PROJECT BLUE BOOK

1. DATE· TIME GROUP 2. LOCATION
1i Jun 11/10402 Near Fairhorn,
3. SOURCE 0. CONCLUSION
Civilian Other (SUN SPOT)
4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS
COMMENTS:I Dr J A Hynek stated that he thought observatich
One was of a sun spot..
5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS
.
Twenty minutes The observer sighted a small
6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION continued to watch it until the sun became bright to
see it.
Ground-Visual
7. COURSE
See Case
8. PHOTOS
Yes 0
NoN $N
9. PHYSICAL PHYSICAL EVIDENCE VIDENCE
Yo Yo Yes
FORM FORM
FTD SEP 63 0-329 (TDE) FTD SEP 63 0-329 (TDE) Previous editione
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22. HAVE YOU EVZR SRZN THIS OR A SIMILAR PHZNOMENOM BEPORY GIVE DATE AND
LOCATION.
23. WAS ANYONE WITH YOU AT THE TIMZ 73 ZNO. SEE IT TOO?
YES NO.
A. LIST THEIR NAMES AND ADDRESSES
24. GIVE THE FOLLOWING INFO RMATION AB0UT YOURSELF
LAST NAME, FIRST NAME, MIODL E NAME
ADDRtE3s (Sortet, City, State and Zip Code)
Firbern Chic
TELE-RONE (Area cOde aNd number) AGE
29 MALE FEMALE
INDICATE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION INCLUDING INDICATE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION INCLUDING OCCUPATION AND ANY EXPERIENCE WMICH MAY BE PERTINENT. OCCUPATION AND ANY EXPEMIENCE WMICH MAY BE PERTINENT.
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25. WMEN AND TC WHOM DID YOU REPORT THAT YOU HAD SIGHTE HIS PHENOMENON?
Gne YEAR 19∠Y
NAME MONTH
25. DATE
OAY18 $a}$ YEAR19CS
MONTH
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27. INFORMATION WHICH YOU FEEL IS PERTINENT BUT WMICH IS NOT ADEQUATELY COVERED IN THIS QUESTIONNAIRE. ALTERNATIVELY PROVIDE A NARRATIVE EXPLANATION OF THE SIGHTING.
Know ThiTu whi7 5.AW WASNcT
A Plone ae BLeuc/ or Stre. 1
and neT A weather Bollon
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MEMO FOR THE RECORD 17 June 1968
Subject:
On 11 June 1968
his UFO observation.
DATE: 11 June 1968
TIME: 6:45 am
DURATION: fifty minutes boitailon. Tlrey mindces
S e left. left.
SIZE: c SIZE: tub
When you looked at it, it seemed to When you looked at it, it seemed to be moving be moving (flutter) (flutter)
70ss. son spot

11Jen8
DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
HEADQUARTERS FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY DIVISION (AFSC)
FORCE BASE. OHIO 45433
REPLY TO
ATTN OF: TDPT (UFO) 17 JUN 1902
SUBJECT: UFO tion 11 June 1968
TO:
Fairborn, Ohio 45324
Reference your recent unidentified flying object sighting which
received is not sufficient for a scientific investigation. Request
yoa complece C
addressed envelope. addressed envelop reporti repor observation to vation to
the Air Force. the Air Force.
MECTOR ILLA, Jr, Lt Colonel, USAF 1 Atch 1 Atch
Chief, Aerial Chief, Aerial Phenomena henomena Office AF Form 1l7 w/envelope
Aerospace Technologies Division
Production Directorate
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where the presstre is only a hundredth of our air presuitre at sea Here,
distributing energy equivalent to 5 X los horsepower to ligit and level, the gas beconnes opague. From this level the sunlight emerges,
tributs Tu,doo horsepower. The sun has been pouring out enengy heat dhe members of the planetary systen. Each sytare yard con-
at this great mate for at least a bilion years, during all the geologlieal
izes, and is expected to continte to do so for several billon years in Lle fsre.
