PROJECT BLUE BOOK

1. DATE - TIME GROUP

23 Sept ok

3. SOURCE

Civilian
NUMBER OF OBJECTS

One

One liinute

TYPE OF OBSERVATION

Ground-Visual
COURSE

*““snuvered
PHOTOS

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9. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE

29/01202

LENGTH OF OBSERVATION

2. LOCATION

Minnesota
10. CONCLUSION

AIRCRAFT

Possible sightings of Licht a/c on VFR flying below overcast

11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS

Round circular object, lishted, below 2,000 ft. disappeared
out of sight over tree-tops. Additional information in
letter indicated WE sky overcast. Object initial impression
of object similar to ECHO. Flew low over lake, executed a
180 dezree tum returning lensth of lake, tmed 90 desrees
headins Nast disacpearigig over tree tons, late or speed wi
steady. Surface of object ied wrinkles similar to pumpkin.

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A RONOMY
LAE of’

Jupiter Joins Saturn

Jupiter, shining brightly in the constellation Taurus in
the east, and Saturn in Aquarius to the south, will be visible in

October evening skies.

By JAMES STOKLEY

> WITH THE COMING of October we
have two planets joining the stars of the

autumn evening.
To the south, in the constellation of

Aquarius, the water carrier, stands Saturn.
And in the east, about 15 times as brilliant,
you can see Jupiter in Taurus, the bull.

Both planets, as well as the stars, are
shown on the accompanying maps. These
maps show the sky as it looks about 11:00
p.m. your own kind of daylight saving
time, at the beginning of October—an hour
earlier at mid-month and two hours earlier
at the end.

The “great square” in the constellation
of Pegasus, high in the south, is an out-
standing grouping, although it contains
none of the brightest stars that astronomers
classify as first magnitude, The star called
Markab is in the lower right-hand corner
and extending from it to the right is a
row of stars that marks the head of this
mythical winged horse.

Just underneath these stars is Aquarius,
now more conspicuous than usual because
of the presence of Saturn. Still lower is the
bright star Fomalhaut, in Piscis Austrinus,
the southern fish.

To the right of Aquarius is Aquila, the
eagle, with Altair. Above this group, and a
little to the right, stands Cygnus, the swan.
Mos: of this constellation is shown on the
northern sky map, including the brightest
star, Deneb. Below it is Lyra, the lyre, with
orlliant Vega.

Andromeda in Northern Sky

High in the northeast is Andromeda, said
to represent a chained princess, a constella-
tion that extends from the star Alpheratz,
which is in the upper left corner of the
square of Pegasus. Andromeda’s mythologi-
cal mother, the queen Cassiopeia, is just
below. Her royal spouse, the king Cepheus,
is just to the left, a little below Cygnus. And
below him stands the little bear, Ursa
Minor, with Potaris, the pole star.

Ursa Major, the big bear, of which the
big dipper is part, is now poorly placed for
viewing. It is very low in the north, and
some of the constellation is hidden below
the horizon,

Low in the east (shown on the map of the
northern skies) is Taurus, the bull, in
which Jupiter now stands and shines far

|-- more brightly than any other star or planet.

The group is also marked by the star
Aidebaran. To the lett of Taurus is Auriga,
the charioteer, with first magnitude Capella.

Above Auriga is Perseus, representing a
champion, with the star Algol, a famous
“eclipsing binary.” Actually it is two stars,

one much fainter than the other. Every 2
days 21 hours, the faint star partly eclipses
its brighter companion, temporarily dim-
ming it.

Mars rises in the east about 2:00 a.m., in

Cancer, the crab. It is about half as bright
as Saturn. Then, about three hours ahead of
the sun Venus rises, shining even more
brightly than Jupiter. Mercury is not visible
in October.
No one knows today the origin of most
of the constellation figures but apparently
they were formed thousands of years ago
by the people who lived in the Tigris
Euphrates valley. A number of features
about them seem to indicate that originally
there was some sort of system to their
names and arrangement.

A good example of this is the group of
constellations visible in the south on Octo-
ber evenings, all of which have something
to do with water. In fact, in this ancient
astronomy, that part of the sky was called
“The Sea.”

First, there is Aquarius, where Saturn
now stands, From time immemorial this has
been represented as a man, or sometimes a
boy, pouring water from a bucket or urn.
The Arabs, whose religious law forbade
depicting the human figure, showed it as a

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mule carrying two water barrels, or simply
as a water bucket.

Of course, as with most of the constella-
tion figures, it is hard to see this in the
stars, The water jar, however, was supposed
to be represented by the three stars quite
close together that are shown on our map a
bit above Saturn. The curved row of stars
extending down from the jar forms the
stream of water that flows, very appropri-
a toward Piscis Austrinus, the southern

sh.

Very curiously, however, the fish is not
swimming in the water, as you might ex-
pect. He is drinking it!

Another watery constellation is just to
the right of Aquarius: Capricornus, the
horned goat. This creature is represented as
the horned head of a goat attached to the
body and tail of a fish.

