3. DATE-TIME GROUP LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 10. UIEfi SUMMARY OF SIGHTING . ObJ ~ct assumed PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 170.10W (Pacific) TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Ground-Visual 0 Ground-Radar xR AI,.. Visual 0 Air-Intercept Radar Civil lirlines NUMBER OF OBJECTS 11. COMMENTS orbit-~no data not CONCLUSIONS Probably Balloon Possibly Balloon Was Aircraft Probably Aircraft Possibly Aircraft Was Astronomi col Probably Astronomical Possibly Astronomi col XIX Other sat~lltt~ - 0 Insufficient ato; valuation 0 Unkno""" av-ai-lable o 45 dgr eleva-assumed followed vi su ally officials. carried as and white color. Moving satellite. AT!C FORW 329 (REV 26 SEP 52) dae Zl, South~rn Cali!ornia, April ~. 12!li ~strange ~11 or fir e reported ) Y hundred~ v f pereone. It did not act lik e # oeteor, u it stopped and started 3gain several tim First seeming to dieapp r about 9p.a., it reappeared at :-ou!hly 9:15 p.a. .later "cliaintsr,t.e,d ,.,. a nearbJf~ll. . " ( NICAP Reporter.>_ .... _"". No Case (Information Only) San Di~go, California GLOBAL SIGHTINGS sM: Q.W~'..l.SllLIF The San Diego Union- April 6>1963) newspaper carried a sto!'y entitled: ".Flash in the Sky a Satellite?" 1 Several hundred persons in San Diego, and many OJre from all over ti1e Southwestern states as far east as El Paso, Texas saw a b right flash and lights in the sk~., POJ:t Arguello (UPI ) reported shti.lar Zif;;:lt~ng5. Many from Sa n Diego sAw a red ctre::< be-'id- ing over wat e r (Pac. Ocear1) at hit;h s~ed .. T:1e:1 v:hatever it ,;as began to tunbl9 a:1d the c olo!' c:1anged from red t.: a \/~:i !'c~ bl1..!'3. Var.denberg i>FB st&ted that i t had nade a outine launch of a satellite, but viou2.d not give C.eta ils as t o ti;:-.e, etc. ':'he tit a i:1 San Diego was sometime after 7 : 0 0 PAI. ;nat would account f or the ci!:!!-v; e o.f color of the streaki:u: red to weiid 'clue? Lor~ befor e satellite launches, ~his cvl- or-(:~r.ge char.act eristit.: :1&s kno:-m to U!-'0 researchers &Acl cbaoced ch&llged color oolor acaia to A circular UlO, "the aiae ot a to Jllow-white, then cliabe~ Yert~call7, He..,ca~Me l l pon T yne flytng tvr a tl: ,jj,\A.' IJ\( UlHtll.t P I)t.,Hd t" 11flll0 f~l tt' thml.ut~ it w;h .a t n d.. If thfo WIIUhtr~n.' ht< ,,lid l:t:~t lllil;ht. *Crt the sk,. ;"'"t~wlwnt hf'- ~r-m1lt>1 .twfl\' It w.u h\ed1 h'T lw ~aad t:o.l J, f 1 r otl ~f11o~ lflhllll- ',II,.T . 1 I" ' I Ull' i11~ < '~J "fll'l r Utd Ill :Hl. :iato 1t l"lr. ll,t d r"J Ill\ I I< tlf' l,,l , f <\l:tt l<ll o4tt.!. I 101 tlr.wl I Falling Spheres Found In early Apn1 1CS3, n~papers were OD the 30th of April, a dispatch out of Canberra aaid that the sphere bad ""definitely been identified as part of a apace vehicle." It went on to explain that Mr. Allen Fairball. Australian Supply Minlcter, told the House of Representa- tive. that the JPhere wu identWed u printing the news of a mysterious metal part of a space vehicle. and that Aus aphere found by lttr. J. McLure on ata-tralla was .. c:ommunicating with the lion property near Broken Hill, New ! overseas Governments from whose space- South Wales