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OPTIONAL FORM NO. LO - “UNITED STATES MENT Memorandum TO : SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P) DATE: September 18, 1972 & SUBJECT: NORJAK Ss 5 00: SEATTLE : RE: PARACHUTE FOUND NEAR THE : KALAMA RIVER, ROAD On September 7, 1972, sa[__havised bé telephonically that he had discovered a parachute hanging BIC from the top of a tall pine tree, appromimately 15 miles from the end of the Kalama River Koad. Thirty yards from the cree in which the parachute was fovnd was a piece of white plastic on which was inscribed the following: "United “tates Depart- ment. of Commerce, NOAA ~ National Weather Service, Radio Sonde." [____] stated the parachute was a reddish color b6 with white shrovd lines. The parachute appeared to be slightly b7C smaller than a normal-sized parachute and appeared to have | something hanging from the end of it that looked like pari of a box. On September 7, 1972,L_ __— [__| united States Department of Commerce, National Weather bIC Service, 909 First Street, Seattle, Washington, advised his department uses parachutes to recover radio sonde equipment : attached to weather balloons. [| explained that a balloon is released with the radio equipment attached to it. The balloon rises to a preset height, at which time the balloon explodes. The radio eqvipment then fails a short distance and a small parachute opens and carries the radio equipment safely to the ground. This parachute is slightly smaller than a2 regular-sized parachute and it is pink in color with white shroud lines. [— Jturther stated that housing the radio Sonde equipment is a white plastic box with the following inscription: "United States Department of Commerce, NOAA - National Weather Service, Radio Sonde." RNN: jem A (3) = —, (6 ¥-F/-3 7 /L Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan DB Cooper-9577