All Taped on T.V. newscasts and specials aboutGT-/+. on the evening of June U, 1965

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CBS-TV-Harry Reasoner 7:00 p.m. newscast quote: "... sighting anobject in space, something with big arms sticking out of it.Apparently** it's another satellite—hopefully."

(' Later CBS-TV newscast, 8:55 p.m. from Gemini Control. Quote by3H.-Al Chop: "The spacecraft commander, Jim McDivitt, has reported

I sighting an object in space. He said it appeared to have big arms' sticking out. Perhaps another (pause) or a satellite. He said he

had taken some motion pictures of this object, but the sun's positionmade it difficult to keep the object in view. We have had no further^oice communication with the spacecraft since that time."Cronkite continued: "Later, the mystery may have been cleared upwhen it was disclosed that our Pegasus satellite, which looks likeit has arms, was flying over the United States where McDivitt saystiat he saw the object. Pegasus1 job is to measuce micro-meteorites."

11:00 p.m.NBC-TV-Richard Harkness/newscast quote: ". . .James McDivitt evenspotted another space object in orbit. He reported to earth that ithad big arms sticking out."

NBC-TV news conference with Chris Kraft at Houston. Quote by Mr. Kraft:"Gemani Control 5 has just said the GT-4 has sighted what is apparentlyanother satellite and have photographed it, and apparently it hadarms and antenna." (Newsman question about the possibility ofsatellite collisions followil Kraft's quote. His amssx answer: "Aslong as they don't bump with, ours we don't worry about it. . .We

is- know the orbits of all the satellites that are up there, and they'renot in any of the orbits we're in and the odds —if you tried toput it in the same orbit — of bumping into it (laughter) I'd hesitateto say how high they are. But they're high.")

NOTE: It was during this conference (with Kraft) that Kraft wasslipped a slip of paper and then made this announcement.

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ONE of the still unexplainedmysteries of the Gemini

Four flight is the sighting ofwhat Major James McDivittdescribed as " three things thatlooked to me like they weresatellites of the earth."

When he first reported thisfrom his capsule he started.! hectic radar and computer search onearth, where attempts were madeto find out whether what he sawmight have been one of the 1.200or so " things" now floatingaround in space, from satellitesto spare bits and pieces of rocketsand so on, but none of themseemed to be in his vicinity.

When .the astronauts held theirPress conference in Houston theMajor described his efforts tophotograph what he had seeawith nis two still cameras, butwhen my colleague Alex Faulkner asked National Aeronauticsand Space Administrationofficials at the end of last weekwhether they had any pictures,they said ''negative." "We'vehad a lot of inquiries aboutthis," they expsaiaed "and thefilm is still under, study, but sofar we have not come up with

.any pictures showing whatMajor McDivitt said he saw."

Asked whether there had beenany speculation on the possibilitythat he saw flying saucers or othercraft of a similar nature emanating from another civilisation theN.A.S.A. spokesman shudderedand replied. " Oh dear no. Itseems more Jikely that theywere earth satellites or portions thereof."

WHETHER he is right aboutthis or not. an interesting

coincidence has been the publication in Chicago last week ofone of the most scientific-minded studies of what aie officially described as "UnidentifiedFlying Objects." .

This it called t' Anatomy of aPhenomenon" and it is byJacques Vallee, a specialist iadata processing who was bornand educated in France, holdsdegrees ia mathematics andastronomy, has done research inthe fields of artificial satellites,computing, and micro-wave andradar technology, and is a consultant on N.A.S.A.'s " MarsMap " project.

The problem, he declares in hisvery detached foray into the subject, "is unsolved after 20 yearsof analysis by outstanding scientists." What are these mysterious"U.F.O.'s" which, as Mr. Valinepoints out, ..have been recordedfrom the wry earliest day* of history, . add hpt merely since maninvented flying machines andatom bombs ?.. The reeprd runs, i* omfarlesaold manuscripts, from prehistorictimes down through f£* MiddleAges i when French kings weremoved • to impose penalties"**ajn9t creatures that travel onatafe] ships") and teto the

modern age, when we find thetwo sons of the Prince of Wales,one of them the future king ofEngland, describing in " TheCruise of the Bacchante" thestrange celestial object resemblinga fully illuminated ship whichthey saw on June 11. 1891, at4 a.m. between Melbourne andSydney.

Sixteen years later a Kansasfarmer who had been in theHouse of Representatives andmembers of his family saw a cigarshaped flying machine swoopdown on his corral and haul upone of his cows on a cable (thehind legs and head were found afew miles away on the followingday), and ten of his neighboursswore out an affidavit testifyingto his reputation and veracity.

Mr. Vallee says his files containmore than 300 U.F.O. sightingsprior to the tttb century while inour own century a ntate-of. datahas been accumulated. " Intelligent and serious reports doexist," he says. " About 10 to 30per cent, of the 8,000 Americansightings kept up to date inDayton by the Air TechnicalIntelligence Centre could be calledintriguing, to say the least." andhe adds " we are in firm agreement wnth the statistical estimatesof the U.S. Air Force concerningthe proportion of sightings thatcan be explained by conventionaleffects: generally between 70 and90 per cent."

He goes on to cite seme disturbing and totally unexplainedreports, such as the well documented episdWe in New Guineain June 1959 when a Church ofEngland minister and 37 otherwitnesses saw a •" sparklingobject" land and actually wavedto the people in it, who wavedback, or the little known occurrence at Kelly in Kentucky onthe night of April 21, 1955, whenan entire family was terrorised bycreatures from a celestial craft.They tried to drive them off byshooting at them and Anallyretreated to the local policestation in a state of panic.

And this is Mr. Vallee's conclusion: "Our problem is veryclear. We must analyse the evidence already gathered in such away that we neither presupposenor pre-excludt any possibleconclusion—and this is not atall what previous investigatorshave done. I like to rememberthe wonderful words of theAstronomer Royal (the highestastronomical position in GreatBritain)—' Space travel is utterbilge.' That was in 1957."

Mr. Vallee ends: "TheU.F.O. problem lies well withinthe capability of modernresearch but official attention isdenied it for purely emotionalreaarap that have nottuag to dowin science, Through U.F.O.actfefcy. alftoogh noevidence ha* yet been•eaM of ua believe the '<of an amazingly complex inteiligeat life beyond the earth canatreMy be discerned." y_

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by late last week.

Pegasus-2 entered an orbit with a peri-crP_HFlL4 1 ™7~~an aPogee of 4654mlTin^rbital period of 97.29 mm. andan angular inclination to the equator ot31 77 deg. These values were virtuallyidentical to pre-planned figures of 314.6-mi. perigee,. 465.7-mi. apogee, 97.^9-min. period, and 31.76-deg. inclination.

Total weight in orbit was 32,800 id.and was distributed this way:• Spent S-4 stage, 14,600 lb.• Instrument (guidance) unit, 2,600 10.e Pegasus, 3,200 lb.e Pegasus support truss and adapter,2,700 1b.

The boilerplate Apollo command/service module weighed 9,700 lb.

