PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 2. LOCATION CONClUSIONS 0 Wos BoUoaft Probooty Bolloa" D Possibly Bolloott 3. DATI-TIMI 0~ 4 TYfl! 0' OISIRVATIOM -,.~P~H~ows 7. LENGTH Olt.OIIIIIVATION 30 seconds 10. 8RIIfl SUMMARY OP SIGHTING .IJ"...GreUftci-VI suol 8. NUMBER 01' OIJICTS One round very bright ye~lowish red light seen o n t wo occasion s one minute for a duratlon o f thir~y seconds. AnC POWM l29 (REV 21 SaP .52) D Groun< A Mor D Air-lntercettt Rodat 11. COMMENTS 0 Wos Aircraft ~L Proitoitly Aircraft D Possibly Aircreft 0 Was AstroftOifticol . 0 ProitoWy A.,ronomicol 0 Possebly Astronoicol 0 Insufficient Date fer Evoluotion 0 Unllnown Description, Jur~t~ion ind~cate that tt1is si~hti ~as probably caused by an a~1cr~ft or more ove r No1 to11 ~t the ~ime of sighting reporLod J REPORT FROM THE COAST GUARD CUTTER IN H 0 .M~XlCO SAID THE OBJECT SPOTTED BY ITS MEN wRES BLED A BRILLIANT PLANET" THAT TRAVELED IN CONCENTRIC CIRCLES AROUND THE VESSEL. RADAR CONTACT WAS RETAINED OFF AND ON FROM 5:10 A.M. UNTIL 5:37 A.~. THE OBJECT WAS SAID TO HAVE BEEN VISIBLE TO THE .NAK~D EYE FOR A30UT TktREE SECONDS DURING THAT TirlE. THE COAST GUARD ALERTED OTHER S~!?S IN THE AREA TO KEEP A ~ATCH FOR THE OBJECT. ~OUR ~EN ABOARD TH! SHIP TALKED BY MARI~E PHONE AND RADIO WITH CO . .\S T GUARD HEADQUARTERS IN NE'IJ ORLEANS. ENS. ~AYNE SCHOTLEY, REDLA~DS, CALIF., SAID HE SA~ THE OBJECT A7 31DEGREE ELEVATION MOVINGNORTH. HE SAID IT ENTERED A CLOUD BANK . IJ D ISAPPEARE.D CUTTER SlGHTS FLYING OBJECT Noted on Ship Radar, Guard Reoorts [Continued friJm fir~t pa~el abiJutthe signal classified~ but an FCC spoke sman was later B quoteLl as sayin!Z: "rt is n ' t classified. vVe just don't know yet what it is." e~ The signal as repro duced plt from a recording was a long note of low p itch, followed after a few secnds by two sh ort notes. wot Last month, shortly after he sputnik I went aloft, several !nt radio hams at Phoenix, Ariz., it r~ reported hearing a series of s strange signals adjacent to the 20.005 frequency used by the Russian satellite. At that time government of- Washington, who de- identified even as to a gency, said they were un- able to discwss the matter ex-ft cept t o say the signals were not connected with snutink in , anv ,.._ay. The impiic3tion was ~ that :1 hush-hush project. prob-. r.r a o y rm 1 ary, was mviJnc . Ohjed Over \\'iscnnsin prr ~r;ooner, \Vis .. 1\ov. 5 \\'iccly separ:~tcd rC'sic!cnts of j tn: th1s n orthwestern \\'isconsin ly area-mcluding an Ep1scopalJ !i~ mmtstcr and a newsp~p('r edi-~ H. tor-r e p o r t e d s 1 )!! h t i n fZ d r . a -;tr~nS!e object in the sky at 1 a rout sunset vesterdav. T~e I Reo;. R. C. Wa-rder, rector off b St. Albans church. sa:d he r was driving 20 miles north-th east oi Spooner when he saw lnt a cigar shaped object" in Int. the western sky. Isla. '.\'illiam Stewart. editor of any the Snooner Advocate, re-fessor was aware that one of " .-ed a call from a woman I '\'\'ho reoorted she al so saw' to put a destructi1e or inve 1~:~ -:0--::erhirH~ in the westerly sky.j death ray'' on its li st of.. want-similar' St~.,., .. trt we.nt outs1_ce h is office l e? inventions. Th.e council other a.t wtt .1 a pa1r of f1eld glasses 1 c~r ate~ such a list ~mong 'Vltnef. :1:-t onlirmed that he could, c1vthan mventors, engmeers ject skip ... ce 1 d!.StJnt object. but could l and scien tists. So far, he said: t (I b cnt>iY it. no one has come up wit~ any ~Sl .e 1' Ltv De'tice l'nknown death or destructive ray. hfu: .. t;pl ........ 1:n~ton. ~;ov. :) .-?'-.