Aquatic Animals in Patterns

A little higher, marked by only one star
on our map, is Equuleus, the colt. Dr.
Donald H. Menzel, director of Harvard
College Observatory, suggests that this is
really a sea horse! Above it, not shown on
the map, is the faint constellation of Del-
phinus, the dolphin, still another aquatic
animal, And to the left of Aquarius there
are more. There is Cetus, the whale, and
Pisces, the fishes, which are tied together,
according to the pictures on old star charts.
Even Grus, the crane, near the southern
horizon, has a connection with water, for
the crane is a wading bird.

SAGITTA
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SERDENS\

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FIELDS

ASTRONOMY
Stellar Pair tn Dipper
Found to Be Seven Stars

> THE FAMOUS PAIR of visible stars in
the handle of the Big Dipper, Mizar and

Alcor, has now on found to consist of
seven stars.
The ability to distinguish the faint com-

panion, Alcor, from brighter Mizar was
widely — as a test of serial vision before
the ana eye glasses and oculist’s charts.
However, ge ability to spot the six other
stars now known to be around the middle
star of the Dipper's handle will never be
used as a test of even supersensitive vision
—a telescope is needed to separate them.

It has been known for years that Alcor is
actually a double star. Mizar is also really
two stars, called Mizar A and Mizar B,
and Mizar A has long been known to be

a double star.

- Now Wallace R. Beardsley of the Uni-
versity of Pittsburgh’s Allegheny Observa-
tory, Pittsburgh, has found that Mizar B
consists of a pair of stars revolving around
each other every 182 days, with a third
companion orbiting the pair in 1,350 days.
Details of Mr, Beardsley’s study of this
seven-starred system are reported in Sky

- and Telescope, 28:131, 1964.
* Science News Letter, 86:20! Sept. 26, 1964

ENGINEERING
New Twist for Maps
With Old Instrument

> 4 65-YEAR-OLD INSTRUMENT can
_ make the task of mapping an area much
simpler—at least in theory.

Ohio Sate University engineers, under
the direction of Prof. Ivan 1. Mueller, de-
partment of geodetic science, have been
investigating new uses for the torsion bal-
ance, an instrument given up 30 years ago
as useless in map making, Their findings
have brought the torsion balance from lab-
oratory attics into new prominence.

The torsion balance is an extremely sen-
sitive device that, instead of measuring dis-

ces between two points, measures the
degree of gravity in different areas of the
local gravitational field, A weight, attached
to a fine wire, “twists” under the influence
of the earth’s gravity or a local gravitational
field in proportion to the field’s strength.

_ From a series of readings, it is possible to

determine the exact location of the torsion
balance in relation to the gravitational field’s
nown center.

Maps are conventionally made by an an-
ient process, “triangulation and i enien.
Three points are located with a sur-
veying instrument, necessitating clear site
lines to both points. However, the earth's
curvature prevents using trigonometry to
find the distances berween the points. Elabo-

Science News Letter for September 26, 1964

rate and tedious computations must instead
be used.

The location of points on earth from
star observations—a technique used by
Renaissance ships at sea to keep from “sail-
ing off the end of the earth”—are compared
with these triangulation distances. From
this data and a myriad of correction factors,
map “scales” are established to get different
distance sitings to “fit” together.

Prof, Mueller’s work disposes of this long,
drawn-out process with a few simple twists
of knobs. The only drawback to using the
torsion beam balance in map making is its
extreme deli and sensitivity to locally

“irregular” fields.
= 5 handle tarts tate 86:201 Sept. 26, 1964

BIOTECHNOLOGY

Doughnut-Like Device
Aids Circulation Study

> NEW CLUES to heart attacks, strokes
and other critical heart and brain problems
may result from research with a plastic
doughnut smaller than an aspirin tablet.

The device, which clectromagnetically
measures blood flow through arteries as
small as four-hundredths of an inch in di-
ameter, was designed to determine how
blood is delivered to vital centers in the
body.

By placing several of these devices around
different heart arteries at the same time, re-
searchers have discovered that the heart's
arterial tree is not ee as has been
assumed by many investigator

This knowledge makes wane advances

in prevention and treatment of heart attacks

involving arterial obstructions that block
delivery fe blood to heart muscle.

The device permits blood flow studies in
small animals such as rats. Previous blood
circulation research required larger, more
expensive animals, thus slowing down in-
vestigations.

The same techniques have been used to
study the flow through arteries supplying
the brain. Changes in flow in response to
stress and various drugs have been recorded
in conscious, freely-moving animals.

Arteries can be visualized by X-rays,
probed with catheters and studied with
radioactive tracers. But these procedures
have revealed limited information about
the regulation of the arterial system.

The poco is headed by few Alexander
Kolin and or Ross, University of Cal-

ifornia, Los An ugeles.
* Science News Letter, 86:201 Sept. 26, 1964

PUBLIC HEALTH

Portable Device Speeds
Testing for Diabetes

> A PORTABLE DEVICE in mobile
clinics is enabling people in Cleveland,
Ohio, to find out—in eight minutes—
whether or noc they have <tabetes,
he device compares a blood sample co
a solution of known concentration, then
measures the resulting blood-sugar index.
Dr. Jack R. Leonards of the School of
Medicine, Western Reserve University,
Cleveland, developed the apparatus.
© Science News Letter, 86:20! Sept. 26, 1964

201

ASTRONOMY, fa

Comet Rediscovered,
Unseen for 58 Years

> A COMET that has not been seen for
58 years has been rediscovered, due to
remarkably accurate predictions of its loca-
tion after such a long gap.

