3. DATETIME GROUP LENGTH OP'.OBSERVATION BRII!fl SUMMARY OP' SIGHTING Brilliant star close to bright~r t h a n Brillia nce const~nt. ATIC PORN JZ9 (REV 26 SEP 52) PROJECT' 10073 RECORD CARD 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS D Wos Balloon California D Probably Boli-n 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Possibly Balloon }t2'Ground-Visual 0 GroundRador 0 Wos Aircraft 0 Probably Aircraft 0 AI,.. Vi suol 0 A ir-Intercept Radar 0 Possibly Aircraft Opcultatic ~XWos Astronomico Saturn D Probably Astronomical 0 Possibly Astronomical e. NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9. COURSE 0 0 Insufficient Dota for Evaluation one on moon 11. COMMENTS Occultation of Saturn. NEW MEXICO COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND MECHANIC ARTS AD.IAC:&NT TO AND C:OOP'IUtATING WITH WHITE SANDS PROVING GROUND j_)_y_i>Jl PHYSICAL SCIENCE LABORATORY STATE COLLEGE, NEW MEXICO TI!LEP'HONCo LAS CRUCES, N. M . JAC:KIJON 6681 I The trJOI( botiiUJif# ~ k !It \,.,.. IOW1rd the a.llf It'"-._ twl ' lx-IDW is call_. ,\hh"'" ' ti ft.urth o:~nd tblf4 otlr""'~ . .-;w:t~'-. f J~ j!l dllt tt'o141f\ " 'l :rr, iJ S.~fbl' "'t polinon ,/ tM ~ No Case (Informa~ion Only) 20 August 1957 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil RIO JANEIRO ON AUGUS'l' ~ :::tn:defatigta.b~e~re. cher Dr. Olavo Fontes' has sent us another clipping. This time it's from "0 niario Carioc~ of .August: 24th 1957: "A flying-disc -oran equivalent b~tb-tubo-shape'd. o'b"je'ct:~&o vris::seen~yes tarday at a great altitude o\-er the Gua.n.a.bara Bay,:: ."t!:(;~ .~o . .~9J~-C.ro~d .: tbat gathered on the two extremes of the Bay . Rio ana N1taroi,-'t-o 'wsttch::J:be:.. twee~ ~azed!' ~d sc::az:ed the strange body z ig-zag:..ng for more than half an) .: hour CI}Scribing arcs of 35 degrees,. .A:fter that time several, m> ;i9-.f.. fft.e.d planes took off trying to reach to object which s eem ;t~ .. b.~ .-o.v.el(~. the a.~k.e:t Place and Place xv. But soon the object got more altitude and disappeared The apparition of strange objects in the skies of Rio de Janeiro were also J ob.:3erved last Tuesday (August 20th), when the eoarcb-lights of ships in the : ha.::..~bor:;the airport and. the Sao Joao Fortress tried' to locate a body seemin- gl~r at 1,000 meters. : "Trying to get official confirmation of the mentioned facts; the reporter interviewed Colonel Adamastor Co.ntalice c~o. of the Galeao Base, who said faconically that from l)is Base no aircraft took off to pursue the ob'jects and that he knew nothing e.bout the saucers. He aC.ded that from the Calabou9o Airport no military uircrci.ft'took off because the r e are no military aircraft there, (He:r-e he is quite mistaken" The::-e s plenty of rnili tary aircraft in the Ce.labou9o Airport. .h.di tor) o "In the section of a.ircraft of the '!'ti rd .Aerio.l Zone, the reporter found out that on Aupst 29tP.-g8(}estay) a flying disc made its app~ara.nce on e.n al- titude compufe ~o be 1, meters by the Santos Duffiont Airport. At once ~be search lights from ships (war-ship~) a t theNavy Yard of Ilha das Cobras, and Sao Joao Fortress were trained ove r the object and zeroed it for a few .::_ ' .. "Tha saucer -o'f yesterday appea reO. about '.15t30 (18:30 GMT). Sev:el'al people _:. :iho wen a:tJout .ta .board the ferry boa if 'to Ni teroi saw a . great crowd in: the-. p~er all commenting aboUt. fiying s a.ucers." Soon. a.tte-zc: a.~fe~r3'.'bG>at:ia'rri"ing :~, . f"rom Ni teroi' brought all . passenge r .s commenting about ... afiying- aauc-er -.they had I ' see~ at 15:35 '(18{35 :GMT) over 'the Bay entrance. During th.e 25 minutes trip to llio the. passenger's saw the object zig-zaging (or. oscillating? Ed.) swiftly, describing a 35 degree s arc~ I t The object. as .described by a passenger looked 'like a round b ath ~ube ~r a . I . ):>asin, reverberating light ' .(sic) . ~assengers r eckoned basin. (Regular si'ze about 10 meters. Editor). as though it the thing to 2 feet, then were made of glass or luminous b e really 15 times as great as a the body would be 30 feet wide or . " Also in Pales XV people crowded i n the pi e r t o watch the same object. Se- v e r a l ,a.ircrai't took o.f'f trying to get 'to ~ha same e.l t i tude as th~.. body_ .Al;long. the .aircraft .th6re. were pursuit pianes. Soon, without stopping i..ts. ~t~nge, . i:O : e1lolu.tion&; the. saucer g91i mor& .. alti"j;ude and disappeared.!' . --:.;...':::.! , .:: No Case (Information Only) 21 August 1957 Los Angeles, California "Little Man Report" Aug.2J.