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1. DATE - TIME GROUP- -1 2. LOCATION

11 April 64 2230 Homer, New York

3. SOURCE
Civilian

4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS

Multiple
5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION
30 Minutes - 45 Minutes
6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
Ground-Visua& (BX)

7. COURSE
Drifting

8. PHOTOS

11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS
Letter to Dr Hynek of unusual observation, See Case File.

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9. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE

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This whole episode took place in about forty-five minutes and
ended just about dusk. If it were not for the fact that all four
of us observed this event, I would hesitate to bring this to your
attention. However, the inclosed clippings are what prompted me
to write to y elative to the same. Newark Valley is about fifty
miles South of/and I must admit the report from there sounds wierd,
but then, our experience appeared the same to us.

During World War II I was a pilot in the U.S. Air Force and
all my flying experience was within the Continental limits of the
United States. In all that time I never once, night or day, ob- |
served anyting unusual in the skies. Now, at age 43, I have observed
phenomena which are beyond my comprehension, and which tax my sense

of reasoning and credulity. |
ws Respectfully,

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on the North on South direction.

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an ordinary jet trail and after Print I] had disappeared
and should Se disregarded in the subsequent prinds,

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CORTLAND. N. Y.

February 23, 1965

Dr. J. Adlen Hynek

Dearborn Dbaervatony, Northwestern liniv.
Evanston, [Llinvis, 00201

Dear. Or. Hynek

Apparently our minds were operating on the zane wave length Last
week, because at the time when you were writing your Letter of Febnuary ISth, I

was in the process of assenbling the sketches and data and putting then together
in a comprehensible forn. I was honored to receive your telephone cal and very
pleased to discuss the sighting with you. I have re-read my Letter to you fon

the finest time since it was sent and realize that | cwntnadicted myself in sone
vf the details,

One point is that tre jet trails actually appeared from West to fase |
as stated in tre Letter and not vice-versa as stated in ny telephone conversation.
Since our conversatinn 1 Aave returned to tre Location of the sighting and a nearly

as I can renender it 2 be find trat tie tral of the object was actually nearer
the Soutr end of Sraneateles Lare and not nalf way uo as I asdated to you. Furtrer-
I had also foasotten rat I had mailed a copy of my Letter to you to Sdeoren RK,
/utnan of Scituate, 424, whose wooy is UUs. However, { never heard fron hin
and tne ony reason [ wrote to rim was tnat he had rad an article in our Local paper.
Uther than that I have discussed tris matter only with close friends.

(4 is anazing what details one can forget in six months tine and you
caught ne at a very ousy time in iny office 20 that ny recall was not tuo yuicr on
the matters we discussed, I an inclosing herewith seven prinks of the aightingwrich
my wite prepared from our description of the sane describing it a nearly as we all can
recall, together with a description of the sane and | intend to return to the Location
to have rhotographs made for your reference.

In the event there is anything further wherein I can be of assistance
to you in your aeseanrch of similar situations, RindLy advise and { wilk be very
tappy to dv 40, Jhanring you very much for your interest herein, 1 renain,

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18 February 1965

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I am still very mech interested in the sighting which you mde last
April, but I as no closer to a solution than I was before. I write this
to remind you that you promised to send the sketches of the sighting
that I believe you said your wife made.

You were not certain whether the original sketches still existed, but
you indicated that if they did not, you would prevail upon your wife

to reproduce them as best she can frommmory. I hope that you will be
able to favor me with this in the near future as I would like to include
these in the case fils.

I trust that everything else is well with you and that you are sie aki
your camera around with you!

Sincerely yours,

J. Allen Hynek
Director

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Dr. J. Allen Hynek
Director, Dearborn Observatory

Northwestern University
Chicago, Illinois

Dear Dr. Hynek

I can appreciate that you probably receive hundre’ of letters
of this type, but if the information submitted herein assists you
in any way in your research of matters of this sort, I am happy to

submit it to you.

On April 11, 1964, my wife, two children GQ, age 10, and

wee age 14) and I were having a picnic supper on a hill 1800
feet above sea level, about ten miles Northwest of Homer, New York.

It was 6:30 p.m., wind out of the North about 5 miles per hour, and
the day was crystal clear with just a few stratus clouds on the |
Western horizon. At about 6:00 p.m. several jet bombers had left.”
vapor trails up high, traveling from West to East, but these trails

quickly disappeared. — z

As I looked up in the sky a little to the Northwest of us at

‘7 about 6:30 p.m. there appeared what I thought was a very large jet
a trail from Northeast to Southwest. It was very white and wide snd
at the Southwest end there was a break on the trail of about 1 mile.
P Then a very black spiral formation of what appeared to be smoke ap-
peared about 1 mile long. We remarked that the white trail was

; unusually wide for a jet trail and apparently the black portion
looked dark because of the angulation of the glow of the setting sun
behind the Western hill several miles away.

The white vapor trail humg in the sky and gradually drifted to
the South, slowly dissipating. Up to this point we were observing
what we believed to be a notmal situation, except for the abrupt
ending of the white trail, Misirct space and. the continuation, 98: ine

x, ; | black spiral tip, - 3 ee tad “s eee sar, | ephid'y* 4) it mit ia, :
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i Approximately’ ten minutes “had now passed and. te suddenly occurred

“to me that: the black spiral cloud had. slowly moved to the. West while
the white trail had drifted Southward. Also, the cloud became auch

darker and we all observed this. At this point I took my 6 x 25
binoculars to observe it and was shocked to see wisps of smoke ac-

tually streaming out of the black cloud...almost boiling out. It
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was now slowly approaching the distant stratus cloud fotmation sil-
houtted against the Western hill. Suddenly the black cloud, still
retaining its @iral shape, changed from the horizontal position to
a vertical position with greater smoke activity and resesabled a
emoking plane slowly falling from the sky, at the same time assuming
a shape not unlike a banana. Then it no longer seema to be falling,
but simply stopped and bung there for two or three minutes amd then
very slowly seemed to sink into the clouds and was obliterated.
Everyone of us observed this Srange phenomenon plainly with the
naked eye.

After about three minutes had elapsed while we were all won-
dering if our eyes had played tricks on us, my daughter suddenly
ec iained “there's another one”. It appeared as a horizontal pencil
shaped object. It was impossible at that distance to determine the
length, but it could have been as large as a submarine. It moved
from the left on the horizon to the right. We could not agree as to
whether this was the original object or another rendezvousing with |
the first object, as this second sighting appeared to the left of
where the first object became obliterated by the clouds. :

As I was observing it with my binoculars, there was a flash of
white Light from the rear of it and it shot forward with incredible
speed for a distance of about five times its length and as suddenly
stopped, still maintaining the pencil shape, apparently hovering. My
son described the incident as it happened while I watched it with
the binoculars. It became thick in the middle and with a cloud of
smoke emenating from it, shot backward as rapidly as it had gone for-
ward about the same distance. Again it hovered and then began to
shorten in length until it appeared saucer shaped, fat in the middle.
Then the most incredible part occurred...from the saucer shape it
became almost perfectly round and slowly divided into two parts, one
above the other, very much as a single cell does under a microscope. 3
The top object slowly became smaller as it appeared to fade off in
the distance, while the second object headed downward at a 45° angle ..,
toward the spot where we had seen the banana shaped object disappear. \:
At this point it divided in two agein but the bottom object now as- nee
sumed a-vertial pencil shape while the top oval object slowly. faded*:
away. We realize the pencil shape could well be a disc observed frou
the. side. Then the pencil shaped object also faded frou sight, 7.

me when