PROJECT BLUE BOOK

PROJECT 10073 RECORD
1. DATE · TIME GROUP 2. LOCATION
July 1959 Switzerland
3. SOURCE . CONCLUSION
Civilian REFLECTI ON
4. NUMBER OBJECTS analysis indicates that the most probable cause of the
Photo
One lights streak is a reflection.
5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS
submitted for evaluation in 1965. No data
N/A Slide taken in 1959 slide (copy not original)
submitted other than the
6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
Photograph
7. COURSE
N/A
8. PHOTOS
MXYes .
17 No )
9. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE
Yes Yes
N No
SEP 63 0-329 (TDE) SEP 63 0-329 (TDE) FORM Previous editions of this form may be uned. Previous sditions of this form may be used.
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NR65-36 30 July 1965
SUBJECT ANALYSIS OF UNIDENTIFIED PHENOMENA 0
LOCATION PHOENEX, ARIZONA USA - SWITZERLAND DATE AUGUST 1958 - JULY 1959
PHO GRAPHY
AF. IR_ QUALITY
PNRS Attached 2-35mm Color Slides and copies thereof
1. PURPOSE: This report is in answer to Work Order Number 65-84 from T/Sgt
TDEW/UFO, for an analysis of the attached two color slides and two black and white photo I
reproductions thereof.
2. ANALYSIS: The color slide of Highway 69, vicinity of Phoenix, Arizona is a copy
a magazine. It bears a registration symbol in the upper right
hand corner pe used by professional photographers. used by professional photographers. The slide depicts the phenomena The slide depicts the phenomena
of a desert sunset and contains little more than colorful and picturesque cloud formations.
At the approxim At the approximat midpoint of 'the slide is an orange, funnel-like midpoint of the slide is an orange, funnel-like mass which is probably mass which is probably
a wind pattern trailing a plume of sand/earth which has been lifted from the desert floor. a wind pattern trailing a plume of sand/earth which has been lifted from the desert floor.
A single, diagonal lina immediately below this mass is probably due A single, diagonal lins immediately below this mass is probably to poor photo processing. por photo processing.
a. The second slide, taken in Switzerland, is also a copy, although in n this case the
original source cannot bs identified. The photograph is a low oblique possibly aerial in
format and shows a view of the typical mountainous terrain of Switzerland. The definition
and color rendition of the slide are at best only fair. Within the upper portion of the .
photograph is an oblong-appearing translucent streak which is probably due to reflection .
from possibly a portion of the aircraft's surface from which the photographywas taken.
b. No items of icance were observed on either slide.
PHOTO AN /BY: APPROVED BY:
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W. R. KENNEY ROBERT L. BASE
Intelligence Research Specialist Captain, USAF
Chief, Photo Analysis Division
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WILBER PRICE,
Director
Photo Exploitation Directorate
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ENGINEERING SUPPORT WORK REQUEST
ENGINEERING ANALYSIS PHOTO MACHINE TION
PPT NUMBER:A 6010301
DESCRIPTION OF WORK:
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REFERENCE MATERIAL: TWO (2)SlIdeS taken Aug 58 and Jul 59, with two prints. Request
all rerereng Lal be return analysis.
REQUESTED BY SYMBOL TDEW/URO PHONE 69216 220
CERTIFY THAT THIS WORK IS AUTHORIZED BY ME AND THAT IT HAS THE FOLLOWING
DEADLINE WITHIN MY DIVISION.
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This photograph, the original of which is in colour, was submitted to us by Miss Dora Bauer. -
It was t taken by Franz Hlawa of Vienna towards the end of July 1959.
The location was Monte Rosa in Switzerland and the picture was taken at a height
metres. Nobody metres. Nobody in 1n object: it appeared only on the film.
Y, ahead and about thirty degrres to the left, there were bright flashes in several places, like the dazzle of a helio-
graph, I saw a dull grey-white airship coming towards me. It seemed impossible, but I could have sworn that it was an
airship, nosing towards me like an oblong pearl. Except for a cloud or two, there was nothing clse in the sky. I looked around,
sometimes catching a flash or a glint, and turning again to look at the airship I found that it had disappeared. I screwed up my
spot.I Dazzling flashes continued in four or
clouds to my right front, I saw another, or the same, airship advancing. I watched it intently, determined not to look away for a
fraction of a second: I'd see what happened to this one, if I had to chase it. It drew steadily closer, until perhaps a mile away,
when suddenly it vanished. Then it reappeared, close to where it had vanished: I watched with angry intentness. It drew
closer, and I could see the dull gleam of light on its nose and back. It came on, but instead of increasing in size, it diminished
as it approached. When quite near it suddenly became its own ghost—one second I could see through it, and the next it had
vanished. I decided that it could only be a diminutive cloud, perfectly shaped like an airship and then dissolving, but it was
uncanny that it should exactly resume the same shape after it had once vanished. I turned towards the flashes, but those too,
had vanished. All this was many years before anyone spoke of flying saucers. Whatever it was I saw, it seems to have been
very much like what people have since claimed to be flying saucers."
From The Lonely Sea and the Sky, by Francis Chichester. (Year of sighting, 1931)
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