PROJECT BLUE BOOK

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in gl “oo any details of the object that you saw, and place an arrow

beside the drawing to show the direction the object was moving. y
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26. Was this the first time that you have seen an object like this?
(Circle One): CYes) No

26.1 IF you answered NO, then when, where, and under what conditions
did you see other ones?

27. In your opinion what do you think the object was and what might have

23. Give the following information about —

TELEPHONE NUMBER 72a 22/2 To 4 py

What 4s your present job? \24nrcwcuoeZ em
Age Z J

Sex D2 muhi

Last School nttentet Areas Corte og hilar e
Year of last attendance at this school Z 2. a

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29. Was anyone else with you at the time you saw the object?

(Circle One): (Zes) or No
29.1 IF you answered YES, did they see the object too?

(Circle One): (fs) or Wo

29.2 Please list their names and addresses:

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30. Please add here any further comments which you believe are important,
Use additional sheets of the same size paper if necessary,

1. When did —_ see the object:

1.2 mates SEES me gs

1.2 Time of days QO: ios A.M. P.M.) (Circle One)

Hrs,
1.3 Tdime Zones (Circle One):

2. sates) d. Pacific
db. Cen ral SO. Other

SC» Mountain

(Circle One): a,

b. Standard

1.4 Circle one of the following to indicate how certain you are
of your answer to the above question 1.2:

Be c. Not very sure
be. Farrily certain d. Just a guess

2. Where did you see the object?
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ostal Address City or Town State Country

3. Where were you located when you saw the object:

(Circle Ons): a. Inside a building d. In an airplane
b, Inace e. At sea
c. ( Outdoors f. Other

3.1 Were you:

(Circle One): a, In the business section of a city?
In the residential section of a city?
c. In open countryside?
ad, Flying near an airfield?
e. Flying over a city?
f. Flying over open country?
Ee Other

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4. How did you happen to notice the object? bes SZ ae "WVLO /0

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5, When ead pen ens fe official’ that 7 aS, seen the object? ee J way |
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SECTION B

6 What wore you doing at the time you saw the object? a 7, LAC: a
LAw fe DP Zw. BACK VAR
6.1 What had you been doing for the 30 minutes before you saw the

object? Try to list the activity or activities, and the
approximate amount of time spent on each,

MOTE LIE: fi -+T WELA ve OW LAW

7. Were you moving at any time while you saw the object? (Circle One):

IF you answered YES, then complete the following questions.
7.1 What direction were you moving?

(Circle One): a. North e. South
b. Northeast £, Southwest
c. Hast g. West
ad. Southeast h. Northvest
7.2 How fast were you moving? miles per hour,

7.3 Did you stop at any time while you were looking at the object?
(Circle One): Yes or No

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8, What direction were you facing when you first saw the object?

(Circle One): a. Cortt >) e. South
b. Northeast f. Southwest

c. East Be West
a. Southeast h. Northwest
8.1 What direction were you facing when the object disappeared?
(Circle One): a. North e. South
b. Northeast f. Southwest
c. East g. West

a. h. Northwest

8.2 Cirole one of the following to indicate how certain you are of
your answer to the above two questions, (8 and 8.1).

0. Certain) c. Not very sure
b. Fairly certain d. Just a guess
9. Were lin) wearing eye glasses when you saw the object? (Circle One):

10. is) was the object seen?

(Circle One): a. Through window glass 6. Through theodolite

b. Through windshield £. Ahr sun 3
c. Through binoculars ge Through open
d. Through telescope h.
11. What do you remember about the weather conditions at the time you saw
the object? |
11,1 CLOUDS (Circle One) 11.3 WEATHER (Circle One)
Ca. Dry
Hazy Je OZ » Mist, or light rain
ce Scattered clouds c. Moderate or heavy rain
ad. Thick or heavy clouds d. Snow
e. Don't remember e. Don't remember

11.4 TEMPERATURE (Circle One)
a. Cold

xn® ale , ad
ik
dad. Don't remember d. He

e. Don't remember

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SECTION G

12, Estimate how long you saw the object? ae ee
Hours Minutes Seconda

12.1 Girgle one of the following to indicate how certain you are of
your answer to Question 12:

' @. Not very sure
b, Fairly sure ad, Just a guess
13, Did the object look: (Circle one) (‘Sorsa) or Transparent?

14. Did the object at any time:

(Circle One for each question)

14.1 Change direction? Don't_know
14.2 Change speed? Don't know
14.3 Change size? Don't _know
14.4 Change color? Don't _know
14.5 Break up into parts or

explode? Don't _know
14.6 Give off smoke? Don't know
14.7 Change brightness? Don't know
14.8 Flicker, throb, or

pulsate? Don't know
14.9 Remain motionless? Don't know

15. Did the object give off a light? (Circle one) +(Zos,) No Don't know

15.1 IF you answered YES, what was the color of the light? CSO /- PPh
16. Tell in a few words the following things about the object?

16,1 Sound DOWN

16.2 Color MES © GE
17. IF there was MORE THAN ONE object, then how many were there? a

Draw a picture of how they were arranged, and put an arrow to
show the direction they were traveling.

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18. Did the object at any time:

18,1 Move behind something? (Circle One) Yes Don't know
IF you answered YES, then tell what it moved behind.

18.2 Move in front of something? (Circle One) Yes (i) Don't know
IF you answered YES, then tell what it moved in front of,

18,3 Blend with the background? (Circle One) Yes & Don't know

19. Which of the following objects is about the same actual size as the
object you saw? (Circle One):

f. Automobile
Boece g. Small airplane
h, Large airplane

a. Bieye le - i. Dirigible
6. Office desk je Other

19.1 Circle one of the following to indicate how certain you are
of your answer to Question 19.

4 axtaix c. Not very sure
d. Uncertain
20. Try to tell the following things about the object:

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20.1 How high above the earth was it? feet.

20.2 How far was it from you? feet or miles .

20.3 How fast was it going? ZS 6 “6 Ts. 3 —J9 dmiles per hour,

20.4. Circle one of the following to indicate how certain you are
of your answer to the above questions:

a, -Certai | ¢. Not very sure
b.( Fairly certain d. Just a guess

21. How did the object disappear from view?

(Circle One): ae udde c. Other :
ad. Don't remember

SECTION D

22. In the following sketch, imagine your eye at the point shown, Place an
"A" on the curved line to show how high the object was above the horizon
when you first saw it, Place a "B" to show where it was when when you

Overhead

Horizon

Your eye

23. In the following sketch place an "A" at the position the object was
when you first saw it, and a "B" at its position when you last saw it,

Cverhead

Korizon__ Horizon
Your eye

24. Draw a picture that will show the motion that the object made, Place
an "A" at the beginning of its path and a "B" at the end of its path.

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25. Draw a picture that will show the shape of the object. Label and include
in your sketch any details of the object that you saw, and place an arrow
beside the drawing to show the direction the object was moving.

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26, Was this the first time that you have seen an object like this?
(Circle One) (0s No

26.1 IF you answered NO, then when, where, and under what conditions
did you see other ones?

27. In your opinion what do you think the object was and what might have
caused it?

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28, Give the following information about yourself:

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t Name ‘ First Name

ADDRESS ears
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TELEPHONE NUMBER

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Age _ £97

Sex / 7 ALfe

Last School Attended ALo SCHorl
Year of last attendance at this school oO

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29. Was anyone else with you at the time you saw the object?

