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MUFON Forum, p. 5.
Calendar, p. 21.
UFO Marketplace, p.
23. This drawing by MUFON Field Investigtor Steve Reichmuth de-
picts the object sighted by a California woman. The object was
hovering oFer a car dealership in Dublin, CA. The report begins on
Columns page 3.
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Director's Message 2
Filer's Files 15
Ted Phillips 18
Stan Friedman 20
McLeod's Night Sky 24
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September 2005 Number 449
Director's Message
By John F. Schuessler
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Woman says saucer-shaped object
hovered over California business
Date of sighting: 11/5/2004 6:45
PM
Reported: lln /2004
Location: Dublin, CA
Shape: Disc
Duration: 3 mins.
Source orinitiaJ report: Peter Dav-
enport, National UFO Reporting Cen-
ter (NUFORP)
Investigated by: Steven Reichrnuth,
MUFON Field Investigator & State
Section Director Alameda County, CA
Evaluation: significant; CE-I.
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with panel lines. The body of the craft wishes to remain anonymous, reported
did not emit any light or plasma field, the radar data at Nor Cal and other con-
but just below the object the witness ---··.--·:--·- ·- trol centers are kept for a only a limited
observed what appeared to her as a time in their computers, but Nor Cal
glowing aura all along the object's bot-
"" was able to report they had some sort
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tom. of computer record of a Saturn B_limp
This aura was glowing red, orange, radar transponder which pinpointed the
and yellow-or shades intennixed. The blimp at 18:45 hours (6:45 PM) near
presence of orange and red plasmas Livermore-some 7 to 10 miles east of
with hovering.UFOs is consistent with Dublin-at the time of the sighting. No
other such reports of craft seen close. other anomalous radar returns were re-
I consider this case a Close Encoun- ported.
ter of the 1st kind (CE-1) according to
the Hynek-Vallee classification system.
The Stone Ridge Chrysler-Ply-
mouth-Jeep car dealership salespeople
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This seemed to provide some very
important independent confirmation
that, whatever my witness had seen, it
was not a blimp.
repoited nothing unusual seen, heard, Her daughter had urged her to try to
or felt. There were no other reports. Original sketch by witness. photograph the object with her cell
despite· the object's close proximity to phone. The witness was inexperienced
a busy freeway intersection (Hwy 580 with the cell phone camera device.
& HWY 680 in Dublin). A few com- During the sighting the witness was
mercial stores in the area were checked. able to drive to a nearby store parking
but nothing unusual was seen. lot facing the auto dealership and watch
Many at the ~ealership suggested it the object hovering without distraction
was the· Saturn blimp aircraft which or intem.tption for some 3 to 4 minutes
frequented the area during this time (a long time).
I detennined that the Saturn adver- She started the car with no difficulty,
tising blimp was in the Livennore/ and she pulled into the intersection to
Pleasanton area, flying there in the eve- get closer for a photograph. The object
nings (in between sports telecasts fly- Sketch of object by retired-police seemed (she thought) to sense her pres-
ing over the Oakland Coliseum) be- forensic artist Tom Macris, based on ence. and when she tried to take a photo
tween late October and December the witness' description. the object silently darted away at very
2004). rapid speed-gone in 3 to 4 seconds in a
The Saturn blimp was based at that rior lights for the exterior translucent steep climb away from witness toward
time at Livennore Municipal airport. I illumination of the blimp "bag" to the south-southeast (toward east
contacted via the Livennore airport "wink out" temporarily as the blimp Pleasanton).
manager's office the two pilots who fly pitches up or down at an extreme angle, The Dublin Police Dept. was con-
this blimp, chief pilot Charles according to the pilot. tacted by telephone on Dec. 7, 2004.
Halbrooke and pilot Doug McFadden. This a good note for future MUFON They were courteous and prompt (and
Both were very JX)lite and friendly, and cases involving blimp aircraft as well. naturally curious). The Watch Sergeant
remarked that they frequently receive The witness is very adamant that the the next day contacted all officers on
such UFO inquiries. object seen was not a blimp. duty that night (Nov. 5, 2004).
