P ROJECT 10073 RECORD 1. !H; : . T IM!! GROUP 2. LOCATION 1. N.I:'L::,;:: OF OnJECTS L:-LE,c-~ ~F OBSERVATION (. 1 l' P c OF OOSERVATION J,o :::i Vi::u<tl ( PX) 10. CONCLUSION 2. i hot.o: ( r:st.~t:rcr.i;T D!1TA) ll. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS Cbj'.lct. wrt:; a bright 131.u::-,,.-. i.tr.: 1-!.t:ht, round, cr.~! .-1 ith a 1 blt:.ish t:tn.r~e to iUs .. dr~ s. Ob:-;:!-.v:~r ':e:1t in th~ hou!!o:: to ;-::t her ca;Mra, and :~hl:n tJh:: can.e out tho b]Ut:-.:hl.t-light. lL-ht about o:v- " i-J th:: rl i.:~.: ~tL"r of th~ !r.oon . 1h~ l'ed- lh;h~ for Cl !;hort. dintncc, <u:d t.h'!n !'tonr~d. I~\(.' 3 0-327 (TOE) P: '~:.!:~loMollltllonntnnybouod, ?::-oposed. r::?-ply t o letter i'rout Je1'i'ry 'l'hot'?e, 1:3 February 1?67 Re.t'~rence ~'CU.!" letter o l l~ Febru:lry c onC\!!"Oi.ng JOur .ob.ser- ra-tion o f a n un1de!ltif1e J flyin,s object. Your letter 11us !'o n.,.nrueC. ~o 7.his office for o~cessary action. ; ... e -would oe in teres t<!d in r~ce i ring the :;:i.lotographs and . '!'1t!gatives flO thRt ~ photogra.phic analysis ca.n be mad~. A com- ~:-ehensire pbotos::-a-phic analysis .;ill be llede. On cor:mletion the )::.otographs anu negn.tires 'Will b e returneu to you ~ebr~t ly o'!JjNd~ on 1.10viter ' s sl ~l1te(l Cl at:c~n ::e objec-.~ on to tll'\ t , .cncy f or t~: l ; i!'lftll':-:, ~.ton L.A FAYEI TE HILL. PA. right-Paterson AFB, Ohio t~5l~33 Dec.:' 3irs: In reference to your letter of i:arch I6, r e ciuesting photos of, and inf ation or1, the U~'0 I saw at s e ven o ' cJ.ock the nigl1t of January I B, I a= encl~sinz all a~eilable information, Rnd five color slides, in thi~ letter. I will at tcVlpt -co an~.;wcr the que s t:ions in the order in \vhi ch they h 2 v : been asked . h. t h e cnmera is the BE~EL~lt TOPCON AUTO :ef:3:: , with a behi -t~e-lens light mater a 35 mm. singl e-lens To answer this question, I will quote from my cacer a rnanual The stand:,rd :.,-: l'opcor lens is a 53 r.un. focal len~ht opt:i.c, ~i~h a f ast speed o~ f/2, and has 6 elemsnts in four 5rou~s. The l 3r ... s focuses do-..:n t o a close distance of 70 e m. " i' All t.JV Topc:>J: lc-mses have been speci.a lly coated to cut the ul t :.:..-'liolet rays. c . ..:.::co::>cimOI-iE D-?00 c o lor slide film, Ht th an ASA rating of 200 D~ cause of 1 a rkness, I used a shutter speed of I/25th o of slQwcst speed I could shoot <:!t, and still keep th9 la est lens o ~ening of which my lens i~ ca1>able, I -~s:, however, apologize for the poor quality of the five slides I am s:::_i.:..nz you, because of the cold, I coul d not h old the camera stead:, e:1-uzh. I a~ enclosing a sepa~ate slide tha t wa~ taken last year , unfort- unatly. : can't remenb e r \vhe n . It is a picture of the !loon in it's cresce phase , but a few montl1s ago I projected it under high magrtif- icatio!l, and found in one corner, a strange bluis h cylindr Jcal objc~ct. ~hen I took these pictures of tne 11oon thro u~h my 3-irlch r eflector telescope , i hctd made sure tha t there \.rere no nircruft around, I ha v e marked the c orner of tLe sli d e vJhere the U.b'O is located Hith a black ycr.tc ~:ill, I'cmu. icb~Lr.ary ] ~, lfj_i l.o,; : ::-ovc ;:av.:tl Air StJ.t.ion sootted .J~n. object \J::ich CJ"\C from the ncrt!l-north.JoJ~;t, :ln.-] n')C..'1C'i to be a roUJ."'ld HC.s oluo?.