Milton B. Ames, Jr., director of spacevehicles in NASA headquarters/Officeof Advanced Research & Technology,predicted that Pegasus-2 would recordbetween 470 and 525 meteoroid hits onits instrumented wings during thecourseof the next year. More than half ofthese hits, he said, could be expected topenetrate the panels with 1.5-mil thickouter surface aluminum sheets and theremainder to penetrate the 8-mil and16-mil thick sheets. The 1.5-mil sheetscomprise 88 sq. ft. of Pegasus' 2,276sq .ft instrumented wing surface. Ihe8-mil sheets account for 188 sq. ft. andthe 16-mil sheets 2,000 sq. ft.

Ames also said that despite shortingproblems on some panels of Pegasus-1,launched last Feb. 16, NASA has ven-fied more than 70 .penetrations on thatfirst satellite. Of this total, 54 have beenrecorded on the 1.5-mil panels, whichare still operable. The 8-mil panels arenow all dead as a result of shorting(AW&ST May 24, p. 25) and only afew of the 16-mil sheets are still functioning, he added.

The dav after launch, Ames reportedthat Pegasus-2 had already recorded twometeoroid penetrations, one through a1.5-mil panel about 6 hr. after launchand the other through an 8-mil panelearly "in the morning of May 26. Amessaid that the rate of penetrations wasin accord with meteoroid data returnedby Pegasus-1, Explorers 16 and 23.

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First Industry-Built Saturn 1Puts Pegasus-2 in Precise Orbit

achieved, the command/service moduleunit was spring-jettisoned and thePegasus—still attached to the S-4 second stage—extended to its full 96-tt.

SPSatum SA-8 lifted off from Complex37B here at 2:35 a.m. EST, preciselyon-time. The four inboard RocketdyneH-l engines of the S-l booster burnedfor T + 141.9 sec. before shutting down

1 9 Sec. earlier than planned. Thefour outboard H-ls shut down 6.1 sec.later, also 1.9 sec. earlier than planned.The slightly early cut-offs of the S-l seight engines were well within toleranceand were attributed to slightly betterthan expected performance of the stage.

The S-4 second stage separated fromthe Chrysler booster 0.8 sec. after outboard engine shutdown and its six Pratt&Whitney Aircraft RL10 liquid hydrogen engines ignited 1.7 sec. later asplanned. The S-4 burned from 1+ 150.5 sec. to T 4-473.4, for a total of322.9 sec. This was 1 sec. shorter thanplanned and the cutoff was commandedBy the vehicle's guidance system whenit calculated that orbital velocity hadbeen achieved.

Cape Kennedy-Ninth and next-to-last two-stage Satuin-1 vehicle flew analmost perfect trajectory as it orbiteda 3200-lb Pegasus meteoroid detectionsatellite from here May 25. The performance of the first industry-builtbooster stage easily matched that oteight previous vehicles built by NationalAeronautics and Space Administration.

The two-stage Saturn SA-8, which wasthe eighth Saturn-1 manufactured inthe 10-vehicle program but the ninthto be flown so far, consisted of aChrysler Corp.-built S-l first stage anda Douglas Aircraft Co.-built SA secondstage It was the first of two S-l stagesbuilt by Chrysler. The other eight werebuilt by NASA's Marshall Spce FlightCenter, Huntsville, Ala. The payloadincluded a boilerplate North AmericanAviation, Inc., Apollo command/servicemodule unit and a Fairchild HillerCorp. Pegasus satellite.

The Pegasus, second of three suchsatellites to be flown in the Saturn-1program to determine the meteroid fluxin space, was folded and stowed insidethe hollow Apollo service module duringboost flight. Once orbit had been

4N flMtf WCHNOIOGY, May 31, 1965

Defense Fund OutlookWashington-There will be no dra

matic reduction in the defense expenditures in the near future, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara has told theHouse Defense Appropriations Subcommittee. He predicted that total defenseDept. spending for the next five yearswould continue "a slow creep upward"from the current level of $49 billion.

McNamara, during closed hearingsheld earlier this year, said: "I think theprobabilities are on the order of 5 to 1that at no time in the next five yearswill defense expenditures fall below $45billion per year."

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Quotes all taped on T.V. newscasts and Specials aboutGT-Z, on June 2,, 1965

CBS-TV-Harry Reasoner 7:00 p.m. newscast quote: n. . • sighting anobject in space, something with big arms sticking out of it.Apparentlyk it's another satellite—hopefully."

Later CBS-TV newscast, 8:55 p.m. from Gemeni Control. Quote by1X.X Al Chop: "The spacecraft commander, Jim McDivitt, has reportedsighting an object in space. He said it appeared to have big armssticking out. Perhaps another (pause) or a satellite. He said hehad taken some motion pictures of this object, but the sun's positionmade it difficult to keep the object in view. VJe have had no furthervoice communication with the spacecraft since that time."Cronkite continued: "Later, the mystery may have been cleared upwhen it was disclosed that our Pegasus satellite, which looks likeit has arms, was flying over the United States where McDivitt saystiat he saw the object. Pegasus' job is to measuee micro-meteorites."

11:00 p.m.NBC-TV-Richard Harkness/newscast quote: ". • .James McDivitt evenspotted another space object in orbit. He reported to earth that ithad big arms sticking out."

NBC-TV news conference with Chris Kraft at Houston. Quote by Mr. Kraft:"Gemeni Control 5 has just said the GT-4 has sighted what is apparentlyanother satellite and have photographed it, and apparently it hadarms and antenna." (Newsman question about the possibility ofsatellite collisions followd Kraft's quote. His xrssx answer: "Aslong as they don't bump with ours we don't worry about it. • .Weknow the orbits of all the satellites that are up there, and they'renot in any of the orbits we're in and the odds —if you tried toput it in the same orbit — of bumping into it (laughter) I'd hesitateto say how high they are. But they're high."

NOTE: It was during this conference (with Kraft) that Kraft wasslipped a slip of paper and then made this announcement.

ITwin Voskhod Believed;|'Surprise7 Seen by Reds!| By J. F. TER HORST |the Voskhod 2flight than it has:

North American Newspaper Alliance |admitted publicly. 1I United States space sleuths Rep. Wesley Vivian, D-Mich.,,v'won't say so publicly, but they f scientist and member of the's

'ZtZCG fhthV thl •!urpnSe three-man capsule, but V,;satellite the two Soviet cosmo-iSoviets turned £ne ftnaute passed n outer.space was Mo a ..compression" chamber aone the Russians had launched ,(an air lockfso one of ^ twQ.av thnH, simultaneouslv Wlth cosmonauts aboard could exit r

t j j i.u • tto -j land re-enter the capsule withoutiiiIndeed, there is U.S. evidence; aff ect i ng the life-support gthat the second satellite was but systems within voskhod itself." 8one of several launched at the yivian, the only space-age]cam© rime nr\n nut inrn an ..... _ •* S ° *same time and put into an scientist'in Congress, has been'torbital path similar to Vos- Mowing closely the Soviet'

rr^S'r> • -j 'space program as well as the:The Russians have said only American effort to achieve!

that Col. Pavel Belyayev,!superiority mthat field ]Voskhod commander, "cried; He said there is reason to!with surprise'when he and his;believe that Leonov had con-1copilot, Lt. Col. Alexei Leonov, jsiderable difficulty re-enteringsaw the second man-made Voskhod 2 and also that thesatellite approximately "onelSpace ship ran into re-entrykilometer away from the ship."Jheat problems which accountedThat would beabout 1.200 yards. Ifor its unplanned landing in a"

But there are some U.S. space remote forest in Central Asia. Eexperts who believe the second | Vivian was a vice president of ticapsule was sent aloft in hopes Conductron Corp., an electron-that Leonov might actually getlies research firm at Ann Arbor,close enough during his stay Mich., and Los Angeles beforeoutside the Voskhod to "har-. entering Congress this year,n e s s " the second orbiting Before that he was a physicistsatellite to his own space ship. >and research analyst at the

Or, in what would have been a' University of Michigan andsensational Buck Rogers feat, |worked on the development ofjnter the second capsule and' the Bomarc missile.Mlot it down to earth.

