E. Spain, May 1958May 1958

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Summary

On May 2, 1958, around 1:00 a.m., off eastern Spain, a military observer and two civilians reported a single object in the night sky. The sighting lasted about 1 minute and 20 seconds. The object looked like a shooting star and resembled a bright star, light in color. It appeared almost directly overhead and extremely high, with height that could not be measured. It moved in a straight path and disappeared to the southeast. The object's light faded out gradually. The observers had seen two shooting stars just before. The report was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified flying object reports. The Air Force noted the sighting had the characteristics of an orbital, satellite-type observation, matching the visible track of a satellite in orbit at that time. The case was considered probably a satellite observation.

Reported location

E. Spain, May 1958

Date of incident

May 1958

State / country

? / XX

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 32

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1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
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2 May 58 E. Spain O Probably Balloon
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3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Possisly Balloon
(EB Vi I O Was Aircroft
Local XE Ground- Visual O Ground-Radar Q Probably Aircraft
GHEE 02/01002 © 0 Air Visual O Air-Intercept Radar |D Possibly Aircraft
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5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE B5 Was ARtisnsrit cal
DO Yes O Probably Astronomical
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0 No Military & Civilian Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE DX Other_Sntollite
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10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
Shooting star type obj resembling No confirmation of satellite
i air ght svar. Light in color. Almost track; however, sighting has
directly overhead extremely high w/ characteristics of orbital obs-
straight flight path. The light of obj ervation. 1958 Gamma was visible
faded out gradually as obj disappeared./fm 26 Mar to 28 Jun *58. Case .
: : considered probably Gamma 98,
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