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This 1970 USAF Office of Information file from the 21st Air Division at Hancock Field, Syracuse, collects community relations correspondence. It includes Enrico Grimaldi's report of faint star-like objects seen over Commack, Long Island on November 21, 1970, and Major Francis C. Moriarty's reply. The reply notes that Project Blue Book ended December 17, 1969, so the Air Force would not investigate. The file also holds a draft article on NORAD and SAGE, survey requests, thank-you letters and press tour messages.
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# Silver Burdett Company A Division of General Learning Corporation
Morristown, New Jersey 07960, 201-538-0400
Oct. 2, 1970
Francis C. Moriarty, Major, USAF Director of Information Department of the Air Force Headquarters 21st Air Division (ADC) Hancock Field Syracuse, N.Y. 13225
Dear Major Moriarty,
Thank you for the packet which arrived swiftly bearing the pictures and map of the Thule Air Base.
And as you might have guessed- I do have two questions in other words help help.
1. One of our objectives in this book is to teach scale of miles and this is another great spot to do it- so could you give us the scale of miles or enough information that we could figure out a scale of miles. For those young people age 8 we must use simple fractions or small numbers as 1" is 2 miles, or 1" is 1/4 mile.
If you could give us the distance or a close estimate of the distance from top to bottom of the sketch and from right to left- we could figure it out-- if you don't happen to have the exact scale.
2. Is the air strip and air port- that is the strip and hangers etc near this part of the base construction- near enough tha we could show it on the map. If so could you tell me where it is.
We would greatly appreciate this information.
I just have to take a moment for a personal aside-a color print was included in the packet of a radar screen and the sun rising or setting low in the sky and the most fantastic cloud formations. Do you know ( if you happen to remember the picture) is the big black cloud formation one of those wind storms that someone has named a "phase"?i $ ^{\perp} $ t is a thrilling photo.
Again thank you for your cooperation.
Sincerely,
Marian Chambers
(Marian Chambers, Senior Editor Social Studies, Dept.) Not linked to a story yet.
Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 95 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.