PROJECT BLUE BOOK

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD
DATE :TIME GROUP 2 LOCATION
May 54
16/0622z Salinas, California
3. SOURCE 10. CONCLUSION WAS CAL : METEOR
military (pilots)
Fireball Meteor.
4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS
one .
5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS
5 seconds Bright t green meteor like object greenish tail. Descending
east to west. No sound. Exploded and disappeared.
6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
air visual
7.COURSE
West
PHOTOS
Y
9. PHYSICAL PHYSICAL EVIDENCE VIDENCE
Yes
0 No
FORM FORM
FTD SEP 63 0-329 (TDE) Previous editions of this form may bo used. Previous editions of this form mmy bo used.
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sand miles, from western Canada to Brazil (14].
Astrononical records show that the green meteors are usually
slow. Some 230 persons reported to the Meteoritics Society that on
November 28. 1953. at 6:30 P.M., a fireball I moved I slowly through
the sky from Massachuserts to Pennsvivania. Described as bive-
white-green. changing to orange-vellow-red, was huge, disk.
shaped. and vanished silently without depositing fraginents [1. p.
273]. On Mav 15. 1954. at 11:28 P.M., more than 100 persons ob-
served (and reported) a slow-moving freball, blue-green changing
to red, of luminosity so great that it woke sleeping people. Toward
the end of its conrse it seemed to stop. spiraled a couple of times,
and then simply vanished without leaving fragments [8. p. 336]. -
To summarize: Meteors cun travel at low velocaties and in ap-
parently horizontal paths.

statrs and illuminating the sky and coutrysude from St. Louis to
Luatisville and froin Menphis to Knoxville. The final detonation.
over western Kengiiy, was heard over an ares ioow miles square
and siwok bmildtaa and siwok buildtags fram from Puleesn to Memphis Pucleesn to Memphis Fragments show.
ered fartons ered farton oear veaty-fhe an ty-tine ataasrc arsg'srci Se s,and aed
prsetrate! onr roal. Abost te ACesat
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, Eo.hutn i Washagto That sathe rg
beall, w e npod hplane rews fying owet a six-state hedl jane res flying oweavx-stterea- ar1- 8
Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado. Arizona. and New Mexieo 19.
p.115. Similar fireballs that vanished without trace were reported
on Septenber 28. 1953 (AM ;October 4 1953 (.LMS 2330).
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