PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD CONCLUSION$ 1. DATI 2. LOCATION 0 Wos Balloon 0 Probablv Balloon 0 Poaalbly Balloon 4 Dee~iilbdr 195 7 pver C inc inua t i, Ohio 3. DAT!TIMI GROUP ~. TYPE OF OIS!AVATION Woi Aircraft 0 P robair~Jy Aircraft Local 1 H 59 0 Gto'lf'!cf. VIsual 0 GroundRoclor Poulbly Aircraft S. PHOTOI 6 IOUAC Q:xWaa Aatronomlcol Meteo r 0 Y 0 Probably Aatronomlcol ;a<No :C i v i 1 i 1:111 C Po aal bl y Aatronoml col 0 lnaufflclont Doto for Evaluation 2-3 seconds one East 10. 1,_11 .. IUMMAAV 0, SIOHTINO White light, bright as the moon. No sound, desce11ding toward horizon and just disa p peared. ATIC PORM 329 (REV 26 liSP 52) 11. COMMENTS Probably a meteo1 --Earth now G11te r i ng Geminids meteor shower. Sct:~cE NEws Lt:rrEk f ur Nov,mba 21: IY5t A crescent moon and the planet Venus will be close to- gether on December 24, making a brilliant pair that lights the Christmas sky. rises later, about two hours before the 11un iu Libra, the: scales. ' If, on Christmas eve, when the crescent moon is standing nearby, you look at Venus through a telescope, you will find that it also is in a crescent phase. By JAMES STOKLEY ~ This yenr we will have n renl Christmas star. The planet Venus, which has been in- creasing in prominence during the autumn, will be at its greatest brilliance on Dec. After the sky gets dark, around this date, Venus will be blazing in the southwest, _ until it follows the sun below the horizon, more than three hours later. But even this will not be the full extent of the displ.1y. On the 24th, the moon, in a crescent phase, three days after the new moon, will p.1 just to the: nnrth of Venus. While the closest approach cowes, for Atnerit,nl.;, du,- in~ cbylight hours, they will still t,~ du~c tuRether th at evening, Christmas l , ., . tnd will form :l st.riking backdrop fo r the carolers si nging their Yuletide grceuu . Venus is the only planet that can (1, :en well on December evenings. On the~,., tth, ~lercury is farthest east of the 'II" ''"I will rem>tin briefly in the southwe,tr r n .. 1,. 1 after the sun has sc:t. Possibly, if u h tve :1 very clear view in that dirc:ctiuu, citu.l l ook closely, you can get a glimpst: of this innermost of all the planets, but this ic; nut really a f avorable time to sec i~fercurv. No planets appear o n the accomp " '71">( maps of the December evening ' " t~. (, .r these show their appearance l:tLcr 111 h~ even in g. aftc:r Venus has set. I I 1 v , Jr:nvn for about 10:00 p.m., your I)Wn ,., 1J k ind of standard time, on Dec. I, ;ulJ <In h our earlier at the middle of the '' " 1tl In the S(IUtheast there is now visible tht! brilliant array of stars which make th\! skies of the winter evening so beautiful. Dog-Star Is Brightest Brightest of these stars is Sirius; the dog- star, part of Canis Major, the great dog, near the horizon. However, its low altitude causes a partial diminution of its light. Later in the night it climbs higher th~ southern sky and is thc:n even more C>ll ~p1CUOIIS. Un the:: .htronomer's scale nf ~t:tr bright nesses, Sirius is of magnitude minus 1.4, which means that it exceeds any other st:1r that we can see in the nighttime sky. Com- to Venus, however, i t is relatively fai nt, for the m agnitude of th at pbnet i's minus 4.4. Venus now i~ ne:uly 16 times as bright as Sirius. A bov~ Sirius, Orion, the \V:I rrinr, ma v he Sl..t:ll. In Lhis group arc two bri~h t '>tars "f the "fint 1r1 agllltune: littelheu~e. ro t! It: left, and Rigel, a little lower anJ tn the right. Between them is a