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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE 2. LOCATION 2 LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
0 Was Balloon Was Balloon
29 March, 1964 KansasCity, "ansas Kansas City, "ansas 0 Probably Balloon Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 0 Possibly Balloon
Local Ground-Visual 1 0 Was Aicraft
Ground-Rodar Ground-Radar 000 Probably Aircraft
GMT 30/0220Z GMT 30/02202 0 Possibly Aircraft Possibly Aircraft
AirVisual Air-Intercept Radar Air-Intercept Rodar
5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE 3 Wos Astronomical Venus
Yes 0 Probably Astronomical
WXNO Civilian 0 PossiblyAstronomical
7. LENGTH OF.OBSERVATION S. NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9. COURSE Other.
000 Insufficient Data for Evaluation .
Unknown
5-10 seconds one Sationary
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
Oval or elongated object like a bright star Venus in poaition of reported object.
at 20 deg elevation in M. Stationary.
Witness said returned4fpnm hours later and
the object had diaappeared.
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HEADQUARTERS
FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY DIVISION
AIR FORCE SYSTEMS COMMAND
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
WRIGHT-PA BASE, OHIO
REPLY TO
ATTH OF: TDEW
SUBJECT: Reques 2 Dec 64
TO: Hq USAF SAFOI PB (MrS Hunt)
Wash D C 20330
Reference the attached postcard from Frank McKisic, 373l N W First
Street, Miami, Florida 33134, requesting information on a sighting
which was reported to the Air Force. Please inform Mr McKisic that
we are unable to locate his sighting with out specific date and
location. U Upon receipt of this information we will inform him of
the Air Force's evaluation.
ER THe JONCKHEZRE 1 Atch
LColonel, USAF Colonel, USAF Copy of postcard from
Deputy for Technology Technology Frank McKisic
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my UlF.O. sighting and have 1
not as yet received an answer Maston M. Jacks -
reply on it, I'd appreciate it Major, U.S.A.F.
very much if you would, Public Information
please send me copy of Air Force Division , ,
answer - the one with sketches Office of Information
of several round flying discs Washington, D.C.
and the reddish U.F.O. from
the moon during early morn
hours over Miami, Florida, +
also if can, the last two I had -
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Source: The UFO Reporter, Su mer Issue, 1964 19 March, 1964
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AIRLINE PILOTS REPORT EXPLODING UFO
March most extraordinary LIFO
raport was issued by Pan American Airlines raport was issued by Pan American Airlines
.pilots, Captain E.D. and Captain Captain
R.A. Botthos.
Captain Morris was piloting an piloting an airlin- airlin-
er containing passengers bound from bound from
London London to New York, and Captain York, and Captain Botthos Botthos
was the pilot of was the pilot of a DC-8 with 77 passeng-
ers, en route from New York to Frankfurt,
Germany.
Both observed a strange object travel- Both observed a strange object travel-
ling at high altitude ling g at high altitude on an spparent north on an spparent north
to south trajectory, trajectory, which which unexpectedly.
exploded with an immense brilliance, parts
of it falling downwer trailing columa
of smake.
Neither pilot has been able to identi-
ry the phenomanon.
