Evidence Explorer

…cusing on the possibility of misidentified weather balloons. It evaluates the likelihood of these objects being balloons based on wind patterns, release times, and radar reports.

This document analyzes various reports of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) in relation to weather balloon releases in the vicinity of Shreveport and surrounding areas. It concludes that several sightings cannot be attributed to weather balloons based on wind patterns and observer reports.

Incident No. -- 3 July 1947, 1430 Hours, South Brooksville, WO a tk a This observer, an "astronomer", heard e loud roar and with difficulty observed at 50° elevation approximately ten very light-colored obiects traveling N. | have covered 1 1/2” angular jiameter in the sky, bunched together with no reguler formtion. He caloulated that at a distance of 10 mil…

… On the last reported si the balloon was at 15,000 fest altitude, the disc followed for fifteen seconds. It was shaped like an ellipse with a flat level bottom and a dome-like top. The altitude and speed were rot estimated, but the ob- ject, allegedly through the instrument, appeared larger than the dal- loon. Another observer at the same station saw a simil…

…rved one object at S000 to 10,000 ft altitude, travel- ing 350 MPH S.E. in a straight line for a period of 45-60 seconds. The object © was red against the sky, and black against a cloud. It appeared to be three feet in diameter from point of observation. The OSI report of investigation states that one observer thought it was a buzzard, but decided later that…

COUP TD ANT TAH Engineering Division Memorandum Report No. MCREXD}O9l-18D 25 April 1919 to fly a good mrsuit curve on another airoraft in good daylight, for example, much less to close on a solitary light at night. The difficulty is due chiefly to the inability to judge distance or speed of a point | source of light. Sugcestione Suggestion works in various w…

Coo Oe 2 Deh? 2. AL Engineering Division Memorandum Report No. MCREXD=69l~12D 2&8 April 1919 of daylicsht sightings should have been of dark objects, It is pos sible, of course, that they may have thought the objects were bright becense they expected all aerial objects to be bright. On the basis of the evidence thus far cams idered, the best cuess € as to th…

Engineering Division De os mi horandum 7p port No. NCREXD=O9i~-1SD mM ADL. Le lL. Speed. About half judged tmt the speed was less than 500 miles an hour, The other half of the judgments varied from 500 miles an hour all the way to “terrifie", “tremendous”, "inomceivable®™ and "blue blazes". ¢ 5e Background against which viewed. The great majority of observer…

CN Seb we ar VAD Engineering Division Memorandum Report Noe MCREXD=69)-18D 26 April 1919 APPENDIX A PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF REPORTS OF UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL OBJECTS The Inaccuracy of Human Observation Psychologists have long know that human perception is fallible. In fact, part of the science of psychology is concerned with the measurement of errors of obser…

…r Airport, Temple, Texas, 979°25*W 31°10°*N; by 2 observers on flight near Evant, Texas, 98°10'W 31°28'N; 2 observers at Stephensville, Texas, 98°12'W 32°13'Ns and 1 observer in Temple, Texas, 97°20'W 31°O7'N, at approximately 2045 hours 2 April 1952 for a period of 10 «= 40 seconds. Object appeared to be round ball of fire giving off greenish glow end havin…

I was standing in front of my operations tent talking with aj | when I havvened to glance up. Direstly overhead and heading in a northeasterty direction was what I assumed to be a meteor. It was tha larceast I have evsr seen and lasted lonzer than any I have ever seen but yever-the~less was similar in appearance Is seemed to diminish in size as it traveled u…

…CTED reo 20. Draw a picture that will show the motion that the object or objects made. Place an “A” at the beginning of the path, a “B” at the end of the path, and show any changes in direction during the course. 4 A 21. IF POSSIBLE, try to guess or estimate what the real size of the object was in its longest dimension. 3.7. 5 feet. 22. How large did the obj…

… that any persons seeing such oddities notify their nearest Air Force installation - which, in this case, is yours. On the evening of Thursday, April 3, my husband who is a Crew Chief at Robinson Airlines and has been engaged actively in aeronautics for 12 years, part of which was with the AAF, and a friend who is a school teacher and I were traveling in an …

…DA MTVPW 9 January 1953 SUBJECT: The Testimony of | RR Unidentified (te s e QUESTION: | you please briefly describe the epaecy witn regard to its. shape, size, and color. ANSWER: The object was diamond in shape, elongated from wing tip to wing tip, similar to a B-29 and no larger than a BH~36, As to thickness, I would judge it from eight to eleven feet in th…

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… 20 Apr 52, ARatauEDy First object observed fram control tower at Ashiya Air Base, APO 76 wt 2157 I, & March 1965. “Object firgt appeared as slightly yellowish and changing colors from redy green and back to yellow. Disappeared after observation of about . - ‘40 mites, The undersigned has been 5, sonar rapt at Aphiye Air Base for 3 months. “Weather at the ti…

" ee ee ae 2 aoe at mi wn koa & aa ie -, ~ ta & “a me Suh Sau HEADQUARTERS 775TH AIRCRAFT CONTROL AND WARNING SQUADRON Cambria, California At about 2100 hours 2nd March 1953, an object, red in color app= earing to be about one (1) foot in diameter, was seen. This object was first thought to be antenna corona, but when I went outside at appro~ ximately 2115 P…

HEADQUARTERS 775TH AIRCRAFT CONTROL AND WARNING SQUADRON Cembria, California STATEMENT At 2120 hours, 2 March 1953, T/Sgt Brunges came up to the transmitter door and summoned me outside. On going out he told me to shut off the cut- side light. He then pointed out over the ocean. There was a round object which gave off a reddish erange glow. When I first saw …

HEADQUARTERS 775TH AIRCRAFT CONTROL AND WARNING SQUADRON Cambria, California STATEMENT March 2nd at 2120 I went outside the door of the Operations building and observed a reddish orange ebject suspended in the sky. It seemed to be about on a level with where I was standing thus it might have had an altitude of approximately 199% feet. Distance is deceptive a…