. PROJECT 10073 RECORD 1. L.~TE To,:: \iROUP 2. LOCATION Middletown Ohio ~ 10. CONCLUSION INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR EVAI.UATIO., 4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS 5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS 40 Minutes 6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ground-V13ual 9. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE FTO S E ;t 6l 0329 (TOE) Pr .. loua clltlou of thh fonD IIJAJ' be u .. ct. IUII'LY TO TDPT ( UFO) DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR F'ORCE HEAOQUA-.TEAS FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY DIVISION f A,SC) WftiGHT-PATTF.RSON AIR FORCE BASE. OHIO 4!!433 UFO O'oservation 20 August 1968 Refe~ence your recent unidentified flying object sighting which ~eported to the Air Force. The information which we have received is not sufficient for a scientific investigation. Request you complete the attached AF Form 117 and return it in the self- addressed envelope. Thank you for reporting your observation to the Air Force. EECTOR QUINTANIIJ.A, Jr, Lt Colonel, USAF :Chief, Aerial Phenomena Office Aerospace Technologies Division Production Directorate AF Form 117 w/envelope ROUTING SLIP NetJ~ UJe fe>r APt,..outdt, Dinpprotldlt Conc:aurcttu.t. nr Simildr AL-~iotu 1 TO . INITIALS CIRCULATE SWTF0-2 (L/C Dana) DATE COOHlJINATION INFORMATION NOTE 1\fiO VEilSATION Pe r t e lecon w/TSgt Williamson, 13 Aug 68, the follo\ving information is forwarded. :t:!pluces D D Form 94, 1 1-'tb 50, and I) 0 F orm C,) , 1 lo'cb ro, w hich will b~ U!>E'U until e~haustcd. Uf'O SlGHTING T!-:~ F.::.L.O\tVING IS AN EXTRACT FROM THE 1\.FSWC COMMAND POST CO:-:- LLER'S LOG, DTD 13AUG 68 (03002 ENTRY):. l Mdrlow NE, Albuquerque, calle d the Command Post c~t 03002, l3 Aug 6 8 . H e said that he had sighted a UFO at approxi- rna tel.} 0 2 302 as h e went to feed horses at a barn. H e saw a bright light in the North moving from North t o South at approximate l y 30,000 feet. It s topped and Mr s field glasses and observed tre object. H e said i t started moving again and moved over Albuquerque. Said it hud a defini-.:e shape when observed through the field glasses. The object was larger r:1an a baske t ball but had no sound. Command Post past the infor - matio:t to Base Operations . At least two persons 21aw what they r eported to be a ntystertous object hovering over Gra.fton for mC're than an hour night before Cecil Devers, 215 West W:uh- ltngton Street, sighted ~he un1 d~ntlfied obj~t <UFO> at JO :15 m. moving toWJU'd ths old city According to Devers, .:he objrct was disc-shaped and WM bright silver in color. When a sked what he thought of the sighting, he said, "Well, 1t you ask me, there's somethinl going on up there that we don' t know about. It's all s. mysterY but I know I saw something." 1v!r s. Everett Knotts, 2 to \Vest Washington Street, reported thnt she t oo, had spotted the object. Mrs. Knotts gave the follow\ng account of what she heard and "My husband is ill, and I had gone downstairs to cheek and see lf he needed anythlns. whe-n I heard an unfamiliar b'!e;.ing noise. Afr,er s eeing that he was all right, I rettAmed upstairs and went out on the p-orch." "I s till heard the no\se, so I wen t to check l! I had any elec- trical appliances turned. on. I I hadn't., so 1 went back out on the I porch, and then 1s when I saw the object." n wa~ headed toward Maple A nmue, and was making a Beep, Bet-p no\se. It was bright sUver, and was disc-sha.ped. f\.ed ar..d silver lights were flashing.' rt seemed to go toward the o!d pottery, l\Ild then disa;Jpear- ed. I must have watched it for over an hour and a ha.U. before 1t d isap:oP.ared." . ':\!rs. Kr.otts was asked wheth- er or not the object had windcws and sha replied, ''It wcmld be hard to tell \dthout binoculars, but thcr~ w:u something dark around tZ1e ;;ide!, It could have been ~indows." She ,-.:3.s as;<~d wheth.et" or not tha obicc t ::i;htened hc:r, and f she ~aic!. Ne!l. I'm normally a bra.ve pc:-son, but let m~ tel\ ~ou, when you s ee this thtng tt just sends cold chllls up your ~lne." 1\ttany s~ghtings have been re- ported in ~he Grafton area dur- in~ the past months, but no one seems to have any answers to the a crlal p:1enomenas, or now theY came to bein". Arf':l. authorities were cont~.ct cd today ab,mt the nbject, but rrported tha.t they had not been c~ll~'"t1 to lnv~stigate a.ny such in I cident.s, except for the !.\~htlng at the 07.lte Corporat\on plant two wQeks ru~a. At thls time. severa.l per~ns saw bri.rht, disc.shapec! object, No one s eemed n.ble to photo- graph Lhe object as it was 'too The UFO med to ~r!llvel to- wnrd Blu~v11le, finally di->appear- i n ' in Lim Haymond Sertlon. IIIlA I I I t'l 1111 l' lllfl I lfft he T ~ylor, Barbour and Preston T ri-County Area 1n West Vtrginld U.F.0. Investigator Tile ?13ntt!.