Penns Park, PennsylvaniaMay 1960

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Summary

On May 28, 1960, a witness near Penns Park, Pennsylvania, saw an orange light in the sky. The area is about 20 miles northwest of a nearby city. The card lists one object.

The object was an oval orange light about the size of a grapefruit. At first it appeared to be stationary. It then began to move on a westerly heading and grew smaller as it went. The witness watched it for about five minutes.

This report was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified flying object reports. The Air Force said a possible cause was light reflection from searchlights on broken cloud.

Reported location

Penns Park, Pennsylvania

Date of incident

May 1960

State / country

PA / US

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 38

Original case file scans

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' B 5 PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD ie
MILITARY 2
1. DATE $4 BONED 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
! : O Was Ball
: 28 May 60 Penns Park, Pennsylvania gS Poh Baitewn
| 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Possibly Balloon |
| AR Ra CRN Of Ground- Visual O Ground-Rador - Bary Avera
GMT 29/02202 0 AirVisual O Air-Intercept Radar DO Possibly Aireraft
5. PHOTOS . RCE 0 Was Astronomical
a Yes O Probably Astronomicol
R No Military O Possibly Astronomical |
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE x Other_Light reflection
O Insufficient Date for Evaluation |
5 nin one Ww 0 Unknown
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS :
| | Oval orange light, size of grapefruit. At first Light reflection possible cause from
the object appeared to be stationary, then it | searchlights on broken cloud.
3 started to move in a westerly heading and grew
: smaller then larger in size. The object Just
i vanished. Searchlights in area. Low ceiling, |
broken clouds in area.
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