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4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION

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7. LENGTH oF | CaEERU ATION
20-30 minutes

11. COMMENTS

Sighting characteristic of searchlight
activity with reflections from haze
layer.

fre groups th four unites in each group.

Hover together and then"take off" rapidly.
Had cometelike tail. Objects in formation.
Like @ platter, light compared to dark sky
background. Distance unknown, but appeared
to be higher than 2 a/c that flew over,
Telephone operator st Lakehuiest recetved

numerous calle regarding objects. WX indicated

that large stars visible, small atars net due
9 haze. Motion included flight from horizon
horizon in a few seconds. to sound. Random

' hovement.

ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)

12. CONCLUSIONS

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Was Balloon
Probably Balloon
Possibly Balloon

Was Aircraft
Probably Aircraft
Possibly Aireraft

Wes Astronomicel
Probably Astronomical
Possibly Astronomical

TB Inwsticrent Date for Eveloetion
Insufficient Dota Evaluection

Unknown

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Civilian defense people whom he knows quite well, to Mays Landing, and
several other places which appear to have been South of the position of
these objects, ami who might have been able to furnish information as to
what they looked like from that anzglee None of these people had any
information whatsoever on this incident, ont. quite confident
that bf any observations had been made, the people contacted vould have

knovm about it.

The last piece of evidence I would like to bring in varies
a great deal froa all the other observations. it./jg QQ,
a pilot who Lives near Toms Aiver, was contacted by a friend that night
to go out and se the unknown objects egies considered of above
average reliability and an above average observere He saw 12 objects.
He observed tiem ‘or 5 minutes, during which time he says they were flying
in a left-hami ‘ircle formation. (He has drawn this on his Form aA.) Their
color was orange, their shape was round or slightly oval, they would stand
still at times and then would speed up, always keeping in the circle. He
estimates their speed at between 2 and 3 thousand mph, and their distance
at 24 miles at 2U00' or 70 miles at 50 = 60 thousand f2et. When we contacted

WP: 2355 at Lakehurst NAS, Capte Hanson asked him if he had any further

information to add, either as to additional data gathered or in the way of
opinions on the subject. GM replied that he had no further information
not stated on the Form A, and that if we wanted any opinions, that was just
too bad, as he didn't want to "end up in 2 strait-jacket.”

This same general type of opinion was voiced by all the other

observerse That is, that these objects were frightening, avresome, that they

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F ZP*3 NAS LAKZEHURST DESCRISED OBJECTS AS FOLLOWS LY
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HOVER TOGETIER AND THEN TAKE OFF RAPIDLY” OTHER INFO ity THIS MSG
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PLATTER, LIGHT AS OPPOSED TO DARK SKY BACKGROUNDe 3 1M NU! MOER
APPARENTLY {N SOME TYPE OF FORMATIONs COMET@LIKE TAILe CROSSED .
HORIZCN FROM NORTH TO SOUTH AND RETUR? wED iti A MATTER OF SECO? IDS.
NO SOUND: GENERALLY CBJZECTS MOVED TOGETHER HOWEVER AT ONE TIME
IT APPEARZD THAT ONE CBJECT REMAINED STATIONARY WHILE CTHERS
CIRCLED THE STATIONARY OBSECT THEN ALL THREES TOPRE De
(2) 22452, 29 TO 39 MINITES. (3) VISUAL SIGHTING FROM TIE GROUND
44) WHEN OBJECTS WERE FER st SEEN OBSERVER YAS IN pgs OF 700D3
A RESIDENTIAL AREA IN TONS RIVER WHILE TARGET APPEA — TO BE CVER

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SEACHWOOD, OBSERVER ENTE ED HIS CAR AND DROVE TO SOUTH TOMS RIVER
SHERE OBJECT APPEARED TO 3E OVER BARNEGAT BAY. DISTANCE AND
ALTITUDE UNKNOWN BUT OBJECTS APPEARED TO BE HIGHER THAN TYO AIRPLANES
4 OVER AREA AND WERE BELIEVED TO BE AT 2999 Fre (5) LT
SN OF ZP-3 NAS LAKEHURST NEW JERSEY. THE CHIEF OF POLICE
, RIVER AND SEVERAL OF HIS MENe THE POLICE CHIEF HAD AIR FORCE
CHPERIZNCE. THE TELEPHONE OPERATOR AT LAKEHURST REPORTED NUMEROUS
TELEPHONE CALLS CONCERNING THE SICHTING.e (6) NO WEATHER
INF@ AVAILABLE AT PLACE OF SIGHTINGe HOWEVER FOLG IS PHILADELPHIA
(NFO AT 299R ON ONE JAN YVINDS AT 1803 FT 253/39,2990 FT 263/43,
5398 FT 253/46, 900 FT 269/45,5903 FT 273/44, 5398 FT 299/59,7 980
ST 29/3 ,3396 FY 280/65,9239 FT 292/66 WEATHER CLEAR VISABILITY
TEN MILES TEMPERATURE AND DEW POINT SPREAD 14 DEGREES LARGE
STARS VIABLE SMALL STARS NOT VISABLE PROBABLY DUE TO AzEe (7)
OME <NC'N ¢(€2) MONE KNOYUN (9) NO €133 NO CTMER INTO Sete IwTLY AVAL
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shows the objects as they disappeared in the South Weste The odjects
hovered in the south for about an hour, not covering much area of the
skye One object would remain stationary and the other two would cir-
cle around itz then one of the circling ones would assume the central
position and the other two would circle (a game of 'ring around the
saucer’ no doubt.) At approximately midnight, the objects streaked
off suddenly to the south-west, disappearing because of fading and
distance, apparently, and becoming smaller as they disappeared,
Office gs drove back to the police station, where I next
went to his point of observation. Figure C shows the three objects as

