PROJECT BLUE BOOK

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD
1. DATE -TIME GROUP LOCATION
3 Mar 67 4/0130Z Mt. Airy, North Carolina 4
3. SOURCE 10. CONCLUSION To. CONCLOSTON 7
Civilian Aircraft(possible) Aircraft(possible) Indol. Indal.
4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS NUMBER OF OBJECTS
Several
S. 5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 11. BRIE BRIEF ANALYSIS ANALYSIS
Several minutes
Observers watched two orange colored objects which ware later Observers watched two orange colored objects which ware later
6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION joined by a third. The two lights were flying side by side joined by a third. 'he two lights were flying side by side
Ground Visual. Bx as if in formation. There was a flashing red and white
light noted. A third object joined the first two and all
7. COURSE three traveled in formation toward the south. One observer
southward said that there were many lights it looked like four or five
on each object. All were in a horizonal plane traveling
8. PHOTOS toward the south. The observers also watched several similar
D Yes objects travel fron the east and head toward the south.
XX No There are three low level aircraft training routes in the
9. PHYSICAL VIDENCE immediate atea. It is possible that the witnesses saw
ncrmal aircraft on a training flight.
17 Yes
XX No
FORM
FTD SEP63 0-329 (TDE) Previous editions of thie form may bo used.

B. Manch 67 mt. Cing,
n.C.
Mount Airy, N. C.
March 6, 1967
Project Blue Book Information Office
SAFOI
Washington, D. C. 20330
Gentlemen:
I would like to report sighting some unusual flying objects
south of Mount Airy, N. C. on the night of March 3, 1967. These objects
my daughter were first noticed by my son, Bob age 8, and
" age l7 while watching a falling star
from the front steps of my home, at this address, which is
near the center of this towm of Sooo population, I enclose
her desoription of events as attachment # 1.
I was working at the telephone office, where I have been employed
as a central office repairman as a central office repairman for 2l vears, when T for 2l years, when I received a
telephone call from my daughter telling me of the strange objects.
I immediately came home, which took about five minutes, but
nothing was in sight. My wife and daughter told me that I was
too late, that they had disappeared over the horizon behind
a street light that had blocked their view the last few ninutes.
They had also called the neighbors that live behind us, Mr. and Mrs.
late to see anything. I received the call about 8:3 But they too were too
O P.M. E.S.T.
Pat gave ns a very good description of sighting two orange objects
which were later joined by a third. It sounded very unusual to me
and I was disappointed that I had missed it.
we s stayed A in the yard a while and finally went in the house and
she and I sat on the enclosed porchb. The events that followed
ere enclosed as attachment #2 which was written by myself. We
called Mr. and Mrs and their son and they also
saw the events.
The attached deseriptions were written next morning, Independently, The attached descriptions were written next morning, Independently,
before we discussed the matter, and represent what each individual before we disoussed the matter, and represent what each individual
observed, while it was fresh in our minds. our minds.
Iwo pictures were taken with a 35mm camera with 5Omm lens. These vere
taken at F3.5 at 1/10 sec. on Tr taken at F3.5 at 1/10 sec. on T X film, ASA 4C0. Since film, ASA 4co. Since
I am sure they are underexposed they have not been developed as I am sure they are underexposed, they been developed as
yet. I am planning to take test exposures on another roll of stars
of relative brightness in the same aren, and from this test roll
find a developenent time that will veild a good picture. Since it
has been cloudy since Friday night, the test roll has not yet
been nade, and thus the delay to see if we got any pictures. At this
time I don't think so, because they looked mighty small in the view- finder.
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Mr. and I both observed with ?x50
as without them. binoculars, as well
The weather was clear. No clouds and no moon. I The stars were
brilliant, and the sky was black. Temperatur: was mild, in the
50's I would imagine.
I can't think of anything else that mag be of interest at this
tine. We will be glad to furnish any other information that you
mnight want if we can be of any further help. have given this
information to the local newspaper, The Mount Airy Times, just
in case other people saw the same thing and to anybody. ven't reported it
I did heer a report Saturday morning of a girl in Pilot Mountain, N. C. I did hesr a report Saturday morning of a girl in Pilot Mountain, N. 6.
a little town i2 mile south of here, saw a single ball of fire.
This may have been the one we saw join the other two, and would
indicate to me that since she couldnt see the other two, they
would have been in the ares between us. This is purely speculation, would have been in the ares between us. This is purely speculation, of course.
As I said befere, this is all I As I said befere, this is all I can can thing of now. thing of now. If the pictures If the
come out, we will furnish those come out, We will furnish those of course. of e pictures
yours,

