PROJECT BLUE BOOK

PROJECT 10073 RECORD
1. ' DATE TIME GROUP 14/10352 2,.L OCATION
14-17 January 66 17/10452 Weston, Massachusetts
3. SOURCE 10. CONCLUSION
Civilian 1: UNIDENTIFIED
4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS 2. Other (CLOUD) ( GaRre CLed )
One
5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS
1: : 20 Minutes
2.Several Minutes SEE CASE ALE
6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
Ground-Visual ex)
7. COURSE
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source of its light, however, would be a matter of conjecture. Noctiluscent
clouds are about that high, but generally do not have that shape, nor that
apparent size. The long tail certainly suggests the trail of a noving object.
If the two incidents of Jamuary l4th and l7th are comnected, then
whatever device was producing the light on January l4th might conceivably
have produced the cloud of danuary l7th. It is obviously of great importance
to establish the following facts:
(1) Did any of the local military air fields have a special experi-
at once and exhaustively, for if it can be shown that these
two sightings arose from man-made sources, a powerful case can two sightings arose from man-made sources, a powerful case can
be made for virtually all of the other similar sightings having
the same cause. Because here ve have an exmerienced and
highly technically trained man, obviously and sincerely very. highly technically trained man, obviously and sincerely very
puzzled by what he saw, and because of the high caliber of the puzzled by what he saw, and because of the high caliber of the
witness, cracking this case is of great importance.
(2) He should know the exact weather conditions at the time of the
sighting of January l7th.  Were there other clouds in the sky?
We know there was no moonlight. What were the winds aloft?
This should be determined for the evenings of both sightings.
Since the imput to this case has been exheusted as far as the wit-
nesses are concerned, the next logical step is (a) to check with the local
airport, police stations, eto., Whether any other witnesses reported these
two sightinrs, and (b) whether there was any special Local activity at that
time. Checks should certainly be made with Wallops Island and with Cape.
Kenmedy. It is possible that this is a trail resulting from a launching.
Since there was both the helicopter and a commercial plane alort at
the time of the first sighting, it might be helpful to find out whether the
local radar had three objeots on their soreens at that tuned in that area.
Hadar tracking of the first objsct will have no meaning if there is not con-
comitant record of the redar tracking of the helicopter ond commereinl plane
also,

will be able to come up with a cleancut and airtight solution to this prob-
lem which, because of the manner in which it was witnessed and the manner
in which it was reported, make it in more ways than one a potential trouble-
maker. Good Lucki
Sincerely yours,
a 1 "
JAH:Er J. Allen Hynek
Director
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This is an interview with MIT, January 20, 1966.
Jamuary 14th, 1966, you were -- suppose 1 On this interesting sighting -- let's go through the thing --
can correct. It was 5:55 P.M., you were just coming -home to weston, hassa- y it in ny own words and then you
chusetts and - what rate were you travelling?
Are you speaking of the first event?
Yes, the first event.
Well, the first event -- aotually, I was hone in the house
changing my clothes, when the children sighted the objeot at 5:55.
And it was Jinmy who sighted it first?
Yes.
And he came in then yelling "There's a flying saucer outside!" saucer "outside!"
That is, th oungest boy came in --.Arthur.
Did he say -- something I forgot to ask before - did he say Did he say -- something I forgot to ask before - did he say
anything about how long he had been watching this thing move?
side when they first saw it. It couldn't have been more than 3 minutes. They hollered out-
they came in. they came in. side when they first saw it. And it wasn't more than 3 minutes Later when And it wasn't more than 3 minutes Later when
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Did he indicate where he saw it when he first saw it? Did he indicate where he saw it when he first saw it?
it had been at an altitude of about 30o Later on, when we were watching the object he indicated that
2100. and I would estimate an azimuth or
Two ten? So -- in the southwest?
That is, yes.
would you estimate? So, the total are that it covered would have been about what,
Through the two periods of motion?
Yes.
I would imagine-approximately 50?.
That is then, as I see it, broken up into two parts.
The first time that he saw it coming in from -- say the south-
west -- at about an altitude of 3o, presuably it stopped then when it was duis south.

