UFOB INDEX CARD AISS-UFOB-283-21 2. LOCATION CONCLUSIONS Kanaaa City, 0 Was Balloon 0 Probably Balloo n 3. DATETIME GROUP .... TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Possibly Balloon i8fe,OO S Be p 51 ltl Ground-Visual 0 GroundRodar 0 Was Aircraft ~ P ro b obi y Ai rcroft 0 Air-Vi suol 0 A ir-Intercept Roder 0 Pos sibly Aircraft Was Astronomi col 0 Probably Astronomical 0 Possibly Astronomical 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS Three to f'ive minutea One 0 Insufficient Doto for Evaluation 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS round white object., moving Bipidly De ec rip tion, durat on, flight path serosa the sky f'rom north to south. Object indicate that t his sighting was probably waa .. en making a sharp turn beading E~lE and caused by an aircraft. waa in sight f'or f'rom three to five minutes. AlSOP Form 5 (15 Oct 5.4) ~)' J OIO MY SatUrn Now Seen Although Venus i s becoming brighter in the evening sky, it is still ratiring eo rly from view. September will hove o kind of replacement for Venus the "harvest moon.'' By JAMES STOKLEY I'IH P LA!'-ET Venus "' ~r. lu.alh .1l tutl .10 huu r .111J a l~Jii alter t!:.: )UII. ThL:; i\ bc:turc twIJtht b:~s complctr!y o:nJcd , 1111 the !kv hJ~ bt:cotne J .uk. If l'~ lo."'" to- Jrl he \tJUthwe<t :u Ju~l. g:a:hcr>. Vt:ntts , fl 1:1e ~str>O<'if!IC-11 kttghUIUS """'Je, I I a. ' J urr :.h.;t n ,,.ll I~<: nou.JcrJ'' nur: ,t.rl:..t.l' to !t:<Jtc unr;-J,l..! tiiiC ho.JIII 1111 oiJYI't( tll \,1 , ' I ~ 1111 .t l ;h-: ntn.llile 'lh !HI' huur. r tr'or " \.'l'nu1 ,1,lC1 nor .ljliJC~r upoofl :hem. "' ;he !'c:otefl'bc~ cvcmn~f. I h11 1 S.uur n 'h1~!1 ,a.cnl' tn lw e.n- , , , lt:lllll .,; Oph:u~hu~. Uc \(.rpcn1 r ,-,rrr. ,.,uriJ.q(tcrn. htoll/.tJII utJ "'I'S do~wo, 1: ll r 1-~tnllrll~ .-.t the n!CIllh, .Htnand I ! Ii i I''' hv V'''" k tnt.! .JI <t::tncbrJ !lme. ~ptemb.r' ~ Brightett 5tar HnJ(h~t H:ar ..,f the Scpttmllt' t'\ t'f' lll!,l 1 Ouc~tlv u\c:~c:J IS C:;~nuc, the '"'Ill, 111 v. hich I >en .. + may ile ccn. 11u group s Jl.o <..JIIetl the :-.;.,rrhcrn Cru'' Dc:nrh rn~rln the top v f rh' ern"' h iW"lrU th<" norlh<-l~t \!Qving .luwn fmm Cy~enu~. rn. W:Jr d 1he )CJII!h\\"1, IIIIC Cf\OICS It) :\qiJIJ.a, the ~.tg!e, nr whch A!t.ur t.S the bn~htt':l.t Thrt"T ,,rhcr >''" which, li ke ln<">C, .aro: P I lt..,. rir(t nt:t'{lllltule. ue ,J,.., J1v" 11 1111 r'1.11 " y H c.lf , tll'hh)C rJtri;t 'unle r t:l.lll T it., ., 1 r t:lt o f the Jh ... lrp\1111 llC 1br ir light hy 1~0:: s;re,uer thtd .. n~s o t the c.Ht!l' tltll"f llt'r ; w.1:ch "'"''he pcno:tr.l'"O. L w '" rlw nlirth\1'1t " thr til(ure >t H,., . ,, rh.- n.szht. i.\ rhc C; n .H lltrpcr, w l11r h I~ p1rt r t 'ry \I~ "J', .he -c;ri'V IY"tr. 'I '1r. ltnpcr~ ,ltr.-.rlv h r \rnrnt1 I Jrthcr n)(h t. low 1n thr nlrthe.bt. 1\ \\ 1JI \.t.:CttliC prXTliOCIH in th r winter e"C H ogh rn rl1e ~the.ut uc four stJf\ ' ' hi.:h [,trnl the "Gre.~t S<j\Ur t:': in th '"'lltc!I.IIIOII of Pcg;hU>. the ...,..,n~J OOf\C Br!.>w rius IS Aqu:urus. the-wata.c:~rricr, JIIC (){ the: CUthfcila rions of the U><la.IC, the p.tth vi the sun. moon :anJ pl:tncu. And l'l<'lo>w .