PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 12. CONCLUSIONS 2. LOCATION D Woe Balloon 30 May 5R W of N. Africa D Prolaolaly Balloon Wy Balloon D Woe Aircraft Lon1----------x O..un4-VIauol a GroundRodor a Prolaolaly Aircraft 30/11,15Z a AI.-VItuol D Alrlntorcopt Rodor D PoaaiWy Ahcroft '-a Wos Astronomi col D ProlaoWy Aatronomlcol 1----J1DC~tf~ .. !....------------J.~Cli~V~i~l~i!nJ1n~- ----f D Poaailaly Astronomical 7. LINOTH 0' OIIERYATION I. NUMIIR 011 OBJECTS 9. COURSE D Other _ _., lnaufflciont Doto for Evoluotion not given one . West IRIIP 011 SIGHTING I I. COMMENTS . Obj moving West shooting flame & appearing to be falling. Based on the scanty ia1fo given conclusion cannot be d1awn white smoke & AftC PO ... lit (lt&V 21 ... II) T11B HOLLY RIVER SA UOER RANK MOI.t.OHAN: We couldn't &ell too much. You aee we were at Ute toot ot the hill and he waa clear on top, JOU might say, and we couldn't tell much what he wu do- BARKER: I had heard reportl from other people who had talked with you that you had seell' two little men about three feet tall. HANK MOLLOHAN (Interrupt- Ing) : No, we dldn t see nothing Uke BARKER: They must have exag- gerated that. You aaw a man and rou were 10 far away that naturally he looked small. You wouldn't have any Idea of Just how tall he might have been? HANK MOLLOHAN: No. BARKER: You aaw movement where It landed. Could you aee the object' Itself? HANK MOLLOHAN: We couldn't actually make out the object. We thought we saw It a tlm.e or two. BARKER: At the time you saw was lt stlll daylight? HANK MOLLOHAN: It waa about ~:30 or 5:00 In the evening. It wu pretty dusky then. BARKII:R: When you aaw thJa land, what waa your lmpres- alon that lt was? HANK MOLLOHAN: I thought It waa something from the Unltecl maybe, Army or Navy. There are so many experimental things. BARKII!R: I understand that you the police. HANK MOLLOHAN: No, we didn't call them. We started to call them and decided if we did call them and there wasn't anything to lt, people would think we were crazy. Then we got to thinking about lt and we just drove to Sutton and they weren't there ao we went to Gassaway and found thla State Pollceman .llttlnl there ln the road. What wu hla name Ill caae I want tO pt ln touch with HANK MOLLOHAN: I really don't HERMAN BARKER: Trooper MOLLOHAN: There was 1 another man wlth hlm who called hlm Rodney. BARKER: Rodney Belknap. talked with him last night. I asked "What do you think of these people? Are they truthful?" And he aald, yea, he waa aure that It wasn't someone Just making up something. he aald that you acted rather frightened. Were you? . MO'LLOHAN: Well, I wasn't exactly brave. He wan ted us to go up on top of the mountain with them that night, and we told them we wouldn't do lt. We would go the next day, but we wouldn't go after BARKER: Did you feel lt might be dangerous to go up there? J{ANK MOLLOHAN: Why, yeah, didn't tnow exactly what we'd BARKER: Waa lt after dark when you went tor the pollee? HANK MOLLOHAN: Oh yea, l suspect lt waa 7:00 o'clock when we 0. MOLLOHAN: Yeah, later than that . MOLLOHAN: It was about 10:00 or 10:30 when the pollee got Now after It was dark, could you see any lights? HANK MOLLOHAN: We thoug,ht aaw one light. We weren't a.b- aolutely aure. We thought we did. H. G MOLLOHAN: Now, let me ge' a word in here. There were three or them tellowa up there that had . Ughta, wasn't there' 'I'HB HOLL1 RIVER SAUCER IIANX MOLLOHAN: Yea. R. 0. MOLLOHAN: Well, aa I un- derstand It, the Knicely woman saw red U1ht war down there on the rldp, thll aide of them. BARKER: That waa when the po- llee were up there? . R. 0. MOLLOHAN: Way down there on thll aide of them. BARKER: And none of you people had a red