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1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12, CONCLUSIONS | |
ce 0 Was Balloon |
Sl October 1357 Massapequa Park, New York Dp Crohn rt |
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 2 FSPORy Saroen |
2030 9? “OK _Vi« % O Was Aircraft
ee ee 0, a &K Ground- Vi sual 0) Ground-Rodor Probably Aircraft
GMT 0] / 0] 307, Nov__ O Air Visual O Air-Intercept Radar O Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS | « SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical \ico tCcor
O Yes D Probably Astronomical
x Ne Civilian (Filot & * FRI) fIXAMpssibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF.OSSERVATION 8 NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE 0 Other tas
0 Insufficient Data for Evaluation
. fe —- ~ 4 0 Unknown
not fiven /o-7 seconds one North
0. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
| An extremely bright object was seen Although observer tends to |
traveling very fast, (129 der in discount the possibility of a
about 6-7 seconds). No reports of an | meteor, the characteristics,
UFO from radar-, aircraft, air opera- | speed and description all point
tions or others from that area, to the object being a meteor.

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‘1 -; 4 NOVEMBER 1957 SIGIITINGS

LOCATION ) OFSERVER WVALUATION
‘Brazil CQASE WiSSt NG ) Civilian Insufficient Tata
~Garwd, Poland Civilien ; Astro (sSTEOR)
~~ Hewet, California » Civilidn Insufficient Data

~New Orleans, Louisiana
~ Huntington, :Vest Virginia
Detroit, Michigan ~-

Aircraft
Other (UNRELIABLE OBSERVS9
Astro (VzitUs)
Insufficient Data
‘Swansea, Illinois Astro (iM@TEZOR)
“Canadian, Texas ‘a * Other (UNRSLIABLS R2PORT)
~Brooxtondale, New York Other (SEARCHLIGHT)
~Ft Worth, Texas _ Astro Keeeien!
~ Atlantic Ocean Military ‘Astro (=TsoOR)

levelland, Texas (kiz LK Mult Other (BALL LIGETNING)
“White Sands, New Mexico Multi Astro (MOON/VENUS)
‘Belmar, New Jersey Insufficient Data
“Long Beach, New York Astro (vsius)
~Asbury Park, New Jersey | Balloon
Greenville, Alabama Insufficient Data

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‘Tuscon, Arizona eee eee eee. Soe Astro (MSTEOR)

‘Mount Dora, Florida Other (XiTs)
‘Dunedin, Florida Other (CONTRAILS)

~Oro Grande (Alamongordo), New Mexia ~ Other (HIRAGE/PSYCH)
“Astoria, Missouri Se ~ <<. Insufficient Lata
“Mitchell Field, Long Island,lNew York Balloon

~Marietta, Georgia ag, Insufficient Data
“Birmingham, Alabama Astro (HETEOR)

‘Kirtland AFB, New Mexico CM© Sv NGl4litary pm == Astro (iMSTEOR)

~ Milwaukee, Orezon Milita Astro (VENUS)
Other (UNRSLIASLE REPORT)

‘El Faso, Texas
~Cayucos, California 4 Tl trae: Astro (VENUS)
‘alierity tae a Back pe Astro (METEOR)

_N Moicant, Louisiana

» Atlentic (Jamaica, } iamt } Astro (MSTEOR)
Kirtland AFB, New Mex ‘Leow ASE IMSUING Aircraft
(RADAR), | |

ADDITIONAL REPORTED SIGHTINGS (NOT CASES

LOCATION SOURCS SVALUATION
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—~ Brovz. Mountain, Nortn Caroiine lewsclipping
~ Amarillo, Texas Newsce lipping
Itaipu Fort, Brazil Wuss.Hc Newslcipping
Kodiak, Alaske Wi S9i WG HMeusclipving
~ Elmwood Park, Illinois Newsclipping

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Massapaquagark, New York i 31 October 5
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Massapequa Perk, New Yorte
December 5, 1957

