PROJECT 10073 RECORD .1 1: OA lE TIM.k CAOUII 2. LOCATION ---. 6-7 Sep 6tS 2125 CDT Ol25Z c. NliMSEA OF OBJECTS ~ LENCTH OF OBSERVATION TEN MINUTES 6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION GROUND -VISUAL 9. PHYSICAL EVIDI!NC! CHARLESTOWN, INDIANA 10. CONCLUSION INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR EVALUATION 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND AMALYIII See case files COMMENTS: The observer wrote that "vie have seen lights like stars, but not like stars before. They are brighter than stars, appear at random in different parts of the sky." For the past two summers the observers family and his uncles family have beenreeing lights around their farms. Since all the sightngs are of point light sources there is little chance of identifying the stimulus. Some may be caused by hot air balloons, aircraft, satellites, and stars and planets. Also since the sightings are of point light sources they do not meet the definition of a UFO aa given ~n-AFR 80-17 and as such are carried as Insuff. AFR R0-17(Cl) t7. 010 YOU OBSERVE THE PHE N OMENON THROUGH ANY OF TME FOLL.O WI N G ' I N Cl.UOE INFO RMATI O N ON MODEL, TYPE, FILTER, LENS PRESC R IPTIO N OR OTMER APPLICABLE DATA. E Y E GLASSES C AMERA V IEWEP SUNGLASSE S BINOCULAR$ WINOS!oHELO T E LESCO P E SlOE WINDOW OF VEHICLE THEOOOLITE WINDOWPANE A . 00 YOU ORDINARILY WEAR GLASSES' 18. WHAT WAS YOUR IMPRESSION O F TME SPEEO 19. WHAT WAS YOUR IMPRESSI O N OF T H E DISTANC ~ OF THE PHENOME Tl E SP PHENOMENON' GVE ES ATE OF e t AN E----- 20 IN OROER THA WE Y 08T AIN AS Cl: A A PICTURE AS POSSI9L E OF WHAT Y O U S A , E SC R I B IN YOUR OWN WORDS A COMMO N OBJECT OR OBJECTS WHICH, WHEN PLACED IN THE SKY, SIMILAR T O WHERE YOU NOTED THE PHEHOM~NON, WOUL.O B EAR SOME RESEMBLANCE TO WHAT YOU SAW. DESCRIBE SIMILARITIES AND DIFFEREN CES B ETWEEN THE COMMON OBJECT AND WHAT YOU SAW 2.1. DID Y O lJ NOTI C E A N Y 000~. N OI::.E, OH H E A T EMANATI N ROM ";HE PHEN OMENON OR ANY EFFEC T O'N YOUR SELF, A . DID THE PHENOMENON D ISTUR B THE GROUND OR LEAVE ANY PHYSI CAL EVIDENCE. 0 Y E S IF y E S .... DESCRIBE . . PAGE 7 O F 9 P A GES 22. HA'IC TOU XVI" Ill" TM,I Of' A llalti.Ate taNIMOMifiiOM ,O,.If YONC WITH YOU AT THK TIMI YOU SA-. TH PH~NOMINOMl AFR ~17(Cl) H. "y~s. GIVE DATE AND ~It DM, b'llll~ 0 NO. Ill' YES, 010 THEY SE E IT TOO r ADDITIONAL IH~OAMATION INCLUDING OCCUPATION AND ANY EX .. E,.tiNCa WHICH MAY BE PERTINENT. 2 5 . 'NME:.,.., AHO T O WHOM 010 YOU REPORT THAT YOU HAD SIGHTED THIS PHENOMENON'- NAME I" ,C'CI. DA~ L MONTH 26 . DATE YOU CO!IIPLETEO THIS QU!STIONNAIAE. PAGE 8 OF 9 PAGES 21. INFO"~ATION WHICH YOU lf1!:l. IS PERTININT IUT WHICH IS HOT AO!QUAT!l.Y COVERED IN THIS QUESTI01'4NAIRE, T E "N ATIVEL. Y PAO DE A "" I XPL ATIO TH! SIGHTING. ~ ftl~l.'l TO TDPT (UFO) DEPARTMENT OF THE AUt P'ORCE HIEADQUAfiTKfiS P'O"I:IGN TECHNOLOGY DIVISION f AP'SC) WftiGHT-PATTfiSON Alfl FO .. C BASE. OHIO 4!S433 UFO Observation