(Circle one) Yea ) or No

29.1 IF you answered YES, did they see the object too?

(Circle one): (Yas ) or No

; 29.2 Please list their names and addresses:
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30. Please add here any further comments which you believe are important.
Use additional sheets of the same size paper if necessary,

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1. When did you see the object:

1.1 Date: fed 7 /Fera
ry Day Month Year

1.2 Time of day: 7. 2 AM or € 1) (Circle One)
Hrs, Min.

‘1.3 Time Zonet (Circle One):

Eastern G4. Pacific
b, Central e. Other
Ce Mountain

(Circle One): G, Daylight Saving
» b. Standard

1.4 Circle one of the following to indicate how certain you are
of your answer to the above question 1,2:

a. Certain c. Not very sure
b. Fairly certain . @, Just a guess

2. Where did you see the object?

City or Town State Country

3. Where were you located when you saw the object:

(Circle One): a. Inside a building a4. In an airplane
b. Ina car e. At sea
@. Outdoors f. Other

3.1 Were you:

(Circle One): a. In the business section of a city?
4. In the residential section of a city?
c. In open countryside?
ad, Flying near an airfield?
e. Flying over a city?

£, Flying over open country?
Other

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5. When did you report to some official that you had seen the object?

ee Month a —

6.1 What had you been doing for the 4c minutes before you saw the
object? Try to list the activity or activities, and the
approximate emount of time spent on each.

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7. Were you moving at any time while you saw the object? (Circle One):
Yes or (ic.
IF you answered YES, then complete the follaving questions,
7.1 What direction were you moving?

(Circle One): a. North e. South
b. Northeast f. Southwest
c. East g. West
ad. Southeast h. Northwest

7.2 How fast were you moving? miles per hour,

7.3 Did you stop at any time while you were looking at the object?
(Circle One): Yes or WNo

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8, What direction were you facing when you first saw the object?
(Circle One): Gs North e. South
« Northeast f. Southwest
6. East ge West
ad. Southeast h. Northwest

8.1 What direction were you facing when the object disappeared?

(Circle One): a. North e. South
(@. Southeast h. Northwest

8.2 Circle one of the following to indicate how certain you are of
your answer to the above two questions, (8 and 8.1).

G. Certain c. Not very sure
b. Fairly certain d. Just a guess

9. Were you wearing eye glasses when you saw the object? (Circle One):

Gee oor io

10. How was the object seen?

(Circle One): a. Through window glass e. Through theodolite
b. Through windshield £,. Through sun glasses
c. Through binoculars C2. Through open space
a. Through telescope h. Other

11, What do you remember about the weather conditions at the time you saw

the object?
11,1 CLOUDS (Circle One) 11.3 WEATHER (Circle One)
} @ Clear sky G?) Dry
. be Hazy b. Fog, Mist, or light rain
c. Scattered clouis c. Moderate or heavy rain
ad. Thick or heavy clouds d. Snow
e. Don't remember e. Don't remember
11.2 WIND (Circle One) 11,4 TEMPERATURE (Circle One)
Bs No wind a. Cold
Ch? Slight breeze b. Cool
c. Strong wind 3 Warm
ad. Don't remember de Hot

e. Don't remember

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SECTION C
12. Estimate how long you saw the object? © ee
Hours Minutes Seconds

12.1 Circle one of the following to indicate how certain you are of
your answer to Question 12:

a. Certain c. Not very sure
@) Fairly sure ad, Just a guess

13. Did the object look: (Circle One) (Boia or Transparent?
14. Did the object at any time:

(Circle One for each question)

14.1 Change direction? No Don't know
14.2 Change speed? No Don't_know
14.3 Change size? Ho / Don't know
14.4, Change color? No| Don't know

14.5 Break up into parts or

Git BEE BEBE
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explode? Don't know
14.6 Give off smoke? Don't _know
14.7 Change brightness? Don't know
14.8 Flicker, throb, or

pulsate? Don't_know
14.9 Remain motionless? No’ Don't know

15, Did the object give off a light? (Circle One): (fe3) No Don't know
15.1 IF you answered YES, what was the color of the light?
16, Tell in a few words the following things about the object?

17. IF there was MORE THAN ONE object, then how many were there? &
Draw a picture of how they were arranged, and put an arrow to
show the direction they were traveling.

‘f/f
AeA <4 c-F. oe Al Novel,

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18, Did the object at any time:

18.1 Move behind something? (Circle One) Yes (Mo Don't know
IF you answered YES, then tell what it moved behind.

18,2 Move in front of something? (Circle One) Yes (iq Don't know
IF you answered YES, then teli what it moved in front of,

18,3 Blend with the background? (Circle One) Yes (Hid Don't know

19. Which of the following objects is about the same actual size as the
Object you saw? (Circle One):

a. Pea f. Automobile
G. Baseball g. Small airplane

ce. Basketball h. Large airplane

a. Bicycle wheel i. Dirigible

e. Office desk j. Other

19.1 Circle one of the following to indicate how certain you are
of your answer to Question 19.

G! Certain ce. Not very sure
« Feirly certain d. Uncertain

ur, ih, Ai wh,

20, Try to tell the following things about the object: ty

£ ed.
20.1 How high above the earth was 1t?~7-"""-"" feat,
20.2 How far was it from you? a feet or miles
20.3 How fast was it going? i. ico miles per hour, |

20.4 Circle one of the following to indicate how certain you are
of your answer to the above questions:

a. Certain ¢. Not very sure
@/ Fairly certain d. Just a guess

21. How did the object disappear from view?

(Circle One): a. Suddenly c. Other
Gradually d. Don't remember

22. In the following sketch, imagine your eye at the point shown, Place an
"A" on the curved line to show how high the object was above the horizon
when you first saw it. Place a "B" to show where it was when when you

6verhead
oY

Horizon

Your eye

23. In the following sketch place an "A" at the position the object was
when you first saw it, and a "B" at its position when you last saw it,

Overhead

it

Horizon 3 Horizon

Your eye

24. Draw a picture that will show the motion that the object made, Place
an "A" at the beginning of its path and a "B" at the end of its path,

&

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25. Draw a picture that will show the shape of the object. Label and include
your sketch details of the object that you saw, and place an arrow

in any
beside the drawing to show the Hiceotien the object was moving,

SECTION E

26. Was this the first time that you have seen an object like this?
(Circle One): No

26,1 IF you answered NO, then when, where, and under what conditions
did you see other ones?

27. In your opinion what do you think the sical was and what might have

ed it
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23. Give the following information about yourself:

First Name Middle Name

Year of last attendance at this school _/7.i «.

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29. Was anyone else with you at the time you saw the object?
(Circle One): (xox or No
29.1 IF you answered YES, did they see the object too?
(Circle One) + fos) or No
29.2 Please list their names and addresses?

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30. Please add here any further comments which you believe are important,
Use additional sheets of the same size paper if necessary.

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1. When did you see the object:

1.1 Date: —/ / AGS A
Day Month Year
1.2 Time of day: vd 5.7 AM, or PM (Cdrele One)
Tra. .

‘ay Eastern ad. Pacific
be Central e. Other
Co Mountain

(Circle One): «a; Daylight Saving
6b. Standard

1.4 Circle one of the following to indicate how certain you are
of your answer to the above question 1.2:

a. Certain c. Not very sure
(b> Fairly certain d., Just a guess

2. Where did you see the object? |
Yio” OLIVERST Boppentowy 4 5: 20.8.
ostal Address City or Town State Country

3. Where were you located when you saw the object:

(Circle One): a. Inside a building ad. In an airplane
b. In a car e. At sea
(sc Outdoors f. Other

3.1 Were you:

(Circle One): a. In the business section of a city? ©
(b2 In the residential section of a city?
c. In open countryside?
d. Flying near an airfield?
e. Flying over a city?
f. Flying over open country?
Be Other

baad | a |

4. How did you happen to notice the object? , (UTC a
OE OE Pe Ae ONS I Ow PTL Pe

Af }

TOS BS,
NAA tt _A.. —_ ®

5. When d fon report to some official that you had seen the object?

i oa)
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SECTION B

6 What were you doing at the time you saw the object?

6.1 What had you been doing for the 30 minutes before you saw the
object? Try to list the activity or activities, and the
approximate emount of time spent on each,

7. Were you moving at any time while you saw the object? (Circle One):

Ine @&
IF you answered YES, then complete the following questions.
7.1 What direction were you moving?

