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- -— — ae PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 1. DATE 2, LOCATION * Pa 12. CONCLUSIONS | A/V sighting between QO Was Balloon | R Ar 95¢ Schenectady & Oswego, NY QO Probably Balloon | 3, DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Possibly Balloon ' E O Was Aircroft : Locol : | 0 Ground- Vi sual O Ground-Redor 1 Probably Aircraft | ouT09/0315 XAir Vi sual DO Air-intercept Radar DO Possibly Aircraft 5. PHOTOS 3. SOURCE &xWas Astronomicoh Venus 0 Yes ivi an O Probably Astronomicol Do ommercial. Pilot ae O Possibly Astronomical 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE © pec) | Pe EE ORES ae a …

UFO SIGHTING ROMB, SCHENECTADY, ROCHESTER, N Y 9 - 10 April 1956 On 9 April 1956, at 03152, Capt Sg, and the first officer of en American Airlines sircraft sighted an unidentified flying object while on @ scheduled flight from Schenectady, N Y to Oswego, NH Y. The object appeared the eize of an aircraft on the ground from 6000 feet, was a bright orange light which remained in sight for 45 mimtes. ‘The object was viewed 5° to port and appeared to parsillel the course of the air~ craft at equal speed. (Aircraft heading 297° at 6000°.) ‘The weather wag reported as clear with a very thin overcast.…

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FINAL GALLEY PROOF Galley 3.—THE WORLD OF FLYING SAUCERS The Ryan Case An American Airlines plane had just taken off on a flight from Albany to Syracuse, New York, on the night of April 8, 1956. The sky was clear with a very thin overcast. At 10:15 E.S.T., while at about 6000 feet over Schenectady, Captain Ryan and his first of- ficer sighted an unidentified flying object and reported it to Griffis f Air Force Base. Bright orange in color, it glowed clearly in the northwestern sky, seemed to travel at exactly the same speed as and parallel with the aircraft, and maintained this steady course d…

and himself tried to get in touch with Captain Ryan to obtain in- formation to support the charge. Receiving no answer to letters or telephone calls, Major Keyhoe then gave his story to certain govern- ment agencies. Using as “evidence” a newspaper account [7] and extrapolations of Captain Ryan’s remarks in a TV interview, this civilian investigator had constructed a version of the incident so fantastic that it is scarcely recognizable as the same event. In brief, NICAP alleged that the object sighted on April 8, 1956, had been a strange machine “obviously pacing the plane, though keeping well…