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e. Although I oould not aoourately judg• th• ti•, I 1eena to
recall the object or light wa■ Ti■ibl• tor a couple ot ■ econd■•
Taking thi ■ tigure literally and applying it to the ■ketch, Bo.· 2,
on• could roughly compute th• apeed ot the objeot at 1350 aphJ however,
I did not ■ enH that it wa■ aorlng with ■uoh great ■peed a ■ thi•. It
rather appeared to acwe with the •pe•d o t a jet-powered airplane. It
did not deviate tram a ■traight oour ■e While I ob■ernd it, and did not
perceptibly lo•• altitude.
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In color, the ■ubjeot had the appearance ot a retlected wh1te
light, a oool, bright white light with no red in 1t, like the naoon on a
olear night. Th•r• wa■ no train v1■1ble to -• in the torm ot fire,
■-oke, or ■para. The wather at the aaaumed time and date was checked
through record■ ot the BollinC Pield weather otf'ioe, and con■iated ot
acattered to broken clCNdl with v1a1bilitie■ ot 10 - 12 mil•••
1'h• cloud
condition 1• further indication that the object wa■ not nece■■arily a
•.teor, ■inoe it aigbt have been impoaalble to ••• a •teor. I do not
per■ onally re-lll>er th• ..ather condition, except that I am sure it wa■
not raining.
a. At th• ti- ot thia occurrence, I waa not incll.Ded to think ot
it ■-rioualy enough to wake ay wit• and deacribe it to her, nor by a~
reaaoalng to ll&b otticial r4port. Aa tiae paaaed, I thought considerably
about the neeting glimp■• I bad ot whatenr I ■aw, and aa ■till aomewhat
contuNcl, but teel that it waa acae natural phenomenon which occur■ but
rarely.
I have tlown appro:d.11m.tely 2500 how-a during th• put ~ ■-nn
year• and being 1•nerally tam.liar with a■peota ot a-nation -.n -phati­
oally atate that (a) •it wa■ no weather balloon, (b) it was not the tla1h or
a beacon on th• oloud-b&■-, (c) it could hardly have beon an airplane on
tire, ■inc• it would han at least caaahed in thia general area, (d) it
wa■
auo
not entirely a
h tiae in one place.
re■ult ot i•gination, and (e) it waa not ■pending
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JAIIES O. COBB
Lt Colonel, Air Corpe
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