!J,, TE T IME C~OUP 4. NUMBER OF 03J:CTS Pi~OJECT 10('13 RECORD 2. LOCATION Grisaca AFB IndiaAa. 10. CONCLUSION 1. Probable (AIRCRAFT) . .. 2. Posaibl (AIRCRAFT) . . .' .. ighting #1 identified aa probable a1rcrart (KC~l.J5 ) . on leidlns , 5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS 1. 5 10 Ninutea 6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION' 0:-o,md-Visual 7 , COURSE 9. PHYSICAL EVI,ENCE FTD ~ EP6l 0-~29 (TDE) SEB CAS'S FII.E was not an ircrat' the the obserYera were uro oonsoioua from th tirat aisbting.. . 2. HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THIS OR A SIMILAR .. H O.IMON a EFOHE NO. IF YES, .. GIVE DATE AND 23. WA~ ANYONE._,-.._. YOU AT THE TIME YOU SAW TMII .. HENOMENON? tj YES 0 NO. IF "YEs, OlD THEY SEE IT T OOJ l A.. LIST THEI~ ~ "!:S AND ADDRESSES GIVE THE FOLLOWING IN FORMATION ABOUT YOURSELF ~TION AND ANY EXPERIENCE WHICH MAY BE PERTINENT. L_t (. U t S 25 WHEN A/'o:J -r o "1-::~::: 0 YOU REPORT THAT YOU HAD SI GHTED THIS PHENOMENON' COM?L=:T:> THIS QUESTIONNAIRE. DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS 30STH BOMBARDMENT WING (SAC l GRISS OM AIR fORCE BASE, INDIANA 4G970 18 October 1968 TOI !f r:r: ( TDETR) 1. The attached y o .12"' j nforma t ion r e port , A F F' c r m 11 7 , i s f o r v. t ' r cl e ci in accordance witl. AFH 80-1(. 2 . A check wus made lTith Grisscm Base Operations, Tower, ar..:!. RAr,Ccn to df:".~rn;.:i.r.e the air traffic during the period The active runway was '04' ( ol~u deg:: ees) . Thcrt: 1.-ras no o t .. E:r'air traffic during this time. 3 . The lccation of this reporte d sighting lies to the s out h of t h e l a s e ~ n e a r : . y i n 1 i n e w ~-t h t h c e n d o f the ru:.way. The first. repo:: ted sighting~ a.t approximately KC-135 and "'ith t h e active runway pattern. The landint.::. a i 1 c r f. f t was m o ~ t p r <> b a l l y t h e o b j e c t r e p or t e d . H c-w eve 1 , we canl!C~ fit.cl~ any firm explanht.~ Cl fer tlE: second sighting. Dc?~ty Commander for Operations Peace is our Profession egins at approximately 11: d our oldest dauel1te were returning to Lafaye Friday evenjng August 30, a ge 14 and a nejghbor Loy, om Marion, Indiana on Stat e As we c:r.ossed U. S. High1ay 31, I first noticed a very brieht llnht on the ~-::-rizon dlrectly ahl!~d of us. At first I didn ' t ~jve it a thought other than it ;..;.; ~ a tower beakon or perhaps an airplane. After seve ra 1 miles the 1 i gh t was still ~pproximately in the same proximity. If it was an airplane it mov~d too slow a nd si"'lc e there weren't any hig h objects along the road i t wasn't a beakon l:i.gltt . Finally I asked my wife if she saw the object, she did but couldn't fi~ure it Otlt. The children also saw it. About 3 or 4 miles west of tl1e 31 intersection the o~ject appeared to pass over our road in a northeasterly directio11. At this point I said it looks like a plane lookin g for a place to lancJ .. So \ve followed it. i;e turned north on a gravel road hoping to p ass close to the object. We proceeded north for nearly .a mile and saw the object l1eading eas t pass abou t a 1/4 mile ahead of tts. By this tinte we all had formed some intp ression a s to what \-le sa\v. Bright white lights like cabin windows with some amher lights and \vhat appeared to be high density landing lights. The object