Palm Beach, FloridaJune 1960

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Summary

On June 27, 1960, a pilot boat near Palm Beach, Florida reported sighting a bright red object with a luminous tail traveling northwest to southeast very high and very fast at 8:32 p.m. The object was observed for 3 minutes. The Coast Guard filed the report. An analysis sheet noted the object was probably a missile fired from Cape Canaveral, since the sighting coincided with a scheduled firing for that date.

Reported location

Palm Beach, Florida

Date of incident

June 1960

State / country

FL / US

Page count

3 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 38

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 3

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COAST GUARD                    PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE                    2. LOCATION                      12. CONCLUSIONS
   27 Jun 60              Palm Beach, Florida            [ ] Definitely Balloon
                                                         [ ] Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP         4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION          [ ] Possibly Balloon
   Local    2032           [ ] Ground-Visual              [ ] Was Aircraft
   GMT      0632Z          [ ] Air-Visual                 [ ] Probably Aircraft
                          [ ] Ground-Radar               [ ] Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS                 6. SOURCE                       [ ] Was Astronomical
   [ ] Yes                   Coast Guard                  [ ] Probably Astronomical
   [X] No                                                 [ ] Possibly Astronomical
                                                         [ ] Other Prob Missile
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION  8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS  9. COURSE [ ] Insufficient Data for Evaluation
   3 MIN                     ONE              NW-SE        [ ] Unknown

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING         11. COMMENTS
    Bright red object with luminous tail traveling  The object of this sighting was probably
    very high and very fast.                       a missile fired from Cape Canaveral, since
                                                   the sighting coincides with a firing
                                                   scheduled for the date.

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28987452