PROJECT BLUE BOOK

PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSSONS
Was Balloon
12 December 1954 70.00N 156,201 Alaske 000 Probably Balioon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Possibly Balioon
Locol_ Ground-Visual Ground-Radar Was Aircraft
000 Probably Aircraft
GMT. GMT. 12/1620Z Air-Vi suoi Air-Visuoi Air-Intercept Radar Air-Intarcept Radar Possibly Aircralt
3. 5. PHOTOS 6. 6. SOURCE SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical STAR/PLOT STAR/PLADT
Yes 060 6o Probobly Astronamical
No Militery Possibly Astronomicol
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION LENGTH OF OBSER ATION 8. NUMBER OF 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9. COURSE Other.
000 Insullicient Data for Evaluation
1 Unknown Unknown
45 Minutes 45 Minutes
IO. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
Oval. Oval. Blinking pinkish-red for 15 minutes; Blinking pinkish-red for 15 minutes; Probably Probably astro-star/planet.
turning steady white for 15 minutes, then
dissipating with day light.
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 25 SEP 52)

202 ALA=KA 1
Multi UNCLASSIFIED
Hq, l2th Air Div, March AFB, Calif 22DOI, Subject: Unidentified Flying
Cbject Report, dt Dec 5h
AISOP (22 Dec 54) lst Ind
HEADQUARTERS, 46O2D AIR INTELLIGENCE SERVICE SQUADRON (ADC), Ent Air
Force Base, Colorad olorado
TO: Commander, Air Technical Intelligence Wright-
Patterson Air
In view of the fact that the report sighting outside the
ZI, it is being forwarded to your headquarters for necessary action.
FOR THE COMMANDER:
nee
1 Incl: 7. J0NES Z. J0NES
UFOB Rept Mlsy, UEAE Mnlsh, UEAF
(Trip, i w/d) (Trip, l w/d) Ajutant Ajutant
DOWNGRADED AT S YEAR INTERVALSI
DECLASSIFIED AFTER 12 YEARS.
DOD DIR 5EC0.10 UNCLASSIFIED
This correarondinos n a b: (owotraded t)
UGLASLED ony
4

HEADQUARTERS 12TH AIR DIVISION
March Air Force Base UNCLASSIFIED
California
22D0I
SUBJECT:
TO: Headquarters
Air Defense Comaand
Ent Air Force Base
Colorado Sp Colorado
Transmitted herwith is a report of an unidentified flying object
FOR THE FOR THE COMMANDER: COMMANDER:
X e fanity X e farrity
1 1 Incl Incl
UFOB (Quad)
DOWNGKAIRD AT S NEAH INTERVALS F-35901
DBCLAASIFIFD A/TER 12 YEARS
DOD DIR BUTO10
UNCLASSIFIED
Thio covenr:
UNCLASHED
c. 1islo 83387
M26620
'54 1192
196- A

