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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

|  1. DATE | 19 Dec 59 | 2. LOCATION | Burgoon, Ohio | 12. CONCLUSIONS | ☐ Was Balloon ☐ Probably Balloon ☐ Possibly Balloon  |
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|  3. DATE-TIME GROUP | Local GMT 19/2215Z | 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION | ☑ Ground-Visual ☐ Air-Visual ☐ Ground-Radar ☐ Air-Intercept Radar | ☐ Was Aircraft ☐ Probably Aircraft ☐ Possibly Aircraft | ☐ Was Astronomical ☐ Probably Astronomical ☐ Possibly Astronomical  |
|  5. PHOTOS | ☐ Yes ☑ No | 6. SOURCE | Civilian | ☐ Other ☑ Insufficient Data for Evaluation ☐ Unknown |   |
|  7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | no…

AIR TECHNICAL INTELLIGENCE CENTER
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE
OHIO

REPLY TO
ATTN OF: AFCIN-4E4g

SUBJECT: UFO Sighting

5 JAN 1960

TO: SAFOI-3d (Major L. J. Tacker)

Suggest questionnaire be forwarded to [redacted] requesting that it be filled in.

FOR THE COMMANDER:

PHILIP G. EVANS
Colonel, USAF
Deputy for Sciences and Components

1 Atch:
Cy ltr 22 Dec 59, from [redacted]

[handwritten note: "Alrod letter
Saying not empty
Also questionnaire"]

SAFOI-3d/ | Tacker/mno/72291

11 January 1960

Dear Miss:

This is to acknowledge your letter of 22 December 1959 regarding the sighting of an unidentified flying object.

Your letter does not contain sufficient information for a valid conclusion. Therefore request you complete the attached Air Force Questionnaire in regard to the sighting 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

Enclosure

Miss …

Street
Upper Sandusky, Ohio
December 22, 1959

Wright Patterson A.F.B.
Dayton, Ohio

Dear Gentlemen:

On Saturday, December 19, I was walking in the country near Burgoon, Ohio, with another girl. It was 5:15 P.M., the sun was setting, and the temperature was approximately freezing.

We saw in a northwest direction what at first we thought to be a jet making a vapor trail. We didn't think much of it until we looked at it again. It was now coming straight down, and the trail was moving with it. As it came down, the trail seemed to disappear and the object took the shape of a ball. As it came sti…