PROJECT BLUE BOOK

1. DATE - TIME GROUP
9/0345z
3 Feb 53

3. SOURCE

MILITARY
4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS

ONE
5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION

FIFTEEN MINTS

5. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
GROUND VISUAL

7. COURSE

270 DEG

8. PHOTOS

Oo Yes
Ne

9. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE

O Yes
OQ Ne

FORM

2.

PROJECT 10073 RECORD
LOCATION

Dobbins AFB, Georgia

10. CONCLUSION

1.

ASTRONOMICAL: STAR/PLANET

Star/Planet observation. Most likely Jupiter.

BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS
Odject observed from both NW of Dobbins and from Knoxville.

Disappeared similtaneously below horizon. No triangulation was

made but description suggests astro sightings at Presque Isle
or Mithcell in Oct and Dec.

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

STP/CG ADC ENT AFB COLORADO SPGS COLO

eee. OBRPT COC 968 ATTNs ATIAA-2C AN OBJEC
EMITTING A BRIGHT WHITE LIGHT CHANGING TO RED AND YELLOW AT TIMES
WAS OBSERVED NORTHWEST OF DOBBINS AFB & FES 53 AT 2145 EST. IN
COMPARISON TO RED OBSTRUCTION LIGHTS ON CONTROL TOWER AND HANGARS
OBJECT APPEARED LARGER AND BRIGHTER. OBSERVED BY AC&W PERSONNEL ON
DUTY IN AIR DEFENSE CONTROL CENTER FOR APPROXIMATELY 15 MINUTES. IT
MOVED IN EAST TO WEST DIRECTION DISAPPEARING FOM VIEW BELOW HORIZON.
FIRST REPORT RECEIVED FROM AC&W UNIT IN KNOXVILLE TENN AREA WHO HAD
RECEIVED REPORTS AND OBSERVED THEMSELVES A BRIGHT LIGHT IN THE SKY
TO THE WEST OF KNOXVILLE. DISAPPEARANCE IN DOBBINS AREA CINCIDED
WITH DISAPPEARANCE IN KNOXVILLE AREA. ALL SIGHTINGS WERE VISUAL NO ELECTS
SIGHTINGS, NO REPORTED AIR TRAFFIC IN AREA AT TIME. WEATHER FOR

DOBBINS KNOXVILLE AND CHATTANOOGA WAS CLEAR SKIES WITH 15 TO 3@ MIL=S
VISIBILITY AND NO DISCERNABLE SURFACE WINDS WINDS ALOFT AT DOBBINS

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I. Description of Incident

Military personnel observed a red-yellow-white stationary object from this
base as well as Knoxville, Tennessee, at 21:5 EST which was observed for 15 min
utes before slowly disappearing below the horizon. It appeared in the west and
was brighter than red obstruction lights on the control tower at Dobbins.

II. Discussion of Incident

No triangulation from the two observing points was made which would have besn
extremely helpful and should be attempted in sightings such as this. The descrip-
tion and manner of disappearance strongly suggests astronomical sightings at
Presque Isle AFB and Mitchel AFB in October and December of 1552.

Ili. Conclusion

Probably astronomical (bright evening star).

T53-3E95

FLYING SAUCERS *Ses- 2
Extract from the"Asheville Citizen" Feb 12,1953.

JET CHASES .RED OBJECT OVER STATE. i.ARINE 2OLANE NO
mATCH FOR SwWRAWGE BODY.
Cherry Point N.C.

The Marine Corps reported today that one of it! 6 jet
planes had chased and then lost -- a red lighted object that flashed
through the sky at astonishing specd . an FOF Panther jet fighter
pilot chased the object over coastal North Caroliina Mondat night an
official iiarine Corps said, but the speedy jet turned out to be no
match for the object, whatever it was.

The liarine Corps statement was issued at headquarters
of the Sccond Marine Air Wing here. It included the report of First
Lt. Ef Balocco, 24, of Antioch, Calif, the pilot who chased the object.
The statement gave these details: Planes at the Marine Auxiliary Air
ctation at Edenton, N.C.- had been alerted by a Navy signal tower at
Norfolk, Va, to watch for @ silver object which had been reported
sightec from the ground over an area near the Virginia - N.C. border.