In Australia on 8 April. It craft It might have come." The dispatch also said that the sphere carried the was shipped to Broken Hill for examlna faint outline of a hammer and siclde, lion by scientists there. It c:ould not be the Soviet emblem. Fairhall said the cut or broken Into by the use of a file sphere had not been opened as ft might or back saw. Metallurgists at the Zinc contain "something of scientific inter- Corporation said It bad been subjected est." "It's a million-to-one chance that to great heat, was 14 inche<.s in diameter, a piece of orbitting hardware should sur- weighed 12 pounds and was spheric~) vive the temperature of re-entry and be 1nd hollow. McLure, w!1o !ound the ob-recovered in one piece," he said. Various ject said that no ona h:!d baen in the other newspapers carried the news that area of the sheep sl<ltion where the ob-scientists (unnomed) had determined jec:t was round, for about 50 years. that the object was a pressure vessel After the initial news release from fro;n a Si)nce vc:~icle, desi:;ned to v;ith Broken Hill which c:ontained the fore-stand great pressure. tolne information, the obect was sbipp-Apparently no more information was ed to the Weapons Resea~h Establish released concerning the mystery sphere, ment in Salisbury for examination. Mr. but a small article in the Omaha World R. Pitman-Hooper, the Zinc Corporation's Herald (Nebraska, U.S.A. ) for 2 Octo- manaeer, refused to make any real rom-ber 1963, carried the information that ment on reports that the Corporation's the first sphere had not been identified metaJlurglsb at Broken Hill had determ-when the second one was found in Oc lned via Xtay spedographic examina-tober about 35 miles from the location that the objed contained ~ryllium, of the first one. titanium, and magnesium and had only The press release divulged the fact this to say: "All I can say at this stage that despite inquiries abroad, t~e Aus- la that our scieatists have had a look at tralian government had not located the tbe object, that ao}' tests they may have origin of the first spht>re. The second .. de so Car are inconclusive and that sphere was described as 16 inches in dia tbe sphere bas been placed in the charge meter and weighing 18 pounds. It was of a senior Army officer." The Director also said to be a "stainless steel ball" of the Broken Hill division of the U. of on which a valve had been turned into New South Wales, Mr. T. K. Hogan, a !used mas.<~, apparently as a result of said that university scientists bad made intense heat. a Yisual inspection of the object and that It is interesting to note that to this what they saw would not be "inconsist tnt with the report that it c:ontained be-date no definite news concerning the ,.,.Uium, titanium and magnesium." He metallic makeup of that first sphere has been released, nor has there been any aid further that the metals were cer further description or clarification of the tainiy of modem origin and were also physical properties of the second. This DOn-magnetJc:. He also c:ommented on an anusuat .. ltlbmerged ~ weld" around brings to mind another mysterious ob- t.be surface of the sphere