Reference your recent unidentified flying object sighting which reported 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. l,. . CTOR QUINTAN IIJ.A, Jr, Lt Colonel, USAF ~Chief, Aerial Phenomena Office Aerospa~e Technologies Division Production Directorate AF Form 117 w/envelope TDPT (UFO) DEPARTMENT OF THE AI" P'O"CI! HKAOQUAfln'E .. S P'O"I:IGN TECHNOLOGY DIVISION f AI'SC) W"IGHT.PATTI: .. SON AI .. FO .. CI: BASK. OHIO 4!5433 UFO Observation ' 6 Charlaatcnra, Ind Reference your recent unidentified flying object sighting which reported 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. l ,lfECTOR QUINTANILLA, Jr, Lt Colonel, USAF ~Chief, Aerial Phenomena Office Aerospa~e Technologies Division Production Directorate AF Form 117 w/envelope September 9, 1968 Project Blue Book Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Dayton, Ohio Gentlemen: Rural Route ;~1 Charlesto\ln, Indiana 47111 \'Jhen you read what; is in this letter, please keep in mind that I am neither a crackpot or eccentric, nor a practical joker. I am merely a citizen who is concerned about what is happening in the skies of our nation, and I am interested in finding out what; is going on. For the past two summers members of my family and my uncle's family have been seeing "lights" in the skies around our farms. Last summer my aunt and her t\'IO sraall children saw a light over the trees behind their barn, a very bright light that got alternately brighter and then dimmer and remained stationary for several hours. Ny aunt did not go to the barn since it \/as night and she and the children were alone(my uncle had gone to work) She told us about it and we thought it \1as funny. Last sumiller I was at the other farm feeding the dogs. I finished, got in the car, and proceeded to make a turn. In the middle of the turn I saw a peculiar light in the sky tov1ards the direction of Jeffersonville, It i.vas lilce a star, but something told me it wasn't a s tar, i t j11s t didn't look right. I stopped the car, left the headlights burning, and the light went out like soJJeone ~1ould switch -Jut; \an electric light in the house. It didn't tempor~rily d i s a p!iear froc viev1 or t~.-rinkle like a star "'iill uv, it just dir;appeared. Later I r emembered that the li~b.,_; \iould ha-ve been just about over the Indiana Army Ammunition Plant a~ 0harlestown. . othing more u..."1.usual than that; was sean by me last summer, but this summer I and others have seen other, more strange things. A couple of weeks ago, my mother and I were sitting outside in a cc-~r talking, when I .saw a light, tha-t; peculiar sort of star, but not a star, in the extreme Gouth1destern sky. The light ~ias moving, but it was not a plane because it was moving erratically, in a side\'Tise-for\'lard-and-back\t~ards motion. As it rocl\:ed along, it got alternately brighter and dimmer, and it eventually proceeded toward the'south (the direction of the Indiana Army Artmunition Plant). \le, my mother and I, could hear no jet . o r piston !Jotors; ther e \ra s no sound. ;,7hen over the aQ:-no pl~1t it a p pea-red to g o so lo\~J o::1 the horizon that v;e couldn't keep s i 3ht of it any lon3er. ':le then saw a red light that was blinking -- regularly on-and-off and coming from the direction of the ammo -;: l:;.nt tol.rlards us. I told. ray mother the 'irst light ue had seen eould not have b een a plane, since a pl.