PROJECT BLUE BOOK

PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE 2. LOCATION °* | at " 12. CONCLUSIONS

/V sighting between 0 Was Bolloon
Schenectady & Oswego, NY OQ Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION sae, Fee enion
Lecol TRESS: 57a re 0 Ground- Vi sual 0D Ground-Redor io Bene Kicocatt
omT09/0315Z XXAir Vi sucl O Air-intercept Radar DO Possibly Aircroft
5. PHOTOS » SOUR &xWes Astronomicoh Venus
0 Yes ivilian O Probably Astronomical
Eo ommercial. Pilot, jim D Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE PRG ee ee
o4 rauinedont Dote for Evaluation
forty-five minutes one E to W bakit
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11, COMMENTS

One object, shape unknown but estimated This sighting was generated by
to be size of an aircraft on the ground the planet Venus, setting in
ns viewed from 6000 feet. Object was the West.

prange in color. Object appeared to

Fly parallel to the aircraft and disap

peared over Lake Ontario.

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‘i dagrects out well -nder 302, I pe % imme to caesk this velue wuectiy, bub I
snail da a0 om my return from Ruwapes 1 ain dictating this note late al wight on the
swe Of my departure. I retura on Se mazalbd 2% Aad ls is eqeally true thet the setting
sorcnsth of Venue is Just vlignly greater than 309 Regreee, We de nnew, however, |
‘oat arrore of agimuth frorn the ground age tatrembly easy te make, See che reference |
>the Dresg:¢ Isls case, where axpertaneed | veorvers made @ serious grror,. iere-
“vas, we have found thar tne Ale Fores q¥e MgRaire was aftes ambiguowe on tae -
, -estiee of asimuth.. la sone cases, the deen ey Nave nct tae asimuth of the si gited
oiset from themselves, Dut the asimeth tieet! y @aticnated os which tau UFO wae
‘pposeniy ilyiag. And, since these UT Oz 0 ted ute evasive aciicoa, sisce taey ore
pre 2 on the abeerver, this means that thdy 6 te take ® course 88 judges by |
the Observer, perallel to hisown, Thas ? s 2 far ae 1 can go irom here, exces |
°3 way that thera was an oxtremely brig ge noes regioe, Many repertes have |
yen retetyed identifying itaaa UTO, Fe fee evealder «2 srrow od 24 oergueed di cat- |
wcant, althougn yo will doubtless cay taat Liam stretcoing the facte, Lyon se, ts :
«it were aot the plaaet Vonua, we ars com wi aure that the observes ‘vowld hove
caported that ha observed a UFOS a0 argh a9 perth of the bright pienet Vesue 07, |
if ne did not haew Venus when se saw is, af ) extremely beight otap that ues beove
been at abort) the bame altiteve, | hee pL clit ef

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"Meet the Millers" Program
WBEN-TV; Buffalo, New York
April 16, 1956

Subject: Pursuit of unidentified flying object (UFO) by American
Airlines plane.

Appearéng on the program: Mr. & Mrs. Miller, interviewers
Capt —iideigan, American Airlines pilot
First Officer William Neff, co-pilot
Bruce Foster, Bell Aircraft Co. engineer

TRANSCRIPT

Miller; Seated next to Mildred (Mrs. Miller) is Mr, Bruce Foster of
Bell Aircraft. Next to Mr. Foster is Connteeniiinn of American
Airlines and First Officer Neff of American Airlines. Now
you fellows had a real experience. What date was this?

i, This was a week ago last night, on April 8th.
Miller: Was that a regular flight of American Airlines?

Se “Yes it was.

Miller: From Buffalo to New York?

agg This flight comes out of New York and lands at Albany, Syracuse,
Rochester, and terminates in Buffalo.

Miller: What was your first idea that anything was happening--that you
were seeing something?

Neff; This very brilliant white light--like an approaching aircraft
with its landing lights on. Naturally we moved away from it
thinking that's what it was. Then we noticed it was standing
still at the time and we got sort of curious.

