PROJECT BLUE BOOK

2. LOCATION
Honshu, Japan

YO. CONCLUSION ASTRONOMICAL: Venus
1. Description is very similer to Venus with the exception
of the two legs. 2. Legs of Venus explained as illusion.

Obj apparently stationary. Disappearance coincidental with
setting of Venus.

1. DATE - 103
1719351
3 Mar 53 31710352

3, SOURCE
AF Pilot

4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS

one

5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION
30 minutes

6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
air visual

8. PHOTOS

11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS

Round white obj with two legs (one red, one blue) which
Swiveled around, was observed from air by F-84 pilot. Obj
was sighted 20 deg above horizon at 330 deg and moved to 290

deg where it disappeared. Pilot attempted to chase obj with
negative results.

O Yes
@] No

9. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE

O Yes
O Ne

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of initial sighting was 40 deg. 57" 15" North Lat. - 141 dee, 231 "

Zast Long. He was flying a mag Radi of 010 aeatess at af aikitaho

of 27,000 ft. At this si ghting the object was higher than the observer
as g o*clock to himself, almost due wost from him, travelling on a

parallel course dus north. He lost sight of the object at asnroximatealy

41 dege 32° Ne = 140 dog. 30° 2. some 7 minutes after seeing it. ‘The

source caught sight of the object for ths nocond time just five minutes

after losing sight of it. This wae at 2000 hrs Item, and the sources

was still ct 35,000 ft altitudes, but heading S/% on mag heading of 160

demrees. During this second sightins, the object was still st the

sv.a9 altitude level as the F-84 pilot, but it eappesred epproximetely

30 dezreseas to the right of the f-84s nose - distance still unknown.

The general area of these sightings was the extreme northorn portion of
the Island of Honshu, Japan.

5. DINITEPYING INFORMATION;= The pilot reporting theso sightings
is a Colonel possessing long experience in World War II and the Korean
theater. Scurce has held responsible command assignmants for some time,
and presently commends a Fighter Sscort Wing operating uncer the Japan
Air Defense Force. The accuracy of source's ststemants was eccnsistent
despita repetitive interrosation, his sequence of times, locations and

descriptions did not very at any timo. Source is stable and thoroughly
reliable,

6, “SATHCOR AND WINDS ALOFT CONDITIONS:~ The arsa in which the
sightings were msde had tha following weather conditions et 1730 hrs
Item. 10/103 undercast, from 6,000 to 10,000 ft - brilliant moonlisht
and visibility of minimum 40 miles; temperature et 35,000 ft was -56
degress, pressure 210 millibars. Winds aloft ronorted by ilisava Weather
Station were as follows: 27,000 ft from 280 degrees, st 90 knots/

35,000 ft from 280 degroes, at 70 knots, end at 38,000 ft fron 250 de-
grees, at 200 knots.

7. METPSOROLOGICAL CUNDITTIONS FOR ZXPLANATION;:- There wers no
activities of a “me neture, or any con ch could account for
these sightings.

8. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE OF UTING:= Phese sightinzs stand on the
strength o actors as surrendered by tho source, There

is no physical evidence of the object due to its diseppearance on both
occasions,

9. INZ*eRCS TION UNDERTAKENs= the source, upon sighting this
object, called Local GCI Station on radio telephone, (Viiv) and revorted
what he was observine, GCI instructed this pilot to intercept or iden-
tify object which he proceedsd to altempt to accomplish. “ince in-

> itially, he was at 27,000 ft altitudo, he climbed to 35,000 ft and
levelled off when he saw he was level with the object. uring this
climb he was hesding in e northwesterly direction. for sasproximately
3 of the 7 minutes of observation, the source wus riding 2 miles short
of the Mach of his F-84 (.82), as he set up a gradusl curve to the
west to hit upon a pursuit curve that would close tne gap between himn-
self end the object he noted that the cbhject obviously was incressing
in size. This closing of the distancy continued for ebout one uinute,
thiien the object seemed to increase its "going awey” speed and vonished
in 30 saconds. At the time of the disappesrance, the source had
managed to close to « point vwisreby the object wes at eleven o'clock