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1 - 30 APRIL 1964 SIGHTINGS
LOCATION OBSERVER EVALUATION
Plattsburg, New York Military Satellite
45.5ON 173.0OW (Pacific) Military Air Satellite
dMd Lakeview, South Carolina Aircraft
Minticello, Wisconsin UNIDENTIFLED
Baltimore, Maryland Other PSYCHOLOGICAL
CAUSES)
Arizona, New Mexico, Texas Civilian & Military Astro (METEOR)
Colorado, Nev Mexico, Wyoming Civilian & Military Astro (METEOR
Oak Lawn, Illinois Insufficient Data
35:5ON 17l.00E (PaCific) Civilian aAir Insufficient Data
Ardmore, Oklahoma Insufficient Data
Merced, California Military Air Balloon
0009999999451 Not Reported Insufficient Data
44.20N 43.oow (Atlantic). Military Air Balloon
Homer, New York UNIDENTIFIED
Baltimore, Maryland Satellite
Provo, Utah 1 Satellite
36.10N 174.OOW (Pacific) Military Air Satellite
Fallon AFS, Nevada Military (Ga RADAR) Other (RADAR INVERSION)
Norfolk, Virginia Civilian Air Insufficient Data
Manassas, Virginia Other RESEARCH ACTIVITY)
Dayton, Ohio Dayton, Ohio Other (SEARCHLIGHT) Other (SEARCHLIGHT)
-25 -25 Terry, Montana Insufficient Data Insufficient Data
2 20 Big Big Bend Natl Bend Natl Park, Texas Satellite
Greenland Greenland Military Air Satellite
( Mosinee, Wisconsin Satellite
Astoria, Cregon Civilian Astro (VENUS)
(M Socorro, New Mexico (FOLDER (FOLDER (PHYSICAL SPEC) PHYSICAL SPEC) UNIDENTIFIED
North Platte, Nebraska Astro (METEOR)
Socorro, New Mexico Civilian Other (GROUND IIGHT) Other (GROUND LIGHT)
HMWA Grants, New Mexico Grants, New Mexico PHOTOS) Aircraft
LaMadera, New Mexico LaMadema. "ew Mexico Other (FIRE Other (FTRE IN DIME) DUMP)
Las Vegas, Nevada Other
Sarasota, Florida Aircraft
Edgewood, New Mexico Other(HCAX)
Albuquerque, New Mexico Other (IMAGINATION)
Minot AFB, North Dakota Military (Gd RADAR) Aircraft 51
Civilian Air (Visual) Insufficient Data
23 Miamisburg, Ohio Astro (STARs/PIANETS)
28-30 San Jose, California Multiple Civilian l. Airgraft
2&3. Astro (STARS/PLANETS)
D329 Coshocton, Ohio Astro (METEOR)
$\fra}$ 35.23N 176.40W (Pacific) Military Air Satellite
Canyon Ferry Reservoir, Montane Other (HOAX)
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29M INT. INFO SCODC-I. UFO REPORT. PARA 14A. (1) LIKE A STAR, ONLY
SLIGHTLY ELONGATED. (2) NOT REPORTED. (3) WHITE LIGHT. (4) ONE.
(5) N/A. (6) OBJECT APPEARED SLIGHTLY ELONGATED OR OVAL SHAPED.
(7) NONE. (8) NONE. (9) NONE. PARA 14B. (1) BRIGHINESS OF
OBJECT AND ITS ELONGATVED SHAPE. (2) APPROXIMATELY 20 DEGREES ABOVE
HORIZON TO NORTHWEST OF OBSERVER. (3) NOT REPORTED. (4) NON.
REMAINED STATIONARY WHILE BEING OBSERVED. (5) NOT REPORTED. (6) 5
TO 10 SECONDS. AT THIS TIME INDIVIDUAL LEFT AREA. UPON RETURNING TO
APPROX IMATELY 4 HOURS LATER OBJECT I HAD EARED. PARA 14C. (1)

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GROUND-VISUAL. (2) NOT USED. (3) N/A. PARA 14D. (1) 0220Z,
30 MAR 64. (2) NIGHT. PARA 14E. LOCATION OF OBSERVER: 7TH STREET
AND KANSAS AVENUE NORTH AT THE ARMST L YÁRDS IN KANSAS CITY,
KANSAS. PARA 14F. (1)1 .4 STREET,
KANSAS CITY 29, MISSOURI, R ON: ARMSTRONG
YARD CAR INSPECTOR. NO ESTIMATE OF RELIABILITY. (2) N/A. PARA 14G.
(1) CLEAR. (2) WIND DATA AT RICHARDS GEBAUR AFB, MISSOURI, AND
LOCAL AREA. SURFACE 340/12, 6,000-330/45, 10,000-330/55, 16,000-320/
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ALTHOUGH COLDER THAN STANDARD. PARA 14H. IT IS BELIEVED THAT THE
PLANET VENUS WOULD BE IN THE AREA MENTIONED AT THE TIME OF THE SIGHTING.