Miller: Just about what location was this?
gel This was just about over Schenectady. We were coming out of Albany.

We took off north and we made a left turn and we noticed this light
over Schenectady. It seemed to be standing still.

Millers: A light? Now when you say a light, do you mean a light like a light
bulb--about that color?

~ owl Oh yes, very fluorescent--a very bright light...

Phe Ss ‘ ‘ a, ee or.
Mrs. Miller: A big what?

El A large light. It looked more like a light coming into Albany air-
port

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Mrs. Miller: And both of you saw it? At the same time?

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Miller:

How close were you to it do you think?

We turned a little bit to pass to the south of it, and we
were probably 2 to 3 miles from it.

And the thing was just astanding there?

Just about standing; it was off our wing-tip.

Was there anyone else on the flight with you?

Oh, we had Miss Reynolds, our stewardess was with us.
Did she happen to notice it too?

She came up. We called her and she came up and looked at it
later on after this had taken off at this terrific speed...

How long was it stationary there?

We couldn't say that it was actually stationary...
(several talking at once)
eoefrom the time we were off the ground at Albany, until w:
its about 15 miles by air to Schenectady and it was off ov
wing-tip, and we watched it just go through a ninety degr:
arc, go right straight to the west, and it was...how many
seconds does it take to go through a ninety degree arc?
Bruce?

How fast would you say it appeared to be going? Did it chi:
speed very radically during the time that you saw it?

The initial speed I would say probably was 800 to 1000 mi’
an hour. How fast can it...it's hard to say, just to comp:
that speed. /

Certainly much faster than another airplane would.

On much faster, much faster than a jete

Faster than a jet?

Yes ma’fam.

Couldn't be a jet, not at that altituda because
is sO critical.

Bruceseee (garbled) ...?

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Fosters

Miller:

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Miller:

Foster?

Miller:

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Neff:

Well, I doubt if it could...did it appear to change color
at all?

Yes it did. It changed color after it got to the west of us,
probably 8 to 10 miles. It appeared...the light went out;
that's what had Bill and I concerned. It went out momentarily
and we knew there was something up there, and now here we
were with a load of passengers with something on our course

up ahead, and what are we going to do; so we watched this
where the light went out and this orange object came on--
this orange light.

Did you blink back at it?
No we didn’t...
Just what did you do Captain?

We looked at one another a little bit amazed, so we decided
we'd call Griffiss Air Force base, and I thought they had

the radar pn. Course on a Saturday night I guess not very
many people are home at an Air Force basee And they didn’t
have it on--it would take them 30 minutes to energize the set

Do they not usually have those on?

I assumed they did; I thought they did...

Maybe we'd better not get into that discussion...

Oh probably not. We'd get a little bit off the track on that.

They asked us to keep it sighted and we did, and we kept
calling out our location, and as we told them where we were
we turned all our lights on. They asked us to turn them off
and they could see us, and they asked if this object you see
is orange in color. We said it waSee.

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This is after it turned on I understand.

Yes. They said we have a definite silhouette in sight south
of the field. Now those fellows are observers who are in the

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tower. They said that they could see a silhouettes.
Now would they be looking with the eye?

I imagine so, yes.

What kind of a silhouette did they see, a silhouette of light
Well usually on a raday screen they're referred to as a targe
or a blipe.s.on a radar screen. A silhouette usually refers to
something that you see, like a silhouette of...something blac.
up against something white.

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Fosters: But this was on a screen?

Neffs Well actually we don’t know if the silhouette they referred
to was a radar silhouette or a visual. But Watertown could
see it and they’re quite a ways north of Griffiss, and Albany
saw it--two men in the tower at Albany--one an Air Force man
and one a CAA man. And they saw it after we first called them,
and noticed...and they looked over to the west and saw it right
away e

Mrse Miller: And when they saw it was it moving?

