DOW-UAP-D088, U.S. Air Force Analysis of Flying Objects in the United States, 101-172

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of February 18 over ncrtt.ern l\ansas was just t.hat, inasrmch as meteorites have been recovered tron it.11 Thore were found, be(;irnine 1.prU 211, first e edded about two feet in the soil. The st.one i s nhat is tenred aa an "achondrite", a technical name f or an unusual cy-pe or stony m teorite. It is reported t o be of a tYJ hi ch will detAriora~a rapidly. A p otorrHph or tre trail of the meteor, r:l.'.lde by amateur p.otor,r ~her Duane ,I. ~"fr117 of Nortor, shows tho vapor tridl left in the sky by t.he wliite smoktio remained in the sky £or an hour 1''ebruary Wth. '!'his pboto­ craph is in tile under lri i ent '1101. Furthe r r emarke are contained in supplement .

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Pueblo, Colorado Uffi<•e of the Chief of Jtnff To call at.tenti.on t.o so peculiarities in connection, whe her coincid ntal er not AccordinG to 'Vl AP bulletin appeari"' 1n the Pueblo CHIEFTAIN for Fehruary US, 19116, sone ohject was seeu moving eastward across the sky or tt-.n late artemoon of 1" bruary IBth, ard en this UiinG re'lcl ed a po:iition ap1,roxi.mate to l!orcatur, Kansas, c:xploded , or disrupted, or disappeared. The ex­ plosion is said t.o ha· e been terrific. rticate Unt it rii< ved from west to east. Information con ,ained in t,hc dispatch under a Denver dateline Vbservator y (iJenvor) did not so assess it: it is said in U e dispatch that se offic1al• could offer no explanation of it. If this 1.s t ca· e, the a;:,para.nee is anomalous, and may lend 1 tseli to other meteoric explanation. culiarity in coMcction witt thP appearance, 1'hich may be position or the s:ite of expl"'sion r this oeteor at hour the west-to-eai:;t cours of thP object, tten it will bo St en orbit of t t e moon it will intersect the lunar orbit at a pla nPar to wt re the moon would be at fron 60 to one huncir ed

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It is held by rocketry experts (example, WILLY LEY - see his ROCKE'IS, p. 192, diagram and note in connection there­ with) that it wol,ll.d take about 100 hours f or a rocket-craf t to negotiate the di stance from Earth to Moon. Prior to its ~xplosion over Norcatur, this object of Feb. 18th was variously reported as a "falling plane", a "jet plane", and a ''ball of fire11 It is said by some to have l eft a trail of smoke behind it. It is the suggestion of this writer that the Army collect assimilate reports on this object , with a view t o determining where it was seen as an object trailint: smoke and llhe re as a ball of fire. If this thing is a r ocket of some kind headed for the moon, it might first have been seen as a streak of sr.oke, then later as a ball of fire, and lastly as a tremendous ex­ plosion when it at last reached sufficient speed and eleva­ tion for take-off. The writer has in mind the various and unexplained r e1.,orts on "!lying saucers", and bases this speculation upon a lonb c onsideration of various oddments of reports whose significance might be of epace-craft f r om other worlds of The so-called "meteori c procession" which crossed Tor ont o in February 1913, consisted of a number of u oups or illimunated bodies traveling in v oups of three an:l moving in "rigid formation", all pursuing a course acr oss the same streak of the earth's surface. J.r a line is projected backward along ·t his line of fli ght it will be seen that this line "comes out" at the position of the moon at the time. The 1913 phenomenon occurred in the mid-period of a series of reports on dirigible aircraft of appearance like zeppelins which were seen over :&, gland an:i whose appearance terminated - or reports on the appearances stopped - j ust prior to the inferior conjt.mction of Venus of April 1913. The writer begs to call attention to the f act that the times prior to and just after inferior conjunction of Venus are prolific in reports of strange t hings seen in the sky. Also t}at lights have been reported on the moon from time to time, back f or at l east a century. Ir in thr future of mil itary experiment the moon is selected as a base for the launching of r ockets (which has been suggested by some writers), it may be wel l to look first

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i·1to •·er orts like Vis one or1 Lhe explosion ovf"r Norcatur the nhject in•,olved. tlte moon is e· ther inrabited or in use b:v other ti an hlll"lan It ma~, do not harm tn ,Tatch the moon for possible arrival of

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From: Norman G. Uarkham MAIN HOT£L, Pueblo, Colo To: Chief ~ignal Of ficer Subject: Norcatur, ~s., sky explosion ing tho above phenomenon and another one of earlier date and to call attention to occurrences between the two which have an appearance of dental or not. The geographical position of the Norcatur explosion suggests possible linka.!;8 with other occurrences happening inside latitooinal limits arbitrarily demarkable between 43° 36 1 North (which is the latitooe of Ooise, Idaho) miles wide. 'lbis suegestion is gained from positions given for occurrences hereinaft er briefly described, THE OOISE (Idaho) OBJECT- This was seen either beginnin{.! or ending at 330 pm 24 June 1947 am was visible for 20 minutes. It was in the western sky, was of comet-li~ appearance, and settled gradually toward the horizon ae planetary bodiea set. It was seen bo.r Lt. Gov. Whitehead •u)j Chief Justice Lartpert. Its nature was unknmm . The peculiarity which connects this object, for speculative purposes, with the explosion of some unknown object over 1~orcatur, Kans ., on 18 l!'ebruary 1948 is the seeming of a relationship between the positions of the moon for the two phenomena: