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4 1 PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE |2 LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
401 I73W PACIFIC) 0 Was Balloon
29 Nov 61 0 Probably Balloon
4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Possibly Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP
Local Ground-Visual Ground-Rodar 0 Was Aircraft
00 Probably Aircraft
GMT. 300705Z D AirVisual Air-intercept Rodar Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical
Y.s Yes 00 Probably Astronomicol Probabiy Astr onommTco:
No No Military Military D Possibly Astronomical Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF 8. NUMBER O URSE 0 Other. Other.
¤ Insufficient Data for Evaluation Insufficient Data for valuation
1 1 S 0 Unknown
10 min
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING IVIS 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING IVIS report of UFO due 11. COMMENTS imited 11. COMMENTS iMIC info. Description info. Description or of
S with intensity or and mag 2nd mag star. Observed objt too incomplete for evaluation.
into horizon in Case listed as insufficient data.
10 min. Speed and ititude unknowm. unknown.
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1 - 31 DECEMBER 1961 3IOHTEGS
DATE LOCATION CESERVER EVALUATICN
Vandenberg AFB, California Military Astro (METECR)
. 40.32N 166.59W (Pacific) Military SATELLITE
St. Tnomas, Virgin Islands Other MISSHE)
12 20 Mi W of Junction, Texas Military Other (SATEILITE DECAY)
13 Goshen, Indiana American Airlines Astro (METECR)
1/1!/1!1j! 13 Washington, D. C. UNIDENTIFIED
Chicago, Illinois Astro (METEOR
50.3lN 17.30W (Atlantic) Military INSUFFICIENT DATA
Amityville, New York Multiple INSUFFICIENT DATA
4ON 174W (Facific) Military INSUFFICIENT DATA
16 61.15N 06.45w (Atlantic) Military INSUFFICIENT DATA
17 64.40N 29.30W (Atlantic) Military SATEILITE
I 20 40.07.5N 173.05w (Facific) Military SATELLITE .
20 21N 163E 21.50N 160.40E (Facific) Military Astro (METEOR)
121 Tyndall AFB, Florida Astro (BETELGEUX)
Chicago Illlhols Illinois Astro AStro THSrHACTION (REFRACTION OF
MCCN)
/ 29 Goodletsville, Tennessee AIRCRAFT
-29 -29 Bartlett, Illinois Other CONTRAILS)
- 30 21.30N 158.03N (Facific) Military Astro (SIRIUS) Astro (SIRIUS)
31 Dayton, Ohio Astro (SIRIUS) Astro (SIRIUS)
ADDITICNAL ASDITI PEFORTED (NOT CASES)
DATE LOCATICN LOCATICN SCURCE EVALUATION
Dec Universe Science News Ltr
2 Springfield, Chio News Clipping
Sacramento, Califcrnia "
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13 Danvers, Massachussetts "
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SMB A101 DEPARTMENY OF THE AIR FORC!
STAFF MESSAGE BRANCH MEDSACE
DE RJHPKH 1 12 AF IN : 18491 (30 Nov 61) H/trc
ZNR NSA-7,
0 300907Z INFO CIA-1I, OOP-2, DIA-2, OOP-CP SAFS-3 (100)'
FM HAW AIR DEF DIV KUNIA ANNEX HAWAII
TO RJHPKM/CINCPACAF HICKAM AFB HAWAII
RBHPQ/COMHAWSEAFRON PEARL HARBOR HAVAII
INFO RJEZHO/COFS USAF WASH INGTON DC
RJWXBRB/CINCSAC OFFUTT AFB NEB L1FO
RBEPW/CNO WASH DC Fihe
RBEPW/SECNAV WASH DC
RJWFALB/CINCNORAD ENT T AFB COLORADO e
RBHPA/CINCPAC CAMP HM SMITH HAWAII
RUHPFS/CINCUSARPAC FT SHAFTER HAWAII
RBHPB/CINCPACFLT PEARL HARBOR HAWAII
RJAPAZ/COMUSJAPAN FUCHU AS JAPAN RJAPAZ/COMUSJAPAN FUCHU aS JAPAN
RUAMCR/COMUSKOREA SEOUL KOREA RUAMCR/COMUSKO
RUAGFL/COMUSSTDC TAIPEI TAIWAN RUAGFL/COMUSSTDC TAIPEI TAIWAN
RBHPHH/COMHAWSEAFRON KUNIA TUNNEL ANNEX
RBHPD/COMASWFORPAC FOR D ISLADN HAWAII
F GRNC
BT
UNCLAS/CIRVIS/V43204 UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT
SIGHTED DUE SOUTH OF POSITION 40N 173W 30/0705Z
FIRST OBSERVED 25 DEGREES ABOVE HORIZON. INTENSITY
APPROX THAT OF SECOND MAGNITUDE STAR. DISAPPEARED
BELOW HORIZON 0715Z ALT AND SPEED UNKNOWN.
NO EVALUATION
BT NOTE: ADV CY DEL & CIN N300530