which. was a jed which wa3 found in South Africa in -mc.t beautifully executed job." He di~ early 1962. This object was identified as a spherical titanium pressure tank from puled the Idea that the object was some 10rt of tank or d.stern fic:iat, and said it the fuel tank of an AUa., rockel There had tbe remains of two lugs still attach was no doubt that this object, at least ed to it. Hogan also said that the object according to press reports, belonged to wu definJlely hollow and that they a U.S. space vehicle. The question now would have .. dearly liked to ope nit... arises concerning the reason that the He theorized that the object probably Australian spheres have not. been identi bad originally been protected by some fled. The most recent releases state un .ort of beat ahleld which protected it equivocally that the sphere has be<en from the Intense beat which melt~ tbe disowned by Russia and the U.S. Then Hollist.:r, C lifornia e Roll "'teL P ca. lit. .; tor the third etraight night. On described aa " bis red a.oke bebia it." (XICAP Reporter.) aeen oYer tJai ball, trailins Caee El Ca oa Calit. 1nril 16 l 6 triansular _toraatioD trael froa 27~ de~ Jack Bartlett aightl three UJOe in ~ a to 290 cieczoeee ia t>it aiDut! (LS) t),r.,ll:t!l IJ:I..lC.III.u ' lut' lalorc tJ..u, \!11ll:tn rk olilll,. o~t \\'olfHi'l.llt-. :mfi h"~ttr b.-.,t,,c.-; d1rn~h hullC.."tlnr~ .at m.\lt:.t r rt~IO~ IJ',.j f.&!ltttg .and mn,.,.,:,~ qJewa' ' 1~d '" cirdell. I~ ,\ " I." ,:ill !Ja.,o~lun .. ~v bnlJU."lt t ol1un ,,t red .11 ,1\ ~ten as it Th rhjt"~t .tppau ed l'> be risins; ste:arhly ~&11 tfle llnte It was ft wu .&lmf'1t in .. n"\ble by ~ '\h~. Wisr~ins q~d that the obj..t .. .-st.ard , .\ ltla'Tl~ of J>Mt>~ who J!lbted i\ No rase (Information Only ) 19 April 19~ Ripon, Wi s c o n s i n Saucer News (Sep 63)Vol 10, No 3) Lights At Foncl Du Lac, VIis. During the week preceding 19 April 1963 atrange lights were seen maneuver- In~: ln the skies above Fond Du L3e. On Wednesday night, patrons at a drive-in theater saw about 20 objects. These o~ jects were sometimes white or crimson in color, moved rapidly and now and then In formation from horizon to horl zon. The diredion of travel was mostly east to west. It was also noted that they made sharp turns. A spokesman for the Federal Aviation Agency in Milwaul~ee st:1ted that the objects could have b~en :1irpkr: :l.:i re-- fueling at high altitude.3 which v:ould e:t- plain the lack o( sound. The Agency had received similar reports a weelt earlier and had determined that in this case Uaey wt!re airplanes, and most likely B58 auperson~ bombers which renewed op- erations over Wiscnsin on 1 April. But the aha~ turns? (Editor's Note: It seems odd that an exact identification was not made, for aurely the FAA would have known what type of planes were, where and when. This one sounds like another "possible" ider.m;~uon) DEPARTMENl O f THE AIR FORCt STAFF MeSSAGE BRANCH UNCLASS'fli.O) MtsSAG! I~O : NIN-9~ X0?- 1~ XOPX-4, SAF-OS-3~ DJA-25~ DIA- CIIC-2 , ARMY-2, P~ 326 AIR ~IV KU~IA FACILITY HAWAII T0 RU:!LK:VPACAF HICKA~1 AF3 HAt.'/AII RUHPHHI C a HA vSE AF'~ 0 PEARL HARBOR HA',J AI I I \'FO ~UE.