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Whale-Lilce Air Force Balloons Rise 20 1'1iles,
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The magazine Aviation Week racing at tremendous velocities, travel in opposite directions at
published a new report yester- whereas they actually are mov• different altitude layers. •rhe
day on \\That the Air Force has ing at 60 miles an hour or less. prevailing wind moves f~·om
.
One evenmg after sunset West to East across the U111ted
found out about the upper at- many units of the Strategic States at about 50 000 feet.
n:osphere with its "l\loby Dick" Air Command_ in Texas were About 10.000 feet higher. how•
ballons-whale-like bags which kept busy try111g to catch and ever, the flow is sometimes re­
have often been mistaken for shoot down a flying object that versed.
flying saucers.
was actually a Moby Dick drift-
Balloons have also carried
Since the big helium-filled ing along at about 90,000 feet various kinds or animal Ji[e
'balloons made their appear- in a glow of dust-refracted sun- ranging from fruit flies to mic
ance three years ago, the maga- tight.
and monkeys, up to 80,000 feet
zine said more than 90 percent
B-36 bomber crews, accus- The experimental animals hav
(of the '·saucer" sightings have tomed to flying high altitudes, survived such altitudes for 2
coincided with their Jogged as- gave up the _chase when they hours and have been recovered
cents and charted, courses.
were left belund at 45,000 feet, to provide living d:;ila for scien-
The shiny surface of the plas- and jet fighters_ stalled tryin_g tific research.
tic balloons is an excellent re- to pur~ue th~ 0bJect above their
Th~
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lloons are
fleclor of light. Long after the altitude ce1l111g.
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teleased almost daily at Tilla­
sun has set and darkness has
Another mystenous obJect, mook, Ore.; Vernalis Calif.. an
covered the earth, they shinellater identified positively as a Edwards Air Force Base in Cali
brillantly with the light re- research balloon, fl'oated over fornia. Two more Bites will b
fleeted from the sun at alti- San Francisco last sp1•it1g during used to take advantage of lat
tudes of from 90,000 to 100,- a parade welcoming Gen. James summer winds-the Moody Air
000 feet, almost 20 miles up in A. Van Fleet home from Korea. Force base near Valdosta, Ga.,
the skY.,
It shone as a brilliant white and Sedalia, Mo.
Vapor· dust or other foreign sphere as jet fighters vai11ly
The big bags are made so that
particles in
the atmosphere tried to reach it. On another they destroy themselves auto­
make the light appear white, day, Dayton, Ohio. was filled matically when they descend to
redr purple, 01· green. Because !with "saucer" reports as anoth• 33,00,0 fee(. Recording nrachines
of the difficulty of judging er balloon floated over the city. and uu;truments a1·e parachuted
speed at high altitudes, the bal-
The balloon flights have coll-; to earth.
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Wash. News
NOT I'7'""0RDEO'
191 Str 11
1953
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Wash. Star
N.Y. Herald Tribune _ _
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N.Y. Mirror
Date:
Al IC 2 3 1353