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1. DATE 3 \* LOCATION
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3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
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5. PHOTOS 7 ai 1 $. SOURCE
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J. LENGTH OF CBSERVATION |

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& NUMBER OF OBJECTS

9. COURSE

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12. CONCLUSIONS

Was Balloon
Probably Balloon
Possivly Balloon

Was Aircraft
Probobly Aircraft
Possibly Aircroft

Was Astronomical
Probably Astronomical
Possibly Astronomical

Other

Insufficient Data for Evaluation
Unknown

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10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING

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ATIC FORM 329 (REV 25 SEP 52)

11, COMMENTS

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30. Have you ever seen this, or a similar object before. If so give date or dates and location.

31. Was anyone else with you at the time you saw the object? (Circle One) Yes No)

31.1 iF you censwered YES, did they see the object too? (Circle One) Yes No

31.2 Please list their names and addresses:

32. Pleese giy ying information about yourself:

NAME
Middie Name

irst Name

ADDRESS py Sate, F7ASeS fy,
City Zone State
TELEPHONE ea AGE__»3 02 sex

indicate any additional information cbout yourself, including any special experience, which might be pertinent.

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34, Date you completed this questionnaire: wh OD aes £5

questionnaire or a narrative explanation of your sighting.

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ASTRONOMY

Sarmencn News Leernn for February 21, 1999

Venus Becomes Prominent

Mercury is also visible for a few days near March 12,
when the most favorable greatest eastern elongation for 1959

occurs. Partial lunar eclipse will be seen on March 24.

By JAMES STOKLEY

© VENUS, shining brilliant
western sky for to hours
is the most conspicuous object in the eve-
ning skies during March, except for the
tioon,

Another planet, Mercury, will appear
for a few days around March 12. It will
be seen below Venus and will set earlier,
before twilight has entirely faded.

Neither Venus nor Mercury is shown on
the accompanying since they are
drawn for a later hour: 10:00 p.m., your
own kind of standard time, at the begin-
ning of March; 9:00 p.m. at midanonth
wd 8:00 pam, at the | end. However, Venus
is so bright that it will be seen long before
any other planet or any star, and there will
be no doubt of its identity.

Although Mercury, when it comes into
view, will be only about 1/25th as bright
as Venus, it will still be brighter than most
first magnitude stars.

A third planet, Mars, is also visible in
Murch, and does appcar on the maps. It
is. high in the west, in the constellation

‘Ty irus, the bull, tittle above the red
stuce Aldebaran, which tt resembles in color.
Mars is slightly fainter than Aldcbaran, but
stl! bright enough to rank in the first
niugnitude on the astronomical scale.

Mars and the other plonets have no light
al their own, They shine by reflected sun-
light. But the stars are many times farther
away; their distances are numbered in
trillions of miles. Each stor is a sun, shin-
ing with its own light.

low in the

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Sirius Is Brightest Star

visible in the

The brightest star
It ts located

evening is Sirius, the Cog scar.

in the southwest, i: Litts Major, the
yreater dog. A litte gher is another,
and smaller, dog, C. Minar. In this
group shines the star Procyon. Sull
higher are the twins, Germint, with Castor

The latter is a first magnitude
is rumked in the second

and Pollux.
stur, while Castor
magaituce,

To the cighit of Sirtus and a little higher
ty the magnaificent constellation known as
Orion, the hunter. This two
at the first pragotiuce: above,
anal Rigel, below, Between them are three
stars in a row that form the hunter's belt,
feature of Orion that helps in idenulying
the constellation.

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betel use,

Farther to the right Taurus, already

mentioned as the location of Mars, and

the briphe star Aldelwran., Above and to

the sight of Taurus (shown on the north.

ern sky rhage) Is \niriga, the charioieer,
Tt sitet Cap he

after sunset,

. pher«

Next to the Gemini, toward the left,
is Cancer, the crab, a faint constellation

Which merits attention chiefly. because it
is one of the 12 that mark the zodiac, the
pith of the sun, moon and planets. There
are no bright stars in Cancer but it does
contain a little star cluster visible to the
naked eye, called Praesepe, or the beehive.