Director of Bage Operations
United States Air Force
Mitchell AFB

Garden City, New York

Sirs:

this is for the UFO saction of the "To whom 4t may concern” department; tT
ay feelings won't be hurt if it ends up in the circular file, but after, ; ue ay |
soma weeks I've decided I should at least drop a nota, Qe? few. |
ay ‘aa,
Matter of fact, the anide references 2n tha press to hallucinations, ane—7-{tt.”
the repeated assurencsa that USAF ean explain all reports of midentifiad on
objects, including those roported by professional military snd airman, \ Ore?
alacs’t shane ma into ignoring any mention of tals incident; I toss it in er
mov, for what 1% may be worth, of tha offschance that 4+ might just hapoen Jer td
te te in with gomanna olas'y ob*arration, —— Call |
vf ye
An ex-Maval Avytator (stil) on flying atatus in the Heserves), I don't v
think I'm completely ignorant of ataospharie phenosmenas an ox-FBT agent,
I think my general powers of observation and reasoning are at least |
noraal, oe Ss tn FO any ba Pas |
wae an coef Jrreet2 9 “6 > a
So I’a morally confident jherea wags no natura Gxplanation within the -~ .- ‘
frome of references offic “éxperierza to asgeimt for the extremely bright WY N 9 |
Coject I sighted within a Dat It ten b? 3:30 Pom., local tims (TI forgat j BEI
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whether wea were then om ES f or EDST) Wotobar D1, 1957. It poved south ‘ ‘fi
to north through an are anul 60 dagreasa abova ths eastern horizon frea ~~ 2
my vantage point at the above long Island address, [ta upesd was moss Vy
striking. (Not knowing its distance, I of courze wouldn't hazard a guass 4 ry} |
as to linear velocity; but ite angular waloclty tone it through some 120 Sé |
desreasa of aziwuth in perhaps six ov seven eaconds flat.) Ite Sei Litanrce ¢ |
wad easily, say, ton times that of Sirlus or one of the Deighter planets, Vi ae
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A nateor would of course be the nearest natoral pheancnenan, bus I tend rm SN
to divcount that possibility OA Several grounds, mainly because of the af
fTat trajectory, shich appeared to parallel the horizon throuzhout its WY °
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By JAMES STOKLEY

Y ALTHO! fil the autumn skies ce? Mot

bute tre brbiasniee f titose of Wolter, there
e Gave interesting and charweieristic con.
ners which now shine in che south.

[hese appear on Cie accunpauyving Uiaps,

hich depict the skies as they appeie about
ton oeclock, your own kind of standard
tope—add one hour for daylight saving
race eat the fest of October: nine oclock
maidie oF the month and ecighe
uclock at the cnd.

Ligh ia the southern sky are the four

ws marking ‘he great square in Pegasus,
‘he winged berse. Actually, only these of
these ore in Pegasus, Alpheratz, the one
in che upper lefthand cerner, is in the
peghboring group of Andromeda, the
chaned lady Diagonally oppasite ts
\taskab, which is to the horse's neck, as the
gure was drawn oo the old star maps,

The cow of surs extending downward
aad co the right trom Marsab form the
howl. Phe stars extending westward from
the upper righthand corner are his fore.
feet, Lor the animal ts shown upside down!

It you tollow downward the line of the
right side of the «juure, you will come fo a
broght sar, low sa the youth, which is called
Comabbaut, aad is part of Piscts Austrinus,
the southern fish. This is abou as bigh as
it ever gets, in our northern lannies.

ihar is why it is represented by the
swmbol for a seconcdmagnitude star, even
though at is of the frst magnitude, ac-
cording to the system whereby the asiron-
omer reckons siar brighmesses, Because it
is w low, tts light has to pass through a
greater thickness of the earth's atmosphere
chan ib it were higher in rhe sky.

The symbuis on our maps show the stars
‘s they appear and chev are oniy shown
vera thew full oryghtmess when they are
tutrly high.

