PROJECT BLUE BOOK

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969

CASE REFERENCE8676678

DATE OF SIGHTINGJuly 1962

REPORTED LOCATIONSan Juan Puerto Rico

FRAMES3

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
I. DATE 2 LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
7
o Was Balloon wos Doloon
Jul 62 Jul 62 San Juan, Puerto Rico 000 Probably Probably Balloon Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Passioly Balloon Passioly Balloan
DATE-TIME GROUP
Local Local_ Ground-Vi sual Ground-Vi sual Ground-Radar Ground-Radar o Was Aircraft Was Aireraft
a Probably Aireraft Probably Aircraft
GMT. 05/0133Z 05/0133z AirVisual Air-Intercept Radar Air-Intercept Radar o Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical
Yes D Probably Astronomical
O No O No Military PossiblyAstronomical
7. 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9. COURSE x OtherS OtherSatalli
000 Insufficient Data for Evaluation
Unknown
one one NE VE
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
rNi Er Const Guard of obj duration or alt. Failure to
deserihed'as an orange eolored light give alt indicetes that obj vas
over San Iian atoving NE very slowly. at orbital height. General descrip
Oval shipe. Mlt undeternined.
No track datn avnilable, however,
edse evatunted as Satellite on
limited info presented. .
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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1 DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
O STAFF MESSAGE BRANCH
AF IN : 33496 (4 UNCLASSIFIED MESSAGE Pago 1 of 2'
ACTION: CIN-17 x/Jpr
-
INFO NSA-7, CIA-11, O0P-2,
OOP-CP-1, DIA-8, SAFS-3 11
SMB A 010
MZCZCHQA454ZCBJA016
.''YY RUEAHQ
DE RULAC 009
Y 050130Z
FM COMCARIBSEAFRON
TO RJWFALB/CINCNORAD
RUEAHQ/COFS USAF
RUECW/CNO
RBEKHC/CINCLANTFLT RBEKHC/CINCLANTFLT
RULRSA/72ND BOMBER WING RAMEY AFB ATTN CHIEF INTEL.
Y 050120Z
FM COMGANTS
TO COMCARIBSEAFRONN —
BT
UNCLAS .
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DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
STAFF MESSAGE BRANCH
UNCLASSIFIED MESSAGE
INCO N G
AF IN : 33496 (4 Ju1 62) Page 2 of 2
I. CIRVIS REPORT
2. USCG PERSONNEL
3. ORANGE COLORED LIGHT
A. ONE
B. OVAL. SLIGHTLY LARGER THAN STAR. B. OVAL. SLIGHTLY LARGER THAN STAR.
4. APPROX OVER SJUAN HARBOR HARBOR NEAR NEAR PIER ONE PIER R ONE -
5. 050135Z 5.050135Z
6. ALTITUDE UNDETERMINED UNDETERMINED
7 DOWNWARD 7. DOWNWARD AND AND NORTHEASTERLY ASTERLY
8. VERY SLOW
. NONE
BT NOTE: ADV CY TO CIN, OOP-CP, DIA.
05/0120z
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