row of three fuinter stars that form Orion's belt. Directly above Orion is Taurus, the bull, baran as the brightest star; dis- tinctly red in hue, it is easy to identify. To the left of Taurus is Auriga, the ch.1rioteer, with the star Capella, :mother of the first magnitude. Descending from Capella, we come to Gemini, the twins, with the stars called Castor and Pollux, of which the latter is the brighter. And between Gemini and Canis Major stands Canis Minor, d1e lesser d og, with Procyon as the brightest sur. toward the southwest are found the remnants of the constellations of the autumn evenings. Near the horizon, as shown on the maps, or higher if it is earlier in the evening, is Vega, about all that is ~:~en of Lyra, the lyre. Above and to the lrft i s Cygnus, the swan, with Deneb. \\'hile Vega and D eneb both nre first m ag- nitude stars, their low altitude makes them look fainter. 3:30 a. m ., at the beginning of Oc:~.:ember, and 1 :30 a. m ., at the enu, another planet, Jupiter, appt:ars in the 'outheast, in Virgo, the virgin. Its bright- ness now is just about the same ns that Sirius. Mars, of the second m:tgnitude, tl-CASSIOPEIA Procyon ..-...<[,llPU5 r Jortust{' MAJO~ Crescent Venus It will not be quite as thin a crescent as tl.at of the moon, but more like the moon some two days later, or about five days after It 1s new. The reason for the lunar phases is founJ in the fact t hat, as the moon revolves around the earth, it presents to our view varying amounts of its illuminateJ hemisphere. At new, it is practically between the sun and us; the sunlit half is entirely turned away and we see nothing. But a few days later, as the m oon swings eastward from the directio n of the sun, it remains in the. western sky for n while after the sun has set. A narrow sliver of the bright half then appears to us, ns a crt:scent. Then, as it still farther a\vay from the sun, half, three-quarters, and finally all, of the sunlit side is presented to us, bringing the full moon. This t1kes about two weeks. During the next two w eeks the ch anges occur in reverse order, and the moon is new once again. Something similar happens to Venus. ?~u:e South i)-* o SYMBOLS FOR STARS IN ORDER OF BRIGHTNESS .' No Case (Information Only) December 1957 Pacific Ocean In Decomber, nA1o 'of tblt irttiah Sbip's.s. W'.maey,~ oft San pedro, Onl1fom1a ln the Pacit1o Ooee.n, photographed " etrenge :tlylng CZ'att With 4ome, landiq a.tnte, antenna, an4 a . ret:raotable ~ .. Case (Inloraation Yorkshire, England R!C!Nr Nt:WS STORIES SAUCER WITH HIEROGLYPHICS FCtrnD IN ENllu\ND (See photo on coYer )a This ~tory ia a bit out of date, but it should be new to most of our American readersa In December of last year, three men found a smll flying saucer with strange WTiting on it on a moor near Yorkshire, England. The men were driing up a steep hill on the moor one night, when the engine ot their car suddenly cut out. Accordin& tc their report to the newsp&pers, they then aav a glowing object in the sky above aome nearby trees. The object appeared to tall to the ground. One ot tbe mn, named Hutton, then took a flashlight ~d went out to .. :$fi~:'~: loca-te 1 t, and bavi:1g .done ao, he returned to the ear to tell his trienda. On '~'.'i."'y:: the way back to the car, he pe.aaed a man and woman on a little-used path. When he returned to_the spot on the moor where he had located the obj~ct a few min- utes before, it wa1 no longer there. It subsequently developed that thia other QAn, ~ho is not identified by name in the pape:s, had