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Almost exactly due south, and at an altitude of about 20°.
(A break in the recording.)
From the Southwest to due south, from 210 to 180, about 25 or
30 degrees -- something Like that, presumably. Lid the boys say at all
what first attracted their attantion to it when it first appeared?
Due to the intensity of it -- and the sointillation of the color.
It ves very intense. It was quite brighter than a first magnitude star.
Something I like Venus which is -- es a matter of fact, they night
have seen Venus at that time. It would have been in the southwest -- very low
in the southwest.
It was much brighter than Venus; much whiter.
This is the marvelous thing about having a good observer, be- This is the marvelous thing about having a good observer, be-
cause then one can both ask intelligent questions and get intelligent answers. cause then one can both ask intelligent questions and get intelligent answers.
Now, why don't you just tell me again -- you got the binoculars from the ser- Now, why don't you just tell me again -- you got the binoculars from the ser-
vice drawer -- vice drewer --
Going out of the house, I got my small glasses, which are actu-
ally 4 x 30, to observe the object. I really didn't believe i was going to ally 4 x 30, to observe the object. I really didn't believe I was going to
see anything. see anything. In the meantime, my 15 year old boy, Roger, went back into the In the meantime, my 15 ye (, Roger, went back into the
house and got the 6 x 3o Bausch and Lomb binoculars. We both observed the
object. It appeared as an intense white -- maybe with a slight yellowish object. t appeared as an intense white -- maybe with a slight yellowish
tint -- source, probably not a pinpoint source, And this single source was
steady in intensity. steady in intensitv. There were, however, greenish and pinkish tints which
appeared to scintillate around the object, very much like a colored flame
dancing around a central object.
Would it be anything like a welding arc, or acetylene torch --
any resemblance to that?
Light from a central source. Are you speaking of the color?
(Break in tape.)
I would describe it more as just a very small source in a very
hot furace, as a central source, white hot type of flame, and then with this
peripheral color dancing around the outside of it. th red and green -- the
red bordered on the pink.  The other thing we observed looking at-the object
through some small trees, it was quite evident that thore was a wandering
motion of the objeot with respect to the background of the trees, which
seemed almost random, up and down and sideways, not at all rapid, but
What was the frequency -- if you could ascribe any sort of fre-
quenoy of osoillation to its motion, how many cyeles per second --

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direction of motion for approximately two Oh, let me say that it would probably continue one partieular
longer than that. three seconds. Maybe even
There is no reason -- as you said before we started recording
this -- that made you feel that the motion was real and not an illusion of
the aye, because you had the mutrix of the branches ...
That's right.
still. Well, that certainly osbablishes that. And you were standing
Yes, right.
(Break in tape.)
All right. Then, how long did it stay in that hovering, wan-
dering, meandering position?
Somewhere between 5 and lo mimutes. I didn't actually time it.
That's interesting -- that Long? Just before it sterted to Just before it sterted to
move off to the southeast, did it give any indication that it was going to move off to the southeast, did it give any indication that it was going to
move, so to speak? Hy a change of color, intensity, or anything like that? move, so to speak? Hy a change of color, intensity, or anything like that?
No, I didn't observe any change in color, intensity - the No, I didn't observe any change in color, intensity -- the
object appeared exactly as it had previously.
When we talked about it before, you said something about it
a little more?
I don't know why I seid that except that the souree was ex-
by artificial means such as a Lamp, or any lmowm types of lamp.
How would it compare with a short cirouit in an electrical
wire, when you have two wires crossing, such as oecurs in an ice storm.
There would be some similarity there except for the fluctun-
tions of the color.
The central light was much more steady than you would aroeri-
ence in something Uike that.
Nas the fluctuation also apparent to the unaided eye? What I'an
trying to get at is that I want to make sure that it is not a funotion of
viewing through the glasses.