passed behind a farm house ancJ we hope d to s~e it a gain when we got pas t the house. It took us about 1 5 seco ds to reach the spot \vhere the objec t passe!d over the road and behind the ~.ouse. Hh~n we got there -nothing. No lights , no noise, no nothing . After considerable sca n i n g o f the sky we noticed an amber light moving a~ay frotn us to the nortl1. t~e stopped the car to '~ait a nd watch. The amb~r li ~l1t didn ' t blink i t was constant. Just when it was almost out o f sieht it turned \vest ;t,d shortly turned south . It was o n a parallel t o us moving fast. As it approached opposite us w~ listened and heard a fain t humnting nois e ... Like the hum o f an electrical trar1sformer or hig h voltage lines. l The object with the amber .tight turned west at this point. About three t es e light disappeared then came back. After a short time we decidecJ to conti e our trip home as the light disappeared. Bac k onto Road 1 8 heading west we had driven about 5 to 8 miles whe n the , b r t li~hts appeared a gain . Thi s t ime closer t ha n before bending east paralle l I to ~'='.: ~8. Our r.uess is that it was about 300 ft. high a nd about 2 blocks to the I nort~. ~;;in we all ba~ a cha nce to see the object a nd it confi rmed our ori.ginal ic? 3 3. l1lte bri c lights that seemed to form 3 or 4 windows. Brilliant thir bea~3 :~;~t direct~ci co~ards the ground with several amber a11d gre~n beakon liRht~ I ~urned north onto the firs t zravel road I could direc~: :~:;der the obje ct. Unfo rtunatel y it wasn't a main do~.;n t..c hopes of d tivi.tlg a nd soon narrowed At tl1is p o i n t I stopped the car, turned off my en~ine and li~r~tts. Tl1e kids an~ I jumped out quickly hoping to see the object pass overhead - -But a gain nothit:g. "tor onl y a few second s '"e a gain heard the same hummin~ noise as before. Then nothing, no noise, no light, no object. This time we d idn' t even see a n amber ligl1ts in th~ distance. Th~ two sightings happen~d within 30 rniuut es of eacl1 olhcr. h'~ wa lt:ed in darkn~ss for awhil~ hoplnr, to se~ th~ ohjecl again but il n~ver shmed, In summary of this w~ i rd event the white li.ghls t:ha l seemed to come fro.11 windm<s were too big and bright to come from a n airplane cahin. The object hover.~,; i n th~ sky hardly without moving --too slow for eJ ~her a jet or pisto-. plane -Not enoug h noise for a heljcopter. Upon returning home each one of us without knowledge of ''hat the othe r s , sketched what we thought w~ sa,.,, they are attached. SIGHTIHG OF UNIDENTIFIED PHENOMENA QUESTIOHMAIRE BUDGET BUR~AU APPROVAL NUitiDEI 2f.R2~1 THIS QUESTION~Ali~E HAS BF.Jo~N PREPARED SO THAT YOU CAN GIVE TilE. U . S AIR FORC E AS MUC'H INFOI~MATh):"ll "s POSSIBLE CO~CERNING THE UNIDENTIFIED PHENOMENON THAT YOU HAVE OBSERVED. PLEASE TRY TO AN~WER ALU OF THE QUESTIONS. THE INFORMATION YOU GIVE WILL BE USED FOR RESl~ARCH PURPOSES YOl'R NAME ~1Lt,. ~OT BE USED IN CONNECTION WITH ANY OF YOUR STATEMENTS O R CONCLUSIONS WlTIIOUT YOUR PERMlSSlC1:'i. RETUI~N TO AIR FORCE BASE INVESTIGATOR FOR FORWARDING TO FTI' (TDETR), WRIGHT- p ATTERSO~ AFB . (lw 10 45433, I AW AFR 80-f7. (IF ADDITIONAL SIIEETS ARE NEEDF.D FOR NAHRA TIVI OR SK E T C H I~$ A 1T, \ CH SECURE.!..: TO TillS F ORM OR ANNOTATF. WITH l'OUR /\'Ai'-1' FOR lnF.NTIFIC A TION.) 2 . WHAT TIM::: C I'J "'O!J