Neff: Well we didn't get to talk with them...
Mrs. Miller: But to you it was moving?
* Neff: Oh yes.
Mrs. Miller: Real fast?
Pn lg It stayed just that far ahead of us and they asked us what

our point of next intended landing was, and I told them
Syracuse, and they wanted to be identified...our aircraft,
number and serial number, and they said, well "abandon that
next landing temporarily and maintain the course and your
altitude," so we did. They were calling "scramble." "Scramble"
is jets that they send up to, I suppose to go up and intercept
these unidentified objects.

Millers Is thateeedo you know about those Bruce?

Fosters Well there's one of these bases right up next to the Bell
plant up there, and we see these fellows taking off most
any time of the day or night up there on various training
missions.

Millers: In other words they’re alerted at all times?

Fosters Yes they are. They usually have a couple of planes alerted

on or near the end of the runway. On very short notice these
people can take off and climb up to some interception point
directed by radar operators.

Millers You say in a very shobt time. How long would it take them to
get airborne?

Fosters’ Well probably in about five minutes. I don’t know just exactly
how quick they can do it.

Mrs. Millers: When you said * * * (garbled) waa it low, or was it low for
a jet?

Neff: Well it was low and it was also low for a jet. There happened

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(Neff, continued) s to be an overcast that evening which eliminated the

Millers:

Foster:

Mrs. Miller:

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Mrse Millers

Millers:

Neffs

Mrs. Miller:

ossibility of a star right off the bat, and * * *

i oabived) << othe way I understand it a jet burns up
three or four times the amount of fuel at low altitude
than it does at high altitude. I didn’t think a jet
could stay down that long without using up a considerabl:
amount of gas.

I didn't know that about jets. You knew that of course
Bruce?

It's also true of rocketse That’s one reason I wouldn't
think it would be a rocket. If they saw it for half an
hour, this is quite a long time to operate a rocket
engine.

Well now I'd like to ask you a question: How fast were
you going?

About 250 miles per hour.

% * * (garbled) then did they slow down or why didn't
* * * (garbled)?

They must have slowed down. "They" or "it" must have
slowed down. |

Yes, granted.

The unidentified object must have Slowed down, flying
as it wase

We trailed out as far as Oswego, which is right on the
south shore of Lake Ontario and we passed up our point
of landing at Syracuse, and we weren’t sure we should
hold the passengers up any longer, and of course we
didn*t advise them.

(Several talking at once)

eeethat would have been wonderful.

{Brief gap in tape, presumably caused by original recorder changing reals,

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Millers:

We were calling Griffiss and asked if we could change
over to emergency frequency which was 121.5, and we
couldn't read them any more on 108.5 because we were
down rather low and the CHF (or VHF) is a line-of-sigh
overation. And we did3 we changed over figuring...

Go rignt ahead. I don’s even know what yourte talking
about; but that’s all right, go right ahead.

But we figured the interceptors were going to operate

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GP cont.): that frequency and talk to us, and then come alongside us
and take off from where we were on our heading. But we
called them and they said they were "about off," and that
was about § minutes and we couldn't work them any longer,
and we turned over with Syracuse tower, and they were
giving..-relaying the messages back and forth, and it was
then about 10 to 12 minutes and they're still not off yet.
And we can't...I don't know, we'd probably still be flying.
I just don’t know where the jets were. Why didn't they
get the jets up?

Miller: Well what happened to the object?
es ee It went off, it just went to the northwest and it went
out of sight.
Foster: Was it more rapid? All of a sudden did it accelerate its
speed?
Pd It did appear to...after it got over the water it appeared

to really get out of sight very fast.
Neff: It did, in the direction of Toronto, in that direction.
Miller: Did you people in Toronto see an orange light?
Mrs. Miller: * * * (garbled) well now, tell us, what do you think it i:

Foster: This sounds very much like some of the investigations of
Mr. Ruppelt’s...reports in his book on unidentified flyin.
objectse But it seems most of the good cases he talks abo
had these shortcomings. Either the airplane didn't get of
in time, someone wasn’t alerted, or there was some reason
why they just didn't get a good look at one of these thin
Still I think what you people have seen is probably the
same thing that has been reported many times in the past
five years. In relation to this subject I notice that yo
people hesitate to refer to them as "flying saucers." So
does Mr. Ruppelt. He refers to them as unidentified flyt:
objects because many of them are not saucer@shaped.

ifillers Was this object saucer=shaped or not?
ee Oh I don't know. I couldn't say.
Neff: There was no definite shape to it, it was just a brilliant light.

ed Just a light.

