USAF record 28980472
28980472
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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
I. DATE II. CONCLUSIONS [REDACTED] [REDACTED]
III. DATE-TIME GROUP IV. TYPE OF OBSERVATION V. PHOTOS VI. SOURCE VII. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION VIII. NUMBER OF OBJECTS IX. COURSE X. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING
Local [ILLEGIBLE] ONCE GMT [ILLEGIBLE] ONCE O Air-Vs-Air O Ground-Radar O Air-Vs-Air O Air-Intercept Radar Q Yes Q No Military 2 seconds two NOT GIVEN A radar target was picked up at a range of 40 nautical miles & at 462 nautical miles at a height of 60 nautical miles. The targets lasted for a total of 25 seconds.
XI. COMMENTS Probably a meteor.
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- Page 1 PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD I. DATE II. CONCLUSIONS [REDACTED] [REDACTED] III. DATE-TIME GROUP IV. TYPE OF OBSERVATION V. PHOTOS VI. SOURCE VII. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION VIII. NUMBER OF OBJECTS IX. COURSE…
- Page 2 UNCLASSIFIED 30-0461-1731 INTERIM LETTER REPORT CONTRACT NO: AF30(602)-17l UNIDENTIFIED TARGET OF AN/PPS-17(XM-2) RADAR MISSION 164 I. INTRODUCTION The AN/PPS-17(XM-2) radar at the Laredo Test Site,…
- Page 3 UNCLASSIFIED - 2 - (a) the target was observed on 11 October 1958 beginning at 07h 21m [ILLEGIBLE] Universal time and lasting until 07h 22m [ILLEGIBLE], an overall duration of [ILLEGIBLE] seconds.…
- Page 4 UNCLASSIFIED - 3 - (a) A rocket launched from the vicinity of the White Sands Proving Grounds. (b) A satellite passing through the beams in a north- easterly direction. (c) A meteor or meteors. (d)…
- Page 5 UNCLASSIFIED - 4 - The path (direction and speed) of the target cannot be resolved to any great degree of accuracy. The sudden appearance of the signal in three beams indicates that the object…
- Page 6 UNCLASSIFIED (b) Only one satellite was known to have been in the vicinity at the time of observation. This one should have passed through the beams over 200 nmi to the northwest about 12 minutes…
- Page 7 UNCLASSIFIED The second portion of the trail is characteristic of rocket trail echoes, where the echo actually comes from the ionized trail left behind the motor. This type of echo is not present in…
- Page 8 [REDACTED] [STAMP: UNCLASSIFIED]
- Page 9 UNIDENTIFIED TARGET IN OCTOBER 1958 (AW-2) Time Scheduling, Beam, Horizontal [REDACTED] ONCE Range reference (upper continuous line) [ILLEGIBLE] Range marks are down upon [ILLEGIBLE] [STAMP: 1074]…
- Page 10 PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 1. DATE 2. LOCATION 3. DATE-TIME GROUP Local [REDACTED] GMT [ILLEGIBLE] 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ground-Visual [HW: Ground-Radar] Air-Visual [HW: Air-Intercept Radar] 5.…