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Project Blue Book Infolmation Center

Sa:ro.t

Washington, D.c. ,

20330

Gentlemen

(

e n v ~ r Colorado

80204

December 5, 1966

My wife

and

I observed a UF8 1n

June t

th is year (1966) ,

but

afraid

t

r idicule,

and

not

wishing

publicity,

we

have

hesitated

to t e l l anyane other tha ll re la t ives about our

experience.

After

reading the ar t ic le about UFOa

tn the

la tes t Science Digest an4

learning the address t your of f ice,

I decided

to wr1te to

you 1n

hopes that

my 1ntol,uat1an

will help you.

Firat

of

a l l , I want

to impress

upon

you that

I

have

been

connected with aviat1o:n over the years (as

a

:passenger in ear l ier

years, an

armchair

enthusiasts

1n

la ter

years), so

I am

very fami

l i a r with types

of

aircraf t ,

thei r

behavior, and the behavior

of

atmospheric

conditions.

I

am

36

years

of

age,

my

wife

i s

29.

At thia

la te

date, t i s impossible for

me

to remember the

exact

night of our experience -

one

of

the

things I learned you wish

on

a

report

-

but

everything

else i s vivid 1n my mind.

The night was

very

clear ,

but there was no moon9: The

temp

erature was warm enough that we wore only l ight sweaters. I t was

around

nine o clock, for that is the normal time

we return

home

from washins

a t the

laundromat. , I do not remember

t t were a

Saturday or

Monday

night;

but those were the

only

nights

we

have

washed

recently.

At

the

time

t

our ezperience

we

were l iv -

ing a t reet .

e were almost to our home on t raveling north on

that s t reet , wherl a large, t1ery

r ed

ba l l

atracted our attention.

I t was, I f1rat judged, about a halt-mile to the north, a t an a l t i

tude

of about

1000-2800

tee t ,

which would

put the

object

a t

the

northel ll 11m1

ts

t Crown Hill Cemetery. I t was travellns from West

to East. i

The size

of

the bal l was so large, and i t s appearance o f

such a nature, that I thought a t f i r s t

t

was

a private

ai rcraf t ,

burnins

and

tall.ing

to

the

earth.

n

fact ,

for

a

few

seconds,

I

wa.s cer ta in

the object was a fal l ing plane, part icularly

because

of

the speed, which I to be

around 200

mph. However, when I

drove

the 1ength or

fanother block north

or our

home)

tor a

closer look, the obje glowed

a

bri l l iant

red,

and slowed so much

that I

decided t

was a

helicopter

with some sort

or

a

large

f lare .

I t s

downward

t a l l ,

which

had

been a t f i r s t on a

20

degree angle,

was now

a1most

vert ical ,

and

I

could

at t r ibute

this

only to a

hel1-

cppter,

especially

\vnen the object \ Tas descending very

slowly af ter

an

ea

r l ie r

fast

approach

.

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My curiousity got the

best

or me, for I was

wondering

what a hel icopter was doing

1n

that area,

at

that time, and wonder

i ng 1n

particular what

was

glowing so

red from

i t

'or the color

no

longer

looked

1ike

a

blaze

of

any

sort .

Because

of

the

cemetery,

~ had to drive east an 26th

Avenue

to

Wadsworth,

(appox.

one

mi1e

a t

40

mph)

before

we

cou1d

resume a

northward

t r i f

toward the

object .

All the while,

I

kept

my eye

glued on the object as much as possible)

~ h was now on my l e f t . I t was

then that

I became aware that the

object

was behaving s t ~ e l y even for a helicopter. I t made no

sound,

a t

leas t not loud enough to be heard 1n

my

van.

Now, I

have

always been able

to

hear

a. helicopter While d.rivillg,

even

in trs.f:f'1c,

and

coul.d

easi ly

recognize

one

by

i t s

egg-beater sound. n a

number o:f 1n&1iancea

1

I

ha.ve

heard

thea-long

before I

could

see them.

Further,

t h e

object

seemed

to

be

drif t ing l ike

a

parachtme.

The

possib1l.ity o:f a. parachute crossed

my

mind, but

i ts

size,

arid

i t s

original

speed

l e t t

me doubting this . What t ranspired next

convinced m

IT

WAS

NO r

any

of

these things.

Tha object was almost a t roof-top

level

when

we

turned

north Oll Wadsworth, and t was s t l l l to my l e f t although because

o:t the turn

we made,

1

t was more

to

my

fi 'ont -

1n

other words

1n

the

le f t co:t: ner

of

my

windshield. Suddenly the

object moved

a t a

faster

speed,

changing

i t s

course

to

northeast.

I t

moved

so

rapidly

tha t

t faded

away

1n

size,

despite

the fact

I was moving 50

mph 1n i t s

direction.

I t f ~ a l l y headed due

north, on a l ine

with

Wadsworth,

and grew smaller,

g i v ~ every

indication

of moving

a t

a

high ra te

of speed. I ch.a.sed

the

object two

miles,

but al1 the

time

t

pulled away. (The l ights were

sreen

a t

intersections,

and I was

able

to

maintain my

50 mph

speed). Suddenly, the

object disapNeared,

or I should sa:r,

I

could no longer see 1 t because the red glow shut

of'f .

I

watched

a l l

the

news

media

for

the

next

week,

and

no

one

mentioned

seeing

the

red bal l .

There was

no air-crash

reported,

but I

\'las

already convinced

t was

not

an airplane.

I t s behavior,

plus

the fact that I heard no

sound with

the windows clown, made me

certain that the

object

was not

a plane

or hel icopter. The sudden

burst r speed without further loss or al t i tude explodes

the

para

chute possibi l i ty.

part icularly

when

the

wind was

calm thatn1ght.

I

asked tac t tu l

questions,

found no one

else

Who saw

the

object ,

and

found no

report

t

ai rcraf t

in the

area

a t the time. Nor was

the

object

l ight r e t l e c t ~ o n s

I am too

well

aware of l ight re f lec t

ions

n

the

a i r and

on

the

ground,

for

they

have

s tar t led

me

a t

times

before I discovered t was

a reflect ion

1n

my

auto window or

ai rcraf t ~ d o w This object

was

defini tely a powered

craf t

t

so

me

sort

- a

UFO. I

might

add

that a l ~ h o u g h

I

have never

doubted

the possibi l i t ies r

such

things as UFOs, I have never berore seen

one that I

could

not give a logical

explanation

tor .

Being

a his

torian, I

have

always

been

one to check a l l facts before calling

any story or object

a mystery.

Heretofore, the

UFOs I have seen

were

unindentified

only

for a brief moment. Closer scrutiny has

always

revealed

them

as

l ights

shooting

s tars

puff's

of

smoke,

even

a irplanes a t

high a l t 1 ~ d e

But this

t

il:ul, such 'rras

not the

c as e . Tais time I did see a UFO. So did oy

wite,

wh o

a t

f i

r s t

thought

t was a blazing object,

then

became as puzzled as I .

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