PROJECT BLUE BOOK

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969

CASE REFERENCE9316264

DATE OF SIGHTINGNovember 1962

REPORTED LOCATIONMadison Tennessee

FRAMES4

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I. DATE
0 Was Balloon
16 November 1962 Madison, Tennessee 00 Probably Balloon
4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Possibly Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP
Local Sround-Visual Ground-Rodar 0 Was Aircraft
00 Probobly Aircraft
GMT 17/0120Z AirVisual Air-Intercept Rador Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE Was Astronomical Meteor
Ys 080 Probably Astronomical
XXNo Civilian Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 9. COURSE Other_
000 Insufficient Date for
17 South Unknown
seconds 2-3
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
Obj like huge star of mag -8 lasting Speed indicates that obj was
about 8 seconds observed to break into meteor. Amature star gazer--
bout third magnitude. should be aware of meteor charac-
Sighted e ving Yellowish wh teristics. Characteristics con-
white. Sighting include pression of form to bolide observation &
explosion in 15 case considered as a probable
seconds whil ving toward the south. meteor sighting.
Estimated tc 15-20 miles away. Gave
impression of reflecting light rather aemea
than being self-luminous. Did not than being self-luminous. Did not
think it was an a/c.
ATIC FORM 329 (REV ATIC FORM 26 SEP 52) 26 SEP 52)
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