PROJECT BLUE BOOK

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2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS

Wes Bolloen
Probebly Belleen
Pessibly Belleen

Wes Aircroft
Preobebly Aircraft
Possibly Airereft

Was Astrenemicel Meteor
Probebly Astrenemicel
X Possibly Astronomical |

Other

Insufficient Date fer Evaluation
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7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 9 COURSE
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10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS

Eight to fourteen disc--like objects Color, flight path & length of
size of a pea at arm's length, Dim sighting indicate a meteor,
orange-yellow steady color. No sound,

Straight path. Vanished,

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No Case (Information Only) 15 October 1957
Bernardsville, New Jersey

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was ving home from Morristown, N.J. She was two miles from Bernards-
ville and had just turned from Route 202 into North Maple Avenue, which runs south
to Basking Ridge.. At that moment her attention was suddenly attracted by an ex-
tremely brilliant golden-yellow light to her left, "as large as two fused head-
lights." Her first impression was that an airplane with landing lights on was
coming right at-her. She stopped and rolled dowm the window; no sound could be
heard. Some Black Angus cattle were grazing in the field; the light was beyond
them, but she could not estimate its distance. It was well above the ground, |.
though she was only certain of this the next morning, when she inspected the site
by daylight, and noted that there was no hill or tower in that direction. Its
direction was east-northeast, exactly opposite to Venus (with which, besides, Mrs.
Simms is perfectly familiar; this light, she says, was incomparably larger and
more conspicuous, though still smaller than the full moon.) It’ seemed to wobble,
but this may have been illusory. After watching for five minutes, she started up
and drove on southward. The light remained visible, apparently in the same place
(now being left behind her.) Near Lyons, three miles to the south, she stopped
and watched it again. From here it appeared in the north-northeast, smaller, but
still large enough to see that it had apparently tilted: it presented a luminous
crescent convex upward, with a dark rounded portion (perhaps the lower —
below the crescent. She drove over the hill and lost sight of it.

Mrs. Simms's intelligence, and the facts that she is familiar with astronom-
ical objects and took no previous interest in UFOs, influence us to take this re-
port more seriously than if it had emanated from a witness not. knownto us. Infor-.
mation was ebtained by Lex Mebane from Mrs. Simms's daughter (a oo--worker of ue)
and subsequently directly from the observer.

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No Case (Information Only) latter October 1957 |
South Lee, Massachusetts

"THINGS" THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT

The reader will have noticed that the November 1957 sighting wave in the U.S., _ |
like the Fall 1954 wave in France, has been marked by numerous reports of landings, |
with and without occupants. The skeptic who disbelieves all of these stories |
must conclude that the US population possesses an unsuspected streak of imagination, |

since, along with similarities, the stories show differences of unexpected details |:
that call for considerable powers of invention. Take, for example, the story told | |

by Mr. and Mrs. Beverly Potter, of South Lee, Mass., who were interviewed at their |
home by the Reverend Albert Baller of .Greenfield-after WBRK (Fittsfield) broadcast, | |
on Nov. 6, Mrs. Potter's account of the experience, which hai tuken place about two |

weeks before. The sein comes siete inal nile lire Baller’ s letter about his talk
with the Potters. :

Between 2 and 3 a.m. the Potters were awakened by a noise like a jet about to
land - "but not really like a jet, either." Looking out of their bedroom window, |.
they saw the back yard illuminated by light that came around the corner of the house:
from a source that was then invisible. The lighted area "went bright and dim, bright |
and dim," and they could see three dark figures moving around, that "kept bumping —
into things and making a lot of racket." The "jet" noise had been replaced by a
high-pitched whining sound; "it made my head ache all the time," Mrs. Potter said. — ;
"After a while’ Mr. Potter shouted at the "things! to go away, and they ran behind a
shed. About then, the source of the light moved around the corner of the house.

It was "a kind of floating thing, about two feet from the ground and about six:feet
from the ground at the top." It was "sort of without any sharp or clear shape, but
gave out light in front of it and urder it; it was dark behind it." The figures

"moved away," and the object moved off "up the hill," then into the sky. In the :
morning the Potters found the high grass in the next field matted down, objects near :
the shed kicked over, and a shovel broken, Mr. Baller was impressed by the way the ©
observers told their story, and by its agreement in all essentials with the tape of |
the radio interview. A copy of this tape is being made for CSI.

