PROJECT BLUE BOOK

PROJECT 1C073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE 2. LOCATION
12. CONCLUSIONS
30 Jun 61 Wisconoin Dells, Wiaconsin 0 Was Bulloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. a D Probably Bolloon
TYPE OF OBSERVATION Possibly Bulloon
Local2300 O:Ground-Yisual a
Ground-Radar Wos Aircraft
GMT.010500: 14L4 1961 Air-Visual 0 Probably Aircraft
5. PHOTOS Air-Intarcept Radar Possibly Aircralt
Yos 15. SOURCE
Was Astronomical
No Civilian Probably Astronomical Jupitdr
7. LENGTH OF OBSERYATION Passibly Astronomical
8. NUMBER OM OBJECTS 9. COURSE o Other
0O Unknown Insullicient Dota for Evaluation
10. BRIEF SUMMARY 2 SN
OF SIGHTING Circular, crange and 11. COMMENTS On night
yellow objt heading SW slowly. of sighting, Jupiter
was low on horizon and quite bright,
magnitude -2.3. It is quite posoible that
planet was distorted and diacolored by diacolored by
atmospheria refroction ane conseguently atmospheria refroction ane conseguently
misidentified. Info provided vith this misidentified. Inro provided with this
oighting is very limited but thore is
no evidence which would indicate that thp no evidence which would indicete that thp
objt was not Jupiter.
A
ATIC FORM ATIC FORM 329 25 32P 52)
a

N Brswice N.J. An
coneazk. eralse-dowing UFO.
DOrted by a local va3 00-
.acred Toveriog ov canv Streei
Iridue abour 3 aulh. then swuty moving
2%29. ANY
A

is Kegulus. This is actually a first magnitudle
star. but is dimnned on account of its low touri, which are wo far south that they can- is 36 light years. Vcga is 26,5 light years
sltitude. It marks the end of the handle of not he seen from most parts of the United away, so evidently it is not as bright
the sickle, a group of six stars shaped like States. intrinsically as Areturus, which is 100 times
that agriculniral impiesnent. These are followed by Arcturus, Vega as bright as the sun, Vega is equal to 50
The blade of the sickle is shown on the and Capella. The latter shines high over- suns. But Capella is still farther, 47 light
northern sky map. Close to it is Mars, the head on winter evenings, in Auriga, the years, and exceeds the sun's brightness 130
only planet shown. This is now quite faint, chariotecr. It is still visible, jost above the times. Now look below Vegs ait Deneb, in
malaly-becaue of its discance. On June 20
it will be just twice as far as the sun- VENATIC! TBOOTES
sbout 186,000,00n miles away. CANES
JUNE HERCULES
Libra Seen in the South 1341
Low in the south you can see Libra, the LEU DRACO
scales. These stars, none very bright, are MINOR- URSA -LYRAS
arranged in the forn of a mewhat dis. LE0 URSA MAJCA MINOR CYGHUS
the first magnitude ir Antares. It is CEPHEUS
noticeably ruddy in color. Pollag Entor
Aboce Scorplus is the harge constellation AURIGA CASSIOPETA
of Ophluchus the sepenibearer, along GEMINI
with Serpeas, the scrpent that he is sup. EWEST Jaced Wrth EASTA
posed to be carrying. And in the east, just
to the left, you find Aquila, the cagle. In CORONA: BOUTES
it is the star Alnir, also somewhat dimmed
because it is so ncar the horizon. JUNE BOREALIS COWA BERENICES
A lirtle farther to the left and you come 1h HERCULES
to Cygnus the swan, with Deneb as the SERDENS.
beightest stae. (This is shown on the map
of the northern sky.) Above this group is OPHIUCHUS IVIRGO LEO
Lyra, this hyre, with Vega, which is shnilar SLADENS
in brightnets to Arcturus. Above it is Her. Spird CORVUS
cules, another well-knowa group, although LISRA
it has no stars of the first mrgaitude.
High in the northwest is Ura Major, the SC04P1U5 tols CENTAURIS HYDRA
a beit, of wlich the Eaniliar "great
dlipper" is part. And in this, in toen, are the EAST Ta.e Saath WEST"
a saus Dabbe and Merak-known as
the poiters" A line drough then, ex- SYMBOLS FOR STARS IN ORDFR OF BRIGHINESS

