Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, Canada, June 1960June 1960

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Summary

On June 7, 1960, a witness near Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, Canada, was taking motion pictures of contrails in the sky when an image appeared on the film. Four still enlargements from the film were included with the report.

The image was first noted as parallel light rays. The witness was filming the contrails when the image was captured. The card describes the result mainly through the film and photographs.

This report was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified flying object reports. The Air Force noted that the contrails moved from the top to the bottom of the film frames, a point it weighed in its analysis of the images.

Reported location

Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, Canada, June 1960

Date of incident

June 1960

State / country

? / XX

Page count

6 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 38

Original case file scans

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\ B ‘ FROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD ER oF
I. DATE : 2. LOCATION 2 CONCLUSIONS
j OD Was Boll
| T Jun 60 Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, Canada |g [os Belegn,
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION LR —
ro flict given I — H Greund-Reder 0 Broly Savovell : ' |
: GMT 0 AirVisuval O Air-Intercept Radar 0 Possibly Aireraft - SH
5. PHOTOS + SOURCE -. mk Rig str el |
R Yes Civilian 8 Ponihly Aenomicel
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE XX Orher_lens aberation
0 Insufficient Data for Evaluation
ra Lai Re O Unknown
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING | 11. COMMENTS i |
Witness was taking motion pictures of the con- | It should be noted that the contrails moved
trails in the sky an image was first noted in | from top to bottom of the frames indicatihg
the form of parallel light rays. The light rays| motion in the camera. The image may have
then appeared to form a rectangular image with | been caused by a lens aberation when the |
the parallel rays still discernable and form- |lens was exposed to the direct sunlight.
ing on both of thelong sides of the rectangular| Since comtrails from high flying a/c were
image. As the frames progressed the rectangular|apparent the loud sonic-type boom could |
e became circ e paralle ve been caused by the a/c pass through
image b ircular and th allel light |have b d by the a/ ing thr
rays were visible until the image was almost the sound barrier coincident with the :
circular, . |appearance of the image.
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 82) g
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AE BE et Dis ER TRC ET ADV Lae |

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