PROJECT BLUE BOOK

\. DATE.- TIME GROUP
D900 local 13007,

Last part of Feb 65
3. SOURCE

CIVILIAN
4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS

one

2. LOCATION

Rivesville, W Virginia
10. CONCLUSION

OTHER: PSYCHOLOGICAL

Comments; Psychological interpretations of witness.

11. BRIE SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS
See Letter

5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION
30 minutes

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6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
ground visual

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7. COURSE

anding w/men
8. PHOTOS ri

oO Yes
% No

9. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE

O Yes
No

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

Ho Case, Information Only 2 February 1965
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Source: ‘FSIC Bulletin, Vol 2, #1 Steunton, Va

And at Staunton, on Tuesday night, (February 2) three boys
said they saw, and chased, a small green man near a rural
road. He was described as being 3-1/2 feet tall. (Columbus Dis-

patch of February 3, 1965.)

No Case, Informetion Only F
Source: FSIC Bulletin, Vol. 2, #1

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SHERIFF SOUNDS WARNING

Richmond, Va. (AP) .. . February 3, 1965... Times Dis-
patch . . . "This thing has gotten completely out of hand,” says—
Sheriff John E. Kent of Augusta County. ""Itis now dangerous to_
county residents. Anyone can go out at night,"’ says Kent “and
see reflections in the sky. But anyone carrying firearms in the
oun without good reason will be dealt with according to the

w. }

“Besides,” he adds, ‘even if creatures from outer space have
landed, who's got the right to mow them down?"

Even the AF has gotten Into the act. It has discounted any
evidence confirming of either Nying saucers or little green men.
But for the record, a spokesman adds, “Our cases are never
closed until the reported objects are sufficiently identified."’
(Columbus Dispatch, Columbus, Ohio)

Editor's Comment:

AFM 190-4 Controls releases by secretary, of Air Force
Office of Information (SAOFI). By this order the SAOFI must’
delete all evidence of UFO reality and intelligent control. |

No Case, Information Only

Source:

FSIC Bulletin, Vol 2, #1

Priniston Times, Virginia . .. F 6, 1965... Row

Ramblin, Times Editor . . . He related that three ‘little space .

men” had been chased, but the fleet-footed midgets, reported to
be about 36 inches tall, eluded them.

A retired Air Force pilot got into the act last Wednesday,
when he reported sighting a UFO as he watched the skies for
Echo I satellite to pass his home at Hampton, Virginia. He said

the object appeared to be V-shaped and had blinking lights
around the outer edges. It made no sound.

Air Force officials have made no definite explanations, but
have said they found no evidence of a landing in the field near

Fisherville, the sight of the sighting made by Horace Burns.
(December 20)

They did however, report a “‘significant radiation reading”
on the side of the automobile which was near the scene. No ex-
planation given.

Ron Powell ends the article with: Butonething seems certain.
People are seeing something, so maybe we will get a definite
answer in the near future In any event, the next time the subject
of “flying saucers’ comes up, think before you laught out loud.”

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Information Only ) Roulder,

AP2O Bulletin, Jul, Aé; 65

UAOs Over Boulder

Nate Ervin, a junior at Colorado Uni- |
versity at Boulder, Colorado (USA) re-
ported that he saw six “football-shaped
objects with inverted ‘V’ wings which |
came to a point at their trailing edges at
7:35 p. m. on-11 February, 1965 They had
no tail sections, he said and were “stark
white against the crisp, dark winter sky.”

They were tlying in formation at what
seemed to be an extremely high altitude
and at first I thought they were jests but
they were followed by no jet roar—only |
a loud wind sound,” Ervin said. He noted
their maneuvers were different from any
aircraft he had observed—and said that
the last two objects in the formation |
suddenly moved out from the group al-—
most at right angles in a jerky movement.
“Just as quickly they assumed their flight |
position”, he said The objects were seen
while Ervin was walking across the camp-
us and they were going from southwest |
to northwest at high speed.

13 Friend Court
Wenham, Massachusetts

SUBJECT: UFO Report = 16 February 1965
CONTRITS : Uro Sighting Summary Sheet

DATE: 29 February 1965
PROM: Raymond E, Fowler

Chairman: NICAP Massachusetts Investigating Subcommittee
TO: NATIONAL INVESTIGATIONS CCMGILTTEES ON AERIAL PHENCMENA

Washington, D.C.

