110. CO:~CLUSiC.~ : 6. TYPe 0:= OSS:::RVA TION Observer noticed rather bri.:;ht o ':)ject :te thought Has a sat elliL c. hm-1ever, t.1:.e object ar.:;::aa:red to m::.ke erratic 1:1cverr.ents and i-c . , Gro..!."':d-Visual irregularl~,. Object t:-.:!.veled er:.atic p.:J.th }araJJ.el to a line cirat.n betH-::le:-1 De:1eb and Vega tmm.rd the constellatio:-1 Coro~a 3or~alis. It hovered in t~e iY.~ediate vicL~i~ of Corona Bo:-ealis for about 4 nunutes (guess), then looked as if it Nere JC!i ni.r1g altitude, and at the sa:re r,ime, 1 headed ss~, and d.:sappeared. Obsezvat1on, a JUn 66, BJ!):T()R 'l)llttAIUIJ,A J Jr I Chief, Aerial. .Phenomena MaJor, USAF \fright Patterson Air Force Base Gentlemen: Ci.ffi 772 Duluth Tnte rn:1tional Airport. Vin~esota R June 1966 I saw my first "flying saucer" tonight. I was coming bac'.< from Midnight Chow at approximately 231.5 hour s and. as is my usual habit, glanced up at the sky on the '~Y back to the birracks. As I climbed the outside stair case on the east end of the building, I looked toward the constellation Cygnus. l':y attention r,;as drawn to 'trhat, at first, thought was a rather bright satellite, but immediately I rloticed that its movement was ver-;t e rratic, and it was "blinking" irregularly. It traveled its erratic path (moving left, ri~ht, and even bac~ards) parallel to a line dra1.rn bett-reen Deneb in Cygnus and Vega in Lyra toward the constellati.on Corona Borealis. I t "hovered" in the imme- diatl3 vjcinity of Corona Borealis for about four minutes, then looked as i f it t>~'l3re gainin g altitude, and at the same time, headed south sou thea3t , and di.::;aqqeare d bebu3an Hercules' right foot and Serpens' The total observeci timA tvas approximately from 2315 to 2325 (I did not hc1 ve a ,;a tch) Thl3 s ". :l:!."S ~ea; the "flring saucer" vrere stationary as it moved right, 1'3ft, and baclcwarcis; there, I do not think the motion was due to atmo spharic c ondi.t.ion3. I s:a:/ t.'-.!l.t :!..t a?pt)a!ed to be gaining altit,ld3 because when I first saw :. t, it S>:'>?.,.,ed t o !1.av13 dim-ensions, but as it began to leave Cc~o Porealis, it be~an to look morl3 like a star i . e . a twinkling pin pc~nt of lignt. 7he r."'l;:r:.tude of its velocity Has greater than that of any satellite I :1.av~ .aver seen ; the direction of its velo.:ity was--well, as the saying goes, "There ain' t no to~ay". It ,;ust was not a satellite: TI1ank you for you~ time. ~VIr' cr::?J-IE.U S