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28995616

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE 17 Nov 61

2. LOCATION Lake Charles, Louisiana

3. DATE-TIME GROUP Local: 0600 GMT: 171200Z

4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ground-Visual [REDACTED]

5. PHOTOS D Y** D Ns

6. SOURCE Military and Civilian

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 5 - 10 sec

8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9. COURSE E

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING [REDACTED] Bright objt size of a/c exploding and continuing flight path until disintegration. Bright trail persisting for 5 sec. Horizontal plane to E. Instantaneous disappearance. White objt leaving rail like smoke persisting for 4 min. No sound. Horizontal flight W-E.

11. COMMENTS [REDACTED] Sighting has all characteristics of meteor observation of bolide type. Color, flight, explosion and duration of sighting conform to pattern. Case listed as astronomical; meteor.

[STAMP:] [HW:] Sec Dec 62 JAT (TX)

ATIC FORM 329 (REV 24 SEP '62)

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