IIIIP OP SIGHTING Yellow flame with down, disappeared flame went out. PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 2. LOCATION flame tnil, angling same as a tneteor 11. COMMINTS 12. CONCLUSIONS 24. Did the objecta (Circle one !or each que:.;tiun) o. Appear to stond still at any time1 b. Suddenly speed up and rush awa7 at any time c. Brenk up into parts or explode".? d. Give ott smoke! e. Change brightness? If'~() &tt~41( t. Change shape? g. FJ-ic!ce;,. throb, or pulaat81 Don't know Don't know Don't know Don't know Don't know Don't know Don't know 25. Did the object move behind something at an,time, particularl7 a cloud? . _(Circle one) . Yea what it moved behind Don't know. It you answered YES, then taU 26. Did the object move in front of something at anytime, particulnrl7 a cloud?. (Circle one) t know. It you answered YFS, then tell what 1 t moved in front or. 27. The edges ot the obj~ot werea (Circle one) a. Fuzzy or blurred .b. Like a bri ht .... I c. Sharply outlined d. Don't remember e. Other--------~---------- 28. Describe in a tew words the color or the object.~ IF POOSIBLE, try to guess or estilmte what the real size of the object was in ita longest dimension. teet. 41. In order thot you can give aa clear a picture as possible or what you saw, we would like for you to imatine that you could construct the object that you saw. Ot vbat t7pe material would you make it? How laree would it be, and what shape would it havet Deecribe in 7our own words a common object or objects which vhen placed up in the sky would give the e appearance as the object vbioh JOU saw. . 42. Was thia the first timo thut you had seen an object or objects like this'! (Circle one) ("I~p.) No It you answered no, then when, where, and under whot circumstunoea did you aee other ones1 In your. opinion what do you think the object was and ~t might have caused ).6. How did the objoct or object~> dirnppc.':lr from vicu, ...S'C!'~'-! ,..e.~R~-~2~Qt;L._. , What direction were.JGU looking when you firs~ saw the object~ (Circ;to ono) a. North o. East a. South b. Northeast d. Southeast t. Southwest Northwest ~ ~ \fuat direction were you looking when you last saw the object?~ (Circle one Y d. Southeast North~test South g. \-lest SOuthwest) Draw a picture that w:lll ehow the shape of the objnct or objects. Lebc; ur1d include in your sketch ony details or the object thrtt you f)a\1 such b.s \1 nes , . protrusions, eta., and eopecially exhaust trails ot vapor trailo. PJ.a a an arrow beside the drawtng to shov the direction the object wa~ movine. Draw a picture that will s~w the motion that the object or objeots mede. P.l.ace an at the beginning of the path, a B" at the end ~r the path, and show any changes in direction during the course. Paqe t~n bS. Shn'-1 th~ loc~tion of tt1C:: ob;jr;ct in r .;J.n:tiion to t ho aircra.ft b,y ple.ci nr; nn on the edg0 of t.l.r.: circle :d, 'Lite o cltJCk ponit.ion ~rod st.~tc-hi,~h, lot! or level. If thiR l'E:latlonship chan~ed dm-ln3 the oi;~hti1.1 ' u=.:;o uuother circle and show the n~.t relationship of the object to tho aircrnft. Also indicate aey changes of hoadin.g oi' your aircraft. (Circle one) ( Cil ... cle one) (Circle one) I f r)r octi ci:; blc, attacl& to t h i s r.~;~e the section of e local area chart which :>how:> the locc.tiuu or t.l.~ ~ighting. On this chart plot the flig 1'-~.,of jour r.drcrart and the night path ot the object. . ift. .:: roughly sketch in the area' or the . 46. l-l.eeoe give a brier narrative account of. sighting and any othel' addi tiollr:ll de ta or comments. . r'I-A- P ~ ~ti.Jicr ".tt-~ MY P4St=-. d'r ~s-7/-wc r,<~/s-~rhR/ #~5 dt"(C~ H~r c!Jt/T Lb/t7/Vd~/- Poge twelv3 47. .i?l.c~l:.;e ri\'O th\J followinf li.'li'O:"JilO.tion about yourselfl TEIEPHOfJE Sex l't't<'f6 t= Zone State . Please indicate any speciel educational training that you have had. a. Grade School----~---- d. Post graduot,e ------- e. Technical School------- f. Flying School --------"! Date you completed this questionoire1a JOINT MIESSAGIIEII'ORM SKCUNITV CLAaSIP'ICATION NIO~'riON OBNTBR OfUCl. OR .. KP'a .. a TO CLA.SIP'ICATION OP' .. KP'KNKNCK S~KCIAL INST .. UCTIONS 1006TH AISS, E!lT ,\FB IiiFO CY: CO) !DR ~.006TH AISS RICHAHDS-GEBAUR Ju7B t.liSSOURI ~ J t ~ C ~ /UNCL/1;' nOll: AFCTIT -l~E1~ G1'L'l!! FOLLOil UP LI11ITED TYPE Df~UIRY 'J.'iJ Ol\ i.':\IN ADDI'2.'I0iJ.AL DlFOK.L\TION ':00 P~OPERLY Cor;CLUDE C.ASE, PARTICUIAA\RLY