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Incidentally I have found the Blue Book report, #4517 1957-05-6790366-EdwardsAFB-California May 2 1957.
https://archive.org/details/1957-05-6790366-EdwardsAFB-California/mode/2up
There are several photocopies of the photographs in this report, none of them show anything larger or more detailed than a match-head.
The names of the witnesses (James Bittick and Jack Gettys) are redacted, and Gordon Cooper's name does not appear.
One interesting point is that there were about 40 photos taken, and the camera they were using only took photos at one second intervals, so this was not really a movie film.
Cooper claimed to have looked at the negatives of these photos, which must have been tiny, and he based all his account of a landing and so on on this viewing. Bittick and Gettys only describe the object as moving overhead - no landing.
I find this page interesting - a track of a balloon launched that morning, compared with the position of the observers.
https://archive.org/details/1957-05-6790366-EdwardsAFB-California/mode/2up
There are several photocopies of the photographs in this report, none of them show anything larger or more detailed than a match-head.
The names of the witnesses (James Bittick and Jack Gettys) are redacted, and Gordon Cooper's name does not appear.
One interesting point is that there were about 40 photos taken, and the camera they were using only took photos at one second intervals, so this was not really a movie film.
Cooper claimed to have looked at the negatives of these photos, which must have been tiny, and he based all his account of a landing and so on on this viewing. Bittick and Gettys only describe the object as moving overhead - no landing.
I find this page interesting - a track of a balloon launched that morning, compared with the position of the observers.