The chief pilot checked his flight log I telephoned my contact at the Oak- The police computer log was also
book and reported he was indeed fly- land Air Traffic Control Center, and checked, and nothing unusual was re-
ing the Saturn blimp that evening. It was was referred to the "Nor Cal" air traf- ported or telephoned into the police sta-
airborne at the time of the dealership fic control center near Sacramento (ra- tion from anywhere in Dublin that night.
sighting (18:45 hours). He reported dar situated on fonner Nather Air Force Sergeant Peccaro left a message on my
seeing nothing unusual. base). personal home answering machine 24
The minimum operating altitude re- The Oakland Center, though geo- hours later.
quired by FAA for such blimps is 1,000 graphically closer to the event (Dublin), On June IO, 2005, I was introduced
ft. The pilot reported they were having is blind on their radars at the low alti- by Ruben Uriarte to a notable police
trouble with their on-board electrical tudes, due to hills between Oakland forensic artist now retired from the San
generator, which provided electrical Center (located near Hayward, CA) Jose Police Department, Tom Macris.
power for night-time illumination of the and Dublin. My contact at Oakland Using remarkable communication
blimp interior for visual advertising. Center, Peter "Pete" Marcuso, chief air techniques as well as artistic ability, he
The APU (auxiliary power unit) is traffic controller, said to contact his was able to create an additional draw-
gravity fed with fuel, and will some- friend personally at "Nor Cal." ing for added perspective and possible
times stall out (causing the blimp inte- This traffic controller contact, who insight on the case. Macris remarked
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Miscellaneous checks
Philip J. Klass case at about the same time being in-
vestigated by "some group in Chicago"
Dr. Leo Sprinkle-The ET cattle mutilations, arid abductee reports timony·of Former U.S. Air Force ob-
Presence: Cons and Pros as they relate to invisibility of craft. server Charles Hall about his experi--
Dr. Sprinkle, professor emeritus of Ms. Douglass concluded her presen- ences with the "tall whites" at Indian
tation with an examination of a pro- Springs, NV; and the need for world-
Counseling Services at the University
of Wyoming, posed technical mechanism to account wide networking "to prepare humanity
has been associ- for UFO invisibility. the bending oflight for disclosure.''
ated with in a gravitational field.
Paola Leopizzi Harris- Dr. Lynne Kitei-Mysterious
ufology for Lights in the Sky Over Phoenix
many years. Connecting the Dots: An
Although in- International Perspective Dr. Kitei, a Phoenix physician. dis-
volved in sev- Ms. Harris is an halo Americanjour- cussed witness-
eral excellent n a Ii st/re - ing the 1997 V-
cases. such as searcher and a shaped forma-
the 1976 abduc- teacher at the tion over Phoe-
tion of three American nix. as well as
women in Ken- Dr. Sprinkle Overseas ' other phenom-
tucky, Dr. Sprinkle instead focused on
models of science. reality, and human
consciousness, as well as some mod-
els of human/ET interactions and mod-
els of UFO entities.
"In my opinion," he said, .. UFO ac- Harris
School
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Italian media
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tivity is one aspect of a huge education stories; the tes- sive photographic evidence.
program. The program can be called . <~•:.
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cosmic consciousness conditioning.
Titis educational program apparently is '
A luck_v bid-
conducted by representatives of extra- 1' l
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terrestrial and/or ultra terrestrial MUFON's first
civiliations." He adds ... We UFO
contactees are being tested and culti- .,..,...,·
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ject which
Elaine Douglass-Invisible
caught his eye.
