4. NUMBER OF OBJECTI Flaabea OD1 5. lENGTH OF OBSERVATION 30-45 Miautea 6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 9. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE P;\OJECT 10073 RECORD J, LOCATION 10. CONCLUSION .Aa\ro (VI.NUS) A\ tbe \~e or the a1gb\1ns ot aa~utb ot 274 des, eleTatlon 11, IRIE, IUMMARY AND ANALYSIS Witaeaaea) VIMB vaa oa u Obaerter aa14 abe aav tlashea a~ilar to explosion tlaahea OYer Lake .. Tbe tlaabea vere tr~ S-20 aeconda apart ao4 aed ia oDe looation. Wbea she tira\ obaerted \h~, abe called \be attention ot th \o her 'I an4 \be~ 'bou a larp boa' vu 1a ti'Ouble u4 explod1D& p,.loue ediUOftl of thle ro,. ,. t.. u .. d. PAPPY MANN DRIVING SCHOOL 1 270 EAST 222nd ST. I COMPLEU COURSt o UU'HUP OltADf " A" SCHOOl UCINSIO PARKING SPECIALIST AUtOMAtiC Olt I CLASS WOitk ltANDAitD IHIF1 CARl ROW FEATURDfQ dvert11era Complete Coverage m Northealt Greater Cleeland sponsored by By Mail $90 Pea Year " P. Enter-Rece1ves Awa ds Competition for .. Miaa Teen- a r e 0 h I o" will be held in The Exehange Club of EueHd Youngstown In late August. has been awarded the BIG "E" Karen has also been selected Award f~r elub excellenee by "Miss Citizen Band" by an am-The National Exchange Club, ateur radio elub. She received it was announced at the 49th . dl 11 t the honor last Sunday at the annual Natio~al Exchange Con- ~ eor a Y n-ventlon meetmg in Bal. Har- <1 .the St. Joseph bour, Fla. The award is given t'ase t'ard Fraser Leads MuSical to Exchange Clubs meeting the "'3d&y In the log A d th W ld requirements of effidene7, ex- lid Beach. riP roun or panalon, and education. East C eveland'a Mus e Man, Robert Fraser, will direct u ers a muslcal trip around the world-"Porta of Call"-to- res~denh have night, Aug. 3, at 7 in Severance rs tn the Red Center's seventh fountain con- ':!'he~ re~ cert. The band will play an in- ;.~d thel~ etghth ternntional medley of French, ey nre. Rober~ German, Spanish, Hungarian, .. 51 Ttacy llve., Italian and some rousing Amer- East tcan march tunes. C'l A. Albanese, ave.: Anthony ~horeview ave.; alsey, 442 East ~ EJh~abeth M. ~hcr, 638 East Gary A. Pale- 1ree Gallon Club E. Mozina, 1725 Permanently, Painlessly Lip, Chin,. Eyebrowa, ltESUL T1 OUAitANnED VIOLA RELSOK Licensed by Stote Medical Boord 1114 Eaet 175th eH Grevewo CONTINENTAL MINI-BJK S Also a lart Sele~tlo11 of New & Used I, Center Dr. e Banquets R..Unlont Oc:caslona d Catering LAMBRETTAS RABBIT POLICE SPECIAL MOTOR SCOOTERS Friday-AL MIKLAVIC Saturday-GIL DO BID A . FISH FRY FRIDAY -LUNCHEON DAILY Ill East llllh St. IY. 11131 Nottingham Feed & Seed Co. NOTTINGHAM RD. AT ST. Your Lara Northeaet Garden Center Sin~ 1914 kE. 1..0256 -We Give and Redeem Eagle Stamp GIGANTIC POWER MOWER SIIV UP TO 20%1 FOR REH"l' GATE WAY ltotetUiert o Power Rako Poet Hole Lawn Rollore Whoelbarrowt o sw .. pere o Spreacfe,. o rr .. Trimmere Pruning Sheare Floor & Rug Cleaners Pofishen Electric Hecfgo Shean Chain Saw Thatchomatfa MICHIGAN PEAT LAWN FERTILIZER Agrlco AA 106~. Lawn formula MULCH NOW! PINE BARk I kOKO MULCH $1.98 CORN COBS $1.60 Cash and CarrF WITH tHIS AD ONLY Lorge 6 cu. ft. Bale Finest $3 88 LAWN FOODS Bone Meal XXX Lawn Food Nutro Sacco Greenfield Gateway ROTOTILLER I With Power Handle QualitV and Selection-Serving Y . Needs~ For Over 25 Years UIO Observation ~...,, :,"1! This lie a to your kind letter ot August 9, 1967 concerning JOUr unusual observation. Investigation revealed that you probably observed the planet Venus. At the time ot your sighting, Venus ~1~!:; . would have been on an azimuth of 271~ degrees o.t an elevation ot. approximately 10 degrees. The descriptions submitted in your letter are consistent -with past descriptions of this planet. j; :.