&~e wa s t~en c omin6 towards us and the dii.ference c ould readily be seen. Bu(; chen we lost sight of the "airplane," and \ie listened for the sound of its motors, which ue \vould have by then heard directly over us. '~here \'las nothing . \/e kneH then that neither of t;he lights had been airplanes. Once \~Te thought that the first li3ht night have been a helicopter, but \ve dismisse d this guess, since why would a helicopter be flying at night over the ammo plant with his light off part of the time? Surely he could have seen more during the day and not had the sa .aty risk that he had \'11 thout his light in continuous use. f/Iy brother and I have seen from our bedroom ttindow a "star" \'lhich \'/auld come from a higher region of the sky in a "waterfall" staircase" pattern, go back t o the higher sky region, and continue the sideways, zig-zag, staircase pattern of moveoent for an extended period of time. Last Friday night, the 6th, my 13-year-old sister came running from her bedroom about 11:30 to tell me that she had just seen one of those lights in t;he s~cy. ~Je looked out the back door, (she and I, t;he others had already gone to bed), and we sat/ one of the "stars" which are not stars. They look so much like stars that, unless you have seen them before, you would neve r pay them any attention, unless they started to move. Once you h ave seen one movin;_s in the s k y and cavorting, you c a n easily pick out the 'suspectu stars for observation. 'rhe light v1as bright enough that we could watch it easily even though it was in the sarJe region of t;he sky that our pole light is in. The light moved back-and-forward for a inJ minuties until it "blinked out" and disappeared. Saturda y night, my siGt8 p a gain sa~. one of those lights in the .Lhio time it d:.d ~ot nove, but !,Je had seen them before a r::l d(~ (~cognized it g_.s one of the strange kind. \le did not keep a ~lose watch on.l ttie object, a:Jcl after about an hour and 11ent bac k f e r e.n~ther loJk ( it had been there during a fe:.'i cU.oacks during the hour and a half, but vie did not check -.le.:CJ o~t~?n). Hhen I looked again a-rter the hour and a half, s sa:t' was gone. I am beginning to be concerned about this matter, since there are a number of things in this general area that may be very interesting to someone: the Indiana Army Ammunition Plant at Charlestov1n, the Public Service Company of Indiana electric generating plant at New Albany, the NcAlpine darn .. and locks at Louisville, the Jefferson