Balocco went to the area, but sighted nothing after
cruising around for half an hour. He then took @ southerly course
to return to his base at #denton. Over Washington, N.C. I saw what
leoked like an aeroplane with red lights which cppeared below at about
20009 feet. What ceused me, Balocco said, to look beck at the objec*
was the fact that it inoved from below me 10000 ft vertically in oa |
matter of seconds. Balocco said that he turned about sand chased the
object at a Speed of batter than 500 mph but wes unable to gain on
it.

He estimated the object was about ten miles away
from him during the three to four minutes chase. At that disiance, he
said, the object was about a quarter of an inch wide and three inches
icong. The object was the colour of white heat and it threw out a
red glow hehind it. It had two red lights on the left hand side,
douncing anc flashing off the end, encircling an arc.

Balocco said he seemed to gain on the object for a tim
but the plane suddenly dropped from his altitu2ze and cisappearec to-
vards the coast. Baloceo called in other planes to help in the
search. Captain Thomas W. Rigga was one of several pilots who
responded. Riggs said he sighted un object flying low neap tne
Carolina coast but couldn't identify it. The Marine Corps said it
iater received a call from Gerald Midget, a farmer living neuer
Oriental, on the coast. Midget reported seeing « flash in a
desolate swampy area, and then a ground fire. Liarine helicopters
searched the swampland and found 2 small forest fire but no signs of
4 crash. - -

The Marine Corps statement said the object waa firs.
sighted by & helicopter, whcih reported the imcident to the Navy
tower at. Norfolk. 4 Marine Ground Control Interceptor Squadron

ciled to make any contact. Meanwhile, Brlocco had answerec the
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ou WOCCO, Ts3 WMuinrlo is P ORPS 3: \iD, is aN i

BXPSRIENCED Pinot dc Hi 7COCO aOURS OF v4

AIR TIME, 500 OF THs IN JET PLANES.»

“for. a silvery object sighted from
ing: ¢ 20.000 feet n

++ Uka an airplane with red lights.”

Marines Say Jet Pilot. |
Chased Glowing Object

By the aoa Press.

CHERRY POINT. N. C., Feb. 12.
~The Marine Corps air station
here reported today that a Marine
jet pilot chased a mysterious,
glowing object through the sxies

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‘began catthing up to the object as
if it were “waiting for him,” the
‘spokesman said, Then again it
speeded up. ,

Lt. Balocco reported that he

Nipmcar_ bight at more than 500) di ved toward the object and saw
ea an hour. “a sudden flash” and it disap-

A spokesinan said the ' Nortolk
Nava) Air Station tower alerted
Marine Lt. Ed Balocco to watch
the ground.. Lt. was fly-

He flew inward’: Cherry
tid sighted “what. looked

7a) S Object bh ss
ippeared ta low me

Dat. ‘Caused ine to back at

a t was the bbe thas it

‘moved from below me 10,000 feet

SPREE b,ratep of seconds,
- © He estimated that the object

‘was.about 10 miles from him.

<Sinieecreperted tbat suddenly. Nejcontact_w

ear Edenton, |},

peared.
Several Saw Object.

The spokesman said a similar
flash was.seen by a Navy pilot
over Norfolk and a civilian, at
— Oriental,.N.C.. .

Lt. Balocca reported that the
object ‘was “the color of white
t,.throwing»out a glow’ and

” ‘Thad scghhis-appeared to be two
Jred Mghts on. the left side, flash-

ing*and bouricing off the end ina
described arc.”"* °°

eA rflicopter’ spotted the mys-
terious. object. south of Norfolk
abowt dusk’ Monday, the spokes-
man said. Ground control’ in-!
terceptor squadrons failed to make,

contact.with radar.

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453

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Albemarle, N.C.
May 9, 1963

Air Force Headquarters
the Pentagon
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sirs:
We the directors of U.F.0O. Research Associates,
would like any information that you could give us
in the two cases involveing UFO's mentioned below.
Case No. 1, involves the reported destruction
of a Piper Cub telonging to one Fred Reagan. The
incident which was to have taken place on a day in
July, 1951 when Regan's plane was said to have
__ been cut open by a UFO traveling at high speed.
a Case No. 2, Cherry Point, N.Ce=— Feb. 11, 1953-
The Marine Corns reported that jet planes had
chased a red lighted object which had flashed
through the sky at better than 500 miles ner hour.
Any inforwation you could give us would help

in our of the UFO PHENOMENA.

Sincerely,
Richard L. Hinson
Palmer W. Cook .
Scott L. Bennett Jr.

AFTER 5B DAYS RETURN

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