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1. OATE 12, CONCLUSIONS

CO Wes Belloon
31 August 1958 O Probably Balloon
3. OATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Possibly Belicon
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Rnd, reddish orange objs, size of Spica & Jupiter both seiting
baseball, traveling in almost straight in SW; however, no third ooj
line. Slowly dropped behind trees. in this location. No posi-

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© CASE (INFORMATION ONLY) August 1958
Sources Space Craft Digest, Fall 1956

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ANOTHE?. REPORT of a sighting trren people we are personally ecquaimed
with 19 fror: Lebanen, Oregon. Mr and Mrs (mmeinese peryle
of the communi:y) sighted a most amazing UFO towar @ end of August uf
1958 at 2:20 in the morning while they were up with their youngest child.
The “fiery ball " about a site emailer than & full moon bung betwsen them
and a nearby *u.tte neat Lebanon, Oregon. They watched this strange ery
phenomen: for about 20 minutes. It was orange to green-yelliow in celur
and ‘“avemed to be just » large bal) of fire". We certainiy wager thet thie
highly cherged body would be of the type that “weuld cause radar recurne”
but it is thsee same “bails of tite" that seem to move ander ictelligen con-
trol and to appear everywhere in the world.

. A UFO "like a

ball of fire, with a bluish-green and red tail at least 500 feet long" was
sighted by a couple in Selma, Alabama, on Aug. 13th. The object was seen from
nearby,

and was heard to make a "sizzling" sound...

Cleveland, Ohio
SOURCE: SAUCER NEWS, Oct, Nov 1958

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Ohio and six other professional astronomers saw 4 Saucer on the night of Aug.
15th, at the same time that they were observing the Sputnik rocket carrier.

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Cleveland 30, Ohio
September 22, 1958
Department of Defense
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Dea r Sirs:

Has your Agency been conducting, or been cognizant of, any
flights, test flights, or development flights, of any unconvention-
al aircraft, missiles, balloons, or remote controlled devices,
ir or ahout the vicinity of Cleveland, Ohio on the nights of Aug-
ust 16th and August 19th, 1058, | before midnight local time, which
could have given rise to reports of unconventional aircraft, aer-
ial objects, of strange lights in the sky at that time and place?

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MIRO ROUTING SLIP CONCURRENCES, OR SIMILAR ACTIONS

CONGRESSIONAL INQUIRY
(Req any info available re unconventions
aircraft, aerial objects or strange
lights in sky - Cleveland, Ohio = on

18 August or 19 August 58.)

ACTION: Req memo w/proposed reply per HOI 10-20
and indicate AO name & telephone number

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1. This Center checked with Flight Test Center, WADC, concerning test flights
around Cleveland area. The ATI Center was informed that flight tests are conducted
in restricted area R-109, east of Dayton, and none in the Cleveland area.

2- Balloons are released from all over the United States, some small, some very
large. The large balloons will travel thousands of miles from the launching site
before coming down. Some of these launchings are unscheduled, and are so numerous
as to preclude checking with all the airports that might release balloons.

3- A thorough check of the ATIC files failed to reveal any reports of unidenti-
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Dear Senator Lausche:
I refer to your inquiry concerning the interest of Mr. Earl J. Neff of

Cleveland, Ohio, in unidentified flying objects. nets

A thorough check of the Air Technical Intelligence Center files fails to
reveal any reports of unidentified flying objects in the Cleveland area on the
16th or 19th of August 1956.
“for your information, I am inclosing the latest Department of Defense fart
sheet on the subject of unidentified flying objects, dated 6 October 1958.
This fact sheet clearly outlines the Air Force position with respect to UFOs.

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The Secretary of Defense has asked that I
reply to inquiry relative to the interest of
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or missiles in the Cleveland area on or about

18 Auguat 1958,
The Air Force has no knowledge of flichta of
YR: this nature in the Cloveland area on that date.

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Deer Mr SP
Thank you for your letter to the Secretary of Defense, dated
& September, which was referred to this office for reply.

Without more specific information, we cannot make a definite
conclusion as to the object which you observed. However, your

description fits the appearance of one of the US 100-series jet
fighters when the setting sun below the horizon reflects on the under-

side of the aircraft at high altitude. We should point out that a jet
aircraft in a climbing position may appear to be moving very slow.

We have added your report to our files for reference in ouR
continuing investigation of serial phenomena, and we appreciate your
interest.