UFOs? Case Reports, Video Setting up
Suggest the Reality
Ms. Douglass said that several case
reports going
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MUFON's first silent auction
ity to make
themselves in-
a success for bidders, MUFON
visible. By Tom Deuley We laughed at that too, and I told her
Douglass She noted About six months ago LesLee that MUFON had considered a silent
that this is not the same as the ability to Alexander, later my partner in the Si- auction some years back, and had even
simply speed away faster than the eye lent Auction operation, showed me a asked Stanton Friedman if he would be
can see, and that invisibility can involve small green rubber alien in a box. It was willing to be auctioned off for a lunch
both optics and radar. a game named Alien Autopsy. date with a lucky bidder. He agreed,
Also discussed were chemtrails. Well, anyway we played with it, had but it just never jelled.
soqie fun and laughed a lot. then This idea of a Silent Auction kept
Photo credit LesLee bet me that the game could be corning up as the Alien Autopsy game
Thanks to Nick Roesler for pro- auctioned off at the MUFON sympo- floated around from one catch-all to the
viding photos of speakers from the sium for a fairly good price, suggest- next. Finally we sat down and dis-
2005 MUFON symposium.
ing some twenty dollars or so. cussed it with some seriousness and
Occupants and physical traces The creature was about 1 m tall It similar to the other four, but more elon-
moved toward her with a sort of quick, gated.
Last month I noted a -number of waddling walk. The witness ran into a 10/04/54 0810 France, St.
physical traces cases. in which occu- nearby thicket. By this time.the dog was Pardoux: M Lacambre, a forester, re-
pants were present. This month is part h,owling again, accompanied by the ported seeing a small being 3 ft tall
two. howls of the other dogs in the village. which rose into the air by virtue of 2
09/10/54 2230 France, Quarouble: A large, circular, and somewhat flat- pear-shaped boxes beneath his arms.
Animal reaction-area heated to high tened metallic-appearing object as- Footprints were found.
temper_ature-dark mass- on railroad cended from behind nearby trees and 10/05/54 0715 France, Mertrud:
tracks less than 6 yards away-two 3 ft moved away at low altitude, making a Road mender Andre Narcy was mo-
beings. whistling sound as it flew. torcycling to \.¥Ork wheri he saw an or-
The witness At the place where the object had ange object in a field-a 10m disc with
approached to risen, a circular area was found. About a large dome He walked to within 100
within 6 ft when 11 feet in diameter, the shrubs and yards and saw a 4 ft being who entered
he was blinded bushes were crushed. For a few yards the object. which took off causing a con-
and paralyz.ed by at the beginning of the wheat field, over siderable disturbance.
a bljlliant light which the object had flown. the wheat At the spot the grass was found
from the dark was flattened out in a radiating line. crushed within·a 3m square. and had a
mass., The be- From one of the acacia trees at the milky color. Twelve parallel tracks,
ings returned to edge of this circular imprint hung down spherical in shape, were also found ..
the object, and it a branch more than three inches thick, 10/07/54 France~ Mendionde:
ascended with a broken by pressure from above. The Manes Cuesurtia saw two red objects,
low whistling branch of an.other acacia, which hung mushroom-shaped, in a field. They
sound, emitting a over the circular mark eight and a half were 6 ft in diameter.
"thick dark steam," becoming red lu- feet above the ground, was entirely Standing near the objects he saw two
minous, and flying away. On the rail- stripped of its leaves. -Aime-Michel. small beings 2.5 f! tall which soon en-
road ties were 5 imprints. It was calcu- 09/27/54 2050 France, Premanon: tered one of the objects and flew away
lated that a 30-ton weight would have The four Romand children heard their vertically without sound. Grass was
been necessary to produce them. dog barking and saw, outside their barn, crushed down in a circular pattern and
09/24/54 France, Becar: Two a "tin ghost" like a "lump of sugar yellowed.