Left from Cancer, is located the most
brilhant of the zodiacal constellations, Leo,
the lion. It is marked by a smaller group
called the sickle, with Regulus at the end
of the handle. The blade of the sickle is
supposed to mark the lion's head and
Denchola, at the other end of the group,
his tail.

Be — Denebola is Virgo, the virgin,
with Spica. This star is also of the first
we Ilowever, at the position in
dicated it is so low that much of its light
is absorbed in passage through the aunes
and it is considerebly dimmed.

The great dipper is high in the north
east. It is part of Ursa Major, the greater
bear. The two stars in the bowl of the dip
per indicate the direction of Polaris, the
pole star, Following the curve of the
handle toward the right, Arcturus appears
in Bootes, the berdsman, the last of the
first magnitude stars of the March eve-
ning skies.

JSace North

“LYNX

In anctent Greeee, when Venus wa
visible in the evening sky as it is now,
it was called Elesperus. When it was scen
in the morning hours, before sunrise, as
it was last summer and fall, it was called
Phosphorus. ‘The early Greeks did not
realize that the same planet shifted from
one side of the sun to the other, and thus

was visible alternately as an evening, ond
as a morning, star.
Actually Venus moves around the son

at an average distance of 67,000,000 miles
(the earth’s distance ts 93,000,000 miles),
and takes 225 days for one revolution.

Every 584 days it catches up and comes
approximately between the carth and sun.
This posttion is called inferior conjunction.

Venus Lost in Solar Glare

Once in each revolution it is likewjse fas
out beyond the sun, at superior conjunc
tion, This happened last Nov. Uf.

At either conjunction Venus is in line
with the sun, and not visible, since it is
lost in the solar glare. After superior
conjunction it moves to the east of the
sun, and follows that body in its daily
motion across the sky.

As Venus get farther and farther away
from the sun’s direction, it remains visible
longer and longer after sunset, thus be
coming prominent in the evening sky, as
it is now. Its “greatest clongation” to the
east of the sun will canine on June 23, when
Venus will shine in the west for
than two and a half hours after suaset.

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SURGERY
Atornic Beam Performs

Brain Surgery on Human

» THE FIRST known brain operation with
a proton beam, instead of surgical tastru-
ments, has been carried out at the Gustal
Werner Institute for Nuclear Chemistry in
Uppsala, Sweden

The patient was a man of 54, suffering
from acute pain and depression.

The beam of protons passes through the
cranium and the intervening tissue without
affecting them. It is concentrated sharply on
the exact part of the brain, in this case less
than half a cubic centimeter, to be destroyed.

The operation took about two hours. The
patient was conscious the whole time. An-
esthesia was not necessary as the operation
was painless. He lay on an operating table
placed inside a drum, his head held in posi-
tion by i The table was rotated after
cach radiation so that the beam struck the
operation site from different angles.

The operating table was placed about 59
fect from the synchro-cyclotron and_ sep-
arated from it by two walls, one of thein
six feet thick. The beam was led from the
synchrocyclotron through a 60-foot-long
tube that passed through a small hole in the
six-foot wall.

Those on the operation team were Profs.
Lars Leksill and Bror Rexed, and Drs.
Patrick Sournancer, Bengt Andersson, Borje
I. x and W. G. P. ! fair.

Dr. Mair, an Aberdeen histologist, is now
\ orking at the Notional Hospital for Nerv-
ous Diseases in London. He had been doing
research at Uppsala for the past year.

The team pointe ed out that the idea of
using a proton beam instead of surgici!
instruments originated at the University of
California in Berkeley. There, Prof. Corne-
lins A. Tobias has used it for pituitary gland
operations,

Sclence News Letter, February 21, 1957

S\OLCGY
insect Juvenile Hormone

Found in Mcemmals, Man

HORMONE. that
aging in insects

> THE “JUVENILE
helps control growth and
has been found in

Most mammalian tissues yield. a substance
show Ms juvenile hormone activity, Dr.
Carroll M. Williams, a Harvard University
biologist, said. The most active extracts
of the hearmone were prepared from the
thymus gland of animals. This glind ts
located in the lower neck. Hts exact fune
tion has never been determined.