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to him. Just short of a true stern chase. During the tim: ;
was Climbing and undértaking 4a curve toward tha suast, ke exuisicns
G00d presence of mind by extinguishing all tha lights on his aircraft

1.8., wing tip lights, fuselega lights ws well as fluorescant lichts ”
within the cockpit. Source admitted he readily decided on this course
of action to make certain thit he was not getting some reflection from
tis canopy surfaces. When all lishts ware out, ha noticed no change in

the anpsarance of brilliance of t object 1 197 \t
the time of losing sight of thse o oct ane OL 5 oR? ous” nevekee in

‘speed,- both"“source and the object were heeded due west. Source then
took up a mag heading of :160 degrees and flew in a south-easterly direc-
tion, After five minutes of flight while on this heading, ho noted

the object again at 35,000 ft level with him and fiying what eppeared

to be a parallel cdtirss to himself. It was at approximately 39 degrees

. to tho right of his sircraft's nos3 section, ‘This tims efter a bit
more than four minutes of observation, (all his navigation lights

were on again) the source again tried to set up an intercention course
by swinging to the rieht. At this time the object pulled awsy for the
west and disappeared in about five seconds tims, TI S repeated at
this time, that thse only tangible ooint of coincidences noticesble was
the short period of time the object required to disaynesr the second
time when the F-84 set up an interception course with 211 "nav" lights
burning = just five seconds. In the first instance, with lichts ex-
tinzsuished, he did mansg2: to close considerably, but not knowing the
true size of the object, he had no way of knowing just how much of the
gap had bsen successfully closed before the object inoreased its speced
- appreciably and disappeared in 30 seconds. Source then returned to
«the arzga of his homes station, [fisawa Air Bass end consluded his flizht.

~2O. AIK PRAFPIC IN P24 ARSAs= The pilot of this F-84 was origzi-
nally sut on his guard to ba watchful of something unusual, by virtue
of hearing a radio-telsphons transmission from an alireraft calling a
radar station on the ground. The R/T call sien used by this aircreft
was "Gander", later check revealed that "Gander" call signs are uti-
lized by en F-94 All “eather unit in this area. At that time the F-94
was reporting his position as being approxim:itely 35 miles south-sast
of Chitose Air Bass, (Hokkaido Island, Japan) the cxact contents of
his transmission are not recalled, but he did report sighting a "ro-
tating cluster" of lights. This trensmission was heard at 1945 hrs .
Item. The pilot of the F-84 saw the object for the first tims some
three minutes later. Local intslligence egencies were checking ths
particulars of the F-94s sightings and it is 2ssumed their findings
will be forwarded shortly. Unevaluated reports from neighboring in-
tellivence sgencies added ths fact that this "rotating cluster" of
lights hed beon seen exrlioer in the evening by «& B-26 aircraft flying
in the general arsa of “Misawe Air Basa. In addition, similar reports
were heard from personnel on duty in the Chitose Air Base Control

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1. YVhe foresight of the source exhibited when he extinsuish:c
all the lights on his saircreaft, coupled with his persistency in being
sccurate in reviewing the details of his sightires result ina
erephic description of an "object" naturally f lling into the family
of "unconventionel flying objects", ° It must be added, however, thet

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source's experience and past actions demand attention to this senience

of sightings. This pilot is thoroughly versed in the Limitations of
flying machines; his attempt to garner ell the pertinent information

concerning this unknown item was definitely genuine, His ability to
reconstruct all the factors comnon to thess sightings was excellant

and well organized. Ths fraquency of related sightings of sn uneval-
unted nature further attest to some unconventionsl flying object active

oa genarnl area during the early evening hours of 29 December
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Major, USAF
Asst. Intollisence Officer

lL. he source showed great presence of mind in the investigation
of this unidentified object. ‘There was ¢ diffsrence of 25 seconds in