women made independent reports of a standing on end." 10/08/54 2300 France, St. Cloud:
dark gray disc, 21 feet in diameter, 4 One of the children threw rocks at it Mr. Puygelier. 24, was driving when
feet high, seen resting on the ground in and attempted to touch it; he was he saw an egg-shaped object landing
a clearing. thrown to the ground "as ifby an invis- behind a hedge a few yards from the
A man of normal height was stand- ible force." The thing moved off to a road. He and another witness saw a
ing near it. He wore dark clothes. One large bright red luminous ball, oscillat- being standing in the field.
witness Within 100 feet of the object ing slightly 400 to 500 feet away in the A strip of bumt"grass 10 ft long was
Stated that the man was repairing it. meadow. found at the landing area, and around
Traces were fouild in the grass. They told their teacher, and police the burnt strip the grass was pushed
09/26/54 1430 France, Chabeuil: investigated, finding that the grass was down.
Madame Leboeuf had gone to gather flattened counter-clockwise over a 12 10/09/54 2030 France, Briatexte:
mushrooms in the woods not far from ft diameter area, sharply defined. Jean Pierre Mitto was driving with two
the cemetery at Chabeuil. Her dog be-
gan to bark, and then began howling as
Within the circle there were four im-
prints-triangular holes, 4 inches in di-
cousins when they saw two small be-
ings the size of~ l or 12- year-old chil-
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if in misery. ameter, inclined at an angle of 45 de- dren crossing the road 25 ft ahead of
Madame Leboeuflooked around and grees toward the center, arranged in a the car. ••
saw that the dog Was standing in front square. The witness stopped the car and they
of something which she thought was a Outside the circle, a flagpole was saw a red glowing disc ascend verti-
scarecrow. Upon approaching the dog, scratched and the bark was tom off at a cally from a field. The object was about
she saw it was some kind of a creature height of 5 inches above the ground. 22 ft in diameter. A brown, oily resi-
in a diving suit. At the foot of the pole were two marks due was found at-the site.
18 MUFON UFO Journal September 2005
11/00/54 2400 France, Maubeuge 05/10/57 2250 France, Beaucourt: ject started to move, slowly descend-
Nord: Mr & Mrs Mozin, traveling by A 29-year-old railroad worker and four ing and turning to the right, hitting and
car, saw a light on the road ahead. As other wimesses saw a blinding light on smashing a portion of a maple tree (top
they neared, they saw it was from the the road and four humanoids. section).
interior of an object like a fat shell which Object was 150 feet away, pulsat- It then descended towards the
was 6 ft in diameter and 8 ft high on 3 ing duJI red and white. Witnesses ground. One witness was 10 feet from
legs. watched for 20 minutes. A 15 ft circle it. Through a large window he could
It was a whitish-metallic. with an was found. see two occupants. with large eyes; the
opening on the side facing the road. 11/06/57 VA, Jonesville: Buford heads were highcrowned. The occu-
Inside were thick cables and a 4 ft be- Seabolt was hunting when he saw a pants were small in size.
ing. The witnesses passed within 15 landed object and two small beings. His The object was oval, about 12 feet
feet of the object. The car's headlights hunting dogs reacted. A concave de- long and 8 feet high. It was found that
went out and came back on as they pression 4 feet wide and 24 feet long a gray-white substance covered power
passed it. was found. lines. The witness was Gideon
They found an 8-inch carbonized 09/29/591900 Sweden, Marianne- . Johansson, his wife and his son.
spot giving off an odor like benzene and lund: The electrical power in the three Next month I will cover reports on
surrounded by 3 imprints 4 inches deep wimesses' house failed; When they ran traces and occupants in the J960's. In
on a circle of 4.5 ft in diameter. outside they saw a blinding white light the meantime check out my website at
11/01/54 Italy, Cennina: multiple which stopped and hovered. The ob- www.angelfrre.com.
witnesses, separate locations, 1 within
10 ft from cylinder on ground. Two
occupants. Independent witnesses see Similar to Roswell reports?
