3407N 140-27-30E Japan, December 1960December 1960

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Summary

Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's 22-year UFO investigation program, opened a case file on a sighting reported from 3407N 140-27-30E Japan, December 1960 in December 1960. The full case file (5 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 41.

Reported location

3407N 140-27-30E Japan, December 1960

Date of incident

December 1960

State / country

? / XX

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 41

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 5

Transcribed text

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7. LENGTH OF COS=RVYATION 8. NUMBED OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE CER VOIR Re —
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4+> Sec one Tl 0 Unknown

19. BRIEF SUMKARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS

Spherical object size of pea, bright red. Tail] This object has all of the charactcristids

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streaming bahind dininlsning in brigntness, of a meteor of the fireball” class. Lene
wength ehout width of silver dollar. No sound is no available evidence vhich indicates

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4 @) C0 Nile beax 10E Fell stra iret down. It is concluded that the obje cE WAS

\ppeared to breeckup and extinguish rapidly. meteor of the fireball class, NODE:
Sighting from sea level. Zeta II come dovm on this date but no
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28990371

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Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1960 1960-12-01