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Yes,-it definitely was. When I first saw the object, that was
the first thing that crossed my mind, that the fluctuation of the color did
Laotion even before I put the glasses on it. .
What did you think when you first saw it? Sometimes the first
impressions are rather helpful. " What did you think you were Looking at?
My very first impression was -- is it an extremely bright star?
But as I say thet thought was-dispelled almost inmediatsly because of the
fluctuation of the red and green color.  The second thought -- searching for
a logical explanation -- was that it might be a landing light of an aircraft.
However, when I put the glasses on it, the extreme intensity, for the very
small source, did not resemble, nor did the colors as far as that goes, the
landing lights of an aircrait.
Do you suppose it could have been an exmerimental craft of some
sort trying out strob lights? Did it give you.the impregsion
light? light?
No it was not.
I am trying to think -- there wasn't anything going on in that I am trying to think -- there wasn't anything going on in that
area at that t area at that time. This is the thing we are going to look into to find out
whether there was anything in the air going on at that time. What Air Force
Base would it be out of if there had been anything like that? Base would it be out of if there had been anything Iike that?
Well, i think we are a distance of about 8 miles or so south of Well, i think we are a distance of about 8 miles or so south of
Bedford, and this object was south of us. Bedford, and this object was south of us.
Now, let's go back to the motion. First of all, was there any
identifying sound?
None.
None whatever. Then, let's say Something about the mamner in
which it disappeared, and its second phase o motion. As far as you know, it
was moving the Whole time ..
it was coming dowm from its altitude and decreasing its zentth.
Unfortunately, the two that were observing at the time were younger. That wes
the impression I got talking to the boys.
But after observing. the object for some 5 or l0 minutes in its
apparent-novering position and itr Handering, it started to increase its alti-
bude and travel towards the eest tand I woulid sstimata the altituds went back
up to nbout Boo and it arrived at an aziruth of approximately l6o, at which
time it appeared to stop and hover again. This :motion, although it dd not
seem to be in proximity to it, seems to be coincidental with the passing of an
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You had mentioned that there was an airliner coming from east to This is a good point because
west, and a helicopter from west to cast. ..
the lights, how would the motion differ from that of an aireraft?
I don't honestly see how I could call it an airoraft. Besides,
1 had both the plane and the helicopter for comparison.
- (Break in tape.)
Well, then, it hovered for 4 or 5 minutes.
By the way, did Mrs. W. also come out?
Oh, yes, she saw it, too.
(sreak in tape.)
And then when it rose in altitude to 30, it became partly ob-
soured by trees, at which time we went out into the street tocbserve it fur-
ther, and I would say that at this time it was ... we were moving around
trying to get a look at it .. It is rather difficult accurately to deseribe
its motion.
certain is that after probably
as though going away, until it finally disappeared frem view. It could have
been in level flight which would make it appear to get the lower altitude.
There is only one other item here and that was that, as I men-
his observations to me, and these checked mine entirely, and I also asked him tioned before, the next morning I asked my oldast boy, Roger, to describe
if he could detect any shape in the central white light source. .. I asked
to him it might have a dight hourglass shape. And this, aotually, collaborated
my own impressions. The angle subtended being so small that it appeared some-
thing like you were viawing Jupiter -- that was with small glasses and it vas
very difficult to confimm this, but we did both have the same impresion -- that
this vory small center source wes probably somewhat-in the shape of an hour-
glass.
I think this sort of reviews our previous disoussion. I can't
think of any salient facts that were left out. ... Let's try to get the its fastest
-- when you ohserved it movi'ng toward the southeast, how would you ...

