DECLASSIFIEDUSAF PROJECT BLUE BOOK · NARA T-1206
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
PROJECT BLUE BOOK
UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969
CASE REFERENCE8406763
DATE OF SIGHTINGJune 1959
REPORTED LOCATIONPacific33 05N134W
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The number of meteors reported as flying saucers or spaceships
has diminished in the last few years, but the Air Force has con-
tinued to investigate all doubtful or puzzling sightings to determine
whether they in any way represent a possible threat to the nation’s
securitv. Every sure identification of a UFO as merely a meteor
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nora ballistic missiue, prine’¢’s a certain amount ot reer.
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A typical Cs , Sut cessfully solved, is that ol June 20, LQO59 About
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2:15 A.M. the pilot of a United Airlines flight over the Pacific re-
ported by radio to Flight Operations that he had observed an
apparent rocket firing about thirty-five miles west of the plane posi-
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tion; radar detected the presence of a surface vessel at about the
same position. The pilot first noticed a flash of light, then the entire
sky lighted up and he saw four round, fiery globules, of an intense
bluish-white color, with no tails biving two by two in a straight
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line, they made no sound and disappeared after about two seconds.
The weather was clear and calm, the visibility excellent. The co
pilot, sitting at the right, suw only the first flash, but the pilot of
another plane some 120 miles to the west reported secing the same
objects at the same time [1S].
Because this sighting occurred in a very sensitive area where
military officials were expecting a Russian test firing of an ICBM,
the Air Force made an exhaustive study of this report and identi-
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fied the object as a meteor. Their evaluation proceeded as follows:
The United Airlines pilot estimated the distance of the objects
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as only about thirty miles and their rate of travel at some 15 degrees
in two seconds. These figures indicated a velox ity of approximately
14,500 miles per hour, about the speed of a ballistic missile. But
the relativi I low altitude, the flat trajectory, and the fact that a
visible “power plant” was apparenth still ope rating at this stage of
Hight ruled out the possibility of a missile. However, if the observer
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had wacrs stimated tiie clistan @ sty) I the objec Ss were neti Hy hiun-
dreds of niles away, then the cl ith would indi te a Spee cl oO} about
50,000 miles an hour, in the ranee of meteor velocities. The de
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scriptions given closely matched that of the classic fireball, whose
colors range over white, blue, green, red, and yellow, and whose
luminosity may be as creat as —9 magnitudes. The Air Force con-
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cluded that the object sighted was. in all probability, a meteor.