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D Wos Ball oon Palm Springs 2 California D Probably Boli-n

4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION D Possibly Balloon

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0 AI,.. Vi suol 0 Air-Intercept Radar 0 Possibly Aircraft

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~XWos Astronomico Saturn D Probably Astronomical

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"A flying-disc - or ·an · equivalent b~tb-tubo- s·hape'd . o'b"je'ct :~&o ·vris:: ·seen~··yes­tarday at a great altitude o\-er the Gua.n.a.bara Bay,:: ."t!:( ;~ ·.~o·~·~.~~~.~9J ·~- C.ro~d· · .: tbat gathered on the two extremes of the Bay •. Rio ·ana· N1t·aroi·,- 't-o 'wsttch:: J:be:.. twee~ ~azed!' ~d sc::az:ed the strange body z i g-zag:..ng for more t han half an) · · .: hour CI}Scribing arcs of 35 degrees ,. .A:fter that time several·, m>~~;i9-.f..~ ~~fft.e.d planes took off trying to reach to object which s eem ;t~ · .. b.~ .-o.v.el(~. ·the· ¥a.~k.e:t Place and Place xv. But soon the object got more altitude and disappeared • The apparition of strange objects in the skies of Rio de Janeiro were also

J ob.:3erved last Tuesday (August 20th) , when the eoarcb-lights of ships in the · : · ha.::..~bor:· ;· th·e ·· airport· and. the Sao Joao Fortress tried' to locate a· body seemin-

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" Trying to get official confirmation of the mentioned facts; the reporter interviewed Colonel Adamastor Co.ntalice 9 c~o. of the Gal eao Base , who said faconically that from l)is Base no aircraft took off to pursue the ob'jects . .. . . a nd that he knew nothing e.bout the saucers. He aC.ded that from the Calabou9o Airport no military uircrci.ft ' took off¥ because the r e are no milita ry aircraft there, (He:r-e he is quite mistaken" The::-e 1 s plenty of rnili tary· aircraft in the Ce.labou9o Airport.· .h.di tor) o

"In the section of a.ircraft of the '!'ti rd .Aerio.l Zone , the reporter found out that on Aupst 29tP.- g8(}estay) a flying disc made its app~ara.nce on e.n a l­titude compufe ~o be 1, met ers by the Santos Duffiont Airport. At once ~be search lights from ships (war- ship ~) a t the ·Navy Yard of Ilha das Cobras , and Sao Joao Fortress were tra ined ove r the object and zeroed it for a few

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.::_ ' .. "Tha ·saucer -o'f yesterday appea reO. about '.15t30 (18:30 GMT). Sev:el' al people _·:. :iho· wen a:tJout .ta .board the ferry boa if 'to Ni teroi saw a . great crowd in: the - .

· p~er all commenting aboUt . fiying s·a.ucers." Soon. a.tte-zc: a.~ fe~r3'•.'bG>at :ia'rri"ing :~·, . f"rom Ni teroi' brought all . passenger .s commenting about ... a fiying·-·aauc-er -.they had

• I ' see~ at 15:35 ' (18{35 :GMT) over 'the Bay entrance . During th.e 25 minu·tes ·trip to llio the . passenger's saw the object zig-zaging (or . oscillating? Ed.) swiftly,

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No Case (Information Only) 21 August 1957 Los Angeles, California "Little Man Report"

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fornia reported vratching a - remarkable display of UFOs. Among the witnesses was Mr .. Warner Little, his 1vife , three teen-aged sons, and his eight-year-old daughter San­dra, who first told of seeing the objects . Running into the house early in the even­ing, she told her mother a There are t~·:o eyes looking at me f rom the sky! 11 Mrs. Little washing dishes, paid no attention., She then told her father, who was in the bedroom9 He looked out of the west vr.i.ndorT and saw that there ·:rere tvro bright , round discs high in the s!<y. Directly behind them were two jets, recognizab!.e by their exhaust trails. The time was exactly 7~19 p~m. 1tr. Little r~~ outside, but he could no longer see the objects, although the jets were still visible.

Thinking there was a chance that the UFOs might return, Mr. Little returned to the house and got his telescope . The scope, a Bushnell , has a 60-mm. objective of 910 mm. focal length; he was using a 30-power eyepiece.

As he was setting up the telescope in the yard, Mrs. Little pointed up: "Here come two more of them~" While V.r . Little "as sighting the scope on these two obj ects, approaching slowly from the southeast, someone else called out: "Look straight up-­there's a whole fleet of them!" Actually, four more objects were visible near the zenith; no one had seen them arrive. The two from the southeast joined them and stopped.

