USAF record 302546349
302546349
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1. DATE-TIME GROUP 2 December 65 03/00402
2. LOCATION Santiago, Chile
3. SOURCE Civilian
4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS One
5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION Not Reported.
6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ground-Visual (BX)
7. COURSE 75-50 deg
8. PHOTOS Yes [ILLEGIBLE] No
9. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE [ILLEGIBLE] Yes [ILLEGIBLE] No
10. CONCLUSION Astro (METEOR) Reported as meteor by member of Chilean Rocket Society.
11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS Observer was looking East and saw the object at an altitude of 44 deg passing from approx 75 deg to 50 deg Object was red colored at first and after a short distance at high speed seemed to light up to a whitish red and acquire a diameter three times that of Venus Seemed to explode into fragments which likewise lit up and disappeared while a great portion of the object continued to descend After this explosion Lit up as before on the other and disappeared at altitude of 23 deg Object was observed through (7X50) binoculars Duration not given Two decays this date but time not consistent.
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- Page 1 1. DATE-TIME GROUP 2 December 65 03/00402 2. LOCATION Santiago, Chile 3. SOURCE Civilian 4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS One 5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION Not Reported. 6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ground-Visual (BX) 7.…
- Page 2 MEMO FOR THE RECORD At 11:50 13 December 1965, Sgt Jones received a phone call from Major Gregory asking about a message supposedly sent to us on 10 December relating to a sighting of 3 December.…
- Page 3 Rules: - Output the visible text exactly as it appears, preserving line breaks. - Black bars or boxes covering text → write [REDACTED] - Handwritten annotations → prefix with [HW:] - Stamps → prefix…
- Page 4 INFO 1ST AERO SPACE CONTROL SO ENT AFB COLO BY UNCLAS 53261 DEC 65. RET YOUR AFNIAA 54222 DEC 65. FOLLOWING FALLING OF A METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA ARE REPORTED: DEC 3, 1965 THE [REDACTED] CHILEAN…