33.40N 175.00W (Pacific), June 1963June 1963

Insufficient Data

Summary

Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's 22-year UFO investigation program, opened a case file on a sighting reported from 33.40N 175.00W (Pacific), June 1963 in June 1963. The full case file (6 scanned pages of witness statements, Air Force memoranda, and investigator notes) is reproduced below as held by the National Archives. The Air Force assigned this case to its broader investigation of unidentified aerial phenomena alongside ~12,600 other reports filed between 1947 and 1969. Citation: NARA Record Group 341, Microfilm Publication T1206, Roll 48.

Reported location

33.40N 175.00W (Pacific), June 1963

Date of incident

June 1963

State / country

? / XX

Page count

6 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 48

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 6

Transcribed text

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| Bln PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD CH tir |
ET Cp eR EERE | TT A 12. CONCLUSIONS
| 15 June 1963 33.4%0N 175.00W (Pacific) 0 Wes Balloon
2 O Probably Balleon |
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Fossisly Ballosn |
: Fp ratalle 2 LTS Wi Se ut 0 Ground-Visval O Ground-Roder 2) BA erath 4
§ GMT 16/094 X AirVisuol O Air-Intercept Radar O Possibly Aircroft
) 5. PHOTOS : | 8 SOURCE O Wos Astronomical oe
BE O Yes O Probably Astronomical
3 JB Ne military O Possibly Astronomicel
| | 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE othessatellite ECHO I |
: O Insufficient Dato for Evaluation
11 minutes one NE lilo) |
"  |10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING ~~ © 11. COMMENTS : |
| | One bright white object about the size of a At 16/0907Z ECHO crossed the equator
. | star appearing at 30 deg elevation heading heading NE at 137 deg E. This places
© | 050 deg. Faded at 15 deg elevation. Speed the Satellite in a zposition to be
* | slow. In sight for 11 min. observed by the witnesses.
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 532)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 29001169

Connected across the archive

Installations

Offutt Air Force Base

Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1963 1963-06-01