it was going somewhat, i would say, in excess of a degrae per
second. It is difficult to estimate angles -- Something in that quarter or
magnitude.
(Break in tape.)
... Did the object disappear while you were watching it? ...
time, particularly a cloud?
No, the object was visible continuously. ixcept, of ccurse,
behind the tree. But, of course ..
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Did the object move in front of something?
No.
All right. No sound, you said before, and we described the All right. No sound, you said before, and we desoribed the
color... color ... This is a good one, for instance -- hold a matchstick
at arm's length and line up the object, in other words, with the match head.
I have often tried it -- do you have a good old-feshioned match around here I have often tried it -- do you have a good old-feshioned match around here il
someplace.
Actually, you were hard-pressed to telliwhat the shape of the
single white object was because
...
Wa described the velocity.
Yes.
And you have already told me that you couldn't estimate how far
away it was. ... There should be a special form when you are asking for
criticism.
Where were you when you saw the objeet?
Outdoors.
In fairly open countryside, isn't it? it'a not really llke the
city, either, is it?-
Well, there are no houses inmediately across the street and the
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I would say that Vopen countryside" is more Likely there.
Were the following used in the observation: binoeulars, yes. Well, this 26th
is a nice question but I think we have covered that pretty well. What I do
frequently when talking to people who are not technically 'trained is simply
to say -- well, now, if you had some magie way of putting something up some-
where in the sky, what would you put up? And you would be surprised how many
tines it helps, because somebody says milell, i'd put lup a kid's top," or
something like shat, and it gives you a picture, immediately, far better ...
Have you ever seen this, or a similar object before?
No, I never have.
Was someone else with you?
Yes. res
We have your telephone number
Itvs Pembrook (?) 4 - 9205.
Age.
Forty-six.
Now, we have fulfilled our fommal obligations. Now, we have fulfilled our formal obligations, But the conver- But the conver-
sation (notes on conversation?) are far more important than the form. One
thing I always like to ask is: What did you talk about after the thing had
disappeared. What were your emotional reactions?
Ch, my wife said maybe it was a satellite. I said how could a
satellite possibly go through the motions that this did.
Yes, and that long.
And so we agreed immediately that it was not a satellite. Of
course, Arthur, the youngest would liko to relate this to sone of his Ty ex-
periences, but the older boy certainly agrees that there was nothing in his
experlencs that would allow him to account for what he had been looking at.
From what :you described that you sew -- I have certeinlv never
seen angthing like it. Well, let's go down the Line to some intelligent
questions, iYou say it Was mostly calm.  but was there any prevailing wind
direetdohr Just to rule that out,
I don't recall. There Was not enough wind that you would notige
it, standing out --
Well, we can check that. I don''t see any point to the old dee
of the woathar balloon -- it couldn't ie that because weather belloons chrry
these Iittle ... about a half-inch. And the satellite is ruled out, Air-
craft -- I would tend to think, snd you ssemed to agree with ne -- virtuall,
out.

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Major Quintanilla:
The attached is Dr. Hynek's interview with
Woodbury of Weston, Mass. on 3
sightings of January 14 and 17, 1966.
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Well, certainly any hircrert other than a helicopter would be
ruled out, and the colors -- flickering green and red are definitely not the
colors that are associated with aircraft. As I mentioned earlier, this wes
between the time the airliner and the helicdpter came by so there were ehtirely
different colors. Tne scintillation was not related to 'the flashing of an
airoraftrs lights.
And the jet also?
Yes.
The helicopter which you viewed was ;mostly
Yes, it was just a straight east-west motion, at a fairly nominal
altitude. it went by to the south.
300 altitude- Also, of course, one could say if it had heen a helicopter up at
altitude -- well, if it had been far enough away not to be heard -- and -- well, if it had been far enough away not to be heard -- and
yet at this apparent altitude it would have to ....
The only thing is that any light of that intensity on an aireraft
-- first of all, the Lights would not be that intense. And, also, one thing
that was notable was the constancy of the white light -- the intense white
light in the center. There was no fluctuation in this.
That is, the central source was constant, That is, the central source was constant.
Yes, that's right. Yes
It didn't give you the impression of giving off sparks?
No, if you had just a white object with gaseous ? (dashes?) of
flames dancing around it, -- it was this type of thing.
It was already established that there was no moon. It hust have
quite a jewel-like effect, then, probably against the elear sky. It wes
surprising intensity and then what imediately olaimed your attention was the
color -- the scintillation of the color. ... Has it much brigbor than
minus 4 magnitude, and as you know each magnitude ...
Oh, it was much brighter than that. And I would suspect that
unless Venus was well out of orbit it Could not have possibly been in the
position that Iobserved.
No, that is-oub. Well, any star is out, because a star doesn't
move fram vast to east. So, thatls out. Satellites are out. Mell, I wil)
cerbainly have the office check most carefully into whether and
where anything was going on at that time. And, or course, if it was going on
whether it matches. I can't think of anything further to ask here.
I don't recall anything that we have cnitted. I just have no
explamation at all of what ve oboerved.

