PROJECT BLUE BOOK

PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1, OATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
© Wes Bell
19 July 1960 Tacoma, Washington O Prebably Bolleon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4% TYPE OF OBSERVATION QO Possibly Belleen
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Local @ Ground. Vi suel O Greund-Reder oP sebelly Atcorate
omt_..20/05162 0 Air Viwel © Alr-Intercept Reder |9 Possibly Aircrofs
5. PHOTO: ae OU c st Hes = tot .
ag re stronomicel Meteor
Wl Ne Civilian o Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE |  eee—e—————————Ee—eEeEeEE*
| OC Insufficient Dete for Eveluction
fraction of a second S Uminom

10, BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS

Pound circular ball. bright yellow thenturned | Description is typical of a meteor.

green, disappeared behind trees.

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(4) Visibility

(5) Amount of cloud cover

(6) Thunderstorms

(7) Temperature gradient

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2102302,

2100C STL 15 miles Clear and 10

less than 6/10
covering

None
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-2.1 /per/1000 ft

Surface:

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None

ISO Thermal «~ 6, 000

Aloft: 6,000 Normal to Tropopause

40, 000

h, Other Unusual Activity - None,
is Interception Action - None,
je Air Traffic

‘Normal commerical air traffic in and out of Lambert Field, St, Louis,
Missouri, Considerable military air traffic at high altitude on strategic

exercises,

k, Position Title and Comments of Preparing Officer,

The manner in which the object hovered and moved slowly, combined with
| the instantaneous disappearance, would indicate that it might be a balloon
| which eventually burst at high altitude, However, the Weather Bureau reported
: no balloons in the area, and stated that their balloons carry a white light,
which burns only 15 minutes, Refractions from the atmosphere might make a

white light appear red to a ground observer,

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l, Physical Evidence ~ None,

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WILLIAM Y, @CPHERSON
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Plans & Programs Officer

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THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE ST. LOUIS GLOBE
DEMOCRAT, FRIDAY, 22 JULY 1960, PAGE 3A.
" 2 COUNTY GROUPS
SEE STRANGE RED
LIGHTS IN SKY

Two separate groups of St. Louis County residents, about
three-quarters of a mile from each other, said they saw bright
red lights in a circular formation in the sky about 10 p.m.

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The See family, SR University

City, observed the mysterious lights through a 120-power

telescope.
ee ao. Sa her nephew,

her niece, and fer two young sons watched the object through
powerful Navy binoculars.

Dozens of persons reported seeing a mysterious red light
or lights in the sky above St. Louis County about 9:30 or 10 p.m.
Wednesday. Many others reported flickering, erratically-moving
red lights in the sky about the same time Tuesday night.

Mrs @@ifiemee said she and her companions watched the object for
15 or 30 minutes tefore the lights seemed to rise and then
disappeared suddenly.

"It loosed like a wheel," she said. "There was a double
row of lights inacircle, and it had spokes, also lighted. We
sighted it when we were in a car near our home. When we pulled
up it seemed to be right overhead, and I heard a muffled humning,
wnich later faded out." :

Mrs. @@@™@e said she ran in and got her husband's binoculars.
Tnen the group watched the lights as they moved steadily west,

zig-zagging slightly, and later started to rise.
"What seemed to be a flickering of the lights to the naked

eye was really a movement of the lights, we found when we looked
through the binoculars," she said.
"It must have been terribly high when it disappeared, be-
cause it looked like a star just before it vanished."
ie te... 14, whose hobby is astronomy, described the
: object as "four very bright red objects, in a circle around a
central point at about 20 revolutions per minute."
| The lights appeared to be one light to the naked eye, he
| said. They moved from east-northeast to west-southwest "at
about the speed of a slow airplane," he said.
He said he could not tell how high or how far away the
lights were. They disappeared “one by one, seeming to merge into
each other" he said.

ee” vis Sats woe their parents and two neighbors

observed the object throvgh telescopes, until the last light
west generally straicht up, taking a slightly erratic course,

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9. N/A
PART-II
1. BRIGHT APPEARANCE
2. 3CDEGREES ABOVE HORIZON
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4s STRAIGHT LINE AT SLIGHT DOW! ANGEL
5. CESCURED LY TREZS
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1. NEGATIVE
b. 10-260/1C, 20-24C/25, 30-240/29, 4C-230/37 ,
S0-2IC/17, BO-240/E5
3. CLEAR
4. GOOD OVER 10 NILES
5. NORMAL-MNCINVERSIC!: :

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THIS REPORT APPEARS TO WAVE EEE Al. OBSERVATION

OF A FIRE BALL} A VERY LARGE METNOR WHICH OCCASIOIALLY

ARE KNOWN TC FLASH GREEN UPON CONTACT WIT THE

PAGS FOUR RJYZEN 37A
ATMOSPIUERE » THE BRIEF SPAN OF THE OBSERVATION WHICH

WAS ONLY A FRACTION OF A SECOND, ALSO LENDS WEIGHT
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St. Louis, Missouri 19 July 1960
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(U) Unidentified Flying Object Report

