PROJECT BLUE BOOK

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969

CASE REFERENCE8630425

DATE OF SIGHTINGJanuary 1961

REPORTED LOCATIONTerre Haute Indiana

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
0 Was Balloon
28 Jan 61 Terre Haute, Indiana 00 Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Possibly Balloon
Local 2342 Ground-Visual Ground-Radar 0 Was Aircraft
0 Probably Aircraft
GMT_ 209542z Air Visual Air-Intercept Radar D Possibly Aircraft
5. 'PHOTOS 6. SOURCE Was Astronomical
Ys 00 Probably Astronomical
No Military Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF.OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9. COURSE Dt Other.
Insufficient Data for Evaluation
1 SSW-NNE 0 Unknown
10. BRIEF sUMMARY oF SIGHTING Official mOONWatch re- 10. BRIEF SUMMA RY OF SIGHTING Official moonwatch re- I1. coMMENTsShould be 11. COMMENTS Should be satellite, however, satellite, however,
port of satellite appearing object. port of appearing object. all known data was not available. all known data was not available.
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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FRAME 002 / 002paddle-gpu-200dpi

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OFFICIAL MOONWATCH_REPORT
(For confirmations, and for observations not reported previously)
OBJECT OBSERVED Un-known
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GISTERED TEAM NAME Terre Haute, Indiana TEAM NUMBER025-039-087
- "Site Number" column below indicate the number of the site at which each observation was made.
DO NOT USE Tele- Site Date Time (UT) R.A. or 4Dec. Dir. of Ang.Vel. Max. Var. in Instru
graph No. (UT) Az. (A) Alt. (A) Travel Deg/Sec Mag. Seconds ment
Yes No H M S tor- Max-Max Weight
x X 81271/2723h42.5m £10s270° A) 8127 1/27 23h 42.5m £10s 2700 (A) 80( 80 (A) ssw-nne .4 10.5 2
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POCH OF STAR CHARTs USED: As far as I can ascertain this does not fit any known object.
EMARKS : We picked up this object up while setting up for 59o4 search.
Rec'd.Jam.31/61
PHONED TO NSSCC AG.
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EGISTERED TEAM LEADER'S NAME DEMTNG DATE OF REPORT 1/28/61
o not send observations made at a site for which no Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory site number is assigned.