PROJECT10073 RECORD CARD 2. LOCATION 2-3 seconds IIIIPS&MIA.YOP Round area of light, larger than basketball, blue-green, trail 3 -4 times siie of object. Appeared ahead of car while travelin~. 12. CONCLUSIONS 11. COMMINTS Typical description of m~teor'. _ ADD WITH FIREBALL I I TO DISINTEGRATE . . IT REMINDED ME SAID, or A WING BEING SHOT OFf AN SHULT2 SAID THAT WITHIN SECONDS AFTER THEY REPORTED SIGHTING THE OBJECT OTHt:a PLANES ALSO CAME IN WITH CONFIRMATIONS. . HE SAID'TRE PILOT or A NAVY TRANSPORT lAS SORE THAT .. A ROCKET OR . SSILE HAD BEDl fliED AND ENDANGERED HIS PASSENGERS. _:'~ , .. . . THE NAVYt PILOT SAID HE HAD. TO TAKE;. EVASIVE ACTION t . HE REPO~TED ~:-: . SCHULTZ SAID . THE OBJECT' VAS IN SlC:HT fOR ABOUT A MINUTE. \ .!'.:BE SAID A .. llDICULOUS. ESTIMATE OF THE SPEED OF THE OBJECT .. WOULD. BE Y.yter.,. Uth~ 1 rerCl.:t it:. Mytc:' !O!'.tAn drer&ft, 'bet not~ :, that a.re&-~and ha V'! s~ u-:h ' az:d t:nll':ri r: Wt~t-56utt~.-st c.!.:-9etiono la:-g!l s-. br'i.ilt: ~ 117. JIBJ:Sll Tbe North A merfcan AJr De- fense Command at Colorado Sprlnp, Colo., aald today lt _,.Uevecl a Imp arebaU that hurtled aerou tbe predawn ,. skies of Iva West~ atate .. / was a. meteor. Command' otftclals said an . Ab: P'orce . lnves~p.tlnt team. wtm1d be flown Jmmedtately" to the northeastern Utah ntte thP object apparently cr~hed early tbls morning. TilE COMl\IAND confirmed r~juut~ the' my,aterlous ery ob- lf!l' ~ narrowly aldeswlped a Navy pla.ne In an a~a near r h., Colo~Utab border, but ~ ., id Jt could not identify the pilot or where tha. pla:te wu b:11flbn Pl'e,the plane' num- ber as uNaV)" 1607.'' Commanci omclals j o 1 n e d 'fl'leral Eastern scientists Ia r ul ing out the posslblllty. the rlrfl!bfdl wu part of the Rus- ~ltn 5ateutte launching rocket t > t ber mllltary apokesmen iD t h area rejected the possibil- Ity: It wu ~ run-away mtssUe. "ThJaJa a period of heavy meteor aetlvlty," said. one Air Iror:ee .oalclal at the Air De- :teoie. Omm4Dd. "A shower kD=-~t~ .. ~OI&coblml41' was .. :uaet .lltsht> wtth _.,.. Oil tbe 18UL &JUI 234 w~oG't b&~ JD)' deblte t 'tllf whole thlag . ~ til-&l'e& oo -~and.', .~b~ eonimand'a publJ~ ~a~orm&UOI\ urvtee aald. " ! ba\*e been .told to announce t hat a full-scale ioveutga.tioa Js being made.'' -THE INDIANAPOUS STAR -------------.;.j Denver (AP) -A brlllWlt 000 feet below. The plane wu ball of tire u l'arp tl)'IDa at 17,000. feet at the u a boue, blutcl acroawllt time ud wu three mlllutel lkl Ill tbt dark put ltl checkpoint t. M;ytoa, nesa Je~terday. whizzed 10 Utah. doH to a Navy plane that the In addition to the crew, the !Dot