PROJECT BLUE BOOK

PROJECT 10073 RECORD

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XX October 1950
3. SOURCE 10. CONCLUSION
Civilian Insufficient Data

4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS
No information as to date, time, MGLGG2N or time-motion
12 sequence of objeét included in report, If night -STRC

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

two hours ! Object circled in a Northerly direction. KEE more than a mile |
6 TYPE OF OBSERVATION away, 12 shiny objects. Observed for two hourse Céilor brim t
grey to opalescmt, No pattem or formation, Motion erratic,

ground visual Not extrenely high.
7. COURSE PS

varied Form hospital. No check on validity of sighting. Not stated
6. PHOTOS day or night.

0 Yes
B No

9. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE

O Yes
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Spot Intelligence Report, DO #9, 7 Nov 60, subje Reported Un onventional
Aircraft.

from the Hospital. They were more than a mile distant,
but “not extremely hich".

(3) Manner of Obs rvations Visual from a window of
Hespitale Observed for approximately twe (2) hours.

(4) Denoriptions Twelve (12) shiny, apparently mettalic,
diving, epirning objects with round bodies and short
wingse Objects were noiseless and left no visible
exhaust trails. They appeared to be constantly
epinning.e Wo definite pattern of formation was maine
tained. Color wus bright gray to opalescent.

(6) MEEEEPdviecd that she has flow as @ passenger
on private airplanes many tines.

(6) No physioal evidence wie obtainable. Xo meteoro-
logical conditions were reported which could have
accounted for this sighting.

Oe The Shreveport Times of 7 November 1950, ‘carried the
following account o ly discs” reportedly sightca by members of a
family of Jonesville, Louisiana, on 5 November 1950s :

“Jonesville, Nov 6 (Special) © ‘Flying saucers’
made their first reported appearance over Catahoula
Sunday = at the little river ferm of C.S. Poyton
six miles southwest of Jonesville.

"About 1:45 peme Judy Fell, the family cook, was
on her way home after washing the dinner dishes, She
rushed back into the Peyton house shoutinc, ‘there's
ghosts done come after me right in the broad open day=
light. They’s hovering right out there over the trac-
tor sned.'

"Bix memoerg of the Peyton family rushed outside
to gee the saucer, which by that time had risen to
an astimated height of 50 feet above the crounds |
BeYe Peyton said vhat they saw was ‘so bricht and
shiny we couldn't tell anything about its shape or |
eize.

“Ag they watched, he said, the saucers went up
‘to the northwest. There were twin exhausts, such
aa made by jet plancs, but the exhausts did not stay
parallel, he saids

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"Peyton said ho cot a pocket telescope and watched
the saucer but could newer sce plainly what wae ahoad
of the vapor trailse The object did not hurrys ‘it took
ite time and digappeared from sight in about five mimtes.'
At the last, he dated, the vapor trail app-ared to be red
and then bluishe

"The Peyton cook declared that there were two of then
things over the tractor shed and they were long and round
like a oirar,"

'  @e The New Orleans S on 10 October 1960, oarried the
following report of the et SS by the Qe = "It wann't
shaped like a saucer", the elder revounted. “It wag s).aped like
® loaf of bread." He said it was loafing alonz, “away, ‘way up" f
QU. gaid the slow-flying object had no wings and made "no noise whate
ever", "It was extra brirht, not like the sun waa shinin:s on a plane,"
GEE said. "It was blinking like a stare From where we were standing,
_ 4% appeared to be 20 to 24 inc*es longe It was extremely hich." —h
gaid they watohed the object for about five minutes. It was moving in a
northerly direction, he saide He didn't say whether it wasdiaped like a
loaf of French bread or the American style reotanguler loaf.

@. The following lettor was printed in the New Orleans Times
Saceyune 9 of 19 October 1950s

"Rditor, The Times-Picayune = "I read arain this
morning of those two pilote who didn't believe in

‘flying saucers’ but who actually saw them and now
beliove.

"Some tine aro a soldier in Arizona said he saw a
rocket ships Yell, you can tell that soldior that he
wasn't seeing things because I believe I saw it too.

"You see it was this waye Back in 1947 we were out
on the lake shrimping. It was juet before sundorme I
was lying on my back on the top step of the seawall, when
I tad the foeling that somebody was staring at me. fell,
I turned my head and looked around me, but nobody was
looking at mee

. "All of a sudden I looked up at the sky and there
was this object. It looked to me, at the moment like
a big rocke I kept my eyes on it and called to the

- others to look at it, but all of a sudden it made two
puffs of flame and emole and was fone, It traveled a
little way with the first puff, but with the second
puff it was pone.

