PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 2. LOCATION CONCLUSIONS 0 Wos BoiiOOft Pro bobl 1 Boll oort Po ui bly BoUoon 3. DATETIME CROUft ._ TYPE OF Wos Aircraft 0 Pro baltly Ai rcroft Local----------XXGrouncl-Vt sual C GrounciRoclor 0 Possibly Alrcroft s fA:xWos Asmnomlcol J-{ateor 0 Yea 0 Probably Astronomeccll 0 Po ssi bl y Astronomical 7. LI!NCTH OPI.OISIRVATION I. NUMIII OP OBJECTS 9. COURSE 0 Other----------- 0 Insufficient D.te for Evaluation 0 Ur*rtown 10. BRIEII SUMMARY OP SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS Multiple rpta of obj believed to have hit Parker Peak, South Dakota. Exploded. Described as meteor like trailing a cone of fire about eight t longer than main body. Lit up area about 100 miles around. Soae obsvrs rptd hissing sound accompanied the ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 S&P 52) Rpting officer contacted in efort to determine if meteor landed and any possiblJity of mes// recovery. Efforts were negative. SPADATS conmacted and no decays this date.(Going West anyway) Multiple sighting of meteor. - 70 RUHGA!../!.DC :::,;r AFB COLO nlrrrrD"/lf~ r e-i-I C. 1 rr-ro~nr-o T') 'r.DQt:' T ''IDr-rr~r-n T r I -ro r. T 'fTLL r'TT "{ ~ T4~ vtJr ))C..: tt'A ~.~ j . Two.pgallala youths t:epo~-"We've bad a lot or' peopl t; be N~br;;&; ' ' -.:. =- 1 . ed. seemg a t. gntcd umdenti-laugh at us when . . we told trol !d m of the . .,...,. .. c::ky about the s~me time thnt the people asked us questions have beea a falling plane, but . . I sidents of llflrthwrst and about it to be sure we saw hing Wal found. . . orth-central Nebraska and i~ moving, but we saw i everal persons .i~ Gre_ele'4 .: southwestern South Dakot~ tC move, I'm sure of it. ,olo., reported. stghlihgs o1 ported seein~ a lighh.d object - ''Two kids around school Eright object& to the district crossing the sky. i saw tbat lJgbt last Dight, and offices or the Highway P~ : 1'fle two boys. D:mn~ U fe they saw it coming dowa -~L . . '' : , .. ! ~ ~ m.y_e, IS~ and enr ne ~ th~ same thing DaDDy Upte Nebraska .: Highway Patro~ ... I'7';-81s; declared the-.ob ec:L gro\e. saw a baR. eoming reports of sigbtings mainly . ' .~ followed~tMir rar at speeds down out of the sky.' .. Looaey 1 came from the Scottsbl~ ..... .. i stated that the ohjeoct tional reportings of e akota S t 1 t e : from t~e sky between 7:30 a in-theskv came from a reported that au ob- 8 .m. 1 Thursday. Residents 1 Federal Aviation Agency em-ject appeared to have landed ~-,. . ar:o.uu .. col ) > tl. rrported i \o e in Chevenne who . : in tbe parker Pea area! . . 7:55. .p.m . T~ursrfay fo~uwed his vanta e int in th . lost rtports mdlcated the ob- later that "rm:k~d the wM! ... r . 'teor&. Beeause of the fiery ap- ! \'alley,' ' in the "1)rrls of I!win~ tounst reported seeing a pcaranc~ .. fire lookouts In tbe r ted . B~ckmann, a f.umrr in tb~: m?teor fall to earth about. 51 southern Black Hills and the ncs 'area -~ l m1les southwest of R a. p 1 d I Black HJUs Army Depot at off I G rge saJd m d t~ltpbont! ~ity ~, in SOJ;ltllwester~ Igloo were alerted. ~ ' conversation that D~!.!fnv ~oufh Dakota, leavmg a t~ail South. Dakota patrolmen ,v!.l sighted th~ Jbl~\. t. e two of ~e.llow-red sparks and ftre. ! could not. report finding any J7iJ 1 had then gone to see where it OUlcta!s of the South Da remains. : had fallen, about Iz mile out ate School ~ Sioux Falls: S.D;,- town. eather Bureau scud it was ) --... '\\"e wf're about a block motorist said the fire-! believed the fire baUs were rom~ the ohjed. lt didn't ~ball bad thro~'ll o(f a bu~-: either meteors or pi.e<:es of .. . . mov~ until v. P started to getllllg piece that started a prru-j meteors. . . -. ~ _ . -. . r t'. c out; and then it started to-i rie fire Dear KJI~or&. The Kil- ward us .. \Ve l~il wh~n i t got! gore fire deparlment investi-, Sllelter Plan . . . T- closer;. after WP got t11e car j gated and fou.od no fire. . . . .. ; . . .. . :. started: \Ve had the throttle . No reports of similar ob-1 Washington (UP I) _:_ T h e -~ ~ ',. :- ~: j)Uiled"-'-all the way out, and h t!cts had been turned in tn 1 Defense Department ha6 or-- _ 'i .. _:. ~ ; il:,YfOulcL"lt run.'' Geor~e said. I the Air, Traffic : and Control I de red the armed~ services to . - :u. was about a half or; Center of the. Olathe.. Kan., ~cooperate closely with 10C3l.. . U.ree-foorths b!twk .tong. and . ~AA statio!'