bad to make a aba.rp 4-ename plane carried 23 pu- turn. to avoid a collllloa. senprs. No one waa burt and Sclentlltl aald they are aure the plane wu not damaaecL tht tlamlnJ object :wa a An Air Force bomber pDot, mtterltt and had no connec-Lt. George WorteU of Cleve tlon wltb the Russian aatelUte land, aid he thought for a launched lut week. time the fireball wu on a Tht Navy transport plane coUislon course with his plane, pilot, Lt. Cmdr. W. P. Noms, and: 1ald after IHlnJ the fireball, .. When It passed Instead of he circled over it and saw it hittlna us, excitement turned erath in ruaed country near to awe. The cockpit was lit lbe Colorado-Utah border. up like daylight It wu Norrl1 aid he had to bank a big ball of blue-white fire abarpiJ to avoid the fireball. only five or 10 mUea away. HEADQUARTERS of the "It went by at t err 1 f 1 c North American Air Defense speed In a descending trajec- Command at Colorado Sprlnp tory from about 50,000 feet, aid filers will search the area trailing a spectacular mulU of Myton, fD east-central colored tail. It seeaned to dia- UtM. ' . intearate before It hit around, ange "co.lncl Ia purchased r) In the ne\\1' Airplane pUotl and nlpt toUara aU tbt wayfroan North Washington in (left), 11th the ''Dallal'S", garten, cam tmpatgn gets m Alabama, !ives tempor Dkota to Utah told of 1eeln1 tht namlna sky wanderer n. lumlnatlna, the heavtDL The 11 -man crew or the trauport plant ltl1l wu lhak- whlft tht plant landed at Norfolk, Va., D a r l y MnD boun later. Capt. E. A. who wu In tbe plane's cockpit wheD the fireball tint wu \nflrmatlon of :ton that thl.t d 11 enpged practices 1n law of the aald the object came drtvlnl out of the north. Mfl' WAS A BLUISH ball ol liN,'' nld Anderson, .selllor mtcllcal officer Norfolk Naval Air Station. Andii'IOil said the object ftuhed by tht left side ot the traniJ)Ort plant and appeared to have bumtd out about 1, LEAD DENVER ~,. ,. A CAA orrlC.IAl/' .. lH DENVD, SAID .THE. FIREB.ALL VAS THE i..ARC.EST HE RAJ) ~EVER SEJN.. HE SAID IT APPEAIED.;TO BE BLUE. AND lAS TRAILINCi LONG S . . COLCIIADO SPRINGS1 COLO . OCl 10(UP)A SPOKESMAN AT THE NORTH . AMERICAN All DEFENSE COMMAND IEADQUARlERS.SAID.TODAY HE WAS ORDERED TO ." .'~lElER AJ.l. Q ~ IES TO VASHlNCiTON ABOUT A HUGE flRDALL THAT rLASHED . . .. ~&CROSS SEVDAL WESTERN STATES ABQUT 1610' Ae Me MST (110' Ae Me EDT) .. -:: . .. \~i>~: : .CAPT. IOBDT GIVINs, STAJ'f.OFFICD lN CHA~GE AT%HI_COMMAND. . ~ . -, ... ~;: -~:.'HE REfUSED. TO CON11BM OR DENY 'THAT ANY INVESTIGATINQ PLANES HAD BEEN :..: .... -.SENT: TO THE SITE WHERE THE FIREBALL IS BD.IEVED TO HAVE CRASHED NEAR .. -~,,THE NORTHEASTERil III'AH TOWN Of MYTON. .. ~ -, . , : :. - .. ;~ .::-. IHEN ASKI:D I HEN HE GOT HIS. ORDERS TO RErER AL . , \. .:~ .: ~. : . ~ L QUDIES TO WASHINGTON :;s S~T ON TO I -.FOLO ~IIDAL~ VERNAL. .. I .. : IASHINGTONt OCT. 10.