PROJECT BLUE BOOK

PROJECT 10073 RECORD

Pl. DATE « TIME GROUP ‘ "y LOCATION °
| 20 August 5 20/11302' Nicosia Airfield, Cyprus.
| \* SOURCE 10. CONCLUSION
UNIDENTIFIED

lalitary
14. NUMBER OF OBJECTS

Cne

|5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION /|11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS

15 or DW seconds
6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION

Ground=-Visual

7. COURSE
West
8. PHOTOS

0 Yes
TT’No

9. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE

O Yes
eo Ne

FORM

' Observer saw a small round or elliptical bright object moving,

from a point directly overhead toward the West, its course or!
flight path mssed throush the arc of the sun which at that
time was about 15 deg below the Zenith. The brilliancy of the ;
object in flight did not change even while reflected against the
sun as it continued in its somewhat erratic westerly wath at a
terrific rate of speed until it disappeared from sight in the
distance at about thirty deg above the horizon

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FTD sep 63 0-329 (TDE) Previous editions of this form may be used.

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“MS * '. Group, Wheelus Field, Tripoli,.
Libya, reports the the observation of an unidentified

object Liaison Officer, at Nicosia
Airfield, Cyprus. =e
"ae 1130Z, 20 August 1950, while out on the ramp at Nicosia Airfield I over

heard en aircraft overhead and in looking up to spot it, I saw a small round
oF elliptical bright object moving from a point directly overhead towards the Weet;
ite course or path passed through the arc of the sun which at that time we
about fifteen (15) degrees below the Zenith; the br of the object in flight
did not ehange even while reflected against the sun as it continued in ite somewhat
erratic westerly peth at a terrific rate of speed until it disappeared from sight in
the distance at about thirty (30) degrees above the horizon. A later check with the

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tion revealed that there was also a Turkish State Airlines
enroute to Beirut and reporting over Nicosia Airport at 1130 hours,
at 9,500 feet. This undoubtedly was the aircraft whose engines I heard,
if there was any sound emanating from the serial object in question,
comparison with the C7 would ve been drowned
I obtained a signed statement f and Lt Ookeonel
who were with me at the time of my observations.* ’

2. Sie b00r2'-100 is es
statements by Co REET ES IL

ly, USAF officers also having observed the unidentified aerial object.

@ "At approximately 1330 local time, 20 August 1950, while walking from
the MATS Detachment Office, Nicosia Airfield, to my parked C-,7 aircraft, preparatory
to taking off fa Ankara, Turkey, I looked aloft to try to sight an aircraft whose
sound indicated it was somewhere overhead. -

\ "While looking for the dircraft, a emall, round, bright object suddenly

4 ¢ into view, travelling at a terrific speed, appearing to be quite high, and moving

toward the West. It disappeared from view when it reached a point approximately 50 to

4135 degrees above the horizon. The weather at the tims of this observation was clear,
with brilliant sunshine, and visibility at least fifty miles, The object remained in
yey view for about 15 oF 20 seconie, There appeared to be no sound emanating from the

k nidentified bright object. The sound from the conventional aircraft moved away toward

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before it passed from sight."

inted im the direction of the abeve described object,
ence and saw it for a matter of two to three seconds

Kaori

Captain, USAF

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