PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS 1 r.olrh v 0 Was Balloon Probably Boli-n DATETIME GROUP TYPE OJII OBSERVATION 0 Possibly Boli-n : :.D<Gnaund-VI auol 0 Grovnd-Rodar 0 Was Aircraft Probably Aircraft 0 AI,. Vi o~ol 0 Air-Intercept Rodcw 0 Po ui bl y Aircraft Astronomical Probably Astronomlcol Possibly Astronomlcel LENGTH 0, OISERVATIOH HUMBER OJII OBJECTS COURSE 0 Other Insufficient Data for Evaluation 0 Unllnown IRIEJII SUMMARY OJII SIGHTING 1 -14. OCT03ER 1961 SIGHTlliGS Danbury, Cor~ecticut S alt La~e City, Utah Ro.awell, New. tfexico Johnson Island 'thynes7ille, North Carolina Sharon, ~Assachus~tts Arlington, Virginia Albany, New York Grand Forks, North Dakota !-riddle Village, New York Broo!cl.yn, t-law York Duluth, r.unnesota Fer.:1dsle, llichigan Dayton, Ohio Los Angeles, California Las Vegas, New ~:exico !(ultiple etf) !-'ilitary r-:11 itary (PHOTO} N1lita..ry r:ilitary ALW:TIO:l.U. FiZFCP.lED SIGCfl'INGS (NOT C~) Grafton, Horth -:c"rc:a S~y.nour JohDsoc ~-=. Xo~th lake Naraca.ibo, '7:!:.ezuela Newfoundland News Clipping Science News Ltr Carol ina ~:essage News Clipping Charleston ~i&~!s, S outh Denve r Colorado In~i apolis, I~1i a t;or: n of l\1exican Border EVA.l.UATICN Aatro (BAli. LIGiiTIHUG) Astro (SUN DOG) As tro (I:ETEOR) Other ( REFLECTIO.t-;S) I NSU ~'i:'"ICIEl~'T D.\ T A Other ( LICHT REFRACTION) n.JSU!i'.B'ICIENT DATA D.iSUli'lriCIENT DATA INSOP'b'ICIL-..."T DATA Astro ( HE'I'EOR) ni.3Ul<'~'ICWJT DATA. AIRCRAFI' (REFUELL~U OPERATJCN) Other (CO liS) A.stro (JUPI'IEB) EV ALUrtT IOU DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE ( STAFF M[SSAGE 6RANCii UNCLASSIIIfl) MfSSAG ACTION: CIN-17 INFO : OOP-2~ OOP-CP-1~ AFS-3(24) ZC HQA927 ZCBJ A022 DE RBEGUF 015 FM CCGD THREE TO RBEKHC/CINCLANTFLT RJWFALEV CINCNORAD RJEZHQ/COFS USAF RBEKHe/!COMASWFORLANT RBE GUH/COMEASTSEAFR ON RCEHCICANCOMARLANT RJEMVB/ CANAIRDEF RJEZSN/Two INFO RBEPJD/ COMDT COGARD ZEN/ COMEASTAREA FOLLOWING RECD QUOTE. 0 010205Z FM CGRADSTA CAPE MAY TO CCGO THREE GRNC ST UNCLAS. 1. HERTFORD INLET LBS STATES LIGHT IS STARTING TO DIMINISH SLOWLY 2. BRANDYWING SHOAL LTSTA REPORT UNABLE TO SEE LIGHT 3. ATLANTIC CITY LBS REPORTS THAT THEY COULD ALSO SEE LIGHT. QT NOTE: ADV CYS TO CIN & OOP-CP~ 302230L. CHQA926ZCBJB024 DEK RBEGUF 009 FM CCGD THREE TO RBEKHC/CINCLANTFLT RJWFALB/CINCNORAD RJEZ HQ/COFS USAF RBEK HC/ COMASWF ORLANT DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE ( STAFF MfSSAGc SRANCn UNCLASSlfl0 MESSAGE ACTION: CIN-17 INFO : OOP-2, OOP-CP-1, . R3EGUH/COMEASTSEAFRON RCHC/CANCOMARLANT RJEMV Bl CANA IRDEF RJEZSN/TWO SIX NORAD I~FO RBEPJD/COMDT COGARD ZEN/COMEEASTAREA FOLLOWING RECD CGRADSTA CAPE MAY. QUOE. P 010141Z FM CGRADSTA CAPE MAY TT 0 CCGD THREE GRNC BT. UNCLAS. 1. MR NORTH CAPE MAY REPORTS A WHITISH BLUE LIGHT RUNNING IN THE SKY FROM EAST TO WEST IN STREAKS, ALSO STREAKS. 2. FIVE FATHOM LV REPORTS LIGHT IS RED AND GREENISH IN COLOR. 3~ LEWES LBS REPORTS LIGHT IS GREENISH IN COLOR. 