Kilburn, S. Australia, January 1959January 1959

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On January 1, 1959, two witnesses in Kilburn, South Australia reported seeing two dull white objects traveling together across the sky. The objects had an eerie, misty appearance and were oval in shape, roughly two-thirds the size of the full moon. They traveled in a straight line with no change in their relationship to each other.

The sighting lasted between three and five seconds. The witnesses observed the objects during daylight hours at approximately 0112 hours (just after midnight, local time), though the OCR text on the later pages of this file is too garbled to extract additional witness details or investigative findings with confidence.

The Air Force evaluated the sighting and concluded it was likely a "bolide" type meteor, meaning a large, bright meteor that had already exploded into two separate pieces as it fell through the atmosphere. The file notes that the duration of the sighting and the distance traveled by the objects were consistent with this explanation.

The full case file is reproduced below as held by the National Archives, comprising 7 pages.

Reported location

Kilburn, S. Australia, January 1959

Date of incident

January 1959

State / country

? / XX

Page count

7 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 35

Original case file scans

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: PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD ,
1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
O Was Balloon
1 Jan 59 Kilburn, S. Australia o ty 14 or
; 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION PR wn —
Ye 5 v 0 Was Aircraft
TERE ECR TR —— TP O Ground-Rodar 0 Probably Averett
emt. 011230 0 Air Visuol O Air-Intercept Rader |DO Possibly Aircraft
S. TOS ou O Wes Astronomicoalletcor
O Yes O Probably Astronomicel
| ONe Civilian O Possibly Astronomical :
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE B PMPs s——
O Insufficient Date for Evaluation
= DO Unknown
3=5 secs two SI
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
| Two dull white (not very bright) bbjs Duration of cighting and distance
| with eerie misty appearance. 0Objs travel- travelled indicates that this was

ing in a straight l&ne with no change in the observation of a "bolide" type

relation to each other, Objs were oval meteor that had already exploded

shaped about 2/3 size of full moon. into two objects,

ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28981601