PROJECT BLUE BOOK

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
1.DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
28 Jamuary, 1960 Poiteres, France 0 Was Balloon
Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Possibly Balloon
Local Ground-Visual Ground-Rodar :000 Was Aircraft
Probably Aircroft
GMF GMR03267 63267 AirVisual Air-Visuol Air-Intercept Radar 0 Possibly Aircrafr
5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE 0 0 Was Astronomical
Yes 00 0 Probobly Astronomical
No Military 0 Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERYATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9. COURSE COURSE Other. Other.
000 000 Insufficiont Data for Evaluation
Not Stated Not Stated One NNW Unknown Unknown
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. 11. COMMENTS
Believed to be F-lCo or F-lCl in climb
Apparent missile or rocket approximately one Apparent missile or rocket approximately one with afterburner by Major Cypert at
to l 1/2 milas east of Poppa India Beacon, to l l/2 milas east of Poppa India Beacon, AF Command Post (officer who monitered
France at 0326Z heading Bast past l0-20 dez. France at O326Z heading Bast past l0-20 dez. report. No reason to not concur with report. No reason to not concur with
from vertioal South of A/C tracking 300 deg reporting official.
moving ESe to WNW apparently ascending.
Propulsion flame stopped almost overhead.
MATS
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 25 S2P 52)

Soptted apparent missile or rocket approximately l l/2 miles
East of Poppa India Beacon France at O326z heading East past
10° to 20 from vertical south of my aircraft tracking
apparently ascending.
Propulsion flame stopped almost overhead.
2407- Telephoned (using 330-46). Called Maj. Friend. He requested
him and 4F be given nessage first thing in the
morning.
2435 -I Returned with messages messages Guard saic
Pora, Brazil. Pora, Brazil.
0145 - Another conference call with Major Cypert. He reports that
MATS airplane making UFO report was actually above Poiteres,,
France and according to MAJOR CYPERT's guess probabily saw
an Fl00 or Fl01 climb to alitiude with afterburner. ? 2nd sight,
message saying "Have cited 3 ships (one is a/c carrier unconfirm-
edclose together several aircraft are circling. Coordinates
are 3133 North 7455w at 0238Zebra. Our Flagpost Navy Duty
Officer says ships are our own including WAS? Carrier.
JOHN MONEILL
Captain, USAF
AFCIN-4X2