~ by Friday morn civil defense organizations to . . . ~ ... about. a streets wuith wide. mg, the Lmcoln Flight Serv-provide fallout shelters at.: . AH. it. "as flat. jn~t like a ice Station reported. .. military installations.. . . - street Ught shining un the ground,; bul ther~ wasn't any- abo,e it. and there wasn~ any hei~ht to it. I saw jua& a plaJn wbite li~ht. which was .. dim around the edges VITAL PROCESS-The fas cinating stereotype depart-:~ ment conducts an operation: in the production of your daily newspaper without which there would be no flat on th~ ~round. , '\Ve thought :naybe it was a meteorite lllitil t started t to .move towarti us . We were I ;.;: : pretty scared, ~o i Jon t re-i ~;member m .. ;h dsP anti don't ~; remember ~t!Cl!1!!. IJI' feelin~ ""' . W(re about lit~ blod' I r o m ~: the object ,,h~n thP.y f tr st ap- Gl'IOE 1'0 \ .OTr:Rs -Proposed fullt1me ma~or plan fo Lmcoln on !\ov. 6 ballot has nol created a great -~: proached :t. ;.md H cam~ 'J j nearer once it started mov-1 ing_ ~ :\nn Landers tO Skyline'i)~iry-Winue:ra . s :: : Editorial ...... -4: ons. Open House Contest . win Comics ...... 2& ~ood ners announced i u today'a pa-Crosswords . . 26 State New a a per-Adv. . Deilr Record 1S port.ecl thR thq a 11gb~ 010 fll :J.CNed. tM1r a~j,., .~ ~abo~ 2S aph. Strange Lights In S.D.' Neb. . i On Thursday, 18 dctober, residents of Rapid City, S. D., as well as an employee I of the FAA in Cheyenne, Wyoming, re- ported a huge, bright meteor. In west- tern Nebraska several reports were made II to authorities concerning a strange bright object in the sky. Highway Patrol ~ officers at Scottsbluff reported a motor I ist said what he thought was a fragment of a meteor set a grass fire near Kilgore. Fire trucks sent to investigate and ex tinguish the fire found i nothing, how Two Ogallala, Nebraska high school reported that same night that a glowing object landed north of the town in the hills. A search Thursday night disclosed nothing, and a continuing search Friday yielded the same. One 16- year-old driving on the north edge of Ogallala said he saw a round, green light descending out of the northwest onto a just north of the city. He told po- lice he picked up a 17-year-old friend a nd they drov~ ~bout 700 yar ds into the hills where the y ~aw a white, glowin g object parked on the &rou.n~ and esti mated its size as 100 yards by 30 to 40 feet high. Search later yielded nothing 1 naturally. OtPARTMENl O r rH~ AI~ FORC~ "TAFF MESSAGE BRANC ... , INC<A\ C;AfD ""U\AG' ARMY-2~ CMC-8~ JCS-35~ OSD-15 DIA-101 DIA-CIIC-3~ OOP-CP-1~ ~kFSi 3. . -100- . D IV KUNIA FACILITY H~.'' ~I I , TO RUHLKM/PAC4F HICKAM AFB HA\IIA I I . , . RUKAC/COMAL SEAFRON; KODIAK p;LA SKA " RUWSPG/COMWESTSE:AFRON SAN tRA~CISCO CALIF RUHPQ/COMHAWSEAFRON PEARL. HARBOR H~,.,~ I I INFO RUEAHQ/COFS USAF t,~JASHINGTON DC RUWGALB/C INCNORAD ENT AFB COLO RUHPA/C INCPAC CAMP H I"! SM Ir H H~MA I I RUHAFS/CINCUSARPAC IT SHAFTER H.~M~II RUHPB/CINCPACFLT PEA~L HARBOR HI\'':~!I RUA UAZ/COr1 USJ ~ P~ F' FUCHJJ AS JA P4N RUAMCR/COMUSKOREA SEOL~ KOREA RUAGF'L/CO~USTD C TA I PF. I T ~ I'' AF RUHPD/COMAS't'FORPAC FORD ISLAFD HAl'AII RUCSBR/CINCSAC OFFUTT AFB NEBR RUEC'I/CNO t,~IA SHINGTON DC RUECtd/SECN~V \F.~SHINGTON DC f1\JCLA S C I R V I S RF. PORT 1. CIRVIS REPORT2. TX9'' ,~. SIGHTED BLUE GREEN LIGHT OBJECT. 4. 37-12N, 173-12H 5. 190752Z 5. I 7. TRAVELING STRAIGHT DO''N TO HOR IZ 0 N. 8. HIGH 9. I REMARKS NO EVALUATION. Adv cys to CIN, OOP-CP & DIA.