USAF record 28938876
28938876
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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE 7 Jan 51
2. LOCATION Honolulu, T.H.
3. DATE-TIME GROUP Local [ILLEGIBLE] 08/0500Z
4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ground-Visual [REDACTED] Air-Visual [REDACTED]
5. PHOTOS Yes [HW: No]
6. SOURCE Civilian
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION Seconds [ILLEGIBLE]
8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS One
9. COURSE Arc
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING Nuddy orange colored flame. Shape - Oil fire blown by wind - Size 10 times B-17 - Alt 2,000 - 3,000. Object passed through three clouds, traveling in an arc. Transversed an arc of 60 deg. Source was familiar with meteors and said this didn't look like a meteor.
11. COMMENTS Probable meteor sighting
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- Page 1 PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 1. DATE 7 Jan 51 2. LOCATION Honolulu, T.H. 3. DATE-TIME GROUP Local [ILLEGIBLE] 08/0500Z 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ground-Visual [REDACTED] Air-Visual [REDACTED] 5. PHOTOS Yes…
- Page 2 UNCLASSIFIED HEADQUARTERS PACIFIC DIVISION MILITARY AIR TRANSPORT SERVICE APO 953 24-24 10 January 1951 SFR INTELLIGENCE REPORT SUBJECT: Unconventional Aircraft THRU: Commander Military Air Transport…
- Page 3 UNCLASSIFIED did not see the flames beyond the third cloud. As the moving mass of flames approached the third cloud, I observed a conventional four-engined aircraft apparently coming into Honolulu…
- Page 4 UNCLASSIFIED and that these people reported that they had received no information concerning a sighting. Mr [REDACTED] said that he had also called The Honolulu Advertiser and the Honolulu…
- Page 5 UNCLASSIFIED P/L fr Hq PACD, Subj: 1st Ind Unconventional Aircraft Gordon A. Penn, civ dtd 10 Jan 51 MATS 24-233 HQ, MILITARY AIR TRANSPORT SERVICE, Andrews AF Base, Washington 25, D. C. TO:…
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- Page 7 COUNTRY USA AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT SUBJECT "Reporting of Information on Unconventional Aircraft" AIRE REPORTED ON 16th Army Area FROM (Agency) Mr. Intel O. Sheppard AFB, Texas DATE OF…