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Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010002-9 Comments: Project Blue Book concluded, that it was the release of a barium cloud from an upper atmospheric research rocket launched from Fort Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, at 10:39 CDT. The barium was released shortly before the rocket reached 250 miles altitude. Artificial cloud first appeared with a brilliant red color followed by and ending with greenish- blue. Objective was to measure electric fields and winds in upper atmosphere by photographing and tracking the movement of the ionized barium clouds. The phenomena was visible for several hours and for hundreds of miles, depending on the altitude. Project Blue Book said that as the cloud was expanding it would have appeared to be approaching an observer at a tremendous rate of speed. Being 600 miles from the airplane sighting, it would have appeared to pace the plane, officials said. Time/Place of sighting: January 23, 1965 at 8:40 a.m. Williamsburg, Va. Duration: 25 seconds. Number of observers: Two Silvery object with pipe-like projections, “like periscopes,” was description given of this object by 12-year-old Connecticut boy who took the photo. Type of observer: Male, 31. Other unknown. Observer reliability: Unknown. Shape: Like a mushroom or light bulb. Dimensions: About 75 to 80 feet in height; 25 feet in diameter at top; 10 feet at bottom. Color: Metallic gray with red-orange glow on near side and blue glow on far side. Sound: Similar to a vacuum cleaner. Altitude: About four feet off ground. / Speed: Hovering, then moved off horizontally. Tactics: Object was observed hovering for about 25 seconds before it moved off horizontally and disappeared. Comment: Observer said he first noted the object after his car stalled. He told an investigating officer he thought the object was a solid object and thought it was an air vehicle belonging to the Air Force. Another ' witness said his car also stalled and he saw the object. The Air Force says possible causes include mirage and a descending weather balloon, but since no conclusive evidence can establish the identity of the object it is carried as unidentified. Time/Place of Sighting: March 8, 1965 at 7:40 p.m. Mt. Airy, Md. Duration: Three minutes. Number of observers: Three Type of observer: Instrument maker, 51; his son, age unknown, and another boy. Number of objects: Six. Observer reliability: Unknown. Shape: Three pairs of lights, like the tail fins of a 1958 Ford; like a flying wing, or a dirigible or blimp sideways with three pairs of red lights along it. Dimensions: Size of a dirigible or blimp. Color: Red lights, like a traffic signal. Altitude: 100-500 feet. Speed: About 20 miles an hour. Sound: None. Tactics: Six red lights estimated to be about 1200 feet away moving about 20. miles an hour toward the northeast.in a straight line toward hills two miles away. Observers continued on next page Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010002-9