picksd up the ~ateriou obj~ct, and Hutton and his friends eventually bought it from him for $28. They then 1 ~nt it to anc t.her unnamed man whom they be lievsd to be a.n authority on flying saucer. The baae ot this ~ster1oua saucer-Shaped object is made of cop~r. It is double-skinned, w\th a m.tal ooatin' about 3/l6tb of an inch thick. It has two Yent holes in t.he top, with scorch marks around them. A batt runa through the middle, end with a flashlight it ia possible to look into the in- terior. Therein is round some copper tubing about a quarter of an inch in di- ameter coiled around a metal cylinder. Al3o i~side is a. powdery substance ot some kind. The ohjact. ia strongly made, and if it is a mers hoax, it wet baTe coat the hoaxter & fsirly large amount of money to construct it. There are hieroglyphics on the outside of the saucer, and when the object waa t.aken ape rt, .17 thin copper sheet a similar to tin foil in textut-e -were found inside it ia lhe form of' a book. The abo'le-runtioned rlying saucer . . authori. ty claims t<> ha'lt tranalated the outside message a a follows Message inaide to be dalt with ~ philosophers~ not o~ticials. Gcod ~ih Ulo." The inside message, written on these 17 copper shaeta,beg1ns aa tollovst 1-ty nt.me ia Ulo, and I write thia message to youp my friende en th plane't. ot the sun you call earth. Vnere I live I will not say. You are a tierce race, . and prepare tor apace traval 'the man who made this translation vas quoted .; ~ a a saying, I accept thi a a ~asap, but I don't accept that it. come a trom another planet.. I thi nlc it we. a densed a a a methocl o~ presenting cek t.ain idea a to the public -ei the!" by we.y of propaganda or advice. It may h&Ye come trom a ~ body of seintista, who, it they tried to put oer their message in a ncr=al way, might 1te guilty of a breach of' trust. We of SAUCER N!WS ars inclined to s~r~e ~n general llitl'l. thi3 lnter!)r,tation, a..seum!ng ':hat. the 3&uce~r ia !lOt .. n outright hoax a~er all. OHICIAL PUillCATICN 0' ~I SA~Ctl AND UHUM.AlN!D CGLiS11A'-IV!N't1 aiSUIC"4 SOCliJV MAILING ADOilUSl ICI'fOI: I I JAMU vi. IU THE ABOV! PHOTO, an Engl ishrran i ~ hol din2: a f~ll to ~arth en an Enr.li3h ceor las~ Dec~mber tails. {?hoto courtesy of' 3rJ&n Essenhis}l.) scall mystarious saucer vhich 3ee story on ?age 17 for de- Fc.A'l~JRZ A.?.T!':l.ES J /. Dr~ )a~ideon a the ~G~ Code-by f d Y~rsch.~ Pags 4 ~tratsrrestrialiso as an P.istorical Doct.ri.~ (Ftlrt. ~. o, Section ~n~) -by ion Aharon Page 14 No Case (Information Only) 2 December 1957 ~ S . SAil THEY HAD NEVIll HEAlD T ME NAttt. THE FREE PRESS STORY SAID tHE FAIMER SHIPPED HIS FIND TO TliE REGINA LEADER POST TO CUlM A 1100 IEVAID OffERED IY THE.PAPER TO THE JINDER OF THE ilRST PIECE OJ tHLIOCKET. . - . IERT MCl<AY EDITOR OF THE VORLD~SPECTATOR AT NEARBY MOOSON IN, . SAID HE CHECK~ THE POST OFFICE, THE EXPRESS OFFICE AND THE BIJS LINES AND FOUND THAT NOTH lNG HAD IEEN SHIPPED TO THE REGINA LEADER POST -1 J'ROM THE rLEMING ARIA tOJ)AYe ~ STATION SENT A ClEW TO THE SCENE THEY COULD FIND NO TRACE or IHE ORTED FINDING lTe 5 -9 DSCElt:aC:R 1957 SICU~INGS O'Fallon, Illinois Forto Alegro, Brazil Cedar Key, Florida Lal:e City, Florida Lake C~ty, Florida New Or~eans, Louisiana S Weymouth, New Jersey Ne'..Jburgh, New York (CASE MISSING) Te:<arkana, Texas Griffis AFB, Nev York EVALUATION .Astra (MBTEOR) Insufficient Data Insufficient D~ta (PHYSICAL S@ Other ( PARll.CHUrE FLA.RE) (Air Vis) Aircraft reports) Astra (METEOR) wng Island, New Yorlt, lifaryland Torrington, Connecticut Oceana NAS, Virginia lo.'1U.lti 1-fulti (Military) tfulti ( 9 reports) Other (UNRa:LIAEIE REPORT) Astro (STAR/PL~NET) rrortheastern u . s . Yonkers, New, York ;. Nountaln. lake; N"=\/ . J ersey Clnr!ionatj,., Ohio I.a llaclera New M~ j< 1 et:) Savannah/Albany ,G,!or ,l a. Notn~, Alaska BaH be 1 J.s , NortlL rn !