At the present time there is no informa-
tion os to whether the juvenile hormone
is also acting as a hormone in humans or
higher animals, the scientist stressed,
coworkers included Miss
foorhead and Miss Jean F. Pulis,

Mati.

othe r

De. Williams’
Lynn VU, }

Scizncr News Lerten for February 21, 195%

also of Harvard. heir report appears in

Nutire (Feb. 7).

The exact chemical nature of the ho
mone is still unknown although scientists
have obtained highly pucifted samples trom
insects, Tt is a stable, water insoluble miole
cule that belongs to the genera! class of
lypicls, or fats.

When the juvenile hormone ts present

it high concentration in insects, it blocks
the formation of the pupa from the cater
pillir, or the adult teom the pupa. Tt acts
to hold the insect in whatever stage it is
in, and permits it to grow in this stage.
It is for this reason that the hormone has
been labeled the “status quo hermone.”

“In view of the extraordinary biological
activity of this hormone on the growth,
metamorphosis and aging of insects, it
scems important to decide whether the
juvenile hormone may play a role in maim
malian physiology or whether its presence
in higher forms is something of a bio
chemical curiosity,’ Dr. Williams. said.

The work was supported in part by the
U. S. Public Health Service.

Science News Letter, February 2i, 1959

MEDICINE
Foresee Early Diagnosis

For Multiple Sclerosis

® LARLY DIAGNOSIS of multiple sclero
sis, Jong known to be a frustrating and un.
successful process, will soon be an accurate
procedure, Dr. Leroy E. Burney predicted
at the National Multiple Sclerosis Society
conference in New York.

Diagnosis of this crippler that now affects

ore than 500,000 Americans has been diffi-
cule. Untii recendy the time lapse between
onset of the disease and diagnosis was
about six years, the Surgeon Gencral of the
U. S. Public Health Service pointed out.

Now early diagnosis is a distinct possibil-
ity through the use of new techniques, one
of which measures the constituents of the
cerebrospinal fluid,

Scientists have found that the carbolvy-
drates associated with gamma globulin are
increased in the spinal fluid of MS patients,
whereas certain other constituents are in-
creased in other conditions such as brain
tumor,

Furthermore, Dr. Burney said, epidemi-
ologic studies of MS have resulted in the
accummation of information concerning
those the crippler attacks.

It is much more prevalent in colder
climates. Incidence of MS is six times higher
in Winnipeg, Canada, than in New Orleans,
La. Northern European countries report :
higher prevalence, while the disease ts
rather uncommon in tropical zones. It
afflicts young adults, usually between the
ages of 20 and 40. Tt affeets both sexes.

Another mystery yet uasolved is the exact
factor oc factors that precipitate this disease.
At times, the most popular theory has been
that a virus, a spirochete, or bacteria might
be the culprit. At other times, dietary de
fictencies pointed the way toward a causal
relationship. Allergic metabolic
defect, vascular disturbances in the brain
and spinal cord have all been considered.

g Februory 21, 1959

Science News letter,

response,

a

VIROLOGY

Garter Snake Can Harbor
Sleeping Sickness Virus

> ‘THE GARTER SNAKE may be the col
prt in keeping one kind of sleeping sick-
ness virus going throughout the cald winter

Scientists have already established that
during: the summer western equine encepla
lomyelitis is spread through a mosquito-bid
HHOSG Eto cyck » However, an accept ible ex
planation for how the virus was maintaned
during the winter, migrating birds studied
did not contain the virus, was licking.

Now, three U. S. Public Tlealth Service
scientists have found, there is evidence that
the hih ernating fyarter smake pli WS role in
overwintering of the virus.

Field studies showed the mosquito, Cre
tarsalis, that transmits the virus
winter in rock piles also inhabited by
snakes, Laboratory tests proved that the
masquito did feed on the snakes, also that
snakes are susceptible to the virus.

“This is the first evidence,” the scientists

report, “to the best of our know ledee, that
a Virus which is an important parasite of
avian and nn a Po hosts €an infect a
cald blooded vertebrate.”

Virus was detected in very high dilutions
of whole blood and tests indicated that the
virus remained in the blood for a long time.

