PROJECT BLUE BOOK

1. DATE 2. LOCATION

31 May 64

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Wheaton, Maryland

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Woes Balloon
Probably Balloon

3. DATE-TIME GROUP

4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION

Possibly Balloon

Was Aircraft
Probably Aircroft
Possibly Aircraft

Local 2230 a & Ground-Vi suol 0 Ground-Radar
GMT de Jun/02302 0 Air Visual 0 Air-Intercept Radar
5. PHOTOS oS 6. SOURCE
0D Yes
1 ae _ civilian

Was Astronomical
Probably Astronomical
Possibly Astronomical

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION

Ons.

8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9. COURSE

Other

Insufficient Data for Evaluction
Unknown :

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10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING

Observation of obj coming from SE to Nw,
Flight included abrupt turns to right and left.
Went up and away during 25 minute observation.
Color reddish white. Also reported objectson
20 and 30 May.

ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)

11. COMMENTS

Duration, motion of flight and

description of obj in accord with
Balloon analysis.

No Case, Informe tion Cnly 18 Ma:
Sources FSIC Bulletin, Vol 2, #1 Prsalhig Aes Indi ars
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Terra Haute, Indiana... May 18, 1964... The SW part
of town was immersed in a fog; when it lifted, 25 homes had large, :
brownish spots on them. It was the second time in a week. This
happened once last fall, at which time scientists sald it was harm-,
less. They said it was hydrogen sulfide, the source unknown. One:

person got sick.

Information Only | Grangeville, Idaho
Sourse: : 19 May 1964,

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This sighting report wich
‘appeared in the Victoria Daily Times
‘for May 19 was sent to us through

AG ‘ bee aeo ms s i the courtesy of Mrs. E. Shook:
rd PO) pnt USPS ne rt ae * “Grangeville, Idaho—For two nights
Me age. Seah De® Ade atte / now, residents of this north-central

Idaho community have watched a
ea, ( Mysterious, bright object in the sky

..* to the north.

x% ’t “Sheriff James Fuzzell said on

72 | Tuesday he wouldn’t call it a flying

takes rs er Naas at saucer—just a strange object. He
6 UY wel Seda. op said he watched it, along with many
Oe ape Sh. ~~ other people, and its origin is unexpla-
et obeys med. Fuzzell said it appeared on
. Abed fad 1 3% o ~\- Sunday night and again on Monday
Ne ets 2S 9 ee: night for nearly two hours.
sets HSS, “ets tele a gs “ *It looked like a street light but a
We By ee tee to lot bigger,’ Fuzzell said. “There were
‘ ch people taking pictures last night. It

_ may bea reflection of light.’
at “Fuzzell said he watched the object
through binoculars. He described it
as oblong in shape and eight to 10 feet
long. He said it moved ‘back and
ages. forth on the level.’ >
Were tae ; “Fuzzell said the object appeared
ae ale Sz 4 = to be near the Cottonwood Air Force
anivs # te ‘Ze eh 7 Radar Station. oad y
wa ith Mw Cones RE 4 “Col. Luif Zendeguy, station com-
Se SU ee one Ca ee mander said several of his men had
pw Fak 8? reported sighting a bright object.
Ta ak Pa a ~ ‘Whether it was a star or what I don’t
know and neither do they’ he said.
*We are buffaloed. I have forwarded

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i ose our report toa higher headquarters.’”’
figs: tae This report is yet another indication of
ier. - tthe public's reluctance to admit seeing a

fiving saucer. Sheriff Fuzzell has seen a
‘strange object’ but the words
‘fying saucer’ will not pass his
lips. What is a flying saucer? A UFO.
_ Whatisa UFO? A strange object observed
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The ‘Baer rie rowen last
night} said ‘tranny ‘calls. ‘had been .
received» about 9:30: p.m. con- +.
cerning. unidentified. fying: b> ~
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The< operators said,: jeeinadg
that'nothing unusual showed up —
on \their radarscope:+; They: said
they: \were. probably-jets- flying»
at high: altitude. Ss Rais." {7

Wilbert Ohneck and: 5 daugh-
ter, “Sharon who- live. three
‘miles. northwest of’ Huntertown, .
had some: specific ey Negi
|to report, sists eink

Ohneck said they: Gets en op: :
ange-yellow objects flying from
the southwest to the: northwest: .
He said they e ase 4
ily with intense .

| They: attempted. to: drive: near" ‘on
ler for as better ,
| unsuccessful.