Distance prevented any such; p a c e gymnastics. Leonov• e m a i n e d tethered to the/oskhod with what he called "a•ope," although no one has saidlow long the rope was.

As a matter of fact, the U.S.)uiows a great deal more about

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Astronauts Ten TheiStories

HOUSTON, Tex. (AP)—The story of an adventurecrammed with mysterioussatellites, a stroll hi spaceand the anxiety of ljiingfour dava in a hostile ewvV*ronmei^f unfolds to- the"World today.

Astronauts James McDivitt and Edward White relate their experiences tonewsmen today, then receive congratulations fromPresident Johnson.

In a switch of plans, theastronauts and their wiveschose to ask President Johnson to come to Houston soCongratulations could beshared with all employes ofthe Manned Spacecraft Center.

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JOHNSON had invited thetwo spacemen and theirfamilies to his Texas ranchfor the weekend. Yesterdaythe President offered insteadto make his first visit to thespace center, tiie "Astronauts' home."

An official of the National ' •Aeronautics and Space Administration said:

"The gracious offer of the-President overwhelmed the"^auts and their wives.

r eadily accepted so the. rs could be shared with

the people who made theflight possible."

A White House spokesman said McDivitt and •White welcomed the changeso they could spend more "•time with their families.

day he had a "little some- fthing" for them. /'

Afterwards, Johnson is • .expected to tour the center, I jincluding mission controlfrom where the Gemini 4space flight was controlledand monitored.

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, OFFICIALS revealed yes-<terday that a third sighting >of a mysterious object in \

: space was made during apass over China. McDivitthad reported seeing anobject over Hawaii and another over Eastern Asia.

A recheck of the 1,400frames of film taken byMcDivitt turned Up five ofa glob of light with a whitetail and triangular glowabove it.

The object has not beenIdentified. Photographstaken of it were not recognizable, a . NASA oficiaisaid.

Mention of the third \sighting came during the •afternoon debriefing of the :two Air Force majors. /

"TODAY IS my birthday," McDivitt told thecrowd welcoming him homeyesterday. "I've had a lotof birthdays, I'm not goingto tell you how many—butI've never had one liketoday."

Actually McDivitt's 36thbirthday celebration beganWednesday night with acake-cutting ceremonyaboard the aircraft carrierUSS Wasp, the ship thatrecovered the Gemini 4capsule from th*e Atlantic,.

At the McDivitt homayfafew miles south of theManned Spacecraft Centerhe was greeted by a delegation of neighborhood children who shyly presentedhim a,erudely lettered "hap-by birthday" sign.

THE ASTRONAUTS re-t turned to Houston yesrer-, day, and White said their-

homecoming was an evemV"second only to the succesjs-

Iful splashdown Monday. TheTieroes were met with hugs

and kisses from their wivesnd children at Ellington

Mr Force Base, then had abrief lunch and private chat ;

p .at their homes before con- i\ | -tinuing- the debriefing ,uf,

' ,:their four-day journey lata•space. '• ;> Details of Johnson's visit,Iand wheljierhe will present \the special medals or \{awards to the space twinsare not known. The Presi-

'- -> deat tol^the twp last Mon

McDrVTTT ate birthdaycake at lunch with his wife,Pat, and children Michael,8, Ann Lynn, 6, and Patrick,4, in the privacy of hishome. The angel food cake'Mrs. John Sanders of Beria,baked by a sister-in-law,Ohio, bore the lettering,"Happy Birthday, By Gemini."

White, his wife, Pat, andchildren, Eddie, 11 andBonnie Lynn 9, paddledabout happily in a neighbor's swimming pool. Whiteshowed no signs of strainfrom his 20-minute walk inspace June 3.

The space twins startedtheir day at Mayport, Fla.,saying farewells to thecrew of the Wasp.

They also received thefirst of many expectedawards, a copy of the Florida State ' seal from Gov.Hayden Burns, as theystepped on firm ground forthe first time since theblastoff at Cape KennedyJune 3.

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FLAGS FLAPPED in abreeze and the Navy bandplayed "happy birthday toyou." After the brief ceremony, the two smilingspace heoes boarded a four-engine jet for the 2-hourand 15-minute flight to Ellington AFB.

As the plane rolled to astop, the astronauts emerged and were engulfed withlittle arms, legs and kisses.McDivitt circled his armsaround his three tykes andilifted them to his chestseveral times. I

Bonnie Lynn White leaped into her dady's arms,planting a big kiss on hischeelc. Then it was the

wives' turns. They stood j|with their arms around itheir husbands' waists,),beaming with pride.

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THEN IT was the turnof the parents, retired AirForce Maj. Gen. Edward H.White and Mrs. White, andMr. and Mrs. James McDivitt of Jackson, Mich.

Each family went homefor a lot of family living.Neighbors cheered as thespacemen came home afterbeing away since MayJ23.

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McDivitt SeesObject BelievedOf U.S. Origin

By WILLIAM fflNES * •Star Staff Writer

HOUSTON, Tex.—AstronautsJames McDivitt and EdwardWhite passed the halfway markin their long Gemini flight thisafternoon after an eventful second day in orbit which includeda rare satellite sighting in space.

There is still no firm indicationof what the thing was—with

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"arms and antennas." to quoteMcDivitt. It was spotted about5:30 p.m. (EDT) yesterdaywhile the spacecraft was overSouth America.

McDivitt told the MissionControl Center here that he hadphotographed the object ofwhich he had in sight for just'a little while. •*

His Description

"It had big arms stickingout of it, it looked like," McDivitt said.

"I only had it for just a minute. I got a couple of pictures ofit with the movie camera andone with the Hasselblad (a 70millimeter Swedish-made stillcamera). But I was in free driftand before I could get the control back I, drifted into the sun

. and lost it."

The U.S. official space tracking registry shows that 10 objects in space were within 600

, miles of the Gemini craft at the*"*time.

All were identified as being ofU.S. origin, which would beexpected since Soviet spSbcecraftcustomarily orbit in differentdirections from American

vspacecraft.