end of the month. counter so much friction that they burn up
If you look earlier in the evening--even directly overhead. in the flash of light one sees.
before the sky is entirely dark-you will Low in the north you can see the great During any night a single observer can
see it in the southwest, in the constellation dipper, which is part of Ursa Major, the see about seven such meteors per hour, on
of Capricornus, the horned goat. It is so larger bear. At this time of year the group the avearage. There are always more after
much brighter than any other planet or star is in its poorest evening sky position. midnight than before; in the early morning
now visible (magnitude minus 1.8 on the Above it is Polaris, the pole star, which hours we meet ther head on, while those
astronomer's scale that it appears first. And is a part of the smaller bear, Ursa Minor. seen in the evening have to be moving fast
a little ahead of Jupiter, toward the right, And still higher stands Cassiopeia, the enough to catch up to the earth.
stands another planet-Saturn. It is about queen, whose principal stars now form the These sporadic meteors may move in any
an eleventh as bright as Jupiter, although letter M. direction across the sky. At certain times of
still equal to a first magnitude star. In addition to Jupiter r and Saturn there year, as around Nov. 16, many meteors
Neither Jupiter nor Saturn are shown on are three other planets that can ever be seem to radiate from one particular region.
the accompanying maps of the November seen with the naked eye. Two of them are For the November meteors this is the con-
evening skies. These depict the heavens as visible in November before sunrise. Venus stellation of Leo, the lion, which now rises stellation of Leo, the lion, which now rises
they look about 10:00 p.m. at the first of appears low in the southeast about an hour around midnight.
Noverber, about 9:00 at the middle of the before the sun. It is even brighter chan The effect is actually one of perspective,
month and 8:0o at the end. Thus, these Jupiter, so is easy to see—if you look at the for the meteors are moving around the sun for the meteors are moving around the sun
planets are just below the southwestern correct time and place. in a huge swarm that follows the orbit of
horizon. But the stars make a brilliant dis- On Nov. 7 Mercury reaches On Nov. 7 Mercury reaches "greatest a comet last seen in 1866. The orbit of this
play, for we are beginning to see some of western elongation," the position farthest swarm crosses the earth's path in mid. swarm crosses the earth's path in mid-
the constellations that make the evening the constellations that make the evening west of the sun, and so rises a little before November.
skies of winter so glorious. skies of winter so glorious.
For example, look over toward the east.
There, a litile above the horizon, you will ANDROMEDA
see three moderately bright stars in a verti- NUVEMBER LACERTA Schedir
cal row, with brighter stars to the right and 1051 ERSEUS
left, and another quite a bit above. CASSIOPETA
The three stars in a row mark the belt of (o0n Deneb CEPHFUS CAMELOPARDALIS
Orion, the warrior. Of the two bright stars, CYGNUS
the one to the right, which was placed in Polaris AURIGA
one of his feet in the old star maps, is called d'Albireo LYPA URSA TAURUS
Rigel. The one to the left is Betelgeuse, in SAGITTA DRACO UTTLE OD MINOR
his shoulder. When he is seen in this part BVega URSA
of the sky, Orion is on his back. He is up- AQUILA HERCULES . MAJOR GE MINI
right when he climbs higher in the south. BIG OIPPER
The star above, which is distinctly red in
hue, is Aldebaran, part of Taurus, the bull. AWEST Jace North EAST
And farther to the left (on the map of the
northern half of the sky) is Capella, in Aur- ANDROMEON
iga, the charioteer. Below this constellation Alpheratz
is a group called Gemini, the twins, whose NOVEMRER TRIANGULUM "GREAT
1961 ARIES SQUARE
brightest stars are named Castor and Pollux. G30
Castor is of the second magnitude, and Pol- PISCES PEGASUS
lux of the first. Both, however, are consid. TAURUS
erably dimmed because they are so near the CETUS EQUULEUS
horizon, and their light is absorbed by the ERIDANUS AQUARIUS DELPHINU
atmosphere.
Turning toward the northwest two more
bright stars are visible. The lower is Vega, Rigel PISCIS AQUILA
in Lyra, the lyre, while the one above is OSION PHOENIX AUSTRINUS CAPRICORNUS
Deneb, in Cygnus, the swan. Farther to the
left, a little lower than Vega, is Altair, in EAST Jace South WESTD
Aquila, the eagle. Here again we have three
stars in a row, but there is little chance of SYMBC STARS IN OR RIGHTNESS

