PROJECT BLUE BOOK

PROJECT 10073 RECORD
1. DATE · TIME GROUP LOCATION
19 October 65 19/20302 Vero Beach, Ekorida
3 SOURCE 10. CONCLUSION
Civilian BALLOON
1. NUMBER OF OBJECTS
Ono
5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS
4 minutes Coject was described as a large silver lightbulb-shaped
6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION balloon. Disappearancs was made Disappearancs was maie exploding. exoloding. Fragnents
and valve were picked up b and valve were picked u power coupany men who had been
Ground-Visual Ground-Visual alarmed. Couldn't understand why there was a power shortage.
7. COURSE Fragmants of the balloon had landed on the wires.
East
3. 3. PHOTOS
Yes
X No
9. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE
Yos
No
FORM
FTD SEP 63 0-329 (TDE) Previous editions of thin form may be uaed.

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14. Did the object disappecr while you were watching it? If so, how?
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15. Did the object move behind something at any time, particularly a cloud?
(Circle One): Yes No Don't Know. IF you answered YES, than tall what
it moved behind:
16. Did the object move in front of something at any time, particularly a cloud?
(Circle One): Yes No Don't Know. IF you answered YES, then tell what
in front of:
17. . Tell in a few words the following things about the object: boon)
. Sound
b. Coior
18. We wish to know the angular size. Hold a match stick at arm's length in line with a known object and note how
much of the object is covered by the haad of the match. If you had performed this experiment at the time of the
sighting, how much of the object would hove been covered by the match head?
Place an arrow beside the drawing to show the direction the object was moving.

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20Do you think you can estimate the speed of the object?
(Circle One) Yes No pitlyhbped
IF you answered YES, then what speed would you estimate? .
(Circle One) Yes No h
IF you answerad YES, then how far away would you say it was? _
22. Whera were you located when you saw the object? 23. Were you (Circle One)
(Circle One):
a. in tha business section of a city?
a. Inside a building b.( In the residential section of a city?
b. (In a car c. in open countryside?
c. Outdoors d. Near on airfield?
d. In an airplane (trype) d. In an airplane (rype) e. Flying ovar a city? o. Flying over a city?
.At saa f. Flying ovar open country?
f. Other _ f. Other - g. Other
. IF you ware MOVING IN AN AUTOMCBILE or other vehicle at the time, then complete the following quastions: 24.1 IF you were MOVING IN AN AUTOMCBILE or other vehicle at the time, then complete the following quastions:
24.1 What direction were you moving? (Cirele One)
a. North East East . South 0. South g. West
b. Northeast b. Northeast d. Southeast d. Southeast F. Southwest h.. Northwest
24.3 Did you stop at any time while you were looking at the object?
(Circle One) No
25. Did you observe the object through any of the following?
a. Eyeglasses Yes . Binoculors .Yes No
b. Sun glasses Yes 6. Telescope Yes No
c. Windshield Yos g. Theodolita Yes No
d. Window glass Yes No h. Other_
26. in order that you can give as cleor a picture as possible of what you saw, describe in your own words a common
object or objects which, when placed up in the sky, would give the sama appearance as the object which you saw.
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27. In the following sketch, imagine that you are at the point shown. Place an "A" on the curved line to show how
high the object was above the horizon (skyline) when you first saw it. Place a "B" on the same curved line to
show how high the object wos above the horizon (skyline) when you last saw it. Place an "A" on the compass
when you first saw it. Ploce a "B" on the compass where you last saw the object.
90- 75
60
45° NW NE
E
15
SE
28. Draw a picture that will show the motion that the object or objects made. Place an "A" at the baginning of the
path, a "B" at the end of the path, and show any changes in direction during the course.
29. IF there was MORE THAN ONE object, then how many were there?
Draw a picture of how they were arranged, and put an crrow to show the direction that they were traveling.

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30.Have you ever seen this, or a similar object bafore. If so give date or dates and location.
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31. Was anyone else with you at the time you saw the object? (Circle One) Yes No
31.1 IF you answered YES, did they sas the object too? (Circle One) Yes No
31.2 Please list their names and addrosses:
32. Ploase giva tha following information about yourself: 32. Plaasa giva tha following information about yourself:
NAME
Last Name Middla Name Middle Nama
ADDRESS ADDRESS
Strest City City Zone State
TELEPHONE NUMBER AGE SEX
indicats any additional information about yourself, including any special experience, which might be pertinent.
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33. When and to whom did you report that you had seen the object? SAtoIce
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Day Month Your

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34. Date you completed this questionnaire: Day a 6 5
Month Yoar
35. Inforination which you foel pertinent and which is not adequately covered in the specific points of the questionnaire or a narrative explanation of your sighting.
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of this type are launched as frequently as every 5 mimutes during
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end uo over the vater due to prevailing vinds.
Sincerely,
JOHN P. -SPAULDING
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Reference the balloon which was recovered at Vero Beach, Florida.
It can be stated that
Schjeldahl Company, N hfield. Minnesota. This particular balloon
was probably launched from Cape Kennedy just prior to
mission. The Sch,jeldahl ompany has supplied approximately l,500
of these metallic mylar balloons to the Marshall Space Center for
launch at the Cape. These are meteorlogical balloons which collect
information on temperature, pressure, and density of the atmosphere
prior to a launch. At times, some of these balloons are launched
as frequently as every five minutes during the last hour of the count-
down in order to obtain data on wind direction and velocity. Most
of these balloons would probably end up over the water due to the
prevailing winds. prevailing winds.
FOR THE COMMANDER FOR THE COMMANDER
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ERIC T de JONCKHEERE, COlOnel, USAF ERIC T de JONCKIEERE, COlOnel, USAF
Deputy for Technology and Subsystems
YOU - THE NUCLEUS OF SECURITYI

