Manus Island, Admiralties, May 1960May 1960

Insufficient Data

Summary

Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's 22-year UFO investigation program, opened a case file on a sighting reported from Manus Island, Admiralties, May 1960 in May 1960. The full case file (4 scanned pages of witness statements, Air Force memoranda, and investigator notes) is reproduced below as held by the National Archives. The Air Force assigned this case to its broader investigation of unidentified aerial phenomena alongside ~12,600 other reports filed between 1947 and 1969. Citation: NARA Record Group 341, Microfilm Publication T1206, Roll 38.

Reported location

Manus Island, Admiralties, May 1960

Date of incident

May 1960

State / country

? / XX

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 38

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4

Transcribed text

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JHE PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD |
MULT [PLE hath
I. DATE i: 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
: © |9 Wes Ba | |
31 May, 1960 Manus Island, Admiralties 0 Probably Balloon |
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION rd
O Wes Aircraft
NE Xd Ground- Visual O Ground-Radar Q Probably Aircraft
oMT_31/°2302 0 AirVisval © O Air-intercept Radar D Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS f. SOURCE BX Was Astronomical Meteor |
0 Yes O Probably Astronomical
X& No Civilian O Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE 0 DN ii siimiiiimmennasoii,
O Insufficient Data for Evaluation |
Not Given One Not Given Tne
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING : 11. COMMENTS
Brilliant blinding light, followed by Information is very limited in nature
‘a series of heavy explosive sounds three to however the description conforms to |
four minutes later, There was initially a the pattern of a "bolide" type of
small moving light gradually enlarging and meteor of unusual size,
growing until it flooded the sky.
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 32) ;
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28987074

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Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1960 1960-05-01