Pegasus Was~r'Near"T

The space tracking center(Spadats) of the North American Air Defense Commandindicated that Pegasus 2,launched from Cape Kennedylate last-month, was about 1,250miles^o'm the spacecraft at thetimetf sighting. It was in the,right direction to be observed,but at that distance it wouldproba'ly be distinguishabe onlyas a-point of light—not as anobject, with arms and antennas,

Pegasus 2 is the second micro-meterioid satellite to be .loftedas part of the Saturn super-booster development program.

In space it has huge wing-likeextensions nearly 100 feet acrossand would look something likean' airplane to a nearby observer. Its size is comparableto a Lockheed Electra turboprop commercial airliner.

The 10 objects listed as beingwithin 600 miles included fivepieces of "space junk" varyingin size from six inches to twofeet in width and 15 inches tosix feet in length.

First Spotting for U.S.

The only thing on the list bigenougfc to be spotted from distance with anything exceptsensitive radar (not present onthis Gemini craft) was a piece ofdebris 10 by 20feet in size fromone of the two Pegasus launeh-ings. Its distance was 460 miles.

The sighting was the firstoccasion in 80 spacecraft hoursof U.S. manned flight experienceon which aisforonaute spottedsomething in space that had notbeen placed in orbit along with

ij^ihe occupied spacecraft. SovietCosmonaut Alexei Leonov, thefirst man to "walk in space,"reported seeing.another satellite

Jin the course of his 244iour mission last March.

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ed for Gemini FlightOne mystery - ahout the close to infinitesimal, he said.'

flight was apparently'clearedup today.

On Friday, McDivitt reported-seeing an object with"l-iiu arms fifiplrinc nut." TJf-big arms sticking out." Of1-

'fePivittlsaw Pegasus_2, aficials here now believe that

U.S. satellitewings tw~SeiTfejf

Gemini and Pegasus at thetime of the sighting haoroTTginally located the two some.1200 miles apart-McDivitt to have

too_Jar_jfoxseen it

the detail heTdescribed. Laterdata showed these fixes tohave been wrong.

The space 'detecting andtracking system of the NorthAmerican Air Defense Command placed 10 of the severalhundred pieces of space "junk"in the ' general area of thesighting at the time, as wellas the 26,000rpound Pegasus.Gemini Flight' Director Eugene Kranz said all the fragments were of American manufacture. The Russians usuallyfire their satellites into a different orbit, he said.. At one point, McDivitt saidthe object he sighted was some10 or 12,miles away and thathe took a picture of it and "Ijust hope it turns out."

"There.'s an awful lot ofjunk up there," a NASAspokesman • explained, "butthere's an awful lot of 'upthere' for it to float aroundin." Even though most U.S,spacecraft are in very similarorbits the chances of two ofthem colliding are still very

There was relatively little;conversation on the passes]around the' world, except for!the routine.business of space;and the experiments. ' , |

Feeling the inactivity andithe cramped quarters, McDivitt asked for and got permission for exercise- with thestretch cord in the space cabin, i

Earlier he had told flight of-j•ficials he felt "a trifle weary''and reported: j

"My throat's a little dry. And Iour eyes were bothering us[about the end of the first dayfquite a bit, but that's aliicleared up now."

Flight doctors said they ex-[pected both the dryness andthe eye-smarting and were notconcerned. It is due to breathing 100 per cent oxygen forlong periods.

White and McDivitt completed exactly half the missionat the end of the 31st orbit,off Savannah, Ga., at 12:17 p.m.

By that time they had covered 880,000 miles — mileageenough for two round trips to tthe moon.

The burned-out Titan 2rocket casing finally plungedback •into the earth's atmosphere over the mid-Atlanticat 1:30 p.m. today and burnedup.

This unsuccessful attemptat rendezvous was the onlydisappointment on the mission,which was highlighted by allthe excitement and tension ofWhite's "walk" of some 20minutes across the UnitedStates on the third orbit lastThursday. , ,^ , •

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DESPITE THE .DISCREPANCIES, FEDERAL SPACE AGENCY OFFICIALS

APPEARED STILL LEAmImg TOWARD THE IDEA THE OBJECT WAS PEGASUS-2, WHOSE

9S-F00T "BAT WI^S " WOULD MATCH MCDIVITT'S DESCRIPTIOM.

IF SO, IT WOULD FORCE A DRASTIC REVISION Im CURRENT CONCEPTS OF

•EYEBALL • SIGHTIMG I" SPACE.

AS FAR AS A «SPY-I M-THE-SKY " SATELLITE WAS CONCERNED, THE DEFEASE

DEPARTMENT AvSWERED THE QUERY AS IT ANSWERS ALL SUCH QUERIES—-MO

COMMENT.*

THE UNITED STATES LAUNCHES "SKY-SPIES , " MOSTLY PICTURE-TAKING SAMOS

SATELLITES, ImTO POLAR o<MCRTH-S0UTH) ORBITS FROM VAwDEmBERG AIR FORCE

BASE, CALIF. OWE WAS FIRED I NT 0 A- 287-510-MILE ORBIT JAM. 19} ANOTHER

INTO A 130-400-MILE PATH MARCH llj AmD STILL AMOTHER ON A 330-470-MILE

COURSE MARCH 18.

BUT THE "SPY* SATELLITES, PARTICULARLY SAMOS, REMAIN ALOFT FOR

OMLY SHORT PERIODS AmD DO mOT mEED THE GIAWT SOLAR CELL "PANELS "—

POSSIBLY MCDIVITT'S "BIG ARMS*-*-THAT MOST MOOmLETS CARRY FOR POWER.;

PLUS, AS OmE OBSERVER POINTED OUT, "IF IT WAS ImDEED A SPY

SATELLITE, IT'S POSSIBLE THE FACT WILL mEVER BE CONFIRMED OFFICIALLY."

—» THE GREATEST MYSTERY WAS THE LACK OF AWTHIMS OM MCDIVITT'S FILM.

A//KA VWe'VE YET TO FImD ANYTHING THAT RESEMBLES A PICTURE OF A SATELLITE •\ •——: -

x. SAID A SPACE AGENCY SPOKESMAN AFTER. VIEWING FILM. FROM GEMI"I-4.

\ AmD, HE SAID, "APPARENTLY WE'RE MOT GOING TO COME UP WITH '

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MIGHT LEAD MYSTERY—WITH SPACE

BY ALVIM ,B. WEBB JR .

UNITED PRESS" INTERNATIONAL

SPACE CENTER, HOUSTON, JUmE 9 (UPI)--SOME WILL CALL IT AN "UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT," OTHERS A "MYSTERY SATELLITE." BUT ASTRONAUTJAMES MCDIVITT MAY NEVER REALLY FImD OUT WHAT THAT STRANGE OBJECT WAS

HE SAW In SPACE.

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Cape Kennedy-Ninth and next-to-last two-stage Saturn-1 vehicle flew analmost perfect trajectory as it orbiteda 3,200-lb. Pegasus meteoroid detectionsatellite from here May 25. The performance of the first industry-builtbooster stage easily matched that ofeight previous vehicles built by NationalAeronautics and Space Administration.

