PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS D Was Balloon 28 Jan ,',.pprox 1000 1'41. \/SW of Azores I s o Proltaltly Balle~n D Was Alrcr.tt Lcel-------------~Ck0..4-VII D GrovMRa4 a Proltaltly Alrcr.tt D AI~VIwol D Alrlntorct Re4 D PoaiWy Aircraft Ill~ Aotaonoic4il Venus a Y.. D Prolt.Wy A8tiOIIIMicol 7. LI .. TM OP GaiiiWATIOit L .._lit 011 O&IICTI t. COUit. D 01nt~Neo~r. -------- D lnMfffetoftt O..o ,_, EeluotiOft No Case (Information Only) 28 January 1959 Atlanta, Georgia BY LEON BURNETT NITED PRESS INTERNATICNAL ATLA~JTA, JAN. ~3.--<U?I)--PEO?LE ~ERE SEEI~!G AND HEARING ALL SORTS , OF THl GS. ONE ltJAS REPORTED TO HAVE "BURNED LIKE FIRE A~JD SMELLED l THE REPGRTS CAME IN YESTERDAY AND LAST NIGHT FROi .. l NORTH CAROLINA, : ALAt,AtiA AND }"LORIDA. AT LEAST Tt~O Ole .. THE ~1YSTER IES WERE SOLVED. THE OBJECT WITH THE C " .-.AD DR O?PED INTO A FIELD NEAR THE HOl1~ Gf NR. AND Mf<S. JUST OUTSIDE LALLl\S, r;. c. IT E~<PLLlJED CONTACT WITH I t'lR . SAil; SHE PICKED UP THE Llt1P-LOOI<It~G CoJECT, AND VERY 1 Q U I C K L Y DR 0 P ED IT l "IT ilURNED LIKE t'[hE AND sr~ELLED LIKE ATHLETE'S FOOT," SHE SAID. ' AUTHORITIES HAlJ :~ LG0K DID SOilE CHECKING .AND REPORTED IT \~AS A . ! DALLOCrJ THOUGHT TO llf~VE bEEN SENT ALOFT Ff<C[j COLORADO. l THER~ WAS A LOUlJ, UNEXPLAINED EXPLOS ICN THAT RESOU~!DED CVER CASTO(\,~ N.C., ABOUT AN HOUR bEFORE THE BALLOON FELL, AND ANOTHZR WAS HEARD ' NEAR CHARLOTTE, N.C. BUT ALL A??ARENTLY WERE CAUSED BY bURSTING WEATHER BALLOONS Ho Case (In f- 3 January 1959 ation Only) Santa Monica, California SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE OFFICE OF INFORMATION SERVICES LOS ANGB.ES BlANCH 6015 SUNS!T IOUL!VAIO HOU YWOOD 21, CALIFORNIA SUBJICII 1JwdcJMrU.ftM n,ln1 {l)jeft lar\oa ASr 1. ID wl\Jl 3 J~ USI, U. foURlal al.'lzw repor\ 1 nbld.\cl Jlr ' Calt ta , fal8phoala .tat.d he obrwd uro ., 16)S PS~ -3 .J.n He further etat.ed tna' Ill and two ate obnM th18 obJo' thro~ tor ltllinute Tlw ob.1e-' appe.,..4 to be \S Dl :ln a son po8i tion for thle perloct, thin d1 I\ qltaclrlcal iD shape and a~uecl to be tw 1aaa sllwr tube a-o.-d a\ U. end8 and ltlaclr uprt.gb\ 'I'M al\ltwlll ... eniM'-td ., 20,000 lh~. thl ottl reqna a oontacrt. and daa!M to daCI'Lbe e' tor ., ott1cial Mpnsentatiw ot the Unit.cl State VICTtJl ~. IRONS a. !~ar, USll Cbiet, PNu U.e 1 and llook Bnftab F}!BRUARY 1959 SIGH'li~S LOCATION OBSERVER Coburn, V1rg1oia .. ~ .. aaJ=-~ ~tJ~,e. tfulti S ot Sanduak;y, Ohio Balboa, Zone Washington, D. C. DlavidcUe, Virginia UnkDoWD . . M1 tchell AFB, lew York Ann Arbor, Michl I Jackaoa, Tenneaaee (PHtSICAL S . M1 , Florida Phillips burs, Rock1agba, Borth Carol4 .. t-.ans.tield, Ohio Whidby & Oat -" r, Washington W or No~h1 to, Jpan Palacio~S, Texas Beagbaz1, Libya Wbidby Ioland, Washington D.&yton, Ohio Dayton, Ohio Hall Laka HWr, Ca Cioc1anat1, Ohio 6o Mi V ot Puerto Rico Madisonville, Kentcc~ Multi (Civ & Mil) 3 Civ Pilota Briti sh Mil) Capitsl Airlines R&pld City, Mlchiga~ ver ennay van a ,:-~. _ _ Am-United ( Victorville, ca11r =:1 K:lnszt.s C1 ty 29 M1 W ot Oceana1 ;alitornia Colorado Sprlaga, :o~do Belaire, Nev York EVALUATIOlf Other (MIS~, Aatro ( l{g-11i1PWIII R) Inautticient Data Other 8EFIBCTION) Other R Efi.FJ:'tiON) Aatro (liARS) Aircraft (BEPUEI, OPR) Astro ME'l'I'UR) Other PARA FLARE) Astro ME'I'EDR) Vapor Trails A a tro ( Mr'Df'F:.Int:t'EOR ) . Astro (MARS) Astro (A..