PROJECT BLUE BOOK

PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

2. LOCATION

XD Air Visuol
OUR

30.No Civilian
7. LENGTH OF OCSSERVATION

12 seconds One
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING

Object with brightness of star Sirius

wnich dimmed, then brightaned
resembling rocket changing states,
Seen by entire crew & passengers,

ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP $2)

fh off Florida Coast

4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
O Ground-Vi sual

8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS

12. CONCLUSIONS

Was Balloon
Probably Balloon
Possibly Bolloon

Was Aircraft
Probobly Aircraft
Possibly Aircroft

OF Ground-Rodar

O Air-Intercep? Radar

- Was Astronomical hig ct eor
Probably Astronomical
Possibly Astronomical

Other

Insufficient Data for Evaluotion
Unknown

9. COURSE

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ESE
Tl. COMMENTS
Duration too short for missile,
Time also incorrect for missile
Which would have been in area
about OS/0200Z, Description con
forms to meteor sighting.

No Case (Information Only) 2 November 1957
Brown Mountain, North Carolina

Nov.2-Brown Mountain, NC-Flickering” LIGHTS, hover; changes :Orange-to~Blue!

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couRsE (3397) AT ALTITUDECA2599 REPORTED SIGHTING UNIDENTIFIED

FLYING (OBJECT 129T )x EST DISTANCE UKNOWN X BRIGHTNESS OF STAR
SIRETUS WHICH DIMMED THEN BRIGHTENED RESEMBLING ROCKET CHANGING

STAGES X ALTITUDE 19 DEGREES PER SECOND X SEEN BY ENTIRE

CREW AND PASSENGERS X SIGHTED FOR APPROXIMATELY 412 SECONDS
X PILOT CLAIMED TO HAVE MUCH EXPERIENCE WITH ROCKETS DURING
WAR AND THOUGHT OBJECT TO BE ROCKET*.

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MAJ BYRNES. REFERENCE PREVIOUS MESSAGE IN EIGHT PARTS, DTD 8 NOV 1957,
THIS 1S ADDITIONAL INFO RE HIGHLY PUBLICIZED INCIDENTS. REF PART 1

OF PREVIOUS MSG! INVESTIGATION OF ANOTHER SOURCE IN AREA WHO- CLAIMS
THAT HIS IGNITION STALLED AT TIME OF SQM SIGHTING, DISCLOSED

THAT HIS DISTRIBUTOR ROTOR WAS CHANGED IN HIS TRUCK DAY BEFORE.
FURTHER, STATEMENT FROM MECHANIC INDICATES THAT PIECE OF OLD ROTOR
LATER FOUND WEDGED IN BETWEEN POINTS. REF PART 1V, PH 1xcrvenr:
HOSPITAL EXAMINATION REVEALS NO BURNS Pee
ADMITS THAT HE HAD EXPERIENCED RADIO FADE-OUT IN THAT AREA PREVIOUSLY.

UNDER EXAMINATION

Classification change to UNCLASSIFIED
effective 6 July 1966 under the

authority \FR Br 2-1hb(ii)

AFHQ 22 “ti’ se 0-309a

PREVIOUS EDITIONS OF THIS FORM
MAY BE USED, REPLACES AFHO FORM

Sea ee ee Oe aT STS SS

DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
STAFF MESSAGE DIVISION

CLAIMS TO HAVE JOTTED DOWN C

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WITNESSES WHOM

BE FOUND

AFTER DILIGENT SEARCH. EVALUATED. A Y AF INVESTIGATOR
REF. PART IV, MILITARY PATROLS INCIDENTS’ INVESTIGATION MADE OF 3 OF
A MEMBERS WHO OBSERVED UFO'S AT SEPARATE TIMES IN WHITE SANDS
PROVING GROUNDS. FOLLOWING DISCLOSED.
As SOURCES AGES 17 TO 21, QUITE IMPRESSIONABLEs
Bs INDICATED THAT NOT PARTICULARY OBSERVANT OR ANALYTICAL
Ce cet MEMBERS HAD DISCUSSED PHENOMENA AMONG THEMSELVES, WHICH
ROBABLY ACCOUNTS FOR ALMOST IDENTICAL STORIES»
D. THEY GAVE STORY FIRST TO LOCAL NEWSPAPERS.
E. ASTRO PLOTS INDICATE VENUS AT 1S MAGNITUDE AT TIME, PLACE

AND DIRECTION OF FIRST PATROL’S OBSERVATION+ MOON IN GENERAL DIRECTION

OF 2ND.PATROL'S OBSERVATION, WITH SCATTERED CLOUDS.

PASS ON TO MAJ.» TACHER, SAFIS. CAPT. GREGORY COULD NOT CONTACT
MAJ .TACKER, MONTS OR ASST SECY OF DEFENSE OFFICE, SATURDAYs INFO,

GIVEN TO me ADDITIONAL INFO. NEGATIVE GIVEN TO LIFE. MAGAZINE

BY SOURCE. AISS DET, NORTON AFB SAYS PRINT WILL BE. OBTAINED SOON. ©
ASSUMPTION. GIVEN TO MR. ye APPEARS VALIDe = Se |
BY | | ) |
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NOTE : This msg refers to CAF IN 69525 (8 Nov 57)

Dages | H/jjm
AFHO w= 22 “Tun 36 0. 3092 7)

PREVIOUS EDITIONS OF THIS FORM
MAY GE USED, REPLACES AFHQ FORM

0-209F, 19 JAN St, WHICH Ig O8-
SOLSZTE,

UNCLASSIFIED

AF FORM 112—PART II UMALAS SIME L2 .

(CLASSIFICATION)
APPROVED 1 JUNE 1948

AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT

FROM Agency) , REPORT NO, i
LOO6th AISS | | Part One
Ent AFB, Colorado | AESSAUFOB=N30—57 | rice eG tres
1. sourc:: is
Address: oe ee
Aianogordo, New Mexico
Age: 6 9

Occupation: Electronics Technician (Instrumentation)
High Altituds Test Division, Rocketsonde Branch
Air Force Missile Development Center
Holloman AFB, New Mexico

Education: 2 years college

Qualifications: 2) years, US Navy, Chief Petty Officer (Ret)
Privatsa Pilot

If. RELIABILITY: Although SOURCE claims_%0 have

although he holds a GS-11] rating, he doe
He states that’ fhe jotted down, in a pocKke

etalls of the sigfhting he witnessed, and so is able to remember precisely what

saw; however,/Me later made somewhat contradictory statements. At first he stated

—_—<---—-

had tw

~

that as the object passed at its nearest point, he flit "kind of a heat wave" and
that when he reached home he found he had a severe sui.ourn. Subsequent medical
observation ‘disclosed that there was no trace of sunburn, and SOURCE later admitted
that he had been in error on this point. By the time this interviewer was able to
make arrangements to talk with SOURCH, he had besn interviewed several times by
reporters and had made a taped radio interview; he did not seen adverse to the large
amount of publicity which followed. ;

ality he is a "technician". SOURCE, on several occasions, stated that he had ha
some doubts as to whether or not he should report his sighting; in order to resolve
this question, hs had telephoned his chief, who told him he saw nothing wrong in
describing it. SOURCE was quite definite in his statements and appeared to have
little doubt about any details of what he had seen. a “23te%* Fe #39
enh ($7397 -
III. SOURCE'S DESCRIPTION OF SIGHTING: At approximatel& 01:2010Z Nov 57, SOURCE
wag driving south in open countryside on US Highway Si toward £I Paso, Texas. He
wag alone in his automobile, a 1957 Mercury, and travelling around seventy miles
per hour. The radio was tuned to an El Paso, Texas, station, which, according to
SUURCE, zives good reception in a rather spotty area, where there are several dead
spots. SOURCE stated that his radio began to fade out; simultaneously his car began
to slow up, almost as though it were developing battery trouble. About this tine,
he noticed about six other cars lforigcinally reported es ten) which had pulled off
the road3; their passengers had disembarked and were pointing skyward. SOURCE follow
ed suit, left his car, and saw an erg-shaped object in the northeast sky, just belo

Pe

the Sacramento Mountains. SOURCE doss not wear spectacles, nor did he observe it

a)

threnugh binoculars. He estimated that it was 35 degrees from the horizon, and about
4S degrees from true North. It appeared to be lustrous, the color of mother-~of-
pearl, and with a faint, purplish tinge; there was no glow or corona. SOURCE stated
that it was brighter than the dull sky background, although the brightness did not
approximate that of an automobile headlight; at no time did its brightness change.