The long-lost Comet Holmes is far too
faint to be seen in any except very large
telescopes. Dr. Elizabeth Roemer of the
U.S. Naval Observatory, Flagstaff Station,
Ariz., used the 40-inch telescope there to
spot the faint object.

She rediscovered Comet Holmes on the
basis of accurate positions predicted by
Brian G. Marsden of Yale University Ob-
servatory, New Haven, Conn. Comet
Holmes was first seen in 1892. It was also
observed in 1899 and 1906.

The comet has a history of such physical
activity as outbursts when it draws close
to the sun, as it is doing now. It is in the
constellation of Capricornus, the horned
goat, which is now in the southern sky.

News of the rediscovery of Comet
Holmes was telegraphed to astronomers by
Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge,
Mass., the clearing house for astronomical
information in the Western Hemisphere.

® Science Nows Letter, 86:201 Sept. 26, 1964

ENGINEERING

New Suspension Bridge
Fourth Largest in World

>» THE LONGEST suspension bridge in
Europe, and fourth largest in the world,
the first three being in the United States,
has opened in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Called Forth Road Bridge, it has 30,000
miles of mild-steel wire holding up its
roadway, with a 3,300-foot central span.

® Science News Letter, 86:201 Sept. 26, 1964

PHYSICS

Wave Analysis Locates

Plane Crash in Lake

>» THE POINT OF IMPACT of a jet air-
liner that crashed into Lake Pontchartrain,
La., last Feb. 25, was calculated by looking
at the waves it made, and then tracing them
back co their origin—a method that may
prove useful in similar cases in the future.

David E. Amstutz and Steve Neshyba of
the Texas A & M University department of
oceanography figured that the ~ i would
have caused a two-inch-high wave in the
640-square-mile lake.

They checked the recorded graphs pro-
duced ‘ four tide gauges located on the
lake during che period immediately follow-
ing the a. From this, they p Pa wer
the point of the crash within 1,200 feet of
the actual location of the wreckage, which
had already been spotted by conventional
methods. The study was eceal in Science,
145:921, 1964.

* Science News Letter, 86:201 Sept. 26, 1964

!

These do not exhaust the inhabitants of
the celestial sea, East of Cetus (not shown
on the map, but visihle later i in the night)
there is the long, ‘wiliding» constellation of
Ehidanus, the river.

Still farther ot the east is the water mon-
ster, Hydra.

Farther south i in the sky, not visible from
the U.S., is the great ship Argo, so huge
that astronomers divide it into four con-
stellations, These are Carina, the keel; Pup-|
pis, the stern; Vela, the sails; and 'Pyxis,
the mariner’s compass. Still more southerly’
“ef Volans, the flying fish, and Dorado, a

S

However, these are not really ancien
constellations, They were added © the sk
in 1603 by Johann Bayer, a German astron
omer who published a book of star ma
and filled in some of the blank spaces.

It is hard to believe that only coinciden
accounts for so many watery constellati
Perhaps their originators intended them

picture some connected story. If so,
kind has forgotten what it was.

Celestial Timetable for October

OCT. EDT
1 tt:00 p.m. Moon passes Venus
5 12:20 p.m. New Moon
10 11:50 p.m. Algol at minimum
It 11:00 p.m. Moon farthest; distance
251,300 miles
13 12:57 p.m. Moon in first quarter

8:40 p.m. Algol at minimum
15 3:00 p.m. Mercury behind Sun
16 2:00 p.m, Moon passes Saturn

5:30 p.m. AJgol at minimum
2t 12:46 a.m, Full Moon
22 7:00 p.m. Moon passes Jupiter
23 6:00 p.m, Moon nearest; distance

226,800 miles
27 «= $59 p.m. Moon in last quarter
29 8=6§:00 a.m. Moon passes Mars
31 4:30 a.m. Algol at minimum
7:00 p.m. Moon passes Venus

Subtract one hour for CDT. two hours f
MDT, and three hours for PDT.

* Science News Letter, 86:202 Sept. 24, 1
OCEANOGRAPHY

New Ocean Sounder

100 Times More Accurate

> AN OCEANOGRAPHIC SYSTEM cap.
able of mapping the ocean's floor to a depth
of nearly seven miles, with 11) times the
accuracy of previous systems, has been de.

|

The new system uses an ultra-narrow
rectangular sound beam only two and two-
thirds degrees wide, instead of the 60-degree
wide beam used in older systems.

In these systems the “echo” from the
bottom comes ia: a very wide area which
mav include both. peaks and vaileys. The
ictual depth beneatn the survey ship thus
can be only roughly measured. The nar-
rower beam enables oceanographers to “pin-
point” an area of the ocean’s floor and to
obtain a far more detailed map.

