PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD t. DATE 2 . LOCATION CONCLUSIONS c Was Balloon c Probab ly Balloon Possibly Balloon 3 1 October 1953 Long .Beacll, New 3. DATETIME GROUP A. TYPE OF OBSERVATION GM~l/03452 Nov 5B S . PHOTOS 1. LENGTH OF.OBSERVATION. 4 - 5 secs//2 sees 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING ~Jiround Visual C Ai,.. VI suol 6. SOURCE . 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS T wo objs observe d Eas t of Long Beach. Firs t wus round, yellow i11 color, almo s t directly overhead. Second was tria11gula~ r e d in color. Both were size of pea. ATJC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52) c Was Aircraft c Probably Aircraft c Possibly Aircraft 0 GroundRador 0 Airlntercept R!Jdor . ) G Was Astronomical ii:.J t Gor ~ C Probably A~tronomical C Possibly Astronomical 9. COURSE C Other----~---~-- 0 lnsvffi c lent Data for Evaluation C Unlcnown N t o 8_LNE t o ~l\'1 11. COMMENTS Met eor. sightings. OCZCSQA48 2'CSJA04S DE RJEDSJ 13 TIME tt.yrif' ' FM COMDR 2511TH AB GRU TO RJEDDN/COMDR ADC RJEYNH/COMDR 26TH AIR DIV RJEDSQ/COMDR AIR TECH INTEL CTR RJEZHQ/ HJl:,~US Ar UNCLAS UFO'FR EAsE OPS MTL 540-11 PD FOR 'ACS INTELLIGENCE, FOR CIS. <3>. YELLOWISH ~ RED C4> C5(JWO-SEP~RATE~ <7> NONE. (8) NONE. B. C1> JUST HAPPENED TO LOOK. C2>C~-IGHTY 6EGREE$)SLIGHTLY . TWENTY. TO 'tHIRTY. DEGREES)-(THtit.rf / EAST J - DEGREES FURTHER EAs :1 C 3 > (J . :) ( 4) I~TRAIGHT NORTH TO SOUTH ;J DEGREES -(NORTHEAST to SOUTHWEST) C 5> FADED, <6). OUR TO FIV SECONDS-TWO fECONDS. C. (1) GROUND VISUAL. OPJECT'S WAS SIGHTED WHILE CESERVERS WAS AT HOME. r~ Cl) ~ONG BEACH, NEW YORK, G. (1) CLEAR SKIES. C2> ee -NOT AAUWD. (4) l2 MILES, 034SZ C-119 FROM PIT-HEM 03502. HEM 03542. HEM 0354Z C-119 FROM PIT- _HEM i357Z. NYATC, TRANS-CANADA 218 VI-COIINT LIDO ~335Z. TP.AN CJ'.NADA t ' 338 VI-COUNT-LIDO 0343Z. SPEED BUD, 682 JET, LIDO ~3542. PANCLIPPER JET ~7, SCOTLAND 03302, K. NO COMMENT. L. NONE ~1/16 2 NOV RJEDSJ &tENC E NEws lnTF.R for ScptC'mba 17, 1959 ASTitONOMY ti r1g tens As Mars becomes brighter in the October evening sky, astronomers prepare to study the total eclipse of the sun on nk k in the Upper eJ ge of the Mll:tr Uisc. T his would be the moon, as the eclipse was just beginning. H owever, from this position he ne\'er wuulu sc:e the sun ..:ompletcly By JAMES STOKLEY STEADILY ORA WING closer to ea rth, the red planet Mars is ~coming brighter d'm any star, or . any other planet, visib le in the e\ening sky. At a distance of 6J,OOO.OOU miles on Oct. I, it will be onlv 52JUO,WU miles from us on the 3 hr. It will then be approaclling its minimum di.s- unce of 45,310,000 miles, which it reaches Man rises in the ~st about 8 :00 p.m., your own kind of stancbrd time (add one hour for daylighc saving) a t the bqi.oning of Ckcober, or about two hours .alta sun- set. It is then 41 the. constellation of Taurus, bull, which cal ... bc seen low ill the cast. . Its position ia ~wn on the accompanying : mapL These picnre:the sky as it appears . around 10:00 pa,. youl' own kiucl:ol.scaod- ~. ard time:. Oct.-l .. ~aA bout earlier oa.