PROJECT BLUE BOOK

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
August 1954 Lafayette, Indiana 0 Was Balloon
0 Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Possibly Balloon
Locol Ground-Visual Ground-Radar Was Aircraft
° Probably Aircraft
GMT_ Not Given AirVisual Air-Intercept Radar 0 Possibly Aircrait
5. PHOTOS SOURCE Was Astronomical
OY.s PHYSICAL SPECMEN 00 Probably Astronomical
No CIVILIAN CIVILIAN 0 Possibly Astronomical Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION LENGTH OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9. 9. COURSE Other Other ..
000 Insufficient Data for Evaluation Insufficient Data for luation
N/A N/A Unknown Unknown
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0. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
Object 3k" high by 4" long by 22"wide. Object Both the common appearance and the Both the common appearance and the
composed of small pieces of metal fused to- analysis these samples strongly samples strongly
gether. (Submitted by H Stringfield suggest that they have suggest that they have come from the bir come from the bin
of either a steel mill or steel foundry
where chromium in this form is custom
See: men 7-3745-432 7-374 arily added to steel melts.
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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AFOIN-4E4 COMMENT NR. 1 22 Oct 1956
The attached trip re necessa
tion and approval.
GRORGE T. GREGORY
Captain, USAF
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UNCLASSIFIED
CONT

after a private intervier was
granted him to discuss Uro phenomena.
5. As of late. be has repeatedly attempted to obtain offieial interviews an
briefings from both ArIC and Headquarters USAf on various operational, poliey anà
liaison matters, on the claim that he was investigate or" by Some Air
Force officer in the past.
Mr. then stated he had two (2) speeimens he believed originated
from "flying s saucers* This office was then placed in a position whereby it cauld
not refuse the investigation of the incident, knowing full well that it wa ld be
imnediately brought to the attention of the press, as this individual's case file
has disclosed was the approach he had always taken im matters of this nature.
C. DISCUSSION:
9. M/Sgt Hll. NCoTC. Aerial Phenomena was the in-
dividual making the
UNCLASS

rival at destination was purposely, arranged. Thus, the specimen would sissolvs
before passing into th investigator's hands.
d.Mr. a invited )into his home, and iansdie
ately started the discussion by asking if he was free to talk in front of Mrs.
and my witness trying to impress me that he was very security coneious and
wanted to protect the Air Force because he bad once been a member of an Air Foree
cedures, format of reporting, and ATIC authorized the
phone calls.
g. I then asked Mr. had appointed hix UFo investigator
for the Cincinnati area for the Air Force, and who the individual was who authorized
the aforementioned phone calls. without any delay, he named a Captain Hugh McKenzia
at Lockburne AF Base, and a Captain Kee who seems to now have replaced Capt. McKenzie.
UNCLAS

D. CONCLUSIONS:
12. All mat ters regarding the procurement of e spe
pertinent to accomp
13. The undersigned did nor forced into, any discussions on the
Air Force position and approach to the which could be used to the
detriment t of the Air Force or ATIC. of the Air Force or ATIC.
E. F E. F RECOMMENDATIONS: RECOMMENLATIONS:
14. None. Return of 14. None. Return of
action necessary. action necessary.
OLIVER D. HILL
M/Sgt USAF
Air Sciences Division
UNCEA

AFOIN-4B
Samples ly and
AFOIN-4C 11y.
C. Metal Smmples:
mng-
AFOIN-4D samples
Chramium 67-71 percent
Silicom o.i- 1.0 percent
Ni, Co, & Mn 0.2 percent
Mg. Ca, & Al 0.5 percent
AFOIN-4E Lron Balanee
The eryatalline strueture and non-oxidized condition of
these samples points direetly to the faet that a b high-temperature such
a would de encountered by one of meteorie origin has not been impce ed.
samples strongly
AFOIN-4F suggest bin of either a steel mill or steel
foundry
19112 5. PERM
TEMP
OTHERS
90 DAYS
INITIAL
ATIC FORM 144 (REV 20 FEB 36) ROUTING AND COORDINATION SHEET AF-WP-O-29 MAR 56 3SM