Attention: Richard Hall (Acting Director)

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Wwe Webo

The following is a report concerning the sighting of a low-flying
dise=-shaped object over Groveland, Massachusetts by six Boy Scouts

on 15 February 1965 at approximately $:10 PM IST,

Respectfully submitted,

Pay Le Passl
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NICAP Investigator

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THE HAVERMILL GAzETTS, UCESDAY, FEB. 23,1963 4 Mp was convinced that the boys were telline the

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xe a » is well acquainted with them and stated that
they all ran in the house very excited about what %> oy

had witnessed. He phoned the police who in turn informed
the "Haverhill Gazette".

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Correspondent: Mre. Viots Sweelser,
9 Pelle Bt, Tel, 373-3237, : ‘

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About Object — ary,

GROVELAND — Six local
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NewEagland Newsclip Agency, Ine.
Box 2078, Boston 6 ¢ Richmond 2-420

Gazette (e) day night b tative of
HAVERHILL y night by 2 representative o
A Ci ae 5 i the NICAP regarding the uniden-}

tified flying oboject reported seen
last Tuesday night. {
Raymod E. Fowler, Wenham,
chairman of the National Inves-
tigztion Committee on ‘Aerial

Phenomena of Massachusetts in-
vestigating subcommittee, infer
view the youths at the home of
Harold W. Smythe, 42 Garrison
3t., in whose yard the phenomena
was sighted,

The youths who reportedly
kaw the saucer shaped object
were Gary Smythe, Ronald
Knowlton, David Crook, Kevin
Parker, Stephen Flanagan and
arren McDermott.
Questionnaires were filled out

FEB 18 1965

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6 Youths See
Flying Object

Six Groveland youths report-
ed to police the sighting of an
uniden‘ified fying object Tues-
day night over a barn on preper-
ty of Mr, and Mrs. Harold W.
Smythe, 42 Garrison St., Grove-

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The sighting was made by

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Gary W. Smythe, 14, a student
at Pentucket Regional Junior’
High School, West Newbury,

y the boys and a picture was
frawn of the object seen by the
ndividuals,

| Fowler explained the {mpor-

and five companions who were ance of reporting such incidents

conducting a Boy Scout patrol p NICAP,
mecting. The silent, silver ob- ts said the primary charter
ject, larger than a jet airliner, if the Massachusetts subcommit-

was visible for ‘nearly 10 sec- Pe is the investigation of local
onds flying Jow over the barn, /FO sightings of which detailed
they said. eports are written up end sub-
They described It as dish jitted to the NICAP headquer-
aa: ts in Washington, D.C., for
( Raped. __batvation and publication,
= aks Fowler said only about 10 per
jcent of the persons secin gthe
‘phenomena report the incident.
He stressed persons having in-
formation need not be afraid of
ridicule in making their reports)’
as their names are kept conf-
dential if they so desire,
The address of this organiza.
tion is 13 Friend Court, Wenham.

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AF Balloon —
Seis Record

The largest balloon ever consiruct-
cd completed a successful flight Feb.
17 when the Air Force recovered a
450-pound payload which had beer
lifted to a record 142,000-foot altitude
in a 26-bour flight over the western
United States.

The mammoth 13.5 million-cubic-
foot balloon was launched Feb. 16
from a permanent field station at
Chico, Calif., by personnel of the
Air Force’s Cambridge Research Lab-
oratories (AFCRL), Bedford, Mass.

Arthur Korn of the AFCRL’ was
test director for the flight. Litton Sys-
tems Inc. of Saint Paul, Minn., manu-

- _ factured the balloon, , eee ee be eee

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Chico, California
16 February 1965

Patorna te on Only Aptos, Califormic
ource: UO Investigator, Vol III, No 2, April-May 65 18 Jamiary 1965

A peculiar UFO was observed on Jan. 18, 1965, by Dr. William |
Nolan, a college professor at Aptos, Calif. At 9:10 p.m., Dr.
Nolan saw a large, brilliant light moving on a Straight course.
Suddenly a concave shell, about eight times larger, came from {
behind the light. Rotating clockwise on a vertical axis, the shell
encircled the light until it was no longer visible. When the shell
had completely enclosed the light — orlightedobject — it climbed
into the clouds at jet plane speed. The professor's report was
confirmed by two witnesses.

