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CASE REFERENCE8724118

DATE OF SIGHTINGSeptember 1962

REPORTED LOCATION37 20N124 08W Pacific

FRAMES8

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FRAME 001 / 008tesseract-200dpi

1. DATE

15 September 1962

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

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2. LOCATION

37.20N 124, 08W

3. DATE-TIME GROUP

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4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
M&M Ground- Vi sual

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18. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE

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10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SICHTING »

bright giving illuminat
daylight for 3 seconds.

Yellowish green flare, meteor,

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CONCLUSIONS -

Wes Bolloon
Probably Balloon
Possibly Balloon

Was Aircraft
Probably Aircroft
Possibly Aircraft

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Probably Astronomical
Possibly Astronomical

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insufficient Dato for Evaluation
Unknown

111. COMMENTS

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NO CASE (INFORMATTON ONLY) 6 Sep 63

Mystery Lights Aboard Ship WY

On September 6, 1962, officials at
Suva, Fiji Islands released information
about strance unidentified lights seen
aboard the deserted Japanese fishing
vessel Toka Maru No. 8, which went
aground on a coral reef near Qelelevu
Island on September 1. Qelelevu lies to
the west of the big island of Vanua Levu.
It was north of Vanua Levu that the
mystery ship, “Joyita” was found after
disappearing while on passage from Sa-
moa to the Tokalau Islands. The Jovita
is now beached at Levuka. ae

On September 2 an official party ap- -
proached the Toka Maru without going
On board. The party comprised racine
Officer Peter Westwood, Mr. J. Mathesc
and a police constable. The officia} ro.
port states that all the Japanese had

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been taken off by another fishing ves.
sel, but that night (Sunda ay) they saw

a light flashing from the direction o:
the stranded ship. They replied to the
light but got no recognizable signal in
return.

The next day the officials went out
to the ship and found no one. No light
was seen that night.

On Tuesday they stripped all elec trica}
gear from the ship and that night saw
a light burning brightly and steadily,

Mr. Westwood commented: “It wag
most uncanny. It was Suggested that
Fijian villagers might have gone on
hoard but there is no boat at Qeleley
The sea was rough and it is a long tbe
to swim. We took bearings on the licht
and it remained constant. Next mor ning
the same bearing reve us the position
of the ship. We could find no explana-
tion for the list.”

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NO CASE (INFORMATION ONLY) 9 sEP 62

Another type of colored substance is the “blue rain” that sprinkled

a thitty-mile stretch of countryside near London on September 9,
1962. Falling without warning from clear skies, it left a blue stain
Inevstigation showed that the substance
art in Britain’s annual giant air show
dye to color their

that wouldn’t wash off,
came from jet planes taking p
at Farnborough. The jets were using the blue
snd make a more spectacular display.

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Object Strikes Irish Field ye

A mysterious object, about the size
of a baseball with four spokes protrud-
ing from it, fell from the sky over county
Wexford, Ireland and made a crater four
fee: in diameter on 8 September 1962.
Residents in the area reported hearing
an explosion within a half-mile radius,
at the time the object fell. It was found
lying on top of a burned-up patch of
yellow clay. Police cordoned off the field

while waiting arrival of military experts
from Dublin, No further details.

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DATS LOCATION OBSERVER EVALUATION

16 33-55N 163.488 ( Pacific) USCG (Matagorda) Insufficient Data
a7 Des Plaines, Illinois - + Se Aircraft

13 - Ft Bragg, South Carolina - Military Muiti Other (FLARSS)

i8 Southern Ohio, Illinois » Mich, Tenn Multi Astro( METEOR)

18 Wake Island |

Other (SATELLITE »

i - Fairfield, Iowa Aircraft

15-24 Hawthorne, New Jersey Insufficient Data

20 Eveleth, Minnesota Aircraft

o Kansas City, Kansas Other (HOAX)

i ~Cato, New York Satellite “i

21 WSW of Biloxi » Mississippi

21 - Fork Union, Virginia

22 - Sidney, Ohio

21 - Newark, New Jersey

22 ~35N 174W (Pacific) Insufficient Data,
ae 23-29 - Iran Insufficient Data

2k - Atlantic . Astro (METEOR)

25 - Arlington Eeights, Illinois Military Aircraft

25 Cairo, Egypt-Israel Astro (METEOR)

27 Chicago, Illinois 3 Insufficient Data

27 Los Angeles, Calidrnia Insufficient Dita

27 Silver Springs, Maryland Other (AFTER IMAGE)

29 Brooklyn, New York Civilian Aircraft

29 Parallon Islands Multi Aircraft

30 ~Dew Line, Alaska Multi Insufficient Deta

ADDITIONAL REPORTED SIGHTINGS (NoT CASES):

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DATE LOCATION

SOURCE )  -EVADZATTON
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Se Universe Science News Ltr a
17 Marysville, Washington Newse pping
26 Richwood, West Virginia Newsclipping
28.29 Covington, Virginia : Newsclipping
29 Twinsburg, Ohio | Newse lipping
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