the Conqueror in J066 about the same as
they do to us, But the stars are moving
across the sky. Fifty thousand years ago the
seven stars that now form the great dipper
were arranged very differently: and 50,000
vears in the future they will have a still
difierent arrangemnent.
It was ia 171s that the English astrono-
mer Edmond Halley (of comet fame) an
i smnced that Sirius, Arcturus and some
other stars were in a little different posi
tion in the sky from where they had been
charted in ancient times. Among the stars charted int ancient Among
bright cnough to be conspicuous in our hright enough to be conspicuous in our
skies, none that is visible from these lati. skies, none that is visible from thcse lati-
tudes changes its direction as rapidly as
Arcturus. But even this is slow corpsred Arcturus. But even this is slow corpsred
to a human lifetime. It will take more than
700 years for its direction to change as
much as the apparent diameter of the full
moon moon.
Celestial Time Tuble for June Time Table for June
June June EST EST
1 1 18508 p.m. 18308 p.m. Moon nrerest, diostance 227,0c0 Moon nrarest, distance 127,000
mites mites
2 1300 p.m. 100 p.m. Moon pases Saturn
3 120E3.M. 11003.m. Mooa pases Jupiter Mooa pases Jupiter
5 5 4:89p.m. 4:9pm. Moon ia last quarter Moon is last quarter
9 4200 a.m. 4200 a.m. Moon pises Venus Moon pises Nenus
11 12:17a.m. 12:17 a.m. New mosoh New moson
17 5700 p.m. Moon farthest, distance
251,800 miles
iS 5:06 2.1. Moon pases Mars
19 g:00 p.m. Veaus Larthent west of sun
31 402 am. Moon in finst quarter
10:10'a. Sun farthest north: summer
commences in Northern Iemi-
sphere
28 7138 a.m kall otooa
29 7300 p.ms. Moon paues Saturn
8200 p.m. Man nraret dhtane 22gm
nutes
7:00 1.0. Moon paves Jupiter
Subtract one hour bou Cst. bwo hours tor
MN'T, and three houns for PST
Stionce Nawa 1antar 79:320 May 27, 1951
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OEQG432ZCAHA621 0)
RR RJEDSQ 1961 JUL 18_ 23 52
DE RJEDAH 1 69
ZNR E
R 151700Z
FM CHADS 31 TRUAX FLD WIS
TO RJVFAL/ADC ENT AFB COLO
ZEN/30 ADIV TRUAX FLD WIS
RJEDSO/ATIC C WAFB OHIO
RJEZHQ/HQ USAF WASH DC
RJEZHQ/SAFIS WASH DC
BT
REF PAR 15, AFR 200-2. A.G1) CIRCULAR. (2) NOT GIVEN. (3) ORANGE
AND YELLON. (4) ONE. (5) THRU (9) NOT REPORTED. B. (1) THRU (3)
NOT GIVEN. (4) HEADING SOUTHWEST - SLOWLY. (5) & (S) NOT REPORTED. NOT GIVEN, (4) HEADING SOUTHWEST - SLOWLY. (5) & (5) NOT REPORTED.
C. NOT REPORTED. D. (1) O1/O5OOZ C. NOT REPORTED. D. (1) O 1/05002 JULY 19S1, (2) NIGHT, E NOT JULY 1961, (2) NIGHT, E0 NOT
REPORTED. F. (1)M REPORTED. F. (i) M , MT, WISCONSIN DELLS , WISCONSIN DELLS
WISCONSIN, PHONE: G. (1) NOT REPORTED. (2) A-18O/O3;
B. 210/05; C. 250/10; D. 310/10; E. 320/10; F. 070/20;
G. 36O/10; H. NOT AVAILABLE. (3) NONE (4) 12 (5) NONE )NONE
(6) NONE. H. NOT NONE. J. B-52 TRACK NBR V-451
PAGE TWO RJEDAH 69
SPD 242, HDG SW, ALT 17,500 FT. K- (1) G A PACKARD, TSGT, INTELLIGENCE
TECH, CHADS. (2) THIS
VERY SKETCHY REPORT WAS RECEIVED BY THIS 1 HEADQUARTERS AFTER PASS-
ING THRU A NUMBER OF AGENCIES, A MORE DETAILED REPORT WILL BE
SENT AS SOON AS THE INFORMATION IS RECEIVED FROM MR. HAMM.
(3) UNKNOWN. L. NONE M. NONE.
BT
18/1929Z JUL RJEDAH

