Melbourne, Australia, January 1954January 1954

Insufficient Data

Summary

On January 1, 1954, at about 12:15 a.m. GMT near Melbourne, Australia, a civilian airline pilot reported one object. The pilot saw it from his house in a suburb of Melbourne. The object was in sight for about ten seconds.

The object was metallic and mushroom shaped, flying below the minimum safe altitude. It appeared about eight times as large as a C-4 aircraft. It seemed to have an observation car hung underneath it. Although the pilot was sure it was metal, he reported that light occasionally shot through it as if it were made of celluloid. It traveled north at an estimated 700 miles per hour.

The Air Force record lists the conclusion as aircraft. The card noted that, with the detail described, an object truly moving at 700 miles per hour would be visible longer than ten seconds, and that much data was missing. Australian civil aviation officials said many other sightings had been reported and were being investigated.

Reported location

Melbourne, Australia, January 1954

Date of incident

January 1954

State / country

? / XX

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 20

Original case file scans

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: PPPTRIPEPR TRY DT PRT ®C
1 LAN - ;
: PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
I. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
0 Wes Ball
1 Jen 54 elbourne, Australia 0 Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP + TYPE OF OBSERVATION O Possibly Bolloon
LOH ct —— B Ground-Yisuval O Ground-Radar S a ef orelt |
our 0L/0015Z 0 Air Visuel 0 Alrimrespt Roeder |O Possibly Airerehs
'HOTO! 8. SOBs 0) Was Astronomical i
0OVYes 0 Probably Astronomical
JX Ne >” - O Possibly Astronomical |
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION BY ee BBJECTS | 9. COURSE 5 Omerlnconsigstant Data
La O Insufficient Dato for Evaluation
0 Unknown
10 sec _one \ a ———
¥Y OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS y
19, BRIBE SUMMARY Or Oiaped ob) fying below Object traveling in Northerly direction
ainimum safety alt. & times aa large as at 700 mph with reported detail given
nC-4. Appeared to have an observation by witness would be visible loager than
ar hung undern=ath. Speed -- 700 10 seconds. Much data omitted.
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
RRR ETE

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28957255