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|  1. DATE - TIME GROUP | 2. LOCATION  |
| --- | --- |
|  4 July 65 05/0115Z | Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania  |
|  3. SOURCE | 10. CONCLUSION  |
|  Civilian | AIRCRAFT  |
|  4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS  |
|  One | Object reported as a light about as bright as a light bulb with edges like a bright star. Flashed. Disappeared behind buildings. White. No sound. Light on back of object was flashing. Straight flight East to West at about 60 deg elevation. Oval. Witness 11 1/2 yr old girl.  |
|  5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION |   |
|  5 Minutes |   |
|  6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION |   |
|  …

Bloomsburg, Pa.
July 13, 1965

President Johnson
1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Washington, D.C.

Dear President Johnson,

Sunday night when I was out in my yard, I saw a flying object which was bright and had a flashing light in the back. It was not an airplane and not a meteor because of the flashing light. I thought it was a flying saucer. I only saw it for a few minutes.

Monday night on the 11:00 P.M. news, it was reported that a flying saucer was spotted over a Portuguese village and another place that I cannot recall. It had "an intermittently luminous white light" like I had seen. The descript…

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8. IF you saw the object at NIGHT, 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

9. What were the weather conditions at the time you saw the object?

CLOUDS (Circle One):
a. Clear sky
b. Hazy
c. Scattered clouds
d. Thick or heavy clouds

WEATHER (Circle One):
a. Dry
b. Fog, mist, or light rain
c. Moderate or heavy rain
d. Snow
e. Don't remember

10. The object appeared: (Circle One):
a. Solid
b. Transparen…

U.S. AIR FORCE TECHNICAL INFORMATION

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. 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 contact you for further details.

|  1. When did you see the o…

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20. Do you think you can estimate the speed of the object?
(Circle One) Yes ☐ No ☑
IF you answered YES, then what speed would you estimate?

21. Do you think you can estimate how far away from you the object was?
(Circle One) Yes ☐ No ☑
IF you answered YES, then how far away would you say it was?

22. 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 (type)
e. At sea
f. Other

23. Were you (Circle One)
a. In the business section of a city?
b. In the residential section of a city?
c. In open countryside?
d. Near …

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14. Did the object disappear while you were watching it? If so, how?
Yes - I disappeared behind buildings

15. Did the object move behind something at any time, particularly a cloud?
(Circle One): Yes ☐ No ☑ Don't Know. IF you answered YES, then tell what it moved behind:

16. Did the object move in front of something at any time, particularly a cloud?
(Circle One): Yes ☐ No ☑ Don't Know. IF you answered YES, then tell what in front of:

17. Tell in a few words the following things about the object:
a. Sound there was no sound
b. Color the color was white

18. We wish to know the angul…

Mrs Hunt/SAFOICC/72842/22 Jul 65

MEMORANDUM FOR DIRECTOR OF LEGISLATIVE LIAISON, SAF-OS
ATTENTION: COLONEL POE

SUBJECT: UFOs

Attached is a draft of a reply to [redacted] of Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, who requested information on the above subject.

SAFOI action officer is Mrs Hunt/72842.

1 Atch
Draft of Reply

Dear [redacted]

The President has asked that I reply to your recent letter regarding "flying saucers."

The investigation of unidentified flying objects reported in the skies over the United States is the responsibility of the Air Force. The name of this project is Blue Book.

In 18 years of investigating over 9000 reports of unidentified flying objects, the evidence has proved almost conclusively that reported aerial phenomena have been objects either created and sent aloft by man, generated by atmospheric conditions, or caused by celestial bodies of the residue of meteoric activity.

There …