~CTURUS) Insufficient Data Astro l.f!'l'EOR) Astro SIRIUS) Astro METEOR) Astro f.~EOR) Other (MISSII.F.) Astro (t-~EOR) Aircraft (REFUEL OPR) Other (PSYCHOLOGICAL CAUSE Aircraft I Aircraft . : Insufficient Data f CZ~QBCI32CNBA11' RR RJEDSQ / DE RJEDNB 22' ~ TO COMDR ATIC /UNCLASS/TR NE~NT ~- PT9W X INTENSE BRIGHT OBJECT X ' DECREES ABOVE HORIZON 2 TIMES VENUS DIAHETER PUL~ATING WHITE TO DEEP RED THEN GREEN THEN ~HITE rOR 91 SEC~ OBSCURED BY CLOUD~ X WHITE GLOW IN SKY IN AREA OB~CURED TOR 31 MIN X NO RETURN ON RADAR ~ X NO ELECTRONIC DI~TURBANCE. 29/223'2 JAN RJEDNB DIPIDMAT HOTEL STATIONARY St Iou1s, a. Hissour.l United States Air Force Oltlce ol Aerial Sirlla It. J:Ja7 b8 a lit.U. bit lat.e in tl7inl to eq or I saw, ltdlat D\T :ln law ancl father :!n law th011S&\ ve in 1959. I am not sure it W.. there, wt. lG&teftr it , I ..nr "111 dq 1 live. I wu 'liaiting "f!V lmther in law, w re 11at.enJDs to the Doctor tell u wba' he wanted u be wrote CMt. perecrlpt~ tor us to go to ro 'Pall 'fla l.p. to tbe to p1ek up the , ldlicb 1s abcut 't. ridr.8 of = MD. ' ~ g! father in and in law oi. '1'111 :.: tli 85 Jat ~ n to O' Fall e11 up tile ..Sicinea tbe doctor told ua to pt tar rq mother 1D law,. We down in about 25 and start.ecl bMk upca the b~ 40, to xetw11 tour mother in law and the Dr. wi.t.h the he tolcl us to get tor her. Now this 1a what taken We had to go 8GUtb under US 40 take a lett. tum to get upoo the slab to go w&d to ~'l'entzvUle, Jfo. In so doing, u came upoo the making the tum the car a headed 1A the ak aoutheu\ to the north then west, then south ol , taward , l.U..sau.ri, t4lere there ia a pl arst., making to do with , va round , spinrUng di rectllyo OYer thia Now there la no other 11gllt :ln that, neck ot the woods, or a1rtield weather balloana wold hov!ir that and cast. that. type or light as we Sin, I not. mald.DI thU st.oty.n&p. because the ot us were to 1!1&7 azvtbing \"e stop and got Gilt lo>k up at this object. tar at. leaat 20 before it ott ill a d1Nctlon and waa cut ot eight 1n abwt 10-lS eeccnds, just v1ng a trail it.. tlow there wa a tu1l moon tha~ nite ali t.he uu~ ot ua 8tood t~re with ou-1:1YL1th n~ eqiag a word unt11 it waa out at 0\U' , tbc up md said did 1Q1 s that thing" ani I sa1d yea, wt it. was aa it ela it tor I ,.,.. sea atUt. No~ else said anything 1 olM we g~ 1D ot in law. place. Then I sa1 d den 't tell no me ltlhat we sl see. 'lh.;r vcn't WI IV\Yhaw, ao spoke ot what we that nite to no cme. lht the three ot u t.ch t.he papera to aee it BJ(J'ane el8e :saw the , b.lt read of no me it eo juA ~ quite abeu.t the 1111\ter until I read ,aar azt>tole abwt auab th'l.al tha\ dca't, eacl.n. I WQV!er a lot, did , or do peppla haw tJae .-viaJou ot a.thlng at U. aa. tU.. there ll1d it zu,]17 thue. I aDl gaing to ak.t.ob a at whitt. I w aaw but to me I am a .firm in aeeiq 1a , aal ,-I force zqyselt to be what, 3 :.