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hus, every year at this time, we meet
them coming into the earth's atmosphere in
parallel paths. But, just as the parallel tracks
of a railroad seem to converge in the dis-
tance, so do the tracks of light made by the
meteors seem to converge. It happens that
is toward
Leo, and that is why they seem to radiate
from that part of the sky. They are there-
fore called the Leonid shower of meteors.
In some places the Leonid swarm is
much more concentrated and when the
earth encountered these in past years, there
was a shower of meteors of extraordinary
brilliance. One of them was in 1833, the
"year the stars fell on Alabama." This year,
however, about Nov. 16, you should see an
avearge of 15 to 20 meteors an hour, in-
cluding the strays that do not belong to the
shower. There will be more after mid-
night. Not only will we then be able to
meet them head-on, but the moon will then meet them head-on, but the moon will then
have set. It is at first quarter on the 15th, have set. It is at first quarter on the 15th,
when it sets about midnight. when it sets about midnight.
Celestial Time Table for November
Nov. EST Nov. EST
1 9:00p.m. 9:00 p.m. Moon farthest; distance
251,300 miles
6 11:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m. Moon passes Moon passes Venus
1:00p.m. 1:00 p.m. Moon Moon passes Mercury passes Mercury
7 10:00 a.m. Mercury farthest west of sun;
visible for a few days around
this date in southeast just be-
fore sunrise
S 4:59 a.m. New moon
12 12 3:30 a.m. 3:302m. Algol (variable star in Per- Algol (variable Per
seus))at minimum bright-
ness
13 8:00 a.m. Moon passes Saturn
7:00 p.m. Moon passes Jupiter
15 12:19 a.m. Algol at minimum
7:13 a.m. Moon at first quarter
:6 early a.m. Leonid meteor shower at best
(see text)
12 midnight Moon nearest; distance
229,700 miles
17 9:08 p.m. Algol at minimum
20 5:57 p.m. Algol at minimum
22 4:44a.m. Full I moon
29 5:00 p.m. Moon farthest; distance
251,200 miles
Subtract one hour for CST, two hours for
MST, and three hours for PST.
Science News Letter, 80:290 October 28, 1961
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iust disappeared from sight
ly no noise. sig chunks of down
on everything." The odiest The odiest that
thoy cannot be geen with the nakei eye exoept whon they are in except whon they are in direct direct sun- sun-
light. They can like spider webs, bi wey are much suall- webs. bui wey are much suall-
er in dinmeter than a spiier er in dinmeter than a soiier web. web, According to According to the report, a human hair seems repori, a human hair seems
like a rope in comparison. The fibers can not like a rope in comparison. The fibers can not be picket up, be picket up, 8S they are so
fine tha: you can't tell wnen you have one; und they cen't be broken apart, anort
though they can be burned. Fibers used by the Air Force for radar-jamming aro
much thicker than these, it is said.

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CHADRON,NEER.
Noverber 8; Chadroo, Nebraska--A Noverpber8; Chadroo. Nebraska--A
threadlike depesir of "geemtrgly metal- threadlike depesir of *seentngly metal-
ife fibers" was ie fibers" was left on the Theodore left on the Theodore
Goff farm following sighting of a UFO.
Mr. Goff attenzpted w preserve some of Mr. Goff attenxpted w preserve some of
the subsuance by covering it with carvas, the subsuance by covering it with camvas,
bur is dissipated before investigators bur is dissipsted before investigators
arrived. (Simdar to otben arrived. (Simdar to cthen apparent apyarent
"angel's hair" 'angel's hair incidents.)

Noverober 8. pear Popiar Grove, Ml. -- Noverober 8. pear Poplar Grove, Ml.--
Boyd G. Germansen and his son sew three
"discus-shaped"objects about 7:15 a.m. about7:15 a.m.
while duck-hunting. The while duck-hunting The UFOs appeared appeared
brizht as if of bighly polished mnetal." "brizht as if of highly polished metal."
and were visible through broken cioods and were vistble through a broken cloods
astimated to be at dooo foet. diret astimated to be at dooo foat.  diset
were wou one-jourth the aopsrent di- were wou one-jourth the apsrent di-
ameter of he full nooa, and mored in a ameter of he full inoon. and mcred in a
suralgha-iine formation. suralghu-iine formation.

No Case (Information Only) 10 November 1961
Baltimore, Maryland
1961
Baltimore, Baltimore, etallie, circular, spipndng,zroentiwhite lighted lighted humming ob- humming ob-
jeet' was seen by several rosidents on the night night th. Ore Ona of the wit- the wit-
Deasoa said that the white lighta were phining brightly, Deasoa suid that the white lighta wore phining brightly, tin through
holes in the bottom of the etaftand thera was
November 10; Baltimore, Md.--A cir-
cular. metallie-appearing UFO which
nlaneuvered low over the area at night.
then went strai-ht. 30.was reported by
Mrs. Thomas Lane and manyother resl-
jerrs of northeasr Balrirno Winesses
said he Upo was spioning. had a green
igtt on the leading adge. arud white ligits
on the bottoch rebecrbling portholes. The
Penisgoat stated it breie of bo aircraft
acaiviry whdcn could decount for thies
sightiogua

Ncveaber 2lst by Masa Arita of Lihue, Hawaii. It is one of two pictures which
he took within seconds of he took within seconds of each othar while the each other while the Uro hovored briofly UPO hovored briofly over Kala-
pakd Beach. pakd Brach. The object zipped eway so zipped eway quickly quickly that it that it "disappeared from 'disappeared from
sight almoet instantaneously, sight almoet instantaneously actor report. No further details are report. No further details are
available. SAA