PROJECT BLUE BOOK

f PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE 2. LOCATION 172. CONCLUSIONS
0 Was Balloon
l November 1962 Africa Q Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE GF OBSERVATION B Pessimy Carson
O Was Aircraft
Local *{XGround- Vi sual O Ground-Roder QO Probobly Aircroft
cmt__01/15302Z 0 Air Vi sual O Air-Intercept Redor |7 Possibly Aircroft
5S. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE 0 Was Astronomicol
O Yes 0D Probably Astronomical
MKNe Civilian 0D Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE D Other_C Levu)
DO Insufficient Dato for Evaluation
: O Unk
20 minutes one East ey
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS

Object resembling small cloud rising in From description object was

West moving to the East changing probably a Noctilucent cloud,
course slightly to the North where it

disappeared. Round mass that stayed
together. Night clear with moon, Smoky
Silver or colorless object. Shape var-
ied slightly though mass remained the
same. Disppearance due to loss of

reflection of the sun's rays, Believed
to be a cloud of some sort,

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ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)

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2: y. ( Chalis Vie “turmuk
Sudan E, Afr
Novembei
tonic Testing Conmis sion
it ,Cape Canaveral, Florida
+ Ue Se Ae Chali, via Kurmuk
Sudan EK. Africa
( ) Dear Sirs: Nov 7, 1962:
| 7,
Z thotight you night be’ tpessistea in a strange phenomena we witnessed over-
V2 Read on the 1st of. this month. Also, perhaps. you could give;us some information -
or explanation. io what we ‘Sey. i shall try to explain it.
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ae | About 7:50, Vp tl... We morieed what at first Eeenied. rays a sma 1 cloud arise
ager. in the West. 1ty gradually worked its ‘way, overhead, then seened to change course.’

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| clear and starry with a sliver of moon.

7 ie; Bn nd go North: where! it gradually pieepyeared fron view: though it had only gone
rw ea little weys North.

From the tine first saw at until it disappeared. was’ @«
possible babe nineties 4 aS 2.58

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‘It Was @° round MASS, mek like e,. cloud and stayed tosether.

pane Aapse of

The night was
To get an estimate of size we-held.up

>a 6 inch saucer and moved back to where we could see it just covered the mass,

vheight of the*formation, though it was much higher th
sonewhat like a moon though it did not retain one constant shape,

From where we stood to the saucer wes twelve feet. We'd have no idea on the
hen clouds and appeared ,

As for
colour it appeared almost as colourless, or @. smokey silver. | ta

sat i
e The sun had aot at about 5:50, our Vines which would be 15430 GMT;, thus was

* +70 hours down’when we first noticed the "cloud", I supposed that: the mass wes
travelling Eastward around the earth and as it came overhead wes getting out
“of the rays of the sun, hence was disappearing to our view, but why would it

a appear to raves north before it disappeared?

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wees The Peaction OF some .of the local ‘people’ was ‘somewhat huthorous.
thought it was a "spirit" of somekind and were scared out of their wits

Could this have been the "cloud" formed by the weter that was releas fod by
That seems the most logical explanation, however,
“we wondered if it could have been a mass of radioactive fallout from a recent
“test? It did not disintecrate when disappearing, the last we saw of. it it
still retained the same size and anes

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I would aoorecints hearing from you if you ae any explanation for this,

We are missionaries in ‘the Republic of the Sudan, situated about 10 Segreor

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