---------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================ PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD -- TRANSCRIPTION File: xxxx-xx-8773664-KellyAFB-Texas.pdf Transcribed by Claude Sonnet 4.6 for GlitchyMatrix.com/bluebook/ ================================================================ FIELD 1 -- DATE: 14 August 1952 (Confirmed by multiple questionnaires; date field on record card partially obscured in scan; archive file classified as date unknown) FIELD 2 -- LOCATION: Kelly AFB, Texas (San Antonio, Texas per questionnaire location fields) FIELD 3 -- DATE-TIME GROUP: Local approx. 1345-1445 CST (1:45 PM per witness 1; 2:00 PM per witnesses 2 and 3; all CST Standard / approx. 1945Z) FIELD 4 -- TYPE OF OBSERVATION: Ground-Visual [X] (All 5 witnesses confirm outdoors observation) Ground-Radar [ ] Air-Visual [ ] Air-Intercept Radar [ ] FIELD 5 -- PHOTOS: No FIELD 6 -- SOURCE: Military (5 USAF airmen, Kelly AFB) FIELD 7 -- LENGTH OF OBS: Approximately 30 seconds to 1 minute (record card: 1 minute; one questionnaire: 30 seconds; certainty: certain) FIELD 8 -- NUMBER OF OBJECTS: One FIELD 9 -- COURSE: Straight horizontal trajectory; observers facing generally north; motion sketches consistently show left-to-right lateral pass; probable W-to-E or NW-to-SE track (field partially illegible on record card) FIELD 10 -- BRIEF SUMMARY: Dull white color. Round. FIELD 11 -- COMMENTS: [Blank on record card] FIELD 12 -- CONCLUSIONS: [ ] Was balloon [ ] Probably balloon [ ] Possibly balloon [ ] Was aircraft [ ] Probably aircraft [ ] Possibly aircraft [ ] Was astronomical [ ] Probably astronomical [ ] Possibly astronomical [ ] Other: _______________ [ ] Insufficient data for evaluation [ ] Unidentified [Note: Field 12 checkboxes are partially illegible in scan. No clear markings determinable at available image resolution. No formal investigation letters, spot reports, or ATIC evaluation worksheets are present in this file -- only the record card and five observer questionnaires.] Form: ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52) Supplemental docs: Five completed Observers Questionnaires (Sections A through E with position/motion/shape sketches) from five USAF airmen, Kelly AFB, Texas. Individual questionnaire reference numbers partially visible in right margins (e.g., "5119-11," "1-6119-2"). Witnesses are male airmen, ages approximately 21-35, occupations include electrician; all names and addresses redacted. All five confirmed the sighting at question 29.1 (others present and also observed the object). ================================================================ SEARCH INDEX TERMS ================================================================ Kelly-AFB Texas San-Antonio Bexar-County 1952 August-14 8773664 military airmen five-witnesses ground-visual dull-white round circular no-sound straight-horizontal high-speed 500mph 600mph 5000-feet 6000-feet daylight clear-sky afternoon 1950s automobile-size small-airplane-size observers-questionnaire ================================================================ CASE ANALYSIS -- Claude Sonnet 4.6 ================================================================ THE OFFICIAL CONCLUSION ----------------------- Field 12 is not legible in this scan, and no formal investigation letters, spot reports, or ATIC evaluation worksheets are present in the file. The record is limited to the record card and five observer questionnaires. The absence of follow-up documentation suggests the case received minimal or no investigative attention beyond collecting the initial questionnaires -- either it was quietly filed, additional documents were not included in the declassified release, or the investigation was never pursued to conclusion. WHAT THE EVIDENCE SHOWS ----------------------- Five USAF airmen at Kelly Air Force Base independently observed an aerial object on the afternoon of 14 August 1952, between approximately 1345 and 1445 local time. The sighting occurred in broad daylight under clear to scattered-cloud skies with a slight breeze and hot, dry conditions -- a high-visibility environment. All five witnesses were outdoors at the time. Every questionnaire describes the object identically: dull white, round. One witness drew a simple circle on the shape sketch with an arrow indicating direction of motion and labeled it "just a round object." Others left the shape sketch blank or drew similar circles. No witness described fins, windows, exhaust, contrail, or any identifying features. The object moved in a straight, level, horizontal trajectory across the sky. Position and motion