Reports of physical distress seemingly caused by the proximity of a UFO, like
Mrs. Potter's headache that went aw-y when the "object" left, are not absolutely
unique; but the blundering about,.as if in the dark, may be the first report of its
kind. (Note: Our remarks in the first paragraph are not to be taken as indicating |
that CSI accepts this report, or any other in this issue, at present. However, we
give great weight to the opinion of our respected colleague, the Reverend Baller. )}

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HERE TODAY, SAID..A_WHITE CLERGYMAN AND FOUR NATIVES REPORTED SIGHTING A|
DAZZLING OBJECT iN THE SOUTH PACIFIC SKIES WHICH GENERALLY MATCHED THE |
DESCRIPTION OF AN UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT REPORTED IN TEXAS« ) |

THE REPORT ISSUED FROM SUVA, CAPITAL OF THE ISLAND GROUP, SAID
TAREE SEPARATE, SIGHTINGS OF THE STRANGE FLYING OBJECT WERE REPORTED a
gy :

” FIRST, .THE REPORT SAID, FOUR FIJIAN FISHERMEN FROM THE NABOUQALU
VILLAGE IN BUA PROVINCE ON THE ISLAND OF VANUA LEVU SAID THEY SAW A
®STRANGE OBJECT WHITE IN COLOR AND CIRCULAR IN SHAPE DESCENDING FROM
THE SKY. THEY WERE VERY NEAR IT AND SAW IT HOVERING AT A STEADY HEIGHT
OF 20 FEET ABOVE THE SEA- Se
@]T APPEARED: TO: BE REVOLVING AND ON IT APPEARED TO BE THE FicuRE
OF & MAN.® THE SUVA REPORT CONTINUED. ©AS.THE FIJIANS APPROACHED IN ue
THEIR BOAT'A BLINDING LIFHT SHONE. ON. THEM. THEY SAID IT DAZZLED

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INTO THE NIGHT SKY,* THE REPORT SAID. - 2)‘: nantes < Sere Te ge

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‘eo duzaling’ object by
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‘matched ‘descriptions. oe
object; »: . to og
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Day Adventist official, the Fiji ~, is
report stated, said that: he sawi\
the object.stationary at an es--. > '
timated’ 5,000 feet: swinging ~ ;
“in a: balloon-like motion.” ...\>.- }
Four Fijian: fishermen: from: =~ e
the Nabouqulu Village in: Bua: :
Province ‘on . the: Island:. of )
- p¥Vanua Levu. said’ they saw* a. |
“strange white object and cir.
cular shape descending from. = '
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and saw it hovering ata steady *
height. of 20 feet shes the tam Ww
It appeared. to be -revolving : “\ |
and om it appeared to~be the: |
figure of a man,” the‘report + aN ,
said. ~~ a SER. AS mt
“As the Fijians approached."
in their boat a: blinding light*si~ te |
shone on: them:-. They’ said. it~ ” a
dazzled them “and. made them ‘ |
| feel weak,” the report added. AY |
_ “Then- the obfect went:
——_ up into the ait “and * OS: : :
isappeared. into then: sys ) )
sky,” it continued." Bo pal Then.

THE REV. AVELING: said
color of the object varied a ie i. |
clear white: to deep: flashing |
red before it disappeared sud-

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26 - 31 OCTOBER 1957 SIGHTINGS

LOCATION : OBSERVER EVALUATION
Kassell, Germany Civilian | Astro (METEOR)
S of Caja Marca, Peru

Astro (VENUS)

Carlinville, Missouri Astro (VelUS)

Minot, North Dakota Aircraft
Humboldt, Saskatchewan, Canada - Insufficient Data
St Louis, Missouri Aircraft

Kisalon, Mindinao Astro (METEOR)
Wilmington, Delaware +9 Kn. Astro (METEOR)

Ft Lauderdale, Florida + .; ‘ Aircraft

E of en New Tre Insufficient Data
Peru y 7 Astro (METEOR)
Piedmont, Missouri | Insufficient Data
Dayton, Ohio | Astro bee |
Charleroi, Pennsylvania ni Astro. (VENUS
Mindanao, Phillipines i eet Astro (METEOR)
Baker, Florida . F

