Orlando, FloridaMay 1960

Insufficient Data

Summary

On May 24, 1960, witnesses in Orlando, Florida, saw a round object in the sky. The card lists one object seen as a light.

The object looked round and star-like and was white. It first appeared at about 270 degrees azimuth and 60 degrees elevation. It disappeared at about 40 degrees elevation on a heading of about 285 degrees. The object moved at a constant speed.

This report was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified flying object reports. The Air Force said the object could not have been a satellite because of its direction of flight, and noted it was possibly a high flying aircraft.

Reported location

Orlando, Florida

Date of incident

May 1960

State / country

FL / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 38

Original case file scans

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4 Eee PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD :
I. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS | |
J May 960 and j 0 Was Bolloon
: & . Se, Se. O Probably Balloon |
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION nets Shp |
i O Was Aireraft
g LOI iiss. of Ground- Visual 0 Ground-Rador 0 Probably Aircraft |
3 emt__26/0330Z May 60 0 Air Visuol 0 Air-Intercept Radar |X Possibly Aircraft
3 5. PHOTOS . « SOURCE 0 Sa Ee a
1 0 Ye o robably Astronomic |
§ B - Civilian DO Possibly Astronomical
? 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE TE REE, |
8 O Insufficient Data for Evaluation
3 2 min one 280° 0 Unknown
pi — |
3 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS |
Round object looked like star, white, first Could not be satellite due to direction |
lseen at 270°, 60° elev disappeared at 40° of flight. Possibly high flying a/c. |
i elev, 285° heading. Constant speed, viewed witt
| naked eye. Belleved to be satellite. : 3
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