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f. The New Orleans Item of 17 October 1950, editorially, specu-
lated concerning the sighting on the preceding Sunday, of four “sauorre”
in format femi Airlines, Ince, pilote =D and

The editorial commented on the claims of sichts last
February by eae a USN Kissile Expert, and
Concluded, "see is it possible that the three groups of expert observers
could have been mistaken about seeing them? The Air Force, which clains
to have spent two years investi ating such reports, ras said ‘definitely
mistaken.’ We hesitate to call the Air Foroe Investirators liarse Like-

wise, we hesitate to question the expert opinion of trained acrial observers
and airplane pilots. In fact, we don't dare say what ve believe about

flying saucers."
Se ACTIONs None contemplated by this headquarterc,

bh. Kedarw

JOEN C. MoLENDOW
Lt Colonel, USAF
District Cormander

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SUBJECTs Reporte of Unconventional Airoraft

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Feadquartors United States Air Force

Washington 25, D. Ca
le SYNOPSIS: Reoont roportes of sightings of unconventional aire
oraft in Loulalana are, briefly, as followss
ae A simultaneous sic¢hting by father and son, residents of
Hew Orloans, on 10 October 19650, of a noiseless, bright objoct at a
great altitude.

be Twelve (12) bright, round, diving and spinning objects

<i seen from a window in New Orluans, on 10 or 11 Ootober 1950.

0» Tho Shreveport Tines of 7 Novombor 1950, in a special roe
port from Jonesville, dogoribod hovering objects seen by members of a
former's family on 6 Vovembor 19560.

' A letter to the Mditor of The Tires Picayune, Kew Orleans, Louisiana, on
19 October 1960, desoribed the gishtins of the "flying caucers” in 1947.
The Now Orleans Itom, on 17 October 1950, editorially, commented about
Wfiying saucers” observed by two (2) iami Airlines, Ince, pilots on the
preceding funday, and by Co:mandor ROBFRT B. MoLAUGHLIN, USN, last Februarye

Be DETAILSs

os. ep CHET and his son, SOmMRiMMARilip both resi
dente of 16 ou o Street, New Orleann, Louisiana, were interviowed
by a Special Agont of the Office of Special Investigations, on 13 and 24

October 1550, respectively, and reportod, simultaneously, the sizhtinz of
- gm unconventional flying objects Details as sulmitted by tho~ERmiibas

(2) Times O716 hours, 10 Ootober 1950. Object was under
-  @buervation from five (6) to ten (10) mimton.

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(2) Location: Obsorvorea wore in the noi¢hborhood of the
WHET residence in the northeast aertton of Now Orleange
Observation was first seon ot an asimuth of approximately
46 decrees True and wan traveling in a northerly dircotion,
The obsorvors estimated that the object was flying at an
altitude of at least one (1) miles

(8) Mannor of Obeorvation: Visual from the grounds
(4) Woathor Conditions: Bright sun, no clouds.
(6) Description of Objoots

| ; : (a) Acoording ‘cinema Sizo and shape of a
Joint of stove pipe, feet by 3 to 4 inchooe

 () According toeaMNMA shaped like the eide

view of a saucer, 30 to 40 feet long and 5 to 4 feet
? thick.

(0) Object plowed bricht with a whitish-blue licht. Both
observers suw "peculiar" spots before their eyes for
one to two minutos after staring at the objeot.

QE. reported that tho objoot wan composed of
bright lights which clistened liko facote on a diae
monde ‘The object made no noire and left no visible
exhaust traile No estimate of speed was madee The
object faded in the dictance until it was a minute
speck of lirht and then disappoaroed =~ not below the
horizons Domestic ducls of tho MMs, although

- | aooustoned to the appearance of normal aircraft,

indicated alarm at the noiseless flying objeote

(6) No motoprologioal condition was indionted which might |
account for the gishting. Wo physioul evidence was obtained.

ms vised that he has been in military sore
SI vite s familiar with the eppoarance of normal aire

oraft,
> Urge bi eas perrrserner nic iiccrs TPT ercerieaeralt Orleans,
Loulgiana, on 12 October 1950, reported unidentified flying objects soon

by her as follows ~~:
(1) Tives 10 of 11 October 1950 (hour unknown),

(2) Location of Observers Charity Hospital, New Orleans,
Louisiana, Objects ciroled in a northerly direction

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Spot Intelligence Report, DO #9, 7 Hov 60, eubje Roported Un orventional
Alroraft.e

i | from the Honpital. Thoy wore more than a mile distant,
; but “not oxtrenely hiph"s

(3) Wauner of Obs:rvations Visual from a yindow of
Heppitale Observed for approxirately two (2) hourse

(4) Denoriptions Trolve (12) shiny, apparently mettalic,
diving, spirning, objects with round bodies an! short
vingse Objeots were noigelens and left no vicible
oxhaust trails. They appeared to Le constantly
apinninge Wo definite pattern of formation was maine
tained. Color wus bright gray to opalescont.