SOURCE stated that the object appeared to be solid, rather than transparent, but
could offer no theory about construction details. SOURCE estimated that the object

HOTE: THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE OF THE UNITED STATES WITHIN Tiic MEANING OF THE EOP NAGE ACT, SOU 5. C.--
3) AND 32. AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR THE REVELATION OF 17S CONTENTS IN ANY MANNER TO AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON Is PROPRIBITED OF LAW
IT MAY NOT BE REPRODUCED IN WHOLE OR IN PART, BY OTHER THAN UNITED STATES AIR FORCE AGONCIES, EACEHT BY PERMISSION OF THE DIRECTOR OF

INTELLIGENCE, USAF

UMC LAT SIE VED

(CLASSIFICA

10 BOAT OVE UB SOVERR OPN? Peretine overce

AF FORM 112—PART It UMMNALASS1IE LE L2.

(CLASSIFICATION)
APPROVED 1 JUNE 1948

AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT

FROM (slycnecy) REPORT NO.

1006th AISS Part Ona
Ent AFB, Colorado | _ATSS-UFOB=-11.38-57 Fl li St Orrors

—_ - — _— — a ee ee ee

‘4

appeared to be solid, rather than transparent, but could offer no theory about
construction details. SOURCE estimated that the object descended from an altituds
of about 5000 feet to between 1500 and 2500 feet, turned west toward the San Andras
Mountains, and disappeared at approximately 15 degrees from the horizon, and 279
degrees from true North (Refer to Figure #1). The object appeared to be between
three and five miles ahead of the first car parked along the road. Approximately
two minutes later, SOURCE observed the object make an identical appearance, although
slightly south of the path of the first. SOURCE stated that ths object appeared

to be about the size of a pea held at arm's length; he stated he believed it to he
about 500 feet long; he noticed no ports, heard no sounds, noticed no smoke or vapor
trails, and said it was sharply outlined with nothing fuzzy about the silhouette.
SOURCE stated that it did not appear to change shape at any tims, did not stand
still, did not flicker or seem to pulsate. As the object passed, SOURCE noticad a
distinct rise in his body temperature, as though he had been exposed to a "giant sun
Lamp", and later stated that he had incurred a sunburn. &{This statement was later
retracted). During this tine, SOURCE discussed the phenomera with two other motor-
ists, one of whom, as did SOURCE, made notes; the other allegedly took photographs
of the object. SOURCE took down the names of these two men, although he neglected
to take down the license numbers of their automobiles./ A subsequent search for the
two men failed to disclose their whereabouts, nor could they be further identified,
rio Other reports of such a sirnting were made by anyone else. oug ay was
dull with scattered cloucs and a C oxen hich overcast, SOURCE statec that
he had observed the two flights of the object for aCotabiof ores or Cour inimutes 5

—_—_—_——-—

he later estimated the speed of the object to be between 1500 And 2000 miles per
hour. SOURCE has never been married. SOURCE stated that his car started again
quite easily, although the battery had been steaming.

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NOTE: THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE OF THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE ESPIONAGE ACT, 50 U S.C
3] 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.

LIMCL AS SIFVEO
(CLASSIFICATION) 34-—55570-) HYD. GOVERN WENT Pareting OFmice

——— /— a ee ore

UE Pr tee we IW ®

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AF FORM 112—PART II MOL AS SUE ELD
APPROVED 1 JUNE 1944
AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT

FROM (Agency) REPORT NO,

1006th AISS | Part Two

Ent AFB, Colorado EL. ee AISS-UFOB-),38-57 ____ PAGE 5 ae 6 PAGES

SUPPLEMENTARY INVESTIGATIVE EFFORTS:

1. A check was made with the Holloman Flight Service Center for unidentified
aircraft in the area at the time of the sighting; negative results.

2. Information from the US Weather Bureau at El Paso, Texas, indicated that
weather conditions were not conducive for the creation of ball lightning.

3. Weather records at Holloman AFB indicate that at 1300 hours MST, ths

temperature was 62.2 degrees, with scattered clouds at 100 feet and a broken high
overcast at 2500 feet.

NOTE. THIS DOCLIMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE OF THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE ESPIONAGE ACT, % U 5. C -
31 AND 32. AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR THE REVELATION OF ITS CONTENTS IN ANY MANNER TO AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS PROHIBITTO BY LAW.

17 MAY NOT BE REPRODUCED IN WHOLE OR IN PART, BY OTHER THAN UNITED STATES AIR FORCE AGENCIES, EXCEPT BY PERMISSION OF THE DIRSCTOR OF
INTELLIGENCE, USAF.

UNCLASSIFIED

(CLAS WFICATION)

10--55570-, YY @& ©. SOvERNeER? Paseries Oopice

AF FORM 112—PART II bhM CO hac A SSIES EL

(CLASSIFICATION)
APPROVED 1 JUNE 1948

AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT

FROM (.lgeney) | REPORT NO,
LOO6th AISS | Port Three
__Ent AFB, Colorado _ _ ATSS-CPOB~4 38-57 a EE, eg

_- — +--+ ene <8 Oe OOO e eee mm ee oe ee eee ——_——— - _

NS A Ee ae

COMMENTS OF THE PREPARING OFFIC®R:

i. The opinion of the Preparing Officer is that SOURCE possibly witnessed an
optical phenozenon for the following reasons:

a. The object does not remotely meet identification criteria for sircrais
balloons, meteors, stars or planets.

b. Although the reported color of the objact is consonant with that of
ball lizhtning, the fantastic speed of the unidentified object rules out thet possi-
bility.

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c. The reported shape, lack of trail and sound, incredible speed“and
other reported conditions are in harmony with the theory of an optical illusion.

2. It would be manifestly impossible for SOURCE to have observed the object
for as long as he stated if it were travelling at the estimated speed.

3- Due to the flat white sandy terrain, mirages cannot be considered unusual

Lt. Colonel, USAF
Operations Officer

NOTE: THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE OF THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE ESPIONAGE ACT, 59 US C
3) AND 2 AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OK THE REVELATION OF ITS CONTENTS IN ANY MANNER TO AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON (5 PROHIBITED BY LAW
if MAY NOT BE REPRODUCED IN WHOLE OR IN PART, BY OTHER THAN UNITED STATES AIR FORCE AGENCIES, EXCLPT BY PERMISSION OF THE DIRECTOR OF
INTELLIGENCE, USAF,

KCL ASSIFIEQ

(CLASSIFICATION) 16--68479-1 yr ow. BR. ©Ovtanwanr Papating Orrice

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By 2 On Monaady night, November 4, the Alamogordo, iwew Mexico, |
1 radio station broadcast a dramatic interview with an engineer from

| a |

FINAL GALLEY PROOF

Galley 69-THE WORLD OF FLYING SAUCERS

Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, describing his sighting of
an E-M-radiating UFO at least 500 feet long. About one o'clock
on Monday afternoon, Mr. X stated, he was returning to base after
a weekend in El Paso [4]. While driving along a desert stretch
of U. S. Highway 54 near the town of Orogrande, he noticed a group
of cars stopped ahead of him, their passengers standing in the road,
pointing at the sky. Looking up, he saw an iridescent egg-shaped
object at least 500 feet long—more than twice the size of the UFOs
reported in the preceding two days. As it approached, the flying
egg exerted a force that killed the engine of his car, generated a
wave of heat that gave him a bad burn, and demonstrated a startling
new characteristic: it silenced the radio in his car. (During the
next few days, reports of similar encounters usually included a |

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jammed radio.) When the UFO took off toward the mountains and
disappeared, Mr. X started his car again and drove on into Alamo-
gordo to the home of a friend, Mrs. Coral Lorenzen.
; One of the most zealous amateur investigators of UFO reports,
Mrs. Lorenzen had founded the Aerial Phenomena Research Organ-
ization (APRO) (see Chapter xu1) in January 1952, and from 1954
to 1956 had been employed at Holloman Air Force Base. After
listening to Mr. X’s story and examining the notes he had scribbled
during the sighting (unfortunately they proved to be illegible, but |
for some reason no one has ever suggested that the pen or pencil |
was also hexed by the UFO), she hurried him down to the local | |
radio station where he made the taped interview that was broadcast |
later that evening. .
A daylight visit by an E-M flying egg some 500 feet long would |
sepposedly have attracted the attention of many witnesses. Air | | z |
Force investigators could find only one: Mr. X. According to his
testimony, the passengers of several automobiles (his estimate of
the number of cars varied from time to time but he eventually set-
tled on ten) had stood in the road watching the unknown object.
A persistent search by Air Force officials failed to locate any one
of these persons. The witness showed no sign of the burns he al-
legedly suffered. In short, the only evidence to support his story
was Mr. X’s own and the authorities sensibly concluded that the
incident was either a hoax or a hallucination, inspired by newspaper
publicity about Levelland’s flying eggs.

