Oahu, HawaiiSeptember 1961

Insufficient Data

Summary

On September 21, 1961, near Oahu, Hawaii, observers reported a large lighted object. It looked like a big circular area of high intensity light with a dark outer rim, giving a doughnut shape. It traveled at about orbital speed and left a faint glow or trail. It looked like a light that grew brilliant as it got closer. The sighting lasted about 6 minutes. The Air Force evaluated the object as moving at orbital speed, pointing to a satellite.

Reported location

Oahu, Hawaii

Date of incident

September 1961

State / country

HI / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 44

Original case file scans

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1 PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD :
1 1. DATE 2 LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS

on O Wos Balloon

a 21 September 1961 Oahu, Hawaii 0 Probably Balloon

4 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION RANT own

3 Ceeal adil toon nln i lis EGround- Visual O Ground-Radar 8 Probably Alveraft

; oMT21/1508Z 0 Air Visual O Air-Intercept Radar O Possibly Aircraft

be 5. PHOTOS 8. SOURCE O Was Astronomical

3 0 Yes O Probably Astronomical

3 Bo Military O Possibly Astronomical
3 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION [ 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE ET EEN a LO ARN

9 still in sight 0X Himusiie ent Data for Evaluation

E 1 hour 12 min one | stationary [0 Unknown

1 : 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING [11. COMMENTS

E hE - J ; : : ; 2

a CIRVIS report of round spinning object {Duration excessive, Object station

48 to the right of the North Star, Chang- (ary and still in sight. No photos
a ing color red, white blue and green. taken, Balloon should move out

2 45 dgr elevation. Also had black objectin hour's time but possibility

2 that appeared to be with it, cannot be discounted, Sounds like

4 astro body without the black obj

i being associated; however, there

4 should be some movement to the West.
5 This stationary aspect could b .

E accounted for By SPeS tu EOE refatidn
E to the North Star, which also moves.
a Case considered as insufficient daga.
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)

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