-cbc-lStb . . aad two houn;..cariicr at the end-;; of the . month. Exprcnecl ia the scale uw by-as. . tronomers, iES briahtn.c:ll . increases dwjng from minus 1.2 to minus 1.!, which an increase of 7~/o-It is now about ten times as bright u the first magnitude star Aldebaran, which iJ below Mars, also in T aurus. Another star of this magnitude, a nd C\'en bri~ter, is Capella, in Auriga, the charioteer, which is just to the left of Hri~htest star of the October evenings, however, is Vega, in Lyra, t he lyre, high in t he northwest. Directly abo\'e it i s Cygnus, the swan, in which Deneb is the Iucida, the most brilliant star. Altair, also of the first magnitude, appears to the left of Lyra, in Aquila, the eagle. tle earlier in the evening than the times for which the maps are prepared, you can sec another planet, Saturn. It is in Ophiuchus, part of which is shown, in the west. Saturn sets, at the beginning oi Octo- t-~r. "a hnttt Q~n The other naked eye pl;mets arc not ea~ ily ,isible in October. Mercury is too nearly in the same direction as the sun. The same is true of Jupiter, which was shining so b rightly in the south west a month o r two Venuo; has been shining very brightly in the morning sky, just bef<>rc sunrise. At the ti N of O.:tober it w ill .rppear abme the ea~tcrn horizon about a n hour Jhe:~d of th~: sun .. &nd may be gl imp,ed if you have a cle:1r \ iew in th at d irection. Ry the c:ncl of the mo nth, however, it \\'iII rise only a few rn intrtt'' hc:fort: sunrise, .tnd will not be \ ) cite moon goes th rou~h Its ph:~ses dur- ing October, it will reach the new phase on Columbus Day, O~t. I 2, at 3:52 p.m., EST . er the moon is new i t is nearl y in the S<tme d irection as the sun, which is wh y cannot then see it. The moon is ill umi- nated only by sun ligh t, anc.l then the half on which the sun is shi ning is turned :1\\'av fro m us. Ordinarily at new moon, howc\'er, that body docs not come squarel y between sun nd ~rth; rather it goes a little north or south of the line joining the two bodies. occas ionally the moon docs pass directly between them. T hea its shadow may fall on some part of the e:arth, and from the region the shadow covers, the sun is hidden from view. That is, there is a total eclipse of Such an event will happen on Columbus Oct. 12. T he eclipse will not be visible the United States or any part of North America. but many scientists from various nationt have migrated tanporarily to some small islands in the Sou!h-Pacific where it c:~n be observed. At 1 :20 p.m., Eastern StLndard T ime, from a point in t he Pacific ncar the Mar- shall Islands, which :ue. about half way between H awaii and New Guinca, the sun will be just rising. An observer at that place , looking carefully, would see a tiny The total eclipse will be visible alo ng a more than a hu ndred m iles wide, start- ing at a point on the equator, north of the: Solomon Islands. H ere, at 2: 17 p.m., EST, the sun would just be rising tot.&lly ecl ipsed. The tip of the moon's shallow, which is shaped like a cone, would just ~ touching e:&rth. From there: it sweeps in a south- easterly direction, tracin~ ou t the path uf tality, until it lean~s the earth, near San Luis, in the interior of Argentina. There are a number of small island!i in is path, and it i s to these that the astron- omers have tra\'(~led, since th e most satis- factory eclipse observations require solid ground under the instruments. Five expedi- tions have gone from the United States to the Danger Islands, a group formed by a coral atoll at 10 degrees ; s