the time it took the object to pull away when the source made his ?
two passes at the object, lights "out" and lights "on". Significantly
the longer time was taken on the first puss, lights “out" susgesting..
closer proximity prior to observetion by the object, assuming it ex-.
isted. The fact that there was a full moon, excollent visibility, a
clear night, and an undercast furnishes saverel excellent ingredients
for distortion end reflections or r:fractions in the cockpit. It is
a fact that different types of aircraft canopies oroducs different
reflections or refractions of the same object. The reported "cluster
of rotating lights" was observed and reported by the source flying ean
F-84 and by + pilot of an F-94 es woll as e@ Be26. This would tend to
lend credence to the observation. The disarpecrance of the object

to the west is considersd significant. On the first sighting the
curve of pursuit was flown breaking left, on the second pass it wes

flown breaking right. ‘ere the phenomenon & reflection of the moon

off the windshield, it would have disacponred in the opposite direction

on the second p-ss. Thore are too many iniications of the presence
of something for the source's remarksto be considered an observation
of nothing.

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EMLRSON MeMILLIN OBSERVATORY

19 May 53

ist Lt. Robert Olsson
Wright-Patterson AFR.

Dear Lt. Olsson;

This is a belated report on the last batch which I received at
the end of April.

Just as soon as our plans for employing Miss Gluck officially
go through, I shall be able to send you a sheet with comments of each individual
case, so that you will have my comnents on each folder. The letter method xx
has obvious drawbacks. But until that time comes and she can handle my typing
and completion of forms, I had better stick to this letter method,

In this latest batch we have only really interesting cases. I
might mention a 5th, 28 March 53, Scott AFB, which is the lst report I've
seen of an honest to goodness mirage. 6 Cases have only one observer and I'M
following my usual rule of discounting those.
8 April was a met
The Great Falle”3 April) case was Venus if reported timed was in
error. ——

28 March Albrook, AFB was pr/obably Venus.

31 Yarch Honshu, | and 30 } March Lyle, Yash., are puszling but could
possibly have been balloons.

The -8-April Greenland case was an obvious meteor.

This brings us to the interesting cases:

25 March San Antonia could hardly have been a mirage and I'm surprised
there was no radar pickup, “as there any aircraft like helicopters that mit
explain this. Anything more come in on this one? Don't think this is food enough
for a pinch-bottle but it should be listed as Nocturnal meandering Right.

29 March Spooner, “iscs Duration times needs ch@cking here. Herd to

to believe that object could have done all that in 15 seconds. An interestin? case
and one of the regular questiongrives should be sent to lr. Gilette.

Next is the 12 April Stead AFB, I think this is the most, interesting

case of the batch, and I hope you receive more dope on it. Questionaires should be
sent.1'd like to see Menzel explain this one! Is there any possibility thatthese could

have been airerait? Appar ducks have been eliminated,
(As for-the Se Equasseur AFB although NiML, the data are ticon-
tradic troy and nsuffici Perhaps this was a helicopter? We ought to tan: have

much more information on this one. Has this been reccived?

Jive -
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EP Nesoritntions On 31 March 1953 an unidentified object was
sighted and observed from 1935I to 20051. It appeared to be a very
bright light, similar to a star, about 20° above the horizon and on
a 330° magnetic bearing from points of observation, seaming to change
color from white to red to bluo. It appeared to b® a round white
object with a red log protruding from its lower left sida at about
7 O'clock, and a blus leg protruding from its lower right side at
about 5 o'clock. The object appeared to "swivel around.” Ovar an
initial 15 minute period during the sighting the object seensd to
drop to a lower altitude and grow bigger and brighter. It sesmad
to “pull off and loave” pilot, who had attempted to pursue tha
object, aftor it had moved from a 330” to 290° magnatic bearing and
appeared "almost out of sight” at 2005I. No aerodynamic features,
trail, exhaust, propulsion system, speed or sound were observed.

2. Timo of Sighting: 19351 = 20051, 31 <Mareh 1953
3. Manner of Observation: Visual by pilot of FSi, flying at

30,000 fest at speed of 300 = 350 mph. No optical or electronlo
equipment used.

4. Location of Obsorver: Between Matsushima, Japan (38°24'N,
LALOLS*H, WAC 1:1,000,0 end Niigata, Japan (37°57'N, 1399038).