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SUMMARY (Give summery which highlights the salient factors of narrat ive report. Begin narrative text on AF Form I12a
unless report can be fully stated on AF Form 112. List inclosures, including number of copies)

A telephone call was received from Mr. by the Base Clearance
Officer the night of 19 July 1960, reporting an unidentified flying
object. A number of his neighbors were also reported as having seen
the object. This informagj was immediately followed by a tele-
phone call from Mrs. — - University City, St. Louis,
Missouri, providing the same type of information. This headquarters
contacted Det 6, 10th Radar Bomb Scoring Squadron and the 798th AC&W
Squadron the morning of 20 July to evaluate the report. Det 6, 10th
RBS did not become active until 2200, 19 July, one half hour after
the time of the reported sighting. The log of the 798th AC&W Sq
showed no activity at that time.
Another report was receivec from Mrs. ae. the night of 20 July,
reporting a similar sighting at approximately the same time, 2130
local. Det 6, 10th RBS was contacted at 0830 local, 21 July and re-
ported one aircraft at 39,000 ft tracking East to West over North
St. Louis at 2150 local, 20 July. The 798th AC&W Sq log was negative.
The U.S. Weather Bureau, St. Louis, Missouri statec no balloons were
in the vicinity at the time of the reported sighting. Many other
persons have been guoted by the press and radio in the St. Louis
area as having seen the object both nights. This headquarters is
unable to determine the nature of the object, and is forwarding this
information IAW paragraph 13b, AFR 200-2. Also inclosed is an
extract from a local newspaper which gives an account of the inci-
dent and names and addresses of additional observers.

1 incl. Newspaper Extract

APPROVED:

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JOHN E. RHODE, Lt. Col. USAF
Chief, Intelligence Division, DCS/Plans at. 4 =

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a. Description of the Object:

(1) Shape, Round

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(2) Size, Approximately size of a quarter, |
(3) Color.

Bright red, varying in intensity.

(4) Number,

One,

(5) Formation,
N/A

| (6) Any discernible features or details,

None, |
(7) Tail, trail or exhaust,

None,
(8) Sound,

None,

(9) Other pertinent or unusual features,

None,

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b, Description of Course of Objects:

(1) What first called the attention of observer(s) to the object(s)?

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Neighbors called it to his attention,

(2) Angle or elevation and azimuth of the object(s) when first observed,

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Straight overhead,

(3) Angle or elevation and azimuth of object(s) upon disappearance,

To the East at high altitude,

(4) Description of flight path and maneuvers of object(s),
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Stopped and hovered, Went backwards once or twice,
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(5) How did the object(s) disappear?

Instantaneously to the East first night, Instantaneously to the West
second night.

(6) How long was the object(s) visible, (Be specific, 5 minutes, 1 hour,
etc)

Approximately twenty (20) minutes first night; thirty (30) minutes
second night.

c. Manner of Observation:

(1) Use one or any combination of the following items:
Ground-visua]l, ground~electronic, air electronic, (If electronic,

specify type of radar),

Ground-visual,

(2) Statement as to optical aids (telescopes, binoculars, and so forth)
used and description thereof,

No aids first night, Mrs, re... utilized a telescope second night,
after locating object with naked eye,

(3) If the sighting is made while airborne, give type of aircraft, identifi-
cation number, altitude, heading, speed and home station,

N/A
d, Time and Date of Sighting:
(1) Zulu time ~ date group of sighting,
200230Z and 2102302
(2) Light conditions - (Night, day, dawn, dusk, )

Night,

e. Location of Observer(s), Exact latitude and longitude of each observer,
and/or geographical position, A position with reference to a known landmark
also should be given, such as ''2 mi N of Deeville,"' "3 mi SW of Blue Lake",
T ypographical errors or "garbling" often result in electrically transmitted

messages, making location plots difficult or impossible,

University City, St, Louis, Missouri, Observed from front of homes in
West St, Louis,

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f, Identifying Information on Observer(s):

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(1) Civilian « Name, age, mailing address, occupation,

Mr, {epee

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University City, Missouri |

Student |

Mrs rae
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Housewife

(2) Military - Name, grade, organization, duty, and estimate of
reliability,

N/A

ge Weather and Winds - Aloft Conditions at Time & Place of Sightings:

(1) Observer(s) account of weather conditions,

Clear and calm both nights

(2) Report from AWS, Scott AFB

2002302 2102302
Surface - Calm Surface - Calm
6,000 . - 360/11 6, 000 - 080/10
10, 000 - 360/11 10, 000 - Light & variable
16, 000 - 340/14 16, 000 - Light & variable
20, 000 - 350/12 20, 000 - Light & variable
30, 000 - 290/12 30, 000 - 300/10
50, 000 - 270/30 50, 000 - 260/30
80, 000 - 80, 000 - 040/10 est
(3) Ceiling
2002302 2102302
2100C STL 5, 000 Sctd None
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