sketches across all questionnaires consistently show the object appearing high (at or near overhead for most witnesses), then departing in a lateral straight-line path toward the horizon. All show the path as essentially horizontal with no arcing or erratic motion. Duration was 30 seconds to 1 minute. Object disappeared gradually as it receded. Two witnesses who provided specific distance and speed estimates gave notably consistent numbers: - Witness A: ~6,000 feet altitude, ~7,000 feet distance, ~600 miles per hour; size of a small airplane - Witness B: ~5,000 feet altitude, ~5,500 feet distance, ~500 miles per hour; size of an automobile Both rated their certainty on altitude and speed as "not very sure" or "just a guess," appropriate epistemic humility for naked-eye distance estimates. No witness reported sound. No smoke, odor, or light was noted. No changes in direction or speed were described. Most witnesses answered "don't know" when asked their opinion on what the object was. POINTS OF INTEREST / WHAT GIVES ME PAUSE ----------------------------------------- Five independent military observers at one of the USAF's major Air Materiel Area facilities giving identical descriptions on their questionnaires is the core strength of this case. Personnel at Kelly AFB in 1952 would have been thoroughly familiar with the military aircraft of the era -- the F-86 Sabre, B-47, C-124, and other types would have been routine sights. Their consistent judgment that this object was unusual carries proportionate weight. The speed estimates of 500-600 mph fall within the upper range of contemporary jet aircraft, and that's the most natural mundane explanation for the object. A fast-moving aircraft at roughly 5,000-6,000 feet altitude could appear round if seen from certain angles and could traverse the observable sky in under a minute. But two details resist this interpretation. First: no sound. At an estimated distance of 5,500-7,000 feet, a jet aircraft at 500-600 mph is subsonic, and its engine noise would reach ground observers with a delay of roughly five seconds -- well within the 30-60 second observation window. Multiple witnesses noted no sound. Second: the shape. Every witness consistently describes a round, white object -- not the expected planform of any 1952 aircraft type. The circular sketches with no appendages (wings, tail, fuselage) across five independent drawings are striking. If any of the witnesses had recognized the object as an aircraft silhouette, even an unusual one, that recognition would have appeared in the questionnaires. Kelly AFB was also an active flight test and research facility area in 1952, which introduces the possibility of a classified test aircraft or experimental vehicle, though such programs would typically be identified through internal channels rather than leaving civilian-process case files. The lack of any formal follow-up in the file -- no spot report, no investigation letter, no ATIC worksheet, no teletype -- is itself notable. A five-witness observation of an anomalous object at a major USAF installation in 1952 should have generated more than five questionnaires. The sighting falls inside the summer 1952 wave -- the same wave Ruppelt described in real time as arriving at double the prior year's rate, the same wave that produced the Washington Nationals incident five weeks earlier. ATIC was underwater in August 1952; minimal follow-up on a five- witness Kelly AFB case is more explicable in that context. BOTTOM LINE ----------- Five military observers at Kelly AFB in broad daylight described a dull white, perfectly round object moving in a straight horizontal line at high speed with no sound, giving mutually consistent descriptions and speed and altitude estimates that roughly cohere. The aircraft hypothesis fits the speed but not the shape or the silence. No other conventional explanation accounts for all reported elements together. The absence of any formal investigative follow-up left this case underdeveloped -- and whether that reflects a decision to quietly file it or a gap in the archive is unclear. The description is a close match for what later observers and documents would call a "tic-tac" style object: white, ovoid, silent, no visible propulsion, moving at speed in a straight line. ================================================================ https://glitchymatrix.com/bluebook/ GlitchyMatrix Project Blue Book Archive All 10,808 declassified USAF UFO case files, 1945-1969 ================================================================ ----------------------------------------------------------------