light. MOLLOHAN: No, I dldn'S BARKER: Did the pollee 10 where you had seen the object? RANK MOLLOHAN: Yes. You see, we atood on the road, along the riv- er, and when they went up on top ol the hiD we hollered and tried to direct them to where It was, the best BARKER: Did they ftnd any MOLLOHAN: They said they dJdn't ftnd any signs at all. BARKER: When were .'the site? HANK MOLLOHAN: We were up the next day. BARKER: And what dld you ftnd? MOLLOHAN: We couldn't nothing, except where people had been trampling around, proba- the pollee had done It, or some- BARK_E_.H.: Are there open places where something that big could land without breaking any branch- HANK MOLLOHAN: There are places where there Isn't heavy tim- ber, grown up places where they could set straight down, like a heli- But as fn.r as an airplane and taking off, there isn't. What waa It your brother u.w? HANK MOLLOHAN: He saw a rod, It Just looked Uke a radar thing, a big rod with & thing on f'Qp of tt. reYol.tnl, rotn1 round and round. Waa It on top or the ob- BANK MOLLOHAN: It waa on the top or the hill, where the obJec& went down. BARKER: .And It was sticking up? MOLLOHAN: Uh huh. BARKER: And where waa he, he aaw th1a? HANK MOLt,QBAR: the road, over there what they call the Old Taylor bottom. BARKF:R: And )'OU weren't wltb him at that time? HANK MOLLOHAN: I wu wltb but he wu looking through the glassea. You see, we just had one pair of glassea. I never could locate BARKER: Now, to review, I would like you to tell me the namea of everyone who witnessed thla H. G. MOLLOHAN: Well, H. G. Mollohan, Jr., saw It, and his wife u.w u: Walter Knicely saw lt; and Ora Moats; and myself; and Eddie and his wife saw lt. HANK MOLLOHAN: There was a man on what they call Gibson Ridge saw It the same day, too. BARKER: What was his name? H. G. MOLLOHAN: Cougar or Gibson, I swear I can't remember HANK MOLLOHAN: Out on Gib- son Ridge. You know where Gibson BARKER: No I don't know thia country well. HANK MOLLOHAN: It's just north of here, about two miles, aa the crow 1llea. They came over here the next day In a pickup truck to And ~out what we'd seen, If lt was anything like what they had aeen. BARKER: How did they describe what ther had seen? '1'IIB ROLLY RIVER BAUCBR 41 RANK MOI.t.()RAN: I waa wor.t- lna. I didn't 1et to talt to them. My telllnl me about them belnl here. Did they aee anythlnl u ctoae up as you did? HANK MOLLOHAN: I really don't Have you ever heard any stories about ftylng saucers? HANK MOLLOHAN: I've heard quite a few of them. BARKER: What do you think - bout these stories? RANK MOLLOHAN: Well, I think there's aomethlng to lt. I think they see aomethlng . Do you think that what you saw was from apace? MOLLOHAN: No I don't think It was from apace. What makes you think It wasn't? HANK MOLLOHAN: Well, 'the main reason waa the fuel. The way the fuel was burnlnl and _everything they'd have to have an awful load of fuel to carry aa big a ahlp as t t waa and bring It any distance. BARKER: I bell eve It was your Impression that perhaps this wu some expertmen t. RANK MOLLOHAN: I believe lt waa some klnd of experimental thing of the Army or Navy had. You they have a proving ground at Aberdeen, Md., that Isn't too far . ... Did anyone from the Air Foree or any other government question you about it? HANK MOLLOHAN: No slr. MOLLOHAN: Ed talked to the F.B. I. When he waa up home. He talked to the I'.B.I., I belleve It was In Washington, on the tele- BARKER: And what dtd the I' .B.I. man tell him, anything? H. 0. MOLLOHAN: He wanted to know If the State Pollee from thla area reported It, and Ed told him just what waa said and what hap- pened. Told him he just doubted lt. He was pretty well tore up over how tbe