Bear Lake, FloridaMay 1960

Insufficient Data

Summary

On May 24, 1960, witnesses near Bear Lake, Florida, saw a star-like object in the sky. The card lists one object seen as a point of light.

The object looked round and star-like and was seen only as a point of light. The witnesses and reporting officials believed it was a satellite. The card noted a rather rapid decrease in the object's elevation. No tracking data from the ECHO satellite was available to confirm this.

This report was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified flying object reports. The card lists the object as a possible satellite, but notes the lack of confirming data.

Reported location

Bear Lake, Florida

Date of incident

May 1960

State / country

FL / US

Page count

3 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 38

Original case file scans

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; ed PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD : ;
1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
DO Wes Belloon
L 24 May 1960 Bear Lake, Florida 2 |0O ey wn |
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Pesalbly Balloon |
RT [—— YR D Ground: Rader BH Probdtty Rivers |
oMT__25/03302 0 Air Visual O Air-Intercept Radar |O Possibly Aircraft
S.. PHOTOS « SOUR O Was Astronomical
Q Yes | D Probably Astronomicol
Xx No Civilian O Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION * NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE XX Other__Satellite
O Insufficient Dote for Evaluation
i O Unknown
2 minutes one NE
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS |
Round star-like object observed as a Rather rapid decrease in elevation
point of light only, Believed to be No ECHO data, however, since wit-
satellite by witnasses and reporting nesses and reporting officials
officials, Initial observation at consider the object to have been
270 dgr azimuth 60 dgr elevation with a satellite, concur with this
disappearance after two minutes at evaluation, '
285 dgr azimuth 40 dgr elevation,
| ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52) REE
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28986951