(Circle One): a. North e. South
b. Northeast f, Southwest
c. East g. West
d. Southeast h. Northwest

7.2 How fast were you moving? miles per hour.

7.3 Did you stop at any time while you were looking at the object?
(Circle One): Yes or No

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8 What direction were you facing when you first saw the object?

(Circle One): ? North e. South
b. Northeast f. Southwest
c. East Be West
&. Southeast h. Northwest

8.1 What direction were you facing when the object disappeared?

(Circle One): a. North e. South
b. Northeast £. Southwest
« East g. West

Southeast h. Northwest

8.2 Circle one of the following to indicate how certain you are of
your answer to the above two questions, (8 and 8.1).

a. Certain c. Not very sure
e Faixly certain d. Just a guess

9. Were you wearing eye glasses when you saw the object? (Circle One):

= me

160, How was the object seen?
(Circle One): a. Through window glass 6. Through theodolite

b. Through windshield Through sun glasses
c. Through binoculars Through open space
a, Through telescope h. Other
11. What do you remember about the weather conditions at the time you saw
the object? ?
11,1 CLOUDS (Circle One) 11,3 WEATHER (Circle One)
Clear sky & Dry
Db, Hazy e Fog, Mist, or light rain
c. Scattered clouds c. Moderate or heavy rain
a. Thick or heavy clouds d. Snow
e. Don't remember e. Don't remember
11.2 WIM (Circle One) 11.4 TEMPERATURE (Circle One)
a. No wind . | a. Cold
Cb, Slight breeze Cool
c. Strong wind Warm
ad. Don't remenber d. Hot

@- Don't remember

SECTION ©
12, Estimate how long you saw the object? Oe
Hours Minutes “Seconds

12.1 Circle one of the following to indicate how certain you are of
your answer to Question 12:

ae Certain 6. Not very sure
(b, Fairly sure a. Just a guess

13, D4a the object look: (Circle One) (Solid ) or Transparent?
14. Did the object at any time:

(Circle One for each question)
14.1 Change direction?

Yea (No: Don't _know
14.2 Change speed? Yes Wo Don't know
14.3 Change size? Yes (No! Don't_know
14.4, Change color? Yes ey Don't _know
14.5 Break up into parts or 4
explode? Yes (Ho» Don't_know
14.6 Give off smoke? Yes N Don't_know
14.7 Change brightness? Yes Gio Don't_know
14.8 Flicker, throb, or
pulsate? Yes Don't kno |
14.9 Remain motionless? Yes Don't know

15. Did the object give off a light? (Circle One): (Yes No Don't know
15.1 IF you answered YES, what was the color of the light?

16, Tell in a few words the following things about the object?

17. IF there was MORE THAN ONE object, thon how many were there? _ 7 _
Drew a picture of how they were arranged, and put an arrow to
Kian the direction Ka were traveling.

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18, Did the object at any time:

18.1 Move behind something? (Circle One) Yes Gis \ Don't know
IF you answered YES, then tell what it moved behind.

18.2 Move in front of something? (Circle One) Yes ilo) Don't know
IF you answered YES, then tell what it moved in front of.

18.3 Blend with the background? (Circle One) Yes (Mo) Don't know

19. Which of the following objects is about the same actual size as the
Object you saw? (Circle One):

ae Poa f. Automobile
bs Baseball g» Small airplane
« Basketball h. Large airplane
a. Bicycle wheel i, Dirigible
e. Office desk j. Other

19.1 Circle one of the following to indicate how certain you are
of your answer to Question 19.

Certain c,. Not very sure
Fairly certain ad. Uncertain
20. Try to tell the following things about the object: ae " abe G- he. él
+ G.
20.1 How high above the earth was it? Of pe wel? Se feet, q
20.2 How far was it from you? # a ee niles

20.3 How fast was it going? eat ord 27 O miles per hour,

20.4 Circle one of the following to indicate how certain you are
of your answer to the above questions:

Certain ¢. Not very sure
b, Fairly certain dad. Just a guess

21. How did the object disappear from view?

(Circle One): a. Suddenly 6. Other
Cb} Gradually d. Don't remember

22. In the following sketch, imagine your eye at the point shown. Place an
"A" on the curved line to show how high the objeot was above the horizon
when you first saw it. Place a "B" to show where it was when when you

last saw it,
6verhead

Horizon

Your eye

23. In the following sketch place an "A" at the position the object was
when you first saw it, and a "B" at its position when you last saw it,

Cverhead

Horizon Horizon

Your eye

24. Draw a picture that will show the motion that the object made. Place
an "A" at the beginning of its path and a "B" at the end of its path.

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25, Draw a picture that will show the shape of the object. Label and include
in your sketch any details of the object that you saw, and place an arrow
beside the drawing to show the direction the object was moving.

26. Was this the fir % time that you have seen an object like this?
(Circle One): (Yes) No

26.1 IF you answered NO, then when, where, and under what conditions
did you see other ones?

27. In your opinion what do you think the object was and what might have
caused it?

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crtienty Ai fe 4b pntee he Abort 4 layst .

28, Give the following information about yourself:

NAME - i Sg
t Name First Name Mi ame
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TELEPHONE NoER QA

What is your present job? io thes ie Ra Oe Teacish ;
Age if tm Asta 2

Sex [er MA) e

Last School Attended

Year of last attendance at this school 472.4

AIR TECHNICAL INTELLIGENCE CENTER
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE
KX OHI0

AUG 4

Bordentown, New Jersey
Dear Mr, & Mrs, Giz

We have been notified that you sighted an unidentified aerial
object. Inclosed is a questionnaire which we use to gather and
standardize all information pertaining to sightings. It will be

appreciated if you will complete the questionnaire and return it
to us as soon as possible,

Your action in reporting this incident and your cooperation
are commendable,

Yours very truly,
POMEL E aad
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1 Incl | ROsERT &, Kenneoy °°“
Observers Questio Major, USAF

(2 cys) Air Adjutant General

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S.COND SIGHTING$ MANNER OF OBSERVATIONS VISUAL FR SURFACES ELECT OR
OPTICAL INSTR USED$ NONE3 LOCATION OF OBVRS$ APPROX 43 DEG N AND

75 DEG We LOCATION OF OBJ WITH RESPECT TO OBVRS$ OBJS WERE TRAVELLING
1 SE DIRECTION ON FIRST SIGHTING AND OBJ ON SECOND SIGHTING IN SY
JTRECTIONe ALTS UNK BUT EXTREMELY HIGHs EXTIMATE ON RELIABILITY OF
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ZSARING ON ESTIMATED RELIADILITY OF WITNESSES $ unsWEATHER AND. WIND
ONDITIONS AT TIME OF SIGHTINGS VERY CLEAR WITH SLIGHT BREEZE3 ACTIVITY
ETELOROLOGICAL OR OTHERWISE WHICH MIGHT ACCOUNT FOR SIGHTINGS: NONE$
[YSICAL EVIDENCE SUCH AS FRAGMENTS AND THE LIKES NONE3. INTCP OR
JENTIFICATION ACTION TAKENS NONE. LOCATION OF AIR TRAFFIC IN GENERAL
TA AT TIME OF SIOHT IN: UNK BUT SURVEY BEING CONDUCTED. AD FORM 112
"ING COMPLETED AND WILL BE FWDD ASAP.

