Word: moonwatch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Allen Hynek, Director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, placed the blame for the loss principally on the Air Force's failure to notify the observatory--headquarters for the moonwatch project--in time to alert the Moonwatch teams to search for the satellite visually. Other sources placed the blame for the secrecy that had surrounded the launching on "unfortunate interservice rivalries...
...scientists and non-IGY scientists would, of course, be artificial for on most projects the source of the funds was merely an idle afterthought. In fact, the basic contribution to the satellite program--the on-the-spot recording of data--was made by thousands of unpaid amateurs organized into "Moonwatch" teams...
Marshall Melin, heading a moonwatch team atop to Harvard Observatory, said several persons there thought they saw the satellite but Melin did not feel they were reliable sightings...
...moonwatch team in Bryn Athens, Pennsylvania, reported at 8:45 p.m. spoting an object in the sky "trailing a tail of tiny particles." Ten minutes later word came from the Barbados Islands reporting that a fiery object had been sighted "blowing...
...assume that this was the end of the satellite," White said. There have been no more sightings from moonwatch stations across the country," and it should ordinarily have crossed the U.S. several times...