Leo A. Thomas, Carl M. Eklund and
William A. Rush, all of the National Tnsti
tute of Allergy, Rocky Mountain Laboratory,
Hamilton, Mont., did the research reported
in the Pro ceding of the Society for Expe rt
mental Biology and Medicine (Dee., 1958)
1959

,
spends the

Science News letter, Februery 21,

AERONAUTICS

XV-3 Flies Like Airplane,
Takes Off Like Helicopter

> AN AIRCRAFT built to take oft like
a helicopter, then tlt its rotors and con.

tinue to fly like an airplane his been
own successfully foc the first time at
Fort Worth, ‘Texas.

Rell Hehcopter Cor poration’s XV.3 con.
vertiplane, de sansa to combine the hover-
ing and vertical flight capabilities of the
helicopter with the shutieaid high ecraisiny
specd and long range performance of the
airplane, achieved 100% in-flight conversion
ac an altitude of 4,000 feet and a speed
shout 132 miles per hour.

Maximum spect ed of the XV3 is esti
mated at about 173 miles per hour but Beth
engineers said fature larger versions would

have moi than double phient epee cap
bility
The aircraft has uwro twobladed cotors

mounted near the Lips of « relatively stnall

M | ‘ ! !
wing, Each rotor mast axis ults forward

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trom the vert} 1} through spout 1 me
Mrees Lduritiy the conversion PROWESS tyson
vertical te rag Wo which tukes 1 te

> biti load is Trans ferred from

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thi Wg.

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the rators to

‘| bee XV 2 1s homey le tloped fev thy
LC. S. Army ander contract admunistered
by the U. S. Aw Force

Science News letter, Februgry 21, 1959

dhe Ld em

After that it will close in rape, ,
the sum, revching inferior conjunets pt.
l. During the fall and Winter Venus will
be in the morning sky again, until it |
reaches superior connection on June 33.
1960, By the autuinn of next year, Venus
will once more be shining in the evening
sky.

Mercury goes through a similar, bur
aceelerated, cycle, and it likewise’ had two
names in ancient times. Te was called
Mercury in the evening and Apollo in
the morning. This plinet’s mean dis
tance from the sun is only 36,000,000
miles and it goes around once in 88 days. |

The “synodic period,” in which it catches
up to earth, is 116 days, so three or four |
ines each vear it mia come into the eve
ning sky, when it reaches greatest castern
clongation.

March Brings Mercury

As far as seeing Mercury is concerned,
the best such elongation is one that occurs
near the beginning of spring, so the one
on March 12 is the most favorable of the
year. The next on July &, is fairly good,
but the next after that, on Noy, 3, is |
quite unfavorable. |

March brings a partial eclipse of the
Ineon, in which the moon enters portly
into the shadow of the earth. This occurs
on March 24, burt during daylight hours
in North America, so it will not be visible
here. It will be seen over most of the
Eastern Hemisphere, as well as Antarctica.
About one-quarter of the moon's diameter
will be shaded at the maximum eclipse.

On Suturday, March 21, at 3:55 .n.,
EST, the sun, which has been moving
northward in the sky since Dec, 22, will
be directly over the equator at a point
in the Indian Ocean, off the cost of Soma-
lia. This is the equinox, which marks the |
beginning of spring in northern countries,
and of fall in those of the Southern Hemi
sphere.

|

Celestial Timetable for March

!

March FST |
1 5:08 am. Moon passes Jupiter
9°54 pn, Moon in fast quurter

3 3°05 p.m. Moon passes Saturn
9 5:51 arm. New moon
1 7314 Pm. Moon passes Mercury
tt 36:30 p.m. Moen passes Venus '
t2 S§:00 a.m. Mercury at Sreatest: clongation |

cast of sun j
4 4000 am. Moon farthest from carth, dis- |

tance 251.500 miles /
i 386 aun. Algol (variable scar in Per
seus) at minimum brichtne.
1335 pan. Moon passes Mars
7 10210 at, Moon in first quarter

; ;
19 125 aim. Algol ar Minin
21 3-55 am Sun over Cquiter, spring be

gins in Northern Hemiisnhere |
8:54 pom. Algol at minimur
“4 $02 pom. Pull moon: partial eclipse of