The six objects were grouped in pairs : two were to the east of the zenith, two to the west, and the remaining tvro to the south . Although they ''/ere hovering ffiOtionless, each appeared to be rotating upon its own axis . All were inclined at a slight angle toward the center of the formation. Presently all six began revolving in a circular motion around the zenith; this t!ontinued for about five minutes . As they circled, s till in pairs, they rocked slowly back and forth toward the center of the circle; this peculiar motion enabled the observers to oee the upper portion of each object. They were carefully viewed through the telescope . All were identi­cal: they vrere solid-appearing, vrith clearly defir.ed edges , and on the top of each object was a pronounced dome-like protuberance . This dome was not rounded, but ap­peared more "angular," and blended in smoot-hly with the disc-like base of the obj ects. The overall resemblance to a Mexican sombrero was striking. The thickness of the objects vras about one-t\'Tentieth of the diameter . To the naked eye, the diameter of each object was about equal to the diameter of a cigarette held at arm 's length (about the same as the full moon) • At intervals, one of the objects would be seen to emit a s_mal 1 pn ff, of smoke .. !r.QO ..i:t.s i.J:aj 1 i ng ,..edge; this smoke dispersed quickly. It was noted that only one member of each pair did this .

When the objects finally began moving away, they did so at a moderately slow speed . Two· made a right angle to the east; the other four moved to the north as a close group. Mr. Little was tracking one of the t vro objects in the )east, while his eldest son ·watched through the eyepiece of t he scope, when they saw the color change from a silver to a red, then orange, glow. The color change began at the base of the "super-structure" on top . The top of the 11 super- structure , 11 as well as the edge of the disc, appea~d to turn black .

At this point, the ci~r.-centered on the cross hairs of tr.e eyepiece at the time- st:.ddenly vanished., Lool<i '1g up , Ur . Li ttle saw that it hA.d vanished entirely from view. The rest of tr.a '~'--~·i:,n~s::P.s cor ..firmed that all of the objects had disap­peared instantaneousl y . M.c .. Li ttle checl~ed ·t.be time: it v:as 7 :40p.m. (Sunset that day was about 7: LIS . ) He w.zr.Eld.i.atelJ.' call€d ·i:, he Pasadena Air Defense Center, but got a "no comment1' ):'ep1y #

':,hile t:,e Lit.-r,les ·;re;:-3 .,a~ching t.he objec~s f rom their yard, the aerial dis ­play was also bei ng obs~rv ··<l, inde~andently, by their neighb~rs, M;;-. &. Mrs. John Iseli, and Mrs . I ::eli 1 s ~other. Hr .. Iseli_, a former skE'Iptic, r eversed his opinions abruptly after seeing the strange objects . They confirmed pracisely ,.1hat the Littles had reported.

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We are indebted to CSI members Idabel Epperson and Jackie Sanders, who ob­tained the details directly from the two families. In addition, they interviewed at least six other witnesses, including:

An elderly lady n~ed Mrs . Fromm, l iving about two blocks from the Littles, who spotted the objects as she watered her l awn.

Mrs. Eugene Jones, who was in the back yard of her home, a mile away, when she noticed them.

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas F. Rogers, also of Whittier, vrho, l'rith a guest, were having a barbecue supper when they saw what they thought vrere three ob,jects (Living four miles from the Littles, t hey apparently mistook the pair ed objects, as described by the Littl es, for single objects. They did not have the benefit of using bino­culars or telescope).

Mr. Don T. Frost, who lives in River a--6 miles away. He was with his l ittle daughter watching planes in the s~0J when they behel d the aerial minuet.

Another Rivera resident--who flatly refused to have his name printed--was sitting on his patio . He was so shaken by what he savr that it wasn't until a day or so later that he told his wife about i t--after he learned a neighbor had seen ---the same phenomenon.

Mrs . Epper son added that a t riangul ation of the various reports ·was made; it indicated an alti tude of 2, 300 f eet.

One intriguing aspect of this affoi~-and perplexing as well--i s the reported abrupt disappearance of the objects . The Research Section has at l east two other cases in its files in vthich unidentified aerial objects have exhibited this s ame unorthodox behavior.

The first--a dayM.me sighting--took place near LaFayette, New York in Uay, 1946. Two young men wer e driving nort,h toward Syracuse i n an open convertible when they savr a large, metallic cylinder with sharply pointed ends, poised motion­less in a cl ear sky northwest of their position. After watching the phenomenon-­this was a year before "flying saucers" whirled into view- for several minutes, it abruptly nnd inexplicably vanished f r om sight .