~on Gent:.e::\er.: \ r.a..,-e had !!Some r~eent U .F .0. eichtings by resido!'lt~ or thi~ area. Con.rorning to yo...u-request, we a.re cnelosin~ Very t::-uly yours, . I! We ean be O! ?.'!'!:'J further ~orvieo I plCC'l3e let U~ MEMO FOR THE RECORD UFO Sighting , "7 Aug 68, Can~a, by Dr Dr ..; Allen Hynek calledthe Aerial Phenomen.t Office on 7 Aug 68 at 1300 h:).1rs, EJJI', to inform h-1.1\ that he sa'W a funny thing. Saw a jet c sing something at llpm due North, a very bright ball of light, bri ghter than Venus. 10 deg behind the unkno~ object was a jet. \~e don't think we could here any sound from the bright object but we did here noise frm.m the jet." Could see the 'Wing tip lights from the jet but only one big light from the object. Plane probably from Kincheloe, so Dr Hj~ek thought. Dr Hynek said he saw the object for presumably two minutes, but it may have been three. Dr Hynek said he was goin~; to call Kincheloe and ask for informa tion and would appreciate our office doing so. Dr Hynek will call/totnorrow mor ni ng . At 1400 hours got through to Lt Col Quintanilla who was TDY in Wash, D c.r We ,_.ill not contact Kincheloe to obtain the data. Additional information to obtain from Dr Hynek is: Arc of sky covered . Did it pass directly vve.:-head7 Did Dr Hynek get any photographs? He always carries a What was Dr Hynek's estimation of the weather? Was it c lear? t:V} Ll.A .. I ,., JT "fJJI THE SAN JUAN STAR-Tuesday, August 13, 1968. V.I. Gets $350,000 For Teachef's.Housing (AP)-Governor H alph Paiewon skv hns r ecC'ived a check fo r more thnn $350.000 as a loan from the Chase altan Bank for the con struction of "urgently needed hous ing for teachers in the Viq;in I s lands.,. The housing units arc to be used by tepchcts recruite d on the mainland to wor k in the Virgin Islands public school The shmtagc of moderate priced a partments has often been cited by teach ers as the rc~son w hy the y hcsit~te to come to the Vitgin I slands in he first place and tend to leave after one year of teaching. P resent at Government House for the c e r emony \ve te assis ta n t commissioner of education Char les TrmnbuJ, budget direc- tor Magd alene Bryan, com - missioner of finance Rube n Wheatley, and Chase Man hat tan Dank i\ianager John\\". Gate. NE\J\f PARTY Dorvillier To Address San JvtH1 Lions Club (Continued F r o m P a c;e 13) the Republican Party for a ture t:=y at the party's reside ntial non u nation. Other names mentioued are Senator McGovern a n d Governor Rockefeller , but both m e n ar c consid e red u nlikely to accep t a fourth party ticket. H no r ecognized politicCll figur e ac;rces to lend th~ ptlrty. Raskin snid , it would nominate a wcll-kno\vn. but esscnt ially po1itical figure active i n the antiwa r movement. A lis t of possi b il itie s is now bein g afted, he said. Ras kin, a 34ycm-otd "uthor who served on the ~tilff of l\lcGeorgc Bundy cl11ritl!! Presi- dent KenrH"d y ' s Atlmini lr ;at inn, the fa,orable response the New Party has recci,ed. so n1any people a r c upset with the mnjor parties," h e said. " They reflect far too nar- row a base. So m u ch i s goin!; o n outside th e party s t ructurcs. There's a lot of fcnr thnt unle s s we ope n up t he pnrly slruct ur e we're going to h<1ve n r('vnlll- t ionnry situa tion in l his counfty i.h:tl wilt be met by official r e pressiOn. " T he r e is a rcnl possibility, I think , o f a left-r ight coalition ased on a revuls ion against bureaucr a t i e structures. There is s uch a br1s ie revulsion that 1 think t he New Pnrty is clearly in politics t o stay for the next generation. P e ople are prcpnred t o t hi nk r :td icnl1y , and the party i'" n V(hklr fm dPill~ 1hill." William J. Dorvillier, fortnc r e ditor of the San J uan STAR, will -speak to the San .Jua n Club at their 'Vednesdnv luncheon meeting at th e Con- d a do Beach Hotel. His topic will be "An analysis of the political situation in Puetto Mysfcry Objf!tf Hnvers Over Y auto MfJunfnins YAUCO (AP>-Twopolice men reported 1\Ionday that they saw a b r ig ht object hover ing o \er a m ountain near here and that. after a while, the object sped away over the ocean . Local police officials, however , admitte d that tJwv werc not quite sur e how In t;o :1hnqf irwf'~ti t{<'lillH flw . n :port. FOR IMMEDIATE HOME DELIVERY OF COrAPlETEL Y tJEW IDEA porrnhle phonographs SIGHTING OF UNIDEHTIFIEO PHENOMENA QUESTIOHMAIRE IJUDGI-:T NURF.AU APPROVAl. 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