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USAF record 28989654

28989654

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MILITARY AIR PROJECT 109/3 RECORD CARD

1. DATE 11 Oct 60

2. LOCATION E of Misawa AB, Japan

3. DATE-TIME GROUP Local 1330 GMT 13/0930Z

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

5. PHOTOS O Yes [HW: No]

6. SOURCE Military

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 1 1/2 sec

8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS One

9. COURSE ---

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING: Shape of half moon; size of half baseball. Orange flash of explosive type. First and last seen at an angle of elav of 93° and the azimuth was 355°.

12. CONCLUSIONS: O Was Balloon [STAMP: ] O Was Aircraft [STAMP: ] Possibly Balloon [STAMP: ] Possibly Aircraft [STAMP: ]

Conclusions: Probabilities that object was a meteor are very great. The radiant of the meteor was probably quite close to being coincident with the line of sight of the witness, therefore the absence of reported lateral velocity, duration and general appearance tends to substantiate the conclusion that it is a meteor, probably due to the difficulty (normal) of determining the size of light sources.

AVIC FORM 229 (REV 29 SEP 52)

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