Attapulgus, Georgia Aircraft

Ely, Nevada (CASE MISSING) Astro (MSTZOR)
Metairie, Louisiana Astro ete,
Hutton, Maine Astro (METEOR)
McDill AFB, Florida Insufficient Data

WL43N 141.488 (Japan)
Bartletsville AFS, Oklahoma
Kanepolis; Kansas Balloon

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Dayton, Ohio aaa | Astro ec
Massapequa Park, New York ange. Astro (METEOR)

Insufficient Data
Balloon

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See Fall Constellations

Some characteristic fall constellations are visible in
the southern sky during October, which also brings an un-
usual solar eclipse visible only from Aniarctica.

By JAMES STOKLEY

> ALTHOUGH the autumn skies do nut
have the brilliance of those of winter, there
ure some interesting and characterisue con-
stellutions which now shine in the south.

These appear on the accompanying maps,
which depict the skies as they appear about
ten o'clock, your own kind of standard
time—add one hour for daylight saving
time—at the first of Octeber; nine o'clock
at the middie of the month aod eight
o'clock at the end,

High in the southern sky are che four
stars marking the great square egasus,
the winged horse. Actually, onig of
these are in Pegasus; Alpberatsy the one
in che upper left-hand corner, is in the
neighboring group of Andromeda, the
chained lady. Divsgonally opposite ts
Markab, which is in the borse’s neck, as the
Rgure was drawn on the old star maps,

The row of stars extending downward
and to the right from Markab fonn the
head. The stars extending westward from
the upper right-hand corner are his fore-
teet, for the «animal i shown upudedown!

if you follow downward the line of che
right side of the square, you will come to a
brght star, low in the south, which is called
Fomaihaut, and is part of Piscis Austriaws,
the sourhern fish. This is abaut as high as
it ever gets, in our northerm Lorituces,

That is why it ie represenved by the
symnoi tor a sccondana gnitude star, cven
though it is of the first nagnitede, ac-
cording to the svetem whereby the esiroo-
omer reckons star brightness. Because it
is sc low, its ‘ight 4s to paw through a
greater thickness of the carth’s a
than if it were higher in the sky.

The symbols om our maps
as they appear and har as ote te
with their full brightaess when they are
fairly high.

Constellations of the Zodiee

- Sclow tne square ve find Pienes, the
fishes, which is one ct a row of constelta
tions extending diagonally across the south-
ern sky, down to the southwestern horizon.
The others are Aries, the ram; Aquartus,
the water-carrier; Capricornus, the sea-goat,
and Sagittarmus, the archer,

These are constellanons of the zodiac;
worher i¢@ Taurus, the ball, low in the
he Seyunad Sugitanus, and visable
earlier (a che cveniag than the Gimes for

whieh che maps are drawn, ts Scorpius, ihe
scorpion, also a zodiacal consrellatioa,
The zediac is the path through which the

sun, moon and planets seem to move, and.

show the stars

at present Venus i¢ in Scorpius. It sets, at
the beginning of October, about an hour
and three-quarters after the sun, but by the
end of the month it remains above the
horizon for nearly two and a quarter hours
after sunset. .

Cf magnitude minus 3.7, Venus is fur
brighter than any other star or planet, so
there is no diffeulty in finding it

Another planet, Saturn, is in the same
part of the sky. Although of the first mag-
nitude, it ip less than a sixtieth as bright as
Venus. At the beginning of October, Venus
is to the west of Saturn. Moving eastward,
it passes Samrn on Oct. 20

The other nakedeye planes (Mercury,
Mars and jupiter) are now ail so nearly in
the same direction as the sun that they are
not visible.

Returning to the stars, we find thae
ving ob tee Chalet <i en ton visible
appear w the cght of Pegasus. High in
the west is Cygnus, the «wan, with Srst-
a Deneb. just below this star

is Vega, in Lyra, the lyre. To the left of
Lyra is the cagie,* with the: str

called. Altair.

_Capella, in Auriga, the charimecr.

