Terre Haute, IndianaJanuary 1961

Insufficient Data

Summary

On January 28, 1961, a military observer in Terre Haute, Indiana reported an official moonwatch sighting of an unknown object. The observation was made at 2:42 p.m. (local time) from site 8127. One object was observed traveling in a south-southwest to north-northeast direction. The angular velocity was 0.4 degrees per second with a maximum magnitude of 40.5. The observer noted that according to star charts, this object does not fit any known celestial body. The object was picked up while setting up for a 590A observation. The Air Force evaluation is listed as unknown.

Reported location

Terre Haute, Indiana

Date of incident

January 1961

State / country

IN / US

Page count

2 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 41

Original case file scans

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE: 28 Jan 61
2. LOCATION: Terre Haute, Indiana
12. CONCLUSIONS:
- a. Balloon
- b. Probably Balloon
- c. Possibly Balloon
- d. Was Aircraft
- e. Probably Aircraft
- f. Possibly Aircraft
- g. [illegible]
- h. Probably Astronomical
- i. Possibly Astronomical
- j. Other
- k. Insufficient Data for Evaluation
- l. Unknown

3. DATE-TIME GROUP: Local 2342, GMT 2005L22
4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION: Ground-Visual, Ground-Radar, Air-Visual, Air-Intercept Radar
5. PHOTOS: Yes, No
6. SOURCE: Military
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION: [illegible]
8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS: 1
9. COURSE: SSW-NNE
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING: Official moonwatch report of satellite appearing object.
11. COMMENTS: Should be satellite, however, all known data was not available.

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28991255