PROJEC1. 100/3 R::CO~iJ f'lo l)~ i i: TIME GRQl ID 2, LOCATION I -i. NliHf:'C R OF OBJECTS J !i. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION f 1 mint;.~e 6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION ~ Ground Visual I?. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE 10. CONCLUSION BALLOON( liot Air) /-rrfJ . jt'lf- 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANAL. Y!ilS O~server stated tr...a t. :.::.e d'.:j~c t OO.d an un~s\..:.Cl. lit;;crt It \.ras a single li~'-1t tC. w.:..~ brilliant varying frorl ~eC..C..i~:. on the outer edge t~rvugu ora~ge to a yellowis~ wC.i~e i~ l center. Object traveled in a s~raig(.t pa~n. o erver s that the object was discarding sc.--ne fla:ning me! teri"'l. 0.:;.;-' erver stated that ~he object had no navigational li ts. i f T 0 S L: P 6 3 0-329 (TOE) Pre lou ecUU011a ol dale lira aay be ueecl. Louisville, Kentucky 40216 Operation Blue Book FTD \lright-Pa tterson AFB Dayton, Ohio Attn.: Maj. H. Quintanilla (TDEW) Major Quintanilla: I wish to relate an experience my family and I had at approximately 7:20 P.H., ~!arch 19, 1967. l!e were travelling south on Rd. return- ing hone from church. It was already dark and a complete cloud cover had moved over our area. Near the city limits of Louisville, my wife mentioned the fact that the even- ing star was unusually bright. I reminded her of the cloud cover and suggested it to be an aircraft which I could also see ahead of us to the south through the windshield. The light, though unusual in color, wa~ approach- ing us head-on very much in the manner of an aircraft. l fhen first sighted, it was approximately thirty degrees above the horizon appearing to be a single brilliant light varying from reddish on the outer edge through orange to a y~llowish white in the center. Although the Standiford, Tower, about six miles to the east of us, later advised .. that the cloud ccver at the time of sighting '-ras approx- 000 feet altitude, visibility was exceptionally The light travelled gene~ally toward us on a st~aig~t co~se for about one ~ir-ute and passed.out of my view-aboye the windshield and slightly to. our left. 1~e were at this time about one-quarter mile farther south on c e Run Rd. from the initial sighting point. .Hy eleven year-old son suddenly remarked. that something was falling from it. He was viewing it out one of the left side windo-rrs at the time. I advised him that ha ,rob ably ~;as seeing reflections or distorsions caused. by the windo-rr gl.ass. On his insistence, I ro~led do~m my left side glass and discovered a considerable ruaount of flaming material dropping froD the light. There was such a large amount of this flaming material dropping, that it appeared to me that an explosion or disentigration uas i1:rrnenen t. I imrJediately parked in a safe area off the right side of the road, and my wife, I, our son and sixteen year old daughter got out so we could see better. A feH seconds after alighting from our station wagon, the flam- ing material ceased dropping, the brilliant light disappe~red but we could still see the completely darkened object travelling on the same course at what appeared to be the same speed as the light had be.en travelling. A few seconds after the light and flaming material ceased dropping, the object appeared to change direction and headed to the northwest approximately forty-five degrees to the left of its original course. We got back into the station wagon hurriedly and drove across the road to a phone booth. I called the Louisville Police Department and reported what I thought to be an aircraft on fire and the possibility of a crash. The darkened objec~ passed out of view soon after changing course, and did not appear to change altitude or speed. There was quite a bit of traffic on Cane Run-Rd at the time of the sighting and several drive-in restaur- ants in the area, however, we could see no one else who seemed to notice this incident. The fla...l!ling material which fell from it burned. with a yellowish-white flame. I could not determine whether the flaming material was consumed by fire or the flames went out and the material dropped onto the ground. Judging from the position of the object the ma t erial, if strikjng the ground, ~ould have landed two or three miles to the east of us. Following the disappea~a.Zlce of the light and. f l a mes, the darkened object had no navigation lights and_ there '\-ra s no exhaust flame which is usually present with the nighttime operation a conventional piston engine. He could detect no propulsion noise of any type although background noise could have drow~ed it out had its altitude been sufficiently high. '!e commonly hear both piston engine and jet noise in this area without difficulty. On arr i vL"lg h one about five ninute s following the call to the police department, I decided to call the Standiford Field tower to report the incident to them. They l01ew nothing of it and had not been notified of any aircraft in distress or any similar sightings, but promised to check. Lovu:.viLLC 1i trbtt-sr lJillt LllfN T iaJ ..,. Posl7,o,J I IV, '11 n1 ~ /tf tJ7uu t: F~eo~ o~.t Tow E"R IF" (' CNvtFw 1o-.1 ttL Clttfl f:"7 3oco -9ooo ~T.