PARA 14I. NONE. PARA 14J. UNKNOWN. PARA 14K. CAPT EDWIN L. WIEGEL,
WING INTELLIGENCE OFFICER. FROM THE SKETCHY DISCRIPTION AND UNSURE
STATEMENTS BY THE OBSERVER, IT IS FELT THAT IT WAS ACTUALLY A BRIGHT (A BRIGHT
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come to Leo, the lion. In this constellation is more nearly 15 days. So sometimes Easter
about 94.4 million miles, but by the end is a sub-group called the sickle. First-magni- comes on a day quite different from what
of the month this is reduced to 85 million. tude Regulus marks the handle of this you might expect on the basis of what is
It will continue to approach us until it implement. happening in the sky.
swings between sun and earth in mid-June. March also brings to those of us who
At the beginning of March you will also dwell in the Northern Hemisphere the be. Determining Easter Date
be able to see Jupiter low in the west in ginning of spring on March 20. In addition, There is a rule for determining the date
the early evening, a little below Venus. this year, it brings Easter, at the rather of Easter from the year number, but it
Although only about an eighth as bright as Although only about an eighth as brignt as early date of March 29. This is by no means early date of March 29. This is by no means involves a considerable amount of calcula- involves a considerable amount of calcula-
Venus, Jupiter is still very y brilliant. How. brilliant. How. as early as it can come. as early as it can come. tion. Easter can actually be determined with tion. Easter can actually be determined with
ever, it is drawing toward the sun in the However, in only four of the remaining the aid of a series of tables, which are used
sky. By March 31 you will have to look sky. By March 31 you will have to look years of the 20th century will it come as years of the 20th century will it come as by ecclesiastical authorities. These were
low in the west, soon after sundown, to see early. Easter in 1970 will again come on issued by authority of Pope Gregory XIII
Jupiter. It is now gradually drawing away Jupiter. It is now gradually drawing away March 29, while in 1967, 1978 and 1989 nearly four centuries nearly four centuries ago. ago.
from the earth and at mid-March its dis- it will fall on the 26th. If the 14th day of the moon, or paschal If the l4th day of the moon, or paschal
tance is about 546 million miles. Easter, it is generally said, comes on the moon, falls on March 20, it will be a day
Other Planets Sunday after the first full moon on or after ahead of the ecclesiastical equinox. If the
the vernal equinox. The vernal equinox is 20th is a Saturday, the paschal full moon
As for the other planets sometimes visible the moment at which the sun, in its north. the moment at which the sun, in its north- will come on Sunday, April 18. Then Easter
to the naked eye-Mercury, Mars and Sat- to the naked eye-Mercury, Mars and Sat- ward journey through the sky, crosses the will be the following Sunday, April 25. will be the following Sunday, April 25.
urn-they are too close to the sun for equator. It marks the beginning of spring which is the latest possible date.
observation this month.
The accompanying maps show the sky
as it appears about 10 p.m., your own kind URSA
of standard time, on March I, an hour MARCH LY/NX MAJOR
earlier on the 15th and two hours earlier 1564 AURIGA
on the 3lst. Venus barely gets on, while Capella PONHERS CANES
Jupiter has already set by the times men- TAURUS CAMELOPARDALIS VENATICI
tioned.