law aeted about lt. BARKER: Tell me this, dld the law aeem to dlsbelleve. . . ? H. G. MOLLOHAN: Well, you know wasn't with them while they were Just the two boys were here. They just plainly told them they weren't 101n1 up ln them woods af- ter dart. In fact the deputy sheriff told them that he didn't see any sense ln 10in1 up there after night, but the state pollee wouldn't llsten BARKER: They went right on up Ulere then? H. G. MOLLOHAN: They went right on up three of them. BARKE:R: Well, when you aaw something llke that land, it mlght be just a blt diftleult to tell your- lelf to go up on a dark mountain and investigate. Just one more thinl I forgot to aat: What was the color of the object? . HANK MOLLOHAN: It was more of an aluminum color-about the ame color of the sky. If It hadn't been for the dark .eloud, I doubt lf we'd have ever seen it. BARKER: Dld It seem to glow? HANK MOLLOHAN: the sun glln ted on it. BARKER: Did it appear metallic? MOLLOHAN: Yes. BARKER: Well, thank you ~entle- men very much for an interesting account. ThJB will go into my rec- ords as another ease of people who haveaeen the so-called unldentltled 1lylng objects. We don't know quite what they are, but perhaps one of these days we shall. Thank )'OU verr utrmC<'nlcal rc.cuch h:~s de-..cl(\Kd udio The sun, the moon and n.iny oth~r ob. fectt in the universe arc sending us radio ' wam. Many radio telescopes have been built to pick up these waves, and provide data for study and interpretation. If a piece of iron is heated to approxi- a thousand dcl(rca Fahrenheit, it ' bqins to show a dull rc:d glow; at 3,000 dcxrcc .. it shines a brilliant white. These wava of visible light ranl(e in length from approximately l/40,000th inch, which give the .cnution of red, to approximately inch, which gives violet. Shorter than red arc the infrared, given ofT by ob-I jectl much too cool to show any vi~iblc: I xtow. The lonaer wavts in the infrared 1 run into the shortest radio waves, and these, 1 too, are given off by objects that arc rela- tively cool, even at temperatures no greater than those of our normal surroundings. Jupiter's Lightning Such waves in the ndio region, an inch or 10 in lenp, have been detected from the moon, Man and Venus, resulting from temperatures in the region of zero to 32 degrees Fahrenheit. Jupiter, however, is much colder, and no radiation of this sort has been detected from that planet. ' Nevertheless, in 1955 scientists in Wash- ington did pick up waves from Jupiter, some 45 feet in length. Unlike those due to the tempcnture, these were variable, coming in bursts, and were also much stronger. Each burst may last for a second or more. The static that we sometimes hear on our radio , usually comes from distant light-1 ning flashes here on earth. ~ One theory to explain the bursts of static" from Jupiter is that there, too, light- ning strokes occur in the clouds of methane and ammonia that fill the planet's skies. 1 But the total power of such a Jovian stroke 1 is about a hundred trillion times as great as the average stroke on earth. ~i Venus, also, has been found to broadcast similar signals, but these are :' much weaker, and shorter, too, lasting only a small fraction of a second. As these waves are studied by the new radio observatories, and others now being built, we will doubt- less acquire much new data about the I, planets, as well as other celesti3l bodies. 1 Celestial Time Table for May l 2 1 :oo a.m. Moon nearest, distance 223,400 1 . 4:21 a.m. Moon passes Jupiter. I i 3 7:ooa.m. Partial eclipse of moon bc~im, Yisiblc in region of Pacific Ocean. ! 7:23a.m. Full moon. I early a.m. Meteors visible, radiating from l . -constCila6ciiC Aquarius. I 6 5:22 a.m. Moon passes Saturn. 