1. U~ T E T IME GROUP 3, :ivUf: CE 4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS S. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 5 to lO l-tinutes 6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ground-Vis ~1--------~ 9. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE PROJEC ; '10073 RECORD 2. LOCATION Cle~iston, Florida (1 '.Yitne~s 10. CONCLUSION Other~ (C~\7LICTIKG DATA) Tne witness stated that he had observer had only r eported t he the conflict, t he case is bei 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS not seen e.ny UFOs and that the observation to him. Because of evaluated as The observer sishted a lumino~3 yellowish-white kite shaped . object that traveled from horizon to horizon in 5 to 10 minutes. The observer stated that "when '"e were looking at it threw the telescope, the telescope did not work. We t ook itapart and found a round hole where the lena is held burna FTD SEP 63 0-329 (TOE) prnloua dlU- ol thle fo,. -7 be u .. d, UT WHICH IS NOT ADEQUATELY COV 27. IN FORMATION WHICH YOU F EEN\~R: :~N:::L~NATION OF THE SIGHTING. ALTERNATIVELY PROVIDE A ' EO IN THI S QUESTI ONNAIRE , )~u.cr-r l ~ i fFrYJ; PAG E 9 O F 9 P ACES TDPI' (UFO) DE?ARTME:NT OF THE AIR FORCE HEAOQUA~T!::~S FOREIGN TE:CHNOL.OC Y DIVISION I AFSC l WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE. OHIO 4~433 UFO Observation Your name has been given to the Aerial Phe nomena Office (Project Blue Book) as being a witness to an unidentified flying object. I:f' you were a witness to an UFO sighting on 9 Feb 1968 would you please complete the attached AF Form 117 and return it in the envelope provided. If you were not a witness to this sighting, would you please make a statement to this effect on the attached form. The information which you provide will be used in , evaluating this observation. Thank you for your assistance in this AF Form 117 w/envelope HECTOR QUINTAliTIJ.A, Jr , Major, USAF Chief, Aerial Phenomena Office I have recieved a letter :f'rom you asking if I ~ras a witness to UFU. 1w has s een one and has f iJl in the fom. In question 25 of the fo:nn he was asked to name some one he reported the sightjng to, in this he filled rrq name in. Even though rrrsr rland sa the UFO I was not present at the merly reported i t to me. ' I'IJO\.V TO DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS FOREIGN TECHNOL-OGY DIVISION ( AFSC) WRIGHT.PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASK. OHIO 4!5.433 UFO Obstrvation, 9 Feb 1968 Reference your recent unidentified flying object sighting \:hich you reported to the Air Force. The information which we have eceived i s not sufficient for a scientific investigation. Request you complete the attached AF Form 117 and return i t in the self- addressed envelope. Thank you for reporting your observation to the Air Force. S C. MA.NA'IT, Colonel, USAF rector of Production AF Form 117 Project Blue Book ght Patterson Air Forc e Base near Sirs: !have seen what looked like aU. F . 0 . on the 9th this month. THis thing looked like a kite. It was 7 oclok at t , it was very shiny and muved very fast. So Iwould like to know if you could e of the lates color pictures of fling saucer. information in booklets. Buti realy want for I am very intrested in your organization. please send me som- if you have some information Sincerely Yours, r D.ULY NE\YS morrow's p a y freeze, rise or unemploymen t. " AS PROOF of this capital; OSCX>W (UP'I) -Flyl.ng sensations which never fail: sau'*'-are just a eaplt:alist Flying saucers. the Loch Ness plot Ito ~ the tninc:U ot monster and the abominable WOI'lleht ott the har d lives snowman," said science col- ~ lead, ~oordl.ng to a So-umrust v. Lyustibe~ in thP. i . .;t plot, he said saucer "si~ht- viet .Oence e.'lpett. Daily :vtoskovski Komsome>-irM;s" increased during Ameri- "When tt becomt!'! ~ .let$. can e!~ion years a nd during ! ~ t:r"',.. 