Fuju, Japan, January 1955January 1955

Insufficient Data

Summary

In early 1955, near Fuju, military pilots reported a white, circular object with no clear features. They first thought it was a balloon, but it seemed to move against the wind. The observing aircraft was at 37,000 feet, and the object was estimated at 45,000 to 52,000 feet.

The sighting was filmed, but the motion picture was poor. Only a light blob appeared in a few frames, and no features could be seen.

The Air Force said there was not enough data for evaluation. The report was kept on file in the records repository under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified flying object reports.

Reported location

Fuju, Japan, January 1955

Date of incident

January 1955

State / country

? / XX

Page count

1 scanned page

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 22

Original case file scans

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: ; PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD : :
1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
5 2 Vos Bolloon
ER EERE Re. lL EUG RDN. |B Rin gaisn |
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION ——|D Possibly Balloon
BES PARRA OE I LC RO I ee PRE 0 Ground-Visual 0 Ground-Rodar a Recbobly Alrerots
ZN I MXAi-Vi sual 01 Air-Intercept Radar 0 Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE 0 Wos Astronomical :
X¥es 0 Probobly Astronomicol
0 No Military (pilots) 00 Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE ~~ |O.Other—
BX Insufficient Deta for Evaluation
0 Unknown
CETTE a on] el Eee TOE Re RRR EEE RI
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
Circular, white, no discernable Motion picture film poor. No
features, No trail, First thought features, on light blob in a
|. ®bject to be balloon but seemed few frames. Insufficient Data
to be going against winds. Obser- for evaluation, :
ving a/c at 37,000 feet, object Raference: ATIC # 209035,
at estimated 45-52,000 feet. IR-13-55, D/I FEAF ATILO
dtd 2 Feb 55 on file in
ATIC repository.
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)

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