(Giese BOB

NO CASES (INFORMATION ONLY) 21 February 1945
SOURCE: SAUCER NEWS Sept 65 halac, Fermesa, Argentina

LITTLE MEN LAND IN FORMOSA, ARGENTINA: According to a newspaper in Mis-
foneas, Argentina, called "La Provincia,” a flying saucer landing occurred near
thea little Indian villages of Chalac, Formosa, at 9 pem. on February 2lst of
this year. The spaceship was of an aluminum color, and made several passes at
very low altitude before finally landing befors the astonished eyes of the In-
dians, who then saw three small figures emerge from the craft.

Each figure was surrounded by a blue phosphorescence of some sort, ac-
cording to the report. Moving along with difficulty, the crsatures reached a
place where about fifty Indians had gathered, one of whom fled on horscback to
call the police. Ths police arrived and were witnesses to the incredible
scens, and took several pictures of the little man and of their craft. These
were sent to Suenos Aires, according to the newspaper, and wae have no further
information as to what happened to them.

The alien creatures were aoparently as friohtaned by the flash af tha
photographer's flashbulbs as the natives were of them; for they retreated
slowly and with difficulty to their spaceship, than stood naxt to it for an-
other fiftsen minutes, and finally took off at vary high speed. At the time of
departure, the saucer became enveloped in a light of blinding intensity, and

gave off a deafening noise. -s
Although we have five different clippings about this incident, there is
no further information available after the original report from "La Provincia"
and thea various commentaries on it by other Argentine newspapers. According to
one version only, the little men gave a messags of peace and good will (pre-
sumably in Spanish), to the startled Indians. We tend to disbslieve this em-
bsllishment, however. ses

SCURCE: SAUCER NEWS Sept 65 February
; Argentina

ONE-EYED GIANTS .LANO IN ARGENTINA: A rather wild story from the town of
Terren, dete-Lined Santo Time, Argentina, talls of two saucer landings that
scecurcad within a few days of gach other, during February of this year. In
gech case, during a very dark night, a UFO landed in full view of a small
group of Yrightened farmers; and two strance beings, more than six feet in
height, got out of the machine. They had only one eys, and had an apparatus on
their foreheads which gave off small lights of many different colors. The
Space creatures went into one of tha nearby houses, and tried to kidnap the
Pazmer who lived there, but were unsuccessful dus to the combined efforts of
his friends, who came to his rescue. /

Gn the night that this happened for the second time, the farmers opened
fire on the visitors. They found to their dismay that their bullsts had no ef-

'fectl They also found, however, that the spacemen were very weak physically,
and apparantly could ba gasily discouraged from thairc kidnap mission. In any
case, it seams that no one on alither side of the strange canflict was serious-
ly hurt. However, some of the earthmen who came into physical contact with the

visitors have come down with a strange skin disaase, which looks like tiny
tattoo marks of soma kind,

PEAR-SHAPED UFO

Akron Area... February 22, 1965... Mr. Craig Shull, of :
Mt. Pleasant Road, a former aviator with thousands of hours |
flying time in all sort of aircraft, was still awake at 1:58 A.M.
Lying on his bed in the dark, he was admiring the brilliant stars |
sparkling in the southern sky. Suddenly his attentionwas attracted
to a very large illuminated, “pear-shaped” object moving very
slowly from E to W. When first seen, it was at 30 degrees ele-
vation, in the S.E.

He awakened his wife, Pauline. They both watchee it for a
while, as it proceeded deliberately westward. They carefully made
their way to the living room window, which is a very large |
thermopane and, at that time, was completely ciear of any mois-
ture. They watched the object reach a position S.W. and stop!
By then the object had anelevationof35 degrees. It rose slightly
but returned to its original position, where it remained stationary
for at least seven minutes.

"It looked something like an inverted parachute at first, it
even looked like an egg with a flattened larger end down," said
Mr. Shull.

Through the 7x50 binoculars, they both siad that it had a |
clear-cut, “dark greenish-purplish” edge. The surface of the ob- |
ject was “‘blinkytike”, something like the sparkle of snow, and of
a white color,” said Shull. It seemed that the surface was made
up of small, possibly individual lights, which seemed to sparkle
or pulse. There was general agreement to this by both witnesses.