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is a point of light, much as what you appear to have se

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Did this at any time appear to be green?

No. At no time was it green.

Mr. Ryan, have you had any phone calls about this?
A good number of them, yes, and letters also.

Didn't someone call you and talk, that * * * (garbled) in
the Air Force or whatever, and say that your experience and

this object that you saw corresponds very definitely to other |

reports?
That's right. That'’s what they said.

And you don't think it can be a jet; and you don’t think it
can be a rocket; and you don't think it's an airplane. What
do you think it i5ee.0?

I don’t know. >

I wis} somebody would come up with the answer.

I think they ought to take an all-out effort to find out

what these things are. If this is a government project, I
think everybody's for 100 per cent security, but if it’s not
a government project or something of our own, I think that
possibly they should find out what they are if it’s possible.

(Mr. & Mrs. Miller thank their guests)

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Airline Pilot Pursues
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By the ‘Absbolated Brees.

“'BUFFALO, April 10.—A veteran airlines pilot hoiae
Mecountes the tale of “something fantastic’-he' said he-
chaed through upstate New York skies Sunday night.

» £° Capt, Raymond E. Ryan, 43, of suburban‘Snyder, a pilot
tc 23 years, said he followed a: bright Hght from Schenec-
tady to Oswego but could not catch ‘it.

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“| Se THE REPORT ON THE UFO STONTED AND PURSUED, AT THE

REQUEST OF GRIFFIS AIR FORCE BASE, BY CAPTe RAYMOND RYAN.
AWERTCAN AURLINES, ON APRIL 8 19560 GRIFFIS AFBe IH A

NADIO CONTACT WITH CAPTe RYAN, STATED THEY COULD SEE THE -
UFO 5 AS A ROUND, FLOWING OBJECTs PRECEDING THE AIRLINE?

THEY ALSO ASKED CAPTe RYAN TO LEAVE HIS ASSIGHED hnee
THOUGH HE WAS CARRYING PASSENGERS, AUD TO PURSUE THE UFO,
REPORTING ALL POSSIBLE DETAILS,

ASE REQUESTED IN TELEGRAM TO GEN KELLY 21 May 1957 BY KEYHOE
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UFO SIGHTING
ROMZ, SCHENECTADY, ROCHESTER, N Y
9 ~ 10 April 1956

On 9 April 1956, at 0315Z, Capt Sg, and the first officer of en
American Airlines sircraft sighted an unidentified flying object while
on a scheduled flight from Schenectady, N Y to Oswego, NH Y. The object
appeared the size of an aircraft on the ground from 6000 feet, was a
bright orange light which remained in sight for 45 mimtes. ‘The object
was viewed 5° to port and appeared to parsllel the course of the air-
craft at equal speed. (Aircraft heading 297° at 6000°.) The weather
was reported as clear with a very thin overcast. This object was also
reported by the crews of four other flights who thought it was probably
a star or planet. Interceptors were scrambled at 03487 and were in the
air at 03522 and at 04132 identified the object as a planet. No in~
structions were given to the airliner to deviate from course. CAA:
records show that the American Airline flight landed ahead of schedule.

The object was observed by the shift supervisor in the tower at Griffis
Air Force Base. ‘The supervisor reported the object was round and
appeared to be about the size of a pea held at arm's length, was white
with an orange tint when first sighted, and after about 10 minutes
appeared orange with a red tint. The object ws reported as larger

than eny star. ‘The object was at azimith 330° (probably in error) from
the Griffis Tower and appeared to be at three to four thousand feet.
The object appeared to descend over the horizon about 10° left of when
first spotted. Object was in sight for 23 minutes. Binoculars were
used in observing the object. The object waa sighted again at 03202 on
10 April 1956.

