26.N 173W (PACIFIC), July 1961July 1961

Insufficient Data

Summary

On July 26, 1961, near 26N 175W in the Pacific Ocean, a Navy aircraft crew reported sighting an object falling into the atmosphere with a bright, burning green and white appearance. The object descended at a 45-degree angle over approximately 2 seconds. About one hour later, a search light type phenomenon appeared 339 degrees magnetic, starting at 49 degrees above the horizon and moving to infinity. The object remained parallel at all times and also had the same behavior on radar. Two objects were involved in the sighting. Object one moved from south to north. Object two appeared stationary. No identification was either confirmed or determined. The Air Force evaluation is not specified in the available documents.

Reported location

26.N 173W (PACIFIC), July 1961

Date of incident

July 1961

State / country

? / XX

Page count

3 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 43

Original case file scans

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE: 26 Jul 61

2. LOCATION: 26.N 175W (PACIFIC)

3. DATE-TIME GROUP: GMT 26/13-02Z

4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION: Air-Visual

5. PHOTOS: Yes

6. SOURCE: Navy

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION: 2 sec

8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS: 1

9. COURSE: N

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING: Objt falling with atmosphere burning green and white. Hort descending at 45 angle.

11. CONCLUSIONS: [Checkboxes for Was Balloon, Probably Balloon, Possibly Balloon, Was Aircraft, Probably Aircraft, Possibly Aircraft, Was Astronomical, Probably Astronomical, Possibly Astronomical, Other, Insufficient Data for Evaluation, Unknown]

11. COMMENTS: [Partially illegible] Fire-Ball and case is listed in navy interceptor And objt considered or identified objs nearsight objt not identified case since it had no connection with meteor.

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28993657