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2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
{) Wes Balloon
_i2 Noy. 59 sGarden City, New York iB) Erekebly Bellen |
3. DATE-TimE GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION O Possibly Balloon
Local * Ground- Visual O Ground-Radar o Sale Aivcieti
GMT 12/22402, 0 Air Vi suol D Air-Intercept Radar 0D Possibly Aircraft
) 5, PHOTOS 6. SOURCE O Was Astronomical
0 Yos 0 Probably Astronomical
1 No Civilian O Passibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE O Other.
; 0D Insufficient Data for Evaluation
O Unknown
poeennn nd O_ BIDE. one stationary ry
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
Obj in E or NE at 20° elev climbing erratically Movement coincides w/that expected
‘irregular movement. Color yellowish white or Ova balloon. Garden City is-to the

thite. Occasional bluish or green light fm the West Yitchell AFB (about 10 mi) Obj

obj. Climbed to about 30° in 3 mins. Ten mins was probably a ballocn released fm this
later the obj was 40=45° elev still climbing. | station.
No sound, trail, or exhaust.

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Gentlemen:

At between about 5:40 and 5:50 P.M, ke &. T., on Thursday,
November 12, 1959, while on my way home from Adelphi College, Garden
City, Long Island, I saw that possibly may have been an unidentified
flying, object.

The exact circumstances were as follows: I was walking down
Cambridge Avenue, a Street which leads south fom the campus of Adelphi
College, and runs along the edge of a golf course which adjoins Adelphi's
Campus, this golf course being to the east of Cambridge Avenue. About two
blocks down from the rear exit of the campus, at a point where an East-to-west |
street called Terrace Avenue joins Cambridge Ayenus (for clarification, see |
accompanying rough map), I stopped for a moment to edmire the starry night
sky (it was already dark; there were few if any clouds and no fog or haze, |
unfortunately I do not remember if there was any moon, but I think there
was not). It was then that I noticed, toward the east or east northeast,
about 20° above the horizon, apparently above a point east of the golf
course, an irregularly waxing and waning, never very bright and never
completely extinguished, generally white or yellowish-white but occasionally
bluish or perhaps even faintly greenish, point of light, which I observed
to be slowly and erratically climbing. I just very barely could, and I
am not guite certain on this point - see a hint of a dark form behind it.

I watcned it for about three to five minutes, while it climbed to a height
of perhaps 300- During this interval of time, several ordinary airplanes

passed by, making their own noise, so I wuld not be sure whether the unknown
made any sound - though I did seem to hear, in between the airplane and
traffic noises, and seemingly coming from the direction of the unknown, a
faint whirring or droning sound, or a sort of low pulsation. There was

no exhaust, no other unknown object at objects appeared, there was no

odor, no materials or objects fell of emanated from it, so far as I could
tell.

fter watching a few minutes - during which, so far as I could tell,
no one else noticed the object - I continued on my way home. About ten
or fifteen minutes later - I live only a few blocks from the place of
the sighting - I arrived home, and before going in, and took one more
last look at the ENE sky. I still saw it, irregularly changing in
intensity, perhaps 40° or 459 above the horizon. I then went in, and
Saw it no moree

Yours truly,
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—_ City South,

P. S. I would appreciate it if I could know whether anybody else saw
what I saw, and just what it was that 1 saw.

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SAFOI-7 Maj Tacker/mnd/72291

21 January 1960

Dear Mr. 5 ree

This is to scknowledge your recent letter concerniay
en unidentified flying object sigating at Garden City, New
York on 12 November 1959.

The Air Force did not receive any other reports con-
cerning your sigating.

Tine conclusion of the Aerospace Technical Intelligence
Center is that you were looking at the moon through a haze
layer which was not readily spparent.

Sincerely,

LAWRENCE J. TACKSR

Major, USAF

Puolic Information Division
O?fice of Information

Mr. "
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Garden City South, lew Yor

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AEROSPACE TECHNICAL INTELLIGENCE CENTER
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE
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Unidentified Flying Objects Wm.

SAFOI=34 (Maj Tacker) nt Ni

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Ll. Tne attached letter was sent to ATIC by — |
Kensington Road South, Garden City South, N. % B)

26 >i appears to be one of those pers sons who feelsi-it nis duty
to make certain suggestions to hs Air Force.

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3. Suggest that t lir QR be informed that aS yet the Air force has
no material evidence to indicate that thers is anyone’ or anything to
contact. Further, that scientists all over the pat are constantly
sending signals into space to further our knowleds: If there were
some advanced race from another: planet jor system, it would seem these
Signals would have been tenants anu some attempts made to contact

earth.
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lh. It should ba pointed out to Hr. that our investigators are
equipoed to collect as much sclentt information as possible when
investigating reports of mnidentified | aerial phenomena. No data
esulting from investigation» aad to date revealed any evidence of an
increase of radiation of any type’ or any unusual electrical or mage
netic disturbance, , 4
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FOR THS COMMANDER: \

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Deputy for Sciences and Components