Conclusion:

At 0320Z on 9 = 10 April 1956, the planet Vemis was just on the horizon
and at an eazimth of approximately 300 ~- 305°. Venus was very prominent
end bright during the time of the sighting. Since the object was
identified as a star or planet by the intercept a/c (scrambled for
identification) and 4 other a/c in the area it is believed Vemus was

definitely the cause of these sightings.

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LEGEND

RELIEF PORTRAYAL

Elevations ore in feet. HIGHEST
TERRAIN elevation is 5344 feet
located ot 44°07'N 73°56'W
TERRAIN CHARACTERISTIC TINTS
(areas of unreliable relief
ore devoid of tint)

Lond forms ore shown by contours
three dimensional shading, and terrain
color tints, Green indicates flat or
relotively level oreas in the lower
elevations. Flot creas at higher elevo-
tions, such os plateaus, ore shown by
o yellow/green, The light buff and
yellow colors indicate hilly ond rolling
to mountainous terrain, Two bands of
yellow ore used at higher elevations to
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CONTOUR INTERVAL
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FINAL GALLEY PROOF

Galley 3o0-THE WORLD OF FLYING SAUCERS

The Ryan Case

An American Airlines plane had just taken off on a flight from

Albany to Syracuse, New York, on the night of April 8, 1956. The

sky was clear with a very thin overcast. At 10:15 E.S.T., while at

about 6000 feet over Schenectady, Captain Ryan and his first of-
ficer sighted an unidentified flying object and reported it to Griffis ,
Air Force Base. Bright orange in color, it glowed clearly in the
northwestern sky, seemed to travel at exactly the same speed as
and parallel with the aircraft, and maintained this steady course
| during the rest of the plane's flight. The tower operators at the
Albany and Watertown airports also saw the object, as did the
crews of four other plane flights, who decided it was probably a star
or a planet. The shift supervisor in the tower at Griffis Air Force
Base, alerted by Captain Ryan, was able to observe the unknown
through binoculars. He described it as apparently round, larger than
: any star, at an estimated altitude of 3000 or 4000 feet; when first
| sighted it looked white with an orange tint but after about ten
minutes changed to orange with a red tint. During the twenty-three
i minutes he watched it, the unknown slowly descended over the
: horizon. Interceptors from Griffis Air Force Base were scrambled
(Air Force jargon meaning to take off and pursue as quickly as
possible) at 10:48 and 10:52, but returned to base without finding
anything. Captain Ryan, having watched the object during the en-
tire flight, landed his plane at Syracuse and made his customary

report.

The newspaper accounts that followed caused a short-lived flying-
saucer scare, but when officials from ATIC investigated they had
no difficulty in solving the mystery. The evidence was plain and
unmistakable. The object was the planet Venus. The observing plane
had been flying northwest on a heading of 330 degrees; the object
was directly ahead of them all the way. The ground observers from /
the Griffis tower, when they first picked up the object at 10:20 P.M., |

had estimated its position at azimuth 330 degrees. It had descended
slowly over the horizon about 10 degrees to the left of the spot
where first sighted. A plot of the planet's position showed that at
10:20 P.M. on this particular night Venus was on or just below the |
western horizon at an azimuth of approximately 325 degrees. Thus |
the unknown and Venus appeared at the same position, traveled
at the same rate, and moved in the same direction. Refraction by
the earth’s atmosphere had projected the image slightly upward,
and the associated dispersion of colors had produced the brilliant
red glow [1].