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APPROVED | JUNE 1948
COUNTRY REPORT NO. (LEAVE BLANK) -
USA TRwZ<'2 eA J sh, 5
| AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT Az
Flying Objects Report Ps yw, abe 7
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Orlando » Florida | Pinecastle AFB, Florida

OATEOF REPORT == = | DATE OFINFORMATION __ EVALUATION
2h July 1952 | 22 July 1952 | F=6
PREPAREO BY (Officer ~_ | SOURCE pre a

WOJG BARTOW F. KING SEES AI,

REFERENCES (Control number, directive, previous report, etc., as applicable) — —_—_ -—
AFL 200-5, 29 Apr 523 Mag Pinecastle AFB GA 309 G 23 July 1952

‘SUMMARY: (Eater concise summary of report. Give significance in final one-sentence paragraph. List inclogures at lower left. Begin text of report on AF Form 112—Part fl)

An unidentified object was observed at 2235 hours 22:July 1952
two miles south of Lake Kilarney, Orlando, Florida, flying northwest,

B=.

B. F. KIN

VOIG, USA
Reporting Cfficer

Approved: 2) July 1952.
FOR THE COMMANDING OFFICER:

« #. MARTORELLI
Major, USAF
Adjutant

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UNCLASSIFIED
“DISTRIBUTION BY ORIGINATOR - = > eae emanates 5 ans Paerosene
Commanding Ceneral (3 cys) Chief, Air Tachnical Intellizence Canter
Flying Training Air Force ATIN: ATIAA=2¢ (1 cy) AOA
Waco, Texas Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohlo ;

MOTE THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE OF THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE ESPIONAGE ACT. muU.S C-—
31 AND 32, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR THE REVELATION OF ITS CONTENTS IN ANY MANNER TO AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON 1S PROH/SITED BY LAW,

BCE AGENCIES, EXCEPT BY PERMISSION OF THE DIRECTOR OF

Yr U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 19%--O-91895)

1. When did you see the object:

1.2 Dater Zeassay Lae Lon,

wt fat Po as 4
1.2 Time of day: / 0 A.M. on P.M,’ (Cirele One)
Hrs, a ne
1.3 Time Zone: (Circle One):
G. Pacific
b,. Céntral e. Other
tc. Mountain

(c ircle One):

1.4 Circle one of the following to indicate how certain you are
of your answer to the above question 1,2:

c. Not very sure

De certain ad. Just a guess

2. Where. did you see the object?

mamas Breasgtarm New dle
ity or Sie atgteie State Country

3. Where were you located when you saw the object:

(Circle One): a, Inside a building ad. In an airplane
b, In a car e. At sea
ce Outdoors : f. Other

3.1 Were you:

(Circle One): a. In the business section of a city?
@) In the residential section of a city?
« In open countryside?
ad. Flying near an airfield?
e. Flying over a city?
f. Flying over opsn country?
Ge Other

AF FORM 112—PART Il
APPROVED 1 JUNE 1948

31 AND 32, AS AMENDED,
IT MAY NOT BE REPRODUCED IN WHOLE OR IN PART, BY OLieR TiiAs
TEL) IGENCE, USAF, 'f Goons

AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT

Pinecastle Air Force Base

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PAGCS

At 2235 hours 22 July 1952, an unidentified object was observed by
Senmeeeeinter Park, Florida. Observer was

The object appeared to be a long blue flash, four to five times as

long and twice as thick as T~33 type aircraft. There was no definite out~

line apparent, and no audible sound.

The object was in sight approximately 3 seconds, travelling at a
very high rate of speed, at an estimated altitude of 3000 to 5000 feet.

The object was flying straight and level, from southeast to north
west,

Weather at time of sighting was CAVU with scattered cumulus clouds
in this areas

The observer has had no previous experience in aircraft observa~
tion.

No interceptions were made and no photographs were taken.
T-33 type aircraft from this base were flying in the vicinity during
period of observation from 1500 to 30000 feet. No aircraft from Sanford

Naval Air Station, Macdill Air Force Base or Patrick Alr Force Base were
reported in this area at time of observation.

UNCLASSIFIED

east along the southwest shore of Lake Kilarney at time of sighting,

NOTE: THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE OF THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE ESPIONAGE ACT, 50 U.S, c.—
ITS TRANSMISSION OR THE REVELATION OF ITS CONTENTS IN ANY MANNER TO AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON {S PROHIBITED BY Law.
BP Ale FORCE AGENCIES, EXCEPT BY PERMISSION OF THE DIRECTOR OF

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AF FORM 112—PART |
APPROVED 1 JUNE 1948 UN

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USA

(LEAVE RLANK)

: AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT |

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FROM (Agency) Pte aa
Orlando, Florida ‘ Pinecastle AFB 3 Florida = iC
DATE OF REPORT DATE OF INFORMATION ALUATION
24 Ju 2 22 July 1952 Ea ee
PREPARED BY (Officer SOURCE
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unuald G BARTON Fe KING ous report, ee., aa applicable) =——— -Hra a

___AFL_ 200-5, 29 Apr 52; Msg Pinecastle AFB GA.309_G 23.4

SUMMARY: (Enter concise summary of report. Give significance in final one-sentence paragraph. List inclosuree at lower left. Begin tert of report on AF Form tit—Part 11) "

An unidentified object was observed at 2230 hours 22 July 1952, two
miles west of Orlando city limits on State Highway 50, flying west. |

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B. F. KIN
woJG, US
Reporting Officer

Approved; 24 July 1952.
FOR THE COMMANDING OFFICER:

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Major, USAF
Adjutant

1. Secl Aero Chart No 0-8 (3 cys) |

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Commanding General (3 cys) Chief, Air Technical Intelligence Center|
Flying Training Air Force ATTN: ATIAA-20 (lcy) +74 2k

Waco, Texas Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio ee ee
NOT® THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE OF THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE ESPIONAGE ACT, 50 U. S.C.--

3) AND 32, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR THE REVELATION OF ITS CONTENTS IN ANY MANNER TO AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS PROHIBITED BY LAW,
{T MAY NOT BE REPRODUCED IN WHOLE OR IN PART, BY ome Leto UNEtEe STATES AIR FORCE AGENCIES, EXCEPT BY PERMISSION OF THE DIPECTOR OF

TY U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE . 19%%--O-618331

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AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT

rnom (Avr ShOth Flying Training Wingrerorr no.

Pinecastle Air Force Base 2
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At 2230 hours 22 July 1952, an unidentified object was observed by
Mrs. » Kirkmonts Trailer Park, Orlando, Florida. Observer

was two miles west of Orlando, Florida, on State Highway 50, facing south-
west at time of sighting.

The object appeared to be a large mass of light, shaped like a football,
and was flying straight and level, moving from east to west, at an estimated

altitude of 3000 to 5000 feet. The observer was unable to determine the
size of the object.

Approximately three to five seconds after first sighting the object, it
appeared to climb almost straight up, and then broke into numerous snaller
parts of lights, then disappeared from sight,

There was no definite outline apparent, no protuberances visible,
and no audible sound.

Weather at time of sighting was CAVU with scattered cumulus clouds,
No interceptions were made and no photographs were taken,
‘The observer has had no previous experience in aircraft observation.

