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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

|  1. DATE | 1 Oct 59 | 2. LOCATION | Keesler AFB, Miss.  |
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|  3. DATE-TIME GROUP | Local 0452 GMT | 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION | ☐ Ground-Visual ☐ Air-Visual ☐ Ground-Radar ☐ Air-Intercept Radar  |
|  5. PHOTOS | ☐ Yes ☑ No | 6. SOURCE | Military  |
|  7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | three minutes | 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | one  |
|  9. COURSE | stationary | 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING | Rnd obj, size of full noon, color changed fm white to orange. Obj exploded. Appeared to be of gasseous substnaee.  |
|  11. COMMENTS | Obj viewed was 5° to right of…

1 October 1959

Old letter not comp. info & questionnaire

Atomic Energy Commission
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:

This morning while two other airmen and I were walking to breakfast we noticed the morning star. Then about five degrees south of it we saw something that after a moment we realized was not the moon. It was a patch of light about the size of the moon or a little bigger, and as we watched, its periphery expanded. When the periphery had gone out, the original patch the size of the moon was left, but its color started to change from white to orange. This happened at about 1:52 AM,…

SAFIS-3d/MHBurnard/mhb/72291

7 October 1959

Dear Airman

This is to acknowledge your letter of 1 October regarding a sighting of an Unidentified Flying Object.

Your letter contains insufficient information for a valid conclusion. Therefore request you complete the attached Air Force Questionnaire in regard to the sightings and forward the completed paper to the Aerospace Technical Intelligence Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, for analysis and evaluation.

Sincerely,

LAWRENCE J. TACKER
Major, USAF
Public Information Division
Office of Information

Inclosure

Keesler AFB, Missi…

U. S. AIR FORCE TECHNICAL INFORMATION SHEET

This questionnaire has been prepared so that you can give the U. S. Air Force as much information as possible concerning the unidentified aerial phenomenon that you have observed. Please try to answer as many questions as you possibly can. The information that you give will be used for research purposes, and will be regarded as confidential material. Your name will not be used in connection with any statements, conclusions, or publications without your permission. We request this personal information so that, if it is deemed necessary, we may contac…

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8. IF you saw the object at NIGHT, TWILIGHT, or DAWN, what did you notice concerning the STARS and MOON?

8.1 STARS (Circle One):
a. None
☑ b. A few
c. Many
d. Don't remember

8.2 MOON (Circle One):
a. Bright moonlight
b. Dull moonlight
c. ☑ No moonlight — pitch dark
d. Don't remember

8.3 STARS (Circle One):
a. None
b. A few
c. Many
d. Don't remember

9. Was the object brighter than the background of the sky?

(Circle One):
☑ a. Yes
b. No
c. Don't remember

10. IF it was BRIGHTER THAN the sky background, was the brightness like that of an automobile headlight?:

(Circle One) a. A mile…

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16. Tell in a few words the following things about the object.
a. Sound none.
b. Color white, changing to orange after a first saw it.
Airman Harris and Stern say the color changed to orange, but I don't remember seeing it change color.

17. Draw a picture that will show the shape of the object or objects. Label and include in your sketch any details of the object that you saw such as wings, protrusions, etc., and especially exhaust trails or vapor trails. Place an arrow beside the drawing to show the direction the object was moving.

round, like the full moon.
same size as full moon.
…

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20. Draw a picture that will show the motion that the object or objects made. Place an "A" at the beginning of the path, a "B" at the end of the path, and show any changes in direction during the course.
No motion.

21. IF POSSIBLE, try to guess or estimate what the real size of the object was in its longest dimension.
feet. Thousands of miles.

22. How large did the object or objects appear as compared with one of the following objects held in the hand and at about arm's length?
(Circle One):
a. Head of a pin
b. Pea
c. Dime
d. Nickel
e. Quarter
f. Half dollar
g. Silver dollar
h. Baseb…

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|  25. Where were you located when you saw the object? (Circle One): a. Inside a building b. In a car c. Outdoors d. In an airplane e. At sea f. Other _________________ | 26. Were you (Circle One) a. In the business section of a city? b. In the residential section of a city? A F3 c. In open countryside? d. Flying near an airfield? e. Flying over a city? f. Flying over open country? g. Other _________________  |
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27. What were you doing at the time you saw the object, and how did you happen to notice it?<br/>
We were walking from our barracks to the mess hall for breakfast…