FBI file 62-HQ-83894, section 9

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
deve loped 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 .