T-33 type aircraft from this base were flying in the vicinity during
period of observation from 1500 to 30000 feet. No aircraft from Macdill
Air Force Base, Patrick Air Forde Base, or Sanford Naval Air Station were
reported in this area at time of observation.

UN CLASSIFiEp

NOTE: THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE OF THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE ESPIONAGE ACT, 50 U.S. C.—
31 AND 32. AS AMENDED, ITS TRANSMISSION OR THE REVELATION OF ITS CONTENTS IN ANY MANNER TO AN UNAUTHORIZEO PERSON IS PROHIBITED BY LAW

IT MAY NOP BE REPRODUCED IN WHOLE OR IN PART, BY OTtiCh IAM UNITED STATES AIR FORCE AGENCIES, EXCEPT BY PERMISSION OF THE DIRECTOR OF
INTELLIGENCE, USAF. at 9h pra ;

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TO:5 SECONDS AFTER FIRST SIGHTING CMA OBJ APPEARED TO CLIMB ALNOST

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HEN DISAPPEARED FR SIGHT. NO DEFINITE OUTLINE APPARENT CMA AND NO
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7.1 What direction were you moving?

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b. Northeast £. Southwest
c. East g. West
d. Southeast h. Northwest

7.2 How fast were you moving? miles per hour,
7.3 Did you stop at any time while you were looking at the object?
(Circle One): Yes or No

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At 21202 in the Beluga Lake area, 61°25' 151°35'%, while z* T9,bS fect, .,
first contact was made at 18,000 yards, Lock-on was accomplished at 12, C00 yards ~
and an intercept started, Tarret was level with the aircraft's speed greater than
100 knets to 6,000 yards; At this point the target disappeared and contact could
not be re-established. Pilot did not make visual sighting.

At 22182 another attempt was made to contact the tarret observed earlier. ‘While
at 16,000 feet, contact was made at 12,000 yards. Lock-on was accomplished and tar
“| get overtaken at 50-60 knots, At 1500 "yards » set action resembled normal break-lock
and target was lost due te an abrupt upward motion as seen in pilot's scope. Con-
tact was re-established at 6,000 yards and follewed to 700 yards where target and
aircraft speed appeared the same - 300. knots. Intercept was continued to 400 yards
at which time the target moved out rapidly to 3200 yards where speeds were again
synchronized with the target moving down. Pilct nosed the aircraft down and 2s the
speed increased te approximately 400 knots, the target was overtaken to 1500 yards.
_t At this time the radar broke lock due to a rapid downward movement. of the tarret.
' Qontact could not be re-established. Again, no visual sighting was accomplished,

During this incident 3 the weather was Poee-e ig clear with practical ly
a cloudless sky. a 3s ee 92 fees hex 2. Kh

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8, What direction were you facing when you first saw the object?

(Circle One): G._ North) @. South
D, Northeast f. Southwest
c, East Be West
a. Southeast h, Northwest
8,1 What direction were you facing when the object disappeared?
(Circle One): a. North e. South
b. Northeast f. Southwest

Cc ge West
d. Southeas h. Northwest

8.2 Circle one of the following to indicate how certain you are of
your answer to the above two questions, (8 and 8.1).

Certa c. Not very sure
be Fa certain d. Just a guess

9. Were you wearing eye glasses when you saw the object? (Circle One):

tn ce Gs)

10, How was the object seen?

(Circle One): a. Through window glass ©. Through thecdolite
b. Through windshield f£. Through sun glasses

6. Through binoculars G: Through open Spaces
a. Through telescope . Other

11, What do you remember about the weather conditions at the time you saw

the object?
11,1 CLOUDS (Circle One) 11.3 WEATHER (Circle One)
KD
Db. Hazy : b. Fog, Mist, or light rain
c. Scattered clouds c. Moderate or heavy rain
a. Thick or heavy clouds d. Snow
e. Don't remember e. Don't remember
11,2 WIND (Circle One) 11.4 TEMPERATURE (Circle One)
a. Cold
b. Cool
d. Don't remember de Ho

e. Don’t remember

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Vienna, Virginia
S August 1952

MEMORANDUM

From: Comdr,. ‘ USIR

Tos Captain Je Ruppe , USAF, Head, °
Wright-Patterson Air Fores Base, Dayton,

Subj: The discovery and preliminary investigation jof
which apparently foll from the air near Was

Enels (1) The subject.stone, with snall part, brolien or sawed away
during the preliminary examination
(2) Letter of Mr. Everett H. Clocker, Fores
Service, of 2 August 1952 to Comdr,
(3) Collection of photographs of the s
evidence

U. S. Forest

-

ect object and of other

1. As an individual armed services officer who has happened to become
involved in the subject discovery, I feel the duty of making a report to
you (and the U. S. Air Fores), for its consideration in the publicized
projoct "Operation Bluebook", I understand that the Air Force is cone
' @ueting for the arwed services the centralized investigation of data

pertaining to the so-called "flying saucer" sightings. This report will
be showa to my immediate commanding officer and the Personnel Divisicn
of the Bureau of Aeronautics.

2. My background of experience that might be pertinent to an ovaluation of
my investigation and limited conclusions hereia is briefly as follows;
education = U. S. Naval Acadamy (1921-1924), George Washington University
Law School, John Marshall Law School, Atienta, and American University;
escond lieut., Military Intelligence Reserve, Army of the United Statas ~

5 years; other, clessified intelligence service for the United States;

U. S. Patent Examiner, and pstent attorney = about 17 years, specializing
mainly in aixcraft propulsion, including jet propulsion; Nautical Assistant,
U. S. Hydrographic Office; returned to the Navy in 1942 (received World

War II Navy letter of commendation for work on pioneer rocket motor contracts
as e Bureau of Acronautics Representative); as a reserve officer, return to
active duty in 1950 (serving 16 months in the Bureau of Aeronautics Girided
Missiles Division, and now Head, Technical Information Branch, Buwier).

3. At about the hour 1600 on Friday, 25 July 1952, Me

SME, Viewns, Virginis, » neighbor of mine in Fairfax Comty, showed
me the subject, stone-like object, as a curiosi 6 stated that it was
found by himself and his grendso of

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Subj: The discovory end proliminary investigation of a stone-like object,
which apparently fell from the air near Washington, D. C.

nearby wood on Wednesday, 23 July, 1952.

Ae Mr, Qe’ s 69 years old and has lived all bis life in or very
near the house and emall farm he now owns, I have known him for about
twenty years, and he has worked for ms most of the last four or five
years. I have found him to be punctual, loyal and honest,

5e =Mre said he was walking with that Wednesday, looking
for possible baby foxos, of a mother f % recently bad been killed
in the nsighborhood, I remember that "was Visiting ot iv. GD
hone, and that he spoke to me when 1 took Br = in ny c

that Wednesday, About fifty feet, froma

said, they had paused to rest, and watch for the ground-hog, when
said: "Granddaddy, isn't that a fumny-Looking stone?" Mr,

said the
stone that he then saw rested on the pine nsedles = and wes not embedded

in the needles; and that he | ee Mee to it end pick it up. He -

said to ma that St ‘wes not an “bi e, vast it "hsd & borned odor,
and that he thought it might be a moteorite.. I mentioned the nowspaper
accounts of the last few days of sightings and radar trackings over the
Washington area of"flying saucers" or lights, He didn't seem to have
followed them in much detail or with much interest. Realizing that the
object with the alleged bunt odor had been discovered under or almost
undex the air line from Washington to Herndon, Virginia end on to Maryland
and West Virginia, over which a veteran pilot and ceveral CAA radar experts
had reported one of the "flying saucer" lights hed gone (on the left wing
of the pilot's craft), I was vory interested in the objoct,

6. After Me EY banded it to me, he said: "Snell the odor”. But at
that time, two days er its discovery, we could dotect no odor, }

wife has confirmed to me (and to another witness) his statement that the
object had had a burnt odor,

7e I asked and received M, permission to have the object
examined by Government experts. I did not want to go off half-cocked
and submit a report on it without some prelininary investigation,

8. On 29 July, 1952, after I had periodically stvdiod the object over
the woek-end, I logged the following description of it in my diary

(as very slightly edited and slightly anplified dwring the next fow days):
e « e « It obviously had been, at some tine, fractured on two of its five
surfaces, The edges of the frectures are very sharp and in places, coma

to thin, sharp points, One very srall part of the fractures looked as
though it was done very recently.

