USAF record 28992358
28992358
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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE 1 May 196[ILLEGIBLE]
2. LOCATION South Hadley, Massachusetts
3. DATE-TIME GROUP Local 115 GMT 016152
4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ground-Visual [HW: Ground-Radar] Air-Visual [HW: Air-Intercept Radar]
5. PHOTOS [HW: Yes] [HW: No]
6. SOURCE Civilian
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 20 sec or longer
8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS 1
9. COURSE Varied
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING Bright white, silver objt size of pea. Sighted 80° elevation moving fm SSW. Disappeared 65-70° elevation moving to NE. Traveled straight at first, then made very sharp abrupt left turn then made right turn at approximately distances between turns was about ½ at arm's length Turned left again, straightened out and then disappeared.
11. COMMENTS It is possible the the objt observed by witness was an a/c in the traffic pattern at Westover AFB, even though the witness states that he was positive it was not Due to lack of corroborating witnesses this report is evaluated as Insufficient Data.
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP '57)
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- Page 1 PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 1. DATE 1 May 196[ILLEGIBLE] 2. LOCATION South Hadley, Massachusetts 3. DATE-TIME GROUP Local 115 GMT 016152 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ground-Visual [HW: Ground-Radar]…
- Page 2 TELEPHONED TO: [REDACTED] NO. 71222 TIME: 070035Z Date: 5 May Up: [ILLEGIBLE] CZCSQC9822CJYE375 PP RJEDSQ - CLOSE TO STONE AREA, NOT A CONSTANT USE OF (REDACTED) DE RJEXDH 253 - FROM ALCO…
- Page 3 PAGE TWO RJEXDH 253 (9) NONE B.(1) MOTION (2)80DEGREES EL - MOVING FROM SSW (3)65- 70 DEGREES EL - MOVING TO N.E. (4) TRAVELLED STRAIGHT AT FIRST, THEN MADE VERY SHARP ABRUPT LEFT TURN THEN SHARP…
- Page 4 (3) 10,000 SCATTERED - HI BROKEN (4) 15MI (5) AS ABOVE (6) NO H. NONE OBSERVED I. NONE J. LOCATION IS CLOSE TO WESTOVER AFB; TOWER REPORTS CONSTANT USE OF TRAFFIC PATTERN ALSO CONSIDERABLE TRAFFIC AT…
- Page 5 JOINT MESSAGEFORM UNCLASSIFIED SPACE BELOW RESERVED FOR COMMUNICATION CENTER 1961 MAY 9 00 16 ACTION Routine INFO UNCL FROM: ATIC WPAFB O TO: WESTOVER AFB MASS RJEXDH UNCLASSIFIED AFCIN-4E 5-1770 57…
- Page 6 RFE11 CZCSJF927ZCJYB269 1961 MAY 13 00 13 31 PR RJEDSO DE RJEDRH 248° ZNR R 1213047. FM 57AIRDIV WESTOVER AFB MASS TO ATIC WPAFB OHIO BT UNCLASSIFIED 99DCOII 5583. REFERENCE YOUR UNCL MSG AFCIN-4E…
- Page 7 PAGE TWO RJEYDH 243 APPEARANCE. ENTIRE SIGHTING APPEARED TO OCCUR IN A RECTANGULAR AREA OF SKY SUBTENDED BY A 4IN X 14IN OBJECT HELD AT ARMS LENGTH. DURATION OF SIGHTING WAS 23 SEC TO 33 SEC.…