Pacific Coast, September 1961September 1961

Insufficient Data

Summary

On September 27, 1961, at about 1557Z (Greenwich time), a military radar operator aboard an AEW&C aircraft off the Pacific coast reported objects on radar. The report was filed on the Project 10073 record card, the Air Force's official record for unidentified flying object reports.

The operator first saw five objects on the scope. Four were heading about 090 degrees magnetic and one was heading about 020 degrees. They moved at high speed and disappeared into sea clutter. Three minutes later two more objects appeared and moved across the scope. The speed of one was measured at about 1800 knots over 20 nautical miles. A single stationary object then appeared, stayed about two minutes, then moved at about 60 knots before being lost in sea clutter near 1610Z.

The weather was clear with no temperature inversion. The card notes a check of the identification equipment indicated that if the sighting was caused by interference, it must have come from an external source.

Reported location

Pacific Coast, September 1961

Date of incident

September 1961

State / country

? / XX

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 44

Original case file scans

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3 PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD |
EE 1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
FE NE 7 ~iP4n Coast 0 Wes Balloon
b a sen Ok Pacirilc ~ (m] Probably Balloon |
- 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Fhe Tauibon |
- i 0 Was Aircraft
3 IY A Re RE acai rc FEL 0 Ground- Visual 0 Ground-Radar 8 Probably Aircraft
& GMT 27/18577 0 AirVisval 0O-Air-Intercept Radar DO Possibly Aircraft f
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3 5. PHOTOS . SOURCE O Was Astronomical i
- 0 Yes O Probably Astronomical i
: SE Ns Milita O Possibly Astronomical
4 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE 10° Other fndur Tutors oo ngs
4 O Insufficient Data for Evaluation
E PET : 0 Unknown
: 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING ~~: roo ooo ars, 4 COMMENTS Conubliz Inferieron-y snipe in
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