IF ANY AIRCRAFT OPEHATIOHS AOOVE 000 FEET EI.r~VA'l'ION, AT :l'~J.AT rr:LlE. Sll-iii.AR REPORTS OF ClL \rJ(;IiiG liULTICOLOR LIGHTS OF TYPE DESCHIDED GEN3RALLY FOilliD TO DE IN FLIGHT REl~UELIUG OP~RATIONS, BUT NJ~VER AT ALTITUIES GIVEN n~ REPORl,. COORDD!ATION: AFCI~i-4E4 Captain, USAF Assistant Adiutant . Ra"-ACU DD I'O .. M 173, I OCT WHICH WILL 8a uao UNTIL &XHAUaT&D ScrzNcl Naws ~ann for At~gtul.24, 195J., Although Venus is becoming brighter in the evening is still retiring early from view. September will have a kind of replacemnt for Venus the "harvest moon." By JAMES STOKLEY ... THE PLANET Venus is gradually brightenina, and becoming more proaainent in the eveoina sky. However, it still sets about an hour and a half after the suo. This is before twilight has completely ended, and the sky has become dark. If you look to- ward the southwest as dusk gathers, Venus will soon appear. Of magnitude minus 3.5 on the asuonomical brightness scale, it ex- any other star or planet It is in the constellation of Virgo, the virgin, and close to the star called Spica, which is so much fainter that it will be considerably more difficult to locate. The accompanying maps arc drawn to show the appearance of the evening sky at about 10:00 p.m., your own kind of standard time ac.ld one hour for daylight-saving time -at the first of the month, an hour earlier at the middle and two houn earlier as September gives way to October. Thm. Venus does not appear upon them. They do, however, show the second planet of the September evening. This is Saturn, wh.ich stands in the con- stdlation of Ophiuchus, the serpent-bearer. During the early evening Saturn is in the southern sky, but it moves toward the southwestern horizon and &ocs down, at the beginning of the month, around 11:00 p .m. kind of standard time. September's Brightest Star Brightest star of the September evening is Vc:ga, in Lyra, the lyre, high in the west. overhead is Cygnus, the swan, in which Deneb may be seen. This group is also called the Northern Cross. Deneb marks the top of the cross, toward the northeast. Moving down from Cygnus, to- ward the southwest, one comes to Aquila, the eagle, of which Altair is the brightest Three other st:trs w hich, like these, are ,) [ the: first n1.1~nitude, ::rc: aho shown o n the maps. These arc all so near the horizon that rhey appear con~iderably fainter than if they were high O\'erhead. This is a result of the nhsorption of their light by the gre:lter thickness of the earth's atmosphere which must be penetrated. Low in the northwest is the figure of Bootes, the bear-driver, with Arcturus. Next, to the 1 ighl', i~ th~ Gr: at Uipp~r, \\'hich is p.trt of UrsJ ~bjor, th~ ~rc.tt ut: tr. T he dipp~rs handle ~xtcnJs wward Bootes, and if you ... : follow the curve of the handle, it brings you to Arcturus. Farther right, low in the northeast, is Capella, in Auriga, the charioteer, which will become prominent in the winter eve- High in the southeast arc four stars which form the .. Great Square" in the constellation of Pegasus, the winged horse. Below this is Aquarius, the water-carrier, one of the constellations of the zodiac, the path of the sun, moon and planets. And below Aquarius we find Piscis Austrinus, the southern fish, with the first-magnitude Fomalhaut, also dimmed by its low altitude. For our latitudes, it never rises much higher than it is now; you have to travel southward to see it high in the sky. Mercury Becomes Morning Star As rnr the other planets, Mars and Jul'i h:r ;u c now both too nearly in line "' i1h th e '"" to be observed. Mercury, on S..:f't. fJ, [MSSC!I nearly between the earth and tlu Milt, hut by the 25th it will be farthest c~t of the sun. It will rise ahead of the "''" :nul for a few days around that date ''ill be visible as a morning star, in the east j11o;t ltr fore sunrise. On Sept. 23, at 2:27 a.m., EST, the sun \\ill he directly over the equator, at the lulh"'Y point of the southward journey in tlte c;ky which it began last June. This is thl: autumnal ~quinox which marks the lt:~inuin~ of autumn in the Northern ll('rnisphere and of spring in the Southern. On the night of Sept. 8 the moon is full. Thi~ is the "'har\'e!it moon .. and we can see wh.tt it means if we consult a table that gives the times of moonrise, and see how much later this occurs on succeeding nights, at different times of year. On Sept. 9, we