The Dews Tribune
FORT PIERCE. FLORIDA
Nov. 24, 1965
Dear Miss Dear
Got my alumimum "light Bulb" back "light Bulb" back
Wright.Patterson Air Wright.Patterson Air Base, but no explanation
from
of whose, from whence, whither headed, or why. whose, from whence, whither headed, or why.
Not to mention what is is.
May I expect a report on same from your office?
Very sincerely yours,
THEKEWS
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Clippings enclosed

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AEA NOV I
1965
PM
FLA.
MISS SARA HUNT MISS SARA HUNT
Community Relations Community Relations
SAFOI
Pentagon,
Washington, D. C. Washington, D. G.
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Balloon can drift for several hundred
nuabers, and DR-
Design Release Mumbers.
This balloon is approximately two meters in diameter(sphere),
Center.
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One of these balloons launched last week landed inland
about 25 miles (air miles) from Wallops Island and generated
a flurry of public interest.
called this morning and they had been interrogated about a
balloon which struck a power line in Bero Beach, Florida,
and exploded. They wondered if it might have been launched
at Wallops. The project people said it was most unlikely that
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impossible. They also felt that the Bero Beach balloon was
balloons to Huntsville for launch at the Cape, and the Bero
Beach balloon may have been one of these. However, the Air
Force UFo Office said they understood the Bero Beach balloon
was shaped like a light bulb.
The project people here feel that persons finding balloons
.ould, if they want to find out where they came from, write
company, giving the serial number and the Design Release
mber on the balloon.

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U.S. AIR FORCE 1 TECHNICAL INFORMATION
This questionnaire has been prepared so that you can give the U.S. Air Force as much
information as possible concarning the unidentified gerial phenomenon that you have observed.
Please try to answer as many questions as you possibly can. The information that you givs wil!
be used for research purposes. Your name will wot ba used in connection with any statements,
conclusions, or publications without your permission. We raquest this personal information so
that if it is deemed necessary, we may contact you for further details.
1. When did you see the object? 2. Time of day:
Hour Minutes
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(Circla One): A.M. or P.M.
Day Month Year
3. Time Zone:
(Circle One): a, a. Eastern (Cirele One): a. Daylight Saving (Circle One): a. Daylight Saving
b. Contral b. Standard
c, Mountain
d. Pacific
a. Other Other
4. Where were you when you saw the objoct? 4. Whare were you when you saw the object?
dress City or Town Stare or County
5. How long was object in sight? (Total Duration)
Hours Minutes Seconds
a. Cortain CNot very sure
b. Fairly cerrain d. Just a guass
5.1 How was time in sight determined? L g ielel
Dntenat
5.2 Was object in sight continuously? Yes No dentil dli
6. What was the condition of the sky?
DAY NIGHT
a.Bright a. Bright
b. Cloudy b. Cloudy
7. IF you sow the objoct during DAYLIGHT, where was the SUN locatnd os you looked at the object?
(Circle One): a. In front of you d. To your left
b.In bock of you . Overhaod
c. To your right f. Don't remember
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8. IF you saw the object at NIGHT, what did you notice concerning the STARS and MOON?
8.1 STARS (Circie One): 8.2 MOON (Circle One):
a. None a. Bright mooniight
b. A few . Dull moonlight
c. Many NA c. No moonlight - pitch dark
d. Don't remember d. Don't remembar
9. What were the weather conditions at the time you sow the objact?
CLOUDS (Cirele One): WEATHER (Circle One):
a. Clear sky a.Dry
b. Hazy b. Fog, mist, or light rain
c. (Scattered clouds c. Moderate or heavy rain
d. Thick or heavy clouds Thlcx or hedvy clouds d. Snow unow
e. Don't remember
10. The object appeared: (Circle One): balloon bullon
a.Solid a. Solid d. As a light
b. Transparent e. Don't remember e. Don't remember
c. Vapor c. Vapor
11. If it appeared as a light, was it brighter than the brightest stars? (Cirele One): 11. If it appeared as a light, was it brighter than the brightest stars? (Cirele One):
o. Brighter c. About the same
b. Dimmer d. Don't know
11.1 Compare brightness to some common object:
12. The edges of the object were:
(Circle One): a. Fuzzy or blurred e. Other
b. Like a bright stor
c. Sharply outlined
d. Don'tramember
13. Did the object: (Circle One for each question)
a. Appear to stond still at any time? Yes No Don't know
b. Suddonly spead up and rush away at any time? Yes No Don't know
C. Break up into parts or explode? Yoa No Don't know
d. Give off smoke? -he Yos No Don't know
e, Change brighiness? Yes No Don'tknow
f. Change shape? Yos No Don't know
9. Flash or flicker? Yes No Don't know
h. Disappeer and renppear? Yas No Don'tknow