Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, Report, 1952-1953

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ot the aq 1a DOIi~ bu been tor 1IBJO' 7ea.r1 1>ndar aurvta:Ulanc~
.Her7 clear n!eht 1n enaral. metear am aurora obaarv~ programs u
VGl.1 as aq app112g pz-ograms at tho varioua. locations listed belov.
Al.th°'¢ the attention ot those aatronomera is large~ direct~
toward 1dentif'ied rather than unidentified objects. no case ot an;,
strild.ng unidentified. object 1a lmown to Dr. Page ar Dr. lf1nek. Such
an object vou1d moat certo.t~ be reported if found on patZ'ol plates.
,
.l caae was cited where an aat.ronomm- retuaod to 1nterr:,ipt h18
exposure 1n order to photograph an alleged s1ghtin8 1n a dittarent
part or·the sq. Thie led Dr. Hynek to say that, it a program ot
watohmg_could be an adjunct ot planned astronomical programs, little
ooirb vou1d be involved and that the trained astronomical personnel
mtght •Ji,lotograph·a sighting at o.n unidM1titied object.
The locaiion ot some ot theae programs and their directm-11 are
believed to be:
a. Huverd Un1v~sit1', Cambridge am Nw Maxico· (mateor patrol)­
Whippleo
bo Yerkes Obeenat01'7, University ot ·Ch1cago and l'ort De.Tie,. Ten.a
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(several progi-.me)-Meinel (auroras)~ Kuiper '(astero1de) 9
Morgan (wide angle camera).
c,. University or Alaska, Fairbanks (aurorae)-,.El"lfey
d. Dominion Observatory, Ottava (m.eteors)-Milhla.,:i
e. Palomar Observa.t017, Calit"ornia (sky- map)'-!'4Mink~sld.
f. ·Lick Observatory, Calif'ornia (sky map)-sbane