a striking sight on the morning of Jan. 21. tive proxitnity. partly hidden by the moon. In the moun-
At that time Venus will be less than twice Looking ahead to the celestial calendar tain and Pacific states, persons will be able
the apparent diameter of the full moon to for 1960, we find several interesting events to sce it from beginning to end.
the north of Jupiter. in store for us. Every 116 days the planet Mercury comes
In the evening skies, the brilliant con- There are four eclipses, two of the moon between the sun and earth, to the position
stellations of winter are shining, as depicted and two of the sun. Both of the former called inferior conjunction. Generally, at
on the accompanying maps. These show and one of the latter will be visible from such a time it is north or south of the line
the heavens as they appear about ten p.m. the United States. There will be a transit from sun to earth. But about 13 times in a
(your own kind of standard time) on Jan. of Mercury, i.e., a passage of that planet century Mercury comes close enough to this
I, an hour earlier at the middle of the 1, an hour earlier at the middle of the across the face of the sun, likewise visible across the face of the sun, likewise visible line that, from the earth, it is seen to pass
month and two hours carlier at the end. month and two hours carlier at the end. from this part of the world. And there will from this part of the world. And there will in front of the sun. Such an event is called
Most conspicuous of these star groups is be a number of occasions, most of them also a transit of Mercury, and one occurs on a transit of Mercury, and one occurs on
Orion, high in the south. Look first for visible from the U. S., when the moon will Nov. 7, beginning at 9:35 a.m., E.S.T., and
the three stars that form the belt of this occult, or "eclipse," the bright star Alde- ending at 2:12 p.m. This will be visible ending at 2:12 p.m. This will be visible
celestial warrior. Above it is Betelgeuse baran. from the United States but not to the naked
and below is Rigel, both stars of the first and below is Rigel, both stars of the first On March 13, in the very early morning eye. Through a telescope, properly fitted cye. Through a telescope, properly fitted
magnitude. A little higher and to the hours, the moon will enter the shadow of to observe the brilliant face of the sun, you
right is the figure of Taurus, the bull, in the earth, and suffer a total eclipse. This will be able to see a tiny black dot, slowly
which the bright star Aldebaran shines. will be visible from most of North America. moving from the eastern to the western
On the other side of Orion you will see On the other side of Orion you will see Two weeks later, on March 27, part of the edge of the solar disc.
the two dogs: Canis Major, the greater, and moon's shadow will fall on the earth, pro- When the moon goes in front of the sun
Canis Minor, the lesser. The large dog is ducing a partial eclipse of the sun. Austra- we call it an eclipse, but when it passes
below. In it is Sirius, generally known as lia, Antarctica and the Indian Ocean will be between us and a star (or, rarely, another
the dog-star, the brightest that we can see
in the nighttime sky. The smaller dog is in the nighttime sky. The sinaller dog is
higher and farther east, and in it is the star
called Procyon. Still higher stand Gemini. AURIGA GEMINI
the twins, in which there are two bright PERSEUS
stars, Castor and Pollux, although the JANUARY 1950 CAMELUPARDALIS LYNX
former is of the second astronomical mag-
nitude. And high overhead, in Auriga, the ANDROMECA CANCER
charioteer, Capella can be seen. CASSIOPEIA
Low in the east, and shown on the map CEPHEUS Polaris URSA
PEGASUS URSA POINTERS
of the northern half of the sky, is Leo, the 2 LACERTA MINOR MAJOR, LEO
lion, with another first magnitude star, MINOR
Regulus. However, because this is rather DRACO LEO
low, its light is absorbed by the atmosphere, CYGNUS MAJOR
and scems somewhat fainter than it would Oeneb o
be at greater altitude. AWEST EASTA
This is true also, to an even greater ex-
tent, of Deneb, in Cygnus, the siwan, just
above the northwestern horizon. If you PERS-EUS
look at it earlier in the evening, before it Pleiades ARIES
has decended so low, you will find it con.
siderably brighter. JANHARY 1969 CEMINT
The moon goes through its phases in Batel- OR.IONT aus
January with first quarter on the fifth, at CANIS ANGULUM
CAN CER MINOR PIS CES
1.53 p.m., E.S.T. (Subtract one hour for Procyon
central, two hours for mountain or thres MONOCERUS CE TUS PEGASUS
hours for Pacific standard time.) Full moon ERIDANUS
comes at 6:51 p.m. on the 13th; last quar- HY DRA CANIS iEPUs'
ter at 10:0l a.m., on the 2lst; and new moon MAJOR
at 1:16 a.m. on the 28th. The moon is COLUMBIA .
PUPPIS
nearest to earth (at perigee on Jan. 26,
when it is 224,s00 miles away. Its farthest EAST lace WEST
distance, called apogee, comes on Jan. 10,
with a distance of 252,300 miles. o SYMBOLS ORDER OF BRIGHTNESS

