3. OAT:!TIMc GROUP PROJECT 10073 RECORD CA~D 2. LOCATION CONCLUSIONS 0 nos Balloon 0 Probably -Balloon Po ssi gJ y Balloon Republic or Korea L TYPE OF OBSeRVATION 'N as Ai rc:roft 0 ? fobabl y Aircraft 0 Po s s i bJ y Ai rcroft :cJ Ground Vi s11al 0 GroundRadar 0 Ai~Visuol 0 Airlntrcept Radar 6. SOURCE %:1 'Nos Astronomicor/enus 0 Probably Astronomical Uilitary 0 Possibly Astronomical 7. LENGTH OP OIS!RYATION 8. NUMBER OP OBJECTS 9. COURSE 0 Other_---~-"""""':""----~-- 0 lnsuffic:ien Pato for Evaluation 3 brs 20 mips one 10. BRI!P SUMMA~Y 0, SIGHTING Approx size of the l etter "c" ot the vord cent on tb.e reverse side ot a peney at arms langth. Obj '.-r&s crescent shaped, sil'ler in appearance. 11. COMMENTS There i J no reason to believe that the obJ of this sightin6 was any- thing ofher than tile :planet Venus. o r d i'YJ. l u l('f>tUPHUiOr; or IJ. r"to<.'ct!.<i1'\ :.: j(~ C'f'\'1( Location R:publlc of Ko::-ec1 \fX. Clear -Visibility 10 miles plus Deacription Ap proxittate aize of the letter C" of the wor d c ent on the reverse sid~ of penny at arm's length. Object was crescent s ha ped. Silver in appearan~e. Direction of Motion Very slow to west -in sight three hours 20 minutes. Satallitea (~CIN4FJ, Fnone 69219) In sight too long. Aatronomieal Phenomena (Meteor, Cotcet, Planet, etc) In sight too lt)ng for meteor =u 1 n11 -possibly planet. Natural Phemomena (Ball Lightning, ete) _ "tOO long for aircraft in s~direction. Possibly balloon but wind Evaluation ot Sduree Reliability: Probably very good. J~al7sis and Conclusions: It is ~elieved that the information in this reoort is Y9ry accurate. The object wh~tl first 3een was 246.2 bearing at 41.6 e ldvation when lssli seen 279.6~ oeari~ at s .bo elevation. This itdicates che object vas moving '.eat and descer.ding. The westo ard rate '"as a pproxi- mately 12 0 per hour; this i s ve~y close t o the rotational rate of the earth a.::1d t h e e pparent veloc i t y of star s . The descripti on o! the object is. other tha n size, t h e same 3a t~t of the moo n . ?lanets sue~ as rcury and Venus ~Lose orbits art smcll~r taan the~ of earth hav e phesee t he sen~ a s t ue moon. To t oe na.k.ed e~;e \'enus ap;:,Ee.=.s a s & very brit;bt star, - 4 .3 WE~r.i ~ud(. et its brishtest, but ~ita a ~0 po r opt i c a l eid t h e crescent s~epe woul c be &p~rent. un t he dete of t h i s olbCt ine only .350 of tte surfece of VeLus as seen from tbe erth vas illnmjD.e!.ed. On the day and at the til11e of this sigiltic.g Venus was in the exact position of the object of this report, and ._,ent below t be horizon to t he v.'Sw.' after ap~oximetely three hours and twenty minutes. It is not unusual for persons viewing the interior planets for the first time thro~h an optical aid to be startled by the fact that it appears as a small moon. phases and all . Our every day experiences heYe left us with the ~pression that Venus is like a star and orieinates its o~n light rather tben reflecting sunlight the same as the moon. There is no reaaon to b~lieve that the object of this sighting was anything other tben the planet Venus --c:."f' ff MESS.A.GE DIVISION UNCLASSIFI:O MESS,i.G~ I NCOM lNG ~CHQE333ZCQJB720 -'NCLAS/314 OC-OI 3548 HQ USAF ATTN: AFCI N AND ISO. ~CAF HICKAM ATTN: PFICO. 5AF ATTN: 5FIDC AND 5FOOT-C~COC. - 0 REPORT. < 1 ) CRESCENT Z) APPROXIMATE SIZE OF THE LETTER C OF THE WORD CENT ON -v ERSE SIDE OF PENNY HELD AT ARMS LENGTH. DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE! ---STAFF-MESSAGE DIVISION UNCLASSIFI!:O M:~SAG! I N COMING PAGE TWO RJAPAB 1 B. C 1 > WEATHER MAN TRYING TO SPOT AIRCRAFT ON BOMBING RUN NOTICED OBJECT <2) 246.2 DEGREES TRUE BEARING 41.6DEGREES ABOVE HORIZON (3) 279.6 DEGREES TRUE BEARING 5.6 DEGREES ABOVE HORIZON < 4 > STRAIGHT ~5) OBJECT GRADUALLY GREW SMALLER AS IT NEAR~D THE HORIZON C6 ) THREE HOURS TWENTY MINUTES C. < 1 > GROUND-VISUAL . . <2> THEODOLITE ML-146-20 PO~ER '2 ) K OON-NI RANGE \2) 1ST LT RICHARD c. ROBBINS, A03080693, 6314TH SUPPORT Page 2 of 4 . . , OEP~RTMENT OF THE AIR FORCe : UNCLASSIFIED MtSSAGE ?AGE THREE RJAPAB 1 SQUADRON, USAF,RIABLE. ' I N C 0 M I N G <4> 10 MILES PLUS I . 3 AIRCRAFT SCRAMBLED OBSERVER DIRECTED-AIRCRAFT TO AREA OF OBJECT. AIRCRAFT SPOTTED NOTHING. J. AIRCRAFT IN LOCAL BOMBING PATTERN AT KOQN .. NI RANGE. ~. R.A. BASS, CAPTAIN, USAF. NO FURTHER DETAILS AVAILABLE AT Page 3 of 4 DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORC! ---STAfF'""MESSAGE DIVISION UNCLASSIFIED MESSAG E PAGE F OUR RJAPAB 1 THIS TIME. PHOTOGRAPHS WILL BE FORWARDED WITH AF FORM 12 . 2 l/0015Z OCT RJAPAB Venus was again reported as a UF O on the night of October 19, 1959. in Korea. An observer reported a crescent-shaped silver ob- ject moving very slowly toward the west. Observing jt for three and twenty minutes through the telescope of a transit, he obtained very exact datn o n the bearing and altitude, which pro- ~idecl the facts requir ed for identification. The object moved west- ward at a rate of approximately 1 2 d egrees an hour, a rate close to the rota tional velocity of the earth and the apparent rotational veloc- ity of the stars. Venus at the time occupied exactly the same position as t he object, and \\'ent below the horizon shortly after the reported sighting [1], A/IJ~ D~rF-) 'D ll6c Tic ,J J-1 t::-J.rl rEa , C.AwS I e.II1)CI~ lo T I 'Ff'