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USAF record 28985689 (1960)

28985689

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PROJECT 100/3 RECORD CARD

1. DATE 13 January, 1960

2. LOCATION Gulf of Mexico

3. DATE-TIME GROUP Local [ILLEGIBLE] GMT [ILLEGIBLE]

4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ground-Visual Ground-Radar Air-Visual Air-Intercept Radar

5. PHOTOS Yes [HW:] No [HW:]

6. SOURCE Military

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 13 Seconds

8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS One

9. COURSE 2 to W

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING [ILLEGIBLE] Radar picked up object with estimated speed of 16-18,000 mph on collision course at 35,000 ft with heading of 050 deg. Air speed at time was 440 kts, Object bearing 28 deg on the third track and ZAO deg after passing W/c initial pickup by radar at 56 nm after passing s/c followed by second radar with 2 sec sweep and followed for 6 seconds with pickup at 1,500 yds, 5,000 yds and 9,000 yds. No meteorological invation, No other s/c in area and not picked up by ground Radar.

11. COMMENTS Consultation with Mr Bryant of TUS-1 and his belief was that the object was interference from within the s/c was to the collision course and the fact that it could not be picked up by ground Radar considered to be caused by anomalous propagation.

ATIC FORM 339 (REV 26 SEP '52)

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