PROJECT BLUE BOOK

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1. DATE · TIME GROUP 2. LOCATION
1 larch 53 02/02302 Dover Afd, Delaware
3. SOURCE 10. CONCLUSION
Mlitary Astrononieel (VEIUs)
NUMBER OF OBJECTS
Cne
5. LENCTH OF OSSERVATION BRIE SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS
15 11mutes Bright ligls of alternebias colors, epioriel in chape
BUrV sicdotul 5de.
6. TY SERVATION out.
-* doas
7. COURSE
Gag. Venus rso_onadble.
3. PHOTOS
Yo Ye
ENa
9. PHYSICAL PHYSIC EVIDENCE VIDENCE
0 Yos D Yos
MONO MONo
FORM
FTD SEP 63 0-329 (TDE) vimes llloms mes loms used.
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1O Y58 KE13 C S0 LMOR2V9D 1O 5M OZ:VL
GV POL NIASE XOCLIEVEL VL * KKOLr CW VrLITIIK POT6 Er AIMtS
ACTION 10t4
Multipi 3,Ate
4 MAan75312 0.5.432
442 3.Cf
RF063 RF063 ATI
WPA0916$-377 WPA0916$-977 ATl
WFOR KFOR
TYD075 TYD875 *
TMA028
CBA032 2130E5
JEPOD 02 JEPOD 02
PP JEPHQ JEPFF JEPEO JEDWP JEDEN 555
DE JEPOD 01A
P_032206Z V
FM CO 8OTH ABS ATLD MATS DOVER AFB DEL
TO JEPHQ/DIR OF INTELL HQ USAF WASH DC
JEDWP/AIR TECH INTELL CTR WRIGHT-PAT AFB
8
3

JEDEN/CG ADC ENT AFB COLORADO SPRINGS COLO
JEPEO/COMDR ATLD MATS WESTOVER AFB MASS
OAT 34C PD ATTN ATIAA-2C ATTN INTELL DIV FLYOBRPT PD SINGLE INITIALLY
BRIGHT OBJ OF ALTERNATING COLORS CMA SPHERICAL SHAPE CMA EST FIFTY FEET
ACROSS CMA RELATIVELY NO SPEED CMA ESTIMATED DISTANCE FIVE TO TEN MILES
PD OBSERVERS LOCATION DOVER AFB CONTROL TOWER CMA OBJ POSITION 27D DEG
CMA 5 DEG ABOVE HORIZON PD OBSVD BY SIX MIL PERS CMA FIVE OF WHON RATED
PD PERMISSION TO SCRAMBLE DENIED BY 26 AIR DIV VIA GCI CONTROLLER
CMA PALERMO-CMA NJ PD TIME OF SIGHTING APPROX 2130 EST THRU 2145 EST
CMA 1 MAR 53 PD OBJ APPEARED TO FADE OUT OR MOVER AWAY PD EXISTING
WEA AT TIME OF SIGHT WAS 12 THOUSAND FEET SCATTERED CLOUDS CMA 25
THOUSAND FEET I THIN OVER R CAST CMA VIS 7 MILES S CMA TEMP 23 DEG CMA DEW
271065
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ALOFT 12 THOUSAND FROM 290 DEG AT 65 KNOTS CMA 16 THOUSAND FROM 280
DEG AT 90 TO 100 KNOTS CMA 20 THOUSAND 270 DEG AT 60 KNOTS PD
NEGATIVE AIR TRAFFIC GENERAL L AREA
94/0059Z MAR JEPOD
C_1

Controller denied pilot permission
No air traffic in gen:ral
5. "Exis ting of sight 12,000 feat scatterad clouds, 25,000
feet thin overcast,. feet thin overcast, seven seven miles, teuperature 28 - 3 dew point 13, surrace surface
winds Ncrtheast at 8 kmote, itiaeter winds Ncr theaat at 8 tineter reading 3030. reading 3030. Winds aloft at 12, C00 feet aloft at l2,c0o feet from
2900 at 280 2800 at 90 10 , 00O 270°
at 60 knota,
6. "Prevalant explanation of object at New Castle
that observers are sighting Planet Jupiter. This explanation emanated
from unidenti ded navigater who plotted object."
FREPARED BY:
APFROVED BY:
F. K. ME.
Intellizenca Branch
adis o mas, Ma.jor, USAF
Chief, Int gence Division
Directorate ans
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Inol 1-Statament of Lts Rogars & Gimpson
Inol 2-Statement of A/20 wdckert
APIC V

Thair aanes are ae followsl Lt Rogere, Lt , Endland, Lt Miller, Lt
Khight and Lt Stapson, , gne could the object with the naked eye
or bLnoculars,
2. At 2130 notaer object was sootted by the tower. first pereon
to see object wan/ j Iimmer, Flight Data man ia the tower, Immediately
I called the 4otb F13 and requested that an offieer check the object.
Five(5)minutes Simpson, arrived
The closest discription I could
give would be, it looked circular and would be
then fede out then alowiy return brighter. within fifteen (ls) miautes
the object just fwied out, but seened to remain in_the same place,.looked
to be over the ciy of Dover Delaware, west of Dover ArB. Just before the
object faded out the officers were leaving to go after the object, then
let the Radar statiea know immediately, in case it eppeared again. The
weather report at this tim Ive zero zero (15,000) overcast
with about six (ó) allegT uled M/S4 and informed
him of the object. the Day Gillard the 1737th
Ferrying Sq, also c e object.
remaioder
shift, 1700 to 2400.
s/t/WILLIAN 3. VIOKIRD, Jr. A/aO
A True Cony Senior Dontroller
SLA2R
Lat I.. USAP

identification action taken: Lt. Rogers, A/w pilot, who at the
time of sighting was sitting on a 5 minutadstandby Air Defense Alert, requested per-
mission from the CCI station to scramble and attempt intercept the tercept the object. object. The
CCI controller contacted 2ond tir Division about the request but was refused. request but mas refused. After fter
the pilot's request for a scramble was refused, the ooservers
watched the light until it finally disappeared.
Willest geis
Wilbert S. Rogers
lst Lt USAF
n
Francis J. Simpson
2nd Lt. USAP
2n0/I8-196-53