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CASE REFERENCE6960472

DATE OF SIGHTINGFebruary 1958

REPORTED LOCATIONChingmai Bangkok

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

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9 Feb 58 Chingmai, Sangkok G Probably Balloon
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5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE & Was Astronomical Meteor
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TG Ne Civilian O Possibly Astronomical
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10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING Tl. COMMENTS
Several observers gave varying des- Apparently a fireball,

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rnd & with various colors-white nose
n@ece, orange body, black tail- white
yapor trail with intermittent puffs of
smoke or green vapor, Some claimed to
have heard a rushing or swooshing sound.
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mountains, the party then retormed to Sankempsenc «nd Chienmm:i. Vice Consul
— the woodsmen é sum of moner to bunt for the object.

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Walked end camped in the area mntil Honday might, February 17, 1958. The resciics
of their sexrch were nezative, although they did meet other people in the fores
Wilco gawe eyewitness accounts essentialiy the same as the woodamen. Some fel:
tremors, others did not. All said, however, the object wes very low and appe’~
entiy descencing, and thus mst hewe crashed.

Summary Comment

From the several reliable eyexitnesses interviewed, epoarentiy some object
was sighted in the skr. Altitudes given by both the French priest and the
Americans in Chienpmei ere questionable, since the object to hzve resched Chien:-
mei from the west would heve required a minimim altitude of 4,000 feet, and ta
hawe hit “near the summit" or "just over" the mountains east of Sankampaeng would
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the flight was horisontel rather than vertical aor at en angle, such es the path
of a meteorite might be~.Although some ground search was mace, it was not ex-
tensive and the forest might well conceal an object until found br beppensiance.
& limited search of the area was made by Thei police helicopter.

Ho further action is being taken by the Consulzie.

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Shayaet Unidentified Flying Object Sighted Over ah aces eo

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On Sunday, February 9, 1958, at apcroximately 6:10 p.m., various reonls in
Chiengmai sighted a low Zlying object moving at high speed. Eyewitnesses, inclu-
ding several Americans, were of the general opinion the object was moving from
west to east at an altitude variously reported as from 600 to 6800 feet. An esti-
mate of the object's speed was not ventured except by such statements: "as fast
23 you could turn your head,*"like the rush of a jet plane,” "as fast as a shooting
Arcata Descriptions of the object were in general agreement: “lil a ball of

fire with white vapor or smoxe trailing behind.” Some few claimed to have seen a
rocket-shaped object and described the various colors of the rocket (viz., white
nese piece, orange body, black tail). Some claimed to have heard a rushing or
Swooshing noise as the object passed, but most said they heard nothing.

A single report was croviced the Consulate by a French Catholic moriest who
etatad that at 6:05 p.m. on February 9, 1958, he was on Zoot approximately sixty
miles due west of Chiengmai when he sighted an ocbdject in the sky at an altituds
or apvroximately 2,CO0 feet. He said the object was moving with tremendous
Speed, west to east and appeared to him only as white vapor followed by inter-
mittent puffs c¥ green yaoor or smoke. His Amres s2.0n of a shape was that it
was round. Thers-was no noise. a

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About mid-morning of the next day (eae as 10, 1958) reports were
received from the town of Sankampaeng, 1) Icilometers west of Chiengmai, that the
object had lanced in the mountains sast of the town and that tremors as fram an
axmlosion had been falt. One report stated an object "as long as a big tree”
had teen sighted in the forest.

Astiocn Taken

Vice Consul QuVenRMMMBem, with Political Analyst @AORMEp and
esveral Chienomai newspaver revcorters croceeded to Sankamraeng immediately. ders
shey interviewed various officials and townspecple who gave stavenents essenti-
ally as above. The group, augmented by a police guard and several officials,
recaeded by Land Bovar into the mountains and cn foot wnen the aecaet track
ended. Later, in conversation with seme woodsmen who claimed to be ayewitnesses,
thay said the opject sped by at a low heigh® over the trses and crashed aither
“ear the summit or just over the other sice. They said they felt earth tremors
as *hough fron an explosion or high sreed impact.

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