The two-stage Saturn SA-8, which wasthe eighth Saturn-1 manufactured inthe 10-vehicle program but the ninthto be flown so far, consisted of aChrysler Corp.-built S-l first stage anda Douglas Aircraft Co.-built S-4 secondstage. It was the first of two S-l stagesbuilt by Chrysler. The other eight werebuilt by NASA's Marshall Space FlightCenter, Huntsville, Ala. The payloadincluded a boilerplate North AmericanAviation, Inc., Apollo command/servicemodule unit and a Fairchild HillerCorp. Pegasus satellite.

The Pegasus, second of three suchsatellites to be flown in the Saturn-1program to determine the meteroid fluxin space, was folded and stowed insidethe hollow Apollo service module duringboost flight.- Once orbit had been

achieved, the command/service moduleunit was spring-jettisoned and thePegasus—still attached to the S-4 second stage—extended to its full 96-ftspan.

Saturn SA-8 lifted off from Complex37B here at 2:35 a.m. EST, preciselyon-time. The four inboard RocketdyneH-1 engines of the S-l booster burnedfor T + 141.9 sec. before shutting down "•—1.9 sec. earlier than planned. Thefour outboard H-ls shut down 6.1 sec.later, also 1.9 sec. earlier than planned.The slightly early cut-offs of the S-l'seight engines were well within toleranceand were attributed to slightly betterthan expected performance of the stage.

The S-4 second stage separated fromthe Chrysler booster 0.8 sec. after outboard engine shutdown and its six Pratt& Whitney Aircraft RL10 liquid hydrogen engines ignited 1.7 sec. later asplanned. The S-4 burned from T4-150.5 sec. to T +473.4, for a total of322.9 sec. This was 1 sec. shorter thanplanned and the cutoff was commandedby the vehicle's guidance system whenit calculated that orbital velocity hadbeen achieved. -

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I Pega5us-2 entered agee of 314.1-mi^mi., an orbital period of ^J/Sfftiin/^tedan angular inclination to the equatonof31.77 deg. These values were virtua|yidentical topre-planned figures of 314.r6-mi. perigee, 465.7-mi. apogee, 97i9-min. period, and 31.76-deg. inclination.

Total weight in orbit was 32,800 lb.and was distributed this way:• Spent S-4 stage, 14,600 lb.• Instrument (guidance) unit, 2,600 lb.• Pegasus, 3,200 lb.• Pegasus support truss and adapter,2,700 lb. v

The boilerplate Apollo command/service module weighed 9,700 lb.

Milton B. Ames, Jr., director of spacevehicles in NASA headquarters/Officeof Advanced Research & Technology,predicted that Pegasus-2 would recordbetween 470 and 525 meteoroid hits onits instrumented wings during the courseof the next year. More than half ofthese hits, he said, could be expected topenetrate the panels with 1.5-mil thickouter surface aluminum sheets and theremainder to penetrate the 8-mil and16-mil thick sheets. The 1.5-mil sheetscomprise 88 sq. ft. of Pegasus' 2,276sq. ft. instrumented wing surface. The8-mil sheets account for 188 sq. ft. andthe 16-mil sheets 2,000 sq. ft.

Ames also said that despite shortingproblems on some panels of Pegasus-1,launched last Feb. 16, NASA has veri!fied more than 70 penetrations on thatfirst satellite. Of this total, 54 have beenrecorded on the 1.5-mil panels, whichare still operable. The 8-mil panels arenow all dead as a result of shorting(AW&ST May 24, p. 25) and only a•few of the 16-mil sheets are still functioning, he added.

The day after launch, Ames reportedthat PegasuB-2 had already recorded twometeoroid penetrations, one through a1.5-mil panel about 6 hr. after launchand the other through an 8-mil panelearly in the morning of May 26. Amessaid that the rate of penetrations wasin accord with meteoroid data returnedby Pegasus-1, Explorers 16 and 23.

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man for control of the Gemini 4mission. •>•> i, *

The decision to eliminate theSunday orbit'cjHuige le'aves McDivitt and White—rookies in theastronaut business three daysago but now America's mostseasonedspace veterans—with achance to catch up on theirsleep. They are also under orders from their, wives and fromchief medical officer Charles A.Ber-ry to drink lots of water toavoid dehydration.

"Quiet Period"

Berry has prescribed an 18-hour "quiet period" for thecrew and said last night hehopes the space men will geteight or nine hours of rest eachat a stretch.

The two astronauts, who havebeen in space since 11:16 a.m.EDT Thursday in the most ambitious U.S. manned space mission yet undertaken, passed thehalfway mark of their four-dayvoyage at 12:15 p.m. yesterday.They are scheduled to be backon the surface of the earthshortly after 1 p.m. tomorrow.

Already far and away themost experienced space travel-;ers on the U.S. astronaut team,McDivitt and White completed39y2 trips around the world at[midnight last night. The aggregate flight experience of America's six other orbital astronautsjis only about 30 global revolutions.

McDivitt and White passed themillion-mile mark at about 8:45p.m. EDT Saturday.

The Gemini 4 mission begas a real cliff-hanger, but hissettled into a routine whiqhpleases officials of the National

Aeronautics and Space Administration almost as much as itdistresses television executives,who are trying at great expense,

fever heat. i jD"ie° trouble with the oxygenAmajor purpose of this flight^system. This proved to be a

was to shake down procedures ;misinterpretation of the actualand personnel before attempting 'situation, which had been fore-even more extensive missionsifgeen and compensated for, ac

cording to space program officials.

The astronauts have 5 or 10hours more oxygen than theywill need in the primary oxygensystem and a secondaryjsystem

„wyM extensive _.leading eventually, to the landingof men on the moon. Spaceofficials were particularly happy'over the durability of equipmentboth on the ground and in thespacecraft.

About the only trouble that has'. linac-ujfy'proHbfy will not havecropped up in the complicated —-• -«^control system here was in atransformer that heated upyesterday morning.

The "voice of Gemini," PaulP. Haney, described the quickreplacement of the electricalpart in these words:

'The scene then becamesomething like a pit stop •atIndianapolis. About three peopledescended on the console, pulledthe front and the back off,reached in very quickly and tookout a small electrical device. Itwas replaced in a matter of jminutes."

The third calendar day of the-McDivitt-White mission—beginning at midnight' Friday andrunning to last midnight—wascarried out in clockwork fashion.Problems arising from over-useof fuel during a rendezvousexercise early in the flight hadbeen overcome and a onpe-dis-rupted schedule was back «m thetrack. J-^rJEH . >

Interest centered on McDiv-iitt's sighting and photographingof a space satellite during abrief encounter on Friday. A1-'though identity of theobject willnot be known until films are developed, and perhaps not then,evidence pointed to the bigwinged U.S. satellite Pegasus 2.

The Titan 2 second-stage rocket body which boosted McDivittand White into space and withwhich a rendezvous maneuver)iwas attempted and abandoned,disappeared from space about1:30 p:m. yesterday. It enteredthe atmosphere over the AtlanticOcean. Earlier estimates placedthe probable scene of its reentry near the Marshall Islandsin the Pacific, halfway aroundthe world from where it actuallycame in.

Oxygen Supply Goodflurry of excitementA flurry of excitement dis

turbed the even tenor of the day,hen conversation on the ship-

to keep interest in the event at a jo-ground circuit indicated possi-

to tap, NASA spokesmen saidAt mid-afternoon, the pilots

exchanged talk with their wivesonce again, as they had done onFriday. This time, however, thewomenwere acting as'"capsulecommunicators," a job. usuallyheld by an astronaut.