Proving Grounds (for artillery shells) at r:1adison, and the electric_ generating plant a t i-Iadison ( >lhose heavy pov-rer lines pass ti jrough o u r fields no \J far from our house, in fact the light of Sept. 7 was just about ova r the extended po;rer lines in the distance several miles), to naQe a few. I am of the opin.ion ~hat o. discraet i n 7estigation i.:J in order. I and some of the members of our two families tTould li e to kno\1/ something about t:hat this can and does mean, and \ihat tt~ government is prepared to do about it. SIGHTING OF UNIDENTIFIED P"EIOMEMA QUESTIOMJAIRE BCJDGar wm ..,,"~& NUIIIJ.I U Ut THIS QUESTIONNAIRE HAS BEEN PREPARED SO THAT YOU CAN GIVE THE U. S. AtR FORCE AS MUCH INFORMATION AS POSSIBLE CONCERNING THE UNIDENTIFIED PHENOMENON THAT YOU HAVE OBSERVED. PLEASE TRY TO ANSWER ALU OF THE QUESTIONS. THE INFORMATION YOU OlVE WILL BE USED FOR RESEAHCH PURPOSES. YOUR NAME WIL\. NOT BE USED IN CONNECTION WITH ANY OF YOUR STATEMENTS OR CONCLUSIONS WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSidN. RETURN TO AIR FORCE BASE INVESTIGATOR FOR FORWARDING TO FTO (TDETR), WRIGHT- PATTERSON AFB, OHIO 45433,1AW AFR 80 f7. (IF ADDITIONAL SlfEETS ARE NEEDED FOR NARRATIVE OR SKETCHES ATTACH SECURELY TO THIS FORM OR ANNOTATE WITH l'OURNAME FORIDF.NTIFICATION.) L WHEN DID YOU SEE THE PHENOMENON' OAV MONTH VEAR 2 . WHAT TIME DID YOU FIRST SIGHT THE PHI!NOMENON? HOU A I'J1 A I l . WHAT TIME DID YOU LAST SIGHT THE PHENOMENON' HOUR~ IIJ. r .4 . TIME I ZONE (l1EASTERN AYLIGHT SAVINGS 0 MOUNTAIN 0 STANDARD 0 PACIFIC 0 OTHER S. WHERE WERE YOU WHEN YOU SAW THE PHENOMENON" IF IN CITY. GIVE THE NEAREST STREET ADDRESS ANO INDICAT!: ON A HAND DRAWN MAP WHERE YOU WERE STANDING WITH REFERENCE TO THE ADDRESS. IF IN THE COUNTRY, IDENTIII'Y TME HIGHWAY YOU WERE ON OR NEAR AND TRY TO FIX A DISTANCE ANO DIRECTION FROM SOME RECOGNIZABLE LANDMAPU<. Cr--e-st-o~ },,'// y'us f-:So~tiA tJf' .2./h,,~ /?ootl'. r,. IM>\GINE YOIJ ~RE AT THE P OI,..T SHOWN I N THE SKET01, PLACE AN "A ON THE CURVED LINE TO SHOW HOW HIGH THE PHENOME N O N WAS ABOVE THE wo>WZON, oq SKYLINE. WHEN FIRST SEEN. PLACE A a ON THE SAME CURVEO LINE TO SHOW HOW HIGH .,BOVE TH! HO~I~iN THE PHENOMENON WAS WHEN LAST SEEN. lA. NOW IMAOINC YOU Alit! AT THC CENTI,. 0, THI COM~ASS AOSC. ~LACE AN A ON THE COM~ASS TO INDICATE THC OI,.ICTION TO THE PHENOMENON WHIM ""IT SEEN. PLACI A ON TH! COM.-ASS TO IHOICATE THE DIRECTION TO THE PHCNOMINON WHCN LAIT liEN 7. IN THE SKETCH BELOW, PLACE AN A AT THE POSI'riON OF THE PHENOMENON WHEN FIRST SEEN, AND A e A r THE POSITION OF T1'1E PHENOMENON WHEN LAST SEEN. C~NNECT Tt1E A AND e WITH A LINE TO APPROXIMATE THE , MOVEMENT OF THE PHI!NOMI!NON BETWEEN A AND a. THAT IS, SCHEMATICALLY SHOW WHETHER THE MOVEMENT 1 APP!AREO TO 81! STRAIGHT, CUHV!O OR ZIG-ZAG. REFER TO SMALLER SKETCH AS AN EXAMPLE OF HOW TO COM,.LET! THE LARGER SKETCH. ... .. ' ' PAGE 2 OF 9 PAGES WH!:~l!: WE~!: VOU WMI!N VOU SAW THI!: PHENOMENON' (Cher.lr opprop,inte blnrlu.) IN BUSINESS S!CTION OF CITY IN 8UILOING t; PASSENGER IN RESIDENTIAL SECTION OF CIT! IN OP!N COUNTRYSIOE -~ 0 AS OAIVEA If'~ !!OAT NEAA AIA,I!LO IN AI~PLANE ...