PROJECT BLUE BOOK

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969

CASE REFERENCE8666040

DATE OF SIGHTINGMay 1962

REPORTED LOCATIONWestover AFB Mass

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DEPARTMENT OF THE AiR FORCE
STAFF MESSAGE BRANCH

UNSLASUHED MESSAGE

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ACTION: CIN-17 Pe 1 of 4
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FOR CSAFOI). REFERENCE AFR 208-2, PARA 15. THIS MESSAGE
CONSIST OF TWELVE (12) PARTS. PART ONE. A. (1) VARIOUSLY
DESCRI3ZED AS ROUND EGG SHAPED, NO SPECIFIC SHPAE OF SIMPLY A
STREAK OF LIGHT. ¢€2) ROUND DESCRIPTION: QUARTER: EGG

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CRANGE TO BLUE. ¢€4) ONE TL N/A (6) NONE.
(7) ROUND: NONE, EGG: SX OBJECT SUZE, NO SHAQEs: SHORT

TAIL LIKE FLARE, STREAK: TRAIL LIKE METEOR. (8) NONE

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MOVED IN ARC, STREAK: DESCENDING PATH OF 30DEG (5) ROUND:
SLINKED OUT, EOG: BLACKED OUT, NO SHAPE, SEEMED To BURN OUT,
STREAK: SEEMED TO BURN OUT (S) ROUND: 10 SEC, EG: 15-

“@ SEC, NO SHAPE: 2-3 SEC, STREAK! 1/2 SEC. PART TuRE.

C. 1 ALL GROUND VISUAL EXCEPT STREAK DESCRIPTION. THIS

WAS MADE BY PILOT OF KC-135. (2) NONE (3) STREAK DEFS-
CRIPTION: ¥C-135, NR 633, ALT 2099 FT, HEADING B75DEG, SPEE
150K, HOMES STATION WESTOVER AFB, MASM PART Four. Db.

(1) 87522 EXNEPT AIRBORNE SIGHTING WHICH PILOT STATES

CURED 37 27252 (2) NIGHT PART FIVE E. ROUND AND EGG: INFRONT
G BLDG T-S4!, WESTOVER AFB MASS; NO SHAPE, CONTROL

TOWER, WESTOVER AFBM STREAK, 3 MILES SOUTH EAST OF NORTH END

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Le WARE, £14TH COMBAT DEFENSE SQDN, ZESTOVER AFB MASS.

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EGG: Aic FRANK JACKSON JR, 814TH COMBAT DEFENSE S@DN,
WESTOVER AFB MASS. OIC STATES BOTH MEN RELEABLE BUT

NERVOUS TYPES AND MIGHT BE PRONE TO EXAGGERATION DUE TOEX-

CITEMENT. NO SHAP TSST EDWAFD E MCGEE JR, 1917C0MM

SODN, WESTOVER AFB MASS. AIC HOWARD C PEAVEY JR, 1917TH
COMM SCDN, WESTOVER AF3 MASS. TSGT MCGEE IS DESCRIBED BY
OlC AS BEST QUALIFIED CONTROL TOWER OPERATOR ON BASE.
EXCELLENT OBSERVER. AlC PEAVEY HAS 17 YRY OF SERVICE AND

AND RELIABLE. STREAK: CAPT JOHN

WESTOVER AFB MASS. CAPT INGWERSE

S9ARY, 4253 ARW,

HAS A TOTAL OF 24 YEARS OF CIVILIAN AND MILITARY FLYING
EXPERIENCE AND IS COMPETENT OBSERVER. PART SEVEN. G.
(1) EXCELLENT (2) SURFACE: 270/35, 6,990: 289/42,

19,083: 252/48, 16,823: 2338/45 23,09: 230/45 30,082:
252/35 59,208: 239/30, 68,9008: 292/25. (3) NONE

MI HAXE ALOFT (5) NINE (6) NONE. PART EIGHT.
¥NOWC PART NINE. I. NONE PART TEN. Je KC-155

IN LIEBERMAN, NCOIC COMBAT

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ST REPORT OF ANN AND WAR

AND DURATINN. PART SIX. Le. NONE

IS EXAGGERATED AS