The ast rafer to. of carrying
dilstanee of one and one-balf miles for deposit a gravel pit, must
AFOIN-4A be placed in the category of "hcax perpetration." Air Force files
ecntain a mumber of sueh examples, and represent deliberate attempts
td manufaeture evid eaee and, aa sudn, resal: as such, result collectively in a de- corleetively xn a dea
plorable waste of effort. effort.
AFOIN-4B AFOIN-4B Sincerely,
1Inel T. J. CONNAIR, J. CONNAIR,
AFOIN-4C Metal MAJOR, USAF, MAJOR, UBAF,
Adjutant
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AFOIN-4D
AFOIN-4E
HEM
2 UE
AFOIN-4F
I 2 HON 28 10 18
PERM
TEMP
OTHERS
× 90 DAYS
3 anetree
INITIAL
ROUTING AND COORDINATION SHEET AF-WP-O-29 MAR 56 35M

LAFAYETTE, INDIANA
4 Aug 54
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to enclose wit this letter. If the drawings are of interest, I will gladly
furnish all the details gathered
have made copious notes.
specimens I had. I pro.ised him that
.I would forward the pertinent t information by letter concerning the unknown metaL.
Excuse the jumbled notes that follow for I am copying excerpts from numerous
letters which describe the history and minary analysis of the netal.
I first
Roseville, Mi ichigan. Following the call, sent me
had entered on his receipt will to quot
letter:
wide--these are rough figures because
of the shape of the object. The object seems to be comosed Small pieces of
metal fused together by some inknown process, yet it is (not) possible (to)
disfuse small pieces hitting it with a hammer using great force. We could
not gain any progress bv using a hack saw . The object was checked by a Grand
Rarids Geologist who teaches geology in the public schools.
Also, Mr. and Rapids Huseum, stated that he had
never seen anything similar his excerience and that it as not a meteor."

small piece to . With a No 6 welding tip, it heated red to white
hot, didn&t mel shape--just turned dark."
With the numerous samples the metal took
them to the University of Cincinnati. What followed is descibed in my letter
to Mr. , was just last ev vening that I got
ahe final analysis on the metallic obj cts. D of Un. of Cincinnati
pgoned me and eplained r sults found under
a thorough quantitative study--which woild ney said
they found the f following elements:
"50 to 85 % of chromium
a high pereentage iron
marganese
nickel-cobalt
vanadium
"Dr said that the object could safely be called a solidified chromium
was at a lost to explain how ar why it was found in a gravel pit which could not
produce such a specimen in a natural state. Nothing like such exists in a
seemed baffled by its extreme with Ge Counter
but it registered ver this point they made comarison test with
other metals on showed a higher point f radioactivity. All
doctoss ruled out the meteoritic explanation and showed me s samples of nichel-
iron meteprites. In the metallurgy dept, examination showed that the objectp
were subjected to extreme heat, but said the object cooled slowly--thus causing
the high degree of crystallinit
The following is a quotation from Mr s letter of May 16, 1955:
This evening, my mother-in-law, Mrs. called me from Grand Rapids
to state that she has made a co plete search of the gravel pit where the metal
was found and that she cohld not find a trace of any identical metal, or any
metal at all. She says that it would be foolmsh for anyone to carry that original
nine pound piece for a mile and a half just to drop it in the rit. She says the
n arest road is l miles..."

will now subscribe to Orbit, and the metal willbe shown to Mr. when he
arrives fro
So rests the case of the unknown metal rom an abandoned gravel ear
Lafayette, Indiana.
Still another t pe of black metal or rock has come into my po session from
Erie, Pa. It wes found in the middle of a road at l2:L5 am, August 11, 1956.
It was too hot to handle. I now have fragments under analysis.
I hope that the so-called "angel hair" you nrove tobe something
more than cobweb. Since H0C0.. talking with M/Sgt. -/00 have learned that mor e
of the "stuff" was found of the "stuff" ' was foung against neighboring screendoors, but has since been endoors, but has since been
lost. lost.

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