minutes south latitude and 1 65 degrees 50 minutes west lo ngitude. Their observations are part of the International Geophysical Y~r, the great project to study the earth and its sur- roundings. in which virtually all the nations of the earth are cooperating A naval vessel, the USS T homaston, which is an LSD (l anding ship dock, a kind floating drydock) , reached the eclipse site early in September. Since the entrance to the lag oon is not l arge enough to permit a ship of this size to enter, and the water ffshore is too d~p for an anchorage, it has SAfiiTTMtusl SYMBOLS FOR STARS IN ORDER OF BRIGHTNESS hn:n ~luwly crui,in~ had, .llld futh t\\11 r three mile~ out in the npl'll IICl'.l.ll. The ~l.t; io; pnw ided '"i i h a hcl i(upter, to carry t: c: ~ci~:ntists hack and forth, a~ \\lll a~ t:<)Uii llll'llt, fur the llll'tnlwr' uf till txpcdiw o1 "ill ~cna.1lly li,~: on hn.1rd. Fw111 thl'r:: . till Mill \\'ill h~: hidd~:tl fur llllll'e th a n fc1>.t llllllllll'~ . In addition to .\lmric.lll \ Ru~,i.111 a'tru:~ omcrs arc a h a rl'.1dy to nilsen c the l'dip: . from :mother location. J.1panc'1: ao;trc .... tlllll'I'S from T okyo ob~cl'\':1 (Ill')' wi II 111.1 ~:: their cclip : oh~eJ'\':ttiono; fwm Stt\\'arn ,.,, \\'hich is abou t 200 utilcs M>Ut11l'.H uf the Dan~lr group. Sonlt'\\'hat fartlu: r cast is Tahiti w hich, hmwn.:r, i~ not in the pat h of h>tali ty, so Tahitians \\'ill SCl' only :1 lar~c partial cclips~: . study the Corona Although i~ is no lon~er necessary, a~ ll was a few ycnrs ;tg0 to wait for a tot . i eclipse to ohscne 'the sun's outermost Ia) cr. the corona, this region can only be seen and photogmphltl in its ~rcatcst Jetail and C\ tent at such a time. Thus, many of the o(.\. servations wi II he to rccorc.l the curon.l. which changes in step with the JJ.yeJr of solar :tcti\'ity . Other studies wi II he made of the sul..r atmosphere, which is <ll the rim of thr disc as we ord inarily sec it. )ul>t .H the bc~inning, and end, of a total cclip~ ... part of this layer ca n be obsenetl by itseli . as the resr nf the sun is covered. This " ill b..! clone with the aid o( spcctroscupes whi.:h ~malyzc its light and yield many valu:tbk Of courst:, such ohscn ations require .1 clear sky, an<.l the New Zealand \Vc:Hhtr Uureau hns estimated that the chances ni clear we:nher :tt eclipse time.: arc GO%. But possihlc clouth will nul aff ect th e six Nikt Asp t WO.l>tas;tc rockets that will be fired h ' :t hci~ht of 150 miles; two bdurc, t\\ ,, <luring and t\\ u after totality. These " i:: sent aloft from the.: Thomast on, ancl "ill m ake records of short ultr;"julct rays :11h i X-r:1ys fr om the sun, r.1diations that do Ill'! reach the ground. Radio obser\'ations wtl! :tlso be made, to c.lctcrminc change!-t in th, a tmosphere :ts it is m omentarily in tht moon's shadow. Celestial Time Table for October l:~iJl.lll. Mtoon pa l'~ Mar,. Moon in la~t qu.1rtcr. New lllun : total t.-lip:.c 1 i~t hlc in Scnllh l'.t.