PROJECT BLUE BOOK

PROJECT 10073 RECORD
1. DATE - TIME GROUP 2. LOCATION

21 September 1961 21/17002 - 38.00N 161.00W 34.55N 154.408 (PACIFIC)
' 3. SOURCE 10, CONCLUSION
Military Other (MISSILE ACTIVITY)

4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS
Missile exercise in area at time of sighting.
One

5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION /|11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS

6 Minutes Odgect appearing as large circular area of high intensity
light. With dark outer rim traveling at orbital speed leav-
6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION RN ;
on oes ing faint giow or trail. Doughnut appearance. Observed to
Ground ,Air-Visual 2 and looxed like light as it got closer it was brilliant
7. COURSE with the center missing. 2nd report of object appearing like
smoke ring 2 deg in diameter. Not like Aurora. Ring
ESE darker than rim around ring. Oodject moving ESE.
i 8. PHOTOS .
O Yes
47 Ne
9. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE
O Yes
ax Ne
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FTD sep 63 0-329 (TDE) Previous editions of thie form may be used,

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UNCLAS/CIRVIS/30AC SPEED BIRD 582 PILOTED BY CAPT. GRIFFIN TOKYO
TO HONOLULU. 21/2202Z POSITION 3890N 16100W SPEED
959, TEMPERATURE -53 DEGREES CENTIGPADE ALTITUDE 37

THOUSAND, HEADING @83 DEGREES MAG. SEEN IN SKY ABOUT

29 DEGREES ELEVATION AN OBJECT APPEARING LIKE A SMOKE
RING ABOUT 2 DEGREES IN DIAMETER AND NOT LIKE AURORA.
TEXTURE AND COLOR OF THE RING APPARED TO BE DARCER

THAN THE RAY AROUND THE RING. CENTER OF RING CLEAR,

SKY COULD BE SEEN THROUGH AS STARS WERE VISIBLE THROUGH
IT. THE COMPLETE PHENOMENON MOVING ESE WITH A BEARING

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AF IN : 5193 (21 Sep 61) Pg 2 of 2

OF ABOUT 199 DEGREES, THIS SIGHTING WAS VISISLE FOR

4 a
APPROXIMATELY 6 minutes (at 2916Z A SPACE SHIP OR ko Kapa on 7.

ASST SILHT AA

SATELLITE WAS SEEN PASSING VENUS OR REGULUS HEADING

NE. WEATHER THROUGHOUT CLEAR. NO EVALUATION. Ed. +85 SAretere

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NOTE: Adv cy del to OOP-CP & CIN (220221).
TWO JET AIRLINERS :
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ENCOUNTER UFO FLYING © ioe ery NICAP if there are no official

DIS objections.
| Based on first reports, these points

The confirming Pan-American report
also was logged at Honolulu. The FAA

seem evident:
1. The object was not an ICBM mis-
sile. Nor was it a satellite re-entering
the atmosphere. These appear only as
small balls of fire, briefly visible.
2. The reflected light was from the
sun, which was an hour below the hori-
zon. The UFO had to be very high to |
catch its rays.

3. At such a high altitude, the un-
known device had to be extremely large
(at least several hundred feet in dia-
meter) for its edges and the hole to be
so clearly seen by the BOAC crew.
The size and description rule our all
earthmade rockets, satellites or Echo-
type balloons.

The ‘‘doughnut’* shape the jet crews

reported is similar to the future space-
base proposed by rocket expert Wernher

BULLETIN. The Federal Aviation |
Agency has just confirmed to NICAP
? the sighting of a large, round flying
object by two jet-airliner crews. En-
countered over the Pacific, Sept. 21,
the mystericus device swiftly out-

distanced the Boeing 707’s.

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: Reports were radioed to FAA towers
at Wake and Honolulu by Capt. R.F,

i Griffin, commanding a British Overseas

Airways Corporation plane, and bya Pan
American Airways captain. Details
indicating a space machine much larger
than any now possible on earth were
relayed to AF Intelligence.

(On Sept. 25, in a surprising press
statement, AF HQ admitted being flooded
with reports of ‘‘flying objects’’ near
Wake Island.)

Capt. Griffin said the BOAC jet was
at 37,000 feet, in a gray, pre-dawn sky,
when the UFO appeared.

‘Suddenly we saw this bright ring in
the sky, about 50 degrees up.'* The
British pilot described the object as
round, with sharply outlined edges and
a ‘“‘very clear hole’’ in the center. ‘‘It
was traveling in our direction but at far
greater speed. There appeared to be
reflected light coming down fromit. The
object went over the horizon in seven

minutes.*’

von Braun--a huge doughnut-shaped ring
containing compartments for crews and
equipment and rotating tocreate gravity.
At a distance, the connecting frame-
work would be invisible, and from far
below the space-base would appear just
as Capt. Griffin described the UFO.

More advanced space engineers, ex-
perimenting on another planet, could have
evolved the same type of space-base.
It is possible that what the jet crews
Saw was such a spacecraft from another
world,

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AF IN: 4600 (21 Sep 61) WdeoD MING

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AF IN: 4600 (21 Sep 61) Page 2 of 2

/NCLAS/CIRVIS: PA878 ADVISES UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT APPEARED
AT 1700Z. OBJECT APPEARED AAAAAAA
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AT 1700Z. OBJECT APPEARED AS A LARGE CIRCULAR AREA OF HIGH INTENSITY
LIGHT WITH A DARK CENTER AS SIMILAR TO AN ECLIPSE. OBJECT APPEARED

TRAVELING EAST AT ORBITAL SPEED LEAVING A FAINT GLOW OF LIGHT TRAIL.
AIRCRAFT PA2 VERIFIES SIGHTING OBJECT DOUGHNUT IN APPEARANCE. POSITION
OF AIRCRAFT AT TIME OF SIGHTING S455N 15448E AND OBJECT APPEARED ABO!T
1@ DEGREES OVER THE HORIZON AND WELL EAST OF THE AIRCRAFT. AIRCRAFT

T15182 ADVISES NOTED SAME LIGHT REPORTED BY PA2. WHEN FIRST NOTED IT
WAS SMALL AND BRIGHT AND AS IT GOT CLOSER IT BECAME BRILLIANT

LIGHT WITH THE CENTER MISSING SUCH AS A DOUGHNUT MIGHT LOOK AND
RETAINED THIS APPEARANCE UNTIL LOST ON THE HORIZON. BELIEVE IT

TO BE AN ELECTRICAL DISTURBANCE OF SOME KIND.

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