10,oog* F. It is somewhat higher near the center o. the disk, where The tempuranure of the photosphere averages 3750 K, or about
our shantin, view i. cbstructed at higher and cooler levels. our shanthn, view is cbstructed at higher and cooler levels. we look in directly, and is reduced to Sooo² F near the edge, where
the sunlight from the edge is leas bright and redkder than from the the sunlight from the edge is leas bright and redder than from the Thus Thus
center of the dish. center of the dish.
pearanse. bright gronwles cover a thind of the aurlace: averaging Throigh the telocope the photosphere presents a mottled ap-
formed b: gases doning irom below. Eadh granule lass only a few 700 aiies in dianeter, they ure houer spols in thd seething furnace
minutes bufore it cools to the temperature of its sumroundings. Larger bright spots, the jarulse, are often consplcuous ngainst the
on the sun have held the greuter interest. less luminous background near the edge of the disk. Dark spots
10-4. Sumapots in Groups. Sunspots appear dark in contrast with
the brighter general surface of the sun. They range in size from 4
specks scarcely distinguishable from the : spaces botween the bright
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1si THE SUN WIT ITS SPOTS
gramales to the grent spots visible withoat the telescope. They
teally consist of too discinet paris: the mmbra, the imer, darker
part whien is olten diviled: and the lighter penambin around it.
sungots ocaur in groups; whcre a ngle spot is scen, it is likely 7
.
Il
Fic. 1o-s. The Shn, Febreary 1, I916. An exceptionaily large group of Fis. 16-s. The San, Febrtary 1, 19i6. An exceptionaily large group of
sunspos appears abore the conter of the disk. (Photographed al Mount aullapois ap above the conter of the disk. (Photographed al Mount
Wilson Obssrtrtony) Wilson Obssrutony)
to be a stnivor of a group. A nomtal group develops in ahout
a weck and thon begias to decline. Tao principal spots grow larger
than whe othens which form mostly beiween them. The prereding
rood in the difrection of the sun's rotation frer tentiv becomes the
harger ol the two. The folfowins sput is the largest of the spots
in the rean. I suhdiviuss and vanishes along with the smaller
spots, umil only the preceding spot Is left to shrink and disuppear.
There are exeeptions to this pattern.
One of the largest groups ever recorded (Fig. 10-S) appeared early $
in 19ts and lasted more than S momths, an exceptiomally long dura-
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THM PHOTOSPIERE; SUNSPOTS 1s7
tiom. The s, roap attained the length of woo,mon miles land the area
of S7oer millon sgumne miles. Iis lariest sphos, in this case the
following spot, maeksured 90,ooo by dnobo miles. A slightly larger
group (Fig 10-5) appeared in 1917.
Fa a. A large sunapot Group. The direction of dhe sun's rotation is
coward the rigit. The binck diak in die corner represonts the relative size
of the darth. (Photographed at Mount Wilson Oboeratory)
4
wecks. Recatse the stin's equator is inclined 7° to the plane of
the earti's orbit. the paths of the spots weross the disk are gan-
crally curved: the curve is greatest early in March. when the stn's
soutn pole is toward us, and again early in September, when its
north pole is towurd us. The axis of the sun's rotation is directed
toward a point in the heavens midway between Polaris and Vega. .
U'nlike the earth which rotates in the saine period in all latitudes.
the potatiod periad of the gaseotis sun is longer ds che distance from
ks eyuooir is greten. spots near the equntor, which sirvie lony
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ECTOR QUIN ILLA, Jr, Lt Colonel, USAF 1 Atch
Shief, Aeria enomena Office Sun spot info
Aerospace Technologies Division
Produotion Directorate
PO O BE  BP
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SIGHTING OF UNIDENTIFIED PHENOMENA QUESTIONNAIRE BUDGET SUREA APPYOVML
NUWBER 21-R259
AS POSSIBLE CERNING THE UNIDENTIFIED PHENOMENON THAT YOU HAVE OBSER PLEASE TRY TO
ANSWER ALL YOU GIVE WILL BE USED ESEARCH PURPOSES.