~,;o t r'! Shreveport, uml : !. nt:J Kildare ,Linden)'.'' vr;j.3~treveport', !.a Darrington, r/m~h i.LH.( ton Ti:flet-Monor, Nf)t'C.H'l!<.: Comfort, Texas wving , Texas Nontan;Cl, Canscll , .. ii .ord~r .!!remer OD J r:aS.t\ L/. .1. n Eelmont, Calif'o.r-rila Urur;u e-y Itaz uke, Japan ~t!oriarty New Me~.:i co Rec'll an<l H, Calit"oc~d.n Dc-cl-::!::1, !\labama Astro (ME'I'otq R) Astra (r1ETEOR) Astra (MOON) Insufficient Data Astro (VEI'ruS) Astro (t-IETEOR) Astro (fiiETEOR) Astro (VENUS) 1. Aircraft Contrails 2. Astro (VENUS) State Highway Patrol Ot.her (PARACHU'l'~S) Insufficient Data Other (REFLECTION) Astra (lifETEOR) Astra (HETEOR) Insufficient Data Astro (V!!!NUS) Insufficient D~ta Astro ( t-1ETEOR) P.stro ( VE.NUS) .ADDI TIO!l!-1L HSPOR'ED SIGHTINGS ( NOr.r CASSS) PhilaJ elphia , Pennsylvani::i EVALUATIO~I U. S. 1Al R FORCE T ECHHICAL IHFO RMATIOH SHEET Thia queationnalre haa betn prepared ao that you can Sllve the U. S. Air Force as much lnfctmation oa pouible concerning the unidentified oerlol phenomenon that you hove observed. Plea try to answer 01 many question 01 you poulbly can. The Information that you give will bt uud for rtaearch purposes, and will be rtSIQrdecl oa confidential material. Your natnt will not uud In connection with any atatementa, conclualona, or publications without your permiuion. We request this p.raonal Information ao that, If It Ia deemed neceuory, we may contact you for further dttoi Ia. 1. When did yov see the obltct? 2. Time of cloy: 'Ooy Month 3. Time zont: b. c.ntrat c. Mountain d. P.,ciflc 4. Where Wtrt you when you aow the Qbi.ct? Neoret Poetol ~dcheu Additional remarks: (Circle One): (Circle One): ,_-...DayliSiht Saving CP.Y ~Standard City or Town Stole or Covntry !. Estimate how lonSI you aaw the (b Howre Minute a 5.1 Circle one of the following to Indicate how certain you are of your answer to Question S. a. Certain b. Fairly certain 6. What was th conditicn of the alcy? (Circle One}: a. Bright doylight b. Dull daylight c . Bright twilight c..... Not very sure l...!t~: Jua t o guts 1 _ d, Just o trace of day I ight ' (.;;No trace of daylight r.-Dun't re"'ember 7, IF you sow the obiect during DAYLIGHT, TWILIGHT, or DAWN, where was rhe SUN located aa you loolced at the obiect? (Circle One]: a. In front of you b. In bock of you ~. To your right ATIC PORM NO. 164 ( J .s OCT 54) d. To your left e. 0'1erhead f. D o n ' t remember 8, IF you aaw the oujec:t. at NIGHT, TWILIGHT, or DAWN, what did you notice concerning the STARS and MOON? STARS (C irde OneJ: MOON (Circle One): ~Bright moonlight b. Dull moonlight No moonlight -pitch doric Don't remomber d. Don't remember 9. Wot the object brighter tha_n the badcground of the alcy? (Circ:le One): c. Don't rememher 10. IF It was BRIGHTER THAN t~e sky boc!cground, was the brightness like that of on automobile headlight?: (Circle One) a. A mile or more away (a distant car)? b. Several bloclcs caway? c. A block oway? d. Stveral yards/ away? 11. Old the object: a. Appaar to stand still <It "'"'Y tim? b. Suddenly speed up and r J ' " ,,way ot any tlmt? c. Brook up Into parts or tll4J) Iodt? d. Give off smoke? e. Change brightness? f. Change shape? g. Flicker, throb, or pulsate? (Circle One For eoch qwstion'