10 9:37a.m. Mnon in last quarter. I r 9:58a.m. Moon passes Mus. I 6:ooa.m. Moon farthest, distance 152.ooo 9:00a.m. Mercury farthest west of sun. 7:25p.m. Moon passes Venus. 1 2:00p.m. New moon. 9:16a.m. Moon passes Mercury. II 25 11:38 p.m. Moon in first quarter. 29 9:25a.m. Moon passes Jupiter. ' J JO 2:00a.m. Moon nearest, tlistancc :u6; Joo Subtrxt one hour for CST, two hours fur ! MST and thrrc for PST. 1 Science News Letter, April 26, 19SI ! EPHEMERIS FOR SOVIET EARTH SATELLITE f3 (1958 Delta) Thia ephemeria was compiled on 15 May 1958 baaed upon very early orbit data* and Orbits I 1 through 152 were computed based upon an orbit time of 106 minutes. Thus the equatorial crossing charts for these oribta were drawn with an orbit to orbit shift to the left of 26 30'. Obviously the orbit to orbit shift will be augmented by the effect of the ear~h' s oblat,eneaa against the argument of the equatorial crossing angle. The Equatorial Crossing Graphs for Orbits f53 and greater are corrected for this rotation of the Orbital Plane. This rotation of the orbital plane due to an equatorial crossing angle of 65 ia 14' 56". Thus; for more accurate plotting, the Orbits fl through 152 should be moved to the left (on the Equatorial Crossing Graphs for 15 through 18 May) by O.Z49N degrees where N is the number of the orbit. The refinements afforded by later orbit sightings showed that a constant 180 seconds of time should be subtracted from the equatorial crossing times of the graphs for Orbits fl through fSZ. Equatorial Crossing Graphs of succeeding orbits are corrected. The perigee of the Satellite is, in the absence of specific tracking data, assumed to have coincided with the point of orbital injection. Using an equatorial crossing angle of 6s it is computed that the perigee, regard- less of ita original location, will shift in the orbital plane at the rate of 0. 43 per day an~ this shift will be in a direction opposite to the motion of the Satellite. National Technical Processing Center Washington, D.C * This ephemeris was prepared in order to furnish a guide for radio (20. 005 me satellite transmissions) monitoring and is not intended to have the .accuracy necessary for optical sighting work. FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY EQUATORIAL CROSSINGS GIVEN ARE ZULU TIMES CQ4PU'I'EIJ B!' W1*K: :roB OWIC IAI, DSE OILY SPUTNIK 3 EQUATORIAL CROSSINGS ALL TIMES GIVEN ARE ZULU TIMES :roR OFFICIAl use: ONLY EQUATORIAL CROSSINGS GIVEN ARE ZULU TIMES caavi'En BY lti'PC FOR OWICIAT, OSR ONLY . SPUTNIK 3 EQUATORIAL CROSSINGS ALL TIMES GIVEN ARE ZULU TIMES SPUTNIK 3 EQUATORIAL CROSSINGS 19 MAY 1958 ALL TIMES GIVEN ARE ZULU TIMES M SIMI&M AC110NJ Of the various possibilities which are suggested by the subject sighting, it is considered that the least likely is Soviet aircraft or missile activity. Somewhat more likely, and consistent with the . observation and the area involved, would be a carrier aircraft torching: Based on the scanty information given, it is doubtful that a cvrrect evaluation of the report can be made. FROM Mill 011 mu GIIAIIU11GII .. D lorATIGII AFCIN-F2a ;DD fOI 95 RplaDA A.OOPIApr4f.aAdAPBQ t fUN h: a II. Net" wt'l' POl' 1111 niL * tfOall I 0 SPUTNIK 3 EQUATORIAL CROSSINGS 20 MAY 1958 ALL TIMES GIVEN ARE ZULU TIMES CQ41J'Ij!n BY Hl'fC SPUTNIK 3 EQUATORIAL CROSSINGS ALL TIMES GIVEN ARE ZULU TIMES CQ4PU't'EI> BY ltD\! EQUATORIAL ZULU TIMES CQ4PU'I'EU BY ~ EQUATORIAL GIVEN ARE CROSSINGS 23 MAY 1958 ZULU TIMES CQ&U'l'&:n BY lfl:PC NCRT ... OF lPHNOfC PENH, AT 11t.53 UT ~AY .01 NORTH CF AT llt.OS ~T '-AY .02 NCRTH OF AT 1~.33 UT flAY .04 NORTH CF AT 13.45 UT ~AV .05 NORTH OF AT 14.13 UT ~'y .07 NCRTH OF lPCRTC ALEGRE, BR,ZIL