PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 2. LOCATION U. CONCLUSIONS 0 Was BaiiOOft 30 So..,r ber ~ 62 Dt~W t i na. Al~ska 0 Pralto~y Balloon O Pawsl 1 Bolloon XJ(Greund-Vhuel 0 GroundRodor 0 Was Aircraft 0 Prolto\tly Aircraft s .. PHOTOS 6. SOURCI! C Was Astronomlcol 1. LENGTH 0~ OIS!ItVATION 3 0 seconds 10. B~l!fl SUMM41tV 011 SIGHTING a. NUMBER OP OBJI!CTS Vis u a l sighting of jet a / c SSE of sta tion. Give objects heading NNE. In 3igh t for 30 seconds. Low altitude , .= speed of a p p roximately 300 k nots. No definite formation. Not close enogg h to b e identified as a/c, however, a ssociated sound led observer to 1 t. COMMENTS 0 Prat,obly Astrono,..ieol 0 Possibly Astronomical CkX In suffl ei ent Dote for Evoluoti on Possibly a/c, howe v e r firmatio n and case i s as insuff i c i e n t dat8 . e valuated firmly believe they were a/ce Visibility 10-15 miles, no radar pickup. AT1C PORM 329 (REV 2t. SRP 51) No Case (Information Only) 26 September 196? Richwood, West V~i . . :~ha]*i 'EO 1oia~ Saptaraber Z6~!1. On of the JdtD a priTete pUot.. ?.oO.rl lAra. vbo ,.as n.,-;...ng at. 1.000 -~" ... hen h1s pl.w u...,.ost coU1d.d"llith ~ . . t':lll ~bjaot-ile. a.aor.t..c.c. 1\ as .a t.rl.angla'collt lZ r~-that. "l~k . ~ NO .CASE (INFORMA'.riON ONLY) h by Helicopter Fir~t r~"'nl"l 11~ of ,, lh.'hcopttr to lnJk fur a :c" ~utl~ -bll~n mt>tt"f>ntt" ''as :.('nl"e(l' hv SA( rs Dr. Hithanl 'l<.~rm.ky. W1th Dr. r~rank 0Nlc~ of w~t \1r"(lnl<l -s Cr ..... n R;tult Oh~rvcthuy. last month. ~be ~:u (:h .a Psttsbur(h ~tW mett."Orite re- pnrt 'Afh~n htt h .a~r'\tl-rtr.irt-~ -h"d t .tllln durin\( r~ , d irt"Ct!U!) t:Ll.' )t:Jn.h, t~ pilot~ .dtt-matt"\1 in ft~w~ twn .\ 2!\-~wHta-mil" p.etch h~>-t 1 t!fn l .tulumn f ohu !.!~. H ~1tcupt~rin~ prove .. I to lw ..... i~t itvin~ :a hit:wlt>-h.Arfl to habnre. The 'l .k\~r.; ~>t ~tri' m!'.: k,. t1w ch1)pper SL ... Ht.-d Hvt-stuck ;n 'l" is ordtr of tn\!,hten.lhility: <:hJcken.~. s~p. h.:r'rs l''>W~. hn .-t!wv "lW s~vt-r-al prumi~an~-look tt. d 'l''"t~d inw .l h<,\e in net puund-hn~ t:.t.~hi<>n.'" and cht>v fo\Jnc.l no mttf"orite. Rut Mac is hf.Bcoptim~ ic ;tt~JUt ~ht" fllhtrt> n t rh~ llt"'N W~trt:h t:1t!thod. i'd H~ h al..;u optnnishc :tbQ.~\t SAO's m~teonte pho- to~r~phy n-<-ov~rv rro"(r:~ .. , . . ~ in Ne- bra.)\.a. hcJuld nntiH( hy .1nu.1rv. Only 'i.ld ne\N'J: No Case (Information Only) 29 September 1962 Twinsburg, Ohio Tt~?urtii 9hio-3 m:i:l_cs Ue.st .:..n ate 82- l:-IE;3 "l'irob:-lls'' tTGre se~n ~-li thl n ~-cou- u f :,tinutcs of ~ o.ch nth ,3r hy 2 obs~r vc:-s. i'. E "t<:-:rc" Cn.ndus3o ~:1 il"f:ti e !ioy- cr, o:.: ~h<.: Ic'SIC, first :J~.1t1 ~ :~r0en-blu8 f:'~::~;:ll "tt1ic:1 t r'l.V\:llcd from c. f03ttio n 3r5u cll;v,, 3 '"'.nci :1bout 2o ~J of.f the ver- tic:-.: . It tr \V8llcd to :tbout 15 ; n bove' t.l(l hcri~on ... J. l~ picco. flcH off to thol'7~I -vr-:s 2 o .. " 3 cim~ Jur.iter ' s cli~m~- or. It 'Jr-ct '"'nr C~1"n,..,.ccl to , C:'r.;:L.:so S{IJJ thG second on-; 1.