PROJECT BLUE BOOK

PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
12 · CONCLUSIONS
o Wes Belleen
8 Har 54 100 Probably Bdleon
DATI PessiMy Belloon
Leeal Bround-Vreed .Grou Reder d..Wes Airerelt
09/05072(m1ht) Probably Aircrelt.
OMT 0 Alr Viewel 0 Air Reder O PessiWy Airereft
& Wes Astronomical Meteor
O Yee a Yee 00 o Prebably Astrenemical
% No No military& military-& civilian civilian D Possibly Astronomicel Possibly Astronemicel
JECTS 9. COURSE Other. Other
000 Insufficient Det Do iee er
seconds 10-20 Unik me wn Unk me wn
group group East
11. COMMENTS 11. COMMENTS .
4 Crescent shape group of objects, high inten- shape group of objeets, high inten- Straight line of short port duration, duration,
ity ity light. Speed est 1500 light. Speed est 1500 70 deg meteor breaking up.
lev 180 deg az at initial 180 deg az at initial arance. 70 deg
lev 155 de 155 deg to East to East
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4r08 PORM .
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JWFMB B231 4. ATiReading
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TO JEDEN/COMDR AIR DEF COMD ENT AFB COLO TO JEDEN COMDR AIR DEF COMD ENT AFB C OLO
ON AFB OHIOPhleL ON AFB OHIOleL
JEPHO/DIR OF INTEL HOS USAF WASHDC
JEDWP/COMDR AMC WRIGHT PATTERSON AFB OHIO
SABB-3-21-E FOR AMC MCEP UFOB IN COMPLIANCE WITH AFR 200-2 DTD 26 SABB-3-21-E FOR AMC MCEP UFOB IN COMPLIANCE WITH AFR 20O-2 DTD 26
AUG 53 THE FOL REPT IS SUBM 1. A. OBJ CONSISTED OF A SERIES OF MORE
THAN TEN BUT LESS THAN TWENTY LIGHTS ARRANGD IN A CRESCENT SHAPE.
B. APRX EQUAL TO A REG SIZED DINNER PLATE HELD AT ARMS LENGTH.
C. VERY HIGH INTENSITY WHITE LIGHTS. APPEARED TO BE FLUORESCENT.
D. POSSIBILITY EXISTS THAT THERE WERE BETWEEN TEN AY INDIV hiHe
UBJ FLY IN CLOSE FORMATION. OBSR STATED THAT THE RELATIVE PSN OF THE I
INDIV LIGHTS DID NOT C WHICH LEADS WRITER TO BELIEVE THAT ONLY ONE
OBJ WAS OBSRD. E. SEE I.A. F. NONE OTHER THAN STATED IN I.A.
G. THERE APPEARED TO BE A BLUISH HAZE SYRROUNDING OBJ. T
. NO SOUND. I. SPEED EST TO BE FIFTEEN HUNDRED MPH. OBSR CERTAIN
KNOWN ACTY. 100 x)

6. OBJ WAS OBSRD BY MAJ 1798TH FERR
AFB TEXAS. DY ASGMT GRP NAV - INTL O. RELIABILI
OBSRS INC MRS .OBSRS INC MRS MR AND MRS
SAN ANTONIO TEXAS. M i
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7. B.S WIND DIR (DEGREES) VELOCITY KNOTS)
SURFACE CALM
6,990 350 35 .
18,909 349 45
16,929 350 55 NNEAT
39,992 350 63
59,999 280 50
80, 009 NOT AVAILABLE
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8. NONE. 9. NONE. 19. NEGATIVE. 11. ONE B-50 AND ONE 6-29 ACFT IN . NONE. 9. NONE. 19. NEGATIVE. 11. ONE B-50 AND ONE 6-29 ACFT IN
AREA AT TIME. NOTHING RPTD BY CREW. 12. MAJOR AREA AT TIME. NOTHING RPTD BY CREW. 12. MAJOR CHIEF CHIEF
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course
body which h ufac-
The Cincinnati's General Ele-
etrie , Ste four minute look. In com-
object half dollar held at arm's
leagth. e object
may
erify sighting, Stewart said the
ellipsoid picked u oruptly chai color, transformingfrom
binisk white to white The object suddenly changed d its course
bo the in aa upward, almost vertiele climb. aa upward, almost vertiele climb.
No ble.
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ANMEERD
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ELLIPSOIDS... -THEIR EVIDENGE AND THE EXPERTS: Mr.J.Ackeret,
professor of aerodynamics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich,
recently visited the General Electric plant 1 near Cincinnati, in his itinerary of
Aerodynamic installations in the U.S. When asked about flying "the
professor said he believes Americ them
"illusiong'.
Professor Ackeret is not alone among the "experts have belittled the"sau-
cer" or discredited creditable sighters. Perhaps th ost myopic of skeptics
ie Dr. Roy K. Marshall, director of Morehead Planetarium. In his pedantic
groups qualified to thoroughly obser he skies -- eteorologists and as-
the discove the planet Pluto. n 1948, Las Cruces
and his family witnessed an object which he described "solid ship" of a
kind he had ney seer before. oval shaped and trail off at
the rear into a shapeless luminescence." The object emanated a blue-green
glow, and about a half dozen clearly visibl the front of the
hip and along the side.
Many simil eteo-
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BICASI QLY) 9 March 1954
-T.. ( Cineinnati, Ohie
SAUCER MARGIN
March 9, 1954, 3:57 A. M. Sighter: John H. Stewart of
Owns pilot's license;6 ho itary fly-
ing timel
While driving north on Paddock Road under a dark, moonless sky, Stewart
saw a bright halo of f pulsating, bluish noving slowly in a
ark ellipsoidal
body which he described as "d lefinitely solid", anufac-
tured" machine.
plant. Stopping good
a half dollar held at arm's
length. Its elevation was estimated thousand s the object
may have bee DC-6.
While trying in vain to find
ellipsoid picked up accel bruptly changed color, transformingfrom
bluish white to yellow to olten red." The object suddenly changed its course
to the east and disappeared in s seconds ... in an upward, almost verticle climb.
No sound wa heard, no vapor sible.
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