NO CASE (Information Only)

Source: APRO Bulletin, Mar., Apr 65

Cloud UFO At Phoenix
An unidentified object hovered over

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agencies received calls from many ob-

servers. Luke AFB requested the Phoenix |

Air Defense Sector to run a radar check.

They reported: “Objects altitude between

0 and 17,000 feet—10 miles in length— .
nothing mechanical—stationary. The only |
thing we can figure it to be is a station- |

ary layer of heavy smoke or smog.”

The weather bureau said it had no
equipment in the sky and “had no idea
what it was.” 5k,

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22 May 1964
Phoenix, Arizona

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Source:

The UFO Reporter, Sumer, 196)

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Holloman Air Force heen, New Mexico,
Fay 24 - The Air Force confirmed that a
radar unit at Holloman twice tracked UFOs
in the area of White Sands, which lies
west of Holloman.

The spokesman, however, alluded toa
natural phenomenon, such es a dust storm,
as the probable cause; however, it is con-
sidered unlikely that the fine particles
present in a dust storm could have induced

e radar return that resembled a solid ob-
ject.

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The following account is taken from
{the Yorkshire Evening Post, issue of
| May 28: “A strange object in the sky
* was seen once again over Wakefield

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the direction from which it came.’

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, half-moon shaped

received from Leeds and Barnsley.

“Mr John Bentham, aged 54, switch-
board operator at the Wakefield ‘A’
Power Station has seen the object on
He saw it last night

ing out at both ends,’ he said. ‘It
seemed to hover over the city for nearly
two hours and then slowly made off in

“Mr. Bentham took his binoculars to
work after he had seen the object for
the first time on Saturday, and a

** "It was definitely not a star or a
plane. It hovered before moving off
towards the north-west,’ he said.

Mr Alfred Booth (43), of Lupset |
» Crescent, Wakefield, who was working
at Wakefield Sewerage Works, Calder
Vale Road, also saw the object. ‘It was
with an orange glow
in the middle,’ he said.
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Cource: FSIC

UFO GOES TO A MOVIE?

Ascot Drive-In, Route 8, Just North of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
«++ May 29, 1964, 8:45 P.M. ESDT ... Two young men waited
for the movie to begin. Their attention was drawn to a plane or
bird maneuvering in the sky to their north. There was something
peculiar about this ‘'flyer”’ in that it hovered motionless for consid-
erable periods of time. They also noted the small portion of sky in
which the maneuvers took place. They reported that the dark, non-
flecting, unlit object moved vertically and hoizontally for short
distances. They estimated the object to be about a mile away.
Closer scrutiny showed-that it had a shape which was higher in the
middle, flat on the bottom, with a symmetrical elongation leading
away from the center raised area. The drawings made by both
men resemble the conventional “flying saucer” with dome.

After five minutes, the object moved directly away to the north
at an approximated 200 MPH. John Shaver, the high school stu-
dent said it appeared to be about as wide as a dime. The college
student accompanying him desires to remain anonymous.

Neither heard any sound, or saw any trail or lights. The
evening was clear; the sun was below the horizon.

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Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio

NO CASE (Information Only) 29 May 196k
Source: APRO Bulletin, Jul, Aug, 65 Las Villas Province, Cu

i Castra further said the area was placed
Fortean Objects In Cuba * under “medical observation”, sad “we |

On the morning of May 29, 1964, a, must be conscious and alert for this kind |
“great quantity of brilliant objects” were | of danger.” The United States denied the
seen falling to earth in the vicinity of | accusations and apparently neither Castro |
Sancti Spiritus, in Las Villas Province, nor the U. S. Spokesmen were aware of |

Cuba, Eye witnesses, including members | similar instances: recorded by Charles,

of the Armed Forces, said the objects) Fort before the present .strained Cuba-,

looked like various-sized balloons and ap- Us. rel
peared at a very high altitude. S. relations. — eat eg NY

The above information appeared in a
copyrighted NZPA-Reuter dispatch from |
Havana on 1 June 1964. Dr. Castro, it |
seems, insinuated that the objects could |
have been some kind of “new model of |
ogression, brutal and inhuman—the use |
of bacteriological and virus weapons)
against our economy and people”—by the
U. S. of course. Castro said that several
balloons of different sizes were seen to.
descend near Santi Espiritu in Las Villas |
Province. As soon as they hit the ground, |
the “balloons” dissolved, leaving a gela-
tinous substance similar to that used in |
bacteria cultures. Strong rains prevented |
gathering of samples for analysis,