-AS PILOT -AS PASSt:NG!A FLYING OVER CITY FLYING OV!A OPEN COUNTRY IF VOU WEA IN A. V!:HICLE, COMPL. ETE THE FOLLOWING: WH ~IAI!CTION WI! .. I! YOU VI NO? NO !T , AST HOW FAST Wt: E ~OU MOVING? ~ NC:n~t THE AST EXPLAIN WHETHER SUCH ;,fl.;NT AFFECTS YOu;,;K~Tf-ES IN ITEMS S ~ /) If I DESCRIBE TYPE OF VEHICLE YOU WERE IN ANO TYPE OF ROAD, TEAAAIN OR BODY OF WATER YO TRAVERSED OURI NG T~ SIGHTING. STATE WHETHER WINDOWS O~CONVEATIBL.E TOP WERE UP OR lcW~ ~ ,. 'IISJI'II~ ~" ~,,.-~f- Ht~d-1. F rr C:IINII "YS"' ~ o ~ Qy rli " C. DID YOU N O 'riCE ANY AIRPLANES? 0 YES ~ IF vEs, DESCRIBE WHEN THEY WERE IN SIGHT R ELAT I V E TO TME TI~E OF SIGHTI N G THE PHENOMENON A i"O WHERE: r1EY WERE. IN THE SKY RELATIVE TO THE POSITION OF THE PHEN0"4ENON HOW LONG WAS THE PHENOMENON IN SIGHT? LENGTH OF TIME: CERTAIN OF TIME ~NOT VERY SURE FAIRLY CERTAIN JUST A GUESS HOW WAS TIM 0~ ri::l:k d r-Jv #' l"e-~ WAS THE PHENOM!:NON lilt StG ... T CONTINUOUSLY? 0 YES ~0. IF No. INDICATE WHETHER THIS IS DUE TO YOUA MOVEMENT OR TH S!:HAVIOIIt Otr TME PHENOMENON, AND DE AIBE SUCH MOVEMENT OR BEHAVIOR. INOICATE DISAP PEARANCES l)N PREVIOUS SKETCH!:S. PAG E 3 O F 9 PAG e S 10. I, THK"I W~Ril MORI THAN ON. ~MINOMENQ .. , "OW MANY W! .. r. THI:"I!? DJII "W A PIC":"U'~ TO SHOW HOW TH ~y W!~! AJII .. ANOCO. p10 THIS ""'AMOCMCNT CHANOI OU-.tMO TMI! ~tOHTtMO' WEATH!~ CUMULUS CLOUDS (LOtM /ltaf(y) FOG OM ~tST TWI~IOMT --.If!! CIR,.US CLOUDS (Hilla /l~tey or Herrl"l J--._H . _v_Y_R_A_I_H --t MIGMT V hout} LIGHT "AIN 0" DfltiZZLE C~EA" :... ..-NIM8US CLOUDS (Ra&rt) . HAIL ftAIIITLY CLOUDY CUMU~OMUI1.US CLOUDS SNOW OR SLEET COMftl.I!TI!:LY OVI!..CAST (TiuiAdera&onu) UNKNOWN C. JF THE SIGHTING WAS AT TWILIGHT 0 .. HIGHT. WHAT 010 YOU NOTICE ABOUT THE STARS AND MOON? BRIGHT MOONLIGHT NO MOONLIGHT J-A F~W _\L_ MOON WITH HA\.0 )lf00N HIO~N BY CLOUDS UNKNOWN PARTIAl. (N~ M qu.ort~) 0 . IF SIGHTING wAS IN OAYLIPHT, WAS THE SUN VISIB\.~? 0 YES 0 Np. TH~ PHENOMEMO'fi IF yEs, WH!RE WAS THE SUN AS YOU FACED IN 8ACI< OF YOU TO YOUR LE;/ .., UNKNOWN E. S .. ltCifi'Y TH~ NAJO" SOU,.Ct; Of' ILLUMINA "!"tON Pflt!SENT OU,.tNG TH! SIGHTING, SUCH AS THI! SUN, HEADLIGHTS OJII ST .. RI!T LAN ... ~TC. FC T~PW,.I!STPWIAL IL~UM1NATfON, S~!CI,.Y DISTANCE TO L1GHT SOUfltCI!. U. GIVE A efltt!:fl' O~SCIIttlitT!ON Of' Tt41: P"&OMNOIIt, INDICATING WNI!TH~ .. IT AP A D DARK OR LIGHT, WHETHE" IT R!:f'\..EC:T!:O LIGHT 0" ""'"' SI!L fi'-LUIIIti""OVS ANO WHAT COLOJIIS YOU NOTICED. D~SC.-181! YOU" IMPRESSION OF WHI!THI:" IT WAS SOLID 0 .. TAANS,.AHI!NT, WHI!T'ti!" EDGES Wl!"l! SHA .. ft 0 .. I'UZZY. DI!SC .. tB! TH~ SHAP~ 0" INDICATE IF IT APPI!A .. I!O AS A POUIJfT o L.IOMT. IHOCAT! CO t,_A,.ISOMI WITH OTHI!" OBSEfltV!D OBJECTS, LIKE ST A .. S, A LIGHT Oft OTHE~t 08JECT IN YOUM f'I!:LD 0' VI~... r