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USAF record 28985865 (1960)

28985865

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE 14 February, 1960

2. LOCATION Nome - Unalakleet, Alaska

3. DATE-TIME GROUP [ILLEGIBLE] - 1700 ( )

4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ground-Visual

5. PHOTOS Dyes DNo

6. SOURCE Civilian

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 7-3 seconds

8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS ones

9. COURSE West to East

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING Long blue flame with intermittent trail of sparks. Appeared to explode and disappear. Additional reports from varied sources. This sighting received a good amount of news coverage and a congressional inquiry from Walsh through his congression.

11. COMMENTS The description of this object fits that of a meteor, and in view of its extreme height and lack of evidence to indicate that it was a satellite or missile, it is concluded that this was a meteor. Evaluated as a meteor also by Dr Christian W Elvey, director of Astrophysics at Alaska University during investigation by AEC.

ATIC FORM 329 (REV 25 SEP 72)

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