PROJECT BLUE BOOK

PROJECT 10073 RECORD

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05/1030! St Lawrence Island, Alaska

SHIP
4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS

Possible vessel, ATIC 184032 (a) on file in repository.
5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION /|11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS

5 minutes Saw white light proceeding along horizon. No other peculiarities
6 TYPE OF OBSERVATION noted. NO mcobved IN FILE.

ground visual

9. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE

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OGAN, UTAH JOL.TED BY VIOLENT EXPLOSION ANI) Greedbbe
FOLLOWING MYSTERIO ING MYSTERIOUS "STREAK OF LIGHT" IN SKY Si .
meteorite, but as the evidence was assembled by foremo:; re Orgies, they
theory dissipated. Here's the story, thanks to the help of \ Sai ghn Ge rnyan
of Woodscross, Utah who probed the Salt Lake Tribune file

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-- before SILENCE!

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On May 7, 1654 the Tribune reported: "A ‘conventional mpt a fall’ a ot
produce the crater found west of here Sunday, and probing cpGrations at dy
scene have been discontinued, geologists said. Ina 73-wofdRiG@tement, s*ei-
entists gave reasons why they ended their investigation, ut if contained "

opinion on who or what made the hole, or how it was madp.

"The statement, signed by J.Stewart Williams, professo ’
Agricultural College, L-incoln La Paz,director, Institute of Meteoritics, Uni-
versity of New Mexico and Clyde T.Hardy, USAC geology professor read:

‘In the region extending from Clarkston south to Paradise, exhaustive interro-
gation of numerous persons who saw or heard the explosive phenomenon at
midnight on May 1 has been carried out. The testimony thus obtained and material
evidence recovered as a result of subsurface investigations at the site of the
explosion west of Logan have disclosed that the crater was not produced by a
conventional meteorite fall. For these reasons, operations have been discontinued!"

And from the Tribune, May 5: "Dr. Lincoln La Paz spent his fir.t full day
here, working with Dr. J.Stewart Williams and Dr. Clyde T.Hardy. On his
arrival here Monday night, Dr. La Paz said the hole must have been made by

a ‘whopper' if it contains a meteorite. They decided to place a frame around
the crater and cover it with wire mesh. Workers will stand on movable planks
and probe with a pipe. In this way they will know they have probed every place
possible under the mesh.

" 'My recommendation is that we excavate until we find what made the hole,’
said Dr. La Paz, who is credited with recovering the world's largest aerolite,
weighing more than one ton."

The incident occurred on May | bringing '500 phone calls" to the Logan City
Police Dept. Residents reported their houses "shaken" and TV viewers said
their reception was disturbed. A check made later with Hill Air Force Base
and Salt Lake City indicated no planes in the area for several hours. A war
veteran described the 16 ft. wide and 6 ft. deep hole as looking like a "bomb
crater."' Sod was found scattered in all directions for more than 100 yards.

On Aug. 31,'54, I wrote Dr. Clyde T. Hardy, geologist who worked on the pro-
ject, asking if any substantial evidence as to its (the explosion's) source had
been uncovered. Following is Dr. Hardy's reply of Sept. 11, 1‘ 54:

"Reference is made to your letter of Aug. 3l re. the explosion and crater west
of Logan. Although a fireball was reported by several people previous to the
ground explosion, I am personally convinced that they were confused. One es-
pecially competent observer describes a ground flash only and he was favorably
situated to see all aspects of the occurrence."

(Signed) Clyde T. Hardy
Assoc. Prof., Dept. Geology

(Ref. File: Case 20)

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Civilian Research, Interplanetary Flying Objects

Leonard H. Stringfeld
Director
7017 Britton Ave.

May 10, 1954 Cinctanatt 87, Otte

Air Technical Intelligence Center
Wright- Patterson Air Force Base

Dayton, Ohio

Reference:
AFOIN - ATIAE -5

Sirs:

Enclosed is Log of UFO and Jet activity over Cincinnati, Ohio
May 5,1954. It may help you correlate events.

Also enclosed is my organization's latest edition of Newsletter.

