i 10. CONCLUSION I { 1 ( i'C: OF ORS=:rtVATION PHY51CAL EVI:)c~CE b~a~F SUMMA RY ANO ANALYSIS frora o.)se:rve~. "ustc::: than ;, Pr&vloll) edltlc.u .,( lhlo form tnay b ,, uoed. 8. If y-:lu ; c .., . ::lbject ol N IGHT, whet did you notice concerning the STARS ond MOON? a. j Si J). U Circle One): -:: :'on't remember 8.2 MOON (Circle Ontt): Co-Bright moonlight ) b."1>Ul1 moonlight c. No moonltght-pitch dork d. Don' t temember 9. Whol , ,~ ,e weath er conditions o t the tim:'! {OU sow th" object? CLOUDS : r:/e One): o C,,_ors ! J. I"~ ;.b;ec: :::ooeored: (Circle One): o. Solid Q. 1\s o lir;hr ) WEATHER (Circle One): ~isr, o r light roin Modera te or heoy rein e. Don't remember !: ironspcr't"t c. Don' t rer-,.mber 11. I' 'r ::ppeor::c o light, wos it brighter then :'1-, !,rrght-,st stars? (Circle One): o :r~r;r-tl!r 1 i . 1 Co,...,pcr! ::righrn~s to some common oo1ecr: <" o ~rrght :.tor7 ; : r:::roy ourhned o . Appear ,., ,rc.-d rill o l any time? b. Sudde nly a~.-:! up end rush o wo y o t ony time? c. Br~c'< " P r~ ocns or e xplode? f. Changc!sr>o;::~' g. Flo\i-t or ilic>, h. Disappear :::nc eoppeor? (Circle Ono for eoch question) @ No Don't know Don'r kno w Don't ~now Don't know Don' t know Don' t kno w ;VOT.: Th( Jhcumnl CC:lt IIW In WD'\#IIfJI' H allacHn~ th twtlotwl d a l rw of t h CJnll d 1, Thh t pon cont ltw Ut'\Pf"'Cd lniO#"Meflun. ~ .S ..-tthln tl't .-..4nln4 ol th PiorwJ ~ Ia Till 11. U . .S. C., .Soc. 7JJ ond 7P# . UNCLASSIFIED Pt., .. ndl,... pol/cl o \ oo.J,JJ "'I' b o lod ~ ,t..-lon 01 the 1ftlon ol It cont "' ~ In n 1 cn..a~r to .tn ~ulhMId ot '"vcll/lrl ltollr on ,,.. . ,-a :...' "'-:J t,Jut. Ill P '"''" h f><ol'tlbllod h t I"' (CI .. Iflcoll<>n onJ Conlro l M.ulfl'\)o) , :; ~ Z. S\Jl>JECT: ..: V -=>-tih .. ln~ . ' DATI: OF HEPOJ\T: . ay ~ J . IS C NUMUI::": Gua"f(;mala. City, l . EVAL.UATIOt< ~ -"CE F _ obs-~::-e d phenomenon 't. J\t..FIHl"'ccs: DIRM 4A3e u . ORIGINATO<l: USDAO Ciuatcmala 13. PREPARtO DY: Col John A. 14.' APPROVING "UTI/ 1. T~is :::c?c:-t forwards a na1rative wri1 ten and signed by i cc:1Ce1.n3 his sighting o! _UF0 s 23 April 1967. It should be noted I'epo1t i s sub- ? :-::ittcc! as ar. !R since AFR 80-17 is not available this station. j CO).~.{.S~TS OF REPORTINCi O??ICER: a . On query, Sr. described :.:s ;;::-::--r..~. ::.._ o f the zig-zag a::-ea (0:1 attached drawinci) as representing his con- - i cention of the total pv.th of one object which changed direction in rapid ouccesaion, _?:-o::l..cin; a:1 explosion or brilEa.::t !lash at each ch:1nge of dir~ction. He thought ~ <.l.>o t:.;<.: the :_:;:-:.enomenon he obs-e::-ved might have had some Rort of connection ~ wi::'l SO :r:z :which waa rcpo:::-:e~ to have crashed 24 April. ~ b. So..1rc~ '::>ecame visibly a6i:ated and excited wf:.ile recow1ting the story. He ~ me~t:.or.c:C: ~::;.) t~at his childre~ ,;;e:-e pulling at. hi:::i elbow to u~e the b"inocubrs t as the ~vo c.';e::s he describec .?-??roache d one another. Therefore. he was u:1able t:> .~a:~ w:1ether an act~.:al collision took place or what might have trans - .; pired. :-ic ?_--:y,~s o f no one else o e.;; ides himself and family who might have seen ~ c . 7:~:; =~::: .... =: nas bee n cc:a;ed in submission to try to aocertain whether there j we:..e o =-c.::: ~:-.~::-s. No ot!:e::-cbscrvcrs have been located and no local publici ~ hasbe c:1 .;'":1-=a: ..:::. 