-\! The ai r force s:ud today it rL, . c::~abl~ oi d:5rupting has asst~ned tr:;ineu i!tvP.sti- j James :-: :>t::-11on oi motor vehi- g:ltors to look into the c:.~r:-ent .gineer tr( ,. :' .n o~nt:r m~c!~anicall flurry of reoorted sight:ngs of sile dev P.::::m~nt is one o f the strJnge ilywg objects. Holloman i. _ , he armed io rces The radar netw ork oi the do , N. M \\ ~. <i i::,e to :;ce l:eveloped. 1 air defense command ts !-\ee?-n ~ w !..vLwrd . Hardlln~. cn~ef in~ watch, the ~ir f.orce said, KALG . Pf! :.. r:eer or the n:wonal tn but no radar s1ghtmgs have ere ;to \ , : r.l cc11nnl. satd today in been reported by it. ~e~ert h / r . P :1se to an in uutry t~at \ Vithm the last two days , i' e l!O~s not know oi any re sightings of strange objects in this country Jimed I have been reported from a va- J: :>roducing a device that riety oi places in the United un:!d stall automobillls or States and at sea. Severai re- ..::w!:-e radios to fade. ports spoke of an egg shaped Such happening3 have :1een object several hundred feet reo1nted in the last se'. eral lon~. ". J . chys in the southwest in con Reports Autos -St3lled , .;:.;l~, nect:on with the repv,.ted Lubbock, Tex., Nov. 5 L~ ,. .. st~nt~:lg of a mystery oi..ject A missile engineer reported ~ in the skies. seeing a ." brilliant egg-shaped . :-. Hardland said that fot.r or object" which he aaid stalled 4:*q~ .. five yeara ago the military autos in New Mexico yester ~ , ..... asked the tnventon council day. The air force beaan an .. l_no...~:, on t iH: rao.tr c.t::e!l :1.t 6: LO crw. tn\l !.n thP guli 300 mlle,; southeast or New Orleans. n was seen by four m en on \\atch . I !or a.bou t three seconds at 5:21 . ~ Air Force says its inves-a .m. The las e radar contact ~ons of 5,700 reported was at 5:37a.m. ltitt:lngs of flying saucers in Lt. Shaffer said the radar in- ~ past 10 years have pro-dicated the brilliant object .w as r--4uzd "no physical or matetial: about 14 miles !.rom the cutter \ e~nce" that such thin:~s when it was first. spotted. It' " ent was moving from north to south \ /) The Pentagon issued this re-and faded rapidly astern on the [ " l*t last night after signtings radar scope. ~ 1 ot mysterious flying o~jects, Secona Contact Reported wae reported this w'!ek fronrl About -three minutes late1, ~t.ous parts o! the country., he said, a second contact was &ate of the reported objects made. ws::e said to glow w1th a ~"Its range was very close and !tlAnge light and to have it was coming back in the op~ caued auto engines to stall. l posite direction f_rom _which it . r--. Sghtings of flying saucers. had been travehn:g-m ot.her 1 hue been reported !rom time words from sol:lth to north. 1t to rune over the past decade., moved up. agam and back u p Imutigation of .them has been the port side ?f the S~bag~ and hmdled by the Air Technical! agam no audible or v1sual con- 'lltelllgence center a t Wright-; tact was made.' Patterson Air Force Base near. On anoth~r radar _contact. ~on, Ohio. Previous Air; the o~cer sa1d, the o~Ject was :Fon:e reports on saucers have at a . d1stance of 22 miles on a i:. bee along the lines of the one b_earm~ of 188 degrees. He con-~ '-J ,. There have been suggest~ons bearing 190 degrees at a rarrge ~ .... , ~'"'~ ~ ~y flat the n~w rash of sightl~gs: of 55 m iles. I consider those $~)~; ; 'r:,f N. wu ~nspll'ed by Rus~ta's. the two best possible chances ~ , .. l~mchmg of earth satellites. we had to. clock it for speed and .. J A . No Evidence of Saucers 1 our ~est . two . tips: If it went -J In its report last n ig!'lt the. 33. m1les m two mmutes. it was Air Force said "There is no; gomg almost 