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i  - & a4 4 eR POUT He DPT TM SN ee i tli the i a ee i ‘ é ‘ » a 7 , UNCLASSIFIED Rapid City, South Dakota 2 9 August 1953 Description Since this sighting was a combined air-visual, ground-visual, air- Yadar, and ground-radar report, it was decided that Project Blue Book would send an investigator to the scene. The controller on duty at the time of the incident was interviewed. His account of the incident was almost identical to that given in the initial TWX. He was on duty at 2005 MST when a COC post observer called in an unidentified flying object sighted northeast of her post at Blackhawk, …

fu ee a eee ee 7 ' hig ‘ ee ae ee ee eon ent a CS ogre eee UNC rt cya a > . . ae ~ UNCLASSIFIEY about 20 minutes west and south of Rapid City but saw nothing. He re- turned to base and was about to land when he observed a light northwest of the base. He started out on @ heading of 350 degrees megnetic, the . object was high (30 deg - 45 deg) at 11 o'clock from him. He checked the possibility of a reflection and determined that this wes not the cause. He continucd hia course keeping the ovject at 11 o'clock for a ° better view. After about 30 seconds, it disappeared then reappeared for another …

UNCLASSIF IED came back in, It seared to be west moving Gince the aircraft was kept on a constant heading and the angle of azimuth and eievation increased. The light was first observed for 30 seconds, it faded, reappeared, chen faded arain after 30 seconds. As the pilot came sround the west side of the air base and up the east side, he saw another light and turned into it to take gun camera photos. (The photos were no good). Discussion A visit was made to the Weather Bureau station at the Rapid City Municipal Airport to check weather and balloon launches (Note: The air base launches no balloon…

ed A 3 : i *%} crud <= ae ' F 4 i lll -_—se { ~~ UNCLAS# FIED» An account of the investigation by Capte Chas. Hardin, USAF, and Je Ae Hynek, of the reported visual/radar sichtings of Unidentified Objects at Bismarck, li. ema and Black Hawk, Se Dakota, on 5/5 August 1953. fe arrived in Bismarck at about 19000, 12 January 195), where Set. Wesley Harry of the Bismarck Filter Center met us. Within 20 minutes we were at the Filter Center and had been offered a cup of coffee. ‘Ve first examined the original logs of the incident, and Sgt. Harry pointed cut that the Filter Center was first alerted at …

+ having difficulty. He took a realistic approach and had done some logi- cal. reasoning. He wes worried about the fact that the light moved reiative to the s*4rs. By eliminating doubtful sightings, the only thing that can be rea- sonably assured is that a GOC post observed a light. This could be a balloon or star. Radar picked up something in the general area of the GOC post and vectored an aircraft toward it. The pilot saw a light and chased it. He got a radar lock on it, but this could have been 4 mal- function. The star Capella is possibly visible low on the horizon to the north and the pi…

UNCLASSIFIED Object # 2, at the time of the passage*of the C+12h, is indicated on Fige 3 and 6G. WNre wa. states that the object was almost due north and had an elevation about equal to that of the "guardians of the pole," which would place it about 30° up. We. visited the control tower several times, once at nivht with the sky clear, and had ample chance to check rositions and comparisons with stars. a has had much opportunity to observe stars from the control tower, and it aprears inconceivable to me that a man with 13 years experience could have nigtaken stars for these objectse Furthernoce…

ah MRNRaPT MUNI arerdreetrenerenerpnceeetnrmpernen antetecnmr enn teeny yen renter SARQENRG Nh nense HFN” -earmNENE TRS PN Ne STERNER NET Nan UNCLASSIFIED She maintained that in the western part of the sky it would remain stationary, then hop up several ceyrees very quickly =<- almost instantaneously — stopy move to the left and then swerve down in sort of a slanting motion, repeating these maneuvers many timese By this time everybody at the ‘ilter Center was very excited and, as they said, shaking, because they had the feeling that somebody was watching theme This original western object disa…