40 mi SE Of Misawa AB, Japan, September 1960September 1960

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Summary

The OCR quality on pages 2 through 9 is too heavily garbled to reliably extract case details. However, the cover sheet (page 1) and a clearer duplicate card (page 10) indicate the following:

On an unknown date in September 1960, a greenish-white object was sighted 40 miles southeast of Misawa Air Base in Japan. The object appeared from above an overcast layer of clouds and fell straight down, then either faded out or disappeared into the overcast below. Witnesses described the object as circular with a faint trail of smoke. The Air Force records indicate the sighting was characteristic of a meteor. The file contains 18 scanned pages held by the National Archives.

Reported location

40 mi SE Of Misawa AB, Japan, September 1960

Date of incident

September 1960

State / country

? / XX

Page count

18 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 40

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 18

Transcribed text

oo IEC PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
: i. DATE { 2. LOCATION Loy CONCLUSIONS
i "Hh aes A ny SRC ay EO de ee a {3 Was Bolloon
1 : L+ Sep OU ; 1 o& OI Misawa Ald, Jagan 2 Probobly Balloon
— —————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— P ibly Bali
1. DATE-TIME GROUP 14. TYPE OF OBSERYATION E ossibly Bolicon
AUF, Atv
| RI silts | 0 Ground: Visual O Ground-Rodor 18 desc or SBA |
EE TASS EEN | 0 Air Visual O Air-Intercept Radar 1" Possibly Aireroft :
| 5. PHOTOS TE 3. SOURCE = : wn 0 Wes Astronomicol :
i O Yas 24 3 Probobly Astronomical [lataor|
5 o No Military 1 Possibly Astronomical |
x . LENGTH OF OS8SERVATION [8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE BOR hi in iiitos
3 | 3 Insufficient Data for Evaluation |
i oy : {3 Unknown i
i Es sec a ome RE sree ENE
_ BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING (11. COMMENTS
| Creenish white ob,j=2ct appeared Irom aocva Descrivtion 1 hara Y ClCc Of &
vercast 2nd fell straight down and either | meteor. |
ied out or dicappear=d in overcast below, |
} yject was circular with a faizttrail of mole]
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- PR EE DR EET EON UBER EIRENE SSS SUS Ie SHEL Iie CESS OLE OME ICE CEs i, SECIS fe CL INSTT CeCe SERS RE RR BP
ATIC FORM 329 (R2V 26 SEP 52)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28988943

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Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1960 1960-09-01