J. OA TE TIME GROUP 0 Civil!an 4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS S. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 5 YJ.nutes 6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ground-Visual 9. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE Erla n_ger, CONCLUSION SA 1'E:tJ.I'I'E Not ECHO I, II or PIDUSUS I, II, Ill but there are 111 over 30 Satellites that are visable to the naked eye. 11. BRIEP SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS Observer sighted an object which she believed to be a I satellite. Object looked like a regular star except that it was cloeer and moved. It took about 5 Minutes to croes the eq !'rom the time it was tirst observed and hP.aded in a northerl.7 direction. FTO SEP 6 3 0329 (TOE) p,.l- ediU- o f We f-may be ueed, nrigh t - Pa tterson ~ayton , Ohio Lear s1rs,. r, Kentuckv rt arc 1 , v Air rorce Base Saturdn;r,. i.;arch 26, I spottec an object in t he sk;r which I believe to have been a satellite, but I nr.t not sure. So I am writting you aor your opinion about the object. I first noticed it at 8:40 p.~. when it was in the center of the sky 0 a little to the north west though). Looking at it through binoculars it looked liRe a re~lar star onl;',r closer. The color of the object was a bright whiteand it headed nearly directly north, before leavin~ m~r view. Altogether it took onl~r a few minutes to- cross the sky fron where I first snottec it, (Rbout 5 minutes). Please l et me know if it was a satellite or star or what. If it is a satellite inform me as of v1hich O!l e it VIRB.