"The stane is bluish gray in color, and I believe is several ties
heavier than the same volume of ordinary stone. Its longest dimension is

ehout four inches, One surface of it is cylindrical, with the chord of

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‘ * Subj: The discovery and preliminary investigation of a stone-like object,
‘i which apparently fell from the air near Washington, D, C.

the are of the cylindrical surface being slightly over thres inches, and
. with a distance of two and five-eighth inches between the arcuate edges
of two roughly parallel planes that bound the cylindrical surface. The
Cylindrical surface obviously has been intelligently shaped, either by
Casting or tooling = I believe hy tooling. There are fragmentary coatings
of a cenent-Like substance on the cylindrical surface (as if to smooth or
to ombed the slightly irregular-partecylinder), This coment is wmlike
Portland cement; it is soft, and may be scratched with the finger rail,
Fragments of the coment also adhere to both the roughly perallel surfaces
mentioned above, and,in easily noticeable amowts, to only one (the swallest)
of the three fractured surfaces, But there are slicht amounts of the cement
adhering to emall parts of the other two fractured surfaces, . ‘ithe largest
of the fractured surfaces bas yellowish-brown stains, mainly located along
the sharp edges of the fractures, These stains look likestains from a very
hot flame, They are more prominent near one end of the psrti-cylinder, At
this end the three sharp odges of the fractures there are stained on, both
sides of the edges, as though flame might have entered cracks there.”

"The middle-sized fractured surface has embedded in its surface what look
to be two small bits of rusted iron, This surface has no brown stains,
Also on this surface - as well as on parts of the other two fractured
surfaces - there are embedded in the stone-like material a large number

of little balls, of sizes varying from one-eighth of an inch in diameter

to pin-point size. I scratched out one of the little balls. It was nearly
perfectly spherical, and like many others, had a single dent in it, through
which, it seems to me that gas in cooling might have escaped. The material
with these balls embedded in it is not like any I have ever seen before,"

9. On the afternoon of 29 July, after I had given Mr, SMM a ride to his
home, he went with me to the woods where he had found the object. This
wooded area was about one half of a mile from the nearsst swall road,
fonced in - with a neighboring pasture. For about an hour and a half we
searched for a smached tree or rock or another bit of similar material,

but found no evidence of this kind. We did find very ndar the spot where
he found tha object, a small-leafed shrub, about two and one-half feet
high, which had semi-green leaves, obviously still in the process of
withering, as though they had very recently been exposed to heat; or

they could have been dying from the drought,

10, On 30 July, I took the object in question to the U. S. Bureau of
Standarjs and there showed it to the following ecientists, in the order
named; Mr, A. Hockman of the Building Stone Section, Mineral Products
Division; Dr. John McBurney, Mineral Products Division; Mr, Frenk Caldwell
of the Combustion Section, Missile Development Section; Dr. Herbert Insley,
geologist, Chief of the Mineral Products Division, end Mr. H. F. McMurdis,
Chief, Constitution and Microstructure Section, All these scientists said
or indicated, after briefly examining the object, that they could not then
idantify it. Most of them said that it was not a natural stoma; none said

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‘Subjs The discovery and preliminary investigation of a stone-like object,
Which apparently fell from the air near Washington, D. C,

that it was a stone. Mr, Hockman carefully woighed it, and ascertained that
its dry weight was 532.91 grams (approximately 1,2 pounds) and that its
specific gravity was 3.48, He called my attention to the following passage
in Dr, Oliver Bowles book, "Ihe Stone Industries: "Yhe specific gravity of
common stones range from 2,2 to 2.8." ‘The object is thus about one-fourth
again as heavy per unit of volume as the heaviest of common stones. Mr.
Hockman and I measured the radius of the parti-cylindrical surface, and
loarned that it was approximately 5.2 inches, If the object had been a

building block of a cylinder (or annulus) the diameter of the cylinder
(or annulus) thus would have been about 10,4 inches,

11, Dr. McBurney said that he had seen many meteorites and that, in his
opinion, the object was not a meteorits,

12. Dr. Insley turned the object over to Mr, McMurdie for an analysis
of its chemical content. I suggested to li. Mcliudie that hs not tell
his assistants that the object might have come from the air, so that thoy
would not be influenced in their exanination,

13. That afternoon I returned, alone, to the aroa where the object had
been found, I spent about an hour and a half searching in a direction that
Mr. and I had spent little time on during ow last search, Then,

at longth, going in tha opposite direction, I discovered, about forty feet
fron the findingespot of the object, a smashed and fallen dead sassafras
tres of about 6 inches in diameter, The lower part of the trunk, 15 fest,
9 inches long, which had broken from the jagged stump, lay on the ground,
pointing, generally, toward the finding-spot of the object. Its fractures
were obviously fresh; the lower fracture was jagged, the upper one wa3
more at right angles and on one side looked as though it had been sheared
by a blunt object. I have had considerable experience in cutting trees,

on and near my Virginia, forested place, and I knew that the upper part of
the tree was not wheres a woodsaan would P if it bad naturally
fallen. About sixteen feet long, it say Staak Hieh, ‘ Sotion,” turned toward
the stump, beyond a right angle with the main section, Its larger, broken
end was about &} feet back toward the stump from the complementary fracture
of the main broken part. Th ver, ond of this partes te ae the tree, was
lodged, near the ground, of” Ree ie | x 1g Wee tree. A amall
limb appeared to have been broken off Seo . ogwood) by the falling troe;
lodged between the fallen crown f§5¢ Gogwood) it had satill-green but
withering,loaves. A swall, dead linb, broken from the felled tree, hung
precariously suspended from near the juncture of the fallen end live trees,
I left the parts of tho tree as I had found thea,

14. The next day I telephoned the U. S. Forest Service, and talked with a
Mr, Everett H. Clocker, forester, who has had long experience in forestry
and logging operations, including service with the Weyerhaueser Lunber
Company (the largest in the world) and years in the National Forests of

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Subj: The discovery and preliminary invostigation of a stone-like object,
which apparently fell from the air near Washington, D. C.

the West. Mr. Clocker kindly came out with ms to examine the tree.
His informal, vory factual report on the circumstances, forwarded as
enclosure ( m, tea bear out the above facts, Mr, Clocker and I discovdred
Sat Aad Ue Geek nek Laken Ux thoemtne bad teas batica atte

neighboring, large (70 feet) sassafras fer-pophan?} tree, about 42 foot
os = ae and very near the crown - the fallon sassafras tree,

28 measured) from : standing tree, ws found a
about 2¢ inches in ianeter ond 4 feat, 5 inabes long,

which was in two unten 2 with the base break, "of about 45 degress,

looking as though it game angle as the break forty-odd fest in

the air, The upper, small-diameter break of this linb, about 45 degrees,

looked as though it had been sheared, It did not fit any broken part of
the fallen tree,

15. Mr. Clocker wrote: "A green maple crown was about 10 feet away in
the diroction of fall, It appeared undisturbed"(I thought that this was
a dogwood tree.) I consider this fact vory significant. Something caused
the fallen dead tres to break at right angles about 22 feet above the
ground, and its sixtcen-fest igh to snap back toward the stump of the tree
about by feet (by measurement), end yet the green tree in its path was
undisturbed, I saw this undisturbed green tree and roughly measured ita
distance from the middle break of the fallen sassafras; it was less than
the length of my shoe from this middle break.