-~an Francisco,Cal-9pm .Fiery UFO &. loud Skyquake together! (A~ ~s~. (+Another "New Mex.Crash &. Little I~en"Report. from liA. ,cal . (KFI; (+Antibiotic-Ice used to preserve Sea.food in Santos .. Bl"aziL( Gad! ) j ' No Case On the evening of ~t; .. ;, ;~, numerous residents in and around Whittier, Cali- fornia reported vratching a -remarkable display of UFOs. Among the witnesses was Mr .. Warner Little, his 1vife, three teen-aged sons, and his eight-year-old daughter San- dra, who first told of seeing the objects. Running into the house early in the even- ing, she told her mother a There are t~:o eyes looking at me f rom the sky! Mrs. Little washing dishes, paid no attention., She then told her father, who was in the bedroom9 He looked out of the west vr.i.ndorT and saw that there :rere tvro bright, round discs high in the s!<y. Directly behind them were two jets, recognizab!.e by their exhaust trails. The time was exactly 7~19 p~m. 1tr. Little r outside, but he could no longer see the objects, although the jets were still visible. Thinking there was a chance that the UFOs might return, Mr. Little returned to the house and got his telescope. The scope, a Bushnell, has a 60-mm. objective of 910 mm. focal length; he was using a 30-power eyepiece. As he was setting up the telescope in the yard, Mrs. Little pointed up: " Here come two more of them~" While V.r. Little "as sighting the scope on these two objects, approaching slowly from the southeast, someone else called out: "Look straight up-- there's a whole fleet of them!" Actually, four more objects were visible near the zenith; no one had seen them arrive. The two from the southeast joined them and six objects were grouped in pairs: two were to the east of the zenith, two to the west, and the remaining tvro to the south. Although they ''/ere hovering ffiOtionless, each appeared to be rotating upon its own axis. All were inclined at a slight angle toward the center of the formation. Presently all six began revolving in a circular motion around the zenith; this t!ontinued for about five minutes. As they circled, still in pairs, they rocked slowly back and forth toward the center of the circle; this peculiar motion enabled the observers to oee the upper portion of each object. They were carefully viewed through the telescope. All were identi- cal: they vrere solid-appearing, vrith clearly defir.ed edges, and on the top of each object was a pronounced dome-like protuberance. This dome was not rounded, but ap- peared more "angular," and blended in smoot-hly with the disc-like base of the objects. overall resemblance to a Mexican sombrero was striking. The thickness of the objects vras about one-t\'Tentieth of the diamete r . To the naked eye, the diameter of each object was about equal to the diameter of a cigarette held at arm's length (about the same as the full moon) At intervals, one of the objects would be seen to emit a s_mal 1 pn ff, of smoke .. !r.QO ..i:t.s i.J:aj 1 i ng,..edge; this smoke dispersed quickly. It was noted that only one member of each pair did this. the objects finally began moving away, they did so at a moderately slow speed. Two made a right angle to the east; the other four moved to the north as a close group. Mr. Little was tracking one of the tvro objects in the )east, while his eldest son watched through the eyepiece of t he scope, when they saw the color change from a silver to a red, then orange, glow. The color change began at the base of the "super-structure" on top. The top of the super-structure, as well as the edge of the disc, appea~d to turn black. At this point, the ci~r.-centered on the cross hairs of tr.e eyepiece at the time- st:.ddenly vanished., Lool<i '1g up, Ur. Little saw that it hA.d vanished entirely from view. The rest of tr.a '~'--~i:,n~s::P.s cor ..firmed that all of the objects had disap- peared instantaneousl y . M.c .. Little checl~ed t.be time: it v:as 7 :40p. m. (Sunset that day was about 7: LIS. ) He w.zr.Eld.i.atelJ.' calld i:,he Pasadena Air Defense Center, but got a "no comment ':,hile t:,e Lit.