The new system also has a built-in stabil-
izer that will keep the beam vertical even
when the carrier ship is pitching and roll-
ing. Its design is flexible enough for a
variety of applications and installations on
various vessels,

The General Instrument Corporation’s
Harris ASW Division, Westwood, Mass.,
developed the system.

© Science News Letter, 86:203 Sept. 26, 1964

Ce ee ae i he be eh ee

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cover the subject *r-m ons size to a global point
of view, from metamorpt'c’ rocks to synsedimentary

teformation,

TAXONOMIC BIOCHEMISTRY AND SEROL-
oayY—Charles A. Leone, Ed.—Ronald, 728 p., illus.,
$16.50. Papers presented at 1062 International Con-
‘orence deal with principles of systematics, molecular
taxonomy, taxonomic biochemistry of plants, compera-
‘ive biochemistry of animals, and taxonomic elec-
trophoresis of animals. :

THEORY OF SUPERCONDUCTIVITY—John M.
Blatt—Academico Press, 486 p., $12.50. Emphasis

perconductors,

is on the fundamental properties of su
the nearly complete expulsion of magnetic fields from

superconducting materials, and the persistent currents
in superconducting rings, with special attention given
to thermodynamic properties.

U.S. GOVERNMENT FILMS FOR PUBLIC

EDUCATIONAL USE i wT tee
Eloyse Grubbs with Katherine W. E
(GPO), 582 p.. paper, $3. Information about the
motion pictures and filmstrips of all U.S. Government

igencies with source of availability indicated.
Manual—Richard M. Bakin—vUniv. of Calif. Press,

and
in frog larva, chick and pig embryo.
WEST VIRGIRIA GEOLOGY, ARCHAEOCLOG

liam BH. Gillespie and John A. Clendening—W. Va.
Univ. Lib., 241 p., $5. Reference to all published
pertinent Literature dealing directly and specifically
with West Virginia.

WHAT 18 LINEAR PROGRAMMINGT—A. 8.
Rarsov, transl, and adapted from Russian by Michael
B. P. Slater and Daniel A. Lerine—Heatb, 110 p..
paper, $1.40. Presents an elementary exposition of the
general problem dealt with by Linear programming and
discusses the simplex method and the combinatorial
method for solving it.

THE WORLD OF GBIRDS—James Fisher anid
Roger Tory Peterson—Donbleday, 288 p., photo
graphs, illus. by Roger Tory Peterson, 96 p. color
"maps, $17.05; after Christmas $22.95. Outlines the
.cience of ornithology, discusses techniques, tools and
‘sacks of international bird watching, classifies bird
families with cenans of acceptable genera and species,
«hows geographical distribution of all bird families,
ind «iiscusses the problems of conservation.

© Science News Letter, 86:204 Sept. 26, 1964

Voture Vote

Deadly Nightshade

» ATROPA BELLADONNA, the so<alled
“deadly nightshade,” is a tall, pot

nerb chat grows to a height of four or five
feer and is found growing wild in eastern
United States.

A member of the Solanaceae family, it is
-elated to the tobacco plant, the horse-nettle,
and the potato, Solanum tuberosum, which
it resembles in appearance.

A native of Central and Southern Europe,
deadly nightshade was imported to this
country for cultivation as a source of atro-
pine, a poisonous crystalline alkaloid that
occurs in the plant’s roots and leaves and
is used in medicine.

Atropine affects the nervous system, and
n be fatal if taken internally in large
doses. Its most common uses are as a relief
for intestinal cramps and as pupil-dilating
| “eye drops.”

At one time atropine was used by ladies
of the court to dilate their pupils in order
to enhance their beauty. This was the origin
'of the name belladonna, which literally
) means “fair lady” in Italian.

Deadly nightshade jlso contains the alka-
lok! byoscyamine, which is found in all
vacts of the plant, especially in its roots and
seeds. Deadly nightshade poisoning in
humans most commonly arises from eating
the berries, which are shiny and black and
look like black cherries.

* Science News Letter, 86:204 Sept. 26, 1964

VERTEBRATE EMBRYOLOGY: A Laboratory

AND PEDOLOGY: A Bibliography and Index—Wil-

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HEADQUARTERS
DULUTH AIR DEFENSE SECTOR (ADC)
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
International Airport
Duluth 14, Minnesota

REPLY TO

ATTN OF; DUOIN

sumect: UFO Report S OCT 1964

to: AFSC (FTD)

In accordance with AFR 200-2 the following UFO report is submitted:

A. 1. Circular

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3. Lighted

4. Qe

5. N/A |

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7. None |

8. :

9. None :
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2. Below 2,000 feet

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4. See attached letter
5. Out of sight over tree tops.
6. One minute
C. 1. Ground, visual.
2, None
3. None
D. 1. 29/0130Z September 1964