There the matter should have ended. The puzzle was solved, and
forgotten by all but a few saucer addicts. Some twelve months
later, however, Major Donald Keyhoe reopened the case. As the
new Director of the National Investigations Committee for Aerial
Phenomena, commonly known as NICAP (see Chapter xm), he’
charged the Air Force with concealing the true facts of the incident,

and himself tried to get in touch with Captain Ryan to obtain in-
formation to support the charge. Receiving no answer to letters or
telephone calls, Major Keyhoe then gave his story to certain govern-
ment agencies. Using as “evidence” a newspaper account [7] and
extrapolations of Captain Ryan’s remarks in a TV interview, this
civilian investigator had constructed a version of the incident so
fantastic that it is scarcely recognizable as the same event. In brief,
NICAP alleged that the object sighted on April 8, 1956, had been a
strange machine “obviously pacing the plane, though keeping well
ahead”; that the captain, on orders from Griffis Air Force Base, had
abandoned his scheduled route to chase the unknown craft, had lost
it somewhere over Lake Ontario, had then turned back and landed
at Syracuse far behind his scheduled arrival and, finally, that his
flight log had been falsified to conceal the facts of this pursuit [8,
pp. 167-84].

The original question, the identity of an unknown object, was all
but forgotten. In letters, telegrams, and telephone calls to various
officials of American Airlines, Congress, the Air Force, the Civil
Aeonautics Board, and the Civil Aviation Authority, NICAP re-
quested an official investigation of the “cover-up.” The first requests

evoked no response but repeated prodding finally paid off. After’

hints of publicity and’of possible senatorial interest, the beleaguered
agencies at last yielded to NICAP pressure and reopened the case:
Captain Ryan, a reliable officer with twenty-three years’ experience
as a pilot, was subjected to official interrogation. Busy government
bureaus were forced to invest further time, money, and energy to
confirm facts that had never been in doubt. |

To the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) the captain stated, with
the concurrence of his first officer: “I did not deviate from course
at any time. I did sight an object and it was witnessed.”

The Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) reported: “Captain Ryan
stated most emphatically that he did not deviate from his prescribed
course, nor was he requested to do so. Scheduled time for American
Airlines Flight 775 (the one involved in this incident) between
Albany and Syracuse is 49 minutes; elapsed log time for that flight
on April 8, 1956, was 48 minutes, Since it is obvious that this sched-
ule could not have been maintained had the flight deviated from its
prescribed course, as reported by the Buffalo Evening News on
April 10, 1956, and since safety does not appear to have [been]
derogated, further investigation into the matter by the Board is not
considered warranted.”

A vice-president of American Airlines stated that “. . . Captain
Ryan states unequivocally that he did sight an object. He also states
unequivocally that he did not chase it. His flight time between
Syracuse and Albany confirms that statement.”

No statements could be more explicit. Saucer Iobbyists, however,
merely seized them as material for constracting a more elaborate
fantasy. These declarations, according to NICAP, were worthless.
They merely proved that Captain Ryan had given false answers to
his questioners; that the government agencies involved knew the
answers were false; and that a gigantic conspiracy existed to sup-
press the truth and support an “elaborate deception.” [8, p. 181]
Among those supposed to be joined in the conspiracy were the
American Airlines Company, the Civil Aeronautics Board, the Civil
Aviation Agency, the United States Air Force, and possibly even
the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council!

Saucer publications still list this sighting of Venus as gn Unknown..

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NATIONAL INVESTIGATIONS COMMITTEE

ON AERIAL. PHENOMENA
TELEPHONE: NORTH 77-9434
CasLe Aooress: WASHINGTON 6, D. C. ADMINISTRATIVE Orrices:

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January 26, 1861

MAJOR DONALD E. KEYHOE
USMC (ReT.) DIRECTOR

Lieutenant Colonel Lawrence J. Tacker
Dept. of the Air Force

Office of Bublic informatnhon
Pentagon, Wash. 25, D.C.

Dear Colonel Tacker;

I am inclosing the transcript of a tape recording
made of the television interview of Capt.

M@MP, American Airlines pilot who on April 8,1956
Sighted an unidentified flying object over Schenect-
ady N.Y. Since you stated on the recent Garroway show
that you were unfamiliar with @jjMcase , I _ thought
you might be interested in reading Capt.

account of his experience.

The actual tape recording is in our possesion and we
would be happy to arrange for you to hear it at your
convenience.
Rf..0 yours
“0 D Halt
RH: 1k Richard Hall
Secretary of NICAP

Sh prrcialely - supported fact ‘ finding body Jexuing the national public Aantexesl

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