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1. DATE 2 LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
0 Was Balloon
5 Sep9 Naha AB, Okinawa 0 Probably Balloon
PossiblyE Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION
Local Ground-Visual Ground-Radar 0 Was Aircraft
Probably Aircraft
GMAS/1440Z AirVisual Air-Intercept Radar 0 Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical
Yes kox Probably AstronomicalMeteor
x No Militarv 0 Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9. COURSE Other_
000 Insufficient Data for Evaluation
t Unknown
20 secs S to N
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
Rnd, flare-like objs w/tail similar Witnesses probably saw a : large
to short contrail. Size of nickel at arm's meteor durigg the last stages. The
length. White in color. Two rows of three illusion of climbing was probably
abreast, changing to a of five, then due to the illusion created by
four & disappearing one at a time until perspecfive or relative brightness.
only one remained. Initial observation l0
elev w/disappearence at 15 elev.
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