Sirius, the "dog-star," is part of Canis PERSEUS URSA MINOR
Major, the great dog. It is the brightest star Tlades Polaris
in the sky and is visible in the south. Above CASSIOPEIA BOOTES
it is Procyon, in the lesser dog, Canis Minor. TRIANGULUM
DRACO Arturus
And still higher are the bright stars Castor ARIES ANDROMEDA CEPHEUS CORONA
and Pollux in Gemini, the twins. VENUS
To the right of Canis Major, and a little
higher, stands the brilliant constellation of IWEST Jace North EAST
Orion, the warrior. This has two stars of
the first astronomical magnitude: Betelgeuse LYNX Castor
(above) and Rigel (below). Between them CANCER PrueseDe Polluxel GEMINI
is Orion's belt, formed by a row of three MARCH SICKL
stars. 1954
Still farther to the right (shown partly Denrebola LEO CANIS
on the northern sky map and partly on Procyon MINOR Betelgeuse TAURUS
the southern stands Taurus, the bull, with HYDRA MONDCEROS Aidebaranc
brilliant Aldebaran. This star is reddish in VIRGO
ORIONL
color. And above Taurus is Auriga, the DERIDANUS
charioteer, with creamy-white Capella. PYXIS MAJOR Rigel
High in the northeast you can see Ursa PUPPIS o
Major, the great bear, of which the familiar ospica CORVUS VELA LEPUS
big dipper is part. In this group are the
pointers, whose direction leads you to EAST South WEST
Polaris, the pole star, part of Ursa Minor,
the lesser bear. SYMBOLS FOR STARS IN ORDER OF BRICHTNESS

32,000 larvae of which are now in Brisbane. d will happen again in 2038. In 2011 it will ork.
The cost of the burr on Australia's wool come on April 4, and in 2000 on April 23. e air thins in the higher autitudes,
clip is estimated at between $600,000 and In 1962 it came on April 22 and this will in the body y take place, allowing
$700,000 a year. M happen again in 1973. to remove a greater proportion of
The scientist who collected the larvae is - You will notice that if the pashcal full gen taken in with each breath, Dr.
John Mann, director of the biological l sec- moon comes on a Sunday, Easter'will be told the New York Academy of
tion of the Queensland Department of the following Sunday. This rule was estab. meeting on respiratory failure. In
Lands, who has r recently returned from lished in 325 A.D. by the Council of Nicaea, n, the capacity of the blood to carry
India. > to make sure that Easter would never coin- increases.
In his four-month mission he collected cide with the Jewish Passover, which comes bugh the breathing process in man
sufficient numbers of the burr-destroying X.=1 at the full moon after March 21. If that thstand a variety of conditions, many
insect, Nupserha antennata, to launch field full moon comes on Sunday, it is the begin. s push it beyond its limits. Bronchial
trials in Queensland. c ning of Passover, and Easter comes a week ancies, tuberculosis, chronic bron-
The trials will establish whether the later. and asthma cause large areas of the
insect, boring beetle, will l be effective C In recent years there has been an active remain poorly ventilated.
under Queensland conditions in bringing a movement to stabilize Easter, perhaps on Science News Letter, 85:121 Feb. 22, 1964
noogoora burr under control. C the second Sunday of April, which would
The insects are quarantine in the a be close to the presumed Crucifixion date. IOMY
Lands Department's Sherwood laboratory, In 1928 the British Parliament passed a law
which would fix Easter as the Sunday after puter Helps Compile
where they will be held to complete their C the second Saturday in April. However, it
development and emergence from the larval : provided that it would become effective only ronomical Tables
stage. They will be ready for field tests. after other nations had agreed to do the
which will begin less than a year from now. same, which so far they have not done. TRONOMICAL TABLES that may
Science News Letter, 85:121 Feb. 22, 1964 1 cholars obtain new insight into the
ENGINEERING Celestial Time Table for "March ion of medieval mathematics and sci-
I ave been compiled with the aid of an
Improved Traffic Flow MARCH EST computer.