reactivated, or
nearly the same as the preceding month, so need arise if the isotope used is one which whether it is a fission product, which
this is one of a series of occultations of was produced by irradiation in a reactor or finally will become a waste. Already today,
Aldebaran, which began last September, an atomic accelerator. Such isotopes, he he declared, sources of both types may be
and occurs 13 times in 1960. Of these, eight said, can be returned after a few half lives, used for the same purpose. Thus in well.
will be visible from North America. Ama- in order to be re-irradiated. The re-irradi- logging, both antimony 122 and polonium
teur astronomers will have an interesting ated source can then again be applied and 210 are begin used as neutron sources. An-
time watching them. Several will happen since this process of re-irradiation can be timony 122, being an irradiation product,
in convenient evening hours. repeated time and time a again, radioactive can be reactivated, while polonium 210, a
isotopes having been formed by irradiation fission product, cannot.
Celestial Time Table for January, 1960 practically never constitute a waste. Science News Letter, December 26, 1959
Jan. EST
5 1:53 p.m. Moon in f first t quarter. GENETICS
10 4:00 a.m. Moon occults Aldebaran.
8:00 a.m. Moon farthest; distance 252, Relate Growth to Tumors
300 miles.
13 6:51 p.m. Full moon.
14 1:34 a.m. Algol I (variable star in Per- IT IS NOT how fat the mice are, but how sisters, analysis showed they were actually
seus) at minimum bright- well-developed their bones and muscles are smaller animals, researchers point out
ness. that appears to be related to lung turrors in in the current issue of The lournal of
16 10:23 p.m. Algol at minimum. mice. Heredity (50, 99, May-June, 1959). "
19 7:12 p.m. Algol at minimum. There is a "highly significant"' relation- Measurements taken included the femur
21 6:00 a.m. Venus passes Jupiter. ship between the number of lung tumors or thighbone and the gastrocnemius, the
10:01 a.m. Moon i in last quarter. and body length, muscle weight and bone large muscle in the calf of the leg. The mice
25 3:00 a.m. Moon passes Jupiter. length, two researchers at the National Can- were also measured from the tips of their
10:00 a.m. Moon passes Venus. cer Institute, Bethesda, Md., report. A simi- noses to the tips of their tails. In all cases
26 5:00 a.m. Moon nearest, distance 224, lar relationship may exist between human the obese mice were significantly smaller in
800 miles. body types and cancer, they suggest. these three body measurements.
2S 1:16 a.m. New moon. By crossing two strains mice, one Noting that earlier studies have shown
Subtract one hour for CST, two hours for genetically highly susceptible genetically higbly susceptible, to pulmonary to pulmonary that "women most likely to develop breast that "womep most likely to develop breast
MST, and three for PST. tumors while the other carried the recessive cancer are those with good skeletal and
Science News Letter, December 26, 1959 gene for obesity, Drs. George Vlahakis and muscular development with some tendency
W. E. Heston obtained offspring with both toward obesity rather than the very obese
PUBLIC HEALTH characteristics. Nearly all the mice of the women," Drs. Vlahakis and Heston suggest
second generation had lung tumors, but the that "it would be interesting to know what
Many Cardiac Patients non-obese mice had almost twice as many correlations exist in man in respect to other
Can Get Lif Insurance as the obese group. neoplasms, particularly lung cancer," and
Although the obese animals weighed body types.
MANY PERSONS who have heart disease, more than their "normal brothers and Science News Letter, December 26, 1959
including even those who have recovered RESEARCH
from a heart attack, can now get life in- OPERATIONS
surance
The reason for this is that life expectancy Computers for Baseball
in persons with varying types of heart dis-
ease has been shown to be "vastly better"
than was formerly supposed, two physicians AN ELECTRONIC COMPUTER has been possible plays. Individual innings are then
have reported. used to decide whether a sacrifice, stolen played" by the computer, using random
This knowledge has been derived from base or i intentional walk is the best base- numbers to select the plays.
long-term studies and experience of both ball strategy under given conditions. Some 5,000 innings are played for each
insurane companies and practicing physi- Richard E. Trueman of the University possible combination of initial conditions,
cians, Drs. Richard S. Gubner and Harry of California at Los Angeles told the Oper- Mr. Trueman reported. The initial con-
E. Ungerleider of the Equitable Life As- ations Research Society of America meet- ditions can be varied according to the
surance Society report in Modern Concepts ing in Pasadena, Calif., that an Interna- lead-off batter in the inning, location of
of Cardiovascular Disease (Dec.), published tional Business Machines 709 computer had base runners, and number of outs.
monthly by the American Heart Associa- been instructed how to "play'" individual For each initial condition, statistics are
tion. innings. kept on the probability of scoring a given
Persons born with heart defects comprise Batting statistics of a representative number of runs, the average number of
another group of cardiacs who are becoming major league lineup form the starting runs scored, and the probablity of a dou-
increasingly insurable, the doctors say. point. From these, tables are made show. ble play occurring.
Science News Letter, December 26, 1959 ing the probability of selecting each of 13 Science News Letter, December 26, 1959

No Case (Information Only) 3 January 1960
Omaha, Nebraska
NEBRASXA AND NEVADA RSSI.
OENTS SCS BRIGHT SPEEOY LIGHT
On the 3rd day of January, isse,at
1n p.il. Clark Fengel of Omana, Ne-
braska and his vife ooserved a brilliant
object which streaked across the aky
Jeaving a liery trail behind it, from west
to east. He estimated its heignt as l0,000
ret: its trajecory waa flat, be said.
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