-7~ ic~1 s t:;rtod 1 t ll :~-,;-::>r :r.;e ir.. colvr ~nd sv0n l a r g cr f t~vm th~ first one. It s~emed to be 3 x di~11eter in length. It tr~valled approx-I imn.tcly 50 to C1 position ne.:!r p 0 l ~r is' (Hort~ st~r) Sp2.I'~(S Hare shv\Jerinb off t.0 the l~ft or c~st side of it. It p~ssed ::0.most directly ov2rh0nd, ond lv!i s s Hoyer also 'i''iC~7ed it. n.fter h,~"ring Cc..ndussv ' s cYe- cl:'.raC..t i on. I t d.is:--.ppe~.red n. t thc.t point. SF3CU1~tion thc..t it ~is..,t h:.ve been :! r oc- k e t on re;ntry w;:.s expressed. THJ iJur..Jn i n 'i'.:!ilm::'J':e ver:U'icd t:1is ~h.;cond :::i"{.t- to t:iJne and dLcccti(.,n. Dur~ti..>n of l -15 OCTOBIR 1962 SIQRtiNGS IOCA1'IOB . . "Duluth ~-ta. ;. , 28 .lBB la.ll.. 26V ( Pac1t1c) T.QCA'riOB :.;-. rArsent u. . ,. , Florida t Cuyaaop Pall s, Ohio toric, South Arrloa. , Plozlda. ' ton, Obio ... 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EG.lU I Pr~ENT DESCRIPTION 0~ THE S If U :-\T I.J~J, DOPPLER RADAR SHOULD HAVE BEEt~ BR.O:\NE. THE DO?PLE~ HAS LIMITATIO~lS I~l THAT IT l1AY NOT DETICT AIRCRAFT AT A VERY LOtJ SPEED C011Bil~::J ~JITH ANY ACUT~ DASH A GLE OF CROSSING, OR Otl .to.. SP'SCl.~L TYPE OF CURVSD FLIGHT PATH. IT t1AY tlOT 11 ~IiJES O:lLY !tOUCH (l;c t\lJ'1" ScttNC.:F. NI-.WS r .l .'l'HR for . lu,'ll'l >), / '16! The stars, Vega, Deneb and Altair form a bright trian- gle overhead and the three planets, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn add splendor to the September sky, James Stokley reports. ;,.. .\1.1'[ lOUGH SEPTE~fBF.R evening :-.kic~ " ~ nnt nut.tble f\.)r th~r unlli.lllt dis- pl.ty of :-.t.~ro;, the month t h is y~Jr hrin>es three hri~ht pl.lllct.; to give .tn unu~ual :.fJknd,,r. T \VO o( tluse. as \\ell .as the surs, ate -.hown on the accompanying maps. The m.lps depi't the he~l\en\ 3) they appear abl'lttt 10 p.m., your o""n ~ind of standard tjme, at the tlt"st of September (add an lh.mr for tbyli)(ht sJvin~ ~ime); about 9:00 p.m. ~lt the middle of r(.e month and 8:00 p.nt. ::tt the clos~. Venus Brightest of Trio Brightest of our pl.tnet:Iry trio is Venus, is visible low in the west soon after .;undown-and ion~ beiOfe any other star d r pbnet ~1ppears. H o"\.ever, Venus sets a little afrer cit{ht nt the f:rst of September :trtd an hour c:ldier Jt t~e end of. the month S\J it has disappc:aret! G:: ~e times for which the maps are Jra.vn. On the astronomer's magnituJe scale= \c'1ll'> now ra::tk'\ at ;ninus 4.1, which is abo~tt 100 times the brilltJnce of an average bri~ht star of the first magnitude. The other two planets a ppear on the map uf the southern sky. The brighter is Juptter, towarJ the ~o~theast, in the con- 'tdl:nion of Aqu.!rius, the \Vate:-carrier. lt-; ma~nitude is minus :!A, ctbout a fifth as bright as Venus, but still exceeJing :my o ther