\4uanu' ""e finJ Pt)C\., Austrinu1, the <c~t~thcrn hsh, with th e nrst-m~gnnuJe Fr:m alluut .. ~ls-1 unnmetl bv irs low :alciflrt.lc. Fv 01rr b1:1rut.les, it never ;,~, much ht~hrr hJn it u nuw . )'OU lu'c :o cr:avcl ~th ... .~rJ M#trcvry Beconsea Morning Stew .\ . !o .r rhe other r ia :>eu, M.us IOd fl,, .. rcr .t c no>w horh to>J ne:.rl y 111 lin' 1h.-":n, h u t by th e ~)th rt w tli be f;~rr~w't ,." ,.t he , .. n. It wl!l n<c .JI.c:.lcl .,r rho: '"" .u1J llW J fc:w J-')'1 Jl CJUnl rh:u cl.ltc "'rll I'<' 11hle .u _. Ol()(ning se~r, 10 the c-:a~c l'"' :'<'fore cun nJC. O n Sqr. H, J l :!.1:' J .m ., EST, thc su n \\Ii i he ollfi'Ct i V t)\Cr the CfJlJ.l(l')r , Jl the h .. l!w ty l"'' n t uf tne ~l4athw.Jrtl JOUII')('\' 1n thl' , kv ,._h,, h 11 l>e~'" ll>l June. Thh ii thc Jlltoltrn.rl rqutnoi.'C ..,h,ch m:~rk, tltc 1-~nnmJ.! 1>f ~uturnn in the i"or l h.-rn llc t'ltWhrr..-.1110 1>f 'I"'"R sn thc Stluthun . ! In :lte IIIJCI" of Sc:pt. H the tnn.Jn j, full . ,, ''' ,, n1c1n~ if ' ' c .::onsulc ;t tahlc th :lt !{I'~ th e :rm~ of monnn.~. ;uul sec hu w "~'""' l..ter thiS occun '"' succ~dmg n1~hu. 11 chtlerr:-nt nmo c.{ yc:tr. O n Sept . li nd . the moon will riae (~t 40 J cwcn norrh I.H!l\Hic ) oo ly ZS minuto UHCT rh.1o it Jrd c>n t.he el)lhth. :-.=c~t \ l.crch. on thc o1her hJnrl, t~ Jlf. rctl'nc..e wtll be much grc:Her. The rn non will be full 1>0 the fifth ;zn,l 1he dufcrcJ'IU in time of moonri~. Oc:twcen thJt n ighc Jnd the nexr, will be i~ minutes. Thu,, in September .1nJ October, when the nl)l >n is full .tnd bnl(ht, It rUc:s ~bout the -.1me tunc for ~veul c:vcniotp. Harvest Moon hr Parmers At Juln Feri'JWO wrocc in a book on .urwnnmy pubhsheJ. in 1i57. expwoiD~r \t.hy tb iJ i u lied the: harvot moon: 'The Lumen gntciullJ .ucribe the ear!y of th~ full moou u that time of yeas ' ,. to the.-goodnc:s' o t God, DO( doubonc that ., .. He h:~d ordered it 10 oo purpoee to Jiv~ than an r~o.liate JU~f of mot.Yih!Cht ~ftcr Junsc:t, for th~r Jrc:ll:tt .:.onvenirocy m rc~ping the frwtJ of the earth." The ra5011 for the differcnca in the: tld.1y of m\>OnrUc irum ooc ntgltt co the l!c:~t u found tn the: dunging angle: nude t l \:'lr!ous :imrs o f the rear by the ediptx, the p~th wtucl1 th e moon cJ...ely follows. I c m ll.cs ' mp around the eclipO.: :about once :a month; c::~<.h night it is 1bout :a rw,.n tvrlln l;l of i" cireumerence b rtbc.r C',l)l. ~l'ht.~. IA inj( wnher Cl.it, it r ises lan::- -.. h.JUt S2 :ninutC1 on rhc: aver:~ge. , \ t this nn re oi ~r the ,.lUtheromoet l._.,r o f the c:drptlc: i.t in our t"vening iky-- u pau cs th rough SagitDriw, the arcllcr, ,n,l the lme is n(l( hr from p-o~ralld to th-e lutn:ron. Hen~. the: moon dally eutw;rrd moen'ICnt u utilized 10 -nov1n3 it hori- 7nwlly ro ;t con1iderable dc~rc.-e. Juet bc:- lorc rnouori K it t.S nut much farther bdow 1h:-ho,rrznn r.h.an tt lo\o,tt the :ugh t ~fun:. In M.1rch, on the othCT h~nJ, the: ecliptic ~ ne:~rly 'erne:~ I, anJ the s.:ame e:utward mnvnucnt elf thc moun takes that boJy cun.