PROJECT BLUE BOOK

1k DATE.- TIME GROUP

6 July 65 06/0300Z
3. SOURCE

netired Army iajor
4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS

Tio
Ss. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION
1 Minute

6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION

Ground=-Visual

7. COURSE
fe 3 to N

& PHOTOS

FORM

2. LOCATION

McKeesport, Pennsylvania
10. CONCLUSION

Trask Ur Crew,

bDbjects could NWOT have been aircraf

V1. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS

Light no shape or features discernable. Approzimnte size a:

wagnituce of lst meg star, “Shite. Tso objects, one flew
South and stopped. Another care from South. Both hovered
for one minute, thm one went North and the other went back
South, Straicht flight. Duration 10 minutes. Object dise
appeared in glow of steel ills to Norht. ‘K slightly ovex
cast with sone stars visible,

FTO sep 63 0-329 (TDE) Previous editions of thie form may be used.

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UFO Case: My pening cont. o: 2

or that sparkled white, like something that was turning around. She was

inconsistent in that she said at first they thought it might be something
very high catching the light of the sun one hour before dawn, and on the

other hand, she said that the objects were below the overcast, when told

that there was an overcast. Mr. so watched the north-going light

with an opera glass but could see no more than he saw at first.

Both she and her husband like to fish at night and are familiar
with the way stars look and the manner in which planes go across the sky.
They stated the usual thing we get in these reports. "They never saw any-

thing like it, but they would like the Air Force to tell them what it was
they sav.

When she awakened her husband she said, et up and watch
these lights." Never saw any shape, only a light, no sound, and I
questioned her closely on noises in the neighborhood. At that hour she
says there are no noises because they live in a residential section. Both
objects never varied in speed and always went at the same speed.

This remains an unknown unless we can show that at that precise
time one of the satellites was going on a south to north passage. If so,
we might conclude one light was a satellite, the other a plane, and the
rendezvous purely an illusion, We need further information on the actual
cloud cover and on the satellite schedule. Balloons are ruled out, and I
rather think helicopters are, but not necessarily. If helicopters, then
their actions were rather strange. No green or red lights were ever noticed,
only ore light apiece, and a very white light, slowly pulsating. The
trajectory was always a straight line, there being no weaving or intermittent
motion except the time when they apparently stopped. I think sending a
164 would now do very little good since I think I have squeezed out all
the information she, at least, has. Now that I think of it, I quite
forgot to ask if sne herself had seen any stars, although the original
report said that some stars were visible. The moon was at first quarter
and so had set long before. Suggest we get the weather records, and I
can further drop her a note and ask her specifically if she saw stars.

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Enclosure

The following is a summary of the events observed Q00 to
0410, 6 July 1965;

Upon. being awakened by my wife and asked to observe something
in the sky, I saw a pair of what appeared to be stars of approx-
imately the first magnitude, or about the brightness of the belt
stars of Orion. Their distance apart appeared to be about one half
the distance of the adjacent. stars in the Orion belt. After about
one minute, the northernmost light began to move in a northerly
direction, and when no longer observable from the southern window
of our bedroom, we both hastily dressed and went outside and easily
picked up the moving light. The observation of the moving light
with a pair of 6 x 15 binoculars was: easy, but there was no appar-
entAnlargement of the object. The movement was. now and had been
from the time it was first noticed on a steady northern course,
almost, if not due north.

The only apparent change seemed to occur when the Bessemer
Converter at National Works, USS, began to ‘blow’ a heat and the
sky became illuminated in the north above the mill. The light
appeared to stop at this event. The mill is about a mile north
of our home and in the valley, we being on a hill but not in
direat sight of the mill. Very shortly the light was lost from
sight.

The following observations were also noted;

The night was very calm, while standing under a tree to
block interference from a brilliant street light on our corner,
it was noticed that the branches were very still and without move-~
ment. Secondly, there was no moon visible. It was quiet. No
sound of elther piston type or jet type engines were heard. The
impression was that the objects were of extreme height and travel-
ing at a good speed for the altitude. If the objects were in
orbit, it would nave been a rather rapid speed. My attention was
on this northerly light. My wife told me she observed the other
one to move toward the south,

The position of the two lights at the beginning of the obser-
vation was to the east by approximately 20 degrees and’‘to tha
south by about 30 degrees from the verticle. The northern light
began and followed a course of about 360 degrees and was under
observation through an arc of about 110 degrees before the mill
light, smoke and/or clouds obscured our view, It would hava been
almost impossible to have viewed it to or from the nortnern or
southern horizon. The entire episods took place under 10 minutes,
for we had returned to bed when the last observation of time was
made, The correctness of the clock would be plus or minus 10
minutes and was in Eastern Daylight T

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DID 29 JUL 42:

A. DESCRIPTION OF THE OBJECTS: 4

1. SHAPE: LIGHT, NOT DEF INABLE.

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2. SIZE APPROXIMATELY SIRE AND BRIGHTNESS OF STAR
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ANOTHER CMAR FROM SOUTH AND STOPPED BOTH HOVERED

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FOR A MINUTE (LOOKED AT CLOCK) THEN ONE WENT NORTH

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AND THE OTHER BACK SOUTH.

