DECLASSIFIEDUSAF PROJECT BLUE BOOK · NARA T-1206
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
PROJECT BLUE BOOK
UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969
CASE REFERENCE6958314
DATE OF SIGHTINGSeptember 1959
REPORTED LOCATIONCamp Pendleton Calif
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1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
0 Was Balloon
30 Sep 59 _ Camp Pendleton, Calif. a pronen’ “baal
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION ,
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[Plight straight & level for 2-3 secs at observation.
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cloud. Alt estimation at 70° & obj moved
thru about 25° are in azimuth,
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ASTRONOMY PA
Amateur Discovers
Two New Comets
ASE romp etic ty Watts ow, Mek RON RD oe MRE LN wae Nee 4:04 See Front Cover
A BRITISH SCHOOL, teacher and amateur
astronomer has reported sighting two new
comets, -
Comet Alcock 19508, us one is called '
(named after its discoverer, George Al- !
cock), is the brightest comet seen in several
years. It was first seen on Aug. 30.
The photograph on the cover of this
week's Science News Lertrex is a ten-
minute exposure of the comet, taken at the
U.S. Naval Observatory, Flagstaff, Ariz., on
Tuesday morning, Sept. 1. The short lines
going across the picture are stars. They are
trailedl because the plate was moved during
exposure fo follow the comet’s motion. bi
Comet 1959, the other comet discovered te
by Mr. Alcock, is reported to be not as bs
bright as Comet 1959f, It also lacks the tail te 3
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GE ASPECT Ss 1S OF ]
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TEXAS BRANIFF CRASH
On the front page of the November 1959
issue of the Bulletin, comment pertaining
to the crash of a Braniff Airways turbo-
\\) ee ments made by R. B, Carleton, vice-
i “ea (president in charge of operations for
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\ Braniet, included the following informa-
tion: Carleton, who had been leading a
crew of airline technicians investigating
the crash scene, said an engine explosion
‘may have caused the crash. He also
said that glass window ports in a recov-
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THE A. P.R. O BULLETIN |
ered portion of the 113,000 pound rina |
howed signs of tremendous exterior heat,
but that the blast which disintegrated the |
big ship did not come from within the |
plane. A veteran Air Force pilot testified |
before a three-man Civil Aeronautics
Board that he bad seen a massive, mush-
room-shaped red stationary glow in the
area on the night of the crash. The
officer, Maj, R. O. Braswell of Ellington
AFB, Houston, was on his way from
Shreveport, La., to Lufkin in a C-47 when
29 September 1959
Buffalo, Texas
Eye-witness W. S. Webb testified that
he had just gone to bed on the night of
September 29 when, while gazing out-' \
the window, he “saw a light in-the sky.
a ball of fire that looked like a star
shot through the sky. Then ] heard a
noise like something was falling through
the sky. It was a whooshing, shrill sound.
i guess the fire ball was two-thirds of
the way from the ground when it ex-
ploded.””
A 39-year-old retired engineer, Jackie
J. Cox, testified: “Il was going home to
Buffalo when I noticed a low lying cloud
in the sky and heard the noise of a piane
which sounded louder than normal. You
could feel the vibrations on the ground.
I heard the plane for about 10 seconds
/ and then saw a bright orange light in the |
sky. it spread to cover the entire sky,
as if phosphorous or magnesium were
burning.” Mr. Cox said after he had
driven about a haif a mile he noticed |
another flash, which appeared twice. Af-
ter the second flash there was a noise
like thunder.
Billie Guyton of Centerville testified
that he noticed a small glow spread to
cover the sky, that he saw a falling
( \ .() prop airliner elicited further information
\\\9 from David Wuliger,"APRO member in I thought it was lightning at first, but |
an >, Houston, Clippings containing press state- it didn’t disappear. A few seconds Sater |
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he spotted the atomie-cloud-shaped burn-
ing mass, three to five degrees above
bim—an enormous thing, he said. the object fell, he heard #2 thunder-like
The Houston Press reported on Decem- cM gt Le Oe rane
ber 10 that 280 Fort Hood soldiers fanned | Fssionsecatediases aileediiiadhie Ge ches Sa
f cataghd ee |
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out through the woods and fields near |
Buffalo on December 9 in further efforts | Jarwary, 1968
to turn up additional pieces of the air- ;
liner, which crashed on 29 September noise. ae /
1959. CAB investigator John Cyrocki ce-' It appears that something elsé was in|
nied reece ee eer 5 Gedy See ae ee) the sky that night near Buffalo—some-
winder missUe had somehow broken free thing in a cloud, At the same time, in
and homed in on the airliner, causing the | the same location, an airliner carried 34
-r REM ih : peooie to their deaths. .
Cn October 2ist, the Houston Press P is i ilite
reported detalls of the hearing which J ar reenn tae oeae gate ee
took agape ye ee ee igo | time weeks after the initial investigatica
nasium a e
witnesses are most important, CAB in- | and search were eomplated.
vestigator Joseph Zamuda said that at |
1] p.tn., just 9 minutes before the crash,
the flight engineer had louged the fact
Aat they were cruming at 15,000 fret, :
ur speed 275 knots, ai] engine insiru-'
meats normal, -. aitemeneninemeatian