. 2,964,000,000 miles Thomas J. Watson Research Center,
MORE THAN 22,000 lives now lost on . 1 5 noon Moon f farthest from earth; own, N. Y., has produced tables of
the nation's highways could be s saved each distance 251,200 miles ary, lunar and solar positions from
year, if modern freeway design and operat- 6 5:00 a.m. Moon in last quarter to 1649 with an IBM 7094 computer.
ing characteristics were applied I to more 7 1:00 a.m. Algol 1R (variable star in Per- Tuckerman carried out the
roads and streets, an automotive safety engi- seus) at minimum brightness project
9 9:50 p.m. Algol at minimum suggestion of Professor Otto E. Neuge-
neer predicted in Detroit. 11 Midnight Moon passes Saturn chairman of the department of the
About 12,000 deaths caused by one car 6:40 p.m. Algol at minimum y of mathematics at Brown University,
leaving the road and overturning or strik- 13 3:00 a.m. Mercury passes behind sun ience, R. I. The compilation, known
ing an obstacle could be eliminated by 9:14 p.m. New moon ephemeris, is being published by the
removing trees, sharp ditches and steep 15 9:00 p.m. Moon passes J Jupiter ican Philosophical Society, Philadel-
slopes from the immediate aren wherever 17 1:00 a.m. Moon passes Venus It: augments an earlier ephemeris cov.
possible. 11:00 a.m. Moon nearest; distance the period from 601 B.C. to A.D. 1,
Elimination of two-way t traffic on all 228,200 miles
20 9:10 a.m. Sun over r equator; spring ompiled by Dr. Tuckerman.
streets would save almost 11,000 lives lost commences in Northern ephemeris can be used by scholars
due to collisions involving g other cars and Hemisphere ting medieval horoscopes and other
pedestrians. One-way traffic on all streets 3:40 p.m. Moon in first quarter nents containing astronomical data.
would d also keep the traffic flowing faster. 27 2:40 a.m. Algol at minimum historically interesting documents, by
These e conclusions are based on a review 9:49 p.m. Full moon , Byzantine, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian,
of fatal accident statistics from 1900 until 2 11:30 p.m. Algol at minimum sh and Hindu authors, are
Subtract one hour for CsT, two hours for usually
the present. Between 1920 and 1930 the MST', and three hours for PST. ilogued and not in chronological
number of fatal traffic accidents increased Science News Letter, 85:122 Feb. 22, 1964 Since dates are missing, the astronom-
more than 2,00o each year. A sharp break As unese areas are often in the sale sies iCai Joservations or references contained in
occurred in 1930 and the increase since that as the fatty patches or plaques that mark the documents are the best clues to their
time has been less than 500 per year. hardening of the arteries, the radiologist age.
Passenger car improvements have included can estimate the extent of hardening. The convenience, high degree of accuracy
the development of enclosed passenger areas, Dr. Jorgens was assisted by Dr. Arthur and completeness of the new IBM tables
safety glass, improved brakes, steering and Lieber, now assistant professor of radiology will save scholars a great deal of time for-
lighting, and a significant lowering of the at the University of Kentucky, in perform- merly spent in tedious hand computation
center of gravity on modern cars. Improved ing 2,500 such examinations of the heart. of dates from the astronomical references.
driver training and Ifurther design improve- Science News Letter. 85:121 Feb. 22, 1964 Science News Letter, 85:121 Feb. 22, 1964

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white star for two minutes then TEMPLE EMANU.EL SYNAGOGUE,
vanished, it had no tail, made no WASHINGTON AVENUE, MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA
noise, was circular shape and com-
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solid object. It seemed' to have 3731nW. Funt et2et
all its interest focused on the D7 Fuida -33/34
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as seen by the naked eye, total
time - 5 minutes. UFO Club, FraNk McKisiC.
WFAC Station, c/oFrank McKisic, HakRy MEKisic. prject Blue Peak
3731 N.W. Ist Street, Miami, ALIC2 MEKISIC,
Florida, 33126. jjomation
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9 December 1964
Dear Mr. McKisic:
We are unable to locate your sighting without
the specific date and location. Upon receipt of
this information, we will inform you of the Air
Force's aluation.
Sincerely, -
MASTON M. JACKS
Major, major, USAF USAF
Chief, Pictorial Pictorial Branch
Public Information Division
Office of Information of Information
Mr. Frank MeKisic Mr. Frank McKisic
3731 NW I 3731 NW F First Street Pirst Street
Miami, Florida, 33134