~ "" Raw I ave in all t are just plain )pl.e not. 1 aold.nl tor p~bli alt, cr ..,, papw 'hl ite up. U )<AI do YQ1 will baTe to ccmsult with caue tbe cml7 reucm l ting to ;yea at. this tina, I still ~wmder a'bca& tile 1Chale thiDI V.. it ~ or not.. Now I not. aaldng no me to believe thU caue ar&7 ~ va11ld sq it 1a to rmtaetic. I sm sure it someone came U"? to saiD scoeothi."lg bad puhl :1 cif:F lllt I ~tm sure e three are ae.ne and brave ~Te buDt a lot. in place no one else will go an account or the [',host otories, rut I a::a nat, atra~d ot motlh1" that is in reascn. Please tell it there 1.9 such a thi."'lg a s really aaw. l!e haTe never told even our famUias. Youmknow ~l can confide in ::ot.ea Drawiru( d .. ~ added ~Oi!lf et IT# ScaENCI NEws LETTitl for D~c~m~r 27, IIJ58 en us ears A brilliant display of stars, with Mars easily visible and Venus beginning t~ show after sundown, can be seen in the January skies. By JAMES STOKLEY ~ TO THE usual display ol brilliant stan in the January evenin11 sky there is added this month the planet Man. Although rapidly fading &om its great brilliance at the time of its dole approach in Novem~r, it is still brighter than any of the stars now visible, except one. The exception is Sirius, the dog star, seen to the southeast, in Canis Major, the greJt dog. Mars is in Aries, the ram, high in the southwest. A ftc:r !IUn~t, as darkne~s f.alls, ~l.ars mJy be s~n well up in the \Hstcrn sky. It rem:tins visible until ab .. ut The positiuns uf Mars and Sirius, ~' well a" the nthtr stars now seen, are slwwn on the: accurnpJnying maps. These shuw the way the sl..y looks about ten o'ci<XI.. )"our own kind of standard time, at tlc of J.muary, about nine o'clu'-k in the middle anJ eight at the end. It is to the southeast that the most brilliant di\play of stars is found the~e cv('ninJCS. In fact, there is no other parr of the sl..y of sirnil.ar area \\-ith so many ones. Sirius, as noted above, h tlte bri~htest. Above it, and to rhe righr, st.mds Orinn, the warrior, in which ther,. nvo ~t.ars uf tltc first magnitude, Brtcl- and Rigel. As depicted on the olcl star maps, with Orion's figure drawn around the !lt:.rs, Uetelgeusc was in one of shoulder", and Rigel in lais upraised left knee. The row of three stars between them represented his bc:lt. High in the south, just to the right of Orion, is Taurus, the bull, supposedly at the warrior. Taurus is the bright star called AI~ aran, distinctly red in color, which mark~ the animal's e)e. In his shoulder, a little higher and to the right, is a clm.ter of fainter ~tars called the Pleiades. Six of tl1~'t" .lP! '1 ihle ru . the n:.l..c:cl c:yt", \\ hile 111.tny me~rc: '"'Y be -,~!en throu:.ch a tdc:. scope:, a p;tir uf binOl:ulars, or even opt"ra Direcrlr O\ erhead {at the time~ for which se m.1ps arc prep:ued) is AuriJ{a, the ch:uiotce r, in which stand" the brilli.1nt C.tpdb. 'To tltc e:1st of Auriga, you come til Gemini, th e twius, ,,,.ith Pollux, of the lir' r 1na~nituJt", 1nd r..,<;tor, uf the second . \ lictlt-,, 'c-r .. 1d r.tnhc:r !iUIICh, tll!)ltt iui'vav f.t''\r::n p,,:,l.'< ..