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PROJECT 10073 RECORD
1. DATE · TIME GROUP LOCATION
18 Jan 67 19/0350Z Columbus, Kansas one
3. SOURCE 10. CONCLUSION
Civilian Aircraft(possible)
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1. NUMBER OF OBJECTS
One
5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS
5 minutes
The observer watched a whitish-blue object with exhaust
6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION travel toward the northern horiz During the observation
Ground Visual a high pitch whinning sound noted. The 164 completed
by the witness disagreed with color reported for the 00E
7. COURSE object in the object in the initial letter. e initial letter. In the first report the object
nw was football shaped and had red, white, and blue flashing was football shaped and white, and blu lashing
8. PHOTOS lights. lights.
5 Yes Contact with the 3O5th BW Bunker Hill AFB revealed that
XX No there were B-58 aircraft in the area at the time of the
2. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE sighting making bomb runs.
7 Yes i7 Yes
X No
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FTD SEP 63 FTD SCP 63 0-329 (TDE) Previous editions of this form may bo used.

3. Was anyore aiss with you at the tima you saw the objoct? (Circlo One) Yes No
31.1 IF yau answered YEs, did thay sas the object too? (Circle One) Yes No
31.2 Pleass list thair namas and addrassas:
NAME NAME Last Name Middlo Name
FIrst Nama
ADDRESS Columbvs Colum Kansas
Streot City Zona S100 S10
IONE NUMBER NUMBER AGE 14 AGE 14 SEX Male SEX Male
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When and to wham did you repart that you had sean the object? Uis Air Force
18 Tonury196z
Day Month Your

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34. Date you comp is questionnaire: 19 February 1a67
Day Month Year
quaationnairs o a narrativs explanation of your sighting.
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Memo for the Record:
Conte ct with the 305th BW Bunkor Hill AFB, Indiana revealed that
on the night of 18 Jan 67 B-58 aircraft were making bomb runs north
o. Joplin, Missouri. These aircraft would have been in the area
the time of the sighting.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
HEADQUARTERS FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY DIVISION (AFSC)
WRIGHT.PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE. OHIO 45433
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REPLY TO TDET/UFO 9 February 1967
ATTN OF
SUDJECT: Jan 67
TO:
Colunbus, Kansas 66725
Reference your unidentified observation. The information which
we have received is not sufficient for a scientific evaluation.
Reguest you complete the attached FTD Form l64 and return it in
the envelope provided, Thank you for reporting your observation
to the Air Force.
JAVES C. MANATT, ColOnel, USAF 1 Atch 1 Atch
Lireetor Cirebtor Subsystems FTD Form 164 w/envelope

it. Tater on in the same night another friend of mine
) snotbed several U.F.O.'s. We started talking
and he said that at the same time that Dave Boyd and I heard the strance
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white, and blue flashing lights.
around the world. We would appreciate U.F.O.:s
you could send us. any information that
Thank you for your tine and patience.
SEND 164
Q0er

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covered in my letter, would you please sendait to:
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Columbus,Kansas Columbus, Kansas
66725
Thank you very much.
Yours toulv
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rc/enclosure re/enclosure
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OSAF OFFICE OF INFORNATION
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Please try to answar as many questlons as you possibly can. The information that ycu give will
be used for rasearch pur our name will not ba used in connaction with any statenwnis,
consiusions, or publications without your permission. We request this personal Information sc
that if it is deomed necessary, we may contact further dotails.
1. When did you see the object? 2. C 50
Hour Minurns
18 Januray 1967 (Circle Ons): A.M. P..
or
Day Month Your
. Time Zone:
(Circlo One): a. Eastern (Circla Une):a Daylight Soving
b. Centra b. Standard
c. Mountoin
d. Pacifle
8. Other
4.Where were you when you saw the object?
C.olumbosKansas
Neoresr Postal Addresa City ar Town Stote or Couney
5.1 How wostime insight dotormind? wlith a w)rist (watch
5.2 Wos obivet in sight continuously? Yos No_
6.
DAY NIGHT
Bright a.
Cloudy b. Cloudy
7.IF you sow th the SUN located as you locked at ths objest?
(Circls Ono): In front of you d. To your left
b. In bock of you . Ovorheod
c. To your right f. Don't ramember
FORM
FTD OCT 62 164 Thia form auporaodes

8.1 STARS (Crrcle Ono): 8.2 MOON (Circle Ona):
a. None a. Bright moonlighy
b.Alaw b. Dull moonlight.
c. Mony c. No moonlight - pitch dark
d. Don't romember
9. What * weather conditions at the time you saw loct?
CLOUDS(Circle Ona): WEATHER (Circl One):
a. Clenrskv) .Dry
b. Haxy b. Fog, mist, or light rain
c. Scatterne clouds C. Moderate or haavy rain
Thick of hoovy clouds d. Snow
0. Don't ramamber
10. The object appearad: (Circle One).
0. Solid (d. Aalighe
b. Tronsparent . Don't remembar
.. . Yopu Yopu
11. if it appeored as a light, was 11. if it appeared as a light, was it ghrer than the brightost atars? (Circlo Ona):.
a. Brighter c. About the same
8. Dimmer b. Dimmer d. Don't know d. Don't know
11.l-Compors rightness to some common object: ness to some common object: 224 4 Te
1.The odgas of the object were:
(Cuclo Une) a. Fuzzy or blurred e. Other 2
b. Like a bright stor
Sharply outlinee
c. Don't ramember
1. Did the objocr. (Circle One for soch quaation)
a. Appear to stand still at amy time? (Yes) No Don't know
b. Suddanly speed up and rush away at any time? Yox) No Don't know
C, Break up into parts or explode? Yes. No Don't know
d. Give off smoke? Yes No Don't know
e. Chango brightness? Yas No Don't know
f. Change shape? e3 No Don't know
g. Flash or flicker? Yes No Don't know
h. Disappear and roappear? Yes No Don't know

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15. Did th object move behind something at any time, particulurly a cloud?
(Circle Ona): Yes (No Don't Know. IF you answerod YEs, than tall what
it moved behind: a
(Circle One): Yes No Don't Know. IF you answered YES, theu tall whiat
in front of: ..
17. Toll in a few words the following things about the object:
0.SoundAhighpisihes
b. Colorwhitsh-blye
.We wish to know the angular size. Hold a match stick at arm's length in line with a known ubjoct ond n
much of the abject is covered by the head of the match. If you had performed this oxporiment at the tiva: i si.
sighting, how much of the object would have bean covered by the match head? About half

object was?
(Circle Ono) Yos No
hen you sow the objoct? 2. Were you (Circle One)
(Circle On):
a. In: the business soction of a city?
o. Insids a building b. In the residential sucticn oi a city? -
b. In a car c. In open countrysido?
©. Outdoors d. Near an oirfiold?
d. In an airplane (typa) e. Flying over a city?
e. Ar seo f. Flying over opan country?
1. Other _ g. Other
24. TOMOBiLE or other vehicle at t the time, then complete tho following quaations:
24.1 What direction ware you moving? ircle Ona)
. North c. Eost . South y. West
b. Northeast d. Southeast f. Southwast h. Northwast
24.2 How fost wore you moving? miles por hour.
object or objects which, whon placod up in th
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show how high the object was above tha horizon (skyline) whan you last suw it. Place an '.' on the cornpass
90°
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60
NW
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180 sly
28. . Drow a pierure that will show the motion that the object or objects made. Place an "A the boginning of sha
poth, a "B" ot ghe ond of the path, and show any changes in direction during the courss.