Moon Visible in Auseralio. Ant- |
wrety !, Asia, Pearcy unl Alrica

6 64:00 a.m. Moon me arest, distance 224.b00
triilers

28 32:35 p.m. Moon passes Jupite,

29 5:00 a0. Mercury in interiog conju
tion with sup

3f er wim, Moon passes Saturn

6:06 am. Moon in bast quarter

Subract one hour tor CST, wo bout fi
MST, and three lor PST,

Science News Letier, February 21. 1959

ate i ll ila

Hazacn Susrany Rerorr on THE AKGONNE
Low Pow Reacror (ALPR)—Abrahana Sma
ardyk, Fd-—Argonne Nat, Lah, (Offte of Tech-
nical Services), 10% p., ilus., paper, $2.50- Re-
port of the reactor cnginecring division operated
by the University of Chicago.

How ro Ger Into Coiirce —Frank H.
Bowles--Ditton, 1§7 Pp. $2.05. 358 questions
answered by the president ot the College En-
trance Examination Board,

Inrropucrion To Tt ‘Titory OF SocNo
‘Transatsston: With Application to the Ocean=-
C. B. Officer--MeGraw, 284 p., $10. Discusses
fundamental relations and general theory of
transmission of sound in shallow and deep
water, reflectivity and attenuation.

Lanorarory Disriuration Practicr—-E. A.
Coulson and E. F. G. Herington—d nterscience,
146 p., illus, $4.50. Presents graphically the
eseential physico-chemical principles and de-
scribes construction and operation of equipment.

‘Tne New Force ov Atomic Eneroy: Its
Development and Use- Savannah River Opera-
tion Office, AEC, 65 p. ilus., paper, single
copies free upon request direct to publisher,
P.O. Box A, Aiken, §, C. Instructive booklet.

‘Tar Porentiat. Throay or Unsreavy SuprR-
soxntc Fiow—-John W. Miles—Cambridge Unie.
Press, 220 p.. $8.50. Monograph surveying chose
acrodynatnic forces that result from unsteady
motion of the structural components of high-
speed aircraft.

Reseancn i Svace Science: Special Report
No. 19—Luigi G, Jacchia and others——Smith-
sonian Astrophysical Observatory, 20 Pp» Papers
single copics free upon request direct to Observ-
atory, Cambridge 35, Mass. Reports on the
earth’s gravitational potential, on a satellite
meteor trap and flashing satellite for geodetic

studies,

River Bastx Sunvevs Parents: Numbers 9-14
.-Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr., Fd.-—-Smithsoman
Inst. (Gout. Printing Office), 392 Po illus.,
maps, $3.25. Based on results of field investi-
gations carried on as a part of the Inter-Agency
Archeological Salvage Programm.

Russian-! weonttsH Diotios sny—A. I. Sinirnit-
sky, Dir., O. S. Akhmanova, P.d.-—Dition, gral
rev. ed., QS? Pe $9.75- Contains 90,009 bast
Russian words io inodern orthography and many
technical terms.

A Source Book IN Greek Sctencs -Morris
k. Cohn and LE. Drabkin- Harvard Unie.
Press, rev. ed., $81 p. illus., $7.50. For scholars
and students of the history of ancient science.

SourreasreRN ENoians Lire Porteaivs: A
Catalogue of Pictures 1564-1860--Fimma Lila
Fundaburk, Ed.—Emma lila Fundaburk Puls,
126 p., 374 illus. So.s0. Ethnological record
of clothing and customs of the Indians, show-
ing gradually Increasing European influence.

Tue Sroay of Aviarion—Davy id C, Cooke —
Archer House (Herman & Stephens), 264 p.,
itlus., $4.93. From ancient dream to supersonic
jets.

Thun Sravcrurk AND ProverTIEs OF Poxous
Maveniacs—D. H. Everett and FP. S. Stone, Excts.