4. CORSONS INLET LBS, HEREFORD INLET L3S, TOWNSENDS INLET LBS AND CG MOORINGS REPORT AS THE SAME AS ~lR CROWL. 5. CGRADSTA N YK REPORTS LIGHT IN NEW YORK AREA ALSO. NOTE: ADV CY TO OOP-CP & CIN, 302215L. l:'-JCOMING ACTION: CIN-17 INFO: OOP-2, OOP-CP-1, SAFS-3 (24) CHQA9.30ZCBJ8030 DE RBEGUF 021 F'M CCGD THREE TO RBEKHC/CINCLANTF'LT RJWF'ALBICINCNORAD RJEZHQ/COFS USAF' RBEKHC/COMASWFORLANT RaE GUH/ COMEASTSEAF'R ON RCEHC/CANCOMARLANT RJEMVB/CANAIRDEF RJEZSN/TWO SIX NORAD INFO RBEPJD/ COMDT COGARD ZEN/ COMEASTAREA Page 2 of 2 FOLLOWING RECD QUOTE. 0 010243Z FM CGRADSTA CAPE MAY TO CCGO THREE 1. LIGHTS ARE HALF-WAY ACROSS SKY AND ARE TURNING RED IN CENTER WITH GREENISH HUE ON THE OUTERSIDE. 2. SPREADING FROM NORTHWARD TO SOUTHEASTWARD 3. ALL LBS'S CAPE MAY GROUP CONCUR NOTE , Advance copy delivered to OOP-CP & CIN 2305L SclEIIC NEws LETTE~t for August 26, 1961 Jupiter Dazzles the Eye Jupiter is nearly 20 times as bright as a first magnitude star in September. Seen in Sagittarius, the archer, it stands south next to Saturn, James Stokley reports. )lo 0:"\CE AGAIN we have two bright pla nets in the evening sky. Jupiter is the more brilli:~nt; shining 10 times as bright as a typic:~! first ma~nitudc star, it is conspicuous in the south in the constellation of Sagittarius, archer. N o star, and no other planet seen at the same time, is as prominent, and makes it easy to identify. Saturn is a short distance to the right, and in the same constel!Jrion. It is considerably fainter, al- equal to a bright star of the first magnitude. Both of these pl.tnets, as well as the stars, are shown on the accompanying '' hich depict the skies as they look about :en p.m., your own kind of scndard rime ( .1Jd one hour for lllylight sa\iog time) on Sept. I. T hey appear similarly about nme o'clock :It the middle of the month .md eight o'cluck .It the end. The brightest st:tr of these e' o:nings IS seen h11.1h in the \\C:St. It is \ 'ega. in Lyra, the lyre. Still higher, :1l11111~t dire"ly o\er- he:~d for the times of our map,, is Deneb in Cygnu, the ~wan. P.1rt of thi group i sho" n on the: northern sky m.1p, the re.t (with Deneb) on the southern .. \nd hijZh i:1 :he ~outh, in Aquil:l, the ea,~tle. the >t.l r .:.tiled Ah:~ir. . Deneb .. \ltair and \'c,.;.1 .1rc! .111 ,,f the first m.t~nitude, or brighter. In .1dJ1tion, three other first maj:tnitudc ~tar~ :tre shown on the map~. but they a II .\ re so low th,t t their liJ<ht is con,ic.lerahly c.limmed by che )Zre.tccr thicknc)s of .umo~phc:re it has to r<netr .1tc. Capella Stands Low in Northeast Low in the northeast i, Capella. in .