- mlcrabl y f.uther below the botiron, thus :n:akin~t the gre:~tC1t chan1o10 at mooorUe.. Hun,.r's Atloon In October, cooilincJN wiU be qw~ !imj.. lo~r to wh:at the-y :1re in Sc:pCEmbcr. Apio there w1ll Dr: rd:Jtivdy lin:!c dd:ay ift znooo.. r i'C fnxn one: oil(ht to the nat when it is This is :llfliO on the: eighth, and it ill 11sc vnly 30 minutes liter on the ninth. This j, c:~lleJ the: ''hunter't moon.'" sioa: the hunrer 11 'liP~ to bc.ncfic ;,t th:lc time. ... o. WIST" Q- 1 SYMBOlS FOR S1.ARS IN ORDER Of BAIGHTNESS Celestial Tlme Table fw I I ;o~ p..lll. ~ho.I,..Ar Full Dl<'lOn I H.at~,...f ~0011 1, Moon an !6S( {lwutcr. S...n :lOLl ~n 1n hnc wuh ~rth. ~ nnrnt. li~MAncc 1 !J,j<'() S...n 0~ c:'O.JU.A(I)ft ) UIUOID ..om mrncrr. io Nthnn HnnLtPhcTc. :a:r8 p.m. New 1nooo. 15 l :oo p .m. Mctcury farthc,.t wQ( oi &u n ; ~k fcc a few cbyt aroood tlw o.la 11: low in cast bdot c w a Jll t : u p.m Moon pa-"'Cl Vcnu~. J'l s6 o~.m. "fnr11 p.&ta Sanuo. Jfl I :1~9 p.m. M-..s hr:tt ~IUIICI'. "ubtr:an -bout few CST, twu houn few ~I,T. Jn.i uvee fnr PST. Early Stars Were Brighter A sfudy of the afmosphetes of tf1e 8 stan leads O$tronomen to belie.., tfotat billions of yean ago the siars were much brighter than they now ore ~amc procoa ia repeated in the more rna._ )to 11 IE SKIES were adnrncd .nth much ln)(b~r \I:JtS billiom of yan .ll(O th.an tht>' t now :rnd the: ratt' ol cat crt>auon tJ~o11 "''-" mu...h i:a,ltt tl1:1n nc)w. SIVC 1.1bjccU. 1 The sun i rhus.. since it w :u formcJ _, man, m1llrni:a .1~0, believed to have a ~malin-fuc tion of he.av~ tlcmcnts th:an hu a star m.1Jc onl:t .. rccmly' ' from incc:r- ' trU;ar gas. So .;uucludc On. L H . t\llno :md Ju n jul(:~io;u oi tht Univtt"rr nf ~fichi n 00. ~rv:uury from ;a mHiy ot rftc .Jnnc.,.phcrcs uf the \'a'Y young, bot Jnci ~r,dlt vhtL' kno>wn u 8 an. The ;uuonocntts ft' ported rnulu oi thnr sruJy, ~upporttd by the N:rtional Sacncc Fouoc.Uoon, tu the .\maian t\Jtronom10l Society mcnintt in Urbana. Ill. R trl n arc only a ft'W million yc:an uhl, very yo.eaa QD the: :uaooomiw time sale dur t.haa the sun's fomution n fi1.t IJtllion )iOn ago. They :are beliCYtd formed from ntef"\rdbr ps in the spiral a.mw ol rbe ~filk~ W J.'J galul' in wb~eh ri\e c:arth :md till :ue found. .; ince B st:us consume .herr nudt>a r ruc:l. hydrogca. al a nte huncirc:ds of rimd bm-r than docs the sun. rbcu lifl:umc-r must be rd:uivc:ly short. Ry annp;uin~ the Aun '.s .:llf'llp,.itioo with th:u ot a )'")Ung H ) I :at, D n . Alkf :u1d Juaktt ~)Ct.! to finJ th< J mount of dement boilcfin" occurrin~ ia th< lut' four blllicn Jnn. ,\ .xonliull to the pt'Ocnt :do.t o c ~lbr ! ol urinn. tM he:lorier dn 1 It ll e, ue OW'OI.iuced U\ d~ da-. hot cnta oi ,....'I'C 1Qt'S. wftich tuheequeDU., JPC" tilDe D\atcnalt iAto iNmedlu trc . 1llc iDn ll.u ma. Although the pmblcm of ..:omp.rin! the ~n't .urnO&phcrc ~;rh cb:lt <>f :a ~"" 8 ,~.;~, i very oJmplcx <1nd nut \ct'V :rccur.uc, On. Aller :roo Jul('1ku founJ that some cfc.. mcnts., ru~-h ;u si lk-on :md OX\gcn, do not lecm ro ~ subtanci:all y ifc:J~r in the )'OW'Ig 'fUn dun in the sun. Thcrcinre, lht'J CDOclucle. the Ira~ ~ do. man buiklin If, and of ~tat formation u wdl, muse hue proceede-d a t a much slo~r pace .Unce tbe tun wu fotmed th;an it did in the c::art. at:a~ ol the M1lk.y W .n ~luy. Tllc: ; n rcn tc llu t:U from w h .: h mrs l re focmccl i. bcJO~ cononuowly renew-ed by an ourN:ard Sow of St2' from rhe galactic ccn. err, Ott n uc I cu.., Dr. Siti.ncy v :1 o den BeT sh ol Pttltins