PROJECT BLUE BOOK

PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE |2
LOCATION 12.
20 February 1963 — CONCLUSIONS
3. DATE-TIME GROUP Lajes, Azores XWas Balloon
Local 4 TYPE OF OBSERYATION 0 0 Probably Balloon
Possibly Balloon
GMT_ 20/0640Z xGround-Visual Ground-Radar Ground-Radar Was Aircraft Was Aircraft
5. PHOTOS 5. PHOTOS Air-Visual 000 00 Probably Aircraft
Ys Y.s 6. SOURCE Air-intercept Radar Possibly Aircraft
No 2ONo — 0 Was Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATICN 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION Military 00 Probably Astronomical
8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9. 9. Possibly Astronomical
5 minutes COURSE COURSE 00 0 Other_
10. one 0 0 Insufficient Data for Insufficient Data for Evaluation Evaluation
bale BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING white Easterly Unknown
object without trail Object without trail or or 11. COMMENTS
sound observed by eight lilitary ilitary Deseription & motion conform tion
personnel on duty. Object balloon sighting. conform to
elevation Nw of airstrip in Easterly 75 dgr 75 dgr west at speed Winds from Winds from
flight which wns described as wavy. this analysis, consistent sith
Sighting during night. Wx partly Sighting during analysis. Possibility of Possibility of
cloudy at same WX partly 60 miles to launch from Horta Naval station
Wind it I0,000 Wind 10,000 elevation (45 dgr). tion. West oRother loca-
290 dgr. ft was 30 knots from Case evaluated as a bal-
loon sighting.
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ACTION: NIN-9
INFO : DIA/CIIC-2 (45).
SMB C189
C HQD5 32 ZCC JB2 35
PP RUEAHQ
DE RUFTQH 74
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P R 201940Z
FM COMUSF ORAZ
T.O RUWGAL/AIR DEFENSE COMMAND ENT AFB COLORADO
RUCDSQ/AIR FORCE SYSTEMS OMMAND FOREIGN DIVISION WRIGHT
PATTERSON AFB OHIO
RUEAHQ/HQ USAF WaSHINGT ON D C RUEAHQ/HQ USAF WASHINGT ON D C
RUEAHQ/SECAF WASHINGTION D C
INFO RUCDAA/MATS SCOTT INFO RUCDAA/MATS SCOTT AFB ILL
BT
UNCLAS
FOR AFCIN, SAFOI, AND INFO MXIN.
UFO ONE SPHERICAL OBJECT SIZE GRAPEFRUIT SIGHTED VISUALLY ISUALLY Y AT LAJES AT LAJES
FIELD 38-46N, 27-06W, BY GROUND OBSERVER A2C PAUL K. WILKINSON, USAF, FIELD 38-46N 7-a6
ATTACHED T0 1605 AIR POLICE SQD. SIUFOWNG REQURTED AT 200640Z AND
VERIFIED BY EIGHT OTHER AIR POLICEMAN ON DUTY. OBJECT WAS PALE
WHITE IN COLOR, LEFT ON TRAIL OR EXHAUST AND EMITTED NO SBUND.
OBSERVER FIRST VIEWED OBJECT NW OF AIRSTRIP AT 075 ANGLE OF ELEVATION.
OBSERVER HELD OBJECT IN SIGHT FOR FIVE MINUTES PRIOR TO ITS
DISAPPERANCE BEHIND CLOUD COVER. DIRECTION OF MOVEMENT EASTERLY,

DEPARTMENT F1 THE AIR FORCE /
STAFF MESSAGE BRANCH
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AF IN : 19425 (20 Feb 63) Pg 2 of 2
PAGE TWO RUFTQH 74
IN A WAVY PATTERN, AND ANGLE OF ELEVATION AT DISAPPERANCE 075.
OBSERVER INDICATED THERE WAS NO RAIN AT TIME OF NIGHT SIGHTING
AND THAT THE SKY WAS PARTLY CLOUDY. THERE WAS NO UNUSUAL
METEROROLOGICAL ACTIVITY. REPORT FROM LAJES AWS FOR 0600Z INDICATED
WIND DIRECTION 160 DEGREES MAGNETIC AND VELOCITY KTS AT SURFACE,
230T AND 9 KTSS
T 6,000 FT AND 290T AND 30 KTS AT 10,000 FT. CEILING
WAS 2700 FT T SCTD WITH CLOUD COVER LESS THAN POINT 5. VISIBILITY WAS
12 MI, TEMP 47F AND THERE WERE NO THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AREA. LAJES
TCC VERIFIED THAT NO KNOWN AIRCRAFT WERE IN AREA AT TIME OF SIGHTING, TCC VERIFIED THAT NO KNOWN AIRCRAFT WERE IN AREA AT TIME OF SIGHTING,
HOWEVER, REPORTING OFFICER, LCDR D. T. LASOWSKI, USFORAZ, BELIEVES
UNKNOWN AIRCRAFT TRANSITING AREA OF SIGHTING IS A DEFINITE
POSSIBILITY.
BT
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