PROJECT BLUE BOOK

PROJECT 10073 RECORD
1. DATE · TIME GROUP 2. LOCATION
110.7 Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
3. SOURCE 1. CONCLUSION
1/
Civilian INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR EVALUATION
4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS
1°
5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS
8 few seconds few s seconds The observer saw an extremely bright white saw an extremely bright white light in one wes- light in tne wes-
tern sky. tern sky. The I The light traveled light traveled in a southerly direction and vas direction and
6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION invisible for several seconds till it disappeared oe.: till it disappeared oei:
Ground Visual clouc. No noise was heard at clouc. No noise was heard at any time.
COMMENTS: The description COMMENTS: The description of the ooject is the ocject is similar 2 shat of
7. COURSE COURSE an aircraft with its landing lights on, even though on, even though no noise no noise
South was heard. The observer was heard. The observer was was sent a l64 to complete such in.or- sent a 164 to complete such infor-
mation as the time of the sighting and slso to get Eeneral ir. mation as the time of the sighting and slso to get Eeneral ir.-
8. PHOTOS 8. PHOTOS formation. Because this additional information was never s.b-
Yos 5 Yos miteed to us the case is being evaluatéd as INSUFFICIENT DATA.
No 1
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FTD SEP 63 0-329 (TDE) Previous oditions of thls form may be ueod,
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Without edditiomal information, it is inpossible, at
this tise, to offer an explanation bs to what you ssw. If
the inclosed postage-free envelope to the address given on
it, we will endeavor to determine for you what it vas that
you actually observed.
In the future, should you sight another Uro, please repert In the future, should veu sight another UFo, please report
it fmmedlately to the UPO investlgator at the nearest Air Ferce
tase. An immediete on-the-spot investigation is normally more tase. An imediete on-the-spot investigation is normally more
impertant details may have become hozy in the viewer's mind.
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We hope thst the inclosed saterial will be of intereat in
your further understanding of these further understanding of these objects. objecto. Thank you for Thenk you for
your inteeest in our UFo progrom. interest in our Uro progrom.
Sincerely, Sincerely,
DAVID L. STILES
Major, USAP
Acting Chlef, Civil Branch
Community Relations Division
office of Information
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office forwarding this letter to the interested authorities. The following
unspcctacular observation may be readily identifiable to experts, but it struck
me as & complote oddity, even at the time.
The place of
Mountain
National Park, Colorado. It was three nights ago on Wednesday, Ocdober 11th.
Darkness fell earlier than I hed expected, and I was already tucked into idy
puptent by soven o'clock , supine, with only my head in the open to view the skics
with as little discomfort from the cold as possible. Parts of the sky were covered
by easterlyrmoving streaky clouds, so my first glimpser of the half moon was its
risilg within the crescent of the mountain twin peaks to the south of my campsite.
With the clouds diffusing the coonlight, the sky never did get as black as I had
thought I mus t have mistaken an airplane for a star, but then I realized it
couldn't possibly be a plane, for I have watched thousands of airplanes and jets
strak across the skies at night - from as close as from witnin airfields for
takeoifs and landings to as far away as when they just become visible farzanay in
the sky - and none ever projected such powerful brillia.ce of their front white

uniquely poetic experience tnat w when I viewed the passuge of tiat object through
the Say, I simply frowned a bit and tiought "That's odd" and adued it to the mind's
album of the unique and novel - an esoteric cjllection tnat one goes over at leisure
la ter waen not so iamedia tely concerned with survival on a cold windy hillside and
hiking several miles for the first time with a backpack and food supplies.
Yet I could not help wardering - why had I not spotted the object moving from
the r.ght to left just before its appearance under the dim star, wich at that time
was t.s bri,htest in the area. when the ob,ect did first catch my eve, it was
the saias ver the mountains - and could hear the jets - yet they had not covered
ception of its emerging dimness to the disappearance of' tre brilliant object behind
the cloucs - it was a matter of a few seconds -
I apologise for not breaking canp and returnin, to town innediately tne next
morning a d wlring this informetion to you - bat it is only now having returned
to Denver and recovered from the fatigue of hiking tiat I could apoly my mind
fully to the significance of the various events.

research instrument of our own scientilic genius. And if so, it is probably of
scientific interest for the developers to learn tnan even an average citizen can
identify its appearance as an extraordinary phenomenon as it moves across the say.
Needless to say, I am not about to auvertise this experience elsewntre, and
at this point in my life, it is the last thing I would desire hazing to report to
the United States Government. Nevertheless, in conscience I feel it my duty to
inf rm you of the event.
Sincerely yours, Sincerery jours,
Age: 43 years (Noveaber 19, 1923) Age: 43 years (November 19, 1923)
Eyes: 20/40 (but I was we ring my
glasses at the time) glasses at the time)