YOUR PERMISSION. RETU VESTIGATOR FOR FORWARDING TO FTD (TDETR), WRIGHT.
PATTERSON AFB, OHIO 45433, SHEETS ARE NEE D FOR NARRATIVE OR SKETCHES
ATTACH SECURELY TO THIS YOUR NAME FOR IDENTIFICATION.)
1. WHEN DID YOU SEE THE PHENOMENON?
DAY∠O82 1 MONTH ZUE YEAR 1918
2. WHA T IE DID Y o U F T SIGI H THE PHENOMENON?
6i40A M
HOUR MINUTES XA.M. P.M.
. WHAT TIM E DID Y ou THE PHENOMENON?
HOUR 7:00 MINUTES 150220 A.M. P.M.
4. TIME/ZONE DAYLIGHT SAVINGS STANDARD
CENTRAL 0 MOUNTAIN PACIFIC OTHER
5. WHERE WERE YOU WHEN YOU SAW THE PHENOMENON? IF IN CITY, GIVE THE NEAREST STREET ADORESS AND INDICATE ON
A HAND DRAWN MAP WHERE YOUWERE STANDING WITH REFERENCE TO THE ADDRESS. IF IN THE COUNTRY. IDENTIFY THE
HIGHWAY YOU WERE ON OR NEAR AG TRY TO FIX A DISTANCE AND DIRECTION FROM SOME RECOGNIZABLE LANDMARK.
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Rout 64 - North Rout 64 - Nooth
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6 IMAGINE YOU ERE AT THE POINT SHOWN IN THE SKETCH, PLACE AN A ON THE CURVED LINE TO SHOW HOW HIGH THE 5
PHENOMENON WAS ABOVE THE HORIZON, OR SKYLINE, WHEN FIRST SEEN. PLACE A B° ON THE SAME CURVED LINE TO
SHOW HOW HIGH ABOVE THE HORIZON THE PHENOMENON WAS WHEN LAST SEEN.
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SA. HOW IMAGINE YOU AME AT THZ CENTER O7 THX COWPASS POSE. PLACI AM *A* ON THE COMPASS TO INDICATE THE
DIRECTION TO THE PHENOMENON WHEN FIRST SEEN. PLACE A *3° ON THE COMPASZ TO INOICATE THE DIRZCTION TO
THE PHENOMENON WHEN LAST SIEN.
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WSW ESE
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SSW SSE
7. IN THE SKETCH BELOW, PLACE AN *A* AT THE POSITION OF THE PHENOMENON WHEN FIRST SEEN, AND A *3* AT THE
POSITION OF THE PHENOMENON WHEN LAST SEEN. CONNECT THE *A° AND *B* WITH A LINE TO APPROXIMATE THE
MOVEMENT OF THE PHENOMENON BETWEEN A^* AND *B. THAT IS, SCHEMATICALLY SHOW WHETHER THE MOVEMENT
APPEARED TO BE STRAIGHT. CURVEO OR Z G.ZAG. REFER TO SMALLER SXETCH AS AN EXAMPLE OF HOW TO COMPLETE
THE LARGER SKETCH.
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8. WHERE WERE YOU WHEN YOU SAW THE PHENOMENON? (CheCk apprOpRia!e blOCKS.)
OUTDOORS IN BUSINESS SECTION OF CITY
IN BUILDING IN RESIDENTIAL SECTION OF CITY
CAR X AS DRIVER AS PASSENGER IN OP EN COUNTRYSIDE
IN BOAT NEAR AIRFIELD
IN AIRPLANE AS PILOT AS PASSENGER FLYING OVER CITY
OTHER FLYING OVER OPEN COUNTRY
out ave For Fioe To TEn Mins OTHER
A. IF YOU WERE IN A VEHICLE, COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING:
WHAT DIRECTION WERE YOU MOVING? HOW F YOU MOVING?
