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CASE REFERENCE9317018

DATE OF SIGHTINGApril 1963

REPORTED LOCATIONSuva Fiji Islands

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

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. DATE be el ~ 12 LOCATION we “TS CONCLUSIONG) ee Sea
Sy § a i O Was Balloon
3 April 1963 Suva, Fiji Islands __ O Probably Balloon
"3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION QO Possibly Balloon
Locet 0300 &KGround- Vi sual O Ground-Redar = Babeuly Aleesels
GMT 02/1520Z 0D Air Vi suol oO Air-Intercept Rodor 0 Possibly Aircroft
5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE ae a, ee MX Was Astronomicol Meteor
O Yes oO Probably Astronomical
&&No +o ; : Civi tas x Js 8 5 ah: Ca ee QO Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE EE 9 [5 ge Tec eeantY,o: See eeee
0D Insufficient Dato for Evaluation
| QO Unknown
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10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHT 4G 11, COMMENTS
Light, yellowish color which intensi- Short duration tends to rule
Fied as obj came closer until night out decay. Met etear Sizbbing—
WAS aS bright as full moonlight approath- Pele xe ee
ing fm N. .Crossed field of vision in | : >
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into ses, Generni direction fm NW to SE. ! j i
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body. Blue, Light biue and yellow white fae tg —
at tail, Although obj appeared very | PF Ry. 2) .
close no sound heard, Also sighted ‘e & péliceman,&other local
residents, Also fas greon wl£i eru 9 , !
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MANY PEOPLE SAW FIERY 'SPACS SHIP! OVER FIIT

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A Tamavua housewife woke about 3.30 a.m. yestertor moraine ant
gazed straight through her window into what appeared to bs a ball of
fire in the sxy over Bega, moving towards Lucala Esa:,

WS. ae at was a frightening expcrieccs,. The
Sight was "“alnost horrible",

"I woke my husband, who cot out of bed quicidy tut cen reze
the window the objsct hed disarpeared", she saic,

"He said I had been dreaming, out I insisted that I tad exc:
ball of light."

But about 10 sin. earlier three Fijien rolsc 2 resort
eceing the object. The Za revort came to Dj 1 S Df telenho: ;

Members of the RZAP also sighted the object etout 3.30 2.5, T
agreed that it was moving in a south-sastenly Girection,

A Lautoke messase states that reports of strance objects "Lalis

vo the Fiji Group" had been confirmed by men in th: Royel Navy susve:
ship HS Cook yesterday, Men of HS -Cook told the Siji tines at Leute’
that about 3.20 a.m. a large object fell from the Sizy into the sea when

the ship was anchored in the northern Yasava Group.

An oificer said thet at that time the sxy was lit by a source which
was like moonlight Sut on close observation appeared to be the tri t
light of a falling object,

HS Cook was bound for Lautola after duty observation alonz the
Royal .route on which the Queen anc the Duke of Edinburgh travelled lest
week.

The ship was anchored off Rownd Island and duty men>ers of the crey
saw a bright object felt from the sky in a southerly direction, An

officer on watch said it looted to hin like "A classics”, example of a

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Enclosure 1
8s APPEARANCE: The object was of tear-drop shapes, massive compared
to the usual metcor, and comparable in s + to a "Lendr over", With @
teil approximately two thirds longer than the body. Against the bteck-
ground of the yellow sky the nose was of a deep brilliant? blue colour,
this colour gradually turing along the lenzth of the body throuca
light blue to stra and ending up yellor white at the tail. The
luminosity was such that the tops of clouds were lit up and the Cbhserver
did not need to use ertificial light.
9. WSATHDR: The only weather revorting station in the area is at
| Lauthale Bay. Its 3 a.m. obsexvation was:

43 Cumulus, base 2000 feet.

Wind calm.

Visibility 40 miles,
10. DSUs SGRATION: The object disintesrated in level flicht, At this
stage it wes goings eaoy from the Obssrvser and epptarcd to flere up ove:
& period of 2 seconcs by anproxinmately half of its oricinal brichtness
then scatter picces over an apparent trail length of 150 fest, those
pieces gradually lising their brillicnes ani eppsaringe to fall into the
sea. Although the cbject enpcared very close, no sounds were heard,
di. CORROBORATICH: Toere were no other witnesses with the Observer,

(Sgd) F. Rowe

(F.E.A, ROW)
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9 APR 63

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PI dle ccccccccccsescccecscesse Dr cs 1963
A number of nervsnepers resorted that cn
|»pril 3 a spectacular UFO was seen over
Fiji. The Last Anglian Tisxes in its Apr
L, issue described the cvent cs Icllows:
"4 huge fiery ubject like e space-
shin was reported over the Fiji Islands
yesterday by men cf the Royal Nev, the
Reyal. New Zealand saF, volicemen and ci- +.2s1FLD
viliens. sn officer on the survey ship
HiS Cook stid it looked 'likea classical
| exampLe of a Holiywood space ship.' It
glowed with a creen-white light and had
3 TORE fiery orange tail."

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Fiji Has A Fireball

On the 3rd of April 1963 Mrs. A. E.