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USAF record 28986031 (1960)

28986031

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE 27 February, 1960 2. LOCATION Home, New York

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

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

5. PHOTOS [HW: Yes] Civilian

6. SOURCE Civilian

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 3-h Minutes

8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS One

9. COURSE West

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING Round object size of large head of pin at arm's length passed in front of star Sirius. Elevation 20 deg azimuth at 170 deg. Hovered to 150 deg at disappearance behind cloud bank. Looked like white fan trailing.

11. COMMENTS Object at about 1/45 deg as. Speed of object too slow for a/c. Wind heading at right angles to direction of object. Speed too slow for balloon and object was seen in the wrong area for balloon. Object appeared too distant for wings. MAINTAIN Case listed as unidentified.

ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)

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