The brilliance of the object's clearcut edge was compared
to the brilliant star, Sirius. The surface area was less intense,
and “sparkly white.”

"Its size was at least 20 times the size of Sirius,"’ said Shull.
More specifically, it was the size of a small pea at arm's length.

The sighting o1 14 minutes duration ended when a bank of
clouds shut off further viewing. He thought they were thin high
clouds at first, but a check with the weather bureau at Akron-
Canton AP piaced the ciouds at about 3-4 tenths scattered strato-
cumulus. Temp. 9 degrees F. Wind WSW - 7 knots.

“it seemed to be ata great distance, "Probably 50.000 feet a-
way,” guessed Mr. Shuil. ‘It had to be huge,” he surmised. |

According to the Shull’s, they had aclearview of the sky. No
sound, good visibility, no vapor trail, etc.
Qualifications:

Mr. Shull: During WW II — had a 5-P rating as a pilot
With gene“ Commercial pilot with Goodyear Tire Com-
pany — Now an inspector at Goodrich Tire Company.
Overall Dight experience — 23 years.
Mrs. Shull: Bookkeeper and insurance agent.

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NO CASE

Sources

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\PHO Bulletin, Jul, AUS,

65

UFO Over Southern

California

Friedrich Burkert of Baldwin Park Cal-
ifornia, walked out into the back yard of
his home at 7:20 p.m. on 24 February |
1965 and saw a cigar-shaped object~ir'
the western sky. It moved slowly from
the north and disappeared in the south.
It made no sound. Burkert called his
brother in Covina who couldn't see the
object but who reported three small red
objects in a different direction. One ob-
ject flew from horizon to horizon in 20
seconds. ’ +

The object seen by F. Burkert was like
two saucers edge-to-edge with a red light
on top and one on the bottom. There
were several yellow-lighted ports or
“gates” as Burkert called them, which

would light up one at a time until all |
were lit, then all would go out and the:
sequence would start again.

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NO CASE (Information Only) 26 February 65
Source: APRO Bulletin, Mar & Apr 6& “February 27, 1965: Time 6:55 P.M. Elkins. Aransas
CST: - Weather clear. South wind 10 aati ing
mph. No moon. I saw a white light in
a east about 25 degrees up from horizon
° going SE about jet speed. It was blink-
Light s Over Arkansas ing at about one second intervals, but not

Amateur Astronomer and APRO mem-
ber Frank Hudson of Elkins, Arkansas,
reports the following observation of UFO
on the designated dates. He asks that
anyone who has information on similar
sightings at these specific dates and time,
to get in touch with APRO. Any possible
explanation will be appreciated.

“February 26, 1965: Time 7:10 CST.
Weather to wind calm Wo moon. I
observed in NE about 30 degrees from
eastern horizon a light about the size
of Echo 2. It was going faster than a
jet and too slow for a meteor. It was
going south. The large light brightened
and dimmed about every four seconds.
It was white. It dimmed out in the SE,
about the same distance from the horizon.
I saw it for about 10-15 seconds. There

was no noise, sparks or tail that I could

see.

going completely out. I tracked it with

my 60X scope, and saw it was one light, |

or a reflecting light from a tumbling
body. Toward the end of the sighting,
the light was amber color and was steady.
It faded out In SE, well above the —
izon. Sighting lasted about SU seconds.,

“February 27, 1965. Time 7:15 p. m..|
CST. I saw in the west a light going SE
about 50 degrees up. Light was similar
to light observed on February 26, but
the light went completely out between
blinks in the ‘first part of the sighting.
Blinks about 3 or 4 seconds apart. Was
going jet speed or faster. Tracked last
part of sighting with 60X scope as object |
was in south. The light was not going
completely out through scope. The light:
faded above horizon. Sighting lasted |
about 30 seconds.

March 8, 1965. Time: 7:15 p.m, cst.
Weather clear. Light north breeze. Moon
up about 50 degrees in the west. I saw
a light in the south about 25 degrees up.
It was moving east about jet speed.