both descent and ascent. Circular trace-
imprints. Metal Rubber takes a beating
This high strangeness event will be Terrible, horrible things can be done tallic ions, the other witlJ, oppos_itely
presented in more detail in a later col- to this millimeters-thick patch of shim- charged elastic polymers. The robot
umn dealing with the top 20 physical mering material crafted by chemists at dips a charged substrate (glass, for ex-
trace events in the database. NanoSonic in Blacksburg, VA. ample) alternately from one bucket to
11/05/54 France, La Roche-Brenil: Twist it, stretch it double, fry it to the next.
multiple witnesses observe an orange 200°C, douse it with jet fuel-the stuff The dipping slowly buiids up tight,
object landing. The witnesses moved survives. After the-tonnent, it snaps like organized layers of molecules, bonded
to within 130 feet. of the device. The rubber back to its origina1 shape, all-the firmly by opposing charges. Afterward
object was 30 ftin diameter, 16 ft high, while conducting electricity like solid the substrate is rempved, leaving a free-
with a 10 ft dome with ports. metal. standing sheet of Metal Rubber.
A humming sound could be heard. The abused substance is called Metal
Humanoids were seen near the object. Rubber, and, according to NanoSonic,
The grass was burnt, the soil blackened its particular properties make it unique Director's Message--
and covered with cinder-like material in the.world of material chemistry. <eononued from page 22)
in a circle 3m in diameter. As a result, the company's small of- available. The title of the booklet is
The wiblesses found a part of a white fice has been flooded with calls from "UFOs, Serious Business? Abso-
ball, which was a cottony substance but Fortune 500 companies and govern- lutely!"
heavy as lead, and a yellow powder ment agencies eager to test Metal Bill will make copies of the booklet
which was also very heavy. Rubber's use in everything from artifi- available to other state and loca1 groups
Soon after collecting the material the cial muscles to smart clothes to shape- for the cost of printing plus postage. He
witness noticed his fingers burning; the shifting airplane wings. says that if you order more than thirty
next day they were blistered and black- At this stage, however, NanoSonic copies at once he can have your group's
ened. The powder was analyzed and is busy meeting the demand for its 12- name and address added to the front of
found to be mostly silver nitrate inch-by~ 12-inch samples, which take the booklet.
08/21/55 2030 KY, Hopkinsville- custom-built robots up to three days to This is an excellent teaching tool,
,. multiple witnesses. Circular object
lands near farm house, and numerous
glowing occupants approach house.
create.
That's speedy, if you consider that
Metal Rubber, a product of
briefing document, reference source for
presentations, and for delivery to sci-
ence organizations and the press. We
Witnesses shoot, occupants float to nanotechnology, must be fabricated applaud Bill for his excellent work and
:.- ground from roof and trees. molecule by molecule. generosity.
Glowing puddle on ground seen by The manufacturing process, called For more infonnation contact Bill
police. The case will be detailed in the electrostatic self-assembly, starts with Jones at The Mutual UFO Network of
twenty best trace cases in a later col- two buckets of water-based solutions- Ohio, Inc., 715 Drummond Court, Co-
umn. one filled with positively charged me- lumbus, OH 43214. I
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P£RC£PT'IONS
By Stanton T. Friedman .
UFO Sites the TV, was only 7%. Area Slat the same time. Many seem
Whenever I am in Roswell, NM, One assistant kept offering me a to think Area 51 is very nearby, rather
such as in early July, 2005, I am asked bottle of water. Gorgeous view of a typi- than more than 600 miles away in Ne-
about the exact location of the Foster cal desert landscape valley-not a tree vada.