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1) OPA et _

__NOV 4: 3957 ALAMOGORDO. NEW MEXICO | (KEYHOE-1960 P 120) 1 WITNESS 00

A MISSILE CENTER encincen, BROADCAST A DRAMATIC UFO REPORT 0 1

—_OVER STATION _KALGs IN AlLAMOGORDOe —— i" ee
| : = VAL=SHAPED OBJECT HAD 03
THAT AFTERNOON) THE ENGINEER REVEALEDs AN ENORMOUS» O =

— ’

OTHER CARS» OS
Ds THEN HIS ENGINE STALLEDe | é
—-AS_1T_ APPROACHED: Hi.S_CAR_ RADIO FAILEDs CE ee cane’ CLECHNAEAMS IE GnPactOe

IN FRONT AND BEHINO HI Me per 97.
FROM_THE GLANT_UFOs ————— REDe *AS IT PASSED 06

“eI WAS aT CESS FIVE Wee ee LONG + @MMIMIMIB DECLARED: | seh TOWARD _09
OVER» I FELT A WAVE' OF HEATe _THEN THE OBJECT MADE A_ 45~DEGRES ihn? i) arenes
aR eee EDs WAS BETWEEN 1+*500_ANO 7

___ THE UFO-S_SPEED» THE MISSILE ENGINEER ESTIMAT

229500 MePeHe

AT ALAMOGORDO, NeM, ELECTRONICS ENGINEER Ee 2, SAID 10
AUTOMOBILES STOPPED OR WERE STOPPED WHEN AN OBJECT APPEARED ON A
DESERT HIGHWAY IN SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO YESTERDAY. THIS WAS SIMILAR

TO REPORTS FROM THEMILITARY POLICE T ALAMOGORDO.

SAID HE S .
QQ SAID HE SUFFERED A SEVERE CASE OF SUNBURN AFTER WATCHING A
LUIGHT-COLORED 500=FOOT OBJECT. HE SAID HE FELT A KIND OF HEAT WAVE®
IT HEARD NO SOUND AS THE OBJECT PASSED AT ITS CLOSEST POINT.

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ALAMOGORDO, N. M., Nov.
5 (UP)—An electronics engi-
neer reported seeing an un-
identified flying object on an
isolated desert highway near

Alamogordo in southern New
Mexico yesterday.

James Stokes, 42, an engi-

project at the Air Force Mis-
sile Development Center near
Alamogordo, said 10 automo-
biles stopped or were stopped

terday afternoon on U. S.
Highway 54. between White
Sands Proving Grounds and
the Air Force Missile Develop-
| ment Center.

Mr. Stokes, in a taped inter-
| view for Terry Clark, news di-
rector at ‘station KALG in
Alamogordo, reported that the
object approached from the

Mountains. He said the first
indication that something was
out of the ordinary was a
gradual fading of the radio in
his automobile.

Then, he said, the car engine
died, and he noticed that sev-
eral other cars on the highway
had stopped. Mr. Stokes said
he noticed that the occupants
were getting out of their cars
and pointing to the sky.

“Looking up,” Mr. Stokes
sald in the interview, “I saw a
light-colored, egg-shaped ob-
ject making a shallow dive
across the sky to the northeast.

“Then it wheeled. and made
a pas3 at the highway, across
the road not more than two
roiles ahead.

“It then moved away toward

the Organ Mountains near! World Over ......-s:-

Engineer ‘Sunburned?
By Flying ‘Thing’

when the object appeared yes-|

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White Sands Proving Grounds
to the southwest,

“As it passed at its closest
point I could feel a kind of

heat wave, but there was no
sound.

“It had no visible portholes
and there was no vapor trail,
smoke or flame visible.”

near in an upper air research, (Mr, Stokes said he remem-

bered the details precisely be-
cause he pulled out a notebook
and jotted down everything he
saw.)

“When I got back to my car
and checked the engine, I tound
it intact, but the battery was
steaming. It started with no)
trouble and I headed for a |
phone to notify officials at the |
Air Force Missile Development .
Center at Alamogordo.’ )

(An Air Force public infor-'
mation officed told United)
Press last night he had no in-)

northeast over the Sacramento| formation to report.)

Mr. Stokes said he noted
later, after he reached home, |
that he had a severe sunburn. |

Times Index |

AmusementS esessceeese 15
Bridge ereeeeeeeeeeeee 10
BUSINGRS. cvcscasccocse 20
Casey erccccceseccecee ak
Chit-Chat eeeteeeeeeee 10
Comics. ereeereeeeeene 19
Crossword Puzzle ..... 22
Dishing the Dirt ...... 7
EGRCTAI. coccccvseece 12
Harold Hartley ..eseee 20
Irving Leibowitz ...... 11
Molly Mayfield ....... 22
Obituaries sesscacesee 16
Sports eee ew eeeeeeee 14-16
MEME eaucneetadceanse ©
Television and Radio . 21
WONG E. vs chaseoedves:

James Stokes, 4, an engineer |
from the Air Force Missile De-
velopment Center at Holloman
Air Force Base, Alamagordo, N.
M., told news director Terry
Air Force Base, Alamogordo, N.
autos were stopped on an isolated
desert highway, U.S. 54, between
White Sands Proving Grounds
and Alamogordo Monday.

, as Sg =
His description was similar
ones reporting a big ball of fire
flitting about much cf this west}
Texas area over the week end. |
A huge, oval object ‘nearly at
\bright as the sun” was reported |
;**s . d Proving}
seen at White 7 s ed
Ground Sunday, hovering
bunkers used in the first A-bomb},

explosion,

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ame day, Nove lth as electronics engineer
210 pem. the same day, Nov. lth ae: oer
of ame adic fissile Development Center, Holloman AFB in New Mexico, Was

ving south of Orogrande,
Noticing a number of _ a

-shaned object witn a :
Seen The object made several “shallow dives"

departed to the northwest.

t and saw a

d cars along the highway, he got ou
oak cen like tee the of pearl" coming out of at
across the highway before i

tainly doubt that the AI made any real effort to locate

If the Levelland, Gulf of Mexico, and White Sands reports were "misunderstood

natural phenomena," then must be the report from Alamogordo by
eo: "Stories of a g@ enough to cause sunburn," said the AF,

were not verified on interview with the originator"; and he also "acknowledged that
the fade-out of his radio was the sane sort of thing that had ha in that area
before." |

chat else they might mean we are in no position to say.
Stokes is oyed as an eicctronics engineer at Holloman AF5, and there are more,
ways than one to skin a cat. Perhaps the Air Force was being tactful about an en-
ployee's unstable temperanent; perhap as willing to help them out of their |
explanation problem by agreeing that his radio had feded out jin that area before.
But had his motor faded out also? And what about the other witnesses, in cars on

the road beh; nib v0 experienced the some trouble? True, these witnesses |
could not be founds; tut having seen the Levelland were at work, we may cer=

N. lie, when his car radio faded out and his motor stoppede

supporting witnesses.