Well, this is why when Winston called me he said: "I wouldn't
ordinarily call you on something like this, but I know Roger and if he
says it was of a type that he couldn't explain, it would be hard to ex-
plain." That's what he said. He certainly took it very seriously. ..
So, now, the cloud that looks like an umbilicus:
I don't know the proper name of the color. There is an antique
reddish-organge that is used." :. itrs a dark, well, itts a reddish orange:
it's not tangerine, it's more red than that.i I know I have a mirror at
home that is exaotly the same color.
Sort of a burnished copper?
No, this is definitely red. But it appeared that the light was
being emitted from the cloud rather than refleetihg, I think this was
brought on by two things: Une is the color was completely uniform through-
out the whole cloud or vapor trail, and that when it dininished, it diminished
only in intensity without changing the actual spectrum at all.
And the whole thing subtended about 7 (?) ou said. ... The
head itself -- the main portion that lasted the longast, what would you
say the angular extent of that wes?
I think I would up my angular estimate on that, because using
the bowl of the Big Dipper as a reference, the head itself would be approxi-
mately that size, so then that I think would put the rest of it in propor- mately that size, so then that I think would put the rest of it in propor-
tion.
At least ten degrees? At least ten degrees?
Oh, yes. That vapor trail appearing portion of it extended off
into the distance.
You know what would be an interesting thing here would be if you
were to write a note for me to the Astronomical Journal, just desoribing it,
making no allegations or connections of any sort, just simply as one would
desoribe in a medical journal a rare tropical disease, I think it might be
of great value. I am going to bug you on that and ask you to do that be-
ceuse -- in faot, why donlt we - well, how tired are you now, if we put
on a new tape and you deseribe what happened from the time you turned the
corner, etc. -- I can write it up and you won't have to.
- This was Jamuary 17, l966, at 5:45 P.M. and the sun had set as
vou mentioned, at L:53. d.K., now you are driving home --iyou take it fran
there.
I made a right-angle tum fron Mighland Streat on to Pine Street
and weston. As soon as I burned the sorher, even with the headlights on,
I was struck by the brilliant cloud, -or whabever it was, in the southern
akg. In faot, I could scareely keep my eyes qn the rond for wakching it.

How far away from home were you then?
Only about four-tenths of a mile. And so I then drove back into
the driveway and went in to get the family out toobserve it. They came out
very prokptLy. My oldest. boy was i the most interested in it. The younrer'
two couldn't work up much interest in sonething ti that resembled a cloud.
Un close observation the central, nearest portion not only -- let me back
up -- the whole object glowed with a bright, reddish organge glow of uni-
fom color.  Also, Looking toward the larger central portion, as' showm in
the sketch, there appeared to be a reddish glow in the sky which was
rather general in nature and extended up almost as far as the zenith.
By the way, did we say this was hovering about 30 upward? or
dia you sey?
Well, the object itself -- the central portion -- would be 30
and it appeared that, other than the central portion, was going away,
becoming a greater distance off, with the exception of the portion right becoming a greater distance off, with the exceptior the portion right
across the front which seemed to be going right straight across the field aross the front which seemed to be going right st raight across the field
of view. of view.
But the lower portion of the drawing is near the horizon as far
as I could tell.
You have the impression that the lower portion was closer -- as You have the impression that the lower portion was closer - as
I remarked before it is possible but I don't think it is -- that this was
a meteoric cause of things becoming more and more in your line of sight,
and this was way off in the distance and this would have ...- and this was way off in the distance and this would have ..-
If you had something that was mitt-like (?) or possibly re-
flected, although i it was kind of late for reflection -- it could have come
in making a vapor t trail and then explode, because this eentral portion was
definitely a big, diffuse, round bhing.
It actually could explode,, they sometimes do, but not in a
cloud.
Bat that would have to be at an altitude higher than where you
get a vapor trail ascociated with it.
In the daytime a bolide can leave a snoke trail that looks some-
thing like a contrail, and it is a somewhat curly thing.
I have Seen some fairly sizable meteors.
(Break in tape.).

