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PROJECT I0073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE |2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
Was Balloon
13,Apr58 Wost Indies Probably Balloon
4. TYPE OF CBSERVATION Possibly Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP
Local 8 Ground-Visual Ground-Radar D Was Aircroft
Shipboard 0 Probably Aircraft
GMT_ 14/0155Z 14/0155Z AirVisual Air-Intercept Radar D D Possibly Aircroft Possibly Aircroft
5. PHOTOS 6. 5OURCE 6. 5OURCE 0 0 Was Astronomical
Yes 0 Probably Astronomical Probcbly Astronomical
Q No Civilian D Possibly Astronomiegl
Dee De SC72 72
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9. 9. COURSE COURSE ¤ Otherii Otherl
100 0 Insulficient Data for Evaluation Insufficient Data for Evaluation
Unknown Unknown
4 mins one Easterly
10. 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING I1. COMMENTS 11. COMMENTS
Unusually brilliant meteor brilliant meteor type obj. This_is approx-course used by
Appeared s several t several ti brighter Cape Canaveral Missile Test Cape Canaveral Missile Test
than Venus. Obj emitted strong bluish firing.Probably-missile.
light, also small balls & smoke. smoke.
DECAY SPUTNIK TT
ATIC FORM 39 (21 25 SEP 52)
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one essential fact.
Shortly after midnight one spring morning g reliable witnesses on
the east coast, particularly in Connecticut and Long Island, reported a brilliant bluish-white
speed. As it flashed overhead, it changed color to become reddish, object flying at high altitude and incredible
and several smaller objects apparently detached themselves from
the main body and followed it in orderly fashion. About five minutes
later more than fifteen ships in the Caribbean area observed simi-
Ship number two saw brilliant short flames darting lar objects soaring overhead but the reports varied in many details.
the main body, which had a long, tapered tail. Ship number four saw g about behind
a flaming white object more brilliant than the full moon. Ship num- ber seven 1
several small reported a flaming green ball followed by a group of
objects. Ship number nine observed at least fifteen
smaller objects that suddenly separated from the main body and fell into formation behind it.
with a trail several miles long, Ship number eleven saw an object
nous that the deck and sea around were bathed in pale light as the brilliant as a peacock's tail, so lumi-
mass crossed overhead. Ship number twelve reported, "The main
body appeared to have a blue-white head, then a short dark space
cles were actually counted as they appeared in the main plume.
Each followed the main body and each developed its own glowing
tail on leaving it." The main body was several times brighter than
from Connecticut to the coast of British Guiana, a distance of some stretching
27oo miles. They flew in a straight course. All of the objects were
noiseless. They were remarkably brilliant. They seemed to have one
or more leaders, to discharge smaller objects, and to fly in formation.
They maiatained a substantially horizontal path, and only the last
observers, who saw the things disappear into the cloud bank, noted
any tendedey to descend. No fragments were ever found, and all
witnesses agreed that the objects were not like meteors. If all the
observers were deseribing the same single phenomenon, it was fly-
ing at the incredible speed of more than 16,ooo miles an hour.
With only these facts to build on, an investigator might interpret
the sightings according to his own prejudices: an invasion fleet
from another planet making a recounaissance in force, the mother .
ships discharging the smaller craft at intervals; a mass hallucination;
a peculiar meteoric display; a single spaceeraft darting over the earth with ineredible snoed

observers were describing the same single phenomenon, it was fly- ing at the incredible speed of more than 16,ooo miles an hour.
the sightings according to his own prejudices: an invasion fleet With only these facts to build on, an investigator might interpret
from another planet making a reconnaissance in force, the mother
a peculiar meteoric display; a single spacecraft darting over the earth with incredible speed. et. some hundreds of lands-
men and seamen in the United States, the Caribbean islands, and
lites is immediately accessible to ATIC. Whenever a reported UFO shows any possible resemblance to a falling satellite, Air Force
investigators check at once with Spacetrack. Astronomers who had been tracking this satellite as it circled the carth had predicted
more than a month in advance that it would spiral toward the earth and fall sometime between April 12 and April 15. A few days before -
the actual event they had refined their estimate and predicted the time of the fall within a few hours [25].