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/° &~THE-WASHINGTON DAILY. NEWS; TUESDAY, NOVEMBER.5, 1957

.. CLERGYMAN SEES .UFO:-IN SOUTH PACIFIC
Engineer and Gis Sight
200-Foot Flying Saucer’

ALAMOGORDO, N. nF Nov. 5 ((P)—An electronics engineer re

ported seeing an unidentified flying objec an
evn New Mexico yesterday. ying object near Alagogordo in south

James Stokes, 42, an en- ee

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search project at the Air /. terview for Terry Clark, news
Force Missile Develop- we director “ct Station KALG in
‘ amogordo, report that
ment Center near Alamo- the object approached frorn |
gordo, said the object ap- ‘the northeast over he Sacra,
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peared yesterday after- the first indication that some: ,
noon on U.S. highway 54, thing was out of the ordinary
between White Sands TS faa eae
proving grounds and the
Air Force Missile Develop- Then, he said, the car en-|
ment center. gine died, and he noticed
: : that severa) other cars on the y
He Fg the object ap- Et highway had stopped. A
rweured to be about 500 feet | “73 .
n length, with a shiny sur- KEGGSHAPED
face like mother of pearl. “Looking up,” Mr. Stokes
PR ge ad in the day, officials | rue bak Veta mating é
grounds ae sats "Aves we | shallow dive across the sky
fiols reported seeing a simi. to the northeast,
= object or objects on Sun- “Then i€ wheeled and made |
ay a pass at the highway, across |
seogenr yar the road not more than two
SEEN IN TEXAS | miles ahead, |
Reports came Sunday from || ' |
=n re “As it passed at its closest
ph ag Tex., of other point I could feel a kind of }'
7 ) heat wave, but there was no
A dispatch from Honolulu : sound. |
an Al a Tihs Island “It had no visible portholes |
manr wy white clergy hy and there was no vapor trail,
n reported seeing a similar | smoke or flame visible.”
object in the South Pacifie : ,
skies last month. The strange BATTERY STEAMS
object was sighted four times hanes
the week of Oct. 13-19, accord- “ When I got back to my
ing to an official government cay and checked the engine,
report issued irr Pes ! I found it intact, but the bat- | :
tery was steaming. It start- |

ed with no trouble and I
headed for a phone to notify
officials at the Air Force mis-
sile development center at
“Alamogordo,”

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AIr. Stokes said he noted
later, after he reached home,
that he had a severe sunburn.

Officials at White Sands ,
proving grounds, where mis-
siles are tested, said two sep-
arate military patrols report-
ed seeing an unidentified fly-
ing Object (or objects) Sun-
iy over an isolated area of
the proving grounds, neac |
“Trinity” site where the first |
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- ALAMOGORDO, NeMe, NOVe 5e--(UP)--AN ELECTRONICS ENGINEER REPORTED
“SOEING AN UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT ON AN ISOLATED DESERT HIGHWAY
NEAR ALAMOG IN SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO YESTERDAY,
- AN ENGINEER IN AN UPPER AIR RESEARCH PROJECT
AT THE AIR FORCE MISSILE DEVELOPMENT CENTER NEAR ALAMOGORDO, SAID
19 AUTOMOBILES STOPPED OR WERE STOPPED WHEN THE OBJECT APPEARED
ESTERDAY AFTERNOON ON UeSe HIGHWAY 54, BETWEEN WHITE SANDS
PROVING GROUNDS AND THE ALR FORCE MISSILE DEVELOPMENT CENTER.
SARLIER IN THE DAY, OFFICIALS AT WHITE SANDS PROVING GROUNDS SAID
TWO ARMY PATROLS REPORTED SEEING A SIMILAR OBJECT OR OBJECTS ON :
‘SUNDAY en »
SIMILAR. SESORTS CAME SUNDAY” FROM LEVELLAND, TEX.
* A DISPATCH FROM HONOLULU SAID A NUMBER OF FIJI ISLAND NATIVES AND
/ A WHITE GLERGYMAN REPORTED SEEING A SIMILAR OBJECT IN THE SOUTH
' PACIFLE°SKIES LAST MONTH. (THE STRANGE OBJECT WAS SIGHTED FOUR TIMES
THE-WEEK OF OCTe 13-19, ACCORDING TO AN OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT REPORT
Ss CABLEAL~-OF—THE-TSLAND-GROUPennm-- vine Yuh wont
IN TAPED. INTERVIEW FOR NEWS DIRECTOR AT Si,

STATION KALG IN ALAMOGORDO, REPORTED THAT THE a cite Sce freee oo a
THE NORTHEAST OVER TYE SACRAMENTO-MOUNTA INS. He SAID THE FIRST
INDICATION THAT SOMETHING WAS OUT OF THE ORDINARY WAS A GRADUAL FADING

OF THE RADIO IN HIS AUTOMOBILE.

THEN, KE SAID, THE CAR ENGINE DIED, AND HE NOTICED THAT SEVERAL
OTHER CARS ON THE HIGHWAY HAD STOPPED. STOKES SAID HE NOTICED THAT THE
OCCUPANTS WERE GETTING OUT OF THEIR CARS AND POINTING TO THE SKY.

"LOOKING Ue ae IN THE INTERVIEW, "I SAW A LIGHT- ‘
COLORED, EGG-SHAPED OB@=CT MAKING A SHALLOW DIVE ACROSS. THE SKY TO)
THE -NORTHEAS Te

‘ ~THEN IT WHEELED AND MADE A PASS AT THE HIGHWAY, ACROSS THE ROAD
NOT MORE THAN TWO MILES AMEAD.

*1T THEN MOVED AWAY TOWARD THE ORGAN MOUNTAINS NEAR WHITE SANDS
PROVING GROUNDS TO THE SOUTHWEST.

“AS IT PASSED AT ITS CLOSEST POINT I COULD FEEL A KIND OF HEAT
WAVE, BUT THERE WAS NO SOUND.
"LT HAD NO VISIBLE PORTHOLES AND THERE WAS NO VAPOR TRAIL, SMOKE

OR FLAME VISIBLE.”
SAID HE REMEMBERED THE DETAILS PRECISELY BECAUSE HE PULLED
OUT..A EBOOK AND JOTTED DOWN EVERYTHING HE SAWe)>»

“WHEN [ GOT BACK TO MY CAR AND CHECKED THE ENGINE, LI FOUND IT
INTACT, BUT THE BATTERY WAS STEAMING. IT STARTED WITH NO TROUBLE
AND I HEADED FOR A PHONE TO NOTIFY OFFICIALS AT THE ALR FORCE MISSILE
DEVELOPMENT CENTER AT ALAMOGORDO.”

CAN ALR FORCE PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER TOLD UNITED PRESS LAST

NIGHT HE HAD NO INFORMATION TO REPORT.)
AID HE NOTED ieee AFTER HE REACHED HOME, THAT HE HAD

SEVERE SUNBURN. Pea emcegh read
HE SAID MOST OF THE } MOTORISTS WHO SAW THE OBJECT. WEREYENGINEERS “~*
OR TECHNICTANS WHO_WORK ON ROC JECTS-AT-WHITE-SANDS. HE IDENTIFIA
TWO OTHERS AT THE SCENE 5 paella LAS CRUCES, Ne Me, AND A
* MRe ALSO OF LAS CRUCES.
ALD THE OBJECT APPEARED TO BE ABOUT 500 FEET IN LENGTH,
WITH A SHINY SURFACE LIKE MOTHER OF PEARL.

OFFICIALS AT WHITE SANDS PROVING GROUNDS, WHERE MISSILES ARE TESTE “Dy
SAL) TWO SEPARATE MILITARY PATROLS REPORTED "SEEING AN UNIDENTI*STED
FLYING OBJECT COR OBJECTS) SUNDAY OVER AN ISOLATED AREA OF THE PROVING
GROUNDS, NEAR ®TRINITY® SITE WHERE THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB WAS
EXPLODED IN 19456

THEY INVESTIGATED THE SITE, BUT FOUND NO MARKINGS.

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FLYING OBJECT WHICH MYSTERIOUSLY MADE AUTOMOBILE ENGINES STALL.

