PROJECT BLUE BOOK

PROJECT 10073 RECORD
1. DATE · TIME GROUP 2 LOCATION
6 July 1965 07/0330Z Kiel, Wisconsin
3. SOURCE 10. CONCLUSION
Civilian UNIDENTI FIED
4. NLIMBER OF OBJECTS
One
5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION
Less than One Minute Observing passage of ECHo I when object appeared in the West
6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION that looked like a shooting star. Had flashing light blinking
on and off. Object moved in orbit across the sky passing ECHO
Ground-Visual as it crossed the zenith. Complete flight took less than one
COURSE minute. DEFINITELY NOT an A/C. Same size as a star.
East
8. PHOTOS
Yes
No
9. PHYSICAL PHYSIC VIDENCE IDENCE
Yes
XXNo XIXNo
FORM
FTD SEP 63 0-329 (TDE) FTD SEP 63 O-329 (TDE) Prevlous aditlons of this form may be used. Previous aditions of this form may be used.
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Yours sihcerely,
Kiel, Wisconsin 53042

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Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio 45433
27 July 1965
Dr J Allen Hynek
The Harvard College Observatory
60 Garden Street
Cambridge. 33, Massacbusetts
Dear Allen,
Reqlest your evaluation on the following cases:
1. Ltr fm observation - 7 Jul 65, Kiel,
Wisconsin.
LAJ 2. Msg fm 662 Radar Sq SAGE, Oakdale Ai, Pa, observation
6 Jul 65, MeKeesport, Pennsylvania.
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money does some goodl
The sighting was actually July 6, 1965, rather than July 7,
because she got out her diary while I talked with her, and she
knows it was July 6 because they had a frost that night. How
you have frosts in July, I don't know, but she says they did. At
any rate, the sighting was as follows:
She's very fond of watching the satellites go by and makes
quite a practice of watching the sky. This evening she watched
Echo, and as Echo was getting toward the zenith, she glanced to the
west quite low on the horizon "from about as low as possible" she
saw an object which looked very much like Echo but perhaps a
little brighter, but it was pulsing as though somebody were turning
a flashlight on and off. It was about one flash per second, or
somewhat less. No other colored lights visible. This object, she
said, did not go straight across the sky but followed the circle
of the heavens. It passed quite close to Echo. There was no
sound whatever, and the sky was very clear. It traversed the
entire sky from quite low in the east, so total of perhaps
150° in less than minute, but a meteor is completely ruled out
here, and of f course, so is a balloon. The winds were calm, and the
sky was very sky was very clear, as is consistent with having a frost. clear, as is consistent with having a frost.
She was, however, positive that there was no moon, but at
9:30 pm, the moon, being at first quarter, should have been
somewhere in the southwest. She doesn't remember the stars either,
but she did say the sky was very clear. Perhaps she just took
the moon and stars for granted!
From our conversation, gathered she is the "salt of the earth"
articulate and "down to earth sensible". She wanted to know when
she could see the comett The light did not vary in average bright-
ness and so from my standpoint, it must e been quite low. She
was most emphatic, and repeated it many times that she is very
familiar with both props and jets that fly by and with their lights
and with their motions, and that this definitely was not a plane.
Furthermore, she says planes fly straight across the sky and do
not follow "the circle of the heavens".

October 26, 1965
Mrs
Kiel, Wisconsin
Dear
I forgot to ask one important point in talking to you the
other night. Which of the objects, Echo or the light you saw, came
closest to the zenith, or exact overhead I closest to the zenith, or exact overhead I point, and, in fact, how point, and, in face, now
close to the zenith did the light come? close to the zenith d i the light come?
Thank you for your Thank you for coperation.
Sincerely yours,
J. Allen Hynek
Director
JAH:ar

and this
object moved in orbit across the sky passing EcHo as it crossed the zenith.
minute. Its size was compara rable with a star and was pulsating as though
There were no other colored lights visible. There
a minute.
COMMENTS
Due to the reported data a meteor and a balloon is completely ruled out.
stressed by the witness. Due to the available information, the case is
carried as unidentified by the Air Force. A satellite is a logical explana-
tion; however, the available data does not warrent such an explanation.

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UFO Report: Mrs Kiel, Wisconsin, phone call. P.2
Sorry I can't identify this for you, but the woman's story
was simple and straightforward and not at all complicated. She
saw pulsating light go from thewestern to eastern horizons in
less than a minute. Had it been as slow as Echo, she said, she
would have mistaken it for Echo. except that this was pulsating
rapidly. Meteors, even if this were a possible explanation, do
not flash on and off like a flashlight being clicked and off,
so I don't know where we are.
One of the outstanding things in this sighting is the repetition
of the fact that the object followed uthe circle of the heavens"
and did not cross the sky in a straight line. I neglected to ask
her how close to the zenith it passed, drop her a note and
clarify that point.
This sighting is similar to the McKeesport, Pennsylvania
sighting which was made the previous night, except that those
lights were quite slow moving. slow moving. Just a case of too many Just a case of too many lights Lignts
in the sky that don't belong therel in the sky that don' belong there!