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1001st AIR BASE WING, Hq Comd eSisresten

UNITED STATES AIR FORCE 4 a
ANOREWS AFB, WASHINGTON D. C., 20331 —
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REPLY TO
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: STAIR BAD
Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO)

| JUN 10 1964

to: AFSC (FTD) .
Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio 45433

1. The attached UFO Report is forwarded in accordance with para 12b,
AFR 200-2, as amended.

2. Due to the lapse of time involved between the alleged sighting
and receipt of the report’in this-office,- it was not deemed feasible..
to submit the usual electrical report.

FOR THE COMMANDER

WVirnacle
THOMAS A, PERSONETT 1 Atch

Colonel, USAF UFO Rpt, 2 cys
Deputy for Operations

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WOMAN’S CAMERA
CATCHES ‘OBJECT’

HE MYSTERY - Shrouded and

foreboding Superstition Mts.,
of Arizona may hold the an-
Swer to a modern puzzle - uni-
dentified flying objects,

The Superstitions - lying east of
Phoenix ~ are the background fora
hundred and one stories of mys-
terious deaths, the Lost Dutch-
man’s gold mine, and the unsolved
disappearances of scores of for-
tune hunters who went into the
mountains in search of the mine
and who never returned, .

The flying object mystery came
to light from a photograph taken
by Mrs, Theda Creagle, Farming~
ton, from a moving car near Phoe-
nix last Memorial Day (1964),

en with a 127 Brownlecam-
era, the color transparency shows
the mountains in the background,
and a clear, sharp picture of an
object that looks Like it came out
of a science fiction magazine,

Silver in color, it looks likea
planet with a ring around it and
what could be an enclosed cabin
with a space that looks like a win-
dow can also be seen. The phot:
Shows what might be a vapor trai
leading from high in the Sky to the
Spot where the object was about
five miles,

Buda! and Mrs, Creagle said the

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No Case, Informition Only
XX Source: Flying Saucer

Magazine, April 65
object was about five miles from

the car when she took the picture,
She said it was stationary inthe sky

but seemed to be rotating on an
axis. It was at a fairly low altitude.

She didn’t say anything about the
object, not knowing whether or not
she had the picture. When it was
processed she showed it to Budal.
Budai and Mrs, Creagle work at
Fashion Cleaners in Farmington,
Budai is the 20-year-old son of
Mr, and Mrs, Frank Budai of
Waterflow,

Budai said Mrs, Creagle wants
to sell the picture and has given
some thought to turning it over to
governmental authorities,

Meanwhile the latest mystery of
the Superstitions remains just
that - except for a photograph,

The foregoing was publishedon
July 24, 1964. We've waited pa-
tiently, but to date we haven’tseen
the photograph, Wonder what hap-
pened to it? Did Mrs, Creagle
ever sell her photograph, or turn
it over to “*government author-
ities’’? Who can answer our ques-
tions? FLYING SAUCERS offers to
publish the photo on its frontcovyer
in full color, in the interest of
**proof’’ of flying saucers ~-unless
it’s true that there IS official
Suppression of flying saucer facts!
In fact, you might say that if this
photo never appears on our front
cover, it would be some sort of
proof, of suppression, if not of

“flying saucers, ~ Rap,

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1001st AIR BASE WING, Hq Comd

UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
ANDREWS AFB, WASHINGTON DO. C., 20331

REPLY TO

ATTN OF: DOBO

sussect: Unidentified Flying Object Report

TO: DOOT

1. The following UFO report was received by the Officer of the Day
from the Hd Com Command Post on 4 Jun 4, and is forwarded for your
information and/or action as appropriate reference WG Supplement |
to AFR 200-2.

2. A woman called stating she had seen a UFO 31 May 44, between 2230
EDT and 2300 EDT in the Wheaton area. Her husband and -3 other people
witnessed the same object. It was coming from the SE moving North-
westerly. The Goddard Space Flight Center was queried and stated it
was not a satellite but could have been a jet. The woman stated the
ob ject made an abrupt, repeat abrupt left turn, stopped, turned right
and left, and right and left again for approximately 25 minutes, then
went up and away. Again the Space Center said they could not confirm
any satellite in the area. The color of the object was reddish white.
A brother-in-law in the Rockville area also confirmed this story.
Furthur, on the 20th and 30th she had reported an object also, but no
information was received on either of these objects.

PAUL B. RICE
Ma jor, USAF
Base Operations Officer

REPLY TO
ATTN OF:

SUBJECT:

TO:

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CLIMATIC CENTER, USAF

Air: Weather Service (MATS)
Asheville, North Carolina

CCDPD
Data for Washington and Lansing Areas 19 Jun 1964

AFSC (FTD/TDZ/Sgt Moody)

1. Reference: Your telecom with Mr. Shearouse of this Division at
1350 EST on 18 Jun 64. LA NA a ae tate

2. We are inclosing photocopies of the following:

a. Surface observations (WBAN 10 A& B) for 31 May 64 from
National Airport, Washington, D. C.

be. Rawinsonde observations (WBAN 31 ABC) for 21, 22, and 23
May 1964 from Bishop Airport, Flint, Michigan.

3- Flint is the closest rawinsonde station to the Lansing area.

FOR THE DIRECTOR

OMAS D. FILIENWORTH 1 Atch :
2d It., USAF Photocopies a/s

Data Processing Division

No Case, Infsrmation Only
Source: FSIC Bulletin, Vol 2, #1

“*

Ohio . . . May 16, 1964. . . Mr. Jim Bachelor,
and son Bruce i4, became curious about a rather large orange
glow in the western sky. They were‘traveling toward Painesillve
on Rte 20. It was 10:45P.M. To get a better look, they drove
up to Barrington Ridge, and looking west, kept the Venus sized
object in view for about 1-1/2 minutes. The object was stationary.
Suddenly the object started to expand, and within three seconds,
it had become many times its original size. Mr. Bachelor was:
mystified by the almost perfect, clear-cut circle the Ught had ex-!
panded to. He said that the orange of the original light had!
changed to a luminous white color. He compared its expanded
size to a full moon.

Bruce agreed that the yellow light expanded greatly, but he
didn’t agree perfectly with his father. He said the object's final,
shape was generally round, with soft edges, and no increase in
color. Bruce contended that during the three second expansion,,
a tiny light seemed to drop earthward, but extinguished almost;
immediately.

Both men agreed that the expanded Ii,

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switch had been thrown, instantaneously. According to.the ob-~

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ght went out as ifa_.

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servers the object was near the quarter moon, about 20-25 |

degrees in elevation.

The senior Bachelor was in the artillery dury WW Il, and
said this was nothing like any artillery (shell) bursts he had ever
seen. ‘Nothing like fireworks explosions,” said Bruce.

Both are amateur astronomers.

Editor’s Comment:
Note the similarity to the sightings of Deputy Jack Hadden
and Patrolman Don Janz reported in our June, 1964, Bulletin.

State Highway Patrolman Gary Betzler of the Ashtabula, |
Branch showed the editor the place where he had found radio- ,

activity on the night of May 15, 1964. The spot is about 300

yards south-of IS 90-near a small man-made lake This refers ~

to the UFO seen over the highway that night No more details
available. Cobge

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16 May 196%

Painesville, Ohio

tion Only (No Case 17 May 1964
Scares: | Pat a North Lawrence, Ohio

More About North Lawrence Case of May 17th .... Mrs.
Edna Brakefield telephoned the firehouse after the UFO had passed
over, not during the time it hovered over the firehouse. (Phoned
from Mrs. Willa Dee Brakefield's home. )

Mrs. Edna Brakefield seemed sure that the object did not alter-
nate (orange to white) until it was almost overhead; a few seconds
later it descended.

As she relived the sighting, the memory of it left her visibly
shaken. People in the area vouch for her frankness and veracity.
The two young children present, and on the tape, are Bobby and
Micky, 5 and 7 years respectively. They are the children of Mrs.
Edna Brakefield.

Micky, the outspoken one, who insisted he saw the net extend-
‘Ing from the UFO as It passed them, still is adamant in his belief.
He's a “sharp” little fella, is ‘individualistic’, and unafraid to
speak his mind. He constructed a model of the net in the Editor's
presence. The white latticed ‘'net'’ had this shape:

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This ''net’”’ extended down, or at a downward angle from the huge
alternating (orange to white) object.

jig He first saw the net when the object had just passed the over-
} : head position and started its descent.

Ranger VII... Finally! We wonder what significant details
were photographed. Aristarchus on the W. limb has been of par-
ticular interest recently because of the red glowseen there. No green
men sajd NASA! We’re not that particular fellas. ...