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Two-. UFOs Photographed

Taken from information received
from photographer. —
“The exact day the photo was taken
is not remembered. It was, though. .
sometime during the first week of
Septernber,..1964.__
We then lived at Black Hills Army De-
pot, Igloo, South Dakota. It was a
‘Very cloudy day with high winds,
about 11 o’clock in the morning. My
mother was looking out of the window,
when she sighted two objects. From
the position, of the objects above the
trees, I would say they were about 15
degrees above the horizon. She then
photographed the objects with a
Brownie Hawkeye 620 camera. It was
very stormy out, so she did not see |

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the objects and does not know what |
direction they were traveling.” Au- ;
gust Powell, Flagstaff, Arizona. (Stale =~ Se Fa
- Director TIOUFO)
Read the AF evaluation of the photo- :
graph as well as Eastmans Kodak in
~ September issue of the IIR. i

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No Case, Information Only 1 September 1954,
Source: FSIC Bulletin, Vol 2, #1 N. Olmsted, Ohio

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No Case (Informtion Only) 3 September 64 |
Source: Sky & Telescope, March 1965 Visalia, California |

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THE FIREBALL OF SEPTEMBER 3,} |
1964, by Ronald A. Oriti, Griffith Ob-
server, January, 1965. ‘The. probable
area of fall... turned out to be about.
fifty miles east of Visalia, California,
and covered more than 1,000 square,
miles. . . . There has never been a'
meteorite recovered from an observed
fall in the State of California. This was’

* our best opportunity, we thought.”

No Case, Information Only
Source: FSIC Bulletin, Vol 2, #1

3 September 1964
Mt Ellis, Calif,

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6 September 1964

NO CASE (INFORMATION ONLY)
Medford, Massachusetts

SCURCEs: FOWLER

UFO REPORT 5

i
gnerville,

Medford, Mass. ° om

Age: i3 Age: 26 |

Cegupation: Cierk Occupation: H.S. Students. .
DATE: § September 156) TIME: 22:45 PM
PLACE: Medford, Massachusetts

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Game ond MM were pared in am automobile alcnz the
upper Mystic val ut in } Seen” Massachusetts —— they observed ——
a "bright ro ue" o Carrying a revolving red lisht
move across the horizon frem north to northeast. The intensity =
of the blue Light was compared to that of an autamoebils headlight |
several blocks away was steady, <6 was first seen throush
the windshield but was able to roll dowm his window ia
time te sae 5% outside. The duration of the sighting was
estimated to be 15 seconds. Several times along its path the
object oscillated or bounced up and down. ‘The trajcctory was
flat and it disappeared from sight as it passed behind a hiil.
The apparent size of the cbjecé was compared to that of a dime
or 2 nickel held at arm's lensth. Its true size was estimated
te be 25 feet long. <Jstimated sveed was 115 meh and distance
abows a mihe from them. No sowmd could be heard. ‘the object
2pveared te pe solid. Its edzes were like a bright star. The
weather dry and ceel with scattered clouds.

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EVALUATION

I imew of no aircrars shat carries a royal blue light with
revolving red light. its col flat trajectory and siew speed
rvle cus ametear, I belisve that Themas and Ame probably
witmessed a UFO with blue ethaus® and carrying a revolving red —
tight, Neither had ever witnessed anything like it befere. Taey |
had no idea what it could Rave been. Although lights in the sky .
ean usuaily be attributed_to aircraft, reflections of searchlignts ©
on clouds, meteors, ctc. I falt that this reper was worth writing
3, 233 @oler 2ad its oscillating movement are characteristic or
J20a, UrOs have seen reveatted in this gmeral area Yor the pase
several nent23s.

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. MISSOURI FIREBALL OF 1964 SEPTEMBER 7°
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i A.M.S. No. 2382

On this date in the early evening four fireballs were seen from central Missouri,
and thanks to Dr. John E. Merrill, Director of Morrison Observatory, and our regional
director Mr. E. E. Friton, 10 reports were sent in. Most fortunately, two of these had
the plot of the last and apparently most brilliant fireball on star maps, and in fact all
but one or two of the reports referred specifically to this object, which appeared about
9:13 p.m., C.S.T. We know that all 4 fireballs started in the northeast as seen by the
observers, and it may be assumed with much probability that all came from the same
radiant. Indeed, S3 saw the third, a very bright one, only 5 seconds before the one we
are discussing. He gave the approximate path for this which would project back not
far from the radiant here given. The observers were all in the area between longitudes
90°W and 93°W and within half a degree of latitude 39°, some on each side of it.
We have no reports from the regions over which it began and ended. However, thanks
to other circumstances it is believed that the path is unusually well determined though
based on only 8 or 9 reports. The path was almost N.E. to S.W. and not far from
horizontal. The color was described as blue-green-white by different persons, the
zenithal magnitude was about —5, the reported duration about 3 seconds. It left a
train which was visible at least 3 minutes, and which drifted in a SSE or S direction;
it also changed shape and expanded, This long-enduring train covered approximately
the last half of the path and lasted longest near the end point. Mr. G. Aulbut, at
Martinsburg, S3, plotted the whole path which went right down Cygnus and began at
Beta Cass; Mr. S. L. O'Byrne, at Webster Groves, S10, plotted the last half of the peth.
Both of these observers had intermediate points whose altitudes could be determined.
Other observers gave good estimates; for two it passed almost through their zeniths.
The solution of every fireball's path has special difficulties; in this case was that for
the beginning point we needed an accurate cross line to use with S3 report. Not having
this, the slope was determined by the altitudes of several intermediate points. A line
through these proved unexpectedly consistent so the actual beginning point is not vital,
thought the one chosen must be about correct. The usual data on path and orbit follow.