No Case (Information Cnly) 19 Jun 1961
Eteter, Englnd
June-19: Exeter. E Enaland mys-
tonfowuls "flying ocvect" was reported
hare hovered Itationary over Exeter
Cnhetaia at the local airport sald.
Wloot tnod
"i vas seen on the radar soreen and
w have had it nder onservation for w have had it ander onservation for
porne time. se chunk it is prerty big. porne time. we huk it is prerty big.
i appears D be shining origuiy and is It appears D be shining origuiy and is
about 50.0o0 feet u0." about 50.000 feet u0."
A

de i); Washungicn. D.C. area. in
1 conidentat staternent. & radio tech-
atciun a a Governinent agency reported
suna  orilliant UFO which neither
iivided nto, or launcned severst smailer
00C03. Chaered WiG I-oower bin-
oculars, the 00.ect3 poeared
han the larger UFo
frst coted.
^

Tune I3: Edinbursh. Scutiand - A
cizar-shabed.lumnous oojext lashed
overhaad it turrifile roeed. maibie for
Wit-
Cianta
nases
15heu0
; dourees oward told TOC papert
10 3.A.7 CkeSA can make no
out we
cargnent on it whatcoevet." Earier in cartent on it whatoevet."
i oretin. he ordtink. abcut 10-30 2.in.. doze's abcu 10-30 2.in.. dozes
of ceopid over a vide area iround ddin- firebail firebail
buru burun sighted siahted last-movint last-moving sparks.
trivelling NW o SE trailing
^ A

E
-
Jne 22 Ains AFB Cklahoma. n
Or at Al icoer onridennal epor, anAF man-
1070 APT deaeribed sighting
or ieter. und in aooarent chise by n peed of a 3-2
P-d et umt airer ne UpO disappeared mom he oosermr's view uisotearad
~

June da: Ceadle. Wash. A cviindrical
DFO hich emited an erande-colored
catr vns reured randtrom a ow
tirtude alout sunrise. The obect was
descrtbed LA
preirion. thn disappcaring emindcrres.
A ied hcars sarler. ad aya. or eeg-
haged UFO. dowing a orange 2ow1ng orange wier. war
sroorted ecling towau e gromnd 4oordecting :owa.umhe gronnd
in- IM I
7STTAIN OY APHA-HACAP SUD T8STIIAIION OY APHA-HNCAP Subco
mirree in Seattle.) miree in Seatle.)

(do mot use tha chove Iinea)
OFFICIAL MOOIMATCHL_AEPORT Westart
(For confirmations, and for ebservations not repetted previeusly)
ONJECT OBSSRVED UNKNOWN
Sntyr Calip (apall out Greck letter)
REGISTERED TEAM NAME TEAM MNBER _0113
In "site Number" column bolew indicata the oumber of the aite at which eech obeervatiem was made.
DO NOT USE Tale- Site Date Time (UT) R.Ar tDec. or Dir. of Ang.Yal. Max. Ver. in Inetrw-
greph No. (UT) Az. (A) Alt. (A) Travel Deg/Sec Mos. Seconds ment
Yea No Yes Ⅱ M t0r- Max-Mex Holght
X X C13 41:18.c 41:18.0 18:A 18CA 47.5 47.5 C +8 3
25 25 A F-TW -Tv ~.5 ≈.5
61
Juligi
Kece
KPOCH OF STAR CEARTS USED:
REMARKS: I wonld hve idintifii tii ad theoTs Ni Ene
afpt o lhe
(Centirve remerks en reverse side)
Dt dliheiitehin
REGISTERSD TEA LEADER'S NN LLOdLAdEIL() DATR oF RETORT962
Penat aond obnervations mnde at a tite for which no Saithzoaian Antrophyaidar Observatery site mnder ia enaigned.

InshdnKny
140
WISCONSIN FIREZALL CF 1961 JU.TE 26/27
A.M.S. No. 2371
dtn.Sa.Wm.Red.Ln.n-Co.Ap Ca thisCate as s46 pam. C.b.T. a Ane Anehalt apnad any Wioarlan Oreglenal
This golution i C lalfy due io as do dnathe The observen were: i Sh. Dr. W. S. in ci Wis, seoured doar obaurvations.
Schutt, St. Paud, Mn :S., n Phic 3E mill W of Wacith City.
Wat Ss CEnbadher. Re Leke Wnt d4, Mire A. D. Atyni. I me W o Shelden, Was. The-obscrvadous ehe in ordr glylng Ahat the naath aod aliliude o
the beginning, thes of the cnd gaiat, hal wd by othie data b., SSn (3, Zih, W. Fngl of fall 33, 20 h, I arta alate icmn. L s litue with ved hol. 15 in dia.
in Aquila and Delptinen S. W. So, NW. 3. thnae tintes brlgyaih.d cf Veaus, trein
af gpatk, greenlsa white color J, 20o, 23 s10t, 1a, a6n 2.3 seconda, nrd-oringe cotor, iis brlight thaa Meon but is cines thet of a itin. bow and NW of Craa dajor. S4.
W, (Fa') and W of N. compeind to dayight tir one sreond. The datat diagham Was
ruS-beginaing poine was oinr dhdeutt ond the phet selected was the reault of ap- prepared and the iab-tnd pons dotstntined with mooderate certulisty. Thr choice of
Wy -/3 for any> - 35". The Gitived date kllows proximations, considerin, wlo the ofuerved altifuder which as usuad were multiplled
Date 1061 J-n8 26.66 C.M.T. 1961 J-08 26.66 0.M4.T.
Began over Sidereal titie at ih point Sidereal tinie at in point 100 10
X-50°43, -4313'at 143 16 1m X-50°43, 0 -4313'at 143 16 1m
Length of path 272 km 272:km
Oburvedvdily Oburved vdidky Projoeted leagth ol path Projoeted leagth of path 247-1
Curvature correction Nadient unzorrected 34 km/we (wny ae ttain) 34 km/ae (wey ane ttain)
"enith correctioa "enith correction Curvature correction 4345h525 4345.h 1525 102
24 24 ted
1 a38hw21 B33h-217 6
-.1-95%F-330.4-0.904.0. -.#-95,F -330.4-0.90A.U. -214-03 -212-03
sa weheet of Le tncerteiaty of Hi and the a wehet of Le tncerteiaty of Ht and the bt of ruposta, the wlution oet of ruposta, the mlution
total disg/almeat  to its color. An exan Sr conildered only fain. The firuhall had a anith ma Sr conildered only fain. The firuhall had a amith mu de of probebty -o. tlkeve
i, total disgralmeat  to its coloe, An exmmetion al the Mmtimad'  Von Nicsal 1Logal bly-ok
with number 204, if we allow considerable error in right aixcnaiun. Catalogue shens an eseallent agreement with its number 332 and -bocaile sge eitht