Through 60X scope it showed one white

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1 - 31 MARCH 1965 SIGHTINGS

DATE LOCATION OBSERVER EVALUATION
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2 Dayton, Ohio jie fD) 2-37495-352 AIRCRAFT
2 Brooksville, Flas (FOLDER Ta SPECIMEN ) Other (HOAX)
3 Point Au Fer Reef, La. » Military AIRCRAFT
4 Cape Decision, Alaska * Miligary. SATELLITE
fl 4 New York City, New York : ‘ AIRCRAFT
4 Corvallis, Oregon PHYSICAL SPECIMEN) UNIDENTIFIED
5 Albuquerque, New Mexico AIRCRAFT
5 James Connaly AFB, Texas OISUFFICIENT DATA
6 Washington, D. Cc. Astro (METEOR)
8 ' Mt. Airy, Maryland UNIDENTIFIED
9 Dayton, Ohio AIRCRAFT
10 Kansas City, Missouri SATELLITE
10 43.00N 173.00W (Pacific) — SATELLITE
10 Deer Park, Md. BALLOON
10-12 Youngstown, Ohio <r Other (PSYCHOLOGICAL)
11 Floride - Georgia Area 1 Astro (METEOR)
12-13 Brooklyn, N. Y. SATELLITES
13 Rochester, N. Y. AIRCRAFT -
DR 15 Laos Other (PART OF AIRCRAFT
15 Lincoln, Nebraska AIRCRAFT
16 Halifax, Nova Scotia — ther SATELLITE DECAY)
Doctors Cove, Nova Scotia ;
20 Waverly, Ohio alr te Other (PSYCHOLOGICAL)
20 Sloan, Nevada PHOTO ) Other (DEVELOPER SMEAR)
22 64.36N 29.13W (Atlantic) SATELLITE
22 Peekskill, N. Y. Other PSYCHOLOGICAL )
24 Lexington, Mass. AIRCRAFT
| 25 Rangoon, Burma Astro (METEOR)
25 Brocklyn, N. Y. INSUFFICIENT DATA
26 Paradise Post NBP, Fis. AIRCRAFT
26 50 Mi S of Albany, N. Y. Military Astro- (METEOR )
27 Springfield, Ohio AIRCRAFT
28 Texas Area Multiple Astro (METEOR)
30 Baroerton, Chio INSUFFICIENT DATA
30 Watertown, N. Dak. : Astro (METEOR)
30 Lewisburg - Dayton, Ohio (FOLDES Multiple 1. AIRCRAFT
2. Astro (JUPITER)
30 Dayton, Ohio Astro (JUPITER-ALDEBERA
30 Daytona, Ohio AITRCRAPT
30 Belibrook, Onio : ATRCRAPT
30 Pacific (100 mi of? Calif) Malitary Astro (METEOR)
31 Dayton, Ohio ~ Astro (MARS)
31 Dayton, Ohio AIRCRAFT
31 Larson AFB, Washington - Canada Military Astro (METEOR ) :
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DATE LOC=TION SOURCE EVALUATION

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1 - 31 MARCH 1965 SIGHTINGS

ADDITIONAL REPORTED SIGHTINGS (NOT CASES)

DATE LOCATION my SOURCE - EVALUATION
7 Sydney, Australia Newsclipping
ic Victoria, British Columbia Newsclipping
3-18 Napa, California Newsclipping
11 Vandenburg, California —_ Newsclipping
14 Everglades, Florida mss Sef Taylor (Ltr)
1 Woodlawn, Canada rue Newsc lipping
Fort Myers, Florida . Newsclipping
Fort Adelaide, Australia Newsclipping
Takamatsu, Japan | Newsclipping
Belmont, California Newsclipping
Los Angeles, California Newsclipping
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Three enormous flying discs, computed to be about 1,000 feet
in diameter, paced a U.S, airliner in mid-February, between
Alaska and Japan. Details of the encounter, which has been kept
from the public until now, have just been given to NICAP ina
signed report by an Amierican flying officer on active duty in the
Far East.

The three UFOs were encountered by a Flying Tiger Airlines |
flight carrying military personnel from the United Statesto bases
in Japan and other Asiatic countries, The airliner was about
four hours out of Anchorage, Alaska, en route to Tachikawa,
Japan, when the gigantic oval-shaped objects first were noted.