THE ENGINEER 42. WAS QUESTLONED AT LENGTH BY LT.
COL. JOHN MCCURDY, PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER FOR THE ALR FORCE
MISSILE DEVELOPMENT CENTER AT WHITE SANDS
PROVING GROUNDS. :

, WHO WORKS AT THE CENTER, SAID HE MADE NOTES OF WHAT HE SAN
WHEN HIS AND OTHER AUTOMOBILES STALLED ON Us Se HIGHWAY 54 AT WHITE
SANDS YESTERDAYe HE DESCRIBED THE OBJECT AS EGG-SHAPED--"LIKE A
PULLED-<OUT PISTOL TARGET WITH RINGS AROUND ITs”
<a; 31) IT WAS ABOUT TNO MILES AWAY, AT AN ALTITUDE OF 3,000
TO 5,000 FEET.

COLONEL MCCURDY SAID “a WAS "PERSONALLY SATISFIED" WITH THE ENGINEERS

STORYe MCCURDY SAID WOULD BE GIVEN A THOROUGH MEDICAL EXAM-
INATLON AND A RADIATION COUNT TEST.

LATER TODAY, COLONEL MCCURDY DISCLOSED THAT RADAR TECHNICIAN
DON CLARK, 32, RE EPORTED A "STATIONARY CIGAR SHAPED OBJECT GIVING OFF
AN ORANGE cLou" OVER THE SAN ANDRES MOUNTAINS AT 4354 AeMe MST (6354
Astle EST).

CLARK SAID THE OBJECT APPEARED TO BE ABOUT 300 FEET LONG AND 100

FEETSTOSER,SAND HEOSRED OFZTHE B2&YPXS DEGREESA BOVE THE HORIZON.

CLARK SAID THE OBJECT APPEARED TO BE ABOUT 500 FEET LONG AND 100
FEET THICK, AND HOVERED IN THE SKY 15 DEGREESA BOVE THE HORIZON.

STOKES SAID HE AND 10 OTHER MOTORISTS WERE STALLED WHEN THE
OBJECT CAME IN SIGHT. |

| "I WAS SHOOK," HE SAID. "I BELIEVE THE OBJECT OR PHENOMENA WAS
.CONTROLLED BY AN INTELLIGENCE.

TWO MILITARY PATROLS REPORTED SUNDAY THAT THEY OBSERVED AN UNIDENTI-
FIED FLYING OBJECT IN THE SKY OVER THE ISOLATE "TRINITY* SITE AT WHITE.
SANDS WHERE THE FIRST ATOM BOMB WAS EXPLODED IN 1945.e RESIDENTS AT
SANTA FE AND ALAMOGORDO, AT DURANGO, COLO., AND AT CASPER, WYOc,

ALSO REPORTED TODAY THEY HAD SEEN sicH OBJECTS.

COLONEL MCCURDY SAID MAJe GENe LEIGHTON Ie DAVIS, COMMANDER OF
THE MISSILE DEVELOPMENT CENTER, APPOINTED A "CENTER. CO- ORD INATOR®—

TODAY TO HARE AN ORFICIAL INVESTIGATION. OF THESE REPORTS. ~ MCCURDY
‘SAED- THE ALR FORCE WAS TRYING TO LOCATE OTHER MOTOR ISTS "WHOSE CARS
WERE SAID BY STOKES TO HAVE. BEEN STALLED ALONG WITH HISSTOKES SAID HE
AND OTHER SCIENTISTS AT THE CENTER HAD THEIR OWN THEORY ABOUT

WHAT THE OBJECT MIGHT HAVE BEEN, BUT HE WOULD NOT DISCUSS THE THEORY.
HE SAID, HOWEVER, THAT THE OBJECT HAD NOTHING TO Do WITH MISSILE WORK

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DEARBORN OBSERVATORY
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

EVANSTON, ILLINOIS 60201

June 1, 1965

Major Hector Quintanilla, jr.
Box 9494
PID WVricht-Patterson Air Force Base

Dayton, Ohio

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Dear Major:

This is a report on the very old sighting of November 4, 1957, made by
two police officers and a fireman riding in one patrol Gar at shortly
after 3:00 a.m., in Elmwood Park, Iilinois.

I monitored the making of this part of the NBC documentary on UFC'S, as

I did on the previous night at Hl Grove Village, on the evening of

May aly 1965. Fortunately, all three witnesses are still holding down
the Same jobs, but only two were available for interview on this evening.

The names of the witnesses were Officer @gyyi Office iii
CQ. Firenan Se |

All men stated that the incident had been reported . a but that

Qa had merely a they had nothing on their screens. Here's

another case where failed to follow through and report a sighting.

Officer TT i11 on the night of the filming.for the docu-

mentary, but J did talk at length with Officer and yi the

fireman, oth are
- before passing any final judgment,

would like to talk with Officer nn if I ever cet the Chance.
Tf there had been only one witness of the caliber of either of the two

I interviewed, I would tend to dismiss the incident as the Saeed of

an over-wrought imagination. However, with three witnesses, wath the two
officers being on active duty, I feel that something was definitely
Sightec, Purthernore, the sighting occurred the day after the LOveland,
Texas, cases, and the description is quite Similar, lWowever, it was
determined that these men had no knowledge of the Le@weland sightins of
the previous day. They statec that after they came back to the station
house at dawn, the morning Tribune had just been delivered, and in
thumbing through the pages, they then came across an account of the
Leveland sighting. They made a definite point of the surprise with
which they met the Texas account. ,

Major Quintanilla
1 June 1965

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Elmyood Park, Iil.e, Nove 4, 1957 Sighting

I re-enacted the entire incident with them, riding in the car with the
fireman, while the NSC people were in the Squad car ahead. whe officer
and the fireman's story agreed in the basic account, although they
disagreed somewhat on sizes and on the height at which the object was
observed,

At about 3:00 a.m., a Squad car was patrolling the alley-way behind a
row of stores on Rag they bad proceeded about two blocks
down the alley (the total length of which was nearly a mile), when they
perceived an open window in the back of one of the stores. They stopnved
to examine it with their spot light, but just then the spot light and
their head lights dimmed very much, So much So that the officer said that
a match would have been brighter. This beings the case, they tcok a
flashlight from the car and went out to examine the window and to Look
unier the hood. At this time, they said they noticed a bright spherical
object above and ahead of them. I questioned them very long on the size
and appearance and the best I could get was that it was like an iri-
descent orange beach ball except much larger. The fireman said that
whenever after that he bounced a beach ball, it always brought back
this incident to him. AS the object moved down the alley, but above the
alley, the car lights came back on. The engine, however, never had
Stalled but kept going the whole time. They trailed the object and
whenever they turned their lights off, the object seemed to hover and,
So to speak, watch them. AS Soon as they turned their lights on, the
object moved off.

The men trailed down the alley for fully a half mile to the end of the
alley where it met a cemetery. They paused at the end and turned their
lights off. The object slowly descended and hovered just a few feet

off the ground. Here OFA CC gD 12 cled on the "brights" and the
object ascended very rapidly 1ity or Sixty miles an hour". It also
took off westward. The officers now jogged right for a quarter of a
block to join Belmont Street and pursued the object down Belmont Street.
Here Cificer@mmsaid that it cavortgd from curb to curb back and
forth as though "playing games with then". ‘The fireman maintains that
the object was higher up.

The color or brightness never changed throughout the entire episode,
which Lasted some ten or fifteen minutes. ‘There is a stand of trees in
the cemetery and along side Belmont on both sides. The object periodi-
Cally became lost behind the trees. After about a mile and a half, they
made a U turn and came back east on Belmont, having lost Sight of the
object. AS they got back into Elmwood Park, the object approached them
from the left from a stand of trees, passed over them and to the rear,
They made another U turn and pursued the object again westward. Very
Soon after this, they said the object ascended to a creat heicht.

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1 June 1965

Page 3

Elmwood Park, I11., Nov. 4, 1957 Sighting

Of ficer QD said to about five thousand (5,000) feet, but this may
or may not be the case since I do not particularly rate his judgment
about dimensions, or facts for thet matter, very high. But both the
fireman and the officer agreed that the object disappeared as though a
person pulled a black Shade up from the bottom, or as though one were
filling the spherical object with a black ink. After it disappeered,
high in the air in this manner, it did not reaprear. Apparently, the
only other witness to the incident was a dog which was disturbed and
barked at the object somewhere along the route.

