N of Mandinga, Panama, April 1960April 1960

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Summary

On April 25, 1960, the crew of a Greek ship saw a fiery object in the sky north of Mandinga, Panama. The time was around dusk. An officer and a radio operator aboard the vessel reported the sighting.

The object was large and shaped like a teardrop. It had a blue nose, a yellow midsection, and a red tail with small yellow sparks trailing behind it. The whole object had a fiery look. It traveled from northeast to southwest and then disappeared. The witnesses watched it for about two seconds. A sea plane had been seen in the area about 15 minutes earlier, but it resembled an aircraft only in size.

This report was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified flying object reports. The Air Force concluded the object was probably a meteor.

Reported location

N of Mandinga, Panama, April 1960

Date of incident

April 1960

State / country

? / XX

Page count

3 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 38

Original case file scans

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M.S, Themistocles (Greek vesself’ROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD /
. DATE 2 LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
: O Was Balloon Ga
25 Apr 60 N of Mandinga, Panama 0 Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TINE GROUP 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION | ene eae |
0 Wes Aircraft
ih X Ground-Visvel Q Ground-Roder e] Probably Aircraft
oMT_¢5/ 23152 0 Air Viel O Air-Intercept Rodar |D Possibly Aireralt |
5. PHOTOS JOURCE O Was Astronomical |
' @ Yes il Probably Astronomical Meteor
IX Civilian O Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 0. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE BEDI icici ishin
0 Insufficient Data for Evaluation
2 sec one SW 0 Unknown /
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 1). COMMENTS BSE ;
Large, teardrop-shaped object with blue nose, Probably ea meteor.
yellow midsection and red tail with yellow
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