One of the military passengers, an aerial navigator with cap-
tain’s rank, was asked to come up to the cockpit to observe the |
strange formation. On the arliner’s radarscope, he could see
three ‘‘targets’’ (radar blips) holding a position five mites off
one wing. Together with the Flying Tiger pilots, navigator and
flight engineer, the captain saw three gigantic, glowing red ob-
jects off the aircraft's wing, just as the radar showed.

"The UFOs paced the aircraft for about 30 minutes,” states
the fying officer's report. ‘‘When they departed they climbed
Straight out at a high angle. The Flying Tiger [crew| tracked the
{clinib-out] speed at 1200 knots.’’ (About 1380 m.p.h.)

During the 30-minute observation, the military navigator made
a careful check on the UFOs’ size. Extending his hands to arm’s |
length, he made an oval with his fagers, enclosing one of the
glowing red onjects. The longer dimension, between his fingers,
was about 2-1/2 inches, Using the five-mile range figure, the
captain determined the actual length to be approximately 1,000
feet. Even with a liberal allowance for error, the UFOs still
must have been at least 700 feet long and 500 feet wide.

(NICA® note; In comparison, these UFOs would be about twice
the size of the two giant discs encountered by AF and Navy pilots
in 1956.) .

As detailed on p.6 of NICAP’S documented report, “THE UFO
EVIDENCE,"’ a Far East Air Force pilot, flying an F-86 jet,
picked up a large UFO on his radar. Securing a radar lock-on,
he closed in and sighted a hugh round device, later computed to
be about 350 feet in diameter. Alter causing repeated interfer-
ence with lus radar, the UFO escaped ata speed of approximately
2,000 imph.

(In the Navy case, p. 32 of ‘‘THE UFO EVIDENCE,’’ the com-
mander and crew of a Super Constellation transport over the At-

lantic nearly coliided with a disc as large as or larger than the
one in the Far East report.)

Aiter the Fiying Tier encounter, one of the niloes toid the
military navigator that ‘‘they often see UFOs on the Alaskan
run.”’ So far as we know, the other reports have not been re-
leased.

In connection with the Flying Tiger case, it is interesting to
compare the UFO encounters reported by two Japanese airline
crews on March 21, 1965 (details in previous issue) and the U.S.
report bv an Electra captain describing a near-collision with a
giant USO, on Jan, 3, 1985. Bae page 3 for detailed story.

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"U.F.0.

FACTS ABOUT UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS

Published by the National Investigations Committee on Aerial! Phenomena

Vol. Jil, No. 2

THREE HUGE UFOS

PACE U.S. AIRLINER |

Three enormous flying dises, computed to be about 1,000 feet
in diameter, paced a U.S, airliner in mid-February, between
Alaska and Japan, Details of the encounter, which has been kept
from the public until now, have just been given to NICAP ina
Signed report by an American flying officer on active duty in the
Far East.

The three UFOs were encountered by a Flying Tiger Airlines
flight carrying military personnel from the United States to bases

|i Japan and other Asiatic countries. The airliner was about
four hours out of Anchorage, Alaska, en route to Tachikawa,
Japan, when the gigantic oval-shaped objects first were noted.

One of the military passengers, an aerial navigator with cap-
tain’S rank, was asked to come up to the cockpit to observe the
strange formation, On the arliner’s radarscope, he could see
three “targets” (radar blips) holding a position five miles off
one wing. Together with the Flying Tiger pilots, navigator and
flight engineer, the captain saw three gigantic, glowing red ob-
jects off the aircraft's wing, just as the radar showed.

“The UFOs paced the aircraft for about 30 minutes,” states
the flying officer's report. ‘(When they departed they climbed
straight out ata high angle. The Flying Tiger [crew] tracked the
|climb-out| speed at 1200 knots,’’ (About 1380 m.p.h.)

During the 30-minute observation, the military navigator made
a careful check on the UFOs’ size. Extending his hands to arm's
leneth, he made an oval with his fingers, enclosing one of the
viewing red objects. The longer dimension, between his fingers,
wis about 2-1/2 inches. Using the five-mile range jigure, the
captain determined the actual leneth to be approximatety 1.000
feet. Even with « liberai ailowance for error. the UFOs still
must have been at ieast 700 treet long and 500 feet wide,

(NICAP note: In comparison. these UFOs would be about twice
the size of the two giant dises encountered by AF and Navy pilots
ta 1956.)