he observed them, looking due south out of the top window of the police

station. @@MMMMMMm evidence was the same as the @MRand cn OD
Po the other people on@P Drive. His cbservations were

intermittant, as hie was on desk duty that night and had to keep running
back and forth to inewer phone calls, some of which were from people
wanting to know what "those lights" were.

The longest time anyone saw the objects from Toms River was an hour
and a half, which is what the police chief said was his total time.
Actually, no new evidence was uncovered in talking to these people, except
that it was definitely brouzht out that these things could not have been
searchlightse Mr. QQ of QQ@em bas had a great deal of ex-
perience with searchlights in W¥2 a/a work. There was general agreement
‘nat Lf there had Seen any cloud cover, that these objects could have been
likened to a searchlight beam reflected off a cloud base. However, the

sht was perfectiv clear and starry, with no cloud whatsoavere The objects

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Report to Bluebook
on the investigation of Unidentified Aerial Objects

in the New Jersey area, night of 1 Jan 5h.

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18 February 195); I made a phone call from New York to the
Intelligence Officer of the 568th Air Defense Group, McGuire AFB, New
Jersey, from whom ATIC had received the Form Ms on this cases A Capt.

Peterson was contacted, advised of my status on this project and of the

incident in questione He was familiar with the situation, promised full

cooperation, am! asked if I would like to come down the next day.

19 February, arrived via train and bus from New York, found Capt.
Peterson, who turned me over to a Sgte Alkire, of the 602 AISSe A

staff car and dsiver ware obtained and we drove to Toms River, N. Je
Upon arrival at Toms River we went first to the police station.

Alkire had established contact with these people before, when the initial

investigation and been conductede The chief of police and one officer had

been among the obsarvarse ‘Then we proceeded to the home of Mre & Mrse

ap live ie, in Toms River, and a police car, with

the officer who had been an observer, camm to meet us.
Three sets of observers are neighbors. vrs , whom I would
call a better than average observer, took us across the street to the

backyard of the MER essence » from where she had made her observations.

1a pointed out the begianing and end points of the visual sightings and

two photos were taken with a Polaroid camera I had rentea in New Yorke These

photos are Fig. A and Be The first one, looking directiy South, shows three

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Pinpoints them very close to Tuckertoh.

In Marlton we visited Mr. & Mrs. QB = Photos

taken of their points of observation are shown in Figures E and Fe Wre
ih driving home from Camden when he noticed streaks of light
golng past his windshield. His teen-age son was with fhim and they both
noticed the objects at about the same time. They kept on driving, and after
about 5 miles, when they reached their home, they could still see the things
so they got out of the car and watched them from in front of the housee HErse
Ge vas i}1, tet finally they pursueded her to come out and see the lights,
which she did, ‘or a few minutes. the Ga ain not observe three detorte.
They saw six of them, in two groups of three. Each set would be doing differ-
ent antics at iif ferent times, but the main maneuver was, as described at
Toms River, that one of the three would remain stationary and the other two
( would circle around ite Mrse a peat said the circling motion was always to
one direction, but she couldn't remember whether it was clockwise or counters
clockwise. The oijects would change positions and one of the circling ones
would take a turn at hovering. There was no definite frequency to this cir-
cling, no uniformity of motion or rhythmic pattern. The observers agreed that
the circling objects moved around "pretty fast" and probably circled in not
i, more than 2 to 3 seconds. As #igure F shows, after maneuvering in the linited
area dotted in by MrQRMMMMM the objects sped off directly south, covering
the 60 degrees in a matter of one to two seconds, and getting smaller and fainter
as they disappearede As will be seen oy the photograph, these things were a>
a very low elevation, being seen behind some trees. In general, a oe Y

svidence does not (iffer from the information recwived in Toms Rivere That is,

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Luminous I) icened then to a neon lizsht) the edges were fusay but