Now. moving over to the cast we first,
near the horizon at the map-times, britlant
To the
right is part of Taurus, the buil, with a
reddish star’ called Aldeberaa:. Both ot
these belong to that brilliant array of stars
which will be so prominent tp the souch
during. winter evenings,

- On the celestial program for -Ocedver
there is an cclipee af the wea, bus almost the
only people to sce it wil} be the members
of the scientific parties locited in Antarctica,

making observations ia connectos wih the

current international . Year.

An eclipse af the sua occurs when: the
moon passes between sunm.aad <arth, »
that the lunar shadow falls om our pianct.

This shadow. hus two parts: the umora,
or inper shadow, where the moeg ccm-

letely hides the sum, acd the outer penuim-

ra, from which the lunar dive would only
partially cover the sun's face. Where the
umbra reaches, an eclipse is wtal; from the
penumbra only a pertia)- eclipse may be
observed.

During the night of Oct 22, by U. S.
time, most of Aptarctica, the southern tio
of Africa, aud the southermmost parts of
Madagascar and New Zealand, as ‘a as

a Large postion of the indian Ocean, will be
covered by the penumbra, so that a partial
ccliper of thé eum-wil be a from

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} the earth's atmosphere, barely touching it
; along the Antarctic coast, near Halley
Bay, where a Hritish expedition is located.
i Scientists there will be able to take ad-
vantage of this opportunity for seme unique
observations, if the Weather is clear; if it
ig not, the eclipse should still be useful.
One important phase of the IGY program
j is concerned with the tonosphere, the layer
4 of the atmosphere thar reflects radio waves
' back tm the ground, and is affected by the
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off, important age are Loa

Without trav ing to Antarctica, anyone
who can see the evening skies in October
Nie be able t© see another ecij

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second brightest star in this conste] lation:
the brightest is Mirfak, a little w the left,
Ordinarily, Algol is of Magnitude 2.06,
while Mirfak is 1.80, or about 25% brighter. |.
Below Algol (under the letter P in

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However, if you look at these stars at
about 9:07 p.m. on the evening ot Oct. 13,.
you will find thar their order of brightness
has changed, and epsilon is abour 50°
brighter than Algol, which ig now oaly a
third as bright as it is normally. On the
evenings of Oct. 19 and 20, Algol will
shine with its normal brightmess, bur on
the 2ist, 2.87 days after ity previous diminu-
Hem in brightness, ic wil! igaia have faded.

Actually, Algol is not a siagle orb, bur
consists of two stars revoiving szround the
3 center of gravity of the pair.. There are
rs maoy binary stars ‘of which chi is rue,

: bet with an echpung binary the plane of

, ievolution ‘is Hearly in line with che earth,

‘ and one. star iw much Ginter thaa the

other.

Thas, avery ? days 70 hours 49 minutes,
the dark component of Algol passes par-
tally im front of the bright ome and pro.
‘cen an eclipse, which dims its lighe. It
tubes. abeme ten hours for the complete ©
Daseege of che dark star.

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Celestial Time Table for October

Yy $ 12:09 noom Jupiter behind sun.

¥é 5°00 D.m™. Moon Sarthe, distance 22.200
7 mies,
+ 4:43 Doe Peel men ‘Hunter's Moon).

'§ 3339 42R. Algol at minimum,

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5 rd St44a.m. Monn ia last Quarter.
' 1% georzpm, Alyol a manu.
200 7°00 AD. Venus passes Saturn. f
} 21 §:00 a.m. Moon near est, dimance 224300 NY
f inales, ‘

SS5O9pm. Algol ar minimum,
43 1835 P.0% New mena: roral clive of cao,
thie tose \ererctuca.
: 29 1047 Pat. Maus Ppousey Seturn,: -.
i 26 torre aan Mo ” patses Venus,

39 §$:43 a.m. Moan in First quarter, :
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MST, and three fe PST,
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Ne’ Case (Information Only)
24 hi trhd 1957 Portales, New Mexico

: . a cobweb-like substance which fell
from the sky. ny BEAK threads, some of: them SO feet long, draped’ across |.
telephone and power lines. They oreated a muisance in sorn and cotton
fields, where harvest is underway.