Sincerely yours,

LAWRENCE J. TACKER

Major, UGAF

Executive Officer

Public Information Division
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DATE LOCATION OBSERVER EVALUATION

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Sep Kuldja, China @ASE MISSING) Civilian Other (MISSILE)
~Sep-Oct Danby, California Multi | : Other (REFLECTION)
“1 Wheelus AFB, Tripoli —A UNIDENTIFIED

“1 Dallas, Texas | Aircraft

~2 San Antonio, Texas aes: 1. Balloon

2. Astro (METH R)

~4 Killeen, Texas —_——- Insufficient Data
Fee 29.03N 68.56W (Atlantic) Pan Am-(Vis & RADAR) Insufficient Data
a Thermopolis, Wyoming a aie Astro (VEGA
iT Crosby, North Dakota Military Astro (MARS
eS Montana, S Dakota, N Dakota Mil & Civ 1. Astro (STARS/PLANETS)

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3. Balloon
~7 Kansas City, Missouri ars. Aircraft
a | Ellsworth, South Dek ota Military Astro (ARCTURUS)

<7 Hastings, Michigan he SDE Astro (STARS/PLANETS)
| larson AFB, Washington See. Aircraft
7% Sharpsville, Pennsylvania ! Astro (MARS)
8 Toledo, Ohio Same (720705) Aircraft
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>) Euclid, Ohio | Aircraft

~10 Lovells, Michigan Insufficient Data
“10 Highland, California Astro (MARS)

Astro (AURORA)
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13 Collins, Missouri -Astro (METEOR)

~14 Baileys Bay, Bermde Satellite (SPUTNIK III)

“14 _ Wheelus AFB, Libya Other (WX)

14 Dallas, Texas Other (UNRELIABLE R=PORT)
| ~Lh Lakewood, Ohio Astro (CAPELLA)

~-15 St Joseph, Michigan Insufficient Data

“~L6 Moody AFB, Georgia Astro (SIRIUS)

16 San Diego, California Air craft

™16 Westbury, Long Island, New York Astro (METEOR)

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1. Reference attached UFOB report.

2. The information in this report is very meager and, therefore, insufficient
for an accurate evaluation. However, there is a possibility that the IFF equip-

ment was not working properly since the target appeared only on IFF and at an
extremely high speed.

1 Incl 7 GORDON C. HOFFMAN
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late in August evenings.

By JAMES STOKLEY

>» THE RED PLANET shining more
brilliantly than any other planet or any
star visible at the same time, will appear
in the eastern sky late in August evenings.
This is the first time this year it can be
seen before midnight.

Since last September, when it was farthest
away, out on the opposite side of the sun,
Mars has been drawing closer to the earth
From a distance of 84,500,000 miles on Aug.
1, it comes to within 64,000,000 miles on the
3lst. During the autumn the approach will
continue and it will be nearest Nov. 8, only
a little more than 45,000,000 miles away,
nearer than it will be for the next 15 years.

Although the accompanying maps show
the appearance of the evening skies in
August, Mars is not shown. This is because
they are prepared for about ten o'clock, your
own kind of standard time (add one hour
for daylight saving), at the first of August,
an hour earlier at the 15th and two hours
earlier at the end of the th. ,Mars rises

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about two hours after sunset. It, too, fail
to get on our maps. However, it is in the
constellation of Virgo, the virgin, the eastern
part of which is shown low in the south-
west, to the right of Scorpius, the scorpion.
Jupiter is a little to the east of Spica, the
brightest star in Virgo.

One planet is shown on the maps. This
is Saturn, fainter than either Mars or Jupiter,
but equal to a first-magnitude star. It is in
rate oll the serpent-bearer, seen in the
southwestern sky. Just below is the con-
stellation of iearehen with the red star
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Vega: )Most Brilliant Star y=

The most brilliant star of the August eve-
ning is Vega, in Lyra, the lyre. which stands
directly overhead at the times for which the
maps are drawn. Nearby, toward the south,
is Aquila, the eagle, with Altir. Toward
the east is Cygnus, the swan, in which
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is in the west. This i Arceures, Fe Bootes,
the bear-driver, a reference to its proximity
to Ursa Major, the great bear, of which the
“big dipper” is a part. This figure is seen
¥ the northwest. In the lower part are the

o “pointers,” whose direction leads to
Polaris the pole star, which is part of the
little dipper, in Ursa Minor, the li little bear.

The stars mentioned, except Polaris, are
all of the first magnitude, but some fainter
ones are also seen, which form characteristic

groups, easily identified.