first
actually very close to us.) The nearer
appeared. The color that had previously been a weak red now appeared as too s sep-
Lights s were more distinct. were more distinct.
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lining up with the other two it too "ell in line and led the other objects.
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two varied. However, afedr the three
plast fron whioh thay smerged some 30-35 minutes later.
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above the tree line that is to the south of our house. I was surprised at
how large they lobked because from her previous deseription I would have
expected something the size of a star. But these were many times this size.
The color was a reddish orange, like the color of the noon when it is
rising. The rotion was steady, and slow. I was facing south and they
were noving to my left.
We went out in the yard to get a better look. called our neighbor
and he got his binoculars and came out. He got the best look when they
were the colsest apparently. I went back in the house to set the exposure
on the carara I had picked up on the way out, since it was too dark to
adjust it outside. I took a picture then at F3.5 and l-lo sec, but the
dirtance seened too great in the viewfinder. I thought that they may
first appeared. The color was not as vived any more. rought me my
bincoulars then. I could only make out tem as light. Distance seemed
in our front vard. picked another position
From my relative position they appeared over the Jones'
house looking east and I again kept the binoculars on thom. I could then
see two distinct white li ghts on each of them. It lcoked like the two
headlights of an automobile. I took a picture. Then I could see more than
two lights. It seemed like four or five on each one. These wore all in two lights. It see emed like four or five on each one. These were all in
a herizantal plane. They were traveling again to the South and in a line. a herizantal plane They were traveling again to the South and in a line,
one behind the other. The distance between them would vary slightly all the
time they were noving, but they stayed in a line in a horizantal plane.
The novement was always steady. It seemed to me that they were floating
like baloons. There Was noise of motors or jets.
At this time the first one started flashing lights. Alternately red and
white. Like the lights on an airplane wing, bu ught they were much
too close together, and I never saw any green. I could make out the point source
of the lights when they flashed. There were two separate lights almost
together. Not the twinkling of a star, but a definite flashing light. The
second one started flashing now. I tried to determine if the lights were
fixed and the vehicle was moving, or the vehicle steady and the lights flashing
on and off. I couldat be sure but it seemed the lights were on and off.
At this -oint a third one appeared in the top of my binocular field, from
the east, and at right angle to the motion of the other two, and joined
the sther two. It fell in line withe the other two. They lined up in
a striight line formation in a horizantal plane. I had been watching for as. mation in a horizantal plane. I had been watching for
this ons beoause Pat had said there were three. She said that this is the three. She said that this is the
place ahe had seen the joining the other time. joining the other They all seem to be the aame
sise. We watched until they again went out of sigh size. We watched until they again went out of sight. said that they said that they
had repeated the previous pattern of flight almost exactly, and they had from
what she had described to ine. They were a bit further to the south this time
she said, and were much closer before. We waited for an hour to see them again,
but they did not come back into our vision. We sreculated that they would be but they did not come back into our vision. We sreoulated that they would be
too far to the south maybe for us to see if they had come back.

March 3, 1967 9:00 p.m. EST ,
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At approximately 9:0o p.m. I received a plone call telling me to look outside, they were back. I went out with a pair of binoculars and
They approached until they were in about a 55 dogree angle to the saw twe red glowing objects coming out of the south, traveling north.
heriaon where they stopped and hovered. At this point the red glow left and I could see tvo bright white lights at either side, with a red light
the red light moved across. aircleing the objeot. There were six dimmer lights above the area
The objects then started traveling in an easterly direction for about two minutes. Then they reversed their course to southwest and continued out
southenst and head in a northwest direction at 9:20 p.m. ef sight over the horizon. I again saw two objeots coning out of the
ebjects had the sane appearance as the first two. At about 6o degrees above These two
for about five minutes, where thoy joined up with another object coring for about five minutes, where thoy joined up with another object coring the horizon they changed course to southwest and traveled in that direction
into the south. out of the southeast. They hovered for about four ninutes, then disappeared
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