(6) MARKOPOLAUS advised that she has flown as @ passenger
on private airplanes many tines.

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(6) No physioal ovidonco wie obtainable. Xo moteoro=
‘logionl conditions were reported which could have

accounted for this sighting.

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Oe The fhrovaport Times of 7 November 1950, carried the
following account of “flyinz discs" reportedly aichted by mombors of a
family of Jonesville, Louisiana, on & November 1950s

"Jonosville, Nov 6 (Spooinl) © ‘Flying saucers®
made their first reported anp-arance over Catahoula
Bunday = at the little river ferm of CeSe Poyton
eix miles southoat of Jonorville.

"About 1:45 peme Judy Mcll, the family cook, was
on her way heno after washing the dinner cishes, She
rushed back into the Peyton houge shoutins, "there's
ghosts done come after mo right in the broad open daye
a ge They*e hovoring right. out there over the trace

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. "Six memoers of tho Poyton family rushed outside
to 200 the saucer, which by that tine had risen to
an astimated height of 50 feet above the cround,

. Be¥e Poyton raid what they caw was ‘so brisht and
pe son ag couldn't tell anything about its shape or
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"As they watched, he said, the saucers went up
‘to the northwest. There wero twin exhausts, such
@e made wy jet planos, but the exhausts did not atay
POrataeds be eaides

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: "Peyton said ho cot a pooket toloncope and watched
the saucer but could nover oce plainly what wos alioad
of tho vapor trailoe The objoot did not hurrys "it took
ite time and disappeared from aight in about fivo mintone'
At the lnat, he dated, the vapor “trad nti to be red
: and then bluishe

~ _____.__ __" The. Poyton cook declared that there:were two of then
things over tho tractor shed and they were long and round
like a oicar."

ov S. gubjt Reports of Unconventional

Ge The Now Orlsana Sta‘n,on 10 Ootobor 1950, carried the
followine report of the oboorvations made by the LAP "It wann't
shaped Like a saucor", the older igeeBrocounieas "It was ahapud like

‘al broade” He caid it rms loafing alonz, “avay, ‘way upe”

said the slowflying object had no wings and made "no noise whate

"It was extra brirht, not like the sun was shining on a plano,”
aide “It wan blinking like a gtare From rhore wo were standing,

. &b Gppeared to be 20 to 24 inches loner. It waa extremely hich.” Se
aid they watohed the objoot for about five minutose It was “moving in a

northorly direction, he sajide He dicn't nay whothor it wagciaped like a
loaf of French broad or the American style rootangular loaf.

@e Tho following lottor was printed in the Now Orleans Tinos
PASE » of 19 Octobor 19508

mn "Rditor, fhe Times-Picayune = "I read asain this
‘norning of thoso tivo pilots wro didn't believe in
‘flying saucorg* but who actually saw thom and now
 belicvo.s

_ “Bene time aro a soldier in Arizona gaid he saw a
pooket ships Well, you can tell that noldier that he
. wagn't seoing things becauso I believe I oaw it too.

"You see it wos this mmye Back in 1947 we wore out —
on the lako shrimping. It was just before sundorne. I
was lying on my back on tho top etop of the seawall, when
I had the fooling that somebody was staring at mo. Tell,
‘ I turned my head and looked around me, but nobody was
looking at moe

. “All of a sudden I looked up at the sky and there
was this objeote It looked to me, at tho momont lile
@ big rock. I kopt my oyes on it and called to the
- others to look at it, but all of a sudden it mado tro
ie _ puffs of flame and emole and was cone, It travoled a
, littlo way with the first puff, but with the scoond
puff it was cone.

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*I have kept quiet about jt all this time, but
now I felt T must write and tell you ahout it. Signed
MRS» JESSE Je VOR HtOvTR”

ff. The Now Orleans Ttom of 17 Cotober 10950, editorially, apocue

lated concerning the eiphting on the te
in formation by Miemi Airlinos, Inoe, pilot and
WILLIAM BARDSLEY, The oditorinl commontcd on tho clains of sishts last

Fobruary by Conmandor Ai aac + USN Misoile Export, and
concluded, "sees is it possible that the three sroups of expert observers
could have been mistaken about goeing them? The Air Forco, which clains

to have spont two yoors investi ating such roports, ras said ‘definitoly
mistakene* We hositate to call the Air Torce Investifators liarae Likee
wise, we hesitate to question tho expert opinion of trained acrial observors
and airplane pilotas In fact, we don't cere say what vo Leliove about

saucers."
Be ACTIONs None contomplated by this headquarterc.