Although sometimes critical, I plan to cooperate fully with ATIC
and the USAF regarding UFO activity. In many instances people,
locally, prefer to keep "saucer" sightings away from official
channels, but are willing to turn over the details to me for anal-
ysis. Others, aware of, or as members of CRIFO, keep me in-
formed of all UFO events. Such was the case May 5, when Herbert
Clark, who is a member of CRIFO, phoned me of UFO-Jet activity.
Through this cooperation, I was able to see the UFO myself and
thus gather other pertinent reports from pcople in the city.

Sincerely,

Yt
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REPORT OF U.F.O. AND JET ACTIVITY OVER CINCINNATI AREA

By Leonard H. Stringfield
Director of Civilian Research
Interplanetary Flying Objects
7017 Britton Avenue
Cincinnati 27, Ohio

DATE: May 5, 1954

WEATHER: Temperature about 40-45 degrees. Sky cloudless, crescent moon
to the city's northevest. Stars out, prevailing light haze. No winds.

8:00 P.M, (Time questionable. Not dark yet.) Standing alone, looking due
north from front porch of home, observed two separate pinpoint
flashes of deep blue light, intense like an arc welders torch.
Both flashes were about 10 degrees elevation from horizon and
about 10 degrees apart. I could not determine any substance be-
hind the flashes and passed them off as optical phenomena.

8:10 p.m. Received the following report by telephone from Mr. Hyman
Lapirow, of 1930 Stevens Ave. Mt. Healthy, Ohio:'

Mr. Lapirow reports sighting a string of five or six yellow-white
lights looking like "portholes"', in theWicinity of Mt. Healthy, Ohio.
Although, he claimed, the objects made a "loud throbbing noise",

he was positive they were not jets. He said when the lights changed
their eastward course to veer north, the lights remained in linear
order, showing no swerve or break. One light, he added, seemed
to fade off and on, or pulsate at intervals. He estimated the objects
to be the size of a silver dollar held at arm's length, about 2000 ft.
in altitude and Elying about 200-300 mph. Mr. Lapirow emphasized
the perfect straight line in which the objects flew, and said it left

him feeling apprehensive ...

honed me. From the front of his home on Strathmore
Drive, a acing northwest, he observed a glowing yellow light
(9:45) dissimilar to aircraft signal or navigation lights, moving
slowly ( approx: 200-225 mph) to the W.S.W. Object in view for one
half minute. Two minutes later two jets appeared on scene coming
from southeast. They made a 360 degree circle of immediate vi-
cinity. The yellow object was soundless.
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9:55 P.M. I phoned the Cincinnati Lunken Airport Control Tower. Operator,

Miss Edith Harmon said the tower was unaware of UFO and/or jets

in the area.

10:00 P.M. I phoned Herb Clark fe: Lunken Airport phone call.

10:10 P.M. wife and Mr. and Mrs. Larry Thomas of same address
witnessed a large brilliant, white, ellipsoid, hovering in the north-
east near vicinity of Madiera and Indian Hill. Clark's home is 660
ft. elevation: the object appeared at about 825 elevation. Size of

9:50 P.M.

object can be compared with a half dollar held at arm's length. It

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blinked intermittently at about one second intervals for about 3
or 4 minutes, then vanished, not reappearing. The object was
soundless. No jets in general area during the "hovering" incident.

Received the following report by telephone from Mr. and Mrs.
Donald Krueger, Indian Hill. Mrs. Krueger reported the incident
to the Indian Hill Ranger Headquarters, May 5. I have verification
of Mrs. Krueger's phone call to the Rangers from that office.

Looking toward Miami and Demar Rd., about a quarter mile from
their home, Mr. and Mrs. Krueger watched a large, round, glow-
ing white object hover for more than 20 minutes. Flashing at 2 second
intervals, the object had a yellowish center and a nebulous rather
than a clear-cut outline and made.no sound. Certain that the object
was a self-lurninous solid device under someone's control, Mr.
Krueger said that it twice shifted position, dropping below a line

of trees out of sight. Concerned, Mrs. Krueger phoned the Rangers.
During her absence, Mr. Krueger watched the object reappear to
its original position, about 400 ft. above their elevation which is
725 ft. On another occasion the body of light shifted slightly from
south to north. Mr. Krueger said it made one final shift south

again before it suddenly blinked out and disappeared.

