford., Masaachusetts EVALUATION: (continued) eye. An object with tbe apparen't ~ize of 1/4" at an alti~ude o~ 10, 000 ~eet; would haYe to be abOut 80 feet 1D 1r. A 17 .toot would have to ~ low 1D ord~ to appear to be 4" 1B diameter._ A't.. this :tude, the :tDstMIIlt ackage would be clearly aeea. 'l'he object did no~ appear to ook roUDd like a balloo to the witDeaaea but r like a paracb.ute caopy viewed slightly s _ to iadicate :that it was not a .tul1. sphere. P Carapesza felt c,..t.ai~ that it was not a ballooD. felt i't could have been a parachute because wha he saw. it, ita di.-.ter waa smaut .. b\3 it a1Xldaly becaae 'lara-r aa U it v~e a parachute un~ol~g. - The USAF-took 5 minutes o~ prime Dews time on WNAC n,_ BOston 6:30 PM to a weather la1mch frOID lianscom AFB. I was very 8l1rpr1aed that the7 had bothered to take the and ef~ort to do this. They haYe Jl&Yer dODe this before 1D this area to tb.e beat of rq lcnowledp. Lat OD 'that evening three groups of teenagers at Yarious points around South lladle:r, aasachusetta sighted a UFO described as looking like "a sting ray, bl& without the long tail. There was one huge light, s1milar to a s~ligbt. 1D tJoDt witb a large g:roupimg of constant and green li ta beDeath". It was .flying Tf4rt slowly 'l!ld at a low altitude. S. tiDg was between CONCLUSION: PROBABIi WBA'll'H fi!R BALLOON" Since there was a wea ballooD launch 6 miDutes prior to the UFO aightiBg ad siDce the wiDcl was blow:l,:ng in a directioD so as to carry the ballooD 111 the -that the UFO was lleaded, I have no choice without fmUler intormatioD but to classify this object as a WiatAer OD. Interesting sidelights 'to tb1a conclusioD are the .facta that the boolA seemed to be c with the object; the aeecl for the balloon to ha-ve extremely low 1n ordu to haye such a large appareDt size (ye~ no ills'trtwlaent package was seenJ; the noD- spherical shape and the alleged UFO sighting at s. Hadley 1D the evening. The tac't the Hanscom AFB want out o their way to prove it was a balloon is 1Dg. The fa\lt that the soDic boom was exceptioully loud b~ no aircraft was seeD or hea~'d is puzzling. ( I rarely hear a sonic 'boOJD at ray of!ice with~ the ~lYaDia coiiJ)lex at Wal but I heard this cme clearl7l) It is untoszt1mate tbat more data on the descriptioD or the object's size ud a .are not available. Both witnesses described a atraigh~ aon~desceDding ~llgbt patb Dear Sir( s): I would like to report s UFO. It was sited Feb.lS,l966 at app~oximately?:OO P.M. When last eeea itl:wao traveling ~n s serai-circle and looked likia bright li~ht aboutll-raile south-east tros Village Hill in Williamebur~ Mass. It wa~ About lmile in the sky and flashed red & green wheD it left. '!he: sit :lrrg ''"as made by liamaburg r-1ass. 1 -22 MARCH 1966 SIGHTINGS Sylvania, Ohio Hopeve11, Virginia ~eim, Ca1ifom1e: Sta.f't'ord Springs, Connecticu-1; Be1o~t, Wisconsin C~oria, Wisconsin 18.2.SN 66.orw (Atlantic) Freer, Texas Aswego, New York Bluffton,. Indiana los ~e les, California Ta~gley AFB, Virginia Dayton, Ohio Brazil, Indiana YoU!lgstovn, Ohio ~..id!!.etown, Pennsylvania ul~rie, Georgia Ba'~er, Montana