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This questionnair S s been prepared so that you can give the U.S. Air Force as much
information as possib ncerning the unidentified cerial phenomenon that you hava observed.
Please try to answe y questions as you possibly can. The information that you give will
be used for r name will not be used in connection with any statements,
conclusions, or publicatic ions without your permission. We request this personal information so
that if ir is deemed ne we may contact you for further details.
2.Time of day: _ 18o0
Dun Hour Minutes
No 1965 (Circle One): A.M. P.M
or
Day Month Year
3. Time Zone:
(Circle One):a. (Circle One): !a. Eastern Eastern (Circle One): a. Daylight Saving (Circle One): a. Daylight Saving
b. b. Central b. Standard
c. Mountain
d. Pacific
e. Other Other
4. Where were you when you saw the object?
OfFica OfFca Buidbrig  Nep YorKER Guidbrig - Ne YoRkER MACAZINE N.Yoh , N yol N.Yoh , N. yol
Nearest Postal Address City. or Towa.. State or County
5. How long was object in sight? (Total Duration) 0 30
Hours Minutes Saconds
a. Certain c. Not very sure
b. Fairly certain d. Just a guess
5.1 How was time in sight determined?.
5.2 Was object in sight continuously? Yes No
6What was the condition of the sky?
DAY NIGHT
Bright a. Bright
b. Cloudy b. Cloudy
7.IF you sow the object during DAYLIGHT, where was the SUN located as you looked at the object?
(Circle One): a. in front of you d. To your left
b. In back of you e. Overhead
c. To your right f. Don't remamber
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FTD OCT 62 164 This form supersedes FTD 164, Jul 61, which obsol-te.

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8. IF you saw the object at NIGHT, what did you notice concerning the STARS and MOON?
8.1 STARS (Circle One): 8.2 MOON (Circle One):
a. None a. Bright moonlight
b. A few b. Dull moonlight
c. Many . No moonlight.- pitch dark
d. Don't remember d. Don't remember
9. What were the weather conditions at the time you saw the object?
CLOUDS (Circle One): WEATHER(Circle One):
a. Clear sky a.Dry
b. Hazy b.Fog, mist, or light rain
c. Scuttered clouds C. Moderate or heavy rain a
d. Thick or heavy clouds d. Snow
e. Don't remember
10. The object cppeared: (Circle One):
a. Solid d. As a light
b. Transparent e. Don't remember
c. Vapor
1. If it cppeared as a light, was it brighter than the brightest stars? (Circle One):
a. Brighter c.About the same 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
. Sharply outlined
d. Don't remember
1.Did the object: (Circle One for each question)
a. Appear to stand still at any time? Yes No Don't know
b. Suddenly speed up and rush away at any time? Yes No Don't know
c. Break up into parts or exploda? Yes No Don't know
d. Give off smoke? Yes No Don't know
e. Change brightness? Yes No Don't know
f. Change shape? Yes No Don't know
9. Flash or flicker? Yes No Dan't know
h. Disappear cnd reappear? Yes No Don't know

of power had turned off the heatl
Our Editor,  James Moseley, was safely across the Hudson River in his
Fort Lee apartment wh the blackout came. He had the weird experience of
watching telavision channals fad one, while the
Philadalphia chann ls started coming in clearly first time in history.
After midnight, traffic situation
saucerer Gray Barker fr Clarksburg, W. into New York
to look over the unprecedented situation in Times Square. Thousands of paople
were sleeping in the subways, the bus terminals, ailable building
A visit to the WOR studios at l440 Sroadway found lashlight-toting
group of faithful employees keeping the station on the air, using gasoline
too close to the epicenter unabls to avoid
disaster.The overload on nerators s created nat o drain but
also an out-of-phase cycle which causad relays to stop them they burned
themselves out. Soms of the relays were not able to operate swiftly encugh,
however, and these will have to have their huge armatures rewound fore they
can operate again.
What caused the trouble? No one saems to know. The New York Daily News
of November llth states: "There was no mechanical failure, nor was any damaged

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Mohawk Power
System, as fol- Montreal
.lows: "The first CLAY MAINE
thing we saw on Massere
out high speed NEW
meters was a Watertown
increase Toronto Lik YORK Fortland
large Niagara Osweg Clons
in flow to the MICH. FalisRochester ome Falis N H.
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east and south."
The meters show- BL Cortland 1
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ed a sudden jump Erig Olean MASS. BosbY
to 490 kilowatts etmit LakeEric Hudson
- of power. This CONN.R.
then reversed as Clavcland 2
the flow. from PENNSYLVANIA
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other areas was
called on The elantic Ocdan
reason for the Harmsburg
Philadelphiaf
huge power drain W.VA. N.J.A
MD. a. 200 41
has not been ex-
plained, for no
sevared trans- THE PRINCIPAL POWER LINES: Forty-two electric-utility companies in eight states
and two Canadian provinces have joined a "loose federation" to supply power through
mission lines, an intertwined network of transmission systems, shown by the heavy lines on the
defective gener- map. The companies use more than 400 generating units to deliver the service.
ator, or faul ty
circuit-breaker was involved.
The 345 lowat as which feed New York City and its environs
originate a station, which calls on the water power of
Niagara Fall .its tur generators These huge power lines run east to
Syracuse and then through Schenectady, where they turn south toward New York
tm
he recorted seeing a bright u object apparent size of
a star, moving slowly through lady kept watching the
object, which turn slight greenish co heading north, untii in
about twenty minutes was out of sioht point, her telephone servics
was restored.
According to letters and news clippings we have raceived, other sight-
ings were made at abqut tha same time in Staten Island, N.Y., Bloomfield, N.j.
and alsewhere, but our efforts to get more details about these events have
besn unsuccessful. There was also a story in the Paterson (N.j.) News about
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over l00 feet in circumference. Thereafter radually diminished in size un-
til it disappeared
longar any landing liohts on the field. He was informed by the control tower
that the lights had suddenly gone out; so he landed the plane as best he could
in the dark.
Mr. Ross calculated that the fireball appeared at a point where the New
York Power Authority's two 345 kilovolt power lines coming from Niagara Falls
pass s over the New York Central Railroad tracks batween Lake Cnsida and Hancock
Field. T This is the location of the Clay substation (marked on map an previous
page), which has been pinpointed some investigators as the source of the
blackout trouble The Clay substation is entirely automated. Mr. Pratt of the
Niagara Mohawk Power Company has stated that the crews who Later checked these
lines failed to uncover any trouble along them.
Mr. Ross and his student were not the anly persons to see this firaball.
At least four others also witnessed it, including Robert C. Walsh, who is the
into two beams
and shoot it into spac he paint at which these two incredibly powerful
beams cross would be mammouth burst of artificial ing, capable of
destroying any enemy thin range.
A spokesman at when questioned about such a power-draining
project, insisted that the o foundation whatsoever. There was such
a project in the talk stage ah years ago, he adnitted, but no hardware
and can-
cluded that it was totally impractical.
It would seem very logical to me, however, that if the UFOs are craft
from some highly-advanced civilization, they may have learned to create the

power seemed to ba aff in the nis power failure was confirmed by
several phone inq in the Totam Town area, along
Highway 61. callers alsa seen lights in the sky of various
colors. A weath reau sookesman was unable to account for the phenomena,
but definitely ruled lightning.
Thus, there seems to be little doubt that the electromagnetic effects of
UFOs come in many varieties and intensities. Althouqh there are at least two

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Photo from Time Magazine showing a
UFO over Manhattan during the No-
vember l9th power failure. (Cur
copy thanks to August C. Roberts.)