1,000 m il'es an Ph.Ysical or m~terial evidence, hour." not eve.'l a minute frag:nent . .. t\ that a. so-called fiying sauce: ......::; wu ever found!' ~ It also said there is no ev i- .., .. dence that the alleged objects ~ are interplanetary space ships. , '\.. that they indicate developments "~ \ beyond the range of current ...,.. -&eientific knowled~e. or that. ~ they pose any threat to the '\ Nation's security, \ '" In Pensacola, F la .. the nJ.vi- .._., -gator of the Coast Guard cut - ter Sebago yesterday estimated a fYing object s ighted over the gul! the day before had a. speed of between 1.000 and 3,300 miles per hour. Lt. (j. g.) Donald Shaffer of Greensboro. Pa.: said h.e based the estimate on elapsed time and distance tra \e!ed betwoen BY \V.\LTER TROHA~ . [Cbluo Trlhn Prua St-nl\:1 ' OTHE R STORIES \Vashingt on, Nov: 5 .\Iter: Red~t expect to celebrat e ~ an extraordinary two hour I 50th annher:wry or bolshe 1 cabinet session earlier in the l vik revolution on th e moon. li,. day, President Eisenhower to-Story on page 3. night announced that he wilJ Tribune told of !)o:-on. '1 1 ' Russia' s ''new" rocket ~V make an address o( major iml fuel, nine yean a.i(o; twu ' publ ;.. p~rtance Thursday night on i u. s . . plants produce it. . Kni sctence and security on na-1 Story on page. s. I f ..... tional radio and televisions Sectional Jealousies im how hookups. peril midwest's preemi Nix The cablnet meeting was nence Jn nuclear reseurc:h, held against the ominous U. of C. chanceHor warns. back2:round of Russian sci en i. ory on page 11. , tific accom plishme nts and the related legisla tive a nd b udge-New Orleans, .Nov. 5 UP!-out tary programs of the admini The coa3t guar d cutter Seba~o stration for 1958. Several sighted a n unid en tified flying aao.t hours later the 'Vhite House object ove r the Gulf of l\Iexi C~l. said that the President will I co at 5:2 1 a. m. today. The will cancel his scheduled press object, seen 'for about three I to conference. tomorrow morn seconds, resembled a brilliant his ing because he will cover the planet moving at tremendous same information. in his speed. . ' / night speech as he Coast guard . headquarters sai have provided in in New Orleans received a ra ra ~ ... answers to press JJ.ucst ions. dio message about ~he ~ight-'" b' Thursday night fai3 un ~he ing: '1"he message did not say l spli 40th anniversary of the Rus-exactly who on board the cut the aian revolution. ~ ter had seen the object. Slate Live Broadcast But the message said the . ': ; The address, the first of his osbJb. ect ~ad been tracked on the do .. ,. f 'd ., h h a ago s radar screen for 11 Kn . con 1 ence speec es e b f ~ d U ill b nunutes e ore the VISual con- . . pronuse recen y, w e t d f d li b ~ C b ' tac an or 16 mmutes after- carrie ~e Y e urn la ward. During these periods, B.r~adcastmg s~stem on tele-the object . darted off the th VIsion and ra.diQ fr~m to screen every few minutes but 7:30 p. m ., Chicago tlme. The soon returned : . on White House said the Ameri . t can Broadcasting system will Gives Location of Ship re show ,a film of the speech at Comdr. James Schrader, to 9:30 p. m. and National Broad-head of search and rescue op casting company at 10:15 erations in the ~, said the p. m., Chicago time. Mutual object had been seen at lati n o Broadcasting system will re ~ude 25.47. north, longitude in: broadcast the speech at 8~ .. 24 west or about 200 miles pa 10 p. m., Chicago time. dll'ectly south of the mouth of Cabinet m'mbers left the the Mississippi river . .. White House silent as usual Comdr. Schrader said the .u,. , on their deliberations with the radio message gave this log of D President. They ~ru return the morning incident: . . Friday for another asses5ment 5:10. a m.