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Sidereal time at GN POIIE.....csnscersnsesenenenenerenererre” 303°
~  T sacacenreneanie manne 90°20’, @—40°06' at 123 km
ie are Eanes h—92°28', @=38° 10’ at 79+8 km
Height of long enduring tarim.......--s--rsreerr 100 to 79 km approximately
Drift of this ieet OR. ssncssinsvesndnevsnsneccecranceneneneeree* a= 350°
Projected path Herrgtth...c-cvvoenssneenenoneenrencnsenencrenennee® 337 km
aia, ame crcictarsansonnenrennenncenmnecerarsenernens = 339 km
Observed velocity.......-cnvmsererrrrssrcesrsrrensn 113 km/sec. (very uncertain )
Radiant YNCOPPOCtOd. .csonessesonesssnvensenseneersernensennensrer’® a=221", h=7°
Radiant corrected for curvature
and zenith WRLC OCTIOM...cec-s---rereneesererserenenenererenenre’ a=221°, h=4 8°
a—64°, §= + 40°
A= 70°, p= +18°
Parabolic orbit: i= 148°, 2 = 166", =6°,q ~0.98 ALU.
The outstanding feature of this orbit is the retrograde motion. Hence the object,
though in the fireball class very certainly, could not have hed an asteroidal origin.
In Hoffmeister-von Neiss! Catalogue, fireballs numbers 337, 339 and 341 seen 1869
Sept. 8, 1896 Sept. 10 and 1905 Sept. 10, have radiants rather neer this.
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size of a helicopter or a small plane plunged into the New River near Ranford,.,
Virginia, in broad daylight on September 9th. The strange phenomenon was wit-)
nessed by several people, including Albert Tolléy, who is a Ranford policeman.
and a former FBI agent. Tolley said that the object appeared to be disc shap- |
ed, and was spinning as it fell. Smoke and flames trailed behind ite No planes |
were reported missing, and no trace af the object could be found, in spite of |
@ careful searchee- .

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Information Only Dodge City, Kansas
Source: A PRO Bulletin, November 64, 12 September 1964

; idi Don Foulk, Air Traffic Controller for |
Martin Caidin Observes UFO poem Foul satehinson, Kansas, said vd

Aerospace author Martin Caidin was received reports from several sightings. —
piloting a twin-engine Piper Aztec B on They came from 4 pilot over Pratt, Kan- |
the night of September 12th, 1964, at sas, from one west of Hutchinson, from |
about 8:30 p m. when he and friend Ed a pilot landing at Great Bend, Kansas and |
Keyes spotted an orange-colored UFO fly- from a Hutchison resident out in his back |

ing five miles due north of Dodge City, yard. :
a Foulk, who also saw the object at about

The cabin of their plane began to light 7-8 degrees east of due north from the

up and “I was seeing things I shouldn’t Hutchison towers, said it was yellowishb-
: He said that when he saw it it)

be able to see,” Keyes, a former Contin- orange.
ental Air Lines pilot, said. ' tit the description of the final
phase or burnout of a meteor. Others re-

“when I finst saw it,” Keyes said, “it
: Tumbling Ported i a0 blue-green in color. Foulk
was above » siignt eee itie mbUNg said that direct contact with Kansas City, —

action was the most significant aspect of :
the whole thing. It would slow down Missouri FAA offices brought reports
from Columbia, Missouri.

when it became flat with the atmosphere
and would speed up when pointed down- Raleigh Lackey, meteorologist techni- —

ward. “This change in velocity was what cian at Wichita U. S. Weather Bureau
caught my attention most,” Keyes said. | ower at Municipal Airport said the bur-

Keyes stated he had seen many meteors | eau had reports from Concordia in North-
and was certain the object was not a ern Kansas, Goodland to the northwest, »
meteor. | Eureka, Kansas, 100 miles east and from |

When intervievved by the press, Caidin FAA officials at Lincoln, Nebraska. The '
stated he'd seen a lot of meteors and reports from Goodland came from per-

other objects fall from the sky, including 5°"S west of Hutchinson City who were
airplanes, but “to me this thing looked sure the object fell to the ground just

like an aircraft coming out of the sky. | weet of Penokee, Kansas.

This was absolutely not a meteor, He de-
scribed the object as a “cireular mass”.

No Case, Information Only
Source: FSIC Bulletin, Yol 2, #1

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reported a strange “contraptio

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Me. See attached letter.

Remarkss A letter has been written requestina further clarification
On items left blank and will be forwarded when received.

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G.8. SMITH
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NO CASE INFORMATION ONLY, 18 SEP 64, ANSEDONIA, ITALY

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Romé,
4 April 1965

Project Blue Book Information Officer

HQ USAF (SAFOIPB)
Washington

It is only now that I have your address. I would like to inform

you of the sighting of a luminous object by myself and two other persons

near me, at about 10 p.m. (local time) on the 18th of.September 1964,
in the sky at Ansedonia (Orbetello), a cape on the coast of Tuscany.

The egg-shaped object emanated an impressive, diffuse, dazzling,
blue-green, jade light, with golden hues. It appeared from the west,
followed a brief path southward, came down for a time (it seemed to
measure about three meters), rose again and paused about 5 seconds,
then, always directed southward, vanished on a giddy course, leaving

US astonished and Shaken,

We do not think it could have been a celestial body or phenomenon,
or a passenger plane.

I will try, at the foot of this letter, to sketch both the luminous
Saucer-shaped body we saw, as well as its trajectory.

[See original letter for sketch |

24 September 64

rT D 1 : Calif ornia
NO CASE (Information Only) Ric Del,

Source: APRO Bulletin, Jul, Aug, 65

F moa a ee Pee We Seer af The aM La - ls -- $ >: : |
. artin girls watched the object! . /
Cigar Circles Calit.:Town through 2 “orbits” (from the northern |

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Donald Martin, a lumberman, and his! horizon to the south and back again) and
two daughters as well as others in Rio he (Martin) watched it through three.
Del (24 miles south of Eureka) watched) With unaided eye it appeared as a bright
a cigar-shaped object which circled the star at great height (Martin guessed at
town between 9:30 and 10:00 on Septem- least 50,000 feet) and traveling “faster
ber 24, 1964. Martin, whe used 4 60- pow-| than g plane.” Martin saw two lights on
er telescope to observe the object, a the object, his daughters said it had one |

| light on the front and three behind. Mar-
tin said he thought it could conceivably |
Martin's two daughters were out using

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the telescope when they heard the “rum. bea i 7 didn’t think pn uy could
_-ble”. Martin himself heard no sound but) move that fast. At one time inci!
said others in the community later said) fairly close below the moon but there

they had, including a schoolteacher and’ was no change in light intensity, indicat- *
# man friend of Martin's. >» .+ Ing to Martin that it was not reflecting:
light but rather Originating it, |

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The Stevenson boys’ mother and sister also viewed the U
the initial report to The Hearald at 10:45 P.M.

was still visible at midnight!

Another Flying Object Seen... October 5, 1964. . . Another
UFO was sighted by two fox hunters early Saturday morning
near the Titusville Airport on Route 27.

Seen by Ronald Cooper, 16, of 2 Belair Drive, and Jim |
Clark, 16, of Stone House Road, the object was about
the size and brilliancy of a star.

“We couldn't see its shape, but it was about like a
star, except that it flew along the horizon with its lights blinking |
at irregular intervals,” Cooper said. ‘We watched it as it flew,
stopping and starting, for about a minute. Then it disappeared.”

Observed at about 5:15 A.M., the UFO was believed to have
been the fifth sighting reported here in less than a month.

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"Snowflake’ UFO seen, 3rd UFO In Week... September 16,
1964 .. . Several local residents last night reported sighting an
unidentified flying object in the skies in the Warren vicinity.

Barney Lewis of Titusville said late last night that he and
several friends observed the UFO through binoculars while
standing at the corner of Walnut and Drake Streets. —

He said that through binoculars it appeared as a snowflake,
with red lights around the edges. He said that the lights would
disappear periodically, and he believed that this was due to the
rotation of the object. He saiditappearedio change course often.

Last night's UFO report was the third received at the Herald
this week. (Titusville Herald)

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lican”, a newspaper in Kane, Pa. In the issue of October 20th,
> Mae sightings in the Titusville, Pa. area. (Credit Louise

We wrote the Titusville Herald and received an answer from
NICAP investigator William B. Weitzel, who was in the area.
making inquiries. He wae kind- enouge w seod us thermofax-

Fiving Lights Seen Over City By Residents for 1-1/2 Hours
--» « September 24, 1964... Another unidentified object,
the fourth one tn the last 10 days, wee reported to Herald
last night by several Brook Street residents. |

Charles Stevenson, 19, and his brother, Edward, 15, of 216
Brook Street, said that they anda friend first saw the object north | }
of the city and just above the horizon at 10:30 P.M. |

Charles Stevenson said that when viewed 30 power 3X
binoculars, the object appeared to be round with a cone-shaped |
He said that there were two lights in front of and two | =
the UFO, appearing as separate objects. The main ob- | “ao f
appeared to shine brightly at first and was red and white, a. 'S
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The youth said that by 11 P.M. the UFO appeared to be in oF
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above the San Francisco Bay area. Ed
Ca of Walnut Creek-—was just

ng his peper route and he and some
workmen at the Permanente Cement
Plant near Los Altos watched the objects,
said they were brightly lighted; glowing
intensely and fading alternately and ac-

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No Case, Informtion Only 29 September 1964
Source: FSIC Bulletin, Vol 2, #1 Bath Township, Ohio

NORTHEAST OHIO

LOCAL SIGHTINGS — GREATER AKRON AREA — 1964

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northern sky with a light whose color was similar to that given
off by a mercury lamp. Constable Harry Hood said the light was
20 tesense that it illuminated the spot where he stood in bluish, |
eerie light. Rela
- There was 8/10 cloud coverage that night. The object came ||
straight down through the clouds, causing a vapor trail which |
extended into the clouds. The object or light extinguished at al-
The angle of elevation where it came through

cloud cover was about 15-20 degrees. Duration — 3 seconds.