-r,les ;re;:-3 .,a~ching t.he objec~s from their yard, the aerial dis - play was also be i ng obs~rv<l, inde~andently, by their neighb~rs, M;;-. &. Mrs. John Iseli, and Mrs. I ::eli s ~other. Hr .. Iseli_, a former skE'Iptic, r eversed his opinions abruptly after seeing the strange objects. They confirmed pracisely ,.1hat the Littles had reported. We are indebted to CSI members Idabel Epperson and Jackie Sanders, who ob- tained the details directly from the two families. In addition, they interviewed at least six other witnesses, including: An elderly lady n~ed Mrs. Fromm, living about two blocks from the Littles, who spotted the objects as she watered her lawn. Mrs. Eugene Jones, who was in the back yard of her home, a mile away, when she noticed them. Mr. & Mrs. Thomas F. Rogers, also of Whittier, vrho, l'rith a guest, were having a barbecue supper when they saw what they thought vrere three ob,jects (Living four miles from the Littles, t hey apparently mistook the pair ed objects, as described by the Littles, for single objects. They did not have the benefit of using bino- culars or telescope). Mr. Don T. Frost, who lives in River a--6 miles away. He was with his little daughter watching planes in the s~0J when they behel d the aerial minuet. Another R ivera resident--who flatly refused to have his name printed--was sitting on his patio. He was so shaken by what he savr that it wasn't until a day later that he told his wife about it--after he learned a neighbor had seen the same phenomenon. Mrs. Epperson added that a triangulation of the various reportswas made; it indicated an altitude of 2, 300 feet. One intriguing aspect of this affoi~-and perplexing as well--i s the reported abrupt disappearance of the objects. The Research Section has at least two other ses in its files in vthich unidentified aerial objects have exhibited this same unorthodox behavior. The first--a dayM.me sighting--took place near LaFayette, New York in Uay, 1946. Two young men wer e driving nort,h toward Syracuse i n an open convertible when they savr a large, metallic cylinder with sharply pointed ends, poised motion- less in a clear sky northwest of their position. After watching the phenomenon-- this was a year before "flying saucers" whirled into view-for several minutes, it abruptly nnd inexplicably vanished f rom sight. The second incident occurred on ths ~t~ht of December 9, 1955, on the Jersey Turnpike near Teterboro Airport. A l inous green bullet-sl~ped object with two brilliant "portholes" on the slde w:ts seen to cross t he Turnpike as a low altitude and at close range, and t hen to disappear. No Case (Information Only) 24 August 1957 SA~ OTiJt !l'l4~ Gtij,tS .: : 3ro~ :CPDY. ia al.a indebted to Dr. Olao...l'Qiltil& ~7r the followiJl i teaa abcut aauoe%'a :Proa 0 CHobo" .Sep~eaber 5~ Beber J.UU.tO Ilene meal Cupoa i atudn1 o~ .-. :. tba .0\u'o PI'io .Ket..Uu.ru SQhool 'tol-cl.~be. reporters ~ba-t he aaw ill ,he .. ~ ~ t llins :troa the norlh a 1117 .. -tertou lniDO\la 'bo~, roUDcl ~ ohP4 It OO'l.l4 ~-~ 4u- 9.ribed aa a atar ~tlloucb ita ).icht wu o}'aleacent an4 ita apee4 t~a4ota. :tt:.tiL'a abou~ '1.8s'}O (21:i36. Glll) at.fhe eunae~ on tlie evening o:t ~it u\h,. ~. i_it1~ .e~ti.t- ~<t8nlitfe6 Obj~ot) '-jece!ved)1 a~!qd-.thit: two ~41-'i-a"&:t~ '1r~1n&dn had 'Men ovf~-'tbat cit,' wo flTine' objeo~s 'ftli'oh azia.1r~re4 the ../waa:C:f1rsene bt aauc.ere ihe":tira~-beillff oa ~ul7 14th thla year at 1Ta40 t20a4!&0 Glft't ' fi'\ia othei aourdea CIC~'"'l'~i"td 1n~t1on that on the !Saa Augtta'\ 2Hh' .&'bout bW. a.ae -tae~ 'two lx.-tiitlh O'bjeo'ti' ...,ere aaen oyer the Pedra-J:rainoa Ba Gn~.tr ~ .to~ah:tp o-r -~.~opd14o, nar V~l~&:e lli~r. !heM o~3i\a .. , . ~ Dext' :tl;pi.o' ~-.rill =--e "the .'Ooilfl 0~ t.~: 8tu1~r a!Orellel\ti ~Jl 'Onr the ~t~t o~ ~a.aa Geraie:. j&&in 'lt are ~ad~b'tecl to Dr. OlaTO ?oatoa f'Qr 1.1doru.tio12: ~ St'at.a ~pr.~'nta\ive,. on 't.~e .Yer:/. ans Satu~ .l~t ~'Ul a't' 18a)O (nr30 Qlrlt) a&'W' a eaube~ oo! r- fra. 'tbe =rUl. Let ua p1'bt 1\ oq% & map aDd Me wbat. hlpp41naa ..., , . . . . . Kap :P~. Jtinaa a. rai. lq th.