A possible explanation for the mysterious substance came from an
engineer at Sandia Weapons Base in Albuquerque. He said it was caused
by millions of minute particles of dust high in the atmosphere. He
said the dust particles, rubbing together, cause a static charge. This,
in turn, caused the dust to fall to earth in the cobweb form. The eng:
ineer said he had heard of wrmneer occurrences in soni sinaalin hard and vezi
no, California. - . ‘

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Other falls, of couse, have been reported: in various areas in the
world, and have come to be mown as Angeis' Hair, often connected with
flights of unknown aerial objects over the same areas either’ defore,
during, or after the fall of ths cobweb-likse meterial, some of. ‘which
then behaves in most unusual manner, :

Perhaps ancther twoemystery enigma is forming. Some baad ae it
was cracked windshields and disappearing garden hoses, terrowing into
the ground. Now, for the 1957 Hallowe'en season it was chumks of ice
of large and paring improbable proportions eonh.ng from the sky (t) ‘

and. > \egain %) a corer =n6; weir tm apace = mae ee 3% = » os eee

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GOSSAMER FALL HBRAIDS SAUCER Nahe Pa | . tl

: In view of the good evidence ti the preceding Le that "gossamer" may properly - |

be identified with angel hair - or, at least, may not} properly be identified with .

spider web - it may be significant that a typical gossamer fall occurred at Portales, |

_. New Mexico, on October 23-2), 1957, Levelland, Texas, the scene of UFO landings ten |

“days later, is only 66 miles southeast of Portales inf ja remarkable coincidence, if it’ |
is a coincidence. (Aimé Michel writes that the gre at European landing wave of late

195k was likewise ushered in by angel-hair falls.) -Our source for the details is the

Portales News-Tribune, October 2h, 25, 27: a

The cobwebby strands, "apparently falling from a great height" and up to 50 feet |
long, began to fall west of Portales in the late afternoon of the 23rd, and by the |
next morning were drifting down on Portales itself. Characteristically, they fell in
enormous quantities, "a lot heavier south of here than in Portales ... all the way to
Hobbs" (110 miles south of Portales). Most likely it was falling also at Levelland, . |
which is closer to Portales than Hobbs is. It was found not to be radioactive. Ap- ||
parently, not a soul had ever heard of gossamer falis, and an extraordinarily ridicu- |
lous theory was propounded by an anonymous "engineer at the Sandia Base at Albuquer-' ||
que," who declared that the threads were composed of "atmospheric dust" matted to- |
gether in strands by a static electricity charge. This "explanation" was syndicated ||
by AP all over the country. Eventually, however, someone was found who knew that §-
gossamer is supposed to be spider web: "Dr. William Kister, University of New Mexico 7
biologist, offered the spider-web explanation tentatively, without examining the ma- ~.
terial." The News-Tribune editors went to the library, found that the books said the |
same thing, and happily published a story (Oct. 27), with the flat headline, "Gossa-
mer Shower Due to Spiders." The only corroboration: "Airmen at Cannon Air Force Base )
reported they found tiny spiders attached to the silken threads." (No one in Portal- |
es had noticed anything of the sort, and we doubt very much that this "report" is |.
accurate.) The AP syndicated this explanation across the country, and ten days later,
in precisely the same area, the November saucer~-landing wave erupted. | tt

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cedes it by some.35 minutes were reported seen by some half- \
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cover at 25,000 feet. JYES, 2 2-

Reports of the sightings from hie an pits came both.
from adults and youngsters, all of whom claimed to have seen
the flying objects with their naked eyes. The length of sightings
East Whipp road, he fixed the distance from Dayton af that }
at 418 miles,

Root determines the distance of the satellite by measuring:
the change in frequency of its radic transmissions ae they sp-
proach and depart.

On the basie of these calculations he. predicted the following.
times of passage fer the satellite today: 3:06, 4:44 and 6:29
a.m., 3:08, €:40 aad 3:38 p.m. . :

Root said the best time to sight the satellite, weather per-

mitting, would be at 6:40 p.m. The recket, somewhat more
heillinas, usually paeses trom 3¢ to 35 minutes-befere the satel-

The satellite came prea to Dayton at exactly 6:46.40 p-r
 gueceting te: Tings Tah Sener: Heere: ee Bohr
Glass Co,
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