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é | | February 6, i953 "Sizhting of flying objects" fhe location Yuma County Airport, February 4, 19535, time 1350 M.3.T. I was using a theodolite to follow a pilot balloon, which was at 6,000 feet Mean Sea Level, I took my syes away from the eye pabee for a few seconds, _ returned “my eye to the eye piece, and the balloon was out of the field. “She readings were 53 degrees elevation, and direction from me 157 degrees, ‘ field rapidly was able to see it clearly, and follow the flight, West. I had & clear aky background, and although it moved through the About. 20 seconds after sighting the first object a secong object cane into the I then saw one object going upward, and surving to the ” phela, and swooped upward and across the path of the first object. The _ first object flew toward the West, while the second object swooped acress 9” near the path of the first object three to four times, going out of the 3 nse __.portion.of. the sun, and were traveling westward, 3). and behind the first object, when a Cirrus slovd came inte the theodslite a * t Me bho, od Cig une 4 SPA ve field.abowt two times for a moment. The two objects passed near the lower the second object. below Pield, TY lost sight of the two objects. The exact position at that time, elevation ‘Bugle 29.1 degrees and direction from the instrument 204,12 dotrees, The time 1355 4.3.2. , after having followed the two objects through the | be 4 power La mare ated sed & a of § minutes with a clear sky basket. whe chieste ‘wire ‘beth the sone size, as measly as I can figure oni nine of are in size, The objects were alnost round, a solid, dull, pure white color, with a thin white mist pe adc edging seach ob4 est. = am a Mstesrelogiosl Aid enaployed with the United States Weather Bureau, having followed balloons through a theodolite for the past ten years.. x also hed a private pilots license, and having flown in military and siziiim aireraft Priuently in the past ten years, I am absolutely certain of what I have seen throuzh the theodolite as described in the foregoing peragrapha. Declassification Authority: NND 57565