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SALLGON LAUNC Hed FROM MINNESOTA FRIDAY HIT A H! GH-SPEED JET ALR
STREAW AND IS BELIEVED TO HAVE TRAVELLED ABOUT TWO-THIRDS OF THE AY
AROUND THE WORLDe

IT SALD AN AUTONATS C Tihd NG DEVICE WAS Slag TO HAVE CAUSED THE
BALLOON'S 12-POUND LOAD OF INSTRUMENTS TO DROP THIS MORNINGes
LF THE BALLOON’S COURSE AND SPEED MAD NOT CHANGED, THIS WOULD HAVE
OCCURRED OVER NORTHEAST AS 1A

THE BALLOON WAS SENT ALOFT FROM STANTON 4 MINNe y AT i2s¢9 Actie
FST FRIDAYe LT wAS NOT EXPECTED TO SOAR BEYOND THE UNITED STATES «

BUT IT DRIFTED _ INT THE UPPER AI STREAM AND BY 6850 AeMse THE NEA
DAY WAS SPEEDING EASTWARD AT MORE THAN i102 VLLES AN HOUR AT A
HELGHT OF S4 JI SEET. ——— 7

THE FLIGHT Was DrSiGNED TO TEST THE FEASIBILITY OF NEW TYP
PLASTIC BALLOON, SEALED AND WITHOUT BALLAS Te

THE INSTR UMENTS TRANSMITTED PRESSURE, ALTITUDE AND POSIT iON DATA
JNTLL RADILOSGNTACT WAS LO
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Balloon released from stanton, MGnn. at 1220 A.M. EST Friday,
was not expected to soar beyond the United states,

13 Maren 1959. It

but it drifted into the upper air stream and by 9:50

was speeding eastward at more than 100 miles an hour at 4 heigat of

34,000 feet. ‘The tlight was designed to test the feasibility of a new

spe of plastic balloon sealed ani without ballast. The instruments
transmitted pressure , altitude and position data wnti lio contact

was Lost.

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C. MANNER OF OBSERVATION
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De TIME AND DATE OF SIGHTING
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U.S. AIR FORCE TECHNICAL INFORMATION

This questionnaire has been prepared so that you can give the U.S. Air Force as much
information as possible concerning the unidentified aerial phenomenon that you have observed.
Piease try to answer as many questions os you possibly can. The information that you give will
be used for research purposes. Your name will not be used in connection with any statements,
conclusions, or publications without your permission. We request this personal information so
that if it is deemed necessary, we may contact you for further details.

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1, When did you see the object? 2. Time of day: “i+ aeened, eect nhs _

Hours Minutes

pees LZ32. (Circle One): AM or GD)

3. Time Zone:

(Circle One): Eastern (Circle One): a. Daylight Saving
b. Central b. Standard
c. Mountain
d. Pacitie
e. Other

4, Where were you when you sow the object?

rive Th ee / 77) 97). ae Qtek gma

Neorest Posh! Addres City or Town Stote or County
5. How long wos object in sight? (Total Duration) Z x3
Hours Minutes Seconds

o. Certain c. Not very sure

b. Fairly certain d. Just a quess
5.1 How wes time in sight determined? ttt che

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5.2 Was object in sight continuously? Yes_i— No

6. Whet wes "ne condition of the sky?

DAY NIGHT
a. Bright (GB? Bright
b. Cloudy b. Cloudy

7. IF you saw the object during DAYLIGHT, where was the SUN located as you looked ct the object?

(Circle One): a. In front of you d. To your left
b. In back of you e. Overhead
c. To your right f, Don't remember

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FID ocré2 164 _ This form supersedes FTD 144, jul 61, which is obsolete

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8. IF you saw the object at NIGHT, what did you notice concerning the STARS and MOON?
8.2 MOON (Circle One):

STARS (Circle One)r
a. None a. Bright moonlight
BDA few b. Dull moonlight
c. Meany € i as moonlight—pitch dark
4d. Don’t remember -d, Don't remember

9. Whot were the weather conditions ot the time you sow the object?

CLOUDS (Circle One): WEATHER (Circle One):
Co. Lleer sky (ary
b, Hazy b. Fog, mist, or light rain
c. Scattered clouds c. Moderate or heavy rain
d. Thick or heavy clouds d. Snow
e. Don't remember

10. The odject appeared: (Circle One):

(8. Solid d. Asa light
b. Transparent e, Don't remember
c. Vapor

11. If it cppeared as a light, was it brighter than the brightest stars? (Circle One):

VW.

a. Brighter c. About the same
‘<> Dimmer d. Don't know

1 Compare brightness to some common object:

12. The edges of the object were:

(Circle One):(G,>Furzy or blurred
b. Like a bright star
c. Sharply outlined
d. Don't remember

13. Did the opiect:

7~Q -@ Qaonoaeed

Acpear 'o stand still at any time?

