c 'IVV local 3 Oct 53 04/0lOOZ I. LOCATDI North Rome, Po ASTRO?X>MICAL: ARC~tJRUS Aretura at 5 deg elev, 295 deg az in position Sigbt~ ch~ncteristic of aatro body. to oet at 2000. 4. I 011 OIJICTI S. LIMOTM Ofl OIIIIVA 6. TY'I 011 OI.IVATIOM cround visual stationary t. PHYIICAL IYIDINCI ANDAMALYIII No sound, stationBrJ ornnge liBht pulsot1113, larger thun star, slight movem~nt in close area, observed on previous occaaiona. fTD (TDI) .. aelnt n t1 Cit It a r tills .UNCL~SSi t'li::D HMIIhiiMf 01 TMI All ITA-TI-l AIR FOICI aD D18TittCT OI'I'ICK 01' ... CIAL INYDTIOATION. 7a a. IOYII a1r1a TO I lb-t)-261. SUBJECT 1 (t'ncluad.f1ed) Unidentitlecl Object eeeD in the Air at 8aoo to 8a1Sp.a. on 10/'J/'53 at tJorth nc:.e 1'owalh1p, Bradtord count7, Peftn871YanJa SPECIAL DQJ .... L-t-Y !01 Cc.naa:ler Air 'eo!ntlcal. IntelU..DCe Center wrlpt.-Patte Air Porce Baae 1. !be llev Yo:rtc i'ield ottice, Federal Bureau ot Investigation, hu adriaed tbia. diatli.ct that Special qent HAROLD K. ALIEN, Jr., has ob- ta the following intormat.\OD troM Ir. U. S. DepartMent ot tabor, 21S 'iontague Street, Roon Sl2, Brooklyn, tlew York: atatect tbat while Yiai tq at North He.. Tollftahip, Br.Storcl Coaat7, l'ellft81'lwanla, be obMi'tad u un1dentitied object in the aq be Saoo and StlS P en October .3, 19S3. He advised that he aiptecl tbe object trcn outaide ot hia residence Mddl ia the tint haaae outside ot lilorth ROM TOWDahip on the road toward ~kine, Perma7lftrd.a. !he object appeared to be about two lllilea and 1D a nortbwaterl7 dinotion wJ. th approxl- aatel.7 titteen de1r alti ow_. the horizon. It appa arecl etatic:ma17 tint a!chted, but tllen etchtecl on a tixad object it vu tonal to be aideva,a Dd up ..., down in a clo area. It bow1ed in the air et1lar to a ullcopter. It appeared l .. pr than a at .. and vaa itti.Da an orange puleattns 11cht. It did not ollit my sOUDd nor waa there 8ft7 exhaust ete ect vaa n h-l-Ire. -adclreas, IDd also b7 and No Rome Township, Brad!ord Count7, Penaaylvania, R.l'.D. #S. They aU concurrt:d with what had Ncalled sseina the same object at afJJ)!"m:i,..&te17 the saM a on a 7ear preriouel7 J)UlJ Hi:\ L- u.lu IJNCLASSIFIED 2D ali File 24-o-261 Ltr toa COflllllanter, A'l'IC Subj t Unidentitlecl Object aeen in the Air Mrs. her husband that abe had observed the object in the eae location eenr&l. times previously thio a that a .. tello tlJina dbjeot vaa eeteral 7881'8 pre1~ 1D tppron..te~ the - area when he had the uD1dent1t1abl.e object on October ), 19SJ. stated that lw 1a available at the Uld.ted States Depart.Mnt ot Labor, 21!) Hontap Street, Broo~, tor any additio assistmce that he lld.ght 2. Jfo inveatigation ie contellplat.ecl by this district. 3 IDtoraation tnm1a lwd berewi th has ben derived tre aou rces otber thla tt. Departllent ot the rJ.r Force and, 1D accord~ce with para- ptaph St, AFR 20S.l, ination r.mat not be made wtaide USAF channels CCI Dlr 0SI "' anll in the absence ot HARRY a. l~'BEll District C r Jlel.,. "' tlte R.,.. 