PROJECT BLUE BOOK

PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

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1. OATE 2. LOCATION 112. CONCLUSIONS
. O Wes Balicon
20 ir 62 Bakor Lake, Canada QO Probably Bclloon
a cine AP ry Wie: 7 tn e = 0 Possibly Balloon
3. DATE-Time GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Y
— . i O Was Aircraft
Loesl . aaa M& Ground- Vi sual GO Ground-Rador i ‘Probably Asreruti
GMT 05002 0 Air Vi svol 0 Air-Intercept Radar GO Possibly Aircroft
5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE if “HM Was Astronomical MOtOOr
O Yes O Probably Astronomical
@ Ne Civilian QO Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTS OF OBSERVATION 8 NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE 0 Other
© Insufficient Doto for Evaluotion
Short one West 2 mn
10, BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 1. COMMENTS «

Obj moving fm East t
meteor Like. Luminosi
on an a/c only large
orange to green colo
South. Sky clear. Rp
moes at location 64.

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as a bright light
Elongated shapd,
Observers facins
relayed fm Eski-
96.044,

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Obj evaluated as a meteor dud
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ATIC FCRM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)

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Gvaluation of Unidentiried Flying Object (Jorthern ak -
Camda, 25 April 1962)

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Vash 25 XxX

: Reference your letter, subject “Svaluation of Unidentified Flying
Coject”, dated 25 May 1362 and *he attachment thereto requesting the
evaluation of an unidentified ?Plying object which was sighted in Northern

Canada on 25 April 19€2.
2 Review of the decay record cf artificial satellites and related

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objects ceveals =hat she signting was not due to 2 re-entry.

%. IS is the S97 cointon that the sighting was due to the observation
cf a meteor of the fireball class. Fireballs are rare, occurring in
the vatio of approximately 1 so every 253 meteors in the visual range
which are enccunted by the earth. Usually an individual will experience
sais spectacular event only once in a litetina.

FF Kh. Ptreballs are devined as any meteor as brisht or brighter than

~ -3 magnitude, this is bright enough to cast shadows on a dark night.
There are actually cases on record where meteors af this type have been
: bright enough to activate photccells used to autormmtically operate

9 street lights. In the usual description of these meteors one Yinds
white, blue, green, red and yellow mentioned. The color is usually a

= good indication of the relative speed of a meteor, those of higher
* speeds tending toward the blue and those cf lower speeds tending toward

ae the red. Meteor speeds, relative to the enarth, range from approximitely

- 7 to 44 miles per second. The major cause for this speed range is the
earth's orbital velocity of 18.5 miles per second. Depending upon the
velationship cf the earth's and mateor's vectars when they meet, the
absolute velocity cf the meteor is either reduced or increased dy an
amount eaunal to the earth's velocity or some fraction thereor.

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5S. <A Pivecall moving tcward the west at 2300 hours would be generally
Ineeting the earth and would therefore have a relatively hizgh velocity.
“en a meteor would display colors tending toward the blue-green, be
very Oright and the event would be of very short duration. These factors
axe consistent with those contained in the report of the UFO sighting
which took place in Northern Canada at 2300 hours on 13 April 1562.

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is a letter from Air Commodore R. A. Cameron, Canadian
concerning the

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, 18 Bay 1962

Dear Bobs
As a result of our sonvrersation sarlier this yaar

Congerning the detay of ezteollites, ths foliowing account. of a fir<-

ball sighting in Nerthern Canada last wth is provided for your

information, ;
Sskinos cc amar pape at Baker Lake

reported sighting a meteorilke cbject. ab epproximately 11 pun,
25th of April, The duration of the sighting was very chert, Tie

observers were facing south and the object was streaking esross the

sky from am east to west direction, The sky condition ot the tim

of the sighting was clear. The luuinosity of ‘the object resendled
avery bright airsraf light but it appeared slightly larzsr, It
“had an elongated shape and the colour ranged froma bright crenge to
green. The trajectory appoared at appruxiuntely 45 degrees slevi-
tion above tho horizon, Ths co-ardinates of Seker Laks, Nwl,., are
ba 1S9N, 96 OLIN, .

3 This inforustion may be of interest in the event
thet your recorda show that any satellite ig kgoun to have cntersd
, whe simosphere on the date mentioned.

~ Yours sincerely,

(R.. Ae Cree res)
Air Goutvcrrs

rotart A. Beeitwelzor,
Assistant Crieff of Staff Intelligence,
{? 7 at ir Pore
sited States Air Porte,
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Room 4LASGB2 - i: z 8LLag> Qs

Washington 25, 0.C,.