285105N 1314508E (FAR EAST), April 1961April 1961

Insufficient Data

Summary

On April 14, 1961, four military observers aboard a Navy ship reported an object over the Pacific Ocean, near 28 degrees 50 minutes north and 131 degrees 45 minutes east. The sighting began about 8:55 p.m. (GMT) and lasted roughly 15 minutes. The night was dark and clear with no moon.

The object looked like a bright white light, brighter than most stars. It moved very fast from west to east. It passed under the North Star and looked much brighter than that star. One witness said it appeared to move erratically. All observers viewed it through a 22 power telescope or 20 power binoculars. No sound was heard and no trail or exhaust was seen.

Radar did not hold the object. A check with space tracking showed it was not the Echo satellite. There was a slight chance it was a weather balloon, but the object did not seem to lose altitude. With no confirming data, the Air Force carried the case as insufficient data.

Reported location

285105N 1314508E (FAR EAST), April 1961

Date of incident

April 1961

State / country

? / XX

Page count

3 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 42

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1 PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
! 1. DATE : 2 LOCATION ; 12. CONCLUSIONS
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14 Apr 61 285005N 1314508E fas. ¢ /}3T | |O Was Ballon
2 / O Probably Balloon
| 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Possibly Bellon
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Local a BG round- Visual 0 Ground-Rador 0 Was Aircraft
an 79 572 Aor & 0 Probably Aircraft
GMT 13/195¢ ADI Os 0 AirVisval O Air<Intercept Radar 0 Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS 4. SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical
0 Yes Military 0 Probably Astronomical
B'Ne Fo.lrary 0 Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE RE Re ee Wr AA DANO
je rT Insufficient Dota for Evaluation
£, in Tie SME 0 Unknown
: 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS RI SN
| yy act aarine ; eg true, rosition checx witn snace LracK siaowed that
i 5 0 degpre=3 it res as a moving bright the object was not echo, 3lisht pos ibillit
5 \! “5 yrishter than st stars, loved very | that the object was a weather --00n,
Lt 9 sound heard zns odject diszoureared however ocjlect did nov Aroear Lo,ve “alnin
Rm a wari » maeading 140 cez true ok altitude, It is possible that telll
4! ashes, 0 tral ~ arnaust, Jisatreared | other inan echc was tae ODJ=2CTL Viewed,
yw fading ints “nize inks pre=dawn bLwilizhtfe however tnere is no coniirmin iva anda
: ; | the case is carried as insuf ent aatpe.
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)

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