5. Information on Obsorver: Major Zugene S. Willians, AO 44471é
possesses considerable experience in the USAF, performs a substantial
anount of night flyins, and is a thoroughly reliable officer,

6. Weather: Pilot desoribed the night as being “very clear
with very gaod visibility after the moon cams up.”
20th Weather Squadron Report on Weathsr Conditions:
Goneral Pisture: High pressure covered the area.

Clouds: Scattered clouds at 2500 ft, Broken clouds
at 7000 ft, tops ¢000 ft, Clear above
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Yisibility: Unrestricted
Winds: At 30,000 ft, 300 degrees 60 knots.
Temperature: At 30,000 ft, minus 48°C
Moon phase: Full, rising at 16571

A thorouzh study of weather data ast the tima and pluce of
sighting showsd presence of no unusual inversion layers at eny level,

7. Negative.
8. Negative.

9. Interception: Pilot attempted to chass object for ae period
of 10 minutes, but it appeared to mova out of sight by tho end of
this 10 minute pcriod.

10, Location of Air Traffic in Areas; Othor alreraft in gonerel
area were oontact-d by pilot who Made this roport, but they wers
eccounted for as probably not contributing to this object siehting.

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Decamber 1952 ard submitted by €016th Mr Base Wing , APO 919; end FLYOSRPT
dated 31 Decenber 1952 (Colonel Blakesles, 27th Fighter Sscort Wing), attached.

The above reports are referenced in view of certain parallel conditions
existing in those reports aml subject report dated 2 April 1953. The time of
object sighting, altitudes of sighting aircreft, descriptions of object sighted
and weather conditions are very similar in each of these reports.

. 20th Weather Squadron (this headquarters) prepared a weather study as it
applied to the period concerned, This informetion has been entered under para-

graph 6 of basic report. They have suggested that no unusual inversion Layers
existed at time of sighting.

The oscillstion of the radio compass in aircraft involved in this sighting,
as indicated'in Major Williams’ statement, has been subjected to further study,
but this headquarters has been unable to develop any definite reduction of
factors which may hove contributed to this oscillation.

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I was acheduled to fly the night of 31 March 1953, in an F-34 aircraft.

I took off from Komaki #5, Honshu, Japan on the first leg of a round robin flight
from Komaki, Tokyo, Metsushiia, Migata end return, The night was very clear ond
visibility after the moon came up, was very gocd. After I had completed the
second leg of the course, 1 turned! toward Niigata, time: 19351, 1 was flying

at 30,000 feet, 300 mph indicated, ground speed 540 uph approx. I fly a lot at
night (17 hours during March, 87 hours during last six months) ond 1 was observing
the stars. 1 noticed a very orivht light that I took to be a star, about 20
desrees above the horizon, bearing 330-degrees magnetic. It seemed to ba changing
color, from white, to red, to blue. I watched it intermittently for 15 minutes end
noticed that it had lowered to a level altitude and was much bigyer end brighter.
The horizon was very bright and no stars were discernable until about 20 degrees
above the horizon. I was having trouble with my radio compass as it wouldn't
steer but kept oscilleting. I kept watching the light emi finally cslied another
flicht of two F-84s that were 5 minutes ahead of me and asked them if they had any
very bright lights on, such as ao lamling light. It was a foolish question since
F245 don't have lights like that, but I thought I might be looking ai them (the
othor F-Sh4s) and not realizing it. They answered in the negative.

Finally, in the vicinity of Niigata, I decided that it was definitely some-
thing strange. I called the other flight end asked them if they could see this
licht. Again the answer was negative. ‘hen I passed over Niigata, I decided to
see if I could get closer to the light. I turned toward it and sterted tracking
330 degrees. I turned ont my running liyhts and continued to observe the light.
Time 1955. All the observations were the seme, as follows:

A white light that appeared to have a red and blues beam of Light
originating near the bottom of the white light. These beans could be

seen shining downward and sideways, reflecting through the light haze,

and kept swiveling around. ‘The red and blue lights would beam directly

into uy eyes every so often as it swiveled around, There was no ox-

haust trail observed.