~'"=-.Venus, 'Vith an estimated stellar magnitude of Q4.2 on July 30, : ~ . .;~:~ t {r:, 1967, would have been quite bright in the west-northwestern aky. .... .. ' ; ' r ~:'.... Venue is by tar brighter than any. star.~ visible from the earth I _::1: ,;p,' When stars or planets are vieved low on the horizon, the observer , '1. ie looking through many more miles of the eurth' s atmosphere than :t; 1 'When looking at stars overhead. '!he earth's atmosphere actually ~, ~:;. ':> " / acts as a prism, which in effect causes the incoming rays of light . ;. -C-.:1.t. to be broken into the colora ot the spectrum. 'lbus, at one instance, .... ~.)Jr..:~, .. r-~ ,{~::f' < :; one color will be seen, and at another .. instance, another color will . : . : '=.r:::;::-!: r-;-< . " scintillation. 'lbe closer the stars or planets are to the horizon, . .. , ... the more they scintillate, simply, as mentioned above, because we .. ~-~ _. .. ~ are then looking through a thicker layer of air. . ~--_:-. .'~' Scintillation of the planet Venus ~ns responsible for its apparent change in ahape, brightness, and movement. Its brightness enables it to be seen before other astronomical bodies. This was the reason 1 t was seen at dusk. . .. F r-c j cc t f l ' H:' J;c<.l ut t l c l:c1izc1~ c i i l EJ' had c alled t l G i.r.cj.dcn t . I~t.: rc1'Ll'i ~c r1ctl:.i rje about '' explo;~ i C'r1 ~ \ -l r:i n g light s o n a boc.:.t, tb ey Vi E-l'C:-r ot 94 East 20lu Street r!ajor 0uirttc.nilla Project Blue Book Hr i r-h t Patterson Air .li'orce Base Dayton, Ohio 45433 Dear r.tajor Quinta-nilla: I n reference to our phon e ort to :you the i"'"v.oo For brevity' converc::!.tion of Au.gur:t 8 , 1967, I uoul d lik e t o re- conccrnin s the U.:?. O. observed in our ne i ghborhood. v-r the r e por t f orm sent t o me b;y " The Cleve land Time -9P. ~t Locality-East 20lv Street -Euclid, Ohio Du rati on -Approxirnat e l y one hour. Condition o f iky -Dusk-i~o. clouds about 9P .II'. -s ome at lOP . M. Prevailing wind -:from the n orth-Hest. Stars -a ppeared about 9 :30P. M Moon - not noted. Behavior of object -Appear ed to stand still, move s l ot1ly, chc-.nge br ight- ess, c h2.ng e shape, and z i g zc.g or veer t.i.t c:n6les. Appear unce -.At dus k object appeared round, like a ball of fire and bright t co ht. like :1 s ta.r. At nieht it appeared like a star, but about five times as lc..rge and as bri~ht. r t appeared to have 2. tc.i l C~.t times a t 200 or ~!:::proximately 1 o 'clock. With binocu l a r s ( 5x35) it appeared blue- green on the t o p a.n d r ed-or e nge on the b ot tom and t o rotate sloHl y from left to rieht. There was no sound . The object sometirtes hovered and someti mes rose and. fell in motion. If held at a rms length i t would be the size of a soft b all. It d i d not pass i n front of anything . in r e clin- r;r. David NcCreight ( Scoutm~ster) \las :2i ttins i nc chc-.ir ancl noticed i t out f r ont \'Tind.o~r. because it was too larg e and low for a s t a r noticed motion. I Disa ppe a rance -On horizon o f Le.ke Erie . Speecl -Much sloHer tha n an airp lane or jet -appro:-:. 20m.p.h. Feieht -Unable to est i mate. A:p~ro~.: . eleve.tion (horizon 0 n.nd overltecd )0 )-20 Offices n otified -Eucli d Police Derart ment - came ~rhen object ::2.s over lake an d sai d it Ha.s "prolKtbly a l ie;ht" The Press and P l c.in Dec.ler-aclvined to notify li.I.C . A. P . ~clid Nets ~,.Tou.rn~.l -LocC'.l paper t;rotc article per r ecruest of' J:r. 1Teff. J~r~r 1 Pcff {N. I .c. A. P.) -submitted report to him. \ ',"'fJ contacte d by Ed gar Smith -Nn.tional Director of tbe Scientific Phenomenen Research Center? At this point t o avoid furthe r involvement, c nlled N.A.S. . and uas advised to contact you. 