NORTH v EAST 20 - 30 - 40ANd 50 M.P.1t.
SOUTH WEST DID YOU STOP ANYTIME WHILE OBSERVING THE
PHENOMENON?
NORTHEAST SOUTHEAST
NORTHWEST SOUTHWEST YES NO
EXPLAIN WHETHER SUCH MOVEMENT AFFECTS YOUR ETCHES IN ITEMS 5 AND 6.
NONE. he U.F.O.WAS iar The Sudl AT ALL Tine
DESCRIBE TYPE OF VEHICLE YOU WERE IN AND TYPE OF ROAD. TERRAIN OR BODY OF WATER YOU TRAVERSED DURING
THE SIGHTING. STATE WHETHER WINDOWS OR CONVERTIBLE TOP WERE UP OR DOWN.
1948 2 ROnd of Ftice
HOW MUCH OTHER HOW MUCH TRAFFIC WAS THERE? TRAFFIC WAS THERE?
AUERAGE AUERAGE MORNiNS
DID YOU NOTICE ANY AIRRVANES? DID YOU NOTICE ANY AIRRKANES? YES YES
OF SIGHTING THE PHENOMENON AND OF SIGHTING THE PHENOMENON AND WHERE AREY WERE IN THE SKY RELATIVE TO THE POSITION OF THE PHENOMENON.
9. HOW LONG WAS THE PHENOMENON PH ENOMENON IN SIGHT?
LENGTH OF LENGTHOF TIME TIME CERTAIN OF TIME CERTAIN OF TIME NOT VERY SURE
H5MiNCTE-s FAIRLY CERTAIN JUST A GUESS
HOW WAS TIME DETERMINEO?
Pr ConeiNg heme Fron wock
WAS THE PHENOMENON IN SIGHT CONTINUOUSLY? YES NO. IF *NO, INDICATE WHETHER THIS IS DUE TO YOUR
DESCRIBE SUCH MOVEMENT OR BEHAVIOR. INDICATE DISAP.
PEARANCES ON PREVIOUS SKETCHES.
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AS Sea
A SECaNd or a Two LONGER To sighT
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TO. IF THERE WERE MORE TMAN ONZ PHENCMENOM. HON MANY WERE THERET DRAW A PICTURE TO SHOM HOW THEY WERE
ARRANGED. DID THI3 ARRANGEMENT CHANGE OURING THZ SIGHTING?
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11. CONDITiONS(Check appropriate blocks.)
A. SKY B. WEATHER
DAY CUMULUS CLOUDS(Low fluffy) FOG OR MIST
TWILIGHT CIRRUS CLOUDS (High fleecy or Herring- HEAVY RAIN
NIGHT bone) LIGHT RAIN OR DRIZZLE
CLEAR NIMBUS CLoUDS (Rain) HAIL
PARTLY CLOUDY CUMULONIMBUS CLOUDS SNOW OR SLEET
COMPLETELY OVERCAST (Thunderstorms) UNKNOWN
HAZE OR SMOG NONE OF THE ABOVE
C.IF THE SIGHTING WAS AT TWILIGHT OR NIGHT. WHAT DID YOU NOTICE ABOUT STARS AND MOON?
(1) STARS (2) MOON
NONE BRIGHT MOONLIGHT NO MOONLIGHT
A FEW MOON WITH HALO UNKNOWN
MANY MOON HIDDEN BY CLOUDS
UNKNOWN PARTIAL (New or quarter)
D. IF SIGHTING WAS IN DAYLIGHT. WAS T THE SUN VISIBLE? YES NO. IF YES. WHERE WAS THE SUN AS YOU FACED
THE PHENOMENON?
