Vicinity Hawaiian Islands, April 1960April 1960

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Summary

On April 1, 1960, in the vicinity of the Hawaiian Islands, a military pilot and copilot sighted an object similar to a shooting star, only much brighter and bigger than usual. The object gave off bluish white light with a tail three times greater than the object's diameter. The object was observed to disintegrate after a flight of about two seconds. The sighting lasted approximately two seconds. The Air Force evaluation was meteorite.

Reported location

Vicinity Hawaiian Islands, April 1960

Date of incident

April 1960

State / country

? / XX

Page count

3 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 38

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 3

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE
4 April, 1960

2. LOCATION
Vicinity Hawaiian Islands

3. DATE-TIME GROUP
Local [illegible]
0930 (16:27)

4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
Ground-Visual [checkbox marked]
Ground-Radar [checkbox]
Air-Visual [checkbox]
Air-Intercept Radar [checkbox]

5. SOURCE
Military

6. NUMBER OF OBJECTS
One

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION
2 seconds

8. PHOTOS
Yes [checkbox]
No [checkbox marked]

9. COURSE
N/W to S/E

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING
Object similar to a shooting star, only much brighter and bigger than usual and giving brighter and bigger than usual and giving off bluish white light with tail three times greater than diameter of object observed to disintegrate after a flight of about two seconds.

11. COMMENTS
Description typical of a meteor of the "bolide" type.

12. CONCLUSIONS
Balloon [checkbox]
Probably Balloon [checkbox]
Possibly Balloon [checkbox]
Was Aircraft [checkbox]
Probably Aircraft [checkbox]
Possibly Aircraft [checkbox]
Was Astronomical [checkbox marked]
Probably Astronomical [checkbox]
Possibly Astronomical [checkbox]
Other [checkbox]
Insufficient Data for Evaluation [checkbox]
Unknown [checkbox]

ATIC FORM 329 (REV 25 SEP 52)

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28986391