PROJECT BLUE BOOK

- toes, aan, very high, bright metallic 1. Upper air research balloon over area
color, varying movement end speeds. at time of sighting (see balloon track
pS, revit erent 'a Spe for 26 Mar ).

2. Meteor.

25 Juerr ahs Es iteN, Commezact,

On Sunday, Haroh 20, 95iry fi: imfdenti Cied Ly? aug Blaeat wee
seen over par 5 of Sastern Comwe%iout conoostus tho booms of
Vanielgor, Plainficld, OOS » Javett Gliv, fiorcwleh., New ‘London

and thers, ‘The objet + ia3 viewod for an apn op aime: 1¢@ hour between
5° 5 on. by hundreds of people throushoct:- tha areas mensioned
adeves Tie andeet cause?’ snouch eonnternabien to huve ta loeal
paper besiesed with telephone calls requesting infortiation on tho
Sirhting, Solica barracks were also alerted by some citizens.

The iiareh 29th issue of the iorwich “viletin had a short aecount
of si:hting, they listing the ovent as epohably either ce belloon
aichting or c sichting: cf Venus. The articie aiso said other ree
nerts on object varied, aS in-direetion object roved. fhe article
mad@ no effort to ectually identify object.

The following is a resume of sevaral sje i:itness reports as
riven to the author of this article:

=> 3 00 « + dl Petite 8p ‘roximately.

Ts a nek "2A, 195
“uxeertionally clear with mo clots vist ‘Le.
:¢ Round - A few observors ssid objset had depth

@. ball - ilost vou) A not tiazzard . “mess es to this

fact, they saying only that object anneared round from bottom,
Bany chservors sald object ume cefinitel, slivtienl in S!IADG.
Two observors said it anrearcd hollow tn conter.
tioverents Ali but one or two observers claiie! ovement was in
adifrerent directions - horizontally and vartically but movement
was in generel easteriy direction. ‘his did not coincide with
ind wind at that tine. All observers sid obfect apneared
wer at tines. ‘hen it disas eared 15 uevod off. stroeicht up
until it could no lonver be seen,
gelon At most times object was a bri: ht nuetalic color, Obe-
e-vors felt that object was too bricht to webtch, and they felt
the neces ity £ shielding ti.eitr eyes. 11 obse:tTors a’ read
that oject acemed to chan;e c*ior et ti.«3s, ospscially whan
moving. At this time, the top -orticn seomsd to clow oranse
and red. Those ocbservors wetchine tirouct, hineeulars or scopes
a~reed that there seomed to be fire around object.
Beicht: Veisht could only be approxiated. fz observors
“reed object was far above re-ular transport Mlanes' path, as
Some nlenes went over during sivhting time. All observors a: redd
object was hicher than jicts usually PL; : wien Jets are mere dots

in the siye At this heisht, object annearsd thro th the naked
eye about the size of an Oran’; Pupor gh 7 powsat bingeulars,
ohjcet appeared to be approx sately 2 2 fect tn diamster.

was oving slowly at ali times; others soi. cojeds moved very
swiftly at times, so much so that it was -immossiule to keep
object in sizht through binoculars,
ae Object was soundless et ell thiws.

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ULiarities? 1. One observer claimei he gsnw some sort of
t hebt »f oviect, while

Speed: Reports of speed differed. Some observora said abject

tail assembly at rf 4
Looking at object curovgh binceulers,
2p Some observers slained object had spinning

motion.
3, iiost observars stw some type oF Pire on red

‘ jess tae ®. a : ’ a Pa

he Som obscrvors saw whet resembled fet blast coming -._.
out of objost when Lt moved.. ’
Joments: All observers a:wée tiot object was sonething like which
they'd never witnessed before. All ol jervorg were. con=
vinced object was not « star, most ob<srvors were certain
Object was not a balloon. Object was seen at same time
in localities at least 50 miles apart.

The last witness to contect ms was one of a croup ef men in
Norwich, Connecticut, who witnessed this sishtins throu:sh powerful
classes. Among these rien vere some who were pilots, former pilots

“and engineers. Their account of sishting coincided with others noted

above. This sroup was sure object was not a balloons the men said

object seemed to have energy because of its movements, stc.' One

man of this group, who after.seeing object went into his house to

ey omg noticed strange and unusual disturbances on his tele-
Bion set.

@ star, There is still « pessibility that it was a°balloon.

—

“ap My conclusion from above facts noted is that object was obviously not

a = a i

I had fust carnlets” the other long r report enclosed when anether
stron?e occurrence was brought to my attention..

T hed olscei a snell aa
nerts on the Marsch 28th sizht
3nd address,

ns local paper requesting interesting ree
me. his ai of course, had with it my aeme

Mm Thursday, Arril 1, I received a nhone call «t 7:30 oon. from an
excitad wondn who went “ oo know if Il w re the sone who requestec infor-
motion %n the Sunday sichting. hea 1 revlied in the a. firuative she
sskei for infermation on so ethin strange her Pachereii-law had just
witnessed. Her father-in-lnw ar. m Spoke only Polish, so
she rasseld the informaticn on to ve" -20n of his words.

tras

The story, she told te was rather disjointed, but from what I eould
wather, the man hai tern outside of his hore, in Go-dvear, Connecticut,
when he w3s suddenly covered by a brisht lisht thas cast shadows on the
sround. Next, a Claning or bright »rbject went over his head. He rushed
in t- his home for he was arparentiy badly frightened; he tlanced at the
clock ivmeiiat-ly, and he rlaced the sime at 7:15,

I asked the woman the direction in which object wes moving, and I
learned it was heading north.

Because of the natures in ‘hich th vort was given to me, I frsnkly
414i not rut much credence in it. — said the object was
abent 200. feet in the sir; althouzh this was low for & ‘at, this was what I

in efiately thoucht it wes althoursh I'd failed to ass ie tan sbdout the

sound object made,
I.-was about to call ir gain when I had another call.

This call was from e itr. of lauregan, Connecticut, a man whom

I kmow well, and whose veracity I would mever question.

The s i. gave me tceally startled me because it asreed
with lr. report in all respects. Hsre is the story as he
told it to me ut any em cliishments.

"At (+15 this evenin:; I was walking to my home when suddenly I
was ba in light. ly first thought was thot I was in the path of an
on-coming cor. ins light cast huge shadows on the ground. As I anced
wp a huse ball of lisht passed over.me. The light was 200. to 1000 feet
up, and it was moving at tremendous sperd. Serore 2 second had passed,
it was eut of sicnt. Tecan only descrive obicst as »sins spherical in
shape and extremely briztht. The objsct mace no sound a& all as it
passed over re. It left no trail a2 a comot might.”

Z questioned i SMMMeabout the object's being a jet although of
course, the ian object was silent pretty well ruled out its being a
jet. lr. s positive object was not a plane. -.ot only because
of lack of sound, bout becauss of extreme speed. Us sald he had geen

ets eat low altitudes, but jets stayed in si:ht lorcer than this object
did,

te, GHP soic object wag movin: due north. [If was headed directly
toward the north star,

The swuvary of all. this is that 1t was not « jot because of gound. P
Its being 2 comet ig dourtful because of Piat trajectory and this had no Teas)
showing. ‘As to its befits: 2 fireball, I do mot know. Uscause of gounde-

lessness, that fact micht be doubttit also.

Host interestin; of ali, I belleve was the @act of object's be
scen in two places, Goodyerr tnd Wavregean, towns eight miles apart, a
aan about the same time. This is a real indicetion of the thing
speec.,

ots

Respectfully submitted;

-_ recseeiadl