Documents / FOIA release
This is a July 27, 2021 FOIA response from NASA's Office of Communications to John Greenewald, Jr. It covers records from Leslie Kean's lawsuit against NASA seeking Kecksburg documents. NASA released 207 pages in full, 7 in part and withheld 31, noting that most of the lawsuit case files had been destroyed under records retention rules. The enclosures include court declarations, a 2003 appeal decision ordering a broader search, a 2019 FOIA response, and Stan Gordon's account of the missing NASA fragology files.
“UFO Research Society”1 page
Teob. Note WRE 36
""ben " is the eurla06 IIOmiuivity
B is the ste!,,"-iolt..1UIlI con.tant.
The eminivit)' is' taken to be "th,,$ of ,pW'e tUaoiwn oAidiaed ifey (reference 3),
bence £ .: 0.;5. lind is 1'Oq:bly constant above IcroO~ This value for" 1a
probably ccIIUlena11ve, 10 rtlaul-ce are also given for"· 0.7, O.B.
Substitution of equations {3} and (4) in equation (1), together with appropriale
vllues of the coutenla, yields tbe fonowing diffeTential eq'lIllion for .pnere wall
temperature:
uilrcovereod ill ref81'ilJl0fl 12, (~ original .OIU'QO
is unavaHable)_ 'l'h.1.1' r e~u ,lB are compared with the preliept onei fOf 6 • 0.8
ill f1.cur. 7. It is i1pparcnl that very cU.U.l'.mi ....lu. tor the. init;1I1
tempeTllture of the IIpJ:!.sreI in orbit have been assnmed. bul Ibal the ~1'lC7
1I.peI'a'tv... b'uoriea _ tOUKhly cOlDpamble,
It i& immediately IppaN:nt tpcm ncure 6 Ibat the sphere rr.y be a;NIchd to
1IUrVi.,. re-eutry by den: Crom oirVoilar o rbit ... tbe skin. tlmlporature ~
rCllehes the meltin g temp~rUure, Lt is f elt Ibal II s urface emissivity of al
I=~ ~h! ;:~d t:~~.;:,:.:e~h:~~~~~d:.=~ga~~u~h;~~ :':[o~ee.
tb e 'apeutura at whiBh molU.taB first OtOUfS with this m.aterial. tt is not
ImawD ..... hat ullits were oonneota4 to the bosses, bm tf ... ~ seenJll likely. tbese
'MlrI! oomparatfvely thin pipo, or lI~tural ~ tbcn mellin& of thelie Unite
could quit. eaaily occur o'IiDg to their ~mill1 but oapaoiQ', while tbe nutin
IIpherc remAined aoll4..
Study if Ibe llllter1al 11;;rUOWre IlJ.on Ihilt 'lSllpel'aWr'ea of tbe order of thoie
inMcltaa. r.. figure 6 have been TClchad on tbo outcr Wl'ta... of the ~herlh
However. it seems likely that w:I.\h noh II good he., ooD1uo\tn' u thc aphcre.
alloy. tbe nigh t.IiI:pUnlU'llll would penetrate furtber into the ~ 'lhm Ibe
micro - sDalys;' don. Tbis would appear .... illdiollllO Ihd the liphere _
1111eldeci duritlg at least psrt of tho rll-entry, aud tbat Ifur the shield was
bul'll,t off ~a sphere was subjected to a hea t pulse of .horter d'Clution thin tbat
Indicated in figure!h 'The discovery of the ~eeund sphere 'I) elolc to tbe: 80ullla
Bill is .trong· moano:l9 thai bruk-up of 'the mlIin vehicle stfucture ~ tbe
bulh o<JOlll'l'8d after re-eutry, rather tba.n lit 110m otllZ'U.l' "'.be during Gr'bU. 'l'b.'J
lick of __ 1pIif111Mt: radiation COUllt reponed ·earlier Gould Iiso bll eOQ8trued 16
being d~ HI the sphere being well .hlelded by the splice vehicle structure \Lnlil
laiC i n the orbit life; lIowever, tbe paucity of the radiation eY14anCle, IiIld tbe
ummt:a-m leo&th of limo between re'-cntry lind discovery preclude U'I.It.i:a we;&ht t.1tIs'
given to -th1.. evidence, An aUempt is ba1lli nlIU: to 1Ia.IIWl' Ihls question as tn
whether Of uot the sphere nl shielded 4:tIr1.l!8 pITt d: hs re-entry, by &o\ution of
tb.e equations for 'kmptll's'httt gradient 1lI \b.e akin v.bw i\abjected to the tranJ1811t FOIA release, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 223 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.