~HQI CSAF' USAF l.J ASH :JC ..,UEClH SEC~' AV JHPP./CPJCPAC CA:: p T : s:~IT~-{ HA :u AU AAKI Co' US JA? A~' ;.ucHU AS J AP A~l Fl.!Ar1CICC::USK'J!:':A S2'J J A SFLIC 0 UST'JC TA IP:O:: I T A 1':! M 2UCSJ IC!~!CSAC OFFUTT AF9 3~ IS I ?: V I Sl 3A~RI~'1 PACiriC AIRCRAFT CALL S IGN 087~ REPORTS SIGHTI'!G '!HAT A?P~A:?S T O 3E A SATELLITE AT POSITIO~! ~Ac~EJ 4 5 DEG. ASOVE HOniZON AND WAU FOLLOWED VI S U ALLY T 0 !1 OR! 2 0 . OP.3I TTP.! G SOUTH TO ORTH. 3LUE :/'~ITE COLOR. 0\fP!G RAPIDLY. NO EVALUATION NOTE: Advance copies delivered to DIA; NIN & XOPX. towarda hia. He aaid it etoppedl ! swish . ,Wo.otbera ~eard the Do1-r AlJ Greea, 19, beard "real d up, and a round black ephere coBinc moment, then took off with another loud l .nut theJ did not eee the ephere . (MICAP Reporter) The New Jersey Fireball of April 23, 1962 :\ THE f\'E:\I~G or :\lomlay, .\pril ~:Jrd. :11 ~:ll.i p.111. Eas1crn standard time. an cxccption:11\y brilliant fireball seen OI'C'r :'\ew .Je rsc::y and from parts of :'\ew York and l'('nns' lv:tni:t (pn~e 323 laM month). The writer learned o f this h rou;{h Ie1 tt:rs f mrn H . C. Counen of tht: Crurmn:111 \~trniHJmic:tl Sncictv, Beth pa~e. Long l '>l.llld. ancl R cinh:ml Eck of ;\la1 woocl. :"'tl\' J <r,ev. Thes< letters :tr P h iladl'lph ia '"'/ ,,,,... pu hi i,Jwcl 1111 re- lor re)lllll'-. Ltkpholll<l. .on:! "" snlution is hast:d 11)'"11 1ho,,. H'Jl" ' h that lt:td lt,.ri,Jo d.u:t. \t 111,1 i1 \ll'llttd dwt the ~nlution woultl 111111 llllt to lw lll llhU:t!h ICCIUaU:. b11t thb wa, 11111 tlw ''"' Tla po.itions o n t ht tanh\ ' ' " r.,., of th1 ,uhht;.:inuin~ .o.HI ,ulwnd l'"illt' t1111hl 1,,. loound quite . 'II. hut tltl I .II ;lllh t,tillo.ltl'~ nf :\II~U Ill .tltitudt, .Ill' di,totd.tlll '\oo oll11, ,1hlo , lnlti1t-.: .,J till '"h)ttJint~ ;udod . I ht l''\li 11 ,r,.; !tom tht l'lll l.tddphi.o Hl'.t. "hac Ill'"' II Jllll h llllglll,llt'd, :111.' I otlhidtt.tbh '''"''' th.111 till ,ult~ fur hllel\l'l"' llC':tr !lw t 'lld Jl"rrrr. H'l tlrt,t' l.r11c r .,h,enl'r' rr-nl ,1:11~ loll ' )'Jllll\.itn.rrt: td<'IC!IC~. \ftt' t 11111do ltllh . 11 irhnwti< .t~tt.ogc~ r t.rJ..ur l.r l)ootlt the l~t".:innitr: hcigln IIi .ro d d11' 'orol !uiglll H :!. '' ,,..,l :ap l''"'ttll.atirr.: dtt' truth. A dr.11' ing t>f the J.otir 11,1, Ill ult I ~C:tlt:; till' htighL> of '"" iaHc r:., li.tlt' )'"I IllS \\ere t'llllputccl .111d thc1 tnrr.dth r .. nfirmcd LIH' p:uh: tlt e , t.,pe ol dw :utretll':. t rack check~d {)llitc "dl. 1 h.-, r n . despite the l.11~c acci de nul ~nor .. , HI :mel H2. it is prol>a- lolt th:!t !ht J, 1 iiCd path is :tbmrt correct. n,:unl ., \ \fS 2370, this fireball t< .tchctl ib l.'td point a t JOb 12"' 56' timt \pt il 2~. 1962. I t first be- Glint 1isihlc (llcr tht .\tl.mtic Oct':tll ea\t of Bame~at Hay at )l')n~itude 7:} atitude 3!) 5 1' n orth. and c11ded alJOI't' 11nnh crn :'\cw .Jc::rsev a t 71 3Ci' west. IH' north. On the ha~b of I !l obscrva- the beginning height HI was llli :::: :17 kilomete rs: :111d the cndi11~ h eight H 2 1,as 5o "': 15 kilome te rs, from 15 re- puns. The pr ohable true path \\':tS 165 kilometers lo ng. and it'> pmjectcrl le ngth Some oh)('l'\ r.:rs r:r lied the meteor