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Well, the thing that was amazing about this was the wnlfoinity.
of the color. It was completely uniform, even in the course of time as it
faded away, the color did not change. It started out being very intense.
. Yes, that intensity. Let's see, how can va describe it -- com-
48 pare the intensity to?
Well, let's say that at its brightest, when I first saw it, it
wes epproximately the :same as a brilliant cloud rignt at sunset.
Well, that gives me a picture. But even here I an going to ask
the Air Force to work on it to see whether an experiment or some such thing
was going on at that time.
Even my oldest boy described my feelings exactly when he said it
was eerie.
I wish I could see something like that. i never have.
I never have before. Those two possibly associated events are
the only things like this that i have ever seen.
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petence he would not question. Mr. Wocdbury is Associate Director of the
Instrwmentation Laboratory at MIT and has been associated with Dr. Stark
the past twelve years. The Instrumentation Laboratory, you will recall, is
responsible for the guidance system in the Polaris missiles.
this case more than warranted ordinary attention, since in all probability it
will also come to the attention of the present Chief Scientist of the Air
Force, Ir. Robert Lowey. Accordingly, I made arrangements to go to Boston at
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Instrumentation Laboratory had been taken care of previously.
A good part of our discussions were taperecorded (see attached)
but the basic details of the two sightings are these. The two sightings,
each other, and at the same time of day, at the same geographical location,
therefore, to seek a
possible connection between the two events.
Sighting No. l, Jamuar _EST (sunset 4:50 P.1-).
Mr. had just come home from Mir and was changing his
clothes, when his youngest son, Arthur, Who had been told to take the dogs
down to the run, came bounding into the house. crying out that "thereds a
flying saucer outside." Mr. Mr3. and two other sons,
and ages thirteen and fifteen respectively lis eleven),
headed out to see what it was all about. As he passed the service drewer
in the kitchen, Mr. picked up a small pair of binoculars regularly

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markable than the motions.
He described the light as one having a white spectrum, one of
very high color-temperature. During his sighting, incidentally, he had for
comparison a passing airliner, and a helicopter, and neither the motions of
these or the lights that they carried, bore any resemblance to the same items
in his UFO. The light was deseribed as essentially a point source, even in
binoculars, although in the latter it apparently subtended about the same
angle that Jupiter would (two-thirds of a minute of arc). In the binoculars,
the witness agreed, the light seemed to be pinched in the middle, somewhat
like an hourglass. The central white light was likened to a welder's arc at
about a block or half a block, but it was whitish rather than blue, Around
the perimeter of the light, the witnesses reported coruscations , the
light scintillating in different colors with a strong tendency to red and
pink. Mr. was emphatic that the scintillation in this case in no
way resembled that of a star. He said that it gave him the feeling that a
+hisimnng S tionbutthat+hai
but at its brightest it was deseribed as brighter than Venus. There was no
star or planet due south of the observer at that time, which could account L
for the position of the object, let alone its brightness and'its hovering and
direct motion.
With respect to the maneuvers oflthe object during the five Or
ten minutes that it was observed in the due south position, Mr.
stated that it could be seen through branches of a nearby tree, which
branches served as a reference framework for judging the motions of the
light. In his opinion, and in that of the three other observers, there is
no question but that the light did actually move through small arcs in
various directions duridng the hovering phase. ie are here dealing with
the testimony of a man who is used to observing deviations of a few seconds
of are in guidance-systeals and who is fully aware that there is a difierence
between illusory motion-and real motion.
After five or ten minutes, and M is not sure of the
time since the exoitement was running high and no one was looking at a watch,
the object moved to the southeast and upward, "as though directed" and then

