Pacific Between Calif & Hawaii 28.31N 137.19W, May 1962May 1962

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Summary

On May 1, 1962, two navigators and a quartermaster aboard a vessel in the Pacific between California and Hawaii reported an object in the night sky. The sighting was at about 0420Z and lasted about 1 minute.

The object was white with a small white tail and made no noise. It impressed the observers as a falling star. It held a straight flight path at about 20 degrees elevation, bearing 018, before disappearing behind a cloud. Its brightness was like a first magnitude star. The sky was broken overcast.

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 evaluated as a meteor, noting a small slow moving meteor would give this impression and that the duration may have been overestimated.

Reported location

Pacific Between Calif & Hawaii 28.31N 137.19W, May 1962

Date of incident

May 1962

State / country

? / XX

Page count

3 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 45

Original case file scans

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3 : PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
g 1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
] Parifis Rotween Calif & Hawaid
4 Se racit ~C Between Calif Ce dawalil 0 Was sdllean
E 1 May 16062 28.31N 137.19¥ 0 Probably Balloon
: 3. DATE-TIME GROUP i. TYPE OF OBSERVATION, 0. Possibly Bulioon
: i 0 Was Aircraft
i Local Js 5 Te Tp 0 Ground-Vi sual 0 Ground-Radar 01 Probably Aircraft
3 GUT. VSORI0G oo 0 Air Visual O Air-Intercept Rodar | 5 Possibly Aircraft
FITS » SOURCE 0 Was Asironomical/- brome)
Tes 0 Probably Astronomical
| 2 No Military O Possibly Astronomical
3 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. MUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE BE OI Ee ee a a
] 0 Insufficient Data for Evaluation
x 0 Unknown

J Sie 1 min | Fal Ling :
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING UMD wnlite with small 11. COMMENTS Small slow moving meteor would
; tail. No noise. Impressed cbservaers as give this impression. Possible over-

falling star. Maintained straight flight estimation of duration given. Case
1 path at 20° elev. Visible 1 min. Brightness evaluated 2s meteor.

| 3 lst mag star.
E ATIC FORM 329 (RRV 25 SEP 52)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28997093