Although jets were heard later, Mr. Krueger ruled out as answers:
electrostatic phenomena, a star, jets, heliocopter, auto headlights
and searchlights. It was something that neither person had ever

before seen.

While Herb continued to watch the northeast sky, Mrs. Clark
oned me regarding their latest sighting.
With 10x50 binoculars, I went outdoors. Sighted dim red object,

about 15 degrees above horizon, flying swiftly from the northeast --
the identical point where Clark and others had viewed the object

Hovering. Caught object instantly in binoculars. Itappeared grayish
red, the frontal portion glowing brighter than its tail. I hada

momentary impression that the object was triangular in shape and
that something dark and solid was behind the glowing redness. Thru
binoculars the object had a tendency to pulsate or throb in its
horizontal southwest flight. In view about 4 seconds and traveling
faster than the fastest jet observed during the night's activity, the

object disappeared behind a large tree which obscured by field of
We both

vision. At this instant my wife tardily came to the scene.
looked at the proper elevati return, but saw nothing. This
left me to conclude that the ob had made a sharp, angular turn,
changing its course from S.W. to westor W.N.™ During this

aTTo Wére silent and no jets were in the area. —
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(Approx. ) Learned the following report from the Indian Hill Ranger

Station, May?
Ranger patrolling on Demar Ave., in Indian Hill reported to his

headquarters, having seen a swift moving red, aerial object

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traveling from west to east. He stopped his car to observe the
object, which he said was silent. He said the object was definitely

not a jet.

10:20 I watched what seemed to be a bright variegated meteor drop vertically
in the northwest sky. Possibly an aquarid, whose source is in the S.

W. square of Pegasus.

10:25 ( Time approx. ) I phoned Control Tower, Lunken Airport to relate
the "red" object sighting. A Miss Harmon radigd to a Mr. Berning,
flying a Cessna in airport vicinity, to "check unidentified red ob-
ject flying southwest." Later learned that Berning saw nothing.

10:20- Herb Clark relates: Larry Thomas and himself observed jets
10:30 circling in area on three different occasions.

Ist group: 2 jets traveled from South to North while one flew
in opposite direction.

2nd group: 2 jets circled at 360 degrees angle.

3rdgroup: | jet, solo, flewS.W. toN.E.

10:45 I witnessed flight of two jets directly overhead, one flying behind
the other due North.

10:50 Herb Clark, in car, arrived at my house. Much impressed by his
overing™ disc sighting.

11:05- Clark and I observed two more flights of jets flying in dual formation.
11:19 Clark phoned Dr. Gough of the Ground Observers Corps.
11:15 I phoned City Editor of Cincinnati Enquirer. He was unaware of

UFO and jet activity.
11:30- Clark and [ drove to highest point of Indian Hill, 825 ft. elevation,
12:00 or more. Saw no jet activity. Clark witnessed a meteor. Ob-

served two transport planes in flight near Lunken airport.

12:15 Clark, on way home, heard jet in vicinity.

EVALUATION: The testimony of 10 people verifies the fact that a UFO plus jets were
in eastern portion of Cincinnati, May 5,1954. Although meteors were to be expected,
coming from Constellation Pegasus, May 4-6, the silent, red object I viewed at

s 10:14 was not a meteor, ora jet. The object's swift horizontal flight and its en-

By . gyrink silansercepeciall turn ruled out all conventional
7'"ce"OF Meteorological explanations. The Indian Hill Ranger (name unknown) who wit-
—* essed a flying silent red object about the same time also was positive that what

"he saw was not a jet.

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ae All parties agreed that the hovering object was a solid and intelligently controlled

posh nf ice. The sightings by the Clarks and Thomases and the Kruegers verify the
_6Ss™ Gbject's position. Significantly, the red flying object was witnessed moving to and

from the same area.

Analysis of reports by disinterested sighters and the correlation of time proves the
UFO's existence, its solidity and its intelligent control. ey ae

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organized a national organiza-.
tion to study “interplanetary
flying objects,” first saw the
saucers from his at 7017
Britten avenue, Madison Place.

it was 9:20 p. m.,” he re-
membered. “There were two
pin points of bluish light—in-
tense, like an are welders—
in the northwest, I made

nothing of it”
: But at 9:43 p m. Herbert
Clark, of 4975 thmore ave-

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