Succently speed up and rush away at any time?
Brack vo into parts or explode?

Give otf smonxe?

Cranage arghtness?

Change shape?

Flash or flicker?

Disappear and reappear?

e. Other

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(Circle One for each question)

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No
No

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No

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Don’t know
Don’t know
Don’t know
Don't know
Don’t know
Don’t know
Don't know
Don't know

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14. Did the object disappear while you were watching it? If so, how?

PERE ee
_ 15. Did he object move behind something at any time, particularly a cloud?
| (Circle One): Yes No | Don’t know. IF you answered YES, then tell what |
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| 16. Did the object move in front of something at any time, particularly a cloud?
(Circle One): Yes io) Don’t know. IF you answered YES, then tell what
nes in front of: — _ —— - stepomeaniremidsonsmnat —_
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17. Teil in o few words the following things about the object:

_ 18. We wish to know the angular size. Hold a match stick ot arm's length in line with o known object and note how much of the
object is covered by the head of the match. if you had performed this experiment at the time of the sighting, how much of
the object would have been covered by the match head?

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. Oraw a cicture that will show the shape of the object or objects. Label and include in your sketch any detoils of the object

thot you saw such as wings, p trysame, etc., and especially exhaust trails or vapor trails. Place an arrow beside the drawing
to snow the direction the object was mov: iy OEE

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20. Do you think you can estimate the speed of the object?

| | ‘Circle One) = Co

IF you answered YES, then what speed would you estimate?

21. Do you think you can estimate how far away from you the object was?

(Circle One) Yes No
| IF you answered YES, then how far away would you say it was? p ie Ee
22. Where were you located when you saw the object? | 23. Were you (Circle One)
(Circle One): fu
a. In the business section of a city?

(s)inside a building (Bye the residential section of a city?

b. Inacar “E In open countryside?

c: Outdoors d. Near an airfield?
d. in an airplane (type) e. Flying over a city?

e. Atsea f. Flying over open country?
| f. Other g. Other

| 24. IF you were MOVING IN AN AUTOMOBILE or other vehicle at the time, then complete the following questions: |

24.1 What direction were you moving? (Circle One) |

a. North c. East e. South g. West
| b. Northeast d. Southeast f. Southwest h. Northwest
24.2 How tast were you moving? miles oer hour.

24.3 Did you stop at any time while you were looking at the object? |

| ‘Circle One) Yes No

25. Did you observe the object through any of the following?

a. Eyeglasses Yes No e. Binoculars Yes No
j b. Sun gicsses Yes No f. Telescope Yes No

c. Windshieid Yes No g. Theodolite Yes No '
. d. Window glass Yes No h. Other Ce gta eT fenses —

| 26. In order "ct vou can give as clear a picture as possible of what you saw, describe in your own words a common object or ob-
jects which, «nen siaced up in the sky, would givethe same appearance as the object which you saw.

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| 2 Adrindermy Aghitite Cubratad Cire, “ee hat could Calt/ psn |
2 VLatirr, rt PEE Lan tiretition OnA~ wo ean il
tea ch UY & orptt teriv eediney . Brera ) Ly-Civd

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27. In the following sketch, imagine that you are at the point shown. Place an A” on the curved line to show how high the object
was above the horizon (skyline) when you first saw it. Place a ’B” on the same curved line to show how high the object was
above the horizon (skyline) when you /ast saw it. Place an "A" on the compass when you first saw it. Place a B” on the com-
pass when you las? saw the object.

90° 75°

60"

23. Draw a picture that will show the motion that the object or objects made. Place an “A” at the beginning of the path, a “B” at
‘the end of the path, and show any changes in direction during the course.

29. IF there wos MORE THAN ONE object, then how many were there?
Draw a picture of how they were arranged, and put an arrow to show the direction that they were traveling.