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i. DATE - TIME GROUP
1 November 64 01/23003%

5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION

3 Minutes

6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION |

Ground-Visual

7. COURSE |

8. PHOTOS

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9. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE

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FORM
FTD sep 63 0-329 (TDE) Previous editions of this form aay be used.

3. SOURCE 10. CONCLUSION
Civilia BALLOON

a NUMBER OF CRIGS te Object resembles a balloon observation with the balloon bursting
One and giving the appearance of flight to West.

2. LOCATION

Kirkwood, lfissouri

BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS

Object resembling a parachute top only made of metal. Gray
color. No trail. Vapor trail appeared about 5 minute later
in different part of sky. Ridges on top of dome running to
bottom. 275 deg azimth 25 deg elevation estimated altitude
300 ft. Flight to over horizon 275 deg azimth. Object
stationary until disappearance at which time object went over
the horizon instantaneously. “eport delayed 25 days. Winds
to NE.

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Ae DESCRIPTION OF ‘OBJECT: ¢€1) SHAPE - DESCRIBED AS

RESEMBLING A PARACHUTE ON TOP, WITH WHAT WOULD

NORMALLY BE THE PARACHUTE CORDS DESCRIBED AS BEING MADE
OF METAL; (2) SIZE = COMPARED TO THE SIZ= OF A
BACKETBALLHELD AT ARM*S LENGTH; (3) COLOR - GRAYISH

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WITH SLIGHT ILLUMINATION; (4) NUMBER - ONE;

(5) FORMATION = NOT APPLICABLE; (6) DISCERNIBLE FEATURES/
DETAILS - RIDGES ON TOP OF DOME RUNNING TO BOTTOM POINT
OF OBJECT, CLOSER SPACED THAN RIBS IN PARACHUTE;

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OVERHEAD APPROXIMATELY FIVE MINUETS AFTER SIGHTING;
(8) SOUNDS - NONE HEARD; (9) OTHERPERTINENT
FEATURES - NONE OBSERVED. B. DESCRIPTION OF COURSE OF
OBJECT: ¢€1) CASUE OF INITIAL OBSERVANCE - OBSERVER
NOTICED WHAT INTIALLY APPEARED TO BE A PUFF OF SMOKE, .
CAUSING HIM TO LOOK UPWARD AT OBJECT; (2) ANGLE,
ELEVATION AND AZIMUTH/INITIAL OBSERVATION ~- OBJECT
‘ APPEARED TO BE AT APPROCIMATELY 25 DEGREE ANGLE FROM ‘

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HORIZON AT AN ELEVATION OF 300 FEET AZIMUTH *

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APPROXIMATELY 275 DEGREES; ¢€3) ANGLE, ELEVATION AND

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DECREASING TO ZERO DEGREES ABOVE HORIZON, AZIMUTH x

REMAINING CONSTANT; (4) DESCRIPTION OF FLIGHT PATH - x.
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IN A STRAIGHT LINE; (5) MANNER OF DISAPPEARANCE -

OBJECT MOVED RAPIDLY TOWARD WEST, DISAPPEARED ALMOST

INSTANTANEOUSLY TO THWWEST; (6) LENGTH OF TINE OBJECT

WAS VISIBLE - THREE MINUTES; C. MANNER OF

OBSERVATION: (1) gROUND-vIstaL; (2) OPTICAL AIDS -

NONE USED; (3) NOT APPLICABLE. D. TIME AND DATE OF

SIGHTING: ¢1) ZULU TIME-DATE GROUP - 01/2309Z

NOVEMBER; ¢€2) LIGHT CONDITIONS - DUSK. E. LOCATION

OF OBSERVER: APPROXIMATELY THIRTY EIGHT DEGREES
THIRTY ONE MINUETS NORTH, INIETY DEGREES TWENTY SIX
MINUTES WEST. RELATIONSHIP TO KNOWN LANDMARKS -

ON BARRETT STATION ROAD APPROXIMATELY NINE TENTHS OF
A MILE SOUTH OF MANCHESTER ROAD, WHICH RUNS DUE WEST
FROM KIRKWOOD, MISSOURI. F. IDENTIFYING INFORMATION
ON OBSERVER: (1) MR. QR, THIRTY FIVE YEARS

