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f dt . j "TT * Office Memorandum TO | raom AP ‘roman. 6 Cho C). UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT :s Mr. A. &. peter ty paTE; September 23, 1957 R. RR. noon”? Po SUBJECT: murpewrrrren- FLYING OBJECT REPORTED wl, ON_ SEPTEMBER 20, 1957; INTELLIGENCE A ow ADVISORY COMMITTEE OWATCH COMMITTEE : t per mae. The following information was obtained by Liaison [mont i “Mohr Farsone Rosen Totam Trotter Nease ?. ¥*” Tele. Room — v Holloman —~ Gandy i Supervisor M.¥. Kuhrtz at the Intelligence Advisory Committee - Watch Committee: special meeting on September 21, 1957, relative to captioned matter. the The initial report in this matter was given by the U.S. Atr Defense Command to the White House on September 20, 1957, seo flandtinn thet an unidandtT 124 ST astra ahiant wane niankad oun tee? adie *7 station at Montauk Point, Long Island, New York, at approrimately 4 psm., proceeding in a westward direction with an altitude of 50,000 feet and a speed of 2,000 knots hour). approrimately 9 minutes. (approrimately 2300 miles per The radar station at Montauk Point maintained an tmage for approrimately one minute, and thereafter it was picked up by a radar station at Benton, Pennsylvania (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania), which coincided witn the Montauk Point pickup and.was tracked by. Benton for radar stattons westward as far ne Chicnadce, : 4ECTIRG tat Gh URPOEATIP Lea Fiying Ooyect wos prcrkéea UP oy radar wie ere we er Mier ey ws The Watch Committee at its meeting on September 21 Thereafter, jamming was reported by several was told by the Atr Defense Command that the original reports had been down- graded, various radazt stations, and further that weather -stations: area were of the type which have tn the past produced false radar "pips" and electronic information. Also, there were-a number of Strategic.Atr Command planes in the Chicago area ona tratning flight. The Watch Committee was told that the Air Defense Command has not completed its investigation of this incident; however, in any event tt, was reported that the phenomena reported west of Buffalo, New York, were not related to the object as Teported by Montauk Potnt and Penton, Pennsylvania, tmprobab] that a Soviet operation ts responsible for the untdentiftied slying J object reports of September, 1957," stnce there was an Il-minute break in the tracking by the The Watch Committee concluded that, "It is highly The Watch Committee in conside in the ing this matter also cancluded that there is no intelligence on Soviet a panna which can be related to a missile launching of mare (ery an : ar. Med (9 AECORDED -B inti AG VS i | 2 "= Mr. Belmont ‘- WNDERED * © tT 1 - Ur. ¥.C. Sullivan Ag \N " SEP 27 1957 1 - xer.D.k. Hoore a ar eee 25 Gi Arigigon, aay” > AS V4 8 gr Ube) fun " o.