PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS Hamilton, Montana o Was Balloon Prohobly Balloon Po sal W Y Balloon 935PM G G d-VI a1 D GrunciRadctr [j Was Aircraft ---K "'"" su 0 Prohobly Alrcrofi S. ftHOTOS I D Wos Attronolftlcol D Ya D ProhoWy Astrenott lcol flNo civiliJm.. D PouiWy Astl"8ft01fticol 0 Insufficient D.ta for Evaluation not rEported one easterly o Unlcnown 10. aIIJI SUWMA"Y Ofl IIGNTtNO ' . 0 Observers looking at Moon and Stars. bserved object that looked like star in flight. COmpared object to ECHO. A"IIC PORM 32t (ltiiV 2t 81 52) 11. COMM!NT5 ~t 3. 55Z ECHO crossed the Equator heading tNE at 24o deg W (120 deg E) and ~uld ~each it's orbital peak 26.2 min later iabou t 150 deg W ( 4o deg to the vest of ~fontana. ECHO \oo'Ould be heading SE at the time o f the sighting and visible toward the West from the sighting position Case evaluated as ECHO I. BUILDING MATERIALS COMPANY ,, YA~DS SE~VJNI3 WESTE~N MONTANA National Space Adrninjstration rfashington, D. c. Dear Sirs: I am inquiring into what I vi~.,ed at 9:35P.H. on the evening of the 4th of July. A friend and myself were watching a fireworl{cl display with binoculars .from a distance. Hhen they were compl.eted I asked him if he had ever looked at the moon through binoculars and he said that he hadn't. He was quite surprised to see the moon jurap up as cl.ose as it did ,,-tith 7 x 50 binoc%ulars. me then asked ~e how the s tars looked with t hen, a s I had the glas::>es aga:t n at that tir.1e, and I said I~ doubt if it made them any more than just brighter. I picked out '\'That I thought '\ras the brightest star at random and vietied it through the binoculars. I thought my eyes vrere deceiving me, but a.!ter close observation, ,the star that I had picked out was moving atediJ.y across the sky. He watched and said yeas, that it was moving and I could then make it out lri.th my naked eye. It \'las on an approximate 450 tangent in relationship with the horizon and moving .from Ttlest to East in the Southern Heud sphere. It looked exactly like the the ball oon that in an earlier year rel.ected light back to earth. I had heard nox mention of this cin the r adio or read o it in the paper, so I 1.-rould be i nterested in knowing '\<That this object \ras, that is if you don go g to the trouble of checkjng back. I thought that this was pure luck t he way that t ha ppened to spot it in the first place. Curiosity has :1a;,ged at me until I had to l'lrite this letter and find out what it \'las I -w:a.s looking at. Thank you very much or the trouble it mjght take you to find this infornation out for me. Sine erely yours, 1 ATTN Of: TDEW HEADQUARTERS FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY DIVISION AIR FORCE SYSTEMS COMMAND UNITIIO ITATII AI,_ I"O,.ell wuoHTPATTIIIUON Alf' I"O,.CII aAIII, OHIO aueJEcT: Request for UFO Information 1 August 1963 ros Hq USAF SAF-OI 3b (Mrs. Wells) Wasb 25 DC 1. Reference the attached letter requesting information on unidentified flying objects. This letter is forwarded to your office for whatever action you deem necessary. 2. A does not give his exact location at the time of t e sighting, it .is impossible to confirm tha~ he saw Echo. Description of the object, however, does suggest that the sighting was Gaused by Echo. 3. It is suggested that a future Echo schedule for Mr. area be sent to him. .-n~ERIC T. JONCKHEERE 1 Atch Co lone 1 , USAP Ltr fm Mr. Deputy for Technology and Subsystems an unidentU'1ed aerial. : ortice . - Aa you did not give the exact location at the a1ght!ng, it 1a tmpoaalble to conf1Iu that speo1t1c satellite. however. ~our description or the doea augeat that the sighting waa caused by Echo. Echo predictions thia 1nforna t1on ~or Helena. Montana. will be or some help Jl. J'ACIS Inforusat1on D1v1a1on or Information I il l 6 ,I, SATrllllt 1'160 I OU 1 fll~OT!ItR lUI TUN <i SOul 11 IIOlMTf' NOK TII- \OUTIC T I I' I l!~t,(,. H T. Ul A'tt. f1 HE Hli<G. ttf. 1\[AR. JUl Y ), l 9t.l CORR. C~ll C~-E1 Jl.b - I O'>.H -c,r..e lU.lS SATflliTE 1960 IOTA \ FOR OTIIf R lAflfUDH SOUTII-NORTH KOR Tlt-sr.um tORR. IHll tor.r.. 1r. lit All. ~CKR. 1~11 tN-E I l l J u .r- bRio St,.O 6too <oi -, QolH IO.Il Jlil Y t , 1 % I ll'lo 6 l 1'1001FIED ORCITf\l flfi'(I'.TS FOR fARTII SATfLlllf 1?1>0 tiHA 1 NCliNATION C.1.2 1 OfC. ASCE~ClNG NCCE llONG.l 14~.80 U(G. W~Sf Plll~f SWElP II'.T(RV~l CI'.E CAY -16.9'-MIN. ARGU~ENT Of PERI~EE llb.~l CEr.. RAJE ~F t~AI'.Ct 0.27S(,R ~F~. D[~ l'tRIQO ANO,ALISTJC PERlfC 11~.112 "1~. RAJE OF C~AI'.CE -O.OOOIA HfN. PfR PERIOD ECCENTRICitY 0.050~1 RA~IVS OF PfR&GtE ~62S.? ~flES KAOJUS CF AP~CEE '>lll. l I'ILP~ RATl OF ChANCt -O.Il HllS Pill 04Y ASCEtiOU:c t:COE IP..~.) IH.SI CI:C. R.\T OF CI'Af\fi\ -1. lC020 Oft. P1l OAY lATITUr. OF PfMIGEC-If.Ct' r.EG. REAO-JN [XPECIEO ~AC. tl