Project Blue Book Archive

Page ID (PID)	MAXW-PBB11-407
Collection	NARA-Maxwell


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Roll Description	Maxwell Blue Book 11
Document Code	N/A

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MAXW-PBB11-407

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Place:-                                                                            u      ,

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About 7 miles north of Treraonton, Utah, on U.S. Highway No. 33#

Time:-

1110, Wednesday, 2 July 1952.

Camera:-

B&H Automaster, magazine load, 3" telephoto lens, 16 frames per second.
Handheld.

Exposure:-

First few feet - f:S. Balance - f:16. Clear sun, cloudless sky. EKCO
Kodachrome film - Daylight. Exposure was changed with the mistaken idea of
darkening the sky to gain greater contrast. The result was merely general
underexposure.                                                                        ,

BackgroundJ-

Driving from Washington, D.C., to Portland, Oregon, on the morning of
2 July, my wife noticed a group of objects in the sky that she could not iden-
tify. She asked me to stop the car and look. There was a group of about ten
or twelve objects that bore no relation to anything I had seen before, milling
about in a rough formation and proceeding in a westerly direction. I opened
the luggage compartment of the car and got my camera outwf a suitcase. Load-
ing it hurriedly, I exposed approximately thirty feet of fil. There was no
reference point in the sky and it was impossible for me to iiaice any estimate
of speed, size, altitude or distance* Toward the end one of the objects re-
versed course and proceeded away from the main group. I held the camera still
and allowed this single one to cross the field of view, picking it up again
and-repeating for 3 or k such passes. By this time all of the objects had
disappeared. I expended the balance of the film late that afternoon on a
mountain somewhere in Idaho.

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