'l1le American Meteoritics Society, whose memlierl' s~elalize lrr the study of meteors and meteorites, for yean have corrected re- pods of such phenonKna. Frmn a large enough number of good deK't'iptlons of a given meteor, astrnnomPn carr analyze the data mathemattcaDy and dmamine the meteor's radiant-the point in the heavens from which It Rems to c.une. The meteor is then ldentt- 8ed by its radiant and given an AMS number. 'The data were pub- lished In Meteoritic, the journal of the socit.-t)', and thus made avaOable for future rewarch. The records of the society for the yean 1950 to 19551ist dozens of lrebaUs, many cJ the111 gaeen. that were somehow O\erlooked hy saucer enthusiasts. On August 11, 1950. during the maximum of the Peueid shower, a blue-green 8rc&a11 (A~IS 23.')6) apparently oval- or l'lgar-shaped, appeaml over \Vashington, Oregon, and Idaho at 7:30 "' and wus reported by more than 100 witllf'SSeS. So brilliant that it showed a noticeable disk, it ftcw in n horizontal path, silently broke into thl't"e pieces, and disap()f'al'f'<l [8. p . 379). Se(ltember 20, the snme rear, was a big day for met<.'On. At 1:35 A.M. a giant flreball (A~IS S326) ronred O\'er southNstem Illinois (rom north to south. lca\'lng a luminous train visible in 8ve ltates and illuminating the sky and countr)skle from St. Louts to Louisville and from ~femphls to Knox,ille. The 8nal detonation, over westean Kentucky, wu heard over an area 1000 miles square and shook buildings from Paducah to Memphis. Fragments show- ered farms 0\'er a twenty-&\~ mile area, struck &ve buildings, and penebated one roof. About &fty pounds of meteorites dropped In Calloway County, ICentucky, and are DOW ill the Smith- in Wuhinatoo. "l'bat ntlht about to:..s P.~ lrebalh were by plane crews lylnJ ewer a six-state ana- Idaho, \Vyomins, Utah, Colorado, Arizona. and New Mexico [g. p. 115). Similar Rrebulls that vunisl~without trace were reported ~ornat.i.on Onf.Y ,. J0 tcor Soci:~y _cr ,u~, -- Cturce: Americm ., . PI~KRALL 0F 1953 OCTOBER 7/8 On this date a bri ~.t firt'ball or bo :aJc wns otl crvcd nt 7:32p.m .. E .S.T., by W. G . lc .. r\'c:r at Nc:w ... vcn, Conn., SJ, . nd hy Lc:it h H o lo,o.3y, 1-hl:adc:lphla, Pa., S:l. The: whole path, w1th a d1aaram. wo.~s obtni:1cd nt Sl and p.lrt o f tht' p ath (rest ob ~eur~ by a buildin&) at S:l, where :;,~ p.'lth w01s o;1wn .. , Vtrt1cal. anJ coordinatt'a ntimatcd. At 51 1t waa nott'd a s bri:liant blue, n o IILt.n~ tro.~in, and that 1;. . Ploded at c:nd. At 5:2 it waa rt'cordt'J ns -5 or -6 m n.:mtudc, vc.:rt1cal p~tth, and that t he via1tJle part was traver~ed in J to 4 acconcJs. Aftt'r omc.: tn .. ;,. the fo::owin~ data wt're comput~. which however must b< <~;>pro"1mutc na only p.1n oi tht' path waa stcn at S:l. Sidereal time at t'nd point . 311 <> ~n&th of path (.) lcm Project~ ltn~tl': or path 63 km Radiant correcttd for zenath attract1vn a-257, h ol:.s" As the radiant ia o~:y appro:umau n o orbit is c.-omputl .. L N?'h'p tltil ,..t .. rei dat~ ia f4M1Dcl ill t!w HoffmcliUYan Nienl c.,.~ ....