Oblcrv:atury, Dclaw:~rc, O hio, re- pted ro tht' mtin~. The proa~c n~ of ta kl-t from. the m.IC:lcuJ :aho<~t equals the "* which ~ is lose 6om the ,Pral :.tnna by ICI6 fornucicn. he haJ okulalled. D r. '"' den Bc,lh b.toocrl Ill.. c:Dndumn \~ the ~c #inctin~ Ulllt rhc Milk-y w .. ,. pUJi'f, .u well :at ~ Andromeda nebula, oooc::Uft "'wprising)y'' small :unowHI ol in- ra IU.!Lu pa. ' IIC:I'Jd t. apia ~ iato . ..,.... and ~ FINAL GALLEY PROOF Calle)' 88-THE WORLD OF' FLYING SAUCERS Sending a letter and two photographs of the fragments to Colonel awrence J. Tacker , then in the Office of Information, United States Air Force, she simul!aneousl)' re leased to the press copies of both lette r and photographs, and suggested tha t the Air Force could "vindicate" itself by anal)'zjng the mate ri al. The newspape r pho to- graphs showed one fragment about four in c hes lo n g and two inches wide resembling petrified wood in appearance, and a smalle r piece shaped roughly like a flatte ned cupcake, whose surface showed pits and whorls like those o n the trailing end of a meteorite. Two days later, without waiting for a reply from Washington, Mrs. L o re nzen thro ug h the n e wspap e r amplified he r challenge. If the Air Force want ed to examine the mysterio us fragments , she said , they would firs t have to agree to certain conditions [22]: "( 1) APRO officers, togethe r with duly appointed Air F o rce liaison personne l, would establis h a board of cxpt!rts representing ath militar}' a11d C'ivilian UFO resear c h e rs. "(z) This hoard of exp e r ts would decide w ha t meaning ful tests eed to he p e rfurnwd <m the 1naterial in questio n. "(3) The huard tlwn w o uJd select a qualifie d t esting agenC)' to rform thPs e ((,Is uwlc r its cognizance." I n a ll its hi .ton. the Unite d S tates Air F o rce can sure ly have received no mo11 'traordinar y propositio n . \Vhatever h e rnay have felt, Colo ne l T ad,-r me re ly suggeste d tha t ~Irs. Lo re nzen could submit the m:tll'rialto ATIC fo r a na lysis. The frngmentc; \\'(' rc ne , er forwarded to the Air Force. Eve ntually 1\ 1'1\0 publi~hed some info rma t io n abottt the ''tl isas- r." E~rly in S.ptlt:r_!le>r ,1.95z.a group of flslw rrne n on a beach ncar Ubntaba, Br:ml ~md sup posedly s ig h ted a disk-s ha p ed object ashing down IIH'-.11 d the sea. The UFO had s uddt-'nly \'Ct:!rcd up - ward and f'xplmltrl, showering d own frag ments and sparks like fireworks. SevNnl pi<'ces had been obtained b y a nrazilian repre- sentative of APHO, who submitte d the m t o a chemist fo r comple te ec;ts including spec trographic and X-ra y d iffraction a na lyses. D e ta ils of tlae a nal)'ses have never bee n published. Althoug h the y evidently s howed the presence of at least three c lements commo n earth- magnesium, h yd rogen , and OX)'gcn-A PRO someh ow de- duced that t he fragments in the ir original s ta te h a d consiste d of pure magnesium and tha t the hydroxide rnu~t have forme d \\'he n thev camP in contact with the wate r. The final conclusion state d tlt.tt "lit!' airborne objctt ... c.on'it!.tcd, at I, .ht iea p.u t. ol 100'r magnesium, which is not within the tcchnolog}' of our times." [23] Simila r ))', p