Thayer, KansasApril 1962

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Summary

In April 1962, a witness at Thayer, Kansas, reported one object with a dull red glow that was smaller than an aircraft. The object had a tail of white dots and moved in an arc from west-northwest to east-northeast while descending. No instruments or visual aids were used. The Air Force noted the object had the characteristics of a bolide, a bright meteor, with the white dots being pieces falling from the meteor. The record card concluded the sighting was a meteor.

Reported location

Thayer, Kansas

Date of incident

April 1962

State / country

KS / US

Page count

3 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 45

Original case file scans

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ge PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD |
1. DATE 2 LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
; Apr 62 Thaver, Kansas 00 Yas Bolloon
3 7 ¥ ; g : 0 Probably Bolloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP i TYPE OF OBSERVATION gir LB det Sin
4 AE SEO AN MER €1 Ground- Visual O Ground-Rodar EB Prats Miers
} GMT 10700007 0 Ain Viol 0 Air-Intercept Rader |O Possibly Atrcraft
5. PHOTOS 3. S0URCE 0 Was Astronomical [ah oor
O Yass ST Te 0) Probobly Astronomicol
3 Ne Liviiial 0 Possibly Astronomicol
7. LENGTH OF CASERVATION 3. NUMBER OF C3JECTS | 9. COURSE 1 JRE 7 ARR i so JE A SR
F 0 Insufficient Dota for Evaluation
: 2 sec one EIT 0 Unknown
3 NB I EE ERR
3 10. BRIERE SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
3 Cbject with dull red glow, smaller than a/c Cbservation of object with characteristilps
with tail of white dots moving in arc from of a bolide, white dots being pieces
WoW to ZIE, descending. No visual aids. falling from the metecr.
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 256 B¥P §2)

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28996713