16, I do not think that the inner part of the fallen sassafras tree was
vory rotten, I know sassafras wood very well, have hswn timbers from dead
Sassafras trees that have stood, dead, for long tines, on my Virginia

country place. It is very soft, but rots vory slowly, The stump was
resiliont.

17, Another significant detail, noticed by myself and Mr. Clocker, was
that the main, lower part of the fallon tree was lying on the ground, as
though it had twisted through a 180° are before or at the time it had
fallen. The angles of the break at the jagged stump top indicated this,

18. My conclusions about the fallen troe are that it was very recently
hit, at a point about 21 feet and 9 inches above ths ground, by an object
from the air, which object apparently already had sheared off the outer
end and broken off the butt end of the limb of the noighboring tree at a
point about 42 feet in the air, I surmise that the fallen tree was nearly
broken in two by this object, and twisted, and left unstably standing,

and that it fell at some time, between my first and second visits to the

spot. I bolieve I would have noticed it the first tine, had it been dow
at that time.

19, Over the telephone on 5 August I received an informal report fron
Me, H. Fe McMurdis, which I imnediately wrote as follows:

"The object is not a natural stone.

"The main part of the object is made up of silica and iron and
magnesium end calcium - with about equal quantities of iron and silica

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SECTION G

12, Estimate how long you saw the object?

J hw
Hours Minutes Seconds

12.1 CGirole one of the following to indicate how certain you are of
your answer to Question 12:

G__Contain> c. Not very sure
» Fairly sure d, Just a guess

13, Did the object look: (Circle One) (801i or Transparent?
14. Did the object at any time:

(Circle One for each question)

14.1 Change direction? Yea on!'%_kno
14.2 Change speed? Yes Don't_know
14.3 Change size? Yes Don't_inow
14.4 Change color? Yes Don't _know
14.5 Break up into parts or

explode? Yes Don't_know
14.6 Give off smoke? Yes Don't know
14.7 Change brightness? Yes Don't know
14.8 Flicker, throb, or

pulsate? Yes Don't_know
14.9 Remain motionless? Yes Don't know

15. Did the object give off a light? (Circle One): (Yes) No Don't know
15.1 IF you answered YES, what was the color of the light? Sep hLa0Kaw pe
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16, Tell in a few words the following things about the object?

16,1 Su Mo sSoua~d
16.2 Color hp phl-— Ore e Pee

17. IF there was MORE THAN ONE object, then how many were there? oF
Draw a picture of how they were arranged, and put an arrow to
show the direction they were traveling.

Subj: The discovery and preliminary investigation of-a stone-like object,
which apparently fell from the air near Washington, D. C.

Which wore the main things in it,

"Ths balls « quite small to something like one-sighth of an inch ~
in the old-fract surfacesz= made of glassy material ~ with some of
pure iron « rich in iron and silica. They are magnetic; and some were
extracted with a magnet.

"The cement coating was principally calciim carbonate,

"There was not enough quantity in the brown stains for microscopic
analysis.

"The general opinion of mon in the Bureau of Standards who examined
the object is that it is not a meteorite.

"Tt is not radio-activo,
"It looked similar to slag."

20. I also have talked with Mr, Alvin Van Valkenburg of the National
Bureau of Standards, who made the microscopic analyais of the material,

He stated that most of the azvall iron balls were magnetic iron, that

he had oxtracted most of then from the old fractured surfaces with a magnet,
In a small pit on one of the roughly parallel surfaces (bounding the
cylindrical surface), he said he had found a tiny bit of noss-like
material, I had found no brow stains (siniler to flane stains) on this
surface which contains the small pit, The presence of this material seena
to indicate only that, at some tine in its history, the subject object

has been in an environment containing vegstable life,

21. At another tine, not referred to above, Mr. Mc Murdie stated to me,
over the telephone, that the cement-Like substance wes of calcium
carbonate mixed with silicate. This substance apparently is not Portland
cement or ordinary lime, for ths object was put in water (in determining

its specific gravity) about a week ago; and the cament~like substance is
still soft,

22. In my opinion, the subject object could have come from either an
airplane or one of the sighted and radar-tracksd lights, I have read in
the newspapers that the Civil Acronautics Authority has stated that the
"blips" rocently noted by its radar observers were not made by atmospheric
or electronic phenomena but were caused by solid objects, It ceems to ne
to be possible that these objects were solid and ringed with light., or
lights, Attention is inyi to the fact that limelight is a brilliant

white light (such as some /obdsevverd ‘recently have reported) which is
mads, according to Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, "by directing an

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Subj: The discovery and preliminary investigation of a stone-like object,
which apparently fell from the air near Washington, D. C,.

oxy~hydrogen flawe on a cylinder of lime" (I have underlined the word
Cylinder), It may be significant (or may be a coincidence)that ths
Conent—Like material is mainly calcium carbonate ~ in what could have
been a 10,4<inch diameter cylinder.

23- i am convinced that no hoax is involved in this matter, Knowing

Mr, Lanham so long, I completely believes his detailed, and originally
pomewhat casual, account of the discovery, I have no evidence as to the
origin of the object other than its own nature and the apparent fact,
which now seems clear to me, that it probably came from the air ani
sheared and broke the limb and the neighboring tree. I do not believe it
is part of the lining of a United States or foreign aircraft jet.

242 It is suggested that the following steps be included in any further
investigation of the subject object:

(a). That representatives of air lines having aircreft that fly the
air lins from Washington to Herndoh, Virginia, be consulted,
If tha objoct came from an airplane the plane would have been
flying westward from Washington, as the tree with the broken
linb forty-odd feet high is about east-by-south from the fallen
tree which was broken, (The windows of passenger aircrart are

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(b) That the materials of the Object be7furthe# and chemic
analyzed by scientists , including chemists, steel-slag
experts, physicists, and astrophysicista,
7°: » ly
(c) That the object not be substanttally mutilated during the
tests, that it be held on file in your charge for a few
months, for possible comparison with other such objects
that might be discovered, and then roturned to me, so that
I may roturn it to the man from whom I received it,

25. The pictures of the subject object in enclosure (3) wore made by the
U. S&S. National Bureau of Standards, before any parts of the object were cut
or broken off by the examiners, Any publication of these Bureau of Standards
pictures probably would require permission of the Bureau of Standards, None
of the other pictures, of the trees or Pinding-placs of the object, should
be published without the permission of the ower of the land where the
object was founi, I am not giving his nane herein because, uwnierstandably,
he wants no publicity or curiosity-seekers on his home estate in Virginia.
I orally will give his nawe and address to any Air Force ropresentative
who might desire to see him or the evidence, referred to above, now on his
lani,

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Subj: The discovery and preliminary investigation of a stone-like object,
which apparently fell from the air near Washington, D. C.

26, If the Air Force should consider that some publicity of this subject
matter would be helpful in the solution of the pro it is suggested
that the announcement be brief, and it is requested that my name not be

mentioned in it, but that I be identified as "a naval officer on duty in

Washington, D. C."

27. I have shown the subject object to several officers of the Navy Bursau
of Aeronautics, The consensus of their opinion seems to be that possible
further investigation of it, from the armed services point of view, would
properly be within the province of the Air Force.

