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USAF record 28999288 (1962)

28999288

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE 24 September 1962

2. LOCATION Atlantic (New York-Lisbon)

3. DATE-TIME GROUP Local [ILLEGIBLE] GMT 24/0424Z

4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ground-Visual [REDACTED] Air-Visual [REDACTED]

5. PHOTOS O Yea [HW:] O No

6. SOURCE Civilian

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION not rpd

8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS one

9. COURSE Westerly

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING Firey blue-white object size of foot-ball moving at great speed. Passed close to plane & touched surrounding surface of a/c. Appeared fm low altitude & climbing. A/C flying 120 deg tangent to Earth, Cloud cover below a/c, Obj was very bright & had tail emitting sparks, Witnessed by crew and passengers.

11. COMMENTS Object appeared from below clouds Thought to be missile; however, appearance including sparks tailing indicates that the object was a meteor, From distance illusion coming from below the clouds Object was heading toward the a/c adding to this allusion Case considered as a meteor sighting.

ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)

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