- : .. r:'1it<=! iv: color D.:::-!d it. s?E:.1cd to b e 'lS 1JritTl:. ;~ nnc.1 moved snaed as b:c~o ~:tellite. I :-u.;he.:l to c~:o~cra aec::tuse I t:l )U --ht it , .. :u~ :::cho of its proi..z,ble co'.lrs'J , :i.e fjhou.ld h:Jve ~0'J tfJ.:Jast. -nxt 1i:1c 1 I c-u:~e back out I o the :noon ":. .. ::.t the brir.i~!rt. .. ::..Jc li'~ht hru.t c.1.i3!1ppcarc0.. I sr;-1rc!'Jccl s.rou.;:~ t'o s'j7 -r.:..t.~ .:,... x 50 binocul'l::-.:3 -:::1 ['ou:ld tl1c ob_ject botwJcn the .1con (::1ic..:h HU!3 at ::;cemed -r.o bo a ar,":tll rc6.d -'L:~it :;Lu tl,lt hn..d not. l:o0n th~rc 1;ofol'Oo LookinG at t.~w li ~ fro;-n it did nr;": _,.l.ick&r. I sau it rntJ~rc fo:~ o. lH:tlG bit o.lon.~ the t.':t3 h~:r..:.= . .:: to get r:~y ca;.:'?:::-'?. 'l'h.cn the o'l.Jj0ct f.top;ed r.nl I verified this by ;:etti:---:.. t:~.:.n the 'uincc;;' ::.rs not only th:') ob.joct I \!.1.!": obs""rvin;-; :..;ut a s.n'lll Has :1so::. : ;:.~:: ed :e of L'io-. oE' vj ::d.o:1. of thG binocub.rn it did rnt ~-.wvc frt.lt oi r-:~,-:5. o: vi~Jio!l. :o-:: c :: t!tc:.;c .lact:; -udG 1.1(3 b~Jjcvc ti..o ou,joct. \f:lS ~;tr..tio1~'.t'J. it-(>3 -:an -:J.f'i:.r..::l' e":'x -, ~ minute to ::novG a&;n:in. It TJO.'Bd, a:-~ oost r.s I .:.-~:.~r:i:3, to.:r.ro -.::. :"J'.ll~h.ro"'c, i . e., it rvJvcd 90 dEl;rccs to itc orieiP.:::o.J. rliu&::t::cc tcnTcc.! V1~ c~ut:.Hest, t -~ O:J,jF.:ct !tt'dc cff in ['. sout~ho3rly di:ce~tion, ::.fter u~ich ~r: tr-::o:-; :-.n~ !':ouoc::; ll1 11y nGit)1hor~onJ t.~io object, usi. r .:\nc;co~!y~or::e D--~00. The .\.uto-lCO i'r ie"lds nl~o S:l'l ~n unusu~l ou.:oct It 1as hovc:tin, ;i ust :)_ ho:J.d r.oved do;r. cr: t:1oir \Jlj' s00 :i f i 1c ob.jcct J:c.:.vc~l j_!l <''tV .... oledre ccei Yj't Y ouJ.r. t-ruly, l PAGES PHOTO ANALYSIS R EPOR T DATE OF REPORT UN]])SNTIFIED F.LYING OBJECT ANALYSIS LAFAYETTE HILL, PA. 18 Januar 1967 PHOTOGRAPH Y by 1-:ajco:-;.::intanilla, TD3'E, the urti::.~.::\.ified objects :-::.:. ..:ri tten in requesting response to ~vork Order Number 67-44 submitte d photo analysis of six slides to determine '"hat 2. }~;~:3IS: The six slices submitted are f rom two separate processing dates. Five slides , :J through 17 were a~parently processed in January 1967, and one slide , number 17 ~as appa:-e~tly processed 1966. The image located near the corne r of slide number 17, l:a:-,. 1 96::) described by as a strange bl iD:sh cylindrical object i s possibly t!'le r es.:.: 7-of a proces Hhen vie~.;ed under 50 powe r magnification, three s eparats ~mages are visible. Tne othe r five slides having a J uary 1967 processing date, all ap~;~:-to have a verf s=all image located near the center of t he f rame. Image si::;e p:-~::.:.des a detailed e.:_:;.:;sis and a satisfactory explanation as to their origin. PHOTO .A.Nt1.!.YSIS BY: APPROVED BY: vffiJ,IAl1 L . TUJU'JER Spec:.alist Major , USAF \ \ Chief, Photo ys's Branch lITLBER RICE, JR. \ Photo Exploitation Division FTD APR62 132 .p(tor o ( 1 ~.s v 'FP1 cts~'T I ? J,ftt/ c 7 TDET/U'l O u.m ?!lotographs 194411-:.afayette Hill, Pet'l.nsylvania - Re.t\:~rence p'botographs. ::;::-esent heavy your unir.'!.entified observat:Lon nna :mosequent P::.ease e xcuse t3e long delay; ho,.,ever, our wor k load has preventerl an ea::-li c r reply. 2 . Examination of the slides revealed that the ima3e l ocated n~ar -::;.e corner ol' s lide nu:nber 17 , :tvl.a.y 1966, i s ~o:;sibly the resul t of ::-. ?rece ssing de!"'