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) "FOREST SERVICE

ADDRESS REPLY TO

CHIEF, FOREST HERVICE : WASHINGTON
AND REFER TO

August 4, 1952

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Vienna, Virginia
Dear Commander Qa

This: refers to your informal reduest of July 31 for me to look at a |
fallen tree near your home and to our joint exauwination of it late on |
July 31 and again on August 2.

In consenting to look at this tree it was my understanding that no
controverssy, claims of title to property, torts, or events or matters
of any kind bearing any leszal significance were involved.

As you explained it to me a neighbor had found a small rock or piece |
of metal weighing a pound or two resting on the forest floor in a wooded
tract near his home. The object appeared to be foreign to the general
areas A recently fallen trea nearby caused you to wish to check possi-
bilities that the object could have fallen from sircraft.

Following is a summary of our observations and discussions:

The fallen tree was a dead sassafras slightly over 6 inches in diameter_
at breast height. Its total height was about 37 feat 9 inches accord=
ing to our tape measurements of the stump, 5, and the two sections lying
on the ground. The lower break occurred about 6 feet from the ground.
This breals occurred over a longitudinal section of the bole for about

2 feet. Such breaks are known among loggers as “barber chairs", except
that in this case the bole had broken free from the stump section. I
pushed against the standing stump section and gave it some blows with |
the heel of my hand, which it withstood. The fallen section had not |
shattered when it hit the ground. The tree was somewhat flattened, |
enlarged and crooked through the 2-foot section where it broke. This is |
not uncommon and can be caused by a “spike” limb, injury or crowding at
some stage of stand development. Such sections of a bole often provide
ready entrance for disease organisms which subsequently spreed upward
and downward, causing structural impairment of the tree and even its
death. It is at such points that trees often break. |

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The second break ocourred at a point about 21 fest and 9 inches above
the ground. It appeared to have occurred mich like smapping a dead, ©
Boggy twig across one's kneo. The break was almost at right angles.

On about half of the cross-section the decayed fibers had snapped off.
On the other half tiey were compressed inward before breaking, suggest-
ing that the tree had jackknifed to some extent before breaking at

this point. The tree was about 4 to 5 inches in diameter at this point.

The bole section eppeared to have hit the ground first. ‘The crown
section hit butt-first slightly beyond the mid-section of the fallen
bole, jabbing a hole about 5 to 6 inches deep in the soft forest floor
and then sagging off at right angles across the fallen bole to lean
egainst a large standing pine. ‘The butt-end was still in the hole it
apparently made in falling. ‘The crown was largely intact. A small
branch was broken off and perched precariously on othor branches when
we first viewed this tree on July 31. It had fallen by the time we
returned on August 2.

The entire bole of the tres and the larger branches in thse lower part
of the crown were in a state of advanced decay. iihite mycelin were
prevelant at the upper break. iting structure at this point was still
evident, but the entire cross-section was softening and moiste Ring
structure at the lower breuk had been largely destroyed by decay. Only
@ more or less “case-hardened"shell remained to support the tree. The

adry-punky center fell out as the treo snapped. The smaller limbs were
brittle, but not decayed.

A few apparently active fruiting bodies of an unidentified fungus are
present within five feet on each side of the upver break. They anpear
as black-domed oval protrusions in lesions running with the grain.

Those within about a foot of the break showed a heavy, sooty discharge
of spores. Those more removed did not show spore discharge. The "“black-
ening" around the fruiting bodies was visible for at least 15 spaces on
July Sl, but the rain of August 2 obliterated it.

Bark was largely intact except for the lower 10 to 12 fect of the tree,
Bark on the north side of the tree had been stripped by wocdpeckers
during prior yeurse This old bark lay at the base of the tree, partially
covered by old leaf-fall and green vegetation. There was a recent fall
of bark from the lower 10 feet of the tree. All of the recent fall lay
around the base of the tree. Such bark-fall often results as the tros
is agitated in breaking. ‘The same result can be Obtained in "drumming"
a dead tree with a hand-tool.

The tree apparently had been dead for sometime, and, like all such trees,
had to fall sooner or later. liad it been on an exposed site it would
likely have fallen some time azo because of the advanced stage of
deterioration at the lower break.

— caer

The tree was very well sheltered on all sides and for its full height.
The overstory is 70 to 90 fest pine with an occasional sassafras and
onk. <A heavy intermediate stand of dogwood, hickory and maple ranged
the tree. In fact a green hickory crovm was more or less interlaced
with the crown of this dend tree as it stood. <A green meplo crown was
about 10 feet away in the direction of fall. It appeared undisturbed.,
The base of the tree was well protected by shrubs, forbs and vines-
some prickly. The tree coulc not have fallen far without hanging up_
or breaking below the crown. It fell in the only spot it was possible

to fall and reach the ground.

The wooded tract is fenced and ungrazede Thore wes no evidence of
animal activity within reach of the tree. Undergrowth disccuraged
enyone approaching within reach of the tree,

The tree had evidently fallen very recently, perhaps within a week or
two. Lush vegetetion was freshly pressed down under the bole. There
wes no characteristic "bedding" line as found under trees which have
Tein for weeks or longere

Suandiontt te of other trees within the vicinity showed only one recent
breakage. This was a dead limb 2-1/2 inches in diameter which had
broken off a live sassafras tree stending about 16 feet to the east.
This tree is about 135 inches in diameter at breast height end 70 feet
highe The four-foot stub of the broken limb juts out from the trunk
at about 42 feet above the ground. A four-foot broken section which
eppeared occularly to fit the broken stub was found under the crown of
the fallen dead sassafres in question. It had fellen recently, as

above determined. The outer end of this limb was not found, but some
scattered fragments of dead limb fall were observed among the lower

limbs of nearby trees to the east.
I trust this summarizes our findings and discussions had on the site.

Sincerely yours,

he echo

Ee He Clocker
Forester

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18, Did the object at any time:

18,1 Move behind something? (Circle One) Yes Don't. know
IF you answered YES, then tell what it moved behind.

18.2 Move in front of something? (Circle One) Yes (to) Don't know
IF you answered YES, then tell what it moved in front of,

18.3 Blend with the background? (Circle One) Yes No Don't know

19. Which of the following objects is about the same actual size as the
object you saw? (Circle One):

f. Automobile

g@. Small airplane
s. Basketbe h. Large airplane
ad. Bicycle wheel i. Dirigible

e. Office desk je Other

19.1 Circle one of the following to indicate how certain you are
of your answer to Question 19,

a =) c. Not very sure

5 Fairly certain d. Uncertain
20, Try to tell the following things poout the oon ae Sera, Hla rata -

20.1 How high above the earth was it? feet, oA canned Birt woewisi
20.2 How far was it from you? —————— feet or oe -
20.3 How fast was it going?v24.J-0 _ miles per hour, At, 0% Aram
20.4 Circle one of the following to indicate how certain you are yom em Sa BP
of your answer to the above questions: Pertied at i
a, Cortair é. Not very sure
b. Fairly certain d. Just a guess
21. How did the object disappear from view?
(Circle One) :-Caammbetdertmas> - @» Other

"_Gradually> ad. Don't remember

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22. In the following sketch, imagine your eye at the point shown. Place an
"A" on the curved line to show how high the object was above the horizon
when you first saw it. Place a "B" to show where it was when when you

Overhead

Horizon

Your eye

23. In the following sketch place an "A" at the position the object was
when you first saw it, and a "B" at its position when you last saw it,

Cverhead

Horizon Horizon

Your eye

24. Draw a picture that will show the motion that the object made. Place
an "A" at the beginaing of its path and a "B" at the end of its path,

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