\urip, the chartoteer. This '' 111 mo,e into :J m ore prominent position 10 the e,enin~ sky d1.1:ing che aurumn. Arcturus, in Hoote,, the herd~m::tn, is low in the northwc:~t. Durin,~: the l.ite spnng and summer it w:ts more prominent in the e,ening sky, and now :c i; about to di~Jppear from ,iew. AnJ oW in the <o'lUlh in Pi~cis Austrinus, the southern fish, ic Fom:tlhauc, now at about its best posiuon for our latirude, and as hi,~th a~ it ever comes for us. From more southerlv countries it rises higher. At Porto :\le~re, in ,,lUthern Brazil, it p:ISSes directly O\'crhe.ld. Look toward the north. The ~rcat dipper, part of Ursa Major, the great bear, is ne:tr the horizon, and poorly placed. But ex- tending upward {rom it is the long and winding constellation of Draco, the dragon. It w inds around Ursa Minor, the lesser bear, of which the pole star, Polaris, is part. the other side of Polaris, in the northeast, stands Cassiopeia, the queen. A li ttle higher is Cepheus, the king. or the other naked-eye planets, Venus visible in the eastern sky, for about before sunrise. Mercury and Mars are too nearly in the same direction as the sun to be visible easily. In the solar system, as far as we know, there a re 31 natural SJtellices-smaller accompanying planet.~. E:uth has ne:. Mars two, Jupiter twehe, S.trurn nine, five and :"\eprune two. !'<one has discovered attending ~krcury, Venus Our m oon is the only s.Helhte ,isible to eye from earth. ~ro~t of the others require r.~ther l.uge telc:(cope~ in see them. But this i~ not true for the four larger satellites of Jupiter, which we.re the first astronomical objects to be discovered after the invention of the.: tcle- q:ope in 1610. I t was in J.ll\uary of th.lt year that :m I tal ian astronomer n:~med Galileo G.tlilci is crude little in~trument on Jupi- ter and ~aw what seemed to be three bint stars nearby. H e thought, at first, that thc~e were distant stars that happened to about the same direction as Jupiter, :llld thus were seen in the same part of the as he continued to watch, night after niStht, these "stars" behaved in a mo:.t peculiar way. Sometimes they were on o ne Jupiter, sometimes on the other. One night there were only two, and on occasion he saw four. Soon he realized what they were-not stars, but satellites, or "moons," revolving around Jupiter just as the moon revolves about earth. Later they were given n:lmes. order out from the planet, thev are lo, Europa, Ganymede :Jnd Callisto. Observe Jupiter's Satellites You can see t hese four satellites \\ ith a Stood p.tir of hinoculars, which is a con- siderably bt:tter in>trument than Galileo's primitive telescope. They must be held very steady, howe,er, perhaps ' ' ith your resti ng on some firm support. takes I d:~v, 18 hours to re~ohe :~round the pl.1nct; Europa goes around in c.l.1ys, 13 hnurs, GJnymede in 7 days, 4 ::~nc.l C;11listo in 16 days, I i hours. ::~nd C:tlli,t<> :tre of the.: sixth m:~.stnitude, ju~t :tt che limit of n.1ked eye vi~ibilitv with .1 d.1rk clear sh . In :1ncl Ganymede ar~ of fifth m.1~nituck, CllllllJ.:h In the ca-ccrn sky ~ou will find Pej;tasus, the '' inStcd horse, :tnc.l this contains :1 rather prominent fiSture, c1 en though the ~tars J re nor 'n hri~ht. This is the "great ~quare:." "Jtu,e re~ul.tr \h.1pc m:~kcs it ca~y to l~o .. Ill' \du.1llv, the n1rthcrnmoH ~t.lf. .llltd . \!plttrliZ, i, ""' in Pcj:t;l'll' .11 .oil. tlr mer!, "l11.:h n:pre-cnl.; the mytholglc.tl Jnin ... c "" ".1\ ~h.llnl<l t the rock. SYMBOLS FOR STARS IN ORDER OF BRIGHTNESS to make them visiblr without a telescope, were t}ey not $0 close to the bright planet with its overpowering g lare. Because of its rapid revolution, To changes position rapidly with regnrd to and Europa a little more slowly. Ganymede and Callisto, for several nights at a time, may be seen on the same side of the planet. Callisto will be to the west from Sept. 3 to 10 and from Sept. 19 to 27. It will be toward the east for the rest of the month. Ganymede will be to the west about Sept. 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29; and to the cast around Sept. 4, I I, 19 an d 26. But if you watch these satellites you may find. as Galileo d id, that sometimes only three, two o r even one is visible. Some times they arc eclipsed. T he.se moons, like our moon, shine by reRected sunlignt, so when they pass into Jupiter's sh adow they disappe:1r. Also, they may be occulted, when one g oes behind Ju piter. Some times, .1lso, a moon p.uses in front o f the planet. Then. also, it is imi~ible, except with a good ,izeu tdt"~cope. AnJ sometime~. wirh a tele~o~. one can see the shadow of :1 satellite, moving across the planet"s disc. Gann nedc: and C:1llisto are the larJitest o f ~;] tc-lli tes. each about 3,200 m iles in J!.unetc:r. so they .1re consiJer.1;-:- bi er than our moon, with 2,160 miles. to, ''ith a diameter o f 2.300 miles, i~ some' \ hlt brger tbn th e moon: EuropJ, '' irh 2.000 miles, ;, a h ttle sm aller. Celestial Time Table for September 1 Sc:pr. EST ll 1 =H a.m. Morm i n !J,t q uarter "'" p J S>(S Venus ~loon f.Hthe~t, d istan.:e :'\ew moon :\l~ol ( v:mable ~t:lr 10 Per- Jt mimmum bris:htness .\lgo\ at m inimum .\ lifo\ Jt mimmum ~loon at firsr quarter ~loon passes Saturn ~fnt'n passes Jupiter M011n nearest. distance 3,6<-o miles Sun O\Cr equJtor, autumn com mences a~ l'i: ! 4 J .m . F ull moo n 2~ 5 :oo a.m . ~fercur; f3rthc)t east of sun uact o ne hour fur CST. two hours for ST. ~nd three ht>ur( fm PST. No Case (In rmation Only) I wl uth, Chicago, F't \-l~yne Your recent letter to the retena4 to the Air Force. 30 October 1961 1!ae un1clent1t1ed tlying object report you queried about 1a not lnvJwn to the Air Force. A.8 tar as we can determine, no sighting in t.hat area aDd at that t1me have been reported I have encloeed aeveral questionreirea which ,. vnnJd appreciate -roo:r CCIU\Pleting it you vitneaaed the object in question. 'ftle other copiea of the questi()DDII.ires are tor other v1 tneaaea, 1~ a~. I~ you ahonld have any nevapaper cl1ppi.nga prtin1,.. to this event, it vould be appreciated 1:t you conld :tonard m:r or tvo to ua. Your intereat in th1 a matter 1a appreciated. Sincerely, WILLIAM T. CO !.alAN, JR. Major, tJSAF UIQ Ploject Intoruaticm Of'ticer Public Intolilation D1 vision Ottice ot IDform.t.ion