e rhaps, a cook might assert that sine(' chocolate fudge consists, at lc:tst in p:ut, of 100 p e r cent s uc rose, fudge must origi- nall y have been composed entire ly of pmc sugnr, c...:ccpt for a little chocolate and m ilk it picked up in pa~sing tltrou h the kitche n. From tht> f t.:\\' facts '\ \'aila ble a pn~itiv< i1tdifllatio u of till' ftw~ mf::nt.; h irnpo.s.;ihl~. Tlw d~,,criplirm n f tla. 11hjc t .., n h~ rl,, fi,lh.:r- m c n fits that of a me teor tha t bro ke into picct:s ncar the end of its flight. In the photographs the fragm ents look like ordinary mete- o rites, whic h often contain a fair amount of 1nagnesium (see Chapter v). There is no evidence to suggest that the fishermen's "wrecke d spaceship was anythin g hut a n exploding me teor. Other M ysteriQt.tS Fragments In tlie spring of tg6o Mrs. Coral Lorenze n, director of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization, publicly challenged the truth of the Air Force statement that "no physical or material evidence, not even a minute fr agme nt of so-called 'flying saucer' has ever been found." [2o] Mrs. Lorenzen announced that she had in her possession t wo fragments of an extraterrestrial vehicle that had met with disaster in the earth's atmosphere. Without specifying the date a nd location of the event, the identity of the witnesses, or a ny corrobora tive details of the alleg~:::d disaster, she merely said that several persons had witnessed the cntastrophe. She went on t, somewhat astonishingly, that "the gratifying nspect of this cnsc, however, is that we do not have to depend on the testimony of witnesses to establish the' reality of the incident for the most advanctd laboratory tests indicate thnt the residual material could have h<'cn produced t !trough the ::tpplication of any k nown. terre~ trial techniques." [21] No C~se (Information Only) 10 September 1957 Pleasant Valley, New York Plane Spotter Sees Circ~ing Objects Drop "Flimsy Haterial." This sighting took place on Tuesday, Sept. 10, in Pleasant Valley, N.Y. {on the upper Delallare River in the Flestern Catskills.) Richard Holsapple, a self-employed builder, saw three ob,jects circling silently in a clear sky, near militarJ planes, v1hich took no notice of them." "Two were silvery and the other was somewhat darker, said Holsapple, \7ho is a nember of the Ground Observer Corps. It was very hard to judge hm'l' far up they were, but they were certainly not high-flying jets. It looked to me as though they were nying faster than atw jet I ever sa\r--at least 2000 miles an hour." Holsapple's father also sa\7 the d .rcling UFOs, ''Vhat makes this observation note";VVrthy ls that "he r eported also that strings of flimsy material dropped from the mystery craft and drifted earthw:u-d far away to the south." (Source: DanburJ (Conn.) lJews- 'l'il!les, Sept. 12, 195 '(,) 18 -30 SSPTE~IBER 1957 SIGH1'INGS Gresham, Oregon Hollis, IDng Island, N-a.r Yor k Point Pleasant , New J ersey Kadena AFB f.f.ontauk, N.Y. /Benson, Pennsylvania Son Antonio, Texas (CASE MISSI NG) Ne\.,. Carlisle , Ohio Pa nama Canal Zone Montezuma, Indiana Harve , Montana Virginia Beach, Virginia ayton, Ohio ( CASE MISSil~) Fall River, Massa chusett