-ilit: . X: ll p.m. M1tlll pa e; Saturn. Monn in lir, t qu.trttr. Mttcor' 1 i,ihlt-r.1di.11 i 11,1: f r .. m '""'tdl:lli"n Ori~>ll. c;11o miln. Full 11111111\, l luntcr\ 1llo>ull. Muttl\ p.l"t'' M.tr,, ~fST, .1nd thr~\: (.,r l'ST. Scienco New' lcllor, Se1l eml>or 27, 19.5~ NO CASE (I~!U.fATIO~T or.n;r) 18 October, 1958 Eastern l'Ju sninston Source: Space Craf't Digest, Fall 1958 Big Firy Object Seen ln Early Morning Sky On t h e 18th o>( the month-- A bl~ fiery o bJect fla ohed a - eroaa the aky in Eaaterl\ Wal'hington c~rly.Friday ~ncS a weo~ther ohaerver a.t Spok- ano aaic1, " it waa a brlaht 3 1 lighline. too bright for a aboc.tins atar". lt waa report~d to h~, been ~em from Spokane to P.1aco and Prouer (Near the ecret l1S Autonium work at Han ford, Wn. F.d) !)eputy aheriff WUUa.m H. Miller o f Spokane County uid the object Ut ~ap the ground around the patrol c:ar In the Spokane Valley {or hom 1'5 to 20 aeeonda and th~ object caat 8h~t1owa !rom nearhy object l't. Spol~.-...ne city . polic e aid tlley alao taw it. O ther re.porta came in from Othello. No~Case (Information Only) 23 October 1958 Disneyland, California CLOSE S IGr.'l'IfXJ AT D!Bm:!LJ.ND, CI.L!fOlUIIA 1 .llmoat. as ! .!' t~JO~t ntjwt \o't~nd&rM exhibit. wero underr;cing nocret ~4-dni&}tt. t e!lts, a. brir;~tly-tilo~j,~ blimp-shspttd UF'O -..:ar; S\IJGn tloo.t1ng !500 yardn abovo lia.l t Disn~y' c fa.r1~u~ t::~.!. reylandR nanr Garden GreYo, California, l~st Oct. 2'rd. It ~as oeen by Rier~l~ Osterloh, who lltp~tt~d tho obj~ct vhlle driving ho:no at 12-~0 B.n~. aloi4'~ f - naa>.by atreet. H& d~s r.ribed t.h., object as the ei~e llfld ~h~po of a. bl tnp, o,., ... reunded by a. halo glo...:, e.nd with three or f<1ur brl1~t.1y or.ining colo ret\ 1 ic:. <. o in it.B contor. It e.loo ~.d a ~.il.o.bout thr.fH, er tou.r ti~a. th.o lanbU\ e;l i~ .. ~ object itsolf, with a bright ligh~ ahinin~ 11.t th.o end. 'rho CFO wna in. vio'l"t i ' about two xr.inute-s. gvontu.'l.lly it to.ak a ch:1 ~p dive tlllv&rd th~ gr~\..ttid O.l'la ... f\ppo&.red. in a br:.ght i'laah, w1 Ul.out lf:!\king flny nio~. NO C)\S.E (INFOLlHATIOH CNLY) 24 October, 1958 Source : Space Craft Digest, Fall 19 58 Stayton & Ni.ll City , Oregon, On Frub.y ni8:h t tbe 2-&th o f c Occ otheu IH\ W SlmUu per Police uae s 'jt tay~cn, f ormancea .: .... Strane a aky 'Sft. L~ h objectl Wl!'re a ppcu:cntly nov -Miii Ce\'H See rAY ~g ~t erin g in M>1rion Coun t y ddea 1 F r iday nigh t , judlli:\g from ., ., ...... tou.- nJY.)rte o! two valley pol1C'e C'hlefa. Stayton R>lic:e Chief,. Everette Norlleet, Sgt . RonAld Frey IUtd anothe.t Stay- ton m~ report~d aet:in~ a n obj~ct in t h e Nurthe a At c'ky t r&veliAI SouOlY ... .let at 7:30 PP..1 while they I!Jrerc o n a r outi.no pollc: patrol. "It looked like an evening atar with a tail b4olow it" , Norfleet a.-i d . "I've watc:h~d !or UyinJ a11cera evec a inc:e they were mon:.ion~d AAd 1 cov e r G4aW anythl"J like thia, "he added. The obj~ct waa reported to b &ve been a UtlJ>t ''etAr" color eradually chaon- ing t o a ruddy ~l~ 11.nd e-.nn~nat W: o & i>enduJu m.. n waa watched !c:or aotne 15 rr.inut " a n rl 1 t\ll jn view ~'~'~'' th" tnl"ll lref!umed t!-teir polic~ c!utic!l. At the l&ln o tune, Mill Cit y Ckla( o f !~hce. Clarcr.cc Me a d e r r~r..orted accins a n o bJe c t monrtg ~1t ! r om \il~ero ll o wnlf wetchin, , North of MiU I a m n o t 11aying whaL it w a&, M dcr t.:aid, r.eportng &.h&t H n a dQ&J' brigl\t blu e p o i n t of H~,;ht. 1'h~ o bject vt a e e n lnt4!r i t\ the cvcnin~ from a point wut of Mill City. Thl timo,it wa mavina Vlett, Meador ca.id. Altheugb there were: jet planes reported in \he A r e a Frld.ay night. both men aid they were futuliar with j ott, and Lh.at tho oi.IJe c t wae aomwtWng el