0:1 the su"=-.' ~:::i:. Source i s a responsible citizen, a florict i n MIXCO 'l ~:; 7: : ~: 36W), a s:nc:.l: town about 5 mile~ '\'fe:.>t of Ciuatemala City n ear /.the Par. A=- ::-.:.:::-. ::~;:-::-;::Ly. I: -:.:-:..;..!.!d. be noted Source came in of his own accord ~after rcqL :.:-. .: -~ -~pobt:-:1.e.:-.: ':J1 p~one. He first reported to the MILGP and wao -~referred t o D..::-,.-J.rA. He was :i:::-n'l about not wanting any publicity :.10 he did not ~ ~ioh to app(;a-:-.:ooi.ish or ove:.rly imaginative. His desire was f;imply to report the incident. RO ie'!!.s he seemed believable; there was no jokin~ about th\:! subject and :here i s no d:--.:.:J-; :.:1 mind of RO that Sou1cc saw oomcthin.rr whlch waa to him u~1- O IJTAiuVTION ,y :1" 1 ; ,.~TOI\1 Z SOUTHCO~.i . m Emb Ciu:\t NOT APPLICABLE CO~TI!';U:\TIO~ SHEET omorHAToR USDAO Guatcrn2.la j UNCL.rl.:) SIFIED TRANSLATION OF WRITTEN NARRATI VE BY Mcl'Tior:l.nclnn r.orH'''rninr, Ph~nom"non Obncrvcd Sunday, 23 April 1967 At Approximately 8 :00 P . M At approxima tely the hour indicated above, my wife was watering the flowers in t'!1e window boxes of our house; I was ncar a bedroom window which she had ieft open. She asked me t o close the window and when I approached it I was surprised t o see the sky so clear and full of stars. At this moment I notice star of surprising magnitude; my surprise was even greater when I ob$e=- eci it was moving from the Southwest to the Northeast. Its size was grce>.:e r than Venus in its most visible periods. I called to my children and to my w'i:~; they saw the star (as ,.,e will call the object) which was moving and had a v e:: _: .::.tense brilliance, v:ith no change o f color, givi~g off a clea r yellO\.v light wit:~ L~:.form rays. we ran out to the fie lds near our house and I carried binocu- lar:; (':-::iss) which are very powerful. As I leaned on a fence to control my ncrvcs, I c~.lled out to my children that I :.;;.w a star of a dull red color, without the r:".y~ which normally appear a::-ou~:: a star; it was mov:ZtJ toward the star which had first interested us. At ii.rst I ~:,ought it ivas an optic.:tl ifusion since the o~h~r star was also moving in :he sa:-.1! dil-ection, but. on t .rnining the binoculars on the red star, I noticed jt wco.s i ::::reasing in size and f:1creforc must be mo;-ing. I called out to my children t o loo!-: at the second s~ar but found it was not visible to the eye ;;>.nd i t was abo b e ng co-.~::-ecl by a cloud. The two atar3 rapidly approached each other; both appeared ~c ':>c c.~ the same altitude or height on ho1izo!'l but the red star was moving !a$:e~. 0:.1 looking again at the area I could only s ce the large star which had sc:nes:"n.t changed its di:rec:ion, moving more to the North. (Larger s t a r i s the ye:low st~r.) I realized this chr.-.nge o direction l ater; I did not stop to think about .:: at the time but whc:1 I "ras recon~tructing my obs ervatio:1s I remembered it. I dd note a t the time thc>.t the larger star was moving more rapidly but wi:~c:.:.: losbg brilliance, and while I w?.s observing it there was no change of colo:-~= a.:1y flashes. 