--( UP)-THE AIR FORCE .SAID TODAY IT IS lNVESTI- . . C:ATINCi IEPOIT5 or A rlREI.tLL. STREAKING ACROSS THE WESTERN PART or .THE ~ NATION EARLY TBl.S MORNING. A SPOKESMAN SAID THE FIREBALL APPEARS TO RAVE BIEN A METEOR.. . . I . THE All JOICE SAID ITS AIR DErENSE COMMAND HEADQUARTERS AT COLORADO . . SPRINGS RECEIVED REPORTS ABQISr THE nRDALL. FROM SEVERAL SOURCES EARL 1'}..-J ,: .. CIVIL SPORT PLANE, AND A NAVY lLOT. . i:: .. 'THE. AIR JOICE SAID THE FlRDALL APPARENTLY MOVED SOUTHWEST FROM [!"" . ....,.,, THE DAKOTAS MD MONTANA AND SEEMED TO HAVE LANDED NEAR MYTON UTAH IT~ oc \,lAS DESCilBED AS A l~lGHT GREEN. BALL WHICH TURNED WHITE AND KED ~UST ;; . BOTH THE All .. FORCE AND THE NAVY HERE SAID 'TREY HAD BEEN UNABLE TO -4-t . lDDITlrY THE NAVY PILOT WHO lAS REPORTED TO HAVE SEEN THE FIREBALL Vtr'" . BOTH SDVlCES DENIED REPORTS THAT THERE HAD BEEN ANY SECRECY LlD ON TIE FlRDALLe . . (DI AIR roact~SEZ YOU SHOULD BE ABLE. TO GET EVERYTHING: AVAILABLE . QN liiEBALL.THROUGH ACOLe MAYALL. AT ADC, COLORADO SPRINGS--VA) IAl.f&A . IASHINGTONt OCTe 10e(UP)A HUGE FIREBALL SEEN OVER DENVER AT , 1 7.10' Ae lie IDT TODAY lAS .tiOT. SPUTNIK. . .. . fX~. ~IADlO tiACKERS IDE CLOCKED THE SQVlET SATELLITE OVER. MID-UNITED . , STATES AT 7131-Ae 11. EDT. AT THAT IIOMENT IT lAS JLYING IN A NORTHWEST- . ."SOUTHEAST DlRECTlON . IEST ... OF A LINE BETWEEN DETROIT AND CLEVELAND. . , _;. '~-- .~.THE IAD10 TIACIIN(; CONTROL CINTER HERE SAID SPUTNIK VOUI.D PASS . ~"?fi :-orriClALS BAD tiO lAY. Ol ICNOIIN; IMMEDIATD. Y WHETHER. THE FIREBALL , ..... 1AS ONE or ~PttrNIK'S COMPANIONS~THE .THIRD STAGE ROCKET AND NOSE t , .. ..,~ .CONE IBICH ALSO I IDE REPORTED TO BE CIRCLING THE EARTH. ' . . . . . ~ . I 00 RJEPHQ RJEPMB RJEDV , DE RJEPNY fM COC 26ADIV ROSLYN AFS NY TO RJEDEN/CMDR ADC ENT AFB COLO RJEDWP/CMDR ATIC VRIQICT PATERSON AFB OHI RJEPHQ/DIR INTEL HQ USAJ WASH 25 DC. RJEPNB/CMDR DET 3 1116716 AISS STEWART AFB NY INro RJIPNBICMDR EADJ STEWART AFB NY le DESCRIPTI ONI A. ROUND AREA Of LIGHT B. LARGER THAN A BASKETBALL I 2. DESCRIPTION or COURSE A. APPEARED AHEAD OF CAR WHILE TRAVELING B. 7' DEGREES FROM HOR120N c. 31 DEGREEZ FROM HORIZON D. STRAIGHT LINE OR A SLIGHT ARC E. JADED FRCM VIEW Fe. TWO -THREE SECONDS 3. MANNER or OBSERVATIONI A. GROUND/VISUAL - TIME & DATE OF SIGHTING 5 LEV TTOWN, NEW YORK 6. IDENTIFYING INFO or ALL OBSERVERS