~no Sirius, is C.tni~ ~lanor, the lc:ssc:r c.log, with Procyon, an- other fir st magnitude st.u. are Aldebaran, Rigel, Sirius, Procyon and Pollux. In addition, two other first magnitude stars are shown on the maps. One is Deneb, in Cygnus, the swan, low in the northwest. Because it is 10 near the hori- zon, much of its light is absorbed by the atmosphere, and it appears much fainter than it does when higher in the sky. In the cast is Leo, the lion, also dimmed by its low altitude:, although not as much as Deneb. Mars is the only planet shown un the maps, Venus is now beginning to enter the evening sky. It c~m be seen luw tlae ~outhwest for alxut an hour after :,un goes down. Jupiter, in Libra, the k:.lln, rises in the southeast :about four houn c~hcad of the sun. It is followed, ellllt two hours later, by Saturn, which is in S.e~ittarius, the archrr. In addition, dur- "'at rhc: tirst few days of January, you m.ay )td a glimpse of Mercury, low in the , .. urh~ . ,t, just before the sun comes up. \ ,,,er may look bright for one of two It may really be very brilliant, a narasured by candlepown-, or it may bright btcau~ it happens to he rnuch cltJ~r than a more brilliant orb many tinles f .rtlc.-r away. Tleis principle i" wcll-tlenwnstr:ued hy the "''" , .f bright ~t.er in an,l arounJ Orion. For example, take Sirius, whida is the star th;tt we can see in the Astronomers express stellar brightness in magnitudes. A star of the first magnitude is 100 rimes as bright as one of the sixth, is the faintest that can be seen with the naked eye. But Sirius is much brighter than the average star of the fint magnitude, so it has been necessary to put it at magnitude minus 1.6. This is about 13 times as bright as Pollux, which is the faintest of the group we are con- sidering. Rigel is in an intermediate posi- tion, about a sixth as bright as Sirius. Star Distances Looking at the ~tars in the sky, their di1ot.1n cannot be determined. The astron- omer, however, has various mc:thcxls where- by he ca n determine their distances. He has found th:lt Rigel is about 63 times ;1~ far as Sirius. Light travels about 186,000 in a second. Coming from Sirius it rc:o1daes the: earth in about 8.7 )"ears, while that frum Rigel takes about 543 years the journey. If Rigel were moved in ,,., the: distance of Sirius, it would be about 4,600 times as bright; it would equal the moon in brilliance. The actual brightness of Sirius is about 27 times that of the sun (which is only 93,000,000 miles, or 8.31ight- rninutc:s, aw:-ey) . Rigel, howev~, exceeds tht" sun some 18,000 tmcs. AnwnJ( the other stars of Orion and its 'idniry, the numhcr of tim~ they exceed ~llll in hrightnt"\S Me :1\ fulluw: C- This brilliant :array of stars forms an irregular pentagon surrounding Betelgeuse. St:~rting with Cotpella, and aoina dockwi)C, rr . ttulh SYMBOLS FOR STARS IN ORDER Of BRIGHTNESS National Aeronautics, And Space Administration, Washington; D.C. BRy Sho,.e, L. I, A object that I witnessed over seven years ago: Hecorded in wrl ting and prepared ro,. 