ALSO SEEN NORTH.

Summit and Portage Counties, and Fairport Harbor on.
Lake Erie, reported illumination, meteor, flares, etc. Geauga |
County deputies saw the sky light up but did not see the meteor

‘Itself, and the Coast Guard at Fairport Harbor was checking
. reports of lights “like flares” in the sky.

Aurora, Ohio, PtL William Russell got a good look at the,
object while he was on patrol on Rte. 306 near the Geauga-
Portage line. He recorded the time at 2:18 A.M. “I was no more)
than a quarter mile away from it when it came down,” he said.
ft watched it until it disappeared behind trees.” It was a blue-
white light; reminded me of a flare. It sort of blinded me for a
second. It was only 100 or 150 feet up when I spotted it. [t was

Editor's Comment:
Constable Hood and Pil Russell were about 20 miles ENE
and WSW of each ether. The times are closely related.

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September 30,1964

Attention: Commander
™ S.Air Force Base
Diluth, Minnesota

Dear Sir:

Please permit me to divert your attention from a busy schedule,
for a few moments, to submit the following ‘'signting' report. I will
keep this report as brief but complete as possible. Should you
desire further amplification of this letter, please feel free to
contact me at my place of residence, as listed above,or at Radio
Stetion W.E.V.E, in Eveleth,Minnesota; where I am employed.

Tne observation took place Monday, September twenty-eizgntnh, at
seven-thirty in tne evening,Central Standard Time. The skies were
overcast. An occassional drop of rain was felt. I would judge the
cloud ceiling to be at about two thousand i feet. Tnere was no wind
at the time. The area of sighting was over 'Skelton Lake' which is

approximately three miles Scutheest of es Aig al

My tirst impression of the sighting was 'it' to be an 'Echo
sattelite' such as we have had the opportunity to view when the giant
Dalloon sattelite wes oroited-montns ago, The direction of travel
was trom South to North over the entire length of Skelton Lake, a
mile or so oeyond, in the same direction; tnen'it'execute a one
hundred-eizhty degree turn, which I coulda not see and reversed its
df#ection, travel ing \orth to South, the lens th of Skelton Lake,
waick 1% turned ninty lade neaded in an Easterly direction
Out of slight, over the tree tops The oc

g >ject appeared to be circular
in shape and lignted. Its rete of travel was steady and about that
of 2a small plane, The entire sighting took plece within the time
intervel of a minute, /

HEADQUARTERS

" DULUTH ‘AIR DEFENSE SECTOR (ADC)

a Me STATES AIR FORCE
ULUTH 14, MINNESOTA

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sumveers UFO Report

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12 October 1964

The attached map and letter are the follow-up of our UFO report
dated 2 Oct 64. Mr. Russ is very cooperative and any further queries

would no doubt be answered promptly.

FOR THE COMMANDER

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G.B. SMITH
F/L, RCAF
NORAD Intelligence Officer

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October 10,1954

Headouarters(DUOIN)

Duluth North American Air Defense Sector
Duluth Int'l Airport

Duluth,Minnesota

Attention: G.B.Smith
FL,RCAF

Dear Sir:

In response to your letter of October 7,1954, I wish to amplify
on information which I reported earlier pertaining to the sighting
of an'obdject in the sky.

I have enclosed a map of the area in which the sighting occurred.
Also, on the map, I have inked the path of this object as I viewed it,
My spot of viewing is marked with an 'X', The dotted line marked,
‘Allen Track’ is an abandoned railroad bed, used to transport timber
out of the area in the days dating about the turn of the century.

I was returning from a hike down this track, from Putnam Lake to
Skelton Lake, and around a portion of it to the spot which I marked
with the 'X'. TI had just sat down,under a pine tree, for a rest

before continueing to highway 169. The object in question came into
view and traversed the path indicated. From where I was sitting, the
object could best be described as a large ourkin, Lighted, and circular
in sBape. I woild ssy that it was not more than 1500 feet from the lake
surface. There wes no nolse of any type,whatever, until it executed a
90 degree turn and headed in an Easterly direction. At the moment of
the turn, I heard ,what sounded to me, as the noise of some type of
airplane engine, directly above it, in the clouds avernead. This

was only heard during the ninty degree turn.

If first impressions are helpful, may I state them, When I first
saw the‘object moving over the lake, I thought it to be an echo
sattelite, Then, I noticed that tne speed of this aspeared to be faster.
(This was before the 1&0 degree turn was executed). The rate of travel
was constant. The surface of it appeared to nave wrinkles on it much

as a pumpkin has,

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