-The object was Vi ~ . . of problems confronting the seen on the radar screen, mov m administration. ing north to south, about 14 ti ~feet Again Friday ... ~iles fro~ the cutter. The ob la . Ject cont mued to move closer, wi The White House and ca.b shifting toward the port side. se .t members would no~ dis 5:14 Contact was lo st. . ,,~ that the ~xtraordmar.t 5:16-Contact was regained .~ s~ss1on .and the regular-ses with the object about 22 miles s1?n Fnday v.~ere con~erned north of the cutter. P \Vlth the sta~tling Russlan ~e-5:18-The object, about 55 do elopments m rocket and nus-miles from the Sebago, faded UQ sile research. It was conc.ed-ed, off the sc:-een. . however, that no considera tion oi 1958 spending could T ell Object's Cban&es fail to be influenced by the S:.2U-Contact was r.egained. w Red earth satellites and their The obje~t appeared station w repercussions on world af ary, sev~n miles due n or th. fairs. 5:~1-The object was seen, The solemn mien of cabinet moving horizontally south to members evidenced concern north. It was seen for about over the impending full scale three seconds and resembled aenate investigation into what a brilliant planet with a high the United States needs to win rate of speed. the race for superiority over 5:~1-Radar contact was re- the soviet union in rocket sumed missile developments. 5:37-The cutter reported its Admits Reds Ahead last radar contact with the ob- ject about 175 miles north of In the afternoon Secretary the shi~-. of State Dulles told a news The Sebago is expected to conference that Russia ap-report back to its home base pears to. lead the United in MobUe by Thursday States in the missile field ;n aome rupecta, but expreuAd . 1\lysiel')' Slpal Heard eonfidence this coun~ can New York, NoY. a tit-A ~atch up. . . .; .. . myaterioua radio aipal not :.C 1 ~ ~,. Viilta4 Sti''' h,. Pldi .-.anatm' Ill Rusaia'~ te that.: like sputnik li:baff11DI short n1oa:1 aunq EYIICE Df THE MIDDLE WEST Founded June 10, 18-l1 CXVI NO. 266 UY Till!: CUICACO 1'RIBUNEJ WEDNESDAY, NOVE~IBER 6, 1957 lkePians,\c.l(.lre~s L,,g~ell hr (urt'""~r Ol110rro\v Ni;.:ht. ()Ji l .. l)LJi~iana in I 'l'HIS PAPER CONSISTS Olt"' I'OUR SEC'l'IONS-SEGTION ONE PRICE SEVEN CENT HER A L D, WED~ E S DAY, n.?rplanetary," Kehoe said. , the Air F orce m issile c e':elop-a lion fro m a g1ant sun lamp," in iome of t.'1e citizezu. peace~ ment center at Al<>-rr.agordo, its wake. cers and servicemen who re- ).i. ).[., r eported 10 autos st alled Leonard Hardlund, chief engi- l (.>.:-ted sighting myste~./ objects !yesterday on a desert highway. 1 neer for the X a tiona! Inventors' il the Southwest since the weElk-He! reported seeing a soundless. j council here. said a device that: ... 1d said the objects stalled auto "briJJiant-colored egg-sha ped ob-I could stall autos or othe r me-FJ!i;If ~gines and caused radios to ject" \\.'hich flirted erratically chan ica] equipment is one o! the' :ect wa.s re- '., r::er si.rrular . rolect resem. '\":l!J seen for ob.}4!ct.s :h!! t:r.1tea ., :er..se Co rn- OZ3ton ha\''! >r< into tte I '""' the Air . . :-eporu ot :->r tl:e A l r ~ C.'lorado "?JI t to th~ .-r-accoro- . -, official t :-epo d .. ~raJ. J:tcn. ~cu. ot the 4:pe. across the countryside and letti things the armed forces would 1 ames Stokes, an sort of heat wave, ''like radi-' like to s~e developed. ~ nt:rplanetary," l< oe ~:.:<!. lhP. Alr Force nussllf! ,:ev<?lop-