TERRIGAL, NEW SOUTH WALES, December 1952December 1952

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On December 30, 1952, at approximately noon near Terrigal, New South Wales, Australia, a Royal Australian Air Force wing commander sighted an unidentified object to the east at an estimated altitude of 2,000 feet and angle of elevation 7.5 degrees. The object moved very slowly in a general northerly direction for about a minute, traveling through an estimated angular distance of 5 degrees, then turned eastward and departed at great speed in approximately twenty seconds. Two other witnesses, the observer's wife and son, corroborated the sighting. The Air Force Directorate of Intelligence concluded the object was a large meteor at considerable distance.

Reported location

TERRIGAL, NEW SOUTH WALES, December 1952

Date of incident

December 1952

State / country

? / XX

Page count

3 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 17

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

CASE 50 Doc 52
DATE 30/12/52
LOCL 30/12/00
GNJ. 30/12/00

MOTECS: [illegible]

LENGTH OF OBSERVATION: [illegible]

IN BRIEF SUMMARY OF AIRCRAFT:

Extremefly bright object moved slowly in a N direction for about a minute then appeared to turn E and depart at great speed.

BIEF COMMENTS:

1. D/I is of opinion that object was a large meteor at a considerable distance.

RAAS Officer
Ono

LOCATION: TERRIGAL, NEW SOUTH WALES

TYPE OF OBSERVATION:
Ground-Visual; [] Ground-Radar; [] Air-Intercept Radar; [] Probably Aircraft; [] Probably Balloon

CONCLUSIONS:
[] Probably Unknown
[] Probably Unknown or Extraterrestrial as possible
[] Other (see Remarks)



UNCLASSIFIED

ATIC DOCUMENT No. 109447 (A) 30 Dec 52 Australia

At approximately noon 30 Dec 52 a wing commander in the RAAF sighted an unidentified object to the E at an estimated altitude of 2000', angle of elevation 7 1/2 degrees. The object was observed to move very slowly in a general N direction for about a minute, during which time it travelled through an estimated angular distance of 5 degrees. It then departed at "a great speed". This latter movement was accomplished in approximately 20 seconds. There were two other witnesses to this sighting, the wife of the observer and the child.

DOWNGRADED AT 3 YEAR INTERVALS; DECLASSIFIED AFTER 12 YEARS. DOD DIR 5200.10

UNCLASSIFIED

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28952371