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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
In Reply, Please Refer to
Detroit, Michigan
File No.
March 9, 1960
Re:
Unidentified Flying Object;
Joseph Perry, Grand Blanc,
Michigan -
Compl ainant
Mr . Joseph Ierry, 3079 Edwards Street, Grand Blanc,
Michigan, was contacted at his request by Agents of this office
on ~arch 5, 1960.
Hr . Perry advised that he operates a Pizza House
at 3075 Edwards Street, Grand Blanc , and that he has been a
professional photographer for thirty years .
He explained
that he has a hobby of taking photographs of the moon through
a home- made telescope .
At about 1:00 a .m. on February 21 ,
1960, he took some photographs of the moon and after ~eveloping
sa.me , he put them in his viewer and in one photograph he
observed what appears to be a flying object somewhere between
the end of his telescope and the surface of the moon .
He said
that when blown up, this object is flat on the bottom, is
oval shaped, and appears to have a fluorescent glow around
the entire object , and that it is apparently moving as it
has a vapor trail running behind it .
He has taken over one
thousand pictures of the moon and has never soen anything
resembling this object.
Perry said that due to his thirty years ' experience
in photogra,hy, he is sure that what appears on the picture
is actually a flying object, and is not a malfunction of the
camera, is not a blur on his telescope , and is not anything
that appears on the photo because of the manner in which he
developed the fi l m.
Perry took about twenty pictures of the
moon on February 21, 1960, and after developing them, he
observed that most of the pictures were under- exposed, so ho
just cut off the two that appeared to be properly exposed and
destroyed the rest .
He furnished both of those pictures to
the FBI .