The second incident occurred on ths ~t~ht of December 9, 1955, on the Jersey Turnpike near Teterboro Airport . A l~~inous green bullet-sl~ped object with two brilliant "portholes" on the slde w:ts seen to cross t he Turnpike as a low altitude and at close range, and t hen to disappear.

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Dr~ Olavo .Fpntes from ,.Hio de Janeiro, Jp.ndly sent a ·'cl ' _ng corr oborati,ng . . . the . s ng ov~r .Vi to ria on August 30 and printed ugust }t by ".A Tribuna".• The clipping . • "A. big -lum{nous .bo!ii - .a :flying disc .. ...: .leaving a bright:'. blue-green 1irail )>eh1. a ··seen a urday by se-v~ra:l . p_eopl~ in .Vi tori. a. 'l'he · strange round "aix:pra;ft" fle ow over the Convent: of 1-'e~a, and 11i th great .speed disappeal;'e·d near ai,rpo.rt·~. ·A.mo wi i!pesses are Messe:z::s August Aze-vedo·, Lei tenant · Gasliro, .MagJlO. ~a Silva., · 1. · Oliveira, Cezar -Neves, Virgilio .so . _e:td,.· Jose Ct»'los .R.oP.rigues Vale., Silvio Castro and the nuns of , red Heart· .of Mary. (Sat.~rday was August 31st. Ed.). ...

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~ ·::CPDV: i~ also . i~deb·t~d to Dr. :Ola~o Fo.nt~s .:b~! .the foliowing i t .ems about ~aucers 0Va'!razil f . , • • • ·.. • , 1 , • • !

Fr-~"0 Globo" September 5th. "Roberto Augusto Menescal Campos, student of · ··. ·:­.tba Ouro "het.o .Metallurgy School told the reporters that he saw in ~''Sky co- · ming f rom th~~t~, a mysterious lUmi nous body, round in shape ._...,1-t' cou.ld be des­.9.7i.b~.~ a~ a ,~ta~~th~~h . its light was OJ,~al e scent o.nd its s_-9-eed w:as tremendous. "It' was about '1.8:"30. ~1,30 GMT) at th~ sunset on the eveni~of August 24th. The

I wi_-tjt~a·s : · ~a~~ the .'~ra~t · ~fifs4~ · up ~d ~o~ mo~ioris on a s_;t;.x1dght line·i -:'±1i ~as noi­sel~ss .. azfd ~e·ft ~o ·trail. ~1;:o·m :I~amarandiba;· ·the ·~oANI (Uivi~i·an Saucer In-vEtl:iti~at'ion .. 'Ceri.tej-··of ·unicten ti~d Flying Object -reeel:ved ·1nfomation·· that· two rsli""ablo~ .. fitine:~ ·$e's ··bad· 'st;~en over -tw~ oi ty t . flying· objects whfch" answered the

11t3'9cfiptio_ti}3' :gEiii.e'rli~~Y' made e.b~u-c sauce~ -, is was' the ·secoryd~ time ·tba.t t"ownship ./wae , db·se·rv~d· by sauoers .. ·the "first ·b ei on~~y 14th ' this year at 17:40 -~20:40

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24th · ,e:bout:1the. same ·time, two nieh objects ·were se-e~ over the Pedra Branca . . . ~· ~ ·

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Lt. John B. Greene 216 N. Calle Santa. Rosa Pabn Springs, Cali!orni~

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16 Sept. 1957 LAS CIIIIUCIES, H . M .

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Thank you !or the communication of your very interesti.:lg ob3ervation. Evid~ntly, it was no !<nown astronomical obje ct. It i s rem3.rkable that an object of auch small angular dimenaion would be brighter tha.n the moon -hence, the source of its light must have been from some high temperature of ita own and not reflection of any light.

Unfortunately, 1 waa not home when you tried to c.1.ll me. U the object were as high as 50 milas or more, it would hava been visible from Las Cruces in the low southwest, and we would have been able to measure its height by p~ ra:lax.

I shall send a copy o£ your l ett~r to my friend, C r. J. Alle n Hynek, a.t the Smithaonian .1\~ttJ.Oophysical Observatory at Cambridge, Mas 3achuaetts. Until recently, he cond"cted an analysis of re~ported observed .obj~cts of thh kind while he was pro.fassor at Ohio State Univ~rsity where he had a contract to study such re_9orts. I am sure that he will be oympathetic and he may be able to o.f!er a plan of action.

\ The object you witnessed certainly ought to receive !lOme scientific

an~lysis. I! som~ other observe r within llJO mile3 also saw it, it ~ould pro-vide important information on height, absolute magnitude, etc. \

Encloaed ia a copy of an account of the strangest s ight I have •vi t:l..!33ed . Y :>U m .1.y k~ep lt .

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