1D distract tl. :reader-,~. -ry ~ lhteresfiili s- u. Kat n tmel-Vietnam wars. 1 txwa tot'tf:th pr'Obb:rt._ .. W~st-rud at mysterious-shapes. l.yustiberg's article was the i . ~ leadus halle: Un:e a. rN~ -~ -~ l!t~dl ~ 10-lee! st' salVG-in~ .running bat; by Al KATZMAN For Australian ran cher Dere k Hayden and his wife Melissa, death came swiftly and with an eerie high-pitched whine out of tho sky. "A flying saucer kill; ed them," Territorial Policeman ArthurV\.'t1ito said flatly when inter viewed last week by MIDNIGHT. "We have the evidence .to prove The bodies o f Hayden, 35, and his 30-year-ol d wife were found in the kitchen of their ranch home ncar 13orroloola in Australia's vast and lone- ly Northern Territory after neighbors reported seeing "an enormous shimmering light" hovering in H1e vici- "The Ught passed over .&ly house at about 11:20," neighboring rancher Frank ;\tcCuliough, 50, told M J D NIGHT. "It was moving slowly so I got a good look "My wife a nd six other people who work fo r me here saw the thing. It was no dream. We all saw H." !\lcCullough said he and the o th ers watched the object more th a n five minutes DEREK HAYDEN (above) and wife Melissa (below) were found dead in "Dut like they'd !'ecn some- thing so shocking and dis- gusting that thev couldn't stand it. It's hard to describe their expressions b~1t I hope I never see anyone with that look again. "Doth thebodicswerewhat you might call 'orrow~crl.' They were placcrl cnrdully on the floor wilh the lrl'{s stretched straight oul and together and the arms ex- tended out awav fro.&l the side of the bodies: "There were no cuts, brul- ses, or o th er ai l arks on the .. victims -and no indications o f a strug~le in lhr room. PHOTO OF UFO above was toke n in vicinity of He ranch by photo!=jropher some day bodies were disco "A collie dog bclon~ing to Mr. Hayden wa.s n.Jso fo und dead in the room. It was stretched straight out the sa,;le as Mr. and Mrs. Hav- den. There were no marks o f violence on the <log. It's t~th wer e bared as though it were g 1'0\\li ng when it !~ty lid was put on lhe story. . ,... . . ~ Inspecto1 Owen m a de a second gn,esome di-.co ,r-rv o uts ide the ranch hous~. E\cr y anima l within a d rllc extendi n g 1, 000 yards nrouncl th home ,.as dead. "I founcl 2 2 deal! CO \ \ s , two cats, nnd n n u n coun ted number or hirds, g o p hers , snakes a n d the like. Everv- thing was u n m arkrd hut v ery, very d ead. " t!ing for 10 miles inalldirec-: tions was declar ed off-limits to n eighhors, repNters and l curiosity seekers. ~ Australian Ar m v vehicles -:"/._ o fficinl government car s , I~" ~ brought d etectives and sci en -' tests to the a r ea. Alter four days o f investigations the h odies of Hayden and his wife were released fo r buria l ns tr pa~scd o\er his house <u~d :no::ed in ~!tc direction of the !Iayden ranch. outside the house he found a "circula.r area 90 feet in diameter""that was comple-- tely scorched and hurnt over. and federal troops and offi- cials moved out. "It 111 a de a funny high- pitched noise as it moved across the sky. There was something frightening about it. We all felt frightened but we di~Jn 't know why. It just didn't seem like anything that we could call normal and it frightened us." Next to witness the flight of the weird object were three ranch hands who worked for !-I ayden. "We saw this light pass over the north pasture and .a ove toward the tain house about five miles fro,il where we were bunked," 43-ycar- old foreman Bud Hollenhy said. "Even from that dis- tance we could hear the noise it tadc. "It stopped and just sort o f hung in the sky a t about the spot where the house was. It scared hell out of us and we started worrying ahout what that thing was doing over there at the boss's Hollenhy, Kirk McLaine, 30, and Winston Perry, 32, got in their jeep and drove toward the Hayden home. "All the time we were _driving, m~ybe ahout 10 or 12 minutes, we watched that g lowing light hang over the When the three men were ahout a half a mile away from the main house, the whining noise suddenly got much louder. The car motor stopped dead, its lights went out and even the heater stop- ped working. The object in the sky glowed so hrightly they were forced to shield their eyes. Then suddenly it moved up Into the sky. "It disappeared completc-- lv in about 30 seconds," said !