7:-:1! drawing attacheC. shows the larger star at the moment I saw multiple red lines moving from o::c side to the other, making a kind of z i g -zag and, <:!.t t'!1e e:1~ of some of these lines, wha t appeared to be small rays, completely rectL.:::.ea-:-, forming sma!! stars of enormous brilliance. The lines were red and :.:~ ~ :1:1 stars for~ed a t the end of the lines were of a very brilliant clear red c; :-:. L t this mo~e!1t the cloucls lifted and my wife coi.tld sec the multiple ::-..::-:-_-:-lary, this p:-. ~:->o.menon s ccmed t o coxnc from one object which rnovcc ::..:;~-::.:; f=om one _?lac':! to another , leaving behind a red line vthich faded out w.::.--. :: ~:. ::-~ of flash; it ,-.-as not like the explosions of fircworl<c in which ~here c:-.rc a r..:::::>er of rocket flashes at the same thnc I ":;)e::...::.-e tha t the two objects crashed together but, unfortunately, I_let my chilcr::-: -...:.e the binoculars and tried to ciin.:ct Lhci~ vision toward the two stars; al:~o, :>"e ..:~Je::-vation took. place during ~:orne 80 sc.<.:(Jnds ~o there was no time. I do k:1ow t: ... a t the larger st<l.r waa alrC'ildy so:~H!Wh:\t out o: lhc zone where I saw th~ exylo3i0:19 when they appcnrct1. It conl-l be that there wns come dela y in ~ finding the c>.rca \?hen my children r~t.u n('(l the hinncula1s, hut when. I again movinlj [<:lot and h;:v,; ~\:-.:,\cw1, ~ changefl itD tr:->.- : jccto::.y. Sicnccl: ll c o:.;TIHUATI-. UNCLJ\SSIF I:SD OrUOINA YOA GSDAO G m. tcmal a ;~ 24 -30 APRIL 1 967 SIGn TINGS ':':.~..:.37ille, Florid a !:ul ti ole :::~:-~ Chester, New York :~pe, A.rizo;1a C;-eston. Iowa :chobis.. NissoU!i -:::Ho. Hawaii -..c-::- n fvlountain Fa lls, Colorado '~=~en Laks, Wisco~3in :o:orado Spring3, Colorodo :....::~niot, Ohio ,:olor~uo Sprin~, Co~o7~1o ' S.:..;th Dnr-tlllOU~h ETf. u .\T ICN lo S.~TELLITE 2 . AIRCPk"""'T l NSUFFIClEN'r D.\TA S ighting: (n:SJF:o'ICIENT D.\T.A) Photo: Aatro (ST: /PL~Z Oth~r (P.AruCHu'I~ Jl.J}I?) :msU.?FICIE~iT DATA Astro (VLNU3) Sat.~llit' (.ECHO I) .AIP.C:t.\?T Sat~llit~ (ECEO II) .\:J t ro ( HSTE OR) Si~tinz~ (Di.3U??ICIE~iT DATA.) Photo:-( !NS:J7FIClu~T DA'f \) A::~tro (VS(1US) As ~ro (i3TBCR) St~':;in3: Oth3r (r:O.\A) Pho~o: Oth~r (HOAX) HZPORTCD SIG:-:rn:c.s (i'!CT C.AS'SS) ~-:~.lgO, llli:1oh G=~en lllino.:.3 Gre Te:ua G=~e::l Official U.S. Aor Force ).!. Did the objecr disoppo!or \vhile you wt:re worching ir? If so, how? Be J/1t0 D .Jid :he ob1ecr move behind something at any time, porriculorly o cloud? (Circle On>): No Don't know. IF you answered YES, then tell whet it moved behind: J id the object move in front of soMI!rning a t any time, particularly o cloud? (Circle One): O'>n't know. IF you answered YES, then tell what in fronr of: Tell in o few words the follow'ng things about the object: \Ve wosh ro know the angular si.:e. Hold o match stick at arm's lengrh in line wirh a known object and note how much of the o :,ject is covere d by the heed o; rhe l'l'olch. II you hod performed this experiment or rhe rime of rhe sighting. how much of '"~ objecr .,.,ould have b.,en covered by rhe march head? 19 . Drew o p cture thor will show '"e 1hope o f the object or objecrs. Lobel and include in your sketch any derails of the object r.o vou sow such os wings. prorusions, .,rc., ond especially exhaust !roils or vopor trails. Place on arrow beside the drawing :o "'Ow 'r"e direction the OOj"C1 NOS -noving. Uf'O rorm c-ontinued 20. Do you t-.r <you con estimote the speed o f the obrecl? :::de On9) 'l'os ~J If you ::~>-.,.red YeS, lhen whe t speed would yo u cstimote? _ 21. Do ::J~ .,.,,..<yo u con a st imote how fo r o wo y from you the object was? :,cfe One) Yes e