Mrs. White proved to be a no-nonsense type at the "Cap Com"console as she directed the twoastronauts to "have a drink ofwater, both of you—no static onthat." <

Without a hitch, she informedthe Gemini crew that "yourbooster entered over the Cape at1729 . . . radars were trackingand watched the break-up onboresight TV."

This was a reference, to theentryof the Titan2 upper stage.

Mrs. White is the former Patricia Eileen Finegan of Washington. The two White children,Edward, 12, and Bonnie Lynn,10 were present as their mothertook on the Cap Com role, and ^listened to the chatter over themonitoring circuit. They did notspeak to their father.

At the end of the conversation,Mrs McDivitt also reminded theastronauts to "drink some water."' It developed that the medics were interested in having themen drink copiously in order toavoid dehydration.

Both astronauts have mentioned dryness in .the throat,which is characteristic, of longperiods of breathing-, pur* oxygen. Physicians prescribedwater and also urged the metiAphave a "good long sleep" befo^;:the. final hectic 24 hours begsfearly this afternoon. JrN

Could Stay a Week

The question of a possibleextension of the space flight wasposed by a reporter. It is notknown what gave rise to thequestion, but there was speculation that statements about"more than 100 orbits" mi.have brought it about/ It isfact that the spacecraftjs. now irean orbit in which it cffuld staywithout "decaying" into re-entryfor more than 100 hours, orabout a week.

On the other hand, the food,water, oxygen, battery power(supply and fuel are all limited,and these would undoubtedly runout before the orbital h'fetime ofthe spacecraft would end.

It was recalled that in theearliest project Mercury flights,)such as that of John Glenn in.|February, 1962, the astronautswere notified shortly after liftoff,that they were "good for seven'

(orbits," although it was neveri intended to keep them up fort more than three.

The seven-orbit reassurancewas based simply on an electronic computer's judgment thatthe spacecraft would not reenter the atmosphere prema

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is an orbit-by orbit log for thethird day of the Gemini 4 mission:

Orbit No. 30 (9:08 a.m.)—While talking to the Carnarvontracking station, McDivitt reported that the craft was "ingood shape up here." Carnarvontold McDivitt he looked goodfrom the ground. Mission controlreported that communicationswith Geftini 4 continued to improve as the mission wore on.

Orbit No. 31 (10:42 A.M.)—Gemini 4 reached the mid-pointin its' planned four-day flight atthe^nd of the 31st orbit. McDivitt reported he thought heneeded more exercise and permission was given for him to usethe stretch cord more often. "Ijust haven't moved around verymuch'," he said.

Orbit No. 21 (12:15 P.M.)-Mission control said it was "fairly well convinced, in all probability" the satellite McDivitt jreported seeing and photograph- •ingyesterday wasPegasus2.Mc-

\ Divitt said he slept four hoursthis morning and "it was thebest sleep I've had so far." Hesaid he also had about "10 or 15

| gulps of water" after he awoke.' Orbit No. 33 (1:49 P.M.)-

Followed Gemini 4 flight plan.The spacecraft passed overCuba.

Orbit No. 34 (3:23 P.M.)—Mc-:Divitt and White conversed with'their .wives via, the command1network. Paul Haney, NASAflight commentator, introducedthe wiyes as "two new capsulecommunicators.'' Each wife wasemphatic in ordering her husband to "drink" some water."The astronauts were also told toget several hours sleep. White|was the first togo to sleep.I ORBIT No. 35 (3:58 p.m.)—iOnly small amount of activity

and voice communication. Theastronauts were told to get plen-lty of rest. White continued tosleep. As the spacecraft nearedthe west coast of Mexico, atracking ship gave McDivitt ago-ahead for 48 orbits.

Orbit No. 36 (5:35 p.m.)—Gemini tracking stations confined their activities to readingradio signals of spacecraft andflight crew environmental systems. White slept at one pointand mission control said it waspossible that McDivitt was alsoasleep.

Orbit No. 37 (7:09 p.m.)—Mission control reported: "Inapproximately one hour, ourGemini 4 flight crew will haverolled up an accumulative totalof space flight time equal to thatachieved in all previous American space flights." The UnitedStates had nearly 65man-hours inspace prior to the Gemini flight.

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Nam into direct combat. This,it said, showed the UnitedStates was stepping up thefighting to the level of aKorea-type war.

JOHNSON BLAMED

FOR PANIC

Peking said Johnson's ordercaused panic in the West andresulted in an official denial.

"But the denial is itselfmore revealing," Peking com-

Imented. "The White HouseStatement laid bare the factthat as early as March theU.S. troops in South Viet Namwere authorized to take activepatrolling and securingaction."

of an adventure crammed withmysterious satellites, a strollin space and the anxiety ofliving four days in a hostileenvironment unfolded to theworld today. -

Astronauts James McDivitt came duringand Edward White related debriefing of

been identified. Photographs'taken of it were not recognizable, a National Aeronauticsjand Space Agency official!said.

Mention of the third object" " the afternoon

the two Air

their experiences to newsmen Force majors.today and then received con- Picture On Page 18gratulations from PresidentLyndon B. Johnson.

In a switch of plans, theastronauts and their wiveschose to ask President Johnson to come to Houston socongratulations could beshared with all employes ofthe manned spacecraft center.

Johnson had invited thetwo spacemen and their families to his Texas ranch forthe weekend.

The astronauts returned toHouston yesterday, and Whitesaid their home-coming wasan event second only to thesuccessful splash-down Monday The heroes were met withhugs and kisses from theirwives and children at Ellington Air Force Base.

Officials revealed yesterdaythat a third sighting of a mysterious object in space wasmade during a pass overChina. McDivitt had reportedseeing an object over Hawaiiand another over EasternAsia. , , ...

A recheck of the 1,400frames of film taken by McDivitt turned up five of aglob of light with a white tailand a triangular glow aboveit. l

Lynda Goes DiggingPresident Johnson's daughter Lynda,

digs into America's past at a 500-year-oldIndian pueblo in the heart of the Goldwatercountry. Page 5.

4 Children Die In TrafficThe names of four youngsters have been

added to the traffic death toll in Indianap-olis and Marion County, bringing a warningto motorists to beware of pupils on vacation.Page 2. * * *

The Door Is OpenAMichigan City pharmacist will realize a dream-come-

true nert week when he plays in the National Open golftournament in St. Louis. Page 28.

Miss Johnson

Amusements 16, 17Bridge 27Business News 33, 34Comics 20, 21Crossword Puzzle 48Dea* Abby 27Editorials 10

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LBJ to Visit TwinsSPACE CENTER, Houston,

June 11 (UPD - Gemini twinsJames McDivitt and EdwardWhite, home at last, were set

.today to tell the nation andPresident Johnson what it was *like to take a cosmic walk andto see other satellites in space. -

Ahead for the two men whonow hold every U.S. record inspace lay visits to Chicago, AnnArbor and Jackson, Mich., andSan Antonio, Tex., forcelebrations on the note soundedby a youngster who greetedMaj. White in Houston:

"I touched him! I touchedhim!"