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Constellations of rhe Zodiac

fuse below the .quare we fnd Pisces, the
bohes, which os one of a row of consteila-

ns extending ciugonaily across the south.
oon sky, down to the southwestern herizon.
the others are Aries, the sam; Aquanus,

ie Waleraarner, Capricornus, the sea-gour,
snd Saguttarnis, the archer.

These are consiellagnons of the vxtiac;
wother is ‘Taurus, the buil, low in the
northeast. Beyond Sagittarius, and visible
eigher mm the evening than the nmes for
stuch che maps are drawn, is Scurprus, the
worpion, also a “codtacal constetiation,

Uhe zodiac is the vath through which the

iopreyent Venus is ua Seorptus. ft seus. at
the hegramiog of October, aboot an hour
and cheeequacters alter the sua, but by the
ent of the month it remains abeve the
horizon toe nearly eo and a quarter hours
alter sunset.

Cf miagostude manus 3/7, Senus is tas
‘erghier than any other star or planet, so
there «s pe difheulty in fading 11.

Another planet, Saturn, is im the same
part oi the ky. Although of the nrst mag-
nitude, it ts less than a saxtieth as bright as
Venus. At che beginatng of October, Venus
is to the west of Saturn. Moving caseward,
if proses Saturn on Oct. 20.

The other nakedeye planets (Mercury,
Murs and Jupiter) are now ali so nearly in
the same direcnon as the sun that they are
not sible,

Returning to the stars, we find chat
some of the brightest of those now visible
appear w the nght of Pegasus High in
the west is Cygnus, the swan, wirh firse-
trouguitude Deneb, Just below this star
is Vega, in Lyra, the lyre. To the left ot
L.vea ws Aquila, the cagle, with the star
called Alraur.

io, Mao and planets seem wo move, and *¢ @o?
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ations

Say fhivev ting myer ep ihe “ast “Wwe Titus

mur the horton at the LAP nies, or tthe
Capelli, in Auriga, the chanoteer, To Un
rig is part of hth, with a
rethdisi Star \ideraran. Both ot
these belong to that Orilliant array of stars
which will be so prominent cw the south
lurtoy, winter evenings.

Om the celesal prowgtain tor October
there is an eclipse of the sun, but almost che
only people to se it will be the members
ft the scienune partes locaced tn Antarctica,
cuking obsersauons in cunpection with the
urrene tnternananal Geophysicai Year.

An. eclipse of the sug occurs when the
Haw) Passes betacen sun sind earth, “)
that the lunar shadow falls on our pianet

Phis shadow has owo parts: the uma,
y inner shadow, where the meen com
pletely hides che sun, aud ine outer penuin-
bra, from which the lunar disc would univ
parhaily cover the sun's tace. Where the
umbea reaches, an eclipse is ivial: from the
penumbra only a parnal ectipse may be
observed,

During the night of Oce. 22, by U.
me, most of Anrarctca, the southern op
vf Atoca, and the soutneramost parts ot
Madawaxaur and New Zealand, as well as
a large pornon of the Indian Ocean, wall be
covered by the penumbra, so that a partial
eclipse of the sun will be Giwerved trom
these sewions,

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SYMBOLS FOR STARS IN ORDER OF 3R2ICHTNESS

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7 he earth's atunesphere, barely wuching it
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Sciennists here will be able. io make ad
vantage of this oppertniry tor come unique
obervanons, if the wearber is Sear: it 1
8 onot, the eclipse should stil se useful.

Cine important phase of the iGY program
SS conertnedt “with the lonospNere, the layer
of the atmosphere that retlecty radio waves
‘wick io the ground, and is arfected by the
sun's sadiadon. Wen the noon cuts thie
oUF, unportane observations are expected,

Without traveling to Antrenica, anyone’

who can see the evening skies in October
will be able to se another cclips—nut once
bur several ames This wil] be of the str
called Algol, im the constellation vt Perseus,
the champion. which is seem in the north.
Cast, just sbewe Aurige.

