Beeville, TexasJuly 1962

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Summary

On July 6, 1962, a Navy control tower operator at Chase Field near Beeville, Texas, reported an object at about 2030Z. The object was in sight for about 3 to 5 seconds.

The object was round and green with a bright orange tail. It appeared at about 70 degrees elevation and disappeared gradually as it descended to about 20 degrees elevation. It flew straight and made no sound. The sky was sunny with scattered clouds.

This report was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified flying object reports. The Air Force concluded the object had the characteristics of a meteor and evaluated the case as such.

Reported location

Beeville, Texas

Date of incident

July 1962

State / country

TX / US

Page count

3 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 46

Original case file scans

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TAN ERIN P01 vv var
| PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
: 1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
- 0 Wes Balloon
6 July 62 Beeville, Texas 0 Probably Ballon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP += TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Possibly Belleen
O Was Aireraft
- td -
ET AR pam XX Ground- Visual O Ground-Radar QO Probably Aircraft
emt. 08/2030 0 Air Visual 5 Riouieeut Rakes | PwvmRy TERE
5. PHOTOS . SOV BX Was Astronomical Meteor
i Q Yes D Probably Astronomical
1 £3 :0KNe Militar O Possibly Astronemical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9. COURSE 0 Other re
Eg O Insufticient Data for Evaluation
i 0 Unknown
x 3-5 sag 'R W
ee 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING = und green obgh with 1. COMMENTSS i+ hos characheristics af |
] cright orange tail appeared at 7 ¥® elev. Dis- |mzteor. Case 1s evaluated as such.
| appearad gradual.y SO 4 descending tO 20° elev
1 sn from 3-5 sec, Flignd stra’gzot, no sounds
1 ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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4 RARE a OU ii :

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