USAF record 28937779 (1950)
28937779
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PROJECT 10073 RECORD
1. DATE - TIME GROUP 7 April 1950 08/0255Z
2. LOCATION Boston, Massachusetts
3. SOURCE Civilian
4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS One
5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 20 minutes
6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION ground visual
7. COURSE varied.
8. PHOTOS □ Yes □ No
9. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE □ Yes □ No
10. CONCLUSION Other (Inversion effects)
Ice clouds and thin cirrus clouds. Distortion of natural phenomena/lights from unknown source (Stellar, A/C or ground lights)
11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS: Blue light in the west observed by tower operator through binoculars. No shape visible, just a light. Blurred edges. Movement from SE to NE at speed of conventional A/C. Color changed from Blue to White. Changed back to blue and separated into two distinct blue lights. These two lights rotated around each other. Increased elevation from 15 degrees at initial sighting to 45 deg elevation. Ice clouds and inversion in are [ILLEGIBLE] ONCE
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- Page 1 PROJECT 10073 RECORD 1. DATE - TIME GROUP 7 April 1950 08/0255Z 2. LOCATION Boston, Massachusetts 3. SOURCE Civilian 4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS One 5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 20 minutes 6. TYPE OF…
- Page 2 [STAMP: 1652.00] The undersigned is employed as a watch supervisor in the Civil Aeronautics Administration Control Tower at Logan International Airport, Boston, Mass. On the night of April 7, 1950 I…
- Page 3 Having accepted to a reasonable degree the objectivity of the experience I tried to explain it in acceptable natural terms. That what I had seen was an aircraft of any type or characteristic known to…