FIRST SIGHT THE PHENOMENON? MINUTES _ 3 . V.ttAT TIME O!C Y O U LAST SIGHT THE PHENO M ENON' It d ,_:\HOUR 4 TIME ZONE LJ DAYLIGHT SAVINGS ~tEAS TERN [J CENTRAL 0 MOUNTAI N lSJ STANDARD 5 W H E R E WE~ E i :J ~: W H E N Y 0 U S AW T H E PH EN 0 MEN 0 N , I F I N C I T Y . GIVE T H E NEAR E S T S T R E E T A D DRESS AN D IN D I C A T E 0 N HAND D~AW\ \.46\P WHERE YOU WERE STANDING WITH REFERENCE TO THE ADDRESS. I F IN THE COUNTRY, IDENTIFY T~E H I GHWAY YOU "'ERE O N OR NEAR AND TRY TO FIX A DISTANCE AND DIRECTIO N FRO M SOME RECOGNIZABLE LANDMARK. n ''-1-\GIN::: " 0'..) o\1:\~ A.T THE P OINT SHOWN IN THE SKETCH . PLACE AN. A ON THE C U RVE LII';E T O SHOW HOW HIC:H THC ?HE"'\0'~"-::', ".l3 A.BOVE THE H ORIZON. O R SKYLINE. WHE N FIRS T SEEN . P L ACE A '3" ON THE SAME CURVE:> LINe_ T ~ SnOW 1-J();. ..,~., ~BOVE THE HORIZON THE PHENOMENON WAS WHEN LAST SEEN . t> ll C , I f..l i~ H Tt~C~; 61\. NOW IMAGINE YOU ARE ATTHE. CENTER OF THE COMPASS ROSE. PLAC E AN A 01-1 THE COMP ASS 10 I N D I Cl\r E lH=: :::TIO N TO "HIE PHENOMENON WHEN FIRST SEEN. PLAC E A a O N THE COMP A SS TO I NDICATE THC OIHECTION ro THE PHE N O M E N O N WHE N LAST SEEN. 7 . I N T H E SKETCH 3ELOW, PLACE AN "A AT THE POSITION OF THE PHENOMENON WHEN FIRST SEEN, A N D A .,B" AT THE POSiTION OF 7H~ I=HENOMENON WHE N LAST SEEN. CONNECT THE "'A AND s WITH A LINE TO APPROXIMATe T~t: 11-iOV E M:::NT O F THE PHENOMENON BET WE:EN A .. AND " e. THAT IS, SCHEMATICALLY SHO W WHETHER THE MOVEMENT E~RE:J TO S~ STRAIGHT , CURVED OR ZIG-ZAG. REFER TO SMALLER SKETCH AS AN EXAMPLE O F HOW TO COMPLf:T E THE LARG~ S:o<~ TCH. WERt. YOU WHEN YOU SAW THE PHENOMENON? (Ch,d. upr rup rint ld (I c k s.) IN OUSINESS SECTI O N O F CITY BUILD 11.: G RES I OEN Tl AL SECTIO N O F CITY r.~ A S DRIVER 0 A S PASSENGER IN OPEN C OUNTRYS IDE AR AIRFIELD IN AtRPL :.: D AS PASSENGER FLYING OVER CITY ' I A S PILOT FLYING OVER OPE N A . IF YOU WERE IN A V EHICLE, COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING OI~E:::TION WERE YOU MOVING' AST WERE YOU DID YOU STOP ANYTIME SO UTH WEST PHE N O MENON? NORTHEAS":" SOUTHEAST QNo NORTHWEST LAIN WHF.:TH~ MOVEMENT AFFECTS YOUR SKETCHES IN ITEMS 5 AND 6 . o::SCRI3E TYPE C l:' VEHICLE YOU WERF.: I N M~D TYPE O F ROAD, RRAIN OR BODY O F WATF.R YOU TRAVERSED \::lURING SI'JHTI~G. s -ATE WHETHE R WINDOWS OR C ONVERTIBLE TOP WERE UP OR D O WN. "" "-1UC~ 0 ~Er< TRAFFIC WAS THERE' ...., :"' -'C~ NCT ICE ANY AIRPLANES? f:.JYES oNO. I F "YES." DESCqiBE WHEN THEY WERE I N SIGH T RELI\TIJ ..... 0 T ~ E T I M E = :i iGHTI NC, T~E PHENOMENON ANC WHERE THEY WERE IN THE SKY RELATIVE TO THE POSITION 01=' n-tE Pf.JENO~II:w;., I?. t\t\tDr...:t0 HOW LONG WAS THE PHENOMENON IN SIGHT., JUST A Gll~ ~ t~ SIGH I CONTINUOUSLY ? 0 YES Rl NC. IF "NO .. IND I C A T E WHETHE q T~IS 1:; DUE T O YOUR \~v''E~lE~ T ";::, -;-.... ::_ ~:.1-'A'.'l')F O F THE P H ~ JO~ ENON, AND DESCRIBe:-SU C H M O V E M E N T OP. B EHAVIOR. I NDICATE DI'5AP- tO. IF THERE WERF MORE THAN ONE PHENOMENON, HOW MANY WEHE THERE ' ORAW A PICTURE T O S H O W 110\olf T H E Y W~nr ARRANGED. 01::> THIS ARRANGEMENT CHANGE DURING THE SIGHTING? CONDITIONS (Check approwirrtc blocks.) B. WEATHER CUMULUS CLOUDS (/.ow fluffy) FOG OR MIS T CIRRUS CLOUDS (lfi~:h (fc,.cy nr llcrring-HEAVY HAIN ,' ( NICHT LIG \.1T RAIN OR DRIZZLE , CLEAR NIMBUS CLOUDS ( Rain) HAll.