USAF record 28990377
28990377
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PROJECT 10973 RECORD CARD
1. DATE 5 Dec 60
2. LOCATION Hershey, Pennsylvania
3. DATE-TIME GROUP Local 18:08 GMT 05/23:52
4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ground-Visual [HW:] Ground-Radar [HW:] Air-Visual [HW:] Air-Intercept Radar [HW:]
5. PHOTOS [ILLEGIBLE] ONCE
6. SOURCE Civilian
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 7-8 min
8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS one or two
9. COURSE varied
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING Estimated altitude 1000 ft., Circular object on Circular object on the forward end of which was a pulsating red light. Along either side of it was an oblong fluorescent glow. Traveled N-S, then stopped, then started again. Just before it started, a small pulsating red light and a small pulsating red light after it started, almost instantly, it accelerated and flew off toward the W flying at a rapid rate of speed. About 1 1/2 minutes later air-intercept coming from the W, moving in a W-E course was another flash of light; it then headed NW-SE and disappeared on the horizon.
11. CONCLUSIONS Was Balloon [STAMP:] Possibly Balloon [STAMP:] Possibly Balloon [STAMP:]
Was Aircraft [STAMP:] Possibly Aircrafts [STAMP:] Possibly Aircrafts [STAMP:]
Was Astronomical [STAMP:] Possibly Astronomical [STAMP:] Possibly Astronomical [STAMP:]
Other: Insufficient Data for Evaluation Unknown
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- Page 1 PROJECT 10973 RECORD CARD 1. DATE 5 Dec 60 2. LOCATION Hershey, Pennsylvania 3. DATE-TIME GROUP Local 18:08 GMT 05/23:52 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ground-Visual [HW:] Ground-Radar [HW:] Air-Visual [HW:]…
- Page 2 STAMP: SAINT FIDELIS COLLEGE AND SEMINARY CAPUCHIN FRANCISCAN FATHERS HERMAN, PENNSYLVANIA December 10, 1960 Dear Sirs: On Monday night, December 5, 1960, about 6:05 P.M., [REDACTED] and I were…
- Page 3 2 SAINT FIDELIS COLLEGE AND SEMINARY CAPUCHIN FRANCISCAN FATHERS HERMAN, PENNSYLVANIA verify what we were seeing. Within a minute I had managed to round up ten collegians who managed to get a glimpse…