.:!c t . T.lhea viewed u."lder 50 pO'...rer m::.gnifice.tion, three .sc~arate i:1ages a.....-e -risible. ~e o-cher fire slides having a January l:lo7 p r o ces.sing date, all appear to h9.ve 3. ver.J s:r.all i:nage located ~e~r the center of ~he frume. r 6e 3ize preclud~s a detailed :..'.""ls.lysis and a sati3t~c~ory explanation us t o their o r !,gL'!. J . Although a positr~ e;~lanation has ~ot be~n ~ade) L""lvestige.tioa :.-eveel~d that a n a:!.=c :-ai'":. could have been rc::monsible !:'or the uigh t ing. Of course, .._.fithou"t es;,ential da.t.:1. such as flizht cbo.ractc:::-- .:..3-:..!.cs, angul a r velcci"t/) etc. , such an explanation 1TCuld be onl y a -:?CSSibility. , .. ;~z:ll.~lES C . !4ANATT, Colonel, USAF -:..~-ector of Te ch."'lclogy and Subsyater.~s Six ( 6 ) slides Tc: Cl./2/U.B'O .. right--Pe.tterson AFB Ltuyton, Ohio De&:-Sirs : About two mon:hs a~o, I sent y ou some color slides of a UFO, and ~ave had no wo:-d from your office since. Of c ourse, there are proo- abl; thousands of sighting reports ahead of mine, and I realize that you ~ust have quite a job on your hands,but I am concerned about my sli:3s, so I a~ s ding you a description of these slides, and the UFC itself. I sighted the liFO on the night of January I8, I967 at 6:55P~I, it =~se out o f the Korth-\vest, it Has a bright blue- \Jhite light, Ji..:.....j, and with a ':>::...ui sh tinge to it s edges, and I cannot state 1 t s exa:~ size, and ca~ o~ly s uy that it seemed to b e about one-quarter :;::-!e-half the di2 .. ::.et~r of the t<oon. I though it was sonte sort of sattelite, that rose in the north- '-'est and set in t h e s::mth- e a::;t, and from \vha t I could make of i t co,.-.::-.2-~, it seemed ::.s though it \vould pass close by the Moon, so I \,ent ::.nside to get -:ny camera, in order t o photograph \vhat I though woulj be a satellite passing by the Moon . .~,hen I came b:..c:k out h owever, the blue-white light had disappe- and,instead, there was a dim reddish-orange light about one- ei : the diamete= of the Noon,maybe smaller. This reddish .::...:.g:1t moved i n the same direction as the blue-\vhite lig:-. -c, for a short C.istance, and then stopped. I verified this by \v- atc~::.~3 i~ through a pair of 7x50 binoculars, the U?O stopped jus t op?~3~te a s~all s r, and did not mov e in relation t o tha t star for se7a:-~: ~inutes, a it did not move out of the 7x50's field of vision e::.. ~.::. ~=-. : ~ stctyed ~;):ionless for several minutes. .::~.1 it did !!:)?e again , it moved off tothe south- \Test, and then r..Ja.::::d to a southerly course, vJhich i t maLntained till 'In~ slides of the U:F'O are on Anscochrome D- 200, exposure \las I/4 of a s~ccnd, at aperture F/2, the slides are nmnbered I3, I4, I5, I6, & I7 r~spectively Th~.re i s also a sepa rate Anscochrome slide that '"as taken through a threcl-L1.ci.1 a stronomic a l telescope at about thirty po\-ler. It is o. picturcl of the Moon i n it' s crescent phase,but in one corner of the slide, a corne r marked with a black arrow, the r e is an unidentifle& In conc lusion, would you please tell me what I saw? The suspense is k illing me. ours Truly: La fayette Hill, Penn. ~ir ~ t." Vi.on 0 -soottcd ~iO "l.? r;r, :;c.:!nt HoHl Oh,ioct 'lhich C"..li':) frol:l '(_}.! nr)rt.. sn~vi as Scho .;"'..t.8llite o::-c t r,,v < .. oso to ~sut:. ti.n I c .!1ollrl kv3 bo:tcl: oJL I i9:lnr~l~erJ. I serc\;vl '1ruurrJ.