planet, or '>tar. :\nd toward the south, in Capricornus, tht: se:~ goat, is S.tturn . . \lthough this is the fainte~t of the three planets, it still outshines a typi~al first ma~nitude star. On Sept. 10 Saturn takes part in a ra e ~)henumenun, -. ... hen the moon passes in trnnt of it. This happens around ten oclock in t he c\'ening in the e~st~rn p1rt of the i:.Juntry, but in the br \\ ~r t -.c.:ur'i before '" nset, and will hard I y ~e-:;c:;~.~- Tltese pla nets, of cour~c .... :--: "x.lies like rht! earth; ,i-.iblc: bc::cau::>e f rne ... unlight tlw v reth:ct. T he other ohjc:.crs a re stJr~- t.t..ll a d istant su n, ~hinin~ '' ith its own tgbt !Jccause it is so hot . .-\nd of these, r:1c bnghcc~t is Vega, in Lyrn, the l>re. It ;, high in the west, !.~wwn o n the northern -.ky nu p. uri~ht as these alw appc.tr nil our m.tp:., but a It .trc ne:1 r tht: !tori t.un a ml tlu:rdl):c much f:.~inter. \Vhen a star is luw in the sky, its light ha~ to pass throu~h a much greater thick- of air than when it is overheaJ. Hence much of its light is ausorbed and it may appear several times (Jinter than it would if higher. This is particularly trw! of Ar~turus, in Roote:, the herdsman, which is dose to the northwestern horizon. Similarly for Capella, in Auriga, the ch.uioleer, low in the north- east. This star will be st!en better in the en:nings of the next few months, while Ar~turus is disappearing until next spring. A r.d o,er in the south, in Piscis Austrinus, the southern fish, you H."e Fomalhaut. This constellation is loc:neJ in a far southerly position in the sky, so we never see it much high~r chan it is at pn:~ent. A bout midnight, Mars ri~s in the cast, in the C')mtdl.uion of Gemim, the twins; then ir :-t:mains visible the rest of the night. It i;; a:) o right as a first magnitude star, and its r~d color \\.ill help you to identify Mer:ury, innermo't of the be a Etde above the western afr~r sunset around Sept. 10. pla nets, will However, it \\ill !>t "t hdnn th~.: !>l.y io; d.11l-. {"lltlllgh f\~ 1" it to he "l.:c.:n. ' \Vhcn the 111u, m P'''c" in frn11l ut the ~un, "c c.tll it ,\ .,ol.tr c~.lip,~.:. Hut th<! lttoon may also p.as~ in front of a ~tar or a pl.mct. 1 h.tt is called an occultation. These cn:nts :1 rc nut u nwmmon; there arc plcmy of !>t:m, along the lliOon's p.tth in the !.ky, so every night a few arc thus occultt:u. Gcm:rally the s ta r-. :arc faint-not ~vcn bright cuough to be seen "i t hout the hdp of a telescope. Au occultation of a \'cry bright 'tar is much ntMc unu.,u.al, .111d so i ... r.n occultation of a pbm:t. However, the m oon occults S.arurn on tht: e\'ening of Sept. 10, and it ,-.ill be \'io;ibte :til over the United States and C:uud:t. At le.tst the moon will he.: up ''hen it h.tppcno;, uut in the ~tatt:s and prmin~cs along tltc West Coast the: sun will nut yet h .avt: set. This will make it impos-.ible to