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9. JUST STOP AND FLIGHT |
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1. AWAKENED AND SAW LIGHT IN SKY WHICH STOPPED . |
2. HIGH FROM A SOUTH TO NORTH DIRECTION.1

3. ONE DISAPPEARED NOTH OTHER SOUTH,

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5. DISAPPEARED IN A LINE NORTH TO GLARE AREA, DIS-
APPEARED LIKEWISE TO SOUTH,

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UFO Case: Report of telephone conversation with Mrs
epee es McKeesport, Pennsylvania, :

Unfortunately, the call took better than a half an hour, but I
couldn't shake her story, although getting information from her was somse-
times like pulling teeth. The general picture was this:

She and her husband were asleep as prior to 4:00 AM, 6 July, 1965. |
The bed faces a large window with no blinds, southern exposure. Horizon
d ed by neighbor's rooftop, but still giving good view of sky. Mrs.
BB 0.202: for one reason or another and saw a light like Echo coming ‘i
rectly up from the south over the neighbor's rooftop. The light was !
white, but slowly pulsating. It never blinked off completely. It was
followed at some distance, she wasn't quite sure, by an identical light
as to intensity and color and speed. The first light stopped at about an
altitude of 45° while the other one caught up with it, and according to
Mrs. almost became like one. It was at this time that she decided to |
wake r husband who is, she says, a light sleeper. Her husband did not
see the lights come together, but did see them separate. The duration of
the rendezvous was, after much questioning, prooably less than a minute.
One of the lights returned to the south over essentially the same path it
. had come, while the other took off (or continued, because the whole stopping-
still may well have been an illusion) to the north. At this point, they
both ran downstairs to the porch facing north and watched the object pass
10° east of the zenith and slowly proceed northward, finally becoming lost |
in the glare of the Bessemer conve lights which went on then, illuminating |
the sky and showing clouds. Mrs. fas not conscious of any real cloud i
cover and seemed surprised when I her that the weather bureau had
reported 9/l0ths overcast. However, the original Air Force report is con-
fusing on that; at one points, it says cool, slightly overcast, some stars
visible, and shortly thereafter, it says overcast 19/10. Could mean 1/10th.
There were practically no surface winds, and winds aloft were at a fair
eli out were from the west or northwest, wnich rules out balloons. Mrs. |
ee to her story thet the lights never disappeared, that is, never passed |
paind 2 cloud, which would sncecn te that the objects could not have been |

yet, if the lights were that low, it Rian means that the linear speed mst
have been small. Also, if so low, absence of sound seems strange.

Objects like stars of the first magnitude resemble Echo. The woman's first
impressions were this was a satellite or air plane, but she became startled
when it stood still waiting for the other to catch up, with one then going
south and the other going north.

at _aeiaeee was quite articulate, not excitable, and quite
consistent in her story. The original report states that Mr. i a a
retired army army major with an excellent reliability record. I did not,
however, talk with him. There are a few additional sidelights gathered during
the conversation. She was impressed that the lights went clear across the

sky, that is the one that went to the north. When asked why these couldn: t

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have been helicopters, she said she never sow helicopters that went that high

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Dear rage

Unfortunately, I forcot to ask you one very important question
the other evening when I called. When you flrst saw the object coning
up fram the south, did you see ib making its way,,so to speak, among
the stars? Ware you consclous of there being many stars out? And,
later on the perch facing north as you watched one of the oojects co
north, waa it a starry night? Was the moon visible? Would you
pleese also ask your husband whether he was comsclous of the stars

being out and roughly how many?

Thank you for your trouble.

Sincerely ycurs,

J. Allen Wack
Director

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November 5. 1965

Dre Je Allen Hynek
Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois

Dear Dr. Hynek;

I am sorry I could not answer your letter sooner, but have
been hospitalized and am just now getting after correspondence,

. In answer to your query, I remember remarking that there
were only three noticeable stars in the sky, and they were

directtly above us. The moon was not visible at any time during
the interval.

To correct an answer I gave you on the phone, I believe I
told you I theught it was a 'blinking' light rather than a
'twinkling' one. After consulting with my husband we decided it
was more like a ‘twinkling star’.

I am enclosing a summary written by my husband which may
clear up any information left hazy by my original explanation.

Sincerely yeu

Enc.

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