Ranch site where the debris field was to be seen. It would have been very easy for
found by rancher Mac Brazel The film crew believed me when I military guards to protect the site while
People ask about getting to the site, told them that detailed analysis of the location of vari-
what its OPS coordinates are, and what on a trip to the ous pieces of wreckage and in-situ pic-
is special about it. I have to tell them real site with tures couJd have been taken without
that. while I have been out there more several Japa- anybody in the outside world knowing
than once. I discourage people from nese journa],. what was going on.
going. ists. we didn't I previously had noted on my website
There are several reasons: The site see another (www.stantonfriedman.com) about the
is in the middle of nowhere. many miles person or ve- Flatwoods, WV, UFO landing on Feb.
from a road, on private land, without hicle for 54 12, 1952. how important it was for me
any services of any kind in case of miles. almost to be at the actual location of the tree
trouble. There are rattlesnakes and an impossibil- from behind which the "Monster" crune
scorpions. ity in Japan. out. and to see, as investigator Frank
It is very hot in the summer with very One benefit Feschino Jr. and I walked up the hill
high UV levels because of the altitude of being at the behind the tree, the only flat clear area
and clear skies. The fire danger is usu- . actual site, in the neighborhood.
ally very high. Stan Fnedman aside from the Any pilot, alien or domestic, would
Incidentally, I don't know the GPS obvious fact that in 1947 there were have chosen to put down a damaged
coordinates, and probably in most in- certainly no tourists anywhere near, was aircraft on such a spot.
stances wouldn't have given them out recognition of why, according to the I should stress that another advan-
even ifl had. The land is fragile, as sev- Eisenhower Briefing Document, p.3, tage of going to the exact location of an
eral landowners out there have told me, (see my TOP SECREF/MAJIC, 2"" edi- event is that it makes it much easier to
including the rancher at the Plains of tion,just published) the crew was found re-enact the sighting-the object moved
San Augustin site. two miles east of the wreckage as a re- from over that telephone pole to over
Four-wheel-drive and off-the-road sult of aerial reconnaissance, but was that steeple in so many seconds. It was
vehicles can create ruts which can iso- apparently not observed by the rancher at this angle above the horizon. These
late areas when thunderstorms come. or Jesse Marcel and Sheridan Cavitt are much better judged on location than
I also stress that there are thousands when they went out on Sunday, July 6, in an office.
of square miles identical in surface 1947. Debunker Joe Nickel dido 't go to the
characteristics that are much closer to It is gently rolling country. From a Flatwoods location and didn't talk to
Roswell and very_ much easier to reach. point on the ground one could not have the main witnesses. So he foolishly con-
I stress this to TV crews. seen the crew compartment. On the cluded that what was seen was a6' owl
I spent a total of seven hours in two other hand with aerial reconnaissance, and a meteor landing!!
sessions at one such site this last trip which would certainly have been un- There was no crater, no shock wave,
responding to questions from a Toronto dertaken with one of the base's spotter no meteorites found. As a general rule,
TV crew working on a documentary for planes, any metallic wreckage would meteors don't move slowly and make
the Discovery Channel. have been immediately spotted from the a turn around a town before crashing
We were miles away from a primary air, because there are only low scrub either. l
or even secondary road, so that we bushes and lots of sand. Frank's book, on my website order
wouldn't be bothered by highway Believe it or not, I have been shown blank, is The Braxton County Monster:
noises. Roswell city maps and been asked on Coverup of the Flatwoods Monster
I was seated in a comfortable chair, what comer the crash occurred! I usu- Revealed.
wearing a not so comfortable suit and ally say about 80 miles that-a-way. Just before going to Roswell I had
tie, with the air temperature being 107. People sometimes tell me they were traveled to near Lincoln, NH, to see the
Fortunately, the humidity, according to hoping to go to both the actual site and actual location of the abduction of Betty
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For southerp hemisphere observers from where the Orionid meteors appear
October 2005 Mars will rise in the east-northeast to radiate is located within the constel-
Moon Phases: about 2 hours after sunset and will stand
New Moon: Oct. 3 (annular solar about 30 degrees high in the northwest
eclipse) after the beginning of morning twilight.
lation Orion and is referred to as the
radiant. The radiant is located in the
northeastern part of that constellation.