The story does not hang together very well. The men are on
eggs but they certainly stand to gain nothing from having perpe-
trated a hoax and, in fact, it could cost them promotions.

The object was described as bright but not hard on the eyes, and very
beautiful. After conSiderabie coaxing and trying to get the idea of
Simulation across, they agreed that if I brought in a balloon painted a
bright orange and of a Sixe of about an ordinary room, and held it in
the sky, that it would look very much like the object they remenbered,.
It must be remembered that this sighting happened some eight years ago,
and memories over that length of time have probably deteriorated
conSiderably.

According to the men, the moon was out that night, but to the east,
whereas the object at that same time was toward the west. the sky was
basically clear, although there was a fog in the cemetery.

One primary incident occurred when the Squad car had stopped at the end
of the first long alley just before they jorcged on into Belmont Street.
The lights were out and the object was descending. At this time, it
lost its circular Shape and took on a Cigar Shape surrounded by a
fogginess which seemed to emenage from the object itseif. ‘There was
disagreement as to how much fog, if any, there was in the cemetery that
night. fhe crucial time of the incident seems to have been when the
officer kicked on the lights as the object was descending and had
assumed a cigar shape. AS Soon as the lights came on, the object rose
up rapidiy, resumed its circular shape, and sucked up the fogginess
around it.

One other high spot occurred apparently just before the second U turn
when the squad car waS going east on Belmont. The object came at them
from the woods to the left, end according to Office. came so
Close to the car that he could have reached out and touched it. ‘the
fireman did not azree, feelings that the object had always maintained a
respectable distance,

P tor Qe eee a eS alll oe et ee —~-

Major Quintanilla

1 June 1965

Page 4

November 4, 1957, Bimwood Part:, Iil., Sighting

The Similarity to the Loveland case is Striking and if we can believe
‘(I think we can) that they were unaware of the Loveland sighting at
the time they made theirs, it becomes all the more interesting. The
object definitely passed in front of objects from time to time and

the object could not be scen through the light. ‘The ofject, or the
illumination, was not transparent.

No sound or noise was ever associated with the object. It scened to

giow and its color was compared by both men to the color of a setting
Sun, Dut not as bright.

rt is unfortunate that the incident did not occur to witnesses better
trained aS observers, and more articulate ones.

Cther small items: said that his "hair stood on end!
when he Saw the object, and the other officer said th@@@— wanted to

Shoot at it, but waS cautioned by Office not to shoot until he
knew more about it.

Meteorological conditions for this night should be checked to be con-
pared with Similar data from L@veland. Likewise, comparison should be
made with the Lock Raven Dam case and the Swiss equivalent of the Lock

Raven Dam case which occurred just two or three days before the Lock
Raven Dam caSe.

I would recommend that all cases of luminous globes of light which

apparently do not anpear to be attached to a tangible object be collected
and be examined for Similarities of behavior and ambient conditons. We

may have here, and I say just possibly may, have an indication of some-

thing new in atmospheric physics. Cases should be limited, however, to
more than one-witness cases,

This case should not be closed until I have a chance to talk with
a, i have a fecling that he may provide something which will
either Strongly corroborate the above or throw it out of court.

Sincerely,

« Je Allen Hynek

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NO Case (Information Only) 4 November 1957
Chicago(Elmwood Park), Illi.

About, 3:15 a,m. on November lth came a report from suburban Chicago: three |
Elmwood Park police officers and a fireman saw a low-hovering 200-foot cylindrical |
object, rcd-orange in color, above a nearby cemetery; they said it appeared to be |
"folding into itself" until they threw their prowl car searchlight on it, at which |
time. it began "puffing out." At this point, the searchlight dimmed and almost went
out. The object began moving off in a westerly direction and although the men

tried to follow it in their car, it quickly disappeared from view--by "folding
into itself,"

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The 24 February 1959 American Air Lines sighting was
attributed to jet night serial refuelling operation. The Pacific
sightings of 11 July 1959 were attributed to an exceptionally
bright snd large meteor called “firebail."

Sincerely,

AwALICS J. TACKER
Major, USAF
Public Information Division
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UFO Sighting

SAFIS-3 (Major L. J. Tacker) 1 4 AUG 1959

Reference paragraph one of a letter, copy attached. <A search
of the ATIC files indicates the eged sighting was never reported to the

Air Force. A check of several days before and after 4 November 1957 was
made with negative results. A vivid description of this sighting can bse
found on page 239 of Aime Michel's latest book entitled "Flying Saucers
and the Straight-Line Mystery".

FOR THE COMMANDER:
GORDON C. HOFFMAN 1 Atch:

Colonel, USAF Cy Ltr Aug 1, 1959,
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23 September 1960

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Your letter of 9 September 1960 addressed to the Chicago
Offices of Information, concerning two UFO sightings which you

think were reported to S'iare Air Force Base, has been referred
to this Office.

We ere checking the matber with the Fighter-Interceptor
Squadron which was stationed at O'ilare Air Force Base during

that period. When we receive the information, it wlll be for-
warded to you.

Sincerely,

LAWRENCE J. TACKER

Lt. Colonel, USAF

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K. I. Sawyer Air Force Base
Cwinn, Michigan

1. Will you please furnish this Office with a’basis for reply to the
attached letter, dated 9 September 1960 from GQ, if possible.

2. Please indicate in your return letter if these sightings were not
reported to your organization while atationed at O'Hare Air Force Basa.

YOR TUS CHIEF OF STAI:

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DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
CHICAGO OFFICE OF INFORMATION

OFFICE, SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE
226 WEST JACKSON BOULEVARD

CHICAGO 6, ILLINOIS AN dover 4° 3600
Extension 736

| 21 September 1960

SUBJECT:

TO:

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Request for Information

OSAF (SAFOI-3d) Lt Col Tacker

1. In accordance with our recent telephone conversation
the attached letter is being forwarded for necessary
action.

2. Colonel Jackson, a former member of the 56th Fighter
Interceptor Group , and who is now stationed at O* mre
said he was not cognizant of the subject reports, but
suggested the 56th Fighter Interceptor Group at K, l.
Sawyer be requested to research their records to determine
what action was taken inasmuch as they were the unit
reported to.

FOR THE CHIEF: 2 Incls;

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21 September 1960 .

cago 1%, Illinois

Dear Mr iia.

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Your letter of the 9th of September has been
forwarded for necessary action.

A reply should be forthcoming within the next
ten days.

Sincerely,

PHILIP L. SALK
Major, USAP
Deputy Chief

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Chisago, Illinois

Gentlemens:

I have. been trying to learn the conclusions by the Air Force
of two sightings of unidentified flying objects in this area.

Correspondence with Lt. Col. L.J. Tacker, Office of Informa-
tion, Washington, has brought a statement that they were not re.
ported to the Air Force at ATIC. Since the sightings wera reported
to officials at O'Hare AFB, an identification must have been made

by these officials, thereby ending the néeceggity of forwarding the
reports to ATIC (as per AFR 200-2, section 9).

f, however, they were not identified and not reported, this
would constitute a violation of AFR 200-2, section 4, paragrant

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information regarding these sightings follows;

| (a) 4 Nov 1957 - Elmwood Park, Ill.-early morning. Two po-
licemen and a fireman in a patrol car saw and attempted
to follow a red-orange object that, at times, mansuveread
at low altitudes. At ons timo, ths lights on the patrol

‘ car dimmed, apparently due to ths presenca of the ob-

; ject. This object was immediately reported to O'Hare AFB

ears and the witnesses ware questioned by Air Force officers.

\ | (db) 19 Jul 1958 - Des Plaines, Ill.- early morning. Three men
| at corner af Lee & Algonquin, Des Plaingss,

red object pass overnead, silently, nover momentarily

7 over O'Hare, than take off at very high speed. Sichting

1 | was réported to Des Plaings Polic ? fe .