Aigal, also known ae beta Perses, is the
second beightest star in tivis constellauon:
the beaghtese is Mirfak, a little to the left.
Orlinaruvy. Algnl is of Magnitude 2.06,
while Mirfak iv 1.80, of shour 255 brighter.

Below Algol (under the ‘etree Pin
Perseus) is the star called epsilon Perse, of
inagomide 2.5%, and Algol is about twice
as Orighe.

Tlowever, it you look ae chese stars at
about 9:07 pm. on the evening of Oce 13,
vau will lind that cheir order of brightness
has changed, aod epsilon is abour 50%
brghter than Algol, which is now onty a
third as bright as i is normaily. On the
evenings of Ort, 19 and lt, Algol wail
shine with its normal brighiness. bue on
the list, 2.87 dave iter its orevious diminw.
ven im beightness, i¢ will again have: faded,

‘ctually, Algol is aet a single orb, Sur
consists of two stars cevolving around the
center ot yravity of the nar. There are
many birary stars ot which this is true,
but with unm eclipsing bimary the plane of
reveiunon is nearly in line with the earth,
and one star is much fainter tham the
uther.

Phas, cvery 2 days 2% haurs 49 minutes,
the dark component of Algol passes pat-
dally in frone of the bright one and: pro.
duces an cctipse, which dims ts lighe [¢
takes 2D0ur ten eure for the complete
passage of the dasic star.

Celestial Time Table for October

Oce. EST
5 12.09 n00n) [uover beard wn,
Soe pun. Maun hess, distance 242,200
mile
S 4-42 Dam. Feil unter’s Monn).
13 $:4G 47m, Al ,
To 22:49 452. Alg@et ot mintmum.
S4440m. Mera on list quarter,
1S go7 Om. Aigod at rvvaryteet.
26 Jean. Venur pases Saturn.

mr) NP vue. Men eares@, iistance t2a.400
rules,
Auaol at mammuin.

New moon; toil eclipse of sun,

5-40 p.m.
22 Iligg oan.

j viseple fram Anrarctica.
; 44 iowa. Moon Passes Saturn,
i 2) ton7 um. Moon pases Venus
j 16 Sia 4 ba Moon in hese quarter
: Subaract one jwue foe CST. nwo hour hor
MST ami three for ST.
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Oct.28=London-UFO with oe Seen over one of Britain's Atomic-Bomber
Bases by a Ni eht~F ighter=Pilot & also picked-up by Radar Crews |
on the around | (Bei Investigated by thtellig ence Agents of the |
Royal-Air-Foree.) 0 ing Tn turasacote ts! lizhts &' sped away when |
it was discovered,according to the United~Press.ay.

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Your letter of 1l/{ December 1957, addressed to
Air Technical Intelligence Center, has been referred
to tais office for reply.

The Air Force has no cbjection to your publishing

the circumstances surrounding the unidentified flying
coject sighting mentioned in your letter.

Sincerely,

LAWRENCS J. TACKER

Major, USAP

Executive Officer

Public Information Division
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December 17, 1957.

Air Technical Intelligence Center,

United States Air Force,

Wricht Patterson Air Force Base,
Ohio.

Attention: Wallace W. Elwood,
Captain, USAF
Assistant Adjutant.

Dear Sir:

Enclosed please fina a clippine from one of the New York
papers. This object is similiar to the one I saw, the difference
being that this object was just passing by us for routes unknown. The
object that I saw was actually doing some reconaissance work, moreover
it was probably extracting some materials out of the sound and analysis-
ing them, or perhaps even useing them for fuel. As far as I am concerned
nothing is impossible.

I am not weiting to you about the flying objects seen over
the New Jersey skies, I am writing to you about my own sighting, file
reference AGAO-CC (29 Oct. 57). I have just recently gone in the
writing field. I write about space, government and relicion. My
first book will be out, I hope, in the summer of 1958. The title-of
the book is "MAN FINDS GOD THROUGH SPACE”.

I would like to have permission to have my sichting released,
so that I could publish it along with the book as the book also deals

with unexplainable objects.

Very truly yours,

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