PRESS CONFERENCE

The astronauts werescheduled to face a major pressconference at noon today torelive, before a nationwideaudience, the spacevvalk, theunsuccessful "rende z v o u s "attempt, the satellite spottingsby Maj. McDivitt, and thegrueling ordeal of the four daysinside Gemini-4.

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during the Gemini-4 journey butmade no attempt to phntarLvrft

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After >the conference, therewill be a personal visit withPresident Johnson, whopromised to stop by the MannedSpacecraft Center near Houstontoday en route from Washingtonto his Texas farm near JohnsonCity.

Majs. McDivitt and White leftthe carrier Wasp atJacksonville, Fla., 'yesterdayand started "the greatest"journey back home to Houstonand- their patiently waiting Ifamilies. |

The spacemen had been expected to spend this weekendat President Johnson's ranchat his invitation instead, theydecided to remain with theirfamilies at home before beginning a schedule that includedan informal dinner with con-

ASTRQNAU£j%pT$\SECOND SATELLITE*"HOUSTON (AP)-Astro- |naut James McDivitt spot- Ited a second satelljfe. inspace last night at 1(k38 ashis Gemini 4 capsule passedover -the Pacific on its' 38thorbit.

The object was furtheraway than the one spottedFriday, he reported. He; tooka photograph of the satellite.

Mission control centerhad alerted the astronautsthat the U.S. Pegasus 2 sat-'ellite would pass, but theyshould have seen it about anhour earlier, at 9:39.

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gressmen and civic leaders inHouston Sunday and a ticker-tape parade in Chicago Monday.

White House spokesman saidthe astronauts probably will visit the LBJ Ranch later thissummer.

For Mr. McDivitt, yesterdaywas a special day-his 36thbirthday. The event hardly wentunnoticed. "Happy Birthday, byGemini," read the baked angelfood cake at the McDivitt household on his return around midday.

Would Pat McDivitt like tofollow her famout husband inspace? "Not me, buddy," shereplied emphatically.

Luna Far Off CourseMOSCOW, June 11 (UPD -

Russia's moon rocket, wide ofits target by 100,000 miles,raced thru space today towardan expected orbit of the sun.

The Russians announced lastnight that an engine aboardLuna 6 — their 3000 pound,unmanned satellite — failed torespond to a radio signal fromearth to change course.

Russia's previous moon probe,Luna 5, hit its target a monthago. But Westerners believe itcrashed into the moon afterfailing to make a soft-landing.

The communists have neverdisclosed what Luna 6's missionwas._

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MysterySatellite-Was It **Just A Ghost?

HOUSTON, Tex. - AP —

The mystery satellite sightedon the Gemini 4 flight is likely to remain a mystery—spaceofficials cannot find the pictures astronaut James Mc

Divitt took of the strange

space object.Julian Scheer, national areo- f

nautics and space administration public affairs officer, saidtec;i licians have looked ateve.-y frapie of film taken byMcDivitt and cannot find thesatellite.

McDivitt said it looked asbig as a second stage of aSaturn rocket, which is 110feet long aftd had long armsand antenna, which would resemble the Pegasus satellite.

Scheer noted the Geminicapsule "was traveling pretty

, fast (17,500 miles per hour)I and the other satellite would1have been; too, and it's pos-' sible McDivitt simply missed

it with his camera."^

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION

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Honorable Robert H. Michel

Bouse of RepresentativesWashington, D.C. 20515

> Dear Mr. Michel:

•a This is in reply to your letter concerning an article which^ appeared in True Magazine, and the inquiry from Mr. James

Beedle of WAAP Radio, Peoria, Illinois, on the subject ofU unidentified objects (UFO's) encountered in flight.

1 NASA has not engaged in "tracking" or surveillance of UFO's,<g> ,and plays no role in such activities. The Air Force does

t/ maintain records and has investigated information of this kind.

Concerning the object Lt. Colonel McDivitt saw during the GT-4flight, the North American Air Defense Command ran a trackingcheck on objects which could have been in the area. Theyidentified 10 known objects and NASA later released a photograph which lit. Colonel McDivitt took of the object he saw.We believe it to be a rnr-Vftf fraftft or spent aennnrl «tggft ofa rocket.

With respect to the pictures of Mars which are scheduled tobe taken by Mariner IV on July 14, project officials haveannounced that the first pictures will be released within36 to 48 hours later. A copy of the News Release and a transcript of a Conference of Mariner officials held at Pasadenalast week, will be helpful in explaining the complex processingto receive and transform the radio signal into "pictures" from134 million miles away. You may be assured that the publicwill share in man's first close-up look at Mars if the projectis successful.

Sincerely yours,Origins signed by

R'C"ard L. Cal/affhanRichard L. CatiaghanAssistant Administrator

Enclosure for Legislative Affairs

July 29, 1966

Action LineThe Washington StarWashington, D.C. 20003

Dear Sirs:

Your Wednesday, July 27* answer about the UFOsighted by Astronaut McDivitt said that nothinghad turned out on film taken at the time.

This is incorrect. NASA photo 65-H-1013 (a copyof which is on file at NICAP) shows three framesof 16 mm movie film, exposed by McDivitt, containing an image of an unidentified object.

Sincerely yours,

Richard HallRH:h Assistant Director

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Object ProbablyWas Rocket Tank

CAPE KENNEDY. Aug 18.!-(UPI)—That was probably aburned-out rocket boosterstage that astronaut James A.;McDivitt spotted in orbit during his Gemini 4 flight in June.'

Christopher Craft, Geminiflight director, dismissed speculation that McDivitt saw aPegasus meteoroid detectionsatellite or some other spacecraft during his four-day orbital ride with Edward White.

"We think he probably sawa tank for one of the launch:

|vehicles up there," Mr. Craft'said^Wednesday at a newsconf e r e n c e on Thursday'sGemini 5 mission.

The tank, or expended booster stage, "probably was oneof our own."

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McDivitt was over Hawaii when he sighted theobject. He said the Gemini-4 spacecraft wasturning and the sun coming across the window when

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T^honautMcDJvJfi SaysHe's Seen UFOs in Space

By BILL CASEScience Writer

'- 051. James A. McDivitt is aJevel-headed 'astronaut who be-(ieves in UFOs.

As command- pilot for theGemini 4 earth orbiting mission,fae's seen them in deep space.

"They're there without adoubt," McDivitt asserted at apress conference in Dallas Saturday," "but what they are is anybody's guess."

McDivitt said he sighted three

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the feasibility^aMd capability of. . the Apollo spaC€eH(£t and thel.

• lunar landing rnoaule fe> .safely '•, :' 'put American astrojriauts. on the

• moon and bring them back. -

,.'•' The Apollo 9 mission will be.the first U.S. flight in which the

' Apollo, designed for lunar missions, has actually been connected to the lunar landing

module.

' IT IS NOW scheduled to beboosted into a 270-mile high,orbit around the earjb sometime next February by a giant'Saturn V rocket. Once in- or-

'bit, McDivitt and his crew willspend the next 10.8 days conducting maneuvers, engineeringand research projects and exhaustively testing the lunerlanding module.