As detailed on p.6 of NICAP's documented report, ‘THE UFO
EVIDENCE,’’ a Far East Air Force pilot, flying an F-86 jet,
picked up a large UFO on his radar. Securing a radar lock-on,
he closed in and sighted a hugh round device, later computed to
be about 350 feet in diameter. After Causing repeated interfer-
ence with his radar, the UFO escaped ata Speed of approximately
2,000 mph.

st th;
Tahder and crew of a Super Constellation transport over the At-
tantic nearly collided with a dise as large as or larger than the
in@ in the Far East report.)

After the Flying Tiger encounter, one of the pilots told the
) military navigator that ‘‘they often see UFOs on the Alaskan
run.”’ So far as we know, the other reports have not been re-

leased,

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compare the UP vy; stats reported by two Ja;
tews on March 21, 1063 (detasls in Previous issue) and the U.S.
report by an Electra captain describing a near-collision with a
miant UFO, on Jan, 3, 1965, See page 3 for detailed story.

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Allene Birline

| George Adamski, 74, of Vista, Calif., died April 23, 1965, in
"the Washington Sanitarium, Takoma Park, Md., of an apparent
eart attack,

April-May, 1965

UFO INVESTIGATOR

NEAR COLLISION REPORTED:

The reported near-collison between a UFO and an airliner,
mentioned in the last issue, is still being investigated. For
reasons we cannot disclose now, the full details and conclusion
will have to be delayed, Meantime, here are the main points
reported to NICAP;:

The sighting occurred at dusk, Jan. 3, 1965, asa four-engine
Electra, operated by a major airline, was approaching a large
Eastern city, The captain was a veteran with 25 years military
and airline experience. In the cockpit with him were the First
Otficer (co-pilot) and the Flicht Engineer.

Several miles from the airport, both pilots sighted what they
first thought was an ordinary aircraft, Suddenly it turned, came
swiftly toward the Electra—a huge, delta-shaped machine, show-
ing a black silhouette in the dusk. As the captain’s report in-
dicates, the abrupt, head-on approach gave the crew a bad seare.

“I called out ‘What the hell is it?’ - - « Somebody said ‘Good
God!" . . . It started to turn away, then as suddenly as it had ap
peared it departed . . . It disappeared at tremendous Speed—a
Speed of several thousand miles per hour. I did not report to
the tower because I did not feel it was a near miss witha con-
ventional aircralt . - » And also because of the ridicule that
was heaped on Captain Pete Killian of American Airlines,’’
(NICAP note: Capt. Killian was ridiculed by the AF and later
silenced after he publicly reported sighting three UFOs from
his DC-6 airliner, a sighting confirmed by his co-pilot and five
other airline crews, Details in “THE UFO EVIDENCE,"’)

Besides the reported near-miss, the captain sent an account
of an encounter about the time of the famous visual-radar reports
at Washington Airport.

‘While approaching Washington, after darkness
the Captain and I, ina DC-6 type aircraft, saw
bright lignts darting about the sky.
directly at us, at high Speed, and appeared to be about to collide
with us. The Captain took violent evasive action, and as I recall
he had to write many letters to passengers who complained in
writing to the company about being tossed about.’’

The Electra captain said he was Sure these earlier UFOs were
Officially ‘passed off as unknown itinerant aircraft, but the
captain and I knew better . . . these red lights were moving ata
Speed that even today we have not matched,’’

had fallen,
a number of very
Suddenly two of them came

NO CASE (Information Only)
Source:

APRO Bulletin, Jul, Aug, 65

Musicians Spot UAOs

William E. Bolson of Maple Valley’

(Washington State) reported to the
Seattle Intelligencer on 1 February 1965
that he and his fellow musicians, enroute
from Kent to Renton by car, had seen
two objects at 6:15 Pp. m. On the 31st of
January.

The objects traveled together in a.

“crazy pattern” and “seemed to be linked
together by some invisible rod", Bolson
said. They gave the appearance of a “fly-
ing dumbbell”. “They moved back and
forth across the landscape, then they

flew off and almost disappeared from |

sight. They came back and seemed to
hang over some high tension wires, The
original color was white, like a glowing

|

light bulb. Then the color changed to red, |
then green and back to white,” Bolson |

reported