DECLASSIFIEDUSAF PROJECT BLUE BOOK · NARA T-1206
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE

PROJECT BLUE BOOK

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969
CASE REFERENCE7008850
DATE OF SIGHTINGSeptember 1951
REPORTED LOCATIONHollywood California
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F . PROJECT 10073 CARD ..
1. DATE LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
6 Sep 51 Hollywood, California D Was Balloon
Probably Bolloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP TYPE OF OBSERVATION o Possibly Balloon
Locol 1920 KCGround-Visual Ground-Rodar o Was Aitcraft
a Probably Aireraft
GMT_ 07/0327 AirVisuol Air-Intercep! Radar o Possibly Aireraft
5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical
Yes D Probobly Astronomical
No Civilian 0 Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF.OBSERVATION . NUMBER OF OBJECTS COURSE oX Other. PHYCHOLOGICAL
0 Insufficient Data for Evqluation
5 - 10 mins Two To MOON o Unknown
: . BRIEF S SUMMARY OF SIGHTING Round 11. COMMENTS
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of "space",
Rockets?
such perfeot conditions as tha last time.
It was duringtthe Fall of l94a, either in Saptember, or -
October. I was standing on the terrace in front of a hill-
side apartment I then ocoupiod. It was early evening and had
just become dark. All Hollywood was cnothering under a
blanket of hazy, misty smog. Spotlights were streaking back
Suddenly,
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li ht of the
horizon.
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1942, Perbapa 1 - silent,
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They
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and ao was the Sun and they were in the sixth division,
i_nteroepted and below the horizon (western).
That leaves
follows:
- n Libra 2.46; only 5.53 below
the western horizon.
(b)NEP ora 12.59.a
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not yet known to our mighty astronomers. lhe first ediition
of the book was publiahed in 1919; another in l9al and
another edition in l922. The der York Publlo library may
still have some copias. I then mentioned that there ware
t 2 other planete to our Solar Systam and named the one
beyond laptune "ESLAR". Thay located that one in l930 and
named it "FLeTcy a most unsuitabla name. The one beyond
Pluto, whioh they have not yat clained to ha
is Tasi .
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smaller landing crafts. why should they not explore the
Earth satellite? ? Surely, the Earthiana are doing nothing -
about the loon. Here we huve been dragsing our satellite
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Moons are aluable flectors light to
planets Sun.
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looking skyward-- not a single soul: I was standing on the
Walked fas mhexewo 1oo'
gaudy book-jackets on display. And throughout all this
human indifferenoe to anything outside of their circumsoribed
ambience, the most sensational actual ovent in all hiatory
could have been witnessed by lifting their eyas to Barth's
I stood t 1ooKn Struck mute
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than half of the orb is visible. The sun was already √
( below the horizon and the Hoon had just begun to refleot
between Yucoa Street and Hollywood Bo pulovard. The Hoon
waa and honinalawiohin
of a star. Then it happened! No better time could
what
waa irmediately to transpire.
From t atern
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sama route, with precision plua. From the moment they
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reached the Moon, did not take over three or four seconds.
At a point far west they curved to the right in their
course and headed in the direction of the Moon. It would
- appear the whole thing was well planned and executed with
precision. By the time they had taken their stations on
never see. I noticed that they ware careful to keep out
of a cartain radius from it, for they were just beyond C
about the outer edge of the cirole we see a) - soon
on a misty night, when the orb is full.
The objeots appeared glowing red and round, like two
saucs) .
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- re, consisting oi
sphere, stratosp - S layers around
seem round like a saucer. As I ohall explain later, these
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vieit. "ith the, kind of kmowledge and skill the travelera
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whole the G
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around; first the leader and like its shadow, the second
ship was making a turn. The size of the shipe must have
been certainly eno)
obviously laborious. They s .
route and the precisi sane
coming and going.
If they ma Bour
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be "zones of silence",
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16,36o for oast steel. But, what kind of E medium would
"spaue" be? And why -
the light travelsbe cal ace"? Space :
. if they had any. Again comes up the question of distance
- relative to detail. Yet, as the near ship turned, if it had
wings I would have detected any such indication; that is,
if wings have to be in proportion to the length of the
longer than the diameter of the Hoon, at least, thrice as
long. It was