and general
circumstances of the sighting, deserve mention. When Mrs went out
her first inpression was that it was a satellite, but its hovering in essen-
tially one place for five mimtes ruled that out, as of course did the nature
of the light. Mr remarked at one place that had he been alone, aHd
other witnesses conorned, the neighbors were too far away to call and
Mr was too interested in watching the objeet to try to summon other
witnesses. Mr. described the manner in which the light changed
colors and intensity as that akin to a "color organ" rather than to a light
being changed by pushbutton. sins clanged by pusnbdooont.
To indicate the type of observer M To indicate the type of observer is, he reported
on his own the condition of the eyes of the various members on his own the condition of the eyes of the various members or his family. or his family.
Mr. does not wear glasses and is extremely does not wear glasses and is extremely farsighted. farsighted. Likewise Likewise
his wife is farsighted. his wife is farsighted. I For reading ian For reading lan Ineeds glasses, needs glasses, has has
good vision, while good vision, while lis quite nearsighted. is quite nearsighted. Roger, the oldest son, is Roger, the oldest son, is
slightly nearsighted.
who used 6 x 30 binoculars, reported that the ooject
appearcd as though the light originated on the righthand side of the bbject" appearcd as though the light originated on the righthand side of the 'bbject"
with the bright color diffusing, so to speak, going up into the left where it
spread out into a pale annaadon+i 00lo1 color,
All observers reported the plane traveling toward the northwest
and the helicopter traveling toward the northeast. With his binoou-
lars he could see the helicopter by virtue of the reflection of its owm lights.
Both the plane and the helicopter traveled in straight flight.
As to the motion while hovering, it was hard to get at. It was
variously desoribed as jogging up and down, at random, and not quite at randon
but somewhat in a spiral, and gonerally as wandering. Ihen it began to move,
it appeared to travel directly as though going about its business.
In making this report M shes it understood that he
is reporting it officially to the Air Force, through me, and he also wishes it
understood that he wishes no publicity. Ne has requested that any infommation
we manage to gather about the possible cause of the sighting would be apprg-
ciated. He has not reported this to Nfcar or to any other organization, and
does not intend to do so.

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The transcription of the tapes will add further to the general
deseription of the event and in addition, the poys have furnished
me with completely independent drawings of the manner which the object
moved, especially when hovering.
Sizhting No. 2 bvening of Jaruary 17th. 1966.
This is the sighting made by Mr on.the srening of
January 17th, at 5:45 P.M-; sunset wes 4:53. Mr reluctant to
make this second report, thinking that perhaps he might really be regarded
experience like this, and inasmuch as the two events may conceivably be con-
nected, he felt it wise to mention the matter to me. He -has reporbed the
second sighting to no one else.
The second sighting, excopt for geographical location, position
in the sky, and time of day, was quite unlike the first sighting. It can be
desoribed in much briefer terms. it was again observed by the same witnesses
but the boys, in partioular, evinced much less interest in this one than in
the first one, since, as Mr put it, they thought of it as a cloud
rather than as an unknown object. This time Mr. ves just four or
five mimutes from home, driving in his car, and as he turned the right angle
into the street leading to his house, his attention was imediately taken by
a bright, ruddy, fairly Iarge cloud standing by itself in the-Southern sky at
an elevation of between 20 and 3o, He could easily see it through his wind-
shield, so its angular elevation could not have been very high.
Mr. nade a drawing on the blackboard, with the appro-
priately colored chalk incidentally, to indicate how it looked. I reproduce
dimenaione and +ime dhunation.
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