IN FRONT OF YOU TO YOUR RIGHT OVERHEAD (New noON)
IN BACK OF YOU TO YOUR LEFT UNKNOWN
E. SPECIFY THE MAJOR SOURCE OF !LLUMINATION PRESENT DURING THE SIGHTING, SUCH AS THE SUN, HEADLIGHTS OR
STREET LAMP, ETC. FOR TERRESTRIAL ILLUMINATION, SPECIFY DISTANCE TO LIGHT SOURCE.
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MAXE A NOISE? FLUTTER OR WOBBLE?
14. WHAT DREW YOUR ATTENTION TO THE PHENOMENON?
The SUn ATs Selt /
be CA CALLSE of iTs Egs iTs ESS Shape ontNge Shape ORANSE
A. HOW DID IT FIN A. HOW DID IT FINALLY
be cause CaiLse SULN SIeN gOT Te g0T Te bRighT BRiShT
7c see 7.
B. DID THE PHENOME YE  NO I MOVE BEHIND DESCRIBE.
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15. DRAW A PICTURE THAT WILL SHOW THE SHAPI OF THE PHENOMENON. INCLUDZ AMD LABEL ANY DETAILS THAT MIGHT
HAVE APPEARED AS WINGS OR PROTRUSIONS, AND INDICATE EXHAUST OR VAPOR TRAILS. INDICATE BY AN ARROW THE
DIRECTION THE PHENOMENON WAS MOVING.
SuN
16. WHAT WAS THE ANGULAR SIZE? HOLD A MATCH AT ARM*S LENGTH IN FRONT OF A KNOWN OBJECT, SUCH AS A STREET
LAMP OR THE MOON. NOTE HOW MUCH OF THE OBJECT IS COVERED BY THE HEAD OF THE MATCH. NOW IF YOU HAD
BEEN ABLE TO PERFORM THIS EXPERIMENT AT THE TIME OF THE SIGHTING, ESTIMATE WHAT FRACTION OF THE
PHENOMENON WOULD HA'/E BEEN COVERED BY THE MATCH HEAD.
T
4inchs
kfinch
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17. DID YOU OBSERVE THE PHENOMENON THROUGH ANY OF THE FOLLOWING? INCLUDE INFORMATION ON MODEL.
TYPE, FILTER, LENS PRESCRIPTION OR OTHER APPLICABLE DATA.
EYEGLASSES CAMERA VIEWER
SUNGLASSES SINCCULARS
WINDSHIELD TELESCOPE
E SIDE WINDOW OF VEHICLE THEODOLITE
WINDOWPANE OTHER
A. DO YOU ORDINARILY WEAR GLASSES? B. DO YOU USE READING GLASSES? YES 240
18. WHAT WAS YOUR IMPRESSION OF THE SPEED OF THE 19. WHAT WAS YOUR IMPRESSION OF THE OISTANCE OF THE
GIVE ESTIMATE OF SPEED PHENOMENON? GIVE ESTIMATE OE DISTANCE 526
EARThC
2O IN ORDER THAT WE MAY OBTAIN AS CLEAR A PICTURE AS POSSIBLE OF WHAT YOU SAW. DESCRIBE IN YOUR OWN WORDS
A COMMON OBJECT OR OBJECTS WHICH, WHEN PLACED IN THE SKY, SIMILAR TO WHERE YOU NOTED THE PHENOMENON.
WOULD BEAR SOME RESEMBLANCE TO WHAT YOU SAW. DESCRIBE SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE
COMMON OSJECT AND WHAT YOU SAW.
like A chip ball in
SPiNE
buT claak
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21. DID YOU NOTICE ANY ODOR. NOISE, OR HEAT EMANATING FROM THE PHENOMENON OR ANY EFFECT ON YOURSELF.
ANIMALS OR MACHINERY IN THE VICINITY? C YES NO IF *YES."DESCRIBE.
A. DID THE PHENOMENON DISTURB THE LEAVE ANY PHYSICAL EVIDENCE. YES 2NO.
IF *YES." DESCRIBE.
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