. When reporters asked howmuch difference there was be

tween commanding the Apollo'to and the Gemni J^&cDivittreplied: \i "It's so completely different Ijean only describe the change bylaying:' "Gemini 4 was a Piper Cub

•.((compared to this. The Apollo isv fJthe latest supersonic fighter."

separate UFOs on his Geminimission in June 1965.

- "The first was simply a dot oflight—not a star—that moved ona parallel course. The secondwas a white tubular device with

a lbng pole sticking out of theend, and the third' defied description."

McDivitt doesn't try to analyzeUFOs. He's too busy as corn-

World Series action in color today at 11:30 on WBAP-TVChannel 5. (Adv.)

f\iaiIRSlis~A""dual spacecraftmission," he explains. "We willcontinue to check out the Apollocapsule changes brought aboutby the Apollo 7 and 8 missions,andwe willmake the first transfers from Apollo to the lunarlanding module."

McDivitt and his crew will gointo orbit on the three-stage

Saturn. After going into orbitthey will travel around ths earththree times then separate fromthe third stage of the rocket andthe lunar module.

"Carrying out in-space maneuvers we will dock the Apollowith the lunar module and re

lease it from the third stage ofthe rocket," McDivitt explains.''The two vehicles lock togetherin orbit."

Cruising around, the globe at18,000 miles per hour, McDivitt,and his crew will carry out experiments in transferring, fromthe Apollo to the lunar module,both through""outer escapehatches-and a connecting transfer tunnel in the nose -of the

Apollo."There are enormous un-|

known factors lh^a •mission. as|complicated as this,"' he points'),out. "We have been in intense

training for it over the past two'.'years." ' ;.

mand pilot of the Apollo 9 mission, scheduled to orbit the earthnext February, in the initial testflight of an Apollo spacecraftlinked to a lunar landingmodule!

At 39, McDivitt, a former Air 'Force test pilot, has been as-(signed the most complex earth-Jorbiting space missiori the U.S.has yet undertaken.

It will be his responsibility(in company with two fellowastronauts) to test and prove

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COL. McDIVITT and Ms wife

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Iguests at the annual GalaxyBall held Saturday ni^. in uVgrand ballroom of the Sheraton-Dallas Hotel for the benefit o,'

the Texas Mental Health Asso

ciation.' What comes after Apollo 9—which obviously'' is the flnilIdress rehearsal of both me.-and equipment for- an attemptei.jlunar landing?

McDivitt can only speculate."The possibilities are fanlar,-

tic," he points out. "We'ilearning more from every mission — and the results from

Apollo- 9 could open doorswe've never dreamed of."

October 18, 1968

Br. Krystyna Ansevin2127 MacArthur StreetHouston, Texas 77025

Dear Dr. Ansevin:

Enclosed is a recent article from the Dallas Times Herald which wefind extremely interesting. Do you think it might be possible to get asigned statement and a report from McDivitt describing what he saw2Any additional statements or reports from other astronauts would bevery helpful. Of course it is unclear what he meant by using the ex -pression "UFO", but it would be interesting to comapre the structuresand the behavior of the objects with some of the better cases on file.

Also, Dick Hall has asked me to remind you that the deadline on thejoint statements which he sent you is about a week. The New Look reportis almost ready for the printer, and he would appreciate hearing fromyou shortly.

Thank you for your assistance with the above. McDivitt*s statementsand/or reports would make excellent copy for the Investigator, antH wewould appreciate anytminj you might be able to send. We look forwardto hearing from you in the near future.

Sincerely yours.

DK/k

Diana S. KnopNICAP Staff ( Sightings1

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four outer engines were gimbaled to simulate the motion required tocontrol the vehicle in flight, (msfc Release 65-148; Marshall Star,

JurJllt^h news conference at NASA Manned Spacecraft Center on theGemini gt-4 spaceflight, Astronaut McDivitt said: "I saw three things£at looked to me like they were satellites on the earth. I saw two overthe Pacific, I guess. One . . . near Hawaii. . . . I saw a white object and it looked like it was cylindrical and it looked to me like therelas a white arm sticking out of it . . We saw another one at nightIt looked like just a pin point of light in the sky And I sawanother one over the western Pacific again just shortly before I gotinto the sunlight on the windshield. . . The on y one I couId evendefine the shfpe of at all was the first one and it looked a lot likean upper stage of a booster."

Astronaut White commented: ". . . we were looking to find out:Could man control himself in space? And the answer is yes mancan control himself in space." McDivitt continued: The first thingwe learned was that the Gemini 4 is a liveable spacecraft for at leastfour days." (Transcript; NYT, 6/12/65, 3)

• President Johnson announced during an impromptu visit to NASA MannedSpacecraft Center-his first—that he had nominated Astronauts JamesI McDivitt (Maj., usaf) and Edward H White n (Ma,., usaf) forthe rank of lieutenant colonel. In a speech before nearly 5,000 MSCemployees, Mr. Johnson said: "The race in which we of all genera-tions are determined to be first is the race for peace in the world.

"In the labors of peace—as in the explorations of space—let no mandoubt for the moment that we have the will, and the determination,and the talent, and the resources required to stay the course and seethose labors through." (Text; Stern, Wash. Post, 6/12/65, A3;Semple, NYT, 6/21/65; msc Roundup, 6/25/65, 1)

• Sen E L Bartlett (D-Alaska) introduced a bill to extend privileges andimmunities, including tax and customs granted international organizations, to the European Space Research Organization (esro). ESROwas considering building a satellite telemetry command station nearFairbanks, Alaska, and was seeking the same special treatment affordedNASA with regard to its tracking stations abroad and personnel abroad.{CR, 6/11/65, 12836)

• Rep. Albert Thomas (D-Tex.), Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee's Subcommittee on Independent Offices, paid tribute to NASA on the floor of the House: ". . . too much credit cannotbe given the top management of the Space Agency ...

"To this group of distinguished gentlemen, must go the credit ofspending some $17 billion without the slightest ^«a*1°1f/^"^^J^tached to the many thousands of transactions. (LK, 6/ll/0i), izuzyj

• Laser beams could be used to track satellites, a group of scientists reported at a news briefing at nasa Goddard Space Flight Center. Ihebriefing followed a two-day meeting discussing efforts to track explorerxxii and explorer xxvn satellites which were orbiting the earth at aheight of about 700 mi. Dr. Henry Plotkin, Head of GSFC's OpticalSystems Branch, said the experiments had indicated that: 1) a beamof laser light from the ground could be directed with sufficient accuracy

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Where can I get a copy ofthe picture that James McDivitt took of the unidentified flying object during hisspace flight?—K. D. J. Jr.

The unidentified flying object which Gemini 4 Astronaut McDivitt saw and triedto photograph was never discovered in an exhaustiveexamination of all film usedin the camera he was operating at the time.

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tional Aeronautics andSpace Administration hasreleased this photo, described as a cylindricalobject photographed byastronaut James McDivittas the Gemini 4 spacecraft passed over Hawaii.Officials could not identify the satellite. Picturesshowed a faint "tail" oflight and fanlike glow.—AP Wirephoto.