I poured the coal on and indicated 350 mph. The light graduslly changed
position from a 330 devree bearing to 290 degrees ard pulled off and left ma,
After chasing it for 10 minutes it was almost out of sight, so i turned and flew
back to Niigeta and then continued my flight. My radio compass worked Ux from
then on en! I observed no other lights or objects. Hy oxygen system was opera~
tive and my cabin pressure wes 18,000 feet, '

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AF FORM 112—PART Il neta ees
APPROVED 1 JUNE 1948.
AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT
FROM (Agency) REPORT NO,
2 Pishter “scort Wing | . | 2. a ie PAS
l. ZSCRIPLITON OF OBJECT: - A single flying object of unknown

actual size. At initial sighting, observer was certain it wan larger
and brighter than any of the stars or other hoavenly bodies. Sinea
the pilot making the observetion was flying an Fe8L-G at the tins, he
was unable to note whether the object was accomoanied by any sound,

. tts means cf propulsion was likewise unknown. First impression of
dsseriotion offered by the observer was that this object appeared to

be a cluster of lights, rotating slowly in a counter-clockyvise ai -
tion = or from west to east. The Obieot Was unusual in its color ~

effects. Its body whose shape can only be assumed to be cireular,
fave off three.colors, i.e. red, white end green. There are the colors
that gave the rotating effect when sighted; this rotation was constant
during both observations (totalling 12 minutes). The shifting of tho
three colors during their cycle of rotation was similar to the chengs
in colors often scen in po:-ular makes of Juke-Boxes. As these colors
rotated in the body of the object, at timas the entirs body was one
solid color, i.e., either white, green or red, - but in the process of
comploting a rovolution, the body was fraquently fractionally red/
white or white/green plus the other possible combinations of the three
colors. Beyond the pro:minsnees of the colors common to thea body,
(possibly the center of the body) the most prominent item of descrin-
ion appeared to bs the three beams of light that worked from the
body outward in straight shafts of white light. Those threes beams
neyor chenged their relative positions, and actually were located at
about 11 ofclock, = 5 o'clock, and 7 o’clock. Thess white beams did
not shift around as ssarchlights would, but maintained their constant
position on the object. Very much like two legs on the lower vortion,
with one remaining leg displaced from the top of the object to a potnt
epproximeting 11 o'clock. It is possible thatth:s two lower legs could
have been a bit higher on the bottom side of the body, ray at the
4:30 and 7:30 positions of the clock. The observer recalls that the
upper beam located just off center appeared to be exactly opposite the
lower right beam and est*«blished a one way belance for effect, ‘The
object at no time executed any violont mansuvers, sxesrst for an al-
most gredual changes of dirsction during thse two observetions. The
observer attempted to estimate ths spzed of revolution of the thres
color ssries in the body, and it is loosely estimated at 4 to 8
seconds. There was no exhaust noticed during either pbsgsrvation,.

2 TINS OF STGHTING:- The sourca exnerisnced the sighting of
this object on two occasions a short interv2l of time interrupting
them. The first sighting was at 1948 hrs, Iten time, snd lasted till
1955 hrs, Item time. The second sighting commencesa at 2900 hrs snd
was terminated at 2005 hrs, Iten.

3. MANOR OF OBSSRVATION:~= Both sightings were made visually by
the pilot of en F-84-G aircrart. Subject pilot was snenged in loesl
area night flying. His first observation was made ‘hile he was at
27,000 ft altitude; the object stayed in his view while he climbee to
35,000 ft - at which point hs was level with it. His second sighting
of the object was also ct 35,000 ft altitudes, During one period, tha
pilot's airsnsed indicator was exhibiting 330 kts, resulting in ao Jf
of 468 kts - and true ground speed of 412 kts. At the tinc of attsrot-
inz closure on the object, the pilot was ridins vithin two miles of
the ach - for this aircraft, ¥-84-G, .62.

he LOCATION OF OBSZRVaR:- The observer's vosition -t ths tine

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