find, the moon will rise (at 40 degrees north latitude) only 28 minutes later than it did on the eighth. Next March, on the other hand, the dif- will be much greater. The moon will be full on the fifth and the difference in time of moonrise, between that night and the next, will be 74 minutes. Thus, in September and October, when the moon is full and bright, it rises about the same time for several evenings. Harvest Moon for As John Ferguson wrote in a book on astronomy published in 1757, explaining why this is called the harvest moon: .. The farmers gratefully ascribe the early of the full moon at that time of year to the goodness of God, not doubting that He had ordered it so on purpose to give them an immediate supply of moonlight after sunset, for their greater convcniency in reaping the fruits of the earth." The reason for the differences in the delay of moonrise from one night to the is found in the changing angle made at various times of the year by the ecliptic, the path which the moon closely follows. It makes a trip around the ecliptic about once a month; each night it is about a ninth of its circumference farther Thus, being farther cast, it rises later -about 52 minutes on the average. At this time of year the southernmost part of the ecliptic is in our cv~ning sky- it passes through Sagittarius, the archer, and the line is not far from parallel to the horizon. Hence, the moon's daily eastward movement is utilized in moving it hori- to a considerable degree. Just be- fore moonrise it is not much farther below the horizon than it was the night before. In March, on the other hand, the ecliptic is nearly vertical, and the same eastward movement of the moon takes that body con- siderably farther below the horizon, thus making the greatest changes at moonrise. Hunter's Moon In October, conditions will be quite simi- lar to what they are in September. Again there will be relatively little delay in moon- rise from one night to the next when it is full. This is again on the eigli'th, and it will 30 minutes later on the ninth. This is called the "hunter's moon, since the hunter is supposed to benefit at that time:. Mo Case (Information Only) 28 September 1957 Old Greenwich, Connecticut At about 2a40 p,m. on Saturday, Sept. 28, Jlr. and l!rs. re hav- ing aandwiche in the back )'ard o.r their hill top home in Old Greenwich, Connecticut . Mrs. ~&lue4 CSI and an experienced OOC plane-spotter, had her 7 x $0 binoculars out mxl wu a plane fi71nl over Long Ialand SoU11d to the south, when her huband that there somethins in the sky above the plane. To the naked a small but definite silvery disc, about 1/20 the size of the moon. tor the binoculars, expecting to see a balloon. Instead, the glasses something ot puzzling shape "like an upside-down para- chute." Unable to make out just what this was, he returned the binoculars to his wife. Just at that moment the object moved orr to the right, described a wide hori- zontal circle, and returned to its former position in the south-southwest, about 3$0 above the horizon. After a few seconds, it repeated the maneuver. After it was motionless tor fifteen or tl1enty seconds, during which time Yrs. had it continuously in view through the binoculars. The accompanying sl<etch shows what she saw. The objects "re led frosted glass" and ap- peared to be spinningJ the connecting silvery strands were wavy, as shown. While she was watching, two smaller white objects rapidly crossed the field, but these were not .clearly seen. Suddenly, some- thing like silveey sparks "exploded" out of the ~ of the object, or pair or objects, and almost at once it moved sudden~ off to the right. Trying to follow it with the sea, she caught the sun and was temp- orarily blinded, but Ur. . that the object described a third circle like its two previous ones, t tinll it this time with an abrupt and final vertical ascent. The object dnindled as it rose through the clear sky, and was out ot sight in a few seconds. - Mr. whose distance vision is excellent, had also noted the ejection of the silver, , which he saw begin to float dowm1ards as vertical strands, glittering in the sun. He compared the appearance of these glittering strands to "spider web. ' It drifted away from them toward the south and was not visible ver.1 long; Mrs. , still dazzled by the sun, did not see it. She asked her husband whether it have been smoke or clou