25.16N 149.31W, June 1962June 1962

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Summary

On June 15, 1962, the pilot and co-pilot of a Navy aircraft over the Pacific reported an object. The sighting was at about 0515Z and lasted about 3 to 5 seconds. The aircraft was on a heading of 225 degrees.

The object was first seen about 5 degrees to the right of the aircraft nose at 30 to 45 degrees elevation. It moved to about 10 degrees left of the nose, increasing in brightness, with an unusually long flaming tail. It appeared to descend from a northerly direction at about the speed of a falling star. It was very bright. When it burned out, a second object appeared as a black body toward the tail.

This report was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified flying object reports. The Air Force concluded the sighting had the characteristics of a meteor.

Reported location

25.16N 149.31W, June 1962

Date of incident

June 1962

State / country

? / XX

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 45

Original case file scans

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD :
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| 1. DATE ke LOCATION Bic CONCLUSIONS

1 Was Balinon

15 June 62 bos JeN 149,93 LW 0 Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP TZ TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0; weRsibly Bdlieoh

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1 ! A 0 Was Aircraft J
[5] 3 a < :

] Local : = ob: Ground-Yisual Cround-Radar O Probably Aircraft

CMT 16/0517 | CL Ai~Visval 0 Air-Intercept Radar 0 Possibly Aircraft

5. PHOTOS | i. SOURCE Was Astronomical Meteor
C Yes \ CO Probably Astronomical i
3 TNo : I Military 0 Possibly Astronomical
] 7. LENGTH OF S35ERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE lo FO 6] 1 Teh ie a Le I et
| O lasufficient Data for Evoluation
1 PRE | p : w] ke
; 3-0 SacCs { two fm North/fallj he al
J Eo 0 hls RIESE SE GRU OAVSS SINNER Reet Ee jm Nor La re
10. BRIZF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
: ArC heading 225 dgr. Plot and: eo= Sighting has characteristics of
: A pilot observed onj 9 der to left of a meteor.
3 nose of a/c at 30-45dgr elev mo¥ing
3 to 10dgr left of nose & increasing
4 in brightness. Long tail o f fiame.
1 ippeared to be d ascending in Northerl;
4 direction. Very bright, When it
2 burned out a second obj was observ ed

E as a hlack body toward the tai 1. Mota
; sighting time 3-35 secs.
ATIC FORM 329 (RIV 25 SEP 52)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28997731