PROJECT BLUE BOOK

PROJECT 10073 RECORD
1. LOCATION
22 April 69 23/0310Z Ruston, La
. SOURCE 10. CONCLUSION
Civilian Probable (BALLOON)
1. NUMBER OF OBJECTS
One Description consistent with garment bag hot air balloon.
5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 11. BRIEF SUWMARY AMD ANALYSIS
11 - 17 Minutes. SEE CASE FILE
6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
Ground-Visual
7. COURSE
Not Reported
. PHOTOS
n Yes
XICNo XICNo
9. 9. PHYSICA PHYSIC DENCE NCE
nYos
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FORM PORM
FTD SEP 63 0-32 maod .
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KECTOR QUINTA enonena Brench Balloen Description.
Chier, Aarial. Division
Aerospsca Techaologies
Productiea Directorate 1
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an 80-power, three inch. re flecting telescope. A cloud
covering had maneged to mot ve in enough to hide Mercury
from view. But I notlce a onv bright light in the South-
western skys (about W-30o-S, 10 about W-3oo-S.10 the horizon at
7:10 pm CST). 7:10 pm CST). It was brighter then t It was brighter then e brightest star Sirius. brightest star Sirius.
Using my bin oculars, I saw it wes not one light but two saw it was not one light but two
very close together! Using my telescope I Usinr telescope I saw this:
Very Bright Spots
Four
("Lights")
Darker (tha-
the maiw 6ody)
Triangles
Nate:
I through a telescope, it is natu-
the
small "light" on n too, I drew it turned over for your con-
venience.

DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
HEADQUARTERS 2ND BOMBARDMENT WING (SAC)
BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, LOUISIANA 71110
REPLY TO DCOI-CI (Lt. Worthen 13369) 8 May 1969
ATTN OF:
SUSJECT: UFO Report
TO: FTD (TDETR)
Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio 45433
Enclosed is a letter reporting the sighting of an Unidentified Flying
Object (uro). Due to the considerable time lapse between the-alleged
sighting and receipt of the reportee's letter, no formal investigation
was made.
FOR THE
Dorttes
PATRICIA A. WORTHEN, 2nd Lt., USAF
UFO Officer UFO Ofricer
.
iS our Profession

checked the skies for its return: it has not.
I am a junior at the Louisiana Polytechnic Institute, on
who's dormitory I saw the object. I am majoring in chem-
istry, but astronomy and astronautics are two of mv hob-
bies. I have been using riy telescope for over ten years,
so I know that that object was not a double image nor out
of focus or sonething (besides, seeing the two brighter
lights in my binoculars verifies that there was at least
two lights). Also it could not have been a double star,
because my telescope can not magnify a star that much
unless the star ves imoossibly close. I It could not have
been the bright oianats Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, or
havevthere on the nights afterward. You could say that
it was ao airplane and byflying straight towards me, I
would be unable to see any wings. But I would have (and
I did not) see the predominant red
wing lights. Comets, meteors, fire-balls, swamp gas,
electrified ammonie gas, balls of stotic electricity,
spots before my eyes, flying horny-toads, and what ever
else the anti-sauser groups can think uo do not look
anything like my object. Meteors, fire-balls, etc, do
not lost ; for 10-l5 min., nor do thoy I stanl still end let
the earth roll by like it ,d1d. I 9m vary sure it vas not

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autorobile heedlight reflections off sir layers, because
of its brightness, nor, for the same reason, do I thin'k
it was light reflecting ofe a small cloud. Weathar bal-
loons are enerally shaped ellipse shaped
as this was.
Now, can you tell me whet it was or could logically have
been? If you have no explanation of the UFo, a letter
advising me of this will as well be accepted.
swear in the name of God thet to
the y knowredge all the above and preceedinz is
true and was as I discribed it.
Yours,
.