JEN Ce MoLsiDor
Lt Colonel, USA?

Dintrict Co-mandor

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD

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New Orleans, Louisiana

10, CONCLUSION
BALLOON

Evaluated as a balloon observation.
11, BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS

Object glowed bright with a whitieh-blue light. Both observers
saw "peculiar" spots before their eyes for one to two minutes] °
after staring at the object. Observer reported that the objec
was composed of bright lights which glistened like facets on e
diamond, The object made no noise and 1éft no visible exhaust

‘trail. No ‘estimate of speed was made. The object faded in t

distance until it was a speck of light and then disappeared,
not below the horizon.

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UNITED STATES AIR" =O” oc
THE INSPECTOR GENERAL )
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UNCLASSIFIED : is CRE taakeies
IN REPLY REFER TO: Barksdale AFB, La.

7 November 1960

SPOT INSFLLICTICE &' PORT
SUBJTCTs Reports of Unconventional Aircraft

TOs Direotor of Special Inveesti-ations
Headquarters United States Air Force
Washington 25, D. C.

1. SYNOPSIS: Recent reports of sightinge of unconventional air-
oraft in Loulaiane are, briefly, as followss

ae A simultansous sighting by father and son, residents of
Rew Orleans, on 10 October 1950, of a noiseless, bright objoot at a
great altitude.

. be Twelve (12) bricht, round, diving and spinning objeots
seen from a window in New Orleans, on 10 or 1] Ontober 1950.

Ge The Shreveport Times of 7 Novenber 1950, in a special roe
port from Jonesvilic, desoribed hovering objects seen by members of a
farmer's family on 6 November 1950.

A letter to the Mditor of The Times Picayune, Kew Orlcars, Louisiana, on

19 October 1960, cesoribed the sichtins of the "flyinz eaucora” in 1947.
The Now Orleans Item, on 17 October 1950, editorially, commented ebout
"Tliying saucers” observed by two (2) Wiemd Airlines, Inc., pilots on the
preceding Sunday, and by Co: mander=sugamyges), last February.

ro 2, DETAILS: |
: Be Sre, and his son, GUM, both resi-
, dente New Orlcans, Louisiana, were interviocwed

by a Special Acent of the Office of Special Investications, on 13 and 24
October 1550, respectively, and reported, simultaneounly, the sizhtinz of

an unconventional flyin; objects Details as sutmitted by the“ es

(1) Times 0715 hours, 10 Ootober 1950, Object was under
observation from five (65) to ten (10) mimtos.

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(2) tions Observers were in the neighborhood of the
esidence in the northoast portion of New Orlevane.
Observation was first seen at an asimuth of a; proximately
46 degreen True and waa traveling in a northerly direotion,
The observers estimated that the object was flying at an
altitude of at least one (1) mile.

(3) Manner of Observation: Visual fram the ground.
(4) Weather Conditions: Bright sun, no clouds.
(6) Description of Objoats

(a) According to“, «= Sise and shape of a
joint of stove pipe, 2 feet by 3 to 4 inches.

(b) Accor ding to preter a aieret Shaped like the side
view of a saucer, 30 to 40 feet long and 3 to 4 feet
thick.

(0) Object glowed tricht with a whitish=-blue licht. Both
observers saw "peculiar" spots before their eyes for
to two minutes after staring at the objeot.
~(SreTr. revorted that the object was composed of
right lights which glistened like facets on a dia-
mond. The object made no noise and left no visible
exhaust trail. No estimate of speed was made. “he
object faded in the distance until it was a minute
speck of light and then disappeared - om below the

horizone Domestic ducks of although

accustomed to the arpoarance of normal afroraft,
indicated alarm at the noiseless flying object.

(6) No meteorological condition wae indicated which might
account for the sightings Wo physical evidence was obtained.

(7) EE advised that he has been in nilitary ser-

vice and ig familiar with the eppearance of normal aire
oraft,

Mra. a New Orleans,
Louisiana, on 12 Cotober 1950, "reported unidentif ing objects seen

by her as followss

(1) Tives 10 or 11 October 1950 (hour unknown),

(2) Location of Observers Charity Hospital, New Orleans,
Louisiana, Objeots circled in a northerly direction

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