Dateline: Fri., December 30, 1983.
Washington (TPS):
“A heavenly body possibly as large as the giant planet Jupiter and possibly so close to earth that it would be part of the solar system has been found in the direction of the constellation Orion by an orbiting telescope called the Infrared Astronomical Observatory … astronomers do not know if it is a planet, a giant comet, a nearby “protostar” [or?]”
“…It’s not incoming mail,” [Chief Scientist] Neugebauer said ...
[Source: The Vancouver Sun]