SIGHTING OF UNUSUAL OBJECT

• Document Type: FOIA
• Keywords: UFO SPECIAL COLLECTION
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005516056
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: June 24, 2015
• Document Release Date: January 31, 2011
• Case Number: F-2010-00651
• Publication Date: December 16, 1960

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bATEt 16 December 1960
svslsrr: Bighting of Unusual Object
1. If the USAF Is still i.nteretxted in-unidentified ob
be interested in. the - following -recort given to us
2. 'At about 6:54-pn Nednesdey, 14 Deter }fa0, I had the isdio on _and
was listening to a pro gram~the.second three star. report which would fix-the exact
time). I looked out to the left (about due east) and saw an. object.. that -looked -- -
like a meteor except that it was. extremely-large and almost like- a disc, - not like
c point of light. It vass_a.greenish limit (just o~ ate), but g and quite
visible to me. I may not have-picked It-up aasoon aa_ it appeared -but it
visible to me at, an angle of_an elevation. of about .50 to S5 degrees. and it crone doyn
to within about 20 degrees elevation. Of-course it. Is-impossible to estimate
distance as I didn't knov_vhat I was looki.ng.at,m-_lirst impression xos_tt:at_it
would land In the Detroit River.-It-was. soon at- sn11e:.to_the-vertical of about
10 degrees, running off_to_the_ rig =Cr. the south.... It eventually burned out before
it got to the ground. The thief Vhich astonished me about it-vas that-it is not
t meteorite season end it vas.much-bigger-than -anything_I:hW_e~ter:"seen.-_Itvas
definitely Incandescent, and of a very-high temperature
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3. "During MY clue-a-little titer I asked'iL.4any of. tbe_students_bad-_seeu
this.ob ect. Out of 25-in the class,
was the-only one who saw . it. Fk-siid he vas-doing east-on Hi~oes ve.
He thought it was going to lend eVXhe end _ot. Hines Drive.' Rirsea - DF'iv~e rruans .seat
and vest. Ile-said be was about =tvo_or_thkee=miles=vest ot` Tel&a1h_Arid when-asked
about where It vas--in-to -landbe-said about Tcle
Co g gxeph Telegr6lb fs -a ut three
miles vest of where Ivas, so= that meazis hi. judged that it was-closei.--:This- error
in his estimate verifies-that it must have bean a sizeable object because it was
east of me and It looked big to W. - He. said he vas-drivinkfatrly-fast ..when be saw.
it, but had exactly the same -impressionJ-di
4. "Another student
who vu not in my class last night, said be. saw it. ho ver,-Rine not had
opportunity to question him.
5. 'This was not flying saucer atuff. I say. that only in the sense that- I -
have 'worked all my life e-vitb high temperatures...- I am a doctor here in dynamics and
physics and I know a high temperature vheu I ace it._ That's why I would say the
Abject was way up in temperature. I thought it might be related to some part of a
missile or something similar. _ It was _ g lbg at a high_vmlocity and had to- in -order -
to reach the temperature it was at."
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