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CASE REFERENCE7811868

DATE OF SIGHTINGApril 1960

REPORTED LOCATIONVicinity Bitburg AB Germany

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2. LOCATION

Vicinity Bitourg AB, oar neey

3. “DATE-TIME GROUP i

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4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
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10. SRIEE SUMMARY OF SIGHTING

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The Wallojis Island UFO

Perhaps the most spectacular (and short-lived) UFO in history
appeared at 6:55 pM. E.S.T. on April 1, 1960, along the east coast.
A bright-yellow streak of fire shot up from the horizon into the
eastern sky and slowly changed into a huge zigzag pattern. With
the streak of fire appeared a large reddish sphere, reported by
some observers to be as large as the full moon and many times
brighter than a planet. Visible along the entire eastern seaboard,
the brilliant object slowly moved eastward, followed by a trail of
greenish sparks. While still at high altitude out over the Atlantic
Ocean, it suddenly vanished—as though it had simply taken off into
outer space. Switchboards in eastern cities were jammed as wit-
nesses called newspapers, universities, and nearby observatories to
report a comet, a fireball, or a flying saucer.

Newspapers immdeiately printed a full explanation of this April
Fool’s Day apparition: a scheduled but unannounced rocket launch-
ing from Wallops Island, Virginia. The yellow fire was debris from
the rocket, reflecting the rays of the setting sun; contrary winds in
the upper atmosphere produced the zigzag form. The luminous
globe was a full-scale model of the Echo satellite—an inflated
balloon 100 feet in diameter, carried aloft by the rocket. Dry powder
escaping through holes in the balloon produced the greenish tail.
The object had “vanished” when the balloon fell back into the
earth’s shadow and was thus no Jonger visible.

Although the newspapers published a full explanation within a
day or two, some saucer enthusiasts continued to treat the appari-
tion as a mystery. In its Special Bulletin for May the National In-
vestigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (see Chapter xu)
included the incident under “Recent UFO Sightings” and described
the object as a bright, pulsating UFO that hovered in one spot for
several minutes before it began to move. Not until three months
after the launching did the organization concede (UFO Investiza-
for, July-August, 1g60) that the UFO of April 1 was “probably” the
giant balloon sent up from Wallops Island.

On August 12, 1960, Ure counterpart of this balloon went into
orbit and became the satellite Echo, which is still circling the earth,
shining like a star of the first magnitude near dawn or sunset.

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On Avril 7 at Momambigue, Kost Africa a round orange cbjcct,
which emitted a glow landed and four little men emerged and ran into
the woods-—then their craft exploded with lerge concussions, Prior to
the landing of the object, it made a ioud whistling sound, The

witnesses numbered in the hundreds, hovever no additional report has

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. | 13 April 1960
No Case (Information viaol Lexington, Massachusetts

On April 135 at lexington, me. noted Boston drea newscaster,

along with his wife end fami]y watched a bright white UFO sweep across the sky at
8:0 P.M, The UFO moved from west to east, then made a gradual turn to the north

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