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First Quarter: Oct. 10 Saturn: In Cancer. For northern The radiant rises around 10:30 PM
Full Moon: Oct. 17 (Hunter's Moon hemisphere observers Saturn will rise local time. At about 3 AM the radiant
and partial lunar·eciipse) in the east-northeast before midnight is about 50 degrees above the horizon.
Last Quarter: Oct. 25 ilnd will stand about 50 degrees high in To best observe the Orionids lie out-
Bright Planets (Evening Sky) the east-southeast at the beginning of side in a reclining lawn chair. The two
Mercury: Moving from Virgo morning twilight. best ways to observe the Orionids is
through Libra into Scorpius. For north- For southern hemisphere observers either by pointing your feet southward
ern hemisphere observers Mercury will Saturn will rise near 2 AM in the east- (the general direction of the radiant) and
nOt be ViSible this month. northeast and will stand about 25 de- looking in the region straight. up, or
,_ For ITiore favored southern hemi- grees high in the northeast at the be- pointing your feet south-westward and
sphere observers Mercury will emerge ginning of morning twilight. have your center of gaze around 60°
in the,west-southwestevening twilight above the horizon.
in··the firSt half of the month. By month's Other Celestial Phenomena Do not look directly at the radiant,
end Mercury will set nearly 2 hours Eclipses: because meteors directly in front of you
after the Sun and will have risen com- Annular Solar Eclipse: Oct. 3. The will not move much and fainter ones
pletely out of the evening twilight in the eclipse will be visible from extreme might be missed. Other minor meteor
west-southwest. eastern Newfoundland, south-eastern showers will be going on at the time,
V~nus: Moving from Libra through Greenland and Europe, most of Africa, _and stray meteors, more commonly
Scorpius into Ophiu<;hus. For northern the Middle East, and Australia. called sporadics, will frequently be seen
hemisphere observers Venus will im- Partial Lunar Eclipse: Oct. 17. Part that do not belong to a meteor shower.
proy'e_in visibility as it will set nearly 2 or all of the umbra! phases will be vis- When you see a meteor, mentally
hours after the Sun and will be observed ible in central and western North trace it backwards, and if yOu arrive at
low ·in the southwest during evening America, parts of Central America, the region just northeast of the main
twilight. most of Asia and Australia. body of Orion, it is probably an Orionid.
For more favored southern hemi- Zodiacal Light: Unfortunately the moon will be just
sphere observers Venus will set more Zodiacal light will be visible in past its full phase and will intetfere with
than<3.5 hours after the Sun and will northern latitudes in the East before the observation of the meteor shower.
s.i~nd nearly 30 degrees high in the start of morning twilight from Oct. 2 to
west-southwest at the end of evening Oct. 16 and from Oct. 31 to Nov. 13.
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-JuJ)iter: In Virgo. For nor~hern very dark locations. Zodiacal light is
hemisphere observers Jupiter will not sunlight bouncing off dust grains in our
be visible this month. For southern solar system. These grains lie mostly
hemisphere observers Jupiter will only in the plane of the solar system.
bC visible early in the month and very Look for a pyramid of light in the
lo~-- in 'the west after sunset. inorning sky somewhat similar in ap-
Bri.ght Planets (Morning Sky) pearance to the light from a city or town
Mars: Moving from Taurus into just over the horizon.
A:ries.'.Mars will reach its closest ap- Meteor Showers:
proach to the Eanh on Oct. 30. Orionids: This shower produces fast
For northern hemisphere observers meteors (40 miles/sec). About 20% will
Mars wiltrise during evening twilight leave trails. While the rate is stated to
in the east-northeast and will stand be 25/hour, it Can vary between l 0 and
about 60_ degrees high tiy 2 AM. At the 70per hour.
beginning of morning twilight Mars will The duration of this meteor shower
be standing about 45 degrees high in extends from Oct. 15 to 29, with maxi-
the west:southwest. mum·occurring on Oct. 21 The point
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