PROJECT BLUE BOOK

PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE 2 LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
Was Balloon Was Balloon
87 Boerne, Texas 000 00 Probably Ballcon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION Possibly Balloon
Local .Ground-Visual .CGround-Visual Ground-Radar a Was Aireraft
000 000 Probably Aireraft
GMT GMT_ 06/24002 06/24002 AirVisual Air-Intercept Radar Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS 7 . SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical
Yes 00 Probably Astronomical
No Mee D. Civilian Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION . NUMBER OF OSjeCtS 9. COURSE to: Other inide
0 Insufficient Data for Evaluation
stationary Unknown
Minte one
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING |11. COMMENTS
Oval sna.sd oojeot, srerox Lons Unidentisled.
E.s or foo-dal
sin.llar to color of glowing coal in
stovi. trail or exhaust. No
souni. Oljeet appeared to be lighted,
but ho lighe was refleeted from sround
Lisht simiiar to that or searchlight
trained on metal surface. Objeet was
hovering approx i2 it above ground.
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ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP S2) ATIC FORM 329 7 26 SEP 52)

thing. spotlight. jus a light
bulb looks cot around it.
It was just like looking at a light bulb painted orange of
course, that is not shining ou could see it.it was light.
I mean you couldn't look in the Sky and miss it even if it was
far away. It was there in front of me and even if it was far
away it was bright enough that I could see it. It was like a
star. A star is bright but it do n't make the sky light, the
sky around it
No, it cloudy. There was just cloud in the sky
and the moc behind the cloud. know was behind the cloud
because the cloud looked silver lined. I looked up and that
thing was there, and it : certainly wasn't the moon because it
was right there in my back yard. The moon would be in front
of me as I looked out. It would be right over there, because
is up higher).
didn't move,
it didn't sound, i n't It wasn't any-
Tand, dio ke off.
It was just all light, 1: painted a )
except i Shiny. Looked lished etal l in a spotIight
but no but not like metal. metal. It was a reddish color, sc f glowed but glowed but
it didn't glow was just real was jus bright. was color-
ful against the ful against sky. sky It was about that bright but Sort of an about that bright but Sort of an
orange (investigagor orange (investigagor is obviously Hisplaying something). is obviously Risplaying something).

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HEADQUARTERS
3700TH MILITARY TRAINING WING (ATC)
AND
LACKLAND AIR FORCE BASE
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
P Box I, Lackland Air Force Base. Texas
"8NOV 1957
OA.
SUBUNOT: supplomentary Feport of i ting of UFB
TO: Comander
ir Defense Conmand
Ent Air Force b se
Colorado Springs, Colorado
1. The sttached tape recording is forwarded in accordance with
our message Ca lel.. No attemot was made to ootain a formal report
in tiis recording. rrior to recording this st tement, the regorting
officer asked several ouestions oertaining to the iocation and des-
criotion of the object. hen the observer desoribed the object as
being lichted, but not lighting up the surrounding area, the report-
in. officer decided to record the narmative steterent, since the
desoription of the iight was similar to the desoription reported by
our messes 28-~
ditions under vich the recording
Lovember logr. the revorting officer vlsited the loca-
tion in which the sightine of the obiect was revorted. -xamination
of the area revealed no liits or reflecting surioces capable of re-
ducing the effect veportod. Juring t is exeminetion of the area, the
reporting offioer placed iimself in the nosttion of the reporting offioer placed limself in the nosttion of the ooserver et server t
the time of the revorted sighting. it this time the fuil moon wes the time of the revorted si ghting. it this time the full moon ws
approirately 2oo above the horison and 45? to the right of the line
of si ht betreen the observer and tie raported position of the object.
.

ty staring. at the moon anld immeiiately lookin: at tle revorted vosition
of the object, the reporting officer was able to produce the visual pie-
nomene of e briliirnt, ovrl, "ed otject hevering in tie aren. decatse
the cloud coverine ove' the moon at tile time of the si iting ws not
nresent at the time of the observation mede by the reporti officer,
this may or may not have caused the phenomenn raported.
L. Peferonce our messagos OA l2sL and U. 13l. The time of si it-
in in both messages should be advanced twelve heurs to correspond to
Lulu time.
FOR TILS FOR. TH CHRAMDEP: CNMANDLR:
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1 Incl P. WOMACK
tRin, USAF
Tave Pecording tAdjutant Adjutant
ADODI-B ADODI-B 1st Ind 22 N01 4057 22 N101 1057
TO: Commander, Air Technical Intelligence Center, ATTN: AFCIN 4E4,
Wright-Patter ce Base, Ohio
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Revie November 1957
1. Recording was somevaat incoberent, with considerable background
noise. Interviewer apparently had no knowledge of interview techniques
(not a single dire zimuth, or bearing of the object given. ).
2. The ervers
testimony:
&. Object was round or slightly ovoid.
b. Appeared to be about 200 feet avay.
c.
to hang over tree-top level.
d. It remained stationary - until she returned outside after going
inside her home. She contimuously emm the point that it did not
seem to move. ove.
e. Appeared yellowish-orange yellowish-orange
f. Note: She alleged that that the moon was the moon was to the right of the object to the right of the object
g. time given by source, appears to have been 6:00 P.M., to have been 6:00 P.M.,
local time, ,1800 hours (18 24002)
3. a. 3. a. Check with San Antonio area discloi ased just just
before her general time of sighting. time of sighting.
b. Balloon skin - yellow-tan skin - yellow-tan latex latex
c. S. Full moon that pight that night - and was just to the right of object
d. Hundreds of similar reports show that when slant ray of sun
or other light source reflect off spherical sources against a dark background -
it often gives the object of being slightly ovoid or elliptical.
This would tan coloring.
4. Conclusions:
The object was without doubt the balloon that was released nearby
(and is often thec case) hovered over the source's area either because of a
slow leak or because of static conditions.
tin.
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GEORGE T. GREGORY
CAPT., USAF
Ames Ame
J. O. BOLIEU
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and I hollering formMother verything She
living room. Then I got scared cau I was yelling I
figured she'd think that do was hurt something
eventhough the kids were h her: and told wasn't
important and I told her hurry and come here.
And finally, hea coming kids were coming
with her and it made whole noise. So I ran to the
kitchen to tell her to hurry and when we got back out, it wasn't
there. It didn't make any sound and it didn't zoom off or any-
thing. It was just there and then it wasn't and we thought it
was around 6:00. It was after dark. I don't know, that is all
dog out.
It was yellow, no, it wasn't yellowish--it was sort of an
orangish, reddish color like my halloween skirt. I mean, M
like my skirt that looks like a halloween skirt.
It was bigger than this room or about as big as this room
It was a little bit It was a Iittle bit bigger I : bigger I think. think.  I didn't really Took I didn't really look at it. at it.
It was just there, it wasn't supposed to be and I thought it was it was
going to shoo out. out.
It wasn't It wasn' ven five minutes. I looked up and it was there. I looked up and it was there.
I started hollering for Mother and so it was there about a min- for Mother and so it was there about a min-
ute. I mean it was right there and I could right there and I could see see it. There weren't
any doors or any doors or anything After I yelled, I After I yelled, I got to thinking maybe
it was going to shoot the dog out sh the dog out and o I started looking to see I started looking to see
if there were any doors to spring if there were any doors to spring one ope anything anything. So, there
weren't any doors or weren't any doors or windows. windows. It was plain ordinary object. plain ordinary object.