PROJECT BLUE BOOK

1." DATE - TIME GROUP 2. LOCA
22/2007 ne

22-23 No¥ 53 Woomera, Australia

11. GRIEP SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS

1. Green obj shaped jike a saucer, flight to North at high spe<
Bluish exhaust coming from rear. Disappeared several times ns
though above clouds.

2. Bluish green obj in flight to the North, high speed.
No additional data available.
3. Two flares appearing to drop vertically in the orthwest.

Orange turning to a pale blue.
4, Bright obj moving N at high speed.

6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
ground visual

7. COURSE
usually North

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MNCLASSIFIED ‘ Woomera, South Australia
14th January, 1954

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Reference: 98/110/2/7RA

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FLYING SAUCER SIGHTINGS - TOOM@RA AREA

le On the night of 22nd-23rd November, 1953, ‘three parties o! Joomera residents slain
to have seen phenomenon in the sky which they claim resembled the "flying saucers"

reported in the newspapers.

De ee employed in the Department of Suprcly Transport Office at Technical
Agee, Voomera stated that his wife drew his attention to an objeot in the sky when he
was driving from ‘ort Augusta to ‘ioomera at about 2200 hours on 22nd November, Thay

were then between Yoocalla and Birthday Siding.

Se Ure escrited the object as beins shaped liks an inverted saucer, ths colour
® green described by his wife as "teal". The object was said to be travelling ina
Northerly direction at a hizh speed, emitting bluish coloured exhausts from the rear

and sides. Hr, Scott stated that as the object, whilst not chanzing course, disapreared
for a moment several times as thouch flying atove cloud. The cloud base on that night
is reported by the Met, isotion to have teen 4/S3ths at 5,000 feet, .

4. At lr. QP request I did not interview his wife who eh says is very nervous.
Ur. QMBPstated that she could not add to his story.

6. ie from the same section stated that at 0200 hours on the 23rd
November, also drove to Yoomera by the same route.

Se ‘hen he waa about 50 miles from VYoomera he sawa bluish green circular object in
the sky travelling northwards at high speed. He cannot Surther dessribe the otject.

7+ At 0315 hours GT stated he saw what appeared to be two flares which dropped
vertically to a position orth-est of the Lake 15 miles from Pimba on the Port Auzusta

Road. He said the colour of the flares were orange, turning to vale blue,

5, AE one) beater, who was driving another car further back stated

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ho sawa brizht object proceeding ‘orth at a high speed at aoproximately 0230 hours on
the 23rd “lovember, 1953. Shaw could not enlarge on his statement,

9. All the persons interviewed claimed to have been sober and in a normal fraze of
mind and insist that they have not exaggerated their descriptions of what they saw,
They are rezarded locally as teinzg most reliatle people. Their sight is ood.

10. Thile no one would eatimate the height, size or distance from the object, their
stories, which were independent of each other, and were only discussed with each other
several days later after each had given his story to other people, are very similar,

‘11. The Met. Officer's report can only indicate that the object or objects were at an
altitude of over 5,000 fest. It is possible that a hright star may have been seen throuzh
light cloud, and with the turning of the cars, appear to move rapidly in the sky.
Alternately a meteorite may have been seen under the same conditions, A check with

Covernment Astronomer may throw some light on the matter.

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The Kinross Case

Some such mechanism probably explains the radar returns re- )
ported in the Kinross case, which some saucer publications cite as
a proved instance in which a flying saucer attacked a plane. On
the night of November 23, 1953, an Air Force jet was scrambled
from Kinross Air Force Base, Michigan, to intercept an unidentified
plane observed on radar. The jet successfully accomplished its mis-
sion and identified the unnkown as a Dakota, a Canadian C-47.
On its return to the base, however, the Air Force jet crashed into
Lake Michigan and, as often happens when a plane crashes into
deep water and the exact placc of the crash is not known, no wreck-
age was ever found. As the ground radar at Kinross had tracked
the returning jet, the scope had picked up a phantom echo. in the '
neighborhood of the jet; the two blips had seemed to merge just as |
both went off the scope.

Since the crash was not reported as a UFO incident and did not
involve any question of unidentified flying objects, ATIC was not
asked to investigate the problem. The office of the Deputy Inspec-
tor General for Safety carried out a thorough inquiry and concluded
that the crash had been an aircraft accident, probably caused by
the pilot's suffering an attack of vertigo. As for the two blips shown
by radar, the night had been a stormy one and atmospheric con-
ditions had been conducive to abnormal returns. The phantom echo
had almost certainly been a secondary reflection produced by the
jet itself, and it thus merged with the return from the jet and
vanished with it when the plane hit the water.

Solely on the basis of this radar phantom, however, civilian saucer
groups such as NICAP (see Chapter xi) have tried to transform
the Kinross crash into a UFO mystery with Air Force investigators
as the villians. According to one spokesman, the ghost blip repre-
sented an alien: spacecraft that happened to be cruising over Lake
Michigan that night and attacked the jet for one of two reasons:

1) The saucer might have tried to avoid close contact with the jet |

by turning on-a “reversed G-field beam” (see Chapter 1x); colliding

aA with this beam as with a stone wall, the jet crashed. 2) The saucer |
= might have used the G-field to: scoop the plane out of the air
and take it aboard’ the spacecraft; the captured pilot might have

been needed to teach the English language to his alien captors

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THE KINROSS INCIDENT

This incident was not reported to ATIC as a UFO sighting and
therefore we have no case file. Due to the great omount of
public interest in this incident ATIC contacted the Flying
Safety Division at Norton AFB, California for information per-
taining to this aircreft accident. It was determined from
Norton AFB that the F-59 was scrambled to intercept an uniden-
tified aircraft which was Sa tein thonenin accomplished. The
aircraft was reported in as a Dakota (Canadian C-l7). From
the time that the F-39 started to return to base nothing of
what happened is definitely known. It is presumed by the
officials at Norton AFB that the pilot probably suffered from
vertigo and crashed into the lake. The wreckage has never
been recovered. This case is carried in Air Force Aircraft

Accident Records.