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fuzzy edges, although “he round shape was distinct, and they were a little
bit smaller than the moon. That is, they subtended about half a degree of
arce There was not too good agreement on this pointe A lot of people

said you would have had to hold a silver dollar or even a baseball at arms
length to cover these objects, which is in contradiction to other observers
(vhom I would consider the better ones) who stated that a dime or even an
aspirin tablet would have covered these objects and that they were definitely
smaller than the moone None of the cbservers throw:hout the state saw any
beams coming up from the ground which would indicate that the objects were
searchlight reflectionse A-couple of the observers said that their first

impression had been that these actually were searchlight beams playing

around, but that they could see no beaa whatsoever, and from the manner in
which these objects streaked away into the south west sky, that it would have

been impossible ‘or ‘hen to have originated from one single point on the

ground.
After getting the photo from the police station roof, I took

a bus back into lew fork.
20 Feoruary (saturday morning) I contacted Dr. Hynek in
Middletown, Conne, and told him I thought it would be a good idea if this

investigation were continued.e He agreed with this suggestion and I then
called Sgte Alkire at McGuire AFB. He advised me to come down Monday

night and put in a full day Tuesday on this case.
23 February, Captain Hanson, the AISS CO at Mcitiuire obtained

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a stat? car and we then drova to Marlton, Ne Je, wnich is just SE of Camcen.

The Marlton pbserver's name had been obtained throuch a call to the Tuckerton

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gulls! wings." The main light, she said, varied in intensity. At Toms
River, people out of 10 stated that the three objects they observed
changed brightness. Tho said that the main object was not
as bright as the moon, and that if you had not been looking in the same
gemeral direction as these objects, you probably would not have noticed
them at all. That is, they were not bright and flare-like, or glowing to
such an extent that as soon as you came outside you would jerk your head

around and exclaiuw "what's that?"

Th MCE sav these objects at a low elevation; the only
direction given »as ES®. They got into their car and drove about 5 miles

SE, watching the objects slichtly to their left as they traveled. We had

gP:: his mthec wake independent sketches of what they sav aq

drew one large object snd two smaller, slightly oblong ones, which he said
circled the larger object constantly for the 15 minutes they observed. As
to the disappearance o! these objects, it was not a question of seeing them

streak off, fade, or be ome smaller. Thumiggmip attention had been
diverted for a moment; when they looked around again, the objects were gone.

After returning from Woodbury, we called urs. =, at

Surf City. Her name had also been mentioned in the Tuckerton article. We
asked her a few questions over the phone, and she was quite willing to coop-
evate. She observed 3 objects for about 20 minutes. She said they were
white, vary plain, round, and not misty. They were a% a hicher elevation at
jurt “ity, whieh is to be expected because of the shorter distance to them.
The only direction siven by rs o Qi was " a bit to the right when facing

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possibility of searchlightse They were definite in their response that these
could not possibly have been searchlights because there was absolutely no
beam and because of manner of disappearance of the objectse They also said
that the sky was perfectly clear.

The one thing reported by lir MMe that is completely
different from any of the other observers is this: He states that when the
objects were disappearing, that their color was rede When asked how red, he
said "oh, about as red as Varse" This isn't very red, and I am wondering how
much value we should place upon this observation. No other observers reported
any color changes in the objectse

| GR s2id that these objects were apparently about the sane
sicse as a pea held at aams lengthe At no time did any of the observers in
any of the places vistted say that these objects resembled starse That is,
they were extended sourees with definite round or oval shapes. Incidently,
the moon was just vefore new, so at midnight it had not yet risen.
<li =g2ave us the address of an observer in Woodbury, a suburb
of Camden. There is a 12 mile distance between the Marlton and Woodbury points

of observation.

7 a, in Woodbury runs a real estate establishment, and
when Capte Hanson and I came in, she was all ready to sell us a 50,000 dollar

housee She was quite impressed that we were investigating the incident,
especially in view of her own opinions and emotions on the subjecte She had
just finished Adamski's book, and the previous night she had made a wish "to

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boy, about college age, and his objective observing compensates for his mother

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Captain Hansen learned, taro and the Operations

Officer of the 56%th Air Defense Croup, tha after watching the
objects for 5 minutes and being unable to establish their identity, called
McGuire AFB in an effort to have some F=9ls scrambled to the UFrOse The
MeGuire people contacted though tel was "pulling their leg." They had
no word from their AC’ on any objects, there was no radar evidence from
any source, and they could not scramble any jets unless officially notified
to do S0e

The (ixes are shown on the map. This seems to narrow the |
objects down to a point centering on Beach Haven, an island off the coaste
When this position had been established, Captain “anson suggested that
perraps the Navy was conducting an operation of some sort out there; doing
some landings, sive trog work, or whatever, at Little Sgg Harbor or Great
Baye He said '/:is tii been done in the past, and that the terrain is very
good. for training exercises of this typee However, he contradicted hinself
in saying that the tiueident took place on January 1, and that it was rather
unlikely that so son after a holiday such an exercise would have been
schedulede He declined to contact anyone at Beach Haven itself. He said it

was not worth it, getting these people all worked up, ani he didn't want to

take the chance of getting this into the newspapers. If the fix is correct,
it should mean that Peach Haven residents would have seen the objects directly
overhead. However, people in Tuckerton, Mays “anding, and Atlantic City, as
far as we have been able to ascertaing made no observi*ions.

From the altitude-azinutn coordinates, ami observational data

zathered on angies subtended, and angular velocities, Dr, Hynek has found

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