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Mars Appears Late

Mars, steadily approaching nearer to
test object in the sky when it appears

In the south, just to the left of Saturn,
for example, is Sagittarius, the archer. The
stars here form the outline of a teapo
the handle to the left and the spou
right, just above the hook-shaped
stars that make the tail of the scorpion. In
the east is the “great
of Pegasus, the winged horse; the square
resting on one corner.

The star in the left corner is Alpheratz,
which is in Andromeda, the fettered prin-
cess. And to the left we see her mother, the
queen, Cassiopeia. These stars form a letter
W, standing on one side, the top of the
letter to the left.

Starry Metropolis

When we look toward the teapot-shaped
constellation of Sagittarius in the south, we
are looking “downtown”
of stars of which we are a small and rather
insignificant
which, like the sun, may well be accom-
a family of planets, are arranged
something like houses and other buildings.
Here is a great city.
structures are packed very closely together;
farther out they are more scattered. Then
comes an interurban area where you find
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another city. At the heart of this the build-
ings again are closely packed.

Our stellar city is the Milky Way galaxy,
shaped something like two soup plates stuck
together facing each other. In it are about
a hundred billion stars. The diameter of
the galaxy is about 600 quadrillion miles.
Expressed in the astronomer's unit, this is
about 100,000 light years. (A light year is
about six trillion miles—the distance a beam
of light will travel in a year.) At the center
the thickness is about 10,000 light years.

Earth Is “Up-town”

The earth is located about two-thirds of
the way out from the center to the edge
and at this distance the thickness of the
galaxy is perhaps 2,500 light years. The
center is in the direction of Sagittarius, so
when we look that way, we are looking
“downtown.”

The whole galaxy is rotating, although
not like a wheel. Rather is it similar to
the motion of the planets in the solar sys-
tem, with those innermost going fastest.
At the sun's distance from the center, it
makes one complete revolution in some
200,000,000 years, a period sometimes called
the “cosmic year.”

It is because of the shape of the galaxy
that we see the Milky Way, which is the
concentration of stars as we look out toward
the edge, in the galactic plane. Toward the
sides, the stars are much more sparse. At
this time of year we can see the Milky Way

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extending from Cassiopeia in the north,
through Cygnus nearly overhead, down to
Sagittarius in the south. It is hard to see
from a city, in competition with city lights,
but with a dark sky, out in the country, it
is readily apparent. Even a pair of binocu-
lars will show that it consists of a swarm
of individual stars and they are most nu-
merous in the direction of Sagittarius, where
the Milky Way looks brightest. This, of
course, is the direction of the galactic center,
which is about 30,000 light vears away.

Millions of Galaxies
Just as there are other cities, beyond the

limits of your own, at various distances, |.
so are there other galaxies, millions of them, ||

in fact, scattered throughout the universe.
One of the closest is just visible to the naked

eye, on a dark night, in Andromeda. Its |
position is shown by a small “x” on the |

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ts distance is about 1,500,000 light years,

can see with the naked eye.

In size the Andromeda galaxy equals
ours. It may even be somewhat bi
This represents a reversal of opinion among
astronomers in recent years for they used to
think it considerably smaller than ours.
Then they found that the dimensions of our
own had been overestimated, which partly
removed the discrepancy.

Next they revised the distance scale for
the other galaxies, and the one in Androm-
eda out to be about twice as far
as they had supposed. Therefore, to look
the size that it does in the sky, it had to
be twice as large.

Life in Space?

As we reach out farther and farther into
space, with bigger and bigger telescopes,
more and more galaxies come into view.
Some, like the one in Andromeda, have
a spiral structure, like a huge pinwheel.
Others are shaped like a flat lens, and show
few details of structure. A third class shows
an irregular shape, with no particular form.
These are the components of our universe:
millions and millions of galaxies, each con-
taining millions or even billions of stars.

A good proportion of these stars are
probably accompanied by planets like those
around the sun. Many of these planets may
well be inhabited. It no longer seems that
our earthly life is unique—or nearly so.

Celestial Time Table for August

August EST
$ t:00p.m. Moon farthest; distance 251,-
300 miles,
7  4:45a.m. Moon passes Mars.
12:49 p.m. Moon in last quarter.
12 ecarlya.m. Meteors visible; emanating
from constellation of Perseus.
13 6:02a.m. Moon passes Venus.
14 10:33p.m. New moon.
17 10:00a.m. Moon nearest; distance 226,200
miles.
19 10:06a.m. Moon passes Jupiter.
21 2:45p.m. Moon in first quarter.
23 2:474.m. Moon passes Saturn.
29 12:53a.m. Full moon.
Subtract one hour for CST, two hours for

MST, and three for PST.
Science News Letter, July 26, 1958

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