'lould like to comment, tha t I d o think the police , etc. should be a wa r e of the propor channels to notify in thr~n i11r.t~T!ce~. f-;impl;y H:i~h t o r~pnrt t ldr nn r' c :i.tj7.0.n's duty, nT!cl 11nt bai.l1 r'.r,.,r c nf the pro ' ''-:r-'"'uth ority in thin mn.tter, fee l I have spent nccdlnnr; timf' 0nrl errort. Direction--From ci ~htint~ ('])J'(~:-trcd. to e o n o r i.h- lrre1.Pr1y . itnesses-Norm~n Conrn d Family-90 East 201 Dr. and Mr~. '-Toh n r; e nsina , n.n.-20100 F.d{"'ecliff Willia m Corbeti -100 r ~t ~01 Davj (I J:cCrei,;ht li'n.mi l;y -91 F,ast 201 olph Bcrln.n JYr;.mily-9~ r~[\ct ~'01 Oth e r fnmi lj PS -Razin c c ! -Kopecky -Krn c -Gli h a - rock -Slusr;nr -St a n sfield -other s not itlentifietl . David McCre ie-h t spoke t o a ma n on Eact 254 c lo.i mine t o sec lik e object in h i s vicin-L'Ly for c. tir.1e prio 1 t o 9r. M. thct e v e n ing. /un enclosine sketcl1 o f lIhc?t wa s seen 2.nd indicating d i recti on o f movemen t . lloulr1 like to k nov: your consonou s of t h i: in:Lorm~tj 0 11 c.ncJ J ook fori!.:trrl to honrine from you. Sincerely, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY EVANSTON, ILLINOIS 60201 DEPARTMENT OF ASI RONOMY LINDHBIMBR AStRONOMICAL RESEARCH CBNTBR Lt. William Marley Fl'D ( TDETR) Research and Aerial Phenomena Division Wright Patterson Air Force Base Dear Bill: 7 September 1967 I agree with your evaluation of the report relayed to you by Mrs. Berlan. At the time in question, the ecliptic was about as far north of west as it gets, and Venus was a brilliant object moving after sunset from high in the west to the horizon in the northwest. The report s of back-and-forth motions mean very little, since nearly everyone gets this illusion after. watching a bright isolated object for a while. The colors reported are right for normal atmospheric refraction effects, and the size reports no doubt suffer the usual gross overestimate that most size reports suffer from. Since colors were reported only when the object was seen through 5 x 35 binoculars, there is also a high probability that they were inserted by the cheap optical system. Of course atmospheric refraction induced colors are more visible in binoculars than with the naked eye. Any report of motions observed with binoculars are suspect unless the witness states specifically that the binoculars were supported by a rigid and sturdy clamp. People just don't realize that binoculars magnify movements of the hands exactly as much as they magnify objects. I have a request from Charles Cox, Roanoke World News~ Times World Building, Roanoke, Virginia; Mr. Cox gave me some backgroun.d information on the South Hill case witness, Crowder, and I had told him that he might be able to get a copy of my report when it had been sent to Blue Book. He just called, asking if he could obtain that report, so rather than shunt him around from one place to another I told him I'd ask you to send it along. If there is a charge they will pay the bill . Lt. William Marley 7 September 1967 The sample or rock' you sent is still sitting around; now that summer is over I will try (again) to find a geologist here at the university who .might be able to identify it. As a preliminary identification, I would say it's a hunk or rock. William T. Powers ;ustlik.t tooiJ, To bt ll31tl, Euclid Safety Couaell I Coalelt Wlaa Volume No. XXX-No. 31 You'll Find The Best Buys The Euclid NewJoumal. The SCOOP and Ealt Cleveland Leader 1 EUCLID, OHIO, AUGUST 3, 19t