AF FORM 112—PARTI UNCLASSIFTED
APPROVED I JUNE 1948 (CLAS
COUNTRY REPORT NO. (LEAVE BLANK)
Territory of Alaska 1
AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT
SUBJECT
UFOB
AREA REPORTED ON FROM (Agency)
71-0ON 156-20W 19th Bm Sq, 22d Bm Wg, March AFB, Calif
DATE OF REPORT DATE OF INFORMATION EVALUATION
15 Dec 1954 12 Dec 1954 B6
PREPARED BY (OFICET) SOURCE
LESTER M. SCHNEIDER, CAPT, USAF Crew Interrogation
REFERENCES (ConirOl number, applicable)
B-23 Report
SUMMARY: (Enter concise summury of report. in final one-sentence paragraph. List inclosures at lower lest. Begin text of report on AF Form 112-Part II.)
1. A B-47 crew, while flying in bomber formation in vicinity of 71-OoN - 156-20w
at 30,oooft, between the hours of 1620Z and 1705Z, 12 December 1954, reports
sighting of UFBO approximately three miles ahead of the aircraft, waning in
color from blinking red to steady white, and totally dissolving with approach
of daylight after fourty-five minutes of intermittent observation.
2. The object reported is without
easily be mistaken as a fighter-type aircraft at first sight is believed,
after preliminary analysis, to be a celestial body or the lection of such
a body. a body.
-
F-35901
DOWMO.
INCLS. DBCLubel
DOD DIE 5200.10 ILANS.
DISTRIBUTION BY ORIGINATOR
AIR DEFENSE COMMAND IFIED Clrssifled
(Through D/I, 22d d Bomb Wing (M) r/54.11
.
NOTE: THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE OF THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE ESPIONAGE ACT, 5O U. S. C.-
31 AND 32, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR THE REVELATION OF ITS CONTENTS IN ANY MANNER TO AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS PROHIBITED BY LAW.
IT MAY NOT BE REPRODUCED IN WHOLE OR IN PART, BY OTHER THAN UNITED STATES AIR FORCE AGENCIES, EXCEPT BY PERMISSION OF THE DIRECTOR OF
INTELLIGENCE, USAF.
16- OFFICE
Iuel H!

FROM (Agency) REPORT NO. UNCLASIFIED
19th Em Sq, 22d Bm Wg, March AFS 1 PAGE 2 OF
PAGES
10 a Oval
b. Baseball
C. Blinking Pinksh-Red for fifteen (l5) minutes, turning steady white for
fifteen (15) minutes, then dissipating with daylight.
One
N/A
No material substance discernible. Just a light
N/A
N/A
i. N/A
2. a. Object was initially mistaken for an interceptor aircraft making a pass at
the bomber formation
b. Level at ll O'clock
C.
d making a pass. The observing B-47 made
a 10 degree bank to left, and object moved to position o
It appeared to forward of lead aireraft.
e Observing bomber went into clouds for refueling. Upon coming out of clouds
fifteen minutes later, observing pilot noticed a steady white : light, reported
as a planet, in the same relative position the other object. Object
gradually dissolved with the coming of daylight.
fo Forty-five(45) minutes intermittently
3. a Visual
b/ N/A
C. B-47, Tail # 7033, 30,000 ft. altitude, 160 degrees true heading, 425 knots
14. a. 162OZ. 12 December 1954
b. Night to Dawn
5 a a 71-00N 71-00N - 156-20W -156-20W ad do 2
6. 3. N/A
b. Marquid H. D. Myers, Captain, Aircraft Commander B-6
Robert E. Nye, Captain, Pilot
7. a. High Altitude haze
b. Not available
C. None BOWNGRADED AT S VEAR INTERVALS:
d. Unlimited DBCLASSIFIED AFTER 12 YEARS.
e. Undercast and high altitude haze DOD DIR 5200.10
f. None
8. Initially but servation
a planet.
9. None
10. Observing aircraft was in formation with other B-47'3. All B-4
within sight of observing aircraft.
11. this report, believes that, after
constant observation by the observing members over a period of time, the
transition of colors from blinking red to steady white, the objects relativs
position with the bomber formation after the color change, and its final
dissolution with the approach of daylight, the object sighted was obviously
a celestial body. It is furthermore believed that the way the sighted
object moved in, its shape, etc., it could initially be mistaken as a
fighter-type aircraft by an untrained observer.
UN
NOTE: THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE OF THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE ESPIONAGE ACT, SO U. S. C. -
3I AND S2. AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR THE REVELAHION OE JIS, CONICAIS IN ANY MANNER TO AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS PROHIBITED BY LAW.
IT MAY NOT BE REPRODUCED IN WHOLE OR IN PARSY OTRIUR THAIL UNIEED STATES AIR FORCE AGENCIES, EXCEPT BY PERMISSION OF THE DIRECTOR OF
INTELLIGENCE, USAF.
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