PROJECT BLUE BOOK

1. DATE - TiME GROUP

26 Feb 53 26/12392
3. SOURCE

military
4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS

one
5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION

approx 30 sec

& TYPE OF O8SERVATION

ground visual
7, COURSE

ee ee eee we

East
8. PHOTOS

cS Yes

ox No

9. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE

CG Yes
O Ne

FORM
FTD see 463 0-329 (TDE)

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD
2. LOCATION

Kingsville, Md

10, CONCLUSION POSSIBLE AIRCRAFT
Comments:  .
Since sourace was riding in an automobile, it is believed that
obj was not properly observed. There is great possiblity that
obj was an a/c at a far distance reflecting the rays of the
sun. No check on a/c in the area.

1]. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS

Unugual luminous obj was sighted in the NE avprox 40 deg

above horizon. When first sighted obj apye ared to be stationar:
and 15 seconds later the brightness appeared to diminish

and seemed to move in an E direction. Obj was last observed
approximtely 30 deg abovehori zon.

Previous eSttions of thie form may be used,

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DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
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SUBJECT: FLYOGRT

Sighting of Unidentified Aerial) > Jojects on

26 February 1953, at Kingsville, Maryland, and
S Mareh 1953, at Baltimore, Maryland
ROBERT F. PLOTT, Capte, USI

SPECIAL INQUIRY

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Commanding General

Headquarters Command, USA? Pars ai
Bolling Air Force Sase D5 en, ee
Washington 25, De Ce

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l. This office has received two (2) Summary of [nformation Reports
from the Baltimore Regional Office, 109th CiC Detachment, Subject:
Sighting of an Unusual Luminous Aerial Odject, dated 12 March and

25 March 1953. [fhese Summary of Information Resorts are set forth
verbatim as follows:

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12 March 1953

"Between 0739 and O71 hours, 26 February 1953,
Captain, MM, “edical Service Corps, Chief of Radiological Hygiene
Division, Army Mvironmental Health Laboratory, Army Chemical Center,
Maryland, who was driving alone in his automobile in a westerly di-
rection on J.S. Route 1, two to three miles west of Kingsville,
Maryland, sighted an unusual luminous aerial object in the northeast
cky. The object a to be self illuminated and about forty degrees
above the horizon. estimated the surface brightness and color
temperature to be about the same as that of the.sun which at that time
was partly obscured by clonds in the southeast sky. A layer of medium
dark gray stratus clouds, at an estimated altitude of 7,000 to 10,000
feet, were in the same part of the sky, bdut was unable to de-
termine whether the object was between him and the clouds, the midst
>? the clouds, or *he far side of ‘he clouds.

the me De anoeared to Se a motionless, sharply-
entical major.axis. .the.minom,axis acpeared

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to be avout twoethirds as lone as the maior axis. GBB. © 2 sted
tnat at two and onsehalr feet from his eve the oroiected diameter of
12 object would be about oneeeilgnth of an inch.

WAtter adout fifteen seconds the briczhtness diminished somewhat
and for an estinated five seconds the aerial object asaimed the rmmshroome
siased actnpearance of the caustic prmduced by; the rerle ns of sun=
lieht on the smooth interior of a wedding rine. Motion of the object
first became axtnrarent durine this fiveesecond cericd,

UTherearcer the major axis anveared to Se hnorizonta 7 he onject
resumed its original brightness. It appeared to move at the sane alti

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in an easterly cirection until, due to its movement awayr from the obe
server, it had reached a position thirty deerrees above the horizon.
Plost then los* sirht of the odject due to the procress of his automobile
behind a hill. ,on reaching an unodstricted area further down the road,
bie opject had (i saoveared and was not seen again. %o smoke or vanor
trails were odserved,

"Caotain QR cialifications as an observer are a3 follows:
29/29 vision corrected by eyeclasses. He has a bachelor of science
gesree from Camerie Institute of Technolosy where he majored in
Sovsics, <Amonr iis studies at Carnegie Tech was a one year course on
the phenomena of Licht. a nas used licht chenomena as a physicist
in connection with experimental w off and on for a period of eight
vears. On nimerous occasion has observed reflections from air-
craft and pyrotechnic flares of various kinds and observed no similarity
in color, orilliance and shape between the luminous aerial cpject and
anyching he had observed before,

600 hours, 26 February 1953, an agent of this office returned
wit @ spot one hundr west of the intersect on of Forge
Road Ue S. Route 1 whe irst ods d the object. A conmvass
was sighted on the soot in th first observed the objec*
and a reading of thirty decrees was obtainfd. A check at the Churchville
Jriinance Carps tank proving ground = the only known activity in that di-
reaction that could have been using ovrotechnics - revealed that no vyroe
‘scanics nad Seen used in that area.

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