@ at 0345 hr ly. |
(Record Bureau Number 31335). 5 hres, 19 July

Tas following aay, one wit
ness contacted O'Hara and reported the sightinz. The Deg

Plaines Journal also contacted Air Force officials.

sav a bright

I would like to know the official conclusion in thase cases in
accordance with ATR 200.2, section 9. 4

Re apectfully yours;

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8 September 1959 (~.

is in regard to your letter of 4 September con-
cerning UFO sightings in the Chicago srea.

As stated in my previous letter, neither cf the

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sicghtings you refer to (Elmwood Park, Illinois end O'Hare

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Air Force Base) were reported to the Alr Technicel Intellisence

Center. ince meither of these sightings were resorted to ATIC,
they must have been vositively identified as familiar ond known

objects by the Commander of C'Hare Air Force Base when they were
reported to that installation. This is in accordance witna
paragraph 9 of AFR 200-2.

in this case, it is not essential that the revort be
presented to ATIC. Suggest you contact the O'Hgre Information
Office with respect to these two sightings.

Sincerely,

LAWRENCE J. TACKER

Major, USA?

Public Information Division
Office of Information Services

Chicezo 13, Illinois 7

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Public Information Division, USAF
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Washington 25, DC.

car Major Coleman:

On 10 June 1961, ab your request, I sent you information regarding
Sishting of an unidentified flying object over Rushville, Nebraska early
ay la 1951. I would aporeciate knowing, in accordance with AFR 200-2,

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section 8, the outcome of the official study into this sighting.

Would you please send mz a copy of the latest DOD News Release on the
subject?
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On 7 Aveust 1961, I requested information regarding two Chicago-area
sightings. (4 Nov 57, Elmrood Park; 19 Jul 58, Des Plaines, Ill.) I have been
trying to obtain infoirattom about these incidents for over a year. If I can-~
not get it through normal channels, I may be forced to seek as atamed, as
I have done before.

———

On 11 September 1961, I requested information regarding a series of
UFO reports (30 Aug 613.5 Sep 61) over Chasirnats, Ohio. I would like to
know the official conclusion in this case, in accordance with AFR 200-2,
section 8.

Major, I have a considerable amount of patience and I fecl you are
mpetent for the work you are doing. I hop2 you will provide the informa~
a requesting » thereby insuring She-in that both these chracteristics will
remain unchangede

Sincerely;

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ASTRONOMY

Scuuence News Lerrer for October 26, 1957

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Venus Most Prominent

Venus, the only planet now visible in the evening, is
a brilliant object in the sky and wili soon be joined by the

Leonids, “shooting stars.”

By JAMES STOKLEY

> THAT BRILLIANT object you sce in
the southwestern sky these evenings as dark-
ness falls is not an airplane, a flying saucer,
or some bright light hung in the sky as part
of an experiment.

What you see is the planet Venus, now
reaching its greatest prominence, which
cornes just before its disappearance from
the evening sky early in 1958.

Venus is far brighter than any other star
or planet seen in the night sky and there
is no difficulty in identifying it. Indeed, it
can be observed long before the sky is dark.
In fact, if you knaw where to look, you can
even see it in broad daylight!

After it passed behind the sun Jast April
14, Venus has gradually been drawing to
the east of that body. That meant that it
followed the sun in its daily motion across
the sky, and so remained visible in the west
after the sun had set. On Noy. 18 it will
be farther east of the sun, hence remaining
in the sky for the longest tirne after sunset,
nearly three hours. After that it will start
moving toward the sun again.

Because of its carly setting, Venus does
not appear on the accompanying maps of
the November evening skies, which show
their appearance about 10:00 p.m., your own

ber, 9:00

p.m. on the 15th and 8:00 p.m. on
the 30th.

Bright Birds in the Sky

These maps do, however, show the stazs
that are now visible.

Toward the west is Deneb, at the top of
the “northern cross,” w hich is really part
ef the constellation of Cygnus, the swan.
Dench is in the bird’s tal il; in fact, the word
is Arabic and means “tail.” The crosspiece
represents the wings, and the lower part of
the cross his long neck, stretched forward
in flight. At the head is Albireo, a star of
the second magnitude on the astronomical
brightness scale. Below Cygnus is another
first-magnitude star, Vega, in Lyra, the lyre.
To the left is another bird, Aquila, the
eagihe, with the star Altair.

Lligh in the south you can see the four
stars that form the “great square,” part of
the constellation of Pegasus, the winged
herse. Although these are not among the
brightest, their characteristic arrangement
makes them a good starting place from
which to find other groups. The horse,
actually, is upside down in the sky, as the
row of stars extending westward from the
lower right corner of the square is his head!
The stir

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at the upper right, Alpheratz, is

not in Pegasus at all, but in the neighboring
group of Andromeda. This constellation
represents the Ethiopian princess who, ac-
cording to mythology, was chained to a rock
to be devoured by a sea monster, represented
by the constellation of Cetus, the whale, in
he south. Fortunately, she was rescued by
the hero, Perseus, who is seen in the north-
cast.

Andromeda’s mother, Cassiopeia, is seen
in the north, a group forming the letter M,
above Polaris, the pole star. Alongside her
is her husband, the king, Cepheus.

Turning now toward the east, we can see
what is generally considered to be the finest
constellation in the sky making its debut for
the scason.

Orion: Season's Finest

This is Orion, the warrior, casily recog-
nized because of the three stars in a row
that form his belt. To the left is Betel-
geuse, to the right is Rigel, both of the first
magnitude, although being so low in the
sky they do not appear as bright as they

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see them high in the south.

Just above Orion is ‘Taurus, the bull, with
brilliant Aldebaran, and to the left of this
figure stands Auriga, the charioteer, with
first magnitude Capella.

Although only Venus is now visible in
the evening, two other planets appear in the
southeast before sunrise. Brightest of these
is Jupiter, in the constellation of Virgo, the
virgin. It is close to the bright star Spica.
However, it exceeds the star in brilliance
about ten times.

Farther east is Mars, rising about an hour
ahead of the sun. Its brightness is about
half that of Spica. Mercury and Saturn
are both too near the sun to be easily visible
in November.

Then you will

Shower of ‘’Stars”’ to Come

November is the month bringing one of
the year’s famous showers of meteors, or
“shooting stars,” which appear from about
the 13th to the 16th.

They are most numerous after midnight,
because then we are on the forward side of
the earth in its annual movement around
the sun. Thus, we meet them head-on.
This is different from the evening hours
when we are on the rearward part, and see
only those that catch up to us.

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ANIMAL PSYCHOLOGY
Worms Learn Best
In Evening Hours»

> A WORM can be taught to turn in a
special direction, but its learning ability is
at its best in the evening hours.

At least this was found true for one
particular kind of earthworm, Leambricus
terrestris, Dr. Jack Arbit of the U. S. Army
Leadership Human Research Unit, Fort
Ord, Calif., reports in Setence (Oct. 4).

The worm was taught by a system of
reward for the correct turn or punishment
if it went the wrong way. When the worm
turned the right way, it found its reward
at the end of a pathway a little less than
six inches long. The reward was just what
an earthworm might enjoy most — some
moist earth and moss in a beaker covered
with paper to make it dark. When it turned
in the wrong direction it was punished by
having to craw) over sandpaper and if it
persisted in crawling the wrong way it re-
ceived a mild electric shock.

If the worm failed to move at all, it was
urged into action by a gentle tickling with
a camel's hair paint brush. If that did not
get it started, a Aashlight was tuened on
and held shining just behind it.

The worm was considered to have
“passed” on the course if it reached the
moist earth without being shocked seven
consecutive tries.

The worms who did their lessons in the
evening between 8 p.m. and midnight
learned in an average of 32 tries. The
morning class, betwéen.8 a.m. and noon,
required 45 tries.

Science News Letter, October 26, 1957

TECHNOLOGY

Radar Sets Can
Be “Blinded”

> A COUNTER-MEASURE to radar de-
tection—to “blind its eye’-—has been dis-
covered by a British frm. It offers the first
possibility that radar warning defense can
be defeated, whether the attack is made by
bombers or guided missiles.

The new material includes foam rubber
panels, rubber sheets bonded to brass and
ceramics.

