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USAF record 28939165 (1951)

28939165

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PROJECT 1 073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE 15 March, 1951

2. LOCATION New Delhi, India

3. DATE-TIME GROUP Local 1020 GMT 15/04/50Z

4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ground-Visual [HW: Ground-Radar] Air-Visual [HW: Air-Intercept Radar]

5. PHOTOS [REDACTED]

6. SOURCE Civilian

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 7 1/2 minutes

8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS one

9. COURSE Maneuvered

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING Cigar shaped object viewed by about 25 witnesses flew over alf field, made loop, and flew off to South. Initial appearance of whitish cloud about 700 ft long and believed to be at 3-4,000 ft. Cloud increased in length and bullet shaped nose and whitish tail emerged. Tail about 10X as long. No sound. Object flew over airfield. Speed erratic. Slow speed with no smoke. Parid speed smoke bacase black and control appeared similar to be either manual or wireless. Top speed estimated to be about 2,000 mph. Cigar shaped. Principal witness prone to exaggerate.

11. COMMENTS Flight end maneuvers consistent with analysis as a/c, however the many witness should have been able to identify some feature of an a/c since all were familiar the local airplanes. Case listed as UNIDENTIFIED.

ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP '57)

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