1 ta release to the then She~ iff ot Suffolk County, Long Island, New York. Copied by my se ; in a night scene: In a black, and white chalk drawing. (D1spla~ed aev 1 times in an Art exhibition). I had decided many tl s to forward same to (National Aeronautics). And. Spaoe Administration (Air Force Intelligence) (Science and Tec~cal publication fields). or endeavor, who would be 1nte~este~ in such a (fact-sighting-observation. This ea~tb-d1p swoop, and lett bank: To a stationa,.y motionless position inside a Cloud, and dscba~ge spa~ka and subs- tance, that was pulled down by gravity. (In a steady pe~pendicul d~op to the ea~th). or a heavy matter consistancy that did not react to wind, or scatter. (Ita explosive type or glow with-in its own mqde cloud, o~ r.atu~al cloud) Its b~1ghtness was of a (few second to mtnute), du~ation. Its htt1~ht when passing over head s les~ than the flight path fo-r nll type of plqnea that fly at night. (In all directions). lts r.loud height was fifteen to two thousand feet The a ve1age ro.,-thAt time or evening, tempe,.a ture, and season. (Spring o~) or fAll)? (It would take day's, to ,-elocate my files) Its stat1ora~y point of desinteg~ation. and d1s~ea,.ance, was at a point ne~Allel to a two hur1d~ed fo"t high stand wate,.. pipe. ~is is A solid r~on tank f~om ~ound to its top). Built before the nin't n hundreds. (Ita top has been l"ecently caped ove,-toY-fall out:s). Its top protruding through a low hanging haze: would ap-,JA'l,. llke photos taken in Vlyomtng And ~!ontanna of unidentified obj~ots back in 1947. Its stat1ona~y distance from this wate~ stand pipe at the time of its des1ntergration and, d1sa~erance was ap oxi te- ly a thousand feet east. A brook five hundred feet to the west runs into the Bay. At this location of the stand pipe tank The a~ea for a thousand foot diameter was a mtllpond. (Ice was cut from it in the winter). Fill has developed the area. A large hosp- ital is less than two hundred feet east or the tank: (High winds used to spill wate~ before caping). Ths t~nk ~tselt' is loca tdd at cu't'9 Montauk Htgh-wsy; les~ than a halt miles from the G~eat South Bay. F~om DY point of observatton the flight and left bank ir-to a stattona~y point of desc,.1pt1on co:ld have been equal. 4st and West direction: o~ at a trianb~la,. point f~om the tank, Hovering over the Bay: At a point off Bay-Be y Point, Peninsula: A half mile off sho~e of the main land. In t:he e~aatco~re ( BA.y Sho~e, Lnng Isl arc!). At th~ tl:ne of this unu3a 1 sighting; 'Nas th~ "..mprass ! on 1t Wit a jet pilot's cockpit; that glowed with f~1ct1on. Or its lighting inside the cannopy; had produced the (G~eenlsh Flores- cence glow). These past seven yea~s I have designed, ~nd fab~icated a twenty t~ee foot 1nboa~d sport fisherman all season; displace- ment, Ocean going ma~ine c~art. Designed,t to rece1,re automobile moto~a up to a weight factor ot twelve hund~ed pounds. (A th~ee point catamoran (one unit-design) with features to equ!j. Hyd~o foil. Pontoon: Ocean beach landing gea~ of my own design). L1 tJ-a tu~e, and Bl"ochuY.e has been d 1s trihu ted thorough- out many points in Europ: London, Sweden, No~ y Canada, Janan. ~o lo~&~8 com etient tooled Plasr.tc rl~a!n-Fih -Glass Lam!ra~o~