It is claimed that using the material pro-
vides new standards of navigational safety
for aircraft and shipping by eliminating
unwanted radar reflections. Successful tests
have already been made on ships’ funnels
and airport buildings, The structures covered
with the material become invisible to a
radar beam. i

The Plessey Company technicians, devel-
opers of the material, explain that the new
material cuts the radar pulses off at a critical
moment. Instead of bouncing back to the
expectant receiver, they are absorbed by the

Scunce News Levine for Getoher 26, 1957

rubber coverings. As a result, no tell-tale
blip shows on the radar screens.

(The basic principle of radar is that it
sends out a constant series of pulses, like
tennis balls fired in split-second sticeession.
The pulses bounce back when they hit an
obstruction or distant object—a ship, air-
plane or building. The receiver which
records the return pulses automatically
works out the height, range and position
of the detected object.)

Until this material was invented there has
been no means of foxing radar detection.
It cannot be jammed or bent. But now the
“eye” so far relied on as the basis for
defense organization is utterly blinded.

British auto drivers are already inquiring
as to whether the material can be fitted to
their cars to defeat the radar apparatus now
employed by the police to detect excessive
speeding. It is likely to be made illegal to
have an auto fitted in this way.

Science News Letter, October 26, 1957

BIOCHEMISTRY
Secret of Aspirin’s
Action Is Revealed

> ASPIRIN, the most familiar drug in
mankind’s medicine chest, goes to work
when the pituitary gland changes it into an
oxidized compound known as gentisic acid,
Prof. John E. Christian and Ross Crabtree
of the Purdue University School of Phar-
macy have found.

They knew that gentisic acid has the
same effect as aspirin, minus aspirin’s tox-
icity. They also knew that rheumatic fever
patients and others who take large doses
of aspirin excrete more gentisic acid than
normal people do. So they devised an cx-
periment to discover whether gentisic acid
is a breakdown product of aspirin and
where this process takes place.

First they induced fever in rats by feed-
ing them a peptone solution, Then they
injected aspirin labeled with carbon-14 into
the rats. Forty-five minutes later they anal-
yzed the rats’ blood, lungs, adrenal and
pituitary glands—the places where aspirin
accumulates, according to earlier experi-
ments under Prof. Christian's direction.

In the pituitary, the body’s “master
gland,” they found gentisic acid. It was
labeled with carbon-l4. In none of the
other organs in which aspirin accumulates
was this combination found.

Gentisic acid is an oxidized product of
acetylsalicylic acid, or aspirin. It ts less
toxic than aspirin because of the addition
of a hydroxyl group.

The pituitary gland contains — large
amounts of vitamin C, which ts an onicdiz-
ing agent. Further, the pituitary gland ts
the next-door neighbor of the body's heat
control center in the posterior portion of
the brain, the hypothalamus.

These findings lead the Purdue scientists
to believe that a modified gentisic acid
molecule might prove even more useful and
safe than aspirin itself.

Science News Letter, October 24, 1957

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PHYSICS
Magnetic Phenomenon
Yields “Super Magnets”

> EXPERIMENTAL magnets with “one
track minds” promise to be the first really
permanent magnets. They will resist hav-
ing their magnetic alignment taken away
by every method except high temperatures.

The new magnets are made by putting an
oxide coating over very small particles of
a magnetic material such as cobale metal.
The particles, when packed together at low
temperatures in a strong magnetic field,
form a very powerful magnet that cannot
be demagnetized by another magnetic field
working against the first.

The magnets are said to exhibit the phe-
nomenon of “exchange anisotropy,” pro-
ducing effects never before seen in perma-
nent magnets, and the first new magnetic
anisotropy scen in 60 years, reported the
discoverer of the magnetic substances, Wil-
iain H. Meiklejohn of the General Electric
Research Laboratory, Schenectady, N. Y.
Anisotropy is an effect in magnets that
causes them to have certain “easy” north-
south alignments of magnetization.

The rare effect was found to be caused
by the oxide coat on the metal particles,
which though unaffected by magnetic fields,
can at low temperatures pull metal atoms
into magnetic alignment. Like railroad
tracks, the metal oxide molecules keep
the adjacent metal particles “magnetically
aligned,” but their effect is only good at low
temperatures, which favor the oxide’s or-
derly, mnagnetic “track-like” structure. At
higher temperatures, the rows of oxide
molecules become disorderly themselves,
and can no longer influence the metals.

At present, Mr. Meiklejohn is working on
other materials which show promise as
anisotropic substances, and hopes that they
will exhibit exchange anisotropy at room
temperature or higher.

Science News Letter, October 26, 1957

SEISMOLOGY

Earthquakes Show
Ocean Floor Differences

> THE DISASTROUS earthquakes in
Turkey last April have given scientists new
knowledge of the crust of the earth under
the Mediterranean Sea, it is indicated in a
report to Nature (Oct. 12).

The earthquake waves picked up on the
scismograph at Kivu Lwiro in the Belgian
Congo show the structure of the sea bottom
is different in the region south of Turkey
from what it is south of Greece, Dr. J. Cl.
De Bremuecker of the Institut pour la
Recherche Scientifique en Afrique Centrale
at Kivu Lwiro reports.

Study of earthquake waves at sea in this
region is urged by Dr. De Bremaccker. The
exact nature of the differences observed
would have important implications for our

knowledge of the structure of the earth,
he says
Science News Letter, October 246. 1957

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Science News Letter, October 26, 1957

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The moon will be just past last quarter,
rising around midnight, so its light may
interfere a little with the meteor display,
although not as much as if there were a
full moon.

Around 2:00 a.m., perhaps, a dozen of
these meteors may be seen an hour, appar
ently radiating from a point in the eastern
sky in the constellation of Leo, the Jion.
Because of this, the shower is known as the
Leonids.

Actually the meteors are moving in a
great circular swarm around the sun, which
the carth crosses at this time of year, so
their motion is parallel. The effect of seem-
ing to radiate from Leo is one of perspec-
tive. Their tracks converge in the distance,
like the parallel tracks of a railroad.

Meteors Come in Cycles

These meteors take about 33 years to en-
circle the sun, and at one point they are
much more numerous than elsewhere. In
1833 and 1866 the earth encountered this
concentration and there was a brilliant dis-
play, with metcors seemingly coming down
almost like snowflakes.

By the next two times around, in 1899
and 1932, the dense cluster had been
switched aside because of the gravitational
attraction of Jupiter as it had passed near it.
In these years, instead of a good display,
the Leonid meteors were quite poor.

Despite the bombardment of the earth by
these, and other meteor showers, the meteors
do not reach the ground, They are tiny
things, no larger than pinheads, and are
completely burned by friction as they en-
counter the resistance imposed by the earth's
atmosphere,

There also are stray meteors, not con-
nected with any regular showers. Once in
a while these are large enough to survive
the passage through the atmosphere. One of
the largest meteorites discovered is that
found, along with two smaller ones, in
Greenland in 1894. It measures 1! by 7 by 5
feet and weighs 36.5 tons.

Celestial Time Table for

November

Nov. EST

2 7:00a.m, Moon farthest, distance 251,700
miles,

5 2:00am. Algol (variable star in Perseus)
at minimum brightness.
7 9:32a.m. Full moon; total cclipse of moon
visible in the Arctic, the Pacific
Ocean, Australia and Asia.
10:49 p.m, Algol at minimum.
10) «6©7:38 pam, Algol at minimum.
14 4:59p.m. Moon in last quarter.
16 Early a.m. Leonid meteors,
18 2:00a.m. Venus farthest east of sun.
6:00 a.m. Moun nearest, distance 227,700
miles.
9:57 p.m. Moon passes Jupiter.
19 1£1:22p.m, Moon passes Mars,
2f 11:19 aun. New moon,
25 8:35 a.m. Moon passes Venus.
28 12:31 a.m. Algol at minimuin.
29 «1:57 a.m. Moon in first quarter,
30 «62:00 a.m, Moon farthest, distance 251,300
miles,
9:20 p.m. Algol at minimum.

Subtract one hour for CST, two hours for
MST, and three for PST.

Science News Letter, October 26, 1957