Category 8 Photographic Evidence

Brad Sparks:
May 2, 1957.  Edwards AFB, Calif.  6:55-7:20 a.m. (PDT).  James D. Bittick and John R. Gettys, Jr., civilian phototheodolite operators, were driving by truck to Askania Site #4 when they sighted an object above them about 500 yards away.  They radioed a report to their supervisor Frank Baker who told them to set up the camera and try to film the object, which they did after about 10 mins.  They photographed what they described as a golden luminous domed-saucer shaped object with holes or ports around the dome about 100 ft in diameter about 1 mile in the distance to the N headed E (photos show multiple? objects).  Available phototheodolite frames 614, 620 and 651 (609 too blurred, cutoff) show azimuth 10°28' elevation 2°24' shifting E to azimuth 40°30' elevation 1°0'.  Disappeared at about 5 miles.  Possible jet fighter interception.  [Possible weather balloon with slow leak, explanation denied by Edwards AFB Colonel Klein (sp?) analyzing actual tracking of balloon and wind direction.]  (Tom Tulien;  Jan Aldrich;  McDonald 1968 pp. 75, 85;  Loren Gross Mar-May 1957 pp. 67-68;  IUR Oct 2005) 25 mins 2 witnesses 8 Full Moons? photo-theodolite