USAF record 302570856
302570856
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DATE - TIME GROUP 06/07 07/0302
1. LOCATION Vandenberg AFB, California
2. SOURCE Military
3. NUMBER OF OBJECTS See Case
4. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION See Case
5. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ground - Visual (RADAR)
6. COURSE See Case
7. PHOTOS No
8. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE No
9. CONCLUSION Sighting: Other: Probable (MIRAGE) Radar: Other: (BIFOS AND ANOMOLOUS PROPACTION)
11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS On Oct 6, events began at 2000 hours with the visual sighting that continued for 3/4 hour of an object over the ocean at bearing of 290 deg and an elevation of 10 to 15 deg The object displayed no appreciable motion The missile-trackin radars were at 205 asked to go into search mode and look for the object sighted visually The result was that many objects were quickly picked up and tracked.
COMMENTS: See University of Colorado Report.
FORM FTD SEP'63 O-329 (TDE) Previous editions of this form may be used
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- Page 1 DATE - TIME GROUP 06/07 07/0302 1. LOCATION Vandenberg AFB, California 2. SOURCE Military 3. NUMBER OF OBJECTS See Case 4. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION See Case 5. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ground - Visual…
- Page 2 Vandenberg Sightings Report LOCATION: Vandenberg Air Force Base, Lompoc, California DATE: October 6, 1967 TIME: 8:00 pm, October 6, until approximately 2:30 am, October 7, PDT WITNESSES: Numerous…
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- Page 4 Vandenberg Sighting Report Investigators [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] made the October 13th trip. The following were present on November 8th: from Stanford Research Institute [REDACTED]. [REDACTED] from…
- Page 5 Vandenberg Sighting Report 3. GERTS - X-band tracking and command radar usually used in beacon mode (in which the radar transmission triggers a beacon carried by the vehicle being tracked) but can,…
- Page 6 Vandenberg Sighting Report 5 2045 - FPS-16 locked on two strong targets, one moving around and one stationary. One of them a 50 db target. Target seen in the general direction of the visual sighting,…
- Page 7 Vandenberg Sighting Report 6 2100-0200 - (Times uncertain because of the confusion, although this could, very laboriously, be checked by examining the computer printouts from the radars and by…
- Page 8 Vandenberg Sighting Report 7 occurred, it was necessary to go to manual gain control to separate the signal from the clutter (TPO-13). Visual sightings: a. There were many visuals, but they declined…
- Page 9 Vandenberg Sighting Report not indicate that the object rose, and a balloon would rise at approximately 1,000 feet per minute. f. Yokobosky and Yeteryan reported seeing an object that covered 45° in…
- Page 10 Vandenberg Sightings Report Weather Lt. Col. Davis reported that there was an inversion layer at 1,800 to 2,200 ft. But it was generally reported that the objects were above the inversion. All…