PROJECT 10073 RECORD 0 .: - 1. 0/, iE-TIMe:' C ROUP 2. LOCATION St ?aul, Hinnesota 3. :;OIIRCE 10, CONCLUSION 4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS S, LENGTH OF OBSERVATIGN Not. Roportod t.. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Grourrl-Visual 2. _S_outh"lal."d ?. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR EVALUATION r :l'ac:eiveci tbe attached let-ter b<a to be 1m interesting a cwple ot daya . I V1..sh. that )'OU B)ook and my&elt.. You m.igbt chee'Jdng on this aigbting aa a representat1Te ~ the .Air l'~e. However. try to keep it qu.iet. so that ve v;m t undue publici t7 vbich would Nke the inteatiptioJ\ a~ CZJ%RrANIJ r 1,. Beaerch:.. a .call.aa BROWN & BIGELOW A DIVISION O F S TAN04RO PACKAGING CORPOR4TION ST. PAUL 4, MINNESOTA tnright Patterson Airforce Base Akron, Ohio Dear Sirs: At the request of the Office of Special Investigation of the United States Air Force, stationed at the Minneapolis-st. Paul International Airport, we are 1tri ting this l etter. On Saturday night, July 16, 1966 between 10:30 and 11:00 PM, central day- light time, there \-Tare four of us (two schoolteachers, a housewife and mysP.lf, R businessman) sitting in our backyard \men we observed in the southern section of the sky a light apparently traveling at a terrific speed. This 1 i.I'ht traveled in a north to northwest direction. This light aw eared to be at an extremely hig h altitude, but, o f course, it would be impossible to p-ive any estimate as to what height it v1as. \lhe n it was directly overhead, it appeared to have a green light in front and a rathf!r yellowish light in the back. The light disappeared behind the trees in the northern portion of the sky, but previous to disappearing, it seemed to swe-rv~ slightly, as though it were a 'bout t o turn. Ho\-tever, I cannot verify t h e fact that it actually turned. As I continued to vstch the sky, a few seconds later a nother light aiJpf'ared over the treetops in the northern sky, proceeding southwar-d, and I can only assume that this was the same object originally seen proceeding in a northerly direction. \fuen this light was directly over- head , it d isappeared as though the light had been snapped off by a Slrl.tch. It was an absolutely clear night, . withou t a cloud in the sky. This event in itself, I would have passed off, but the next night ~t approx- imately the same time, a similar object was obset:"Ved in relatively the same position in the sky, its course being the same as the object of the previous nir::ht. As in the previous night, the object disappeared behind the treetops :-eaP;;ea r ing a fe,r seconds l a t e r o!'l a "return tri p . This night, ho,.;evE'r, the light continued its coursa into the southern area o f the sky and cisa pp98red into a cloud nurry. The second night this sighting was seen by the original four people, plus an additional four, all of who~ are responsible indivicuals. 'tie rtould estimate that this unidentified object traversed a 30-45 degree sepment of the sky in l ess than a Minute. !h~ spe~ of this object, I ~ould conpare to tha t of a falling meteorite. ,re hope that this i11fo::-nation may have sortt'i.'1terest t o y o u .