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FEDERAL AVIATION AGENCY Redmond Oregon, Jan, 15, 1960 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERK, The following in the origins] records on file at thia factlity and is 41] the information contained in this record concerning ee sighted September 24, 1959, Taken from log of this date. 12592 Robert Dickereon Redmond city police reported strange bright light descending rapidly north of the station, At several hundred feet it stopped and hovered for several minutes, He drove toward it on the Prineville highway and turned in toward the airport, At this time the light turned orange and it moved to the northeast of the station very rapidly, Kelocated epproximately 10 miles northeast of the station estimated 3000 feet. 13108 Reported object to Seattle Air Route Control Center, We continued to observe UFO, Stayed very steady and projected long tongues of red, yellow and green light, These tongues of light varied in length and extended and retracted at irregular times, Observed high speed aircraft approaching from southeast. As aircraft approached UFO took shape of mushroom, observed long yellow and red flame from lower side as UFC rose rapidly and disappeared above clouds estimated 14,000 feet, scattered layer, UFC reappeared south of Kkedmond approximately 20 miles estimated 25,000 feet, Seattle Air Koute Control Center advised radar contacted UFO at 14202 located 25 miies south of Redaond at 52,000 feet, No further sightings made at this station, 15112 Seattiea Air Route Control Center advised UFO still 25 miles south of Redmond, various altitudes from 6,000 to 52,000 feet, L.E, Davis Chief, edmond Air Traffic Communication Station, OLDEN MOORE At the height of the November, 1957, ‘‘flap,’’ [See Section XII], a resident of rural Montville, Ohio, had a close-range sighting of a UFO. The report quickly spread to newspaper reporters, area Civil Defense officials and others. The witness, Olden Moore, stated that not only was he interrogated by representatives of the Federal Government, but also he was taken to Washington, D.C., and questioned repeatedly over a three-day period. At the con- clusion, he was sworn to secrecy. After more than three years’ observance of this, he decided the need for revealing his story superceded the need for secrecy, so he told his story to newspaper reporter Don Berliner, then of the Painesville (Ohio) Telegraph, on Jan. 21, 1961. Moore stated that, witnin two weeks of the sighting, he was taken to Youngstown (Ohio) AFB by car, then to Wright-Patterson AFB by heliconter, and from there to an air base within 20-30 minutes drive of Washington, D.C. (probably Andrews AFB) in a small Air Force transport plane. At all times he was ac- companied by two government representatives. During his stay in Washington, he was quartered in a hotel- like room with one of the government men, who impressed Moore as being there for the purpose of keeping an eye on him. Ques- tioning and interviewing took place in the basement of.the building in which he stayed. (The U.S. Court House fits the description. Upstairs are hotel-like jury rooms; in the basement are many offices, including those of U.S. Marshals.) The only time he was permitted to leave the building prior to departure was for a brief guided tour of some historic and scenic areas (which proved highly impressive to one who had never before seen the Nation’s Capital.) The interrogation, according to Moore, was not so mucha question-and-answer session, as a corroboration by him of details of his experience, i.e. ‘‘was the thing you saw a such-and-such?’’ His answer, in almost every instance, was affirmative. This led him to conclude that his questioners were less interested in learning what he had seen than in finding out how much he had detected. He said he got the definite impression that those asking the questions were quite familiar with what he had seen. At the end of the third day of questions, Moore was required to sign a statement promising never totellof his trip to Washing- ton. Upon returning home, all he_ would tell the O0T/04I( wa Approved For Release 2001 s what_ha 4/02 : CJA-RDP81RO0560R ; CIAFRDPBI BORSAARINQ100R 10001. otners else- where. His wife said he was taken to Washington, but Moore did not confirm this at the time. Don Berliner, who interviewed Moore in 1961, was highly impressed by his sincerity, lack of sensationalism, and his aware- ness of the seriousness of revealing information he had promised to keep secret. This material was not published by Mr. Berliner at the time because of its sensitive nature. However, Mr. Moore did offer to tell his story to any Committee or Subcommittee of Congress which might be interested. Allegedly, the Air Force (government spokesmen on this subject) has withheld nothing from the public. The implication of Moore’s story is that considerable information has been withheld. A Congressional inquiry into this matter would appear to be fully justified. The 1956 sighting of a huge disc by the crew of a Navy transport over the Atlantic [See Section IV] was followed by the personal visit to the aircraft commander by a government scientist. The man took a set of photographs out of a briefcase and showed them to the pilot, asking him to point out the object he saw. The Commander quickly identified one of the pictures as the machine he had seen, whereupon the unnamed scientist put the picture back, refused to comment further, and departed. {Report obtained by R. Adm. D. S. Fahrney, USN, Ret.]. The obvious implication of this incident is that someone in the government has considerably more information about UFOs than has been released by the Air Force. It tends to substantiate Olden Moore’s report. The Sheneman Case On Aug. 1, 1955, W. M. Sheneman, proprietor of a radio and TV store, arrived at his home near Willoughby, Ohio, (20 miles east of Cleveland). As he got out of his car, he saw a large circular object, with a red light on the front rim, descend rapidly over a nearby field. It stopped at an estimated 800 feet altitude and shot two beams of light toward the ground. As the glow illuminated the ground, Mr. Sheneman saw several ‘‘windows’”’ around the edge of the hovering disc. He fled into the house, but returned after a minute with his wife for another look. The craft had become dark and was hovering about 200 feet above the house; from this vantage point, he estimated its diameter at 80-100 feet. It then began to move away, revealing a dome on top lit by a white glow from within. Mrs. Sheneman reported hearing a soft humming sound. Following report of the incident to the Air Force in 1956, the Sheneman’s were visited by a major from ATIC, who told them they had seen a test of a Canadian Avro vertical-lift device de- veloped for the U.S. Air Force. To back up his claim, the officer displayed a glossy print purportedly showing the craft in flight. This was, in fact, an artist’s conception of what the Avro disc might look like, as the first example was not completed until 1959. The major tried for three hours to convince Mr. and Mrs. Sheneman that they had seen the Avro and to sign a statement to that effect, but they refused. While definitely resembling the public idea of a ‘‘flying saucer,’’ the 18-foot Avro VZ-9V failed to achieve its design performance of vertical take off and high-speed flight. Wind- tunnel and free-flight tests demonstrated that it would not fly out of ground effect, and was therefore limited to an altitude of several inches and top speed of about 35 mph. [5] The Kinross Case On the night of November 23, 1953, an unidentified flying object was detected over Lake Superior by Air Defense Command radar. An F-89C all-weather interceptor was scrambled from Kinross AFB, near the Soo Locks in northern Michigan. Guided by radar, the jet sped northwest across the lake on an intercept course. On the radar screen, ground controllers saw the F-89 close in on the UFO blip, and then the two blips merged and faded from the screen. From all appearances, the aircraft and the UFO had collided. No trace of the jet has ever been found. The last radar contact with the F-89 showed it to be at 8000 feet, 70 miles off Keeweenaw Point, and about 160 miles north- west of Soo Locks. Later, the Air Force reported that the “UFO’’ was identified by the F-89 as a Royal Canadian Air Force C-47. After identifying the friendly plane, the Air Force states, the F-89 turned back to base. From that time, ‘‘nothing of ened (is definite 6 6° information ly known,”’ Air 00100010001-