-Iollenby. "When we couldn't sec it anymore, the car .aotor started working again and the light and heater went back on. "We stepped on the gas and got to the house as fas t as we could." "The closer we got, the more scary thatnoisesound- ed. It was a hum o r whine that never stopped. It sound- ed like a big generator o r something, only higher- The three men discovered Ute hodies of Hayden and his wife and immediately called fo r help. pitched. "Listening to that sound was like walking through a cen :ry at night afl~r some- one has jus t finished telling a really awful ghost story.,. First to arrive at the scene wns Police Inspector Thomas "The victims were lying on the kitchen floor," he said. "Doth were nude with their dothcs neally folded and piled next to their heads . ''It looked like so.&tething that was giving off a trc-- ,;tendous blast of heat res t- ed directfv on or above that When pressed for comment, senior government official told MIDNIGHT: "U you don't usc ity name, I'll tell you this much. We don't know what killed the spot," he said. "Even the earth itself was scorched for about two feet below the surface.'! Haydens. There wasn't a The policeman concluded his report on the strange happenings at the Hayden ra?ch hy saying he believed the report of an "object in the sky" that hovered over the house was "essen(jnlly true in all respects. Thrre is no evidence to contradict what the witnesses said they saw and a great deaJ of evi- dence to back it up., .. uark inside or out that would indicate foul play. They died without any appa- rent .acdica l cause "So.&tcthing happened at the Hayden place that we don't understand. Until we understand it, we have nothing to say about il. And there's no use asking anyone In the government to give you an c:xplanation. As far ns we n r c concerned, this thing never happened . " Less than 24 .hours after Inspector Owen' s report went in to central Territorial Poli- ce headquarters. a tight secu Othe r authorities, how ever, were not so reluctant to speak. Australian astro- . nomer, Percival Har t, told NEIGH30R McCull. drove to Hayden r after spotting sauce "I don't thin)< any on deny that we've had a from a flying object, pr hly from outer space, that th e object itself or turcs in the ohject are res sihle fo r I he deaths ol and Mrs. Hayden. They killed in a way that we , understand hy peoplE creatures that we haven Territorial Police; White dcd<~ red: "As far am concerned, this w flying sa IH.:cr i.>usiness i .longer something a.;tu rcpoded i.>y cranks in o countr ies. "The pN>ple who Sa\\ thing over the Hayden F arc aH SPiJcr, reliable in duals with reputations honesty. The govcrnr can pretend !hatitneverl pcncd i.>ul out here we know th a t it did. "We've got a doubler der on our hands and killer o r killers used a fl saucer lo <~rrive at and l1 the scene of lhe crime. "\\'e .aq;ued ttbout it fo r awhile but finally we decided to drive over and find out what was going on." "The expressions on their faces were horrible. Not like they died in pain, mind you. POLICE PHOTO shows rnossivc inden lotion left in gro und "There's something there and it cnn kill wiU !caving a !race. None o arc safe anv.tore." February 12, AFR M-17(Cl) SIGHTING OF UNID~TIFIEO PHENO~E~ QUESTIO IRE BUDGF;T !NUAlJ API'!IOYAL THIS QUESTIONNAIRE HAS OEEN PREPARED SO THAT YOU CAN GIVE THE U.S. AIR FORCE AS MUCH INFOR\1ATION AS POSSIBLE CONCERNING THE UNIDENTIFIED PHENO~ENON THAT YOU HAVE OBSERVED. PLEASE TRY TO ANSWER ALL) OF THE QUESTIONS. THE INFORMATION YOU GIVE WILL BE USED FOR RESEARC H PURPOSES. YOUR NAME WILT,.. NOT BE USED IN CONNECTION W1TH ANY OF YOUR STATEMENTS OR CON C L USIONS WITHOUT YOUR PERMlSS!dN. RETURN TO AIR FORCE BASE INVESTIGATOR FOR FORWARDING TO FTD ( TDETR), WRIGHT- pATTERSON AFB, OHIO 45433, I AW AFR 80 -l7. (IF ADDITIONAL SHEF.TS ARE NEEDED FOR NARRA T/V OR SKETCHES ATTAC H SECURELY TO THIS FORM OR ANNOTATE H'!TH YOUR NAM FOR /DENT! FICA TlON.) 1. WHEN 010 YOU SEE THE PHENOMENON? 2 . WHAT TIME OlD YOU FIRST SIGHT THE PHENOMENON? 3 . WHAT TIME DID YOU LAST SIGHT THE PHENOMENON' 4 . TIME'ZONE lZ EASTERN DAYLIGHT SAVING S 0 CENTRAL 0 MOUNTAIN MINUTES ;::; () 0 A.M. 0 PACI FtC 0 OTHE R 5 . WHERE WERE YOU WHE N YOU SAW THE PHENOMENON? IF IN CITY. GIVE THE NEAREST STREET ADDRESS AND INDICATE ON. A HAND DRAWN MAP WHERE YOU WERE STANDING WITH REFERENCE TO THE ADDRESS. IF IN THE COUNTRY. IDENTIFY THi HIGHWAY YOU WE R E ON OR N EAR AND TRY TO FIX A D ISTANCE AND DIRECTION F M SOME RECOGNIZABLE LANDMARK. 6 . IMAGINE: YOU ARE A I THE POINT SHOINN IN TYE SKETCH. PLACE AN A ' ON THE CURVED LINE TO SH O W HOW HIGH THE PHENOM E N O N WAS ABOVE THE HORIZON, Di'l SKYL