OLD, BOX=aliiama ovine Ries | ANCHESTER, MISSOURI,

NO TELEPHONE, WORKS AS a eel

LARIMORE ROAD, KIRKWOOD, MISSOURI; (2) ESTIMATED

RELIABILITY -' RELIABILITY CANNOT BE ESTIMATED; HOWEVER,  ,
CBSERVER APPEARED TO BE PREOCCUPIED WITH UNUSUAL . /

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ACTIVITIES RELATED TO “EXTRA-TERRESTIAL” OCCURRENCES.
OBSERVER INFORMED INVESTIGATOR THAT IN HIS OPINOIN,
THE “SPACE CRAFT" WAS CONSTRUCTED OF "MAGNESIUM™ AND
WAS POWERED 8U EITHER A "MAGNETIC” OR “ANTI-GRAVI TY"
FORCE OF SOME TYPE. OBSERVERS EMPOLYER STATED THAT
OBSERVER WAS RELIABLE. G. WEATHER AND WINDS:
(1) OBSERVERS ACCOUNT OF WEATHER CONDITIONS - OBSERVER

STATED THAT AT THE TIME OF INTITIAL SIGHTING, THE SKY
WAS CLOUDLESS. HOWEVER, HE FURTHER STATED THAT

CONCURRENT WITH THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE OBJECT, A

HEAVY CLOUD COVER ROLLED OVER THE AREA; (2) AWS/U.S.
WEATHER BUREAR REPORT OF WIND DIRECTION AND VELOCITY -
SURFACE, ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY DEGREES AT FIVE KNOTS;

6,000 FEET, 248 DEGREES AT 28 KNOTS; 10,900 FEET, 260
DEGREES AT 25 KNOTS; 16,000 FEET, 25% DEGREES AT 25

KNOTS; 20,200 FEET, 250 DEGEES AT 25 KNOTS; AND,

39,802 FEET, 248 DEGREES AT 25 KNOTS; (3) CIELING -

HIGH SCATIERED, NO CEILING; (4) VISIBILITY - i@ MILES;
(5) AMOUNT OF. CLOUD. COVER - 40 PERCENT (6) NO THUNDERSOTRMS

IN LOCAL AREA; ¢€7) VERTICAL TEMPERATURE GRADIENT -

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TAKEN AT COLUMBIA, MISSOURI, NEAREST POINT TO SIGHTING -

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H. NO UNUSUAL METEROLOGICAL OR ASTRONOMICAL ACTIVITIES
WHICH MIGHT ACCOUNT FOR THE SIGHTING. I. NO
INTERCEPTION OR IDENTIFICATION ACTIONS TAKEN. ee
J. THE U. S. WEATHER BUREAU RELEASED A BALLOON AT
APPROXIMATELY @1/2300Z NOVEMBER FROM LAMBERT ST. LOUIS
MUNICIPAL AIRPORT. PREVAILING WINDS AT THAT TIME,

HOWEVER, WOULD HAVE CARRIED THE BALLOON TOWARD THE
NORTHEAST, DIRECTLY OPPOSITE FROM THE PATH REQUIRED
TO HAVE CARRIED THE BALLOON OVER THE OBSERVER’'S
LOCATION. K. POSITION TITLE AND COMMENTS OF
PREPARING OFFICER: (1) GLENN R. WOODS, CIVILIAN

ANALYST, GS-11, DIRECTORATE OF INTELLIGENCE,
DCS/PLANS. HEADQUARTERS MILITARY AIR TRANSPORT

SERVICE; (2) COMMENTS - AS MAY BE NOTED, THERE IS °
QUITE A TIME LAG BETWEEN THE DATE OF SIGHTING AND

OATE OF THIS REPORT, CAUSED BY FAILURE OF THE

OBSERVER TO REPORT HIG SIGHTING. PRELIMINARY

INVESTIGATION REVEALED NO- CLUES CCNCERNING THE® /

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IDENTITY OR EXPLANATION OF THE SIGHTING. L. NO

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