S of Midway (Pacific), June 1963June 1963

Insufficient Data

Summary

Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's 22-year UFO investigation program, opened a case file on a sighting reported from S of Midway (Pacific), June 1963 in June 1963. The full case file (5 scanned pages of witness statements, Air Force memoranda, and investigator notes) is reproduced below as held by the National Archives. The Air Force assigned this case to its broader investigation of unidentified aerial phenomena alongside ~12,600 other reports filed between 1947 and 1969. Citation: NARA Record Group 341, Microfilm Publication T1206, Roll 48.

Reported location

S of Midway (Pacific), June 1963

Date of incident

June 1963

State / country

? / XX

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 48

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 5

Transcribed text

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yl pd * PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD :
1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
21 June 1963 8 of Midway (Pacific) 0 Wos Bolloon
D Probably Balloon
! 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION B Possibly pelierg
1 RR BY Ed RR Na 0 Ground- Visual 0 Ground-Radar a LAR
1 GMT 21/14402 5 & Air Visual 0 Air-Intercept Radar O Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS é. SOURCE O Was Astronomical
] 0 Yes O Probably Astronomical
; B No Military 2 Possibly Autgaemicy ik r)
; 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE 9 other SATezirTEk¢ Co
E O Insufficient Data for Evaluation
BE Not reported one Easterly Onna
© |10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
Object shape and size of lst mag star At the reported time ECHO was about 1P
i observed at 50 deg elevation Heading East. deg N ru deg W heading SE. Since the
1 description of the object conforms
1 with that of ECHO and ECHO was in the
i area the case is evaluated as a Satellije
1 sighting.
; ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52) :
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 29001388

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Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1963 1963-06-01