What Can I See to Night?

The appearance of one celestial body was enough for them to put their reputation on the line, at least a couple of years worth of their lives on paws. And they spent a crap ton of money and then donated it to some little kid. They must have had a very robust data set for one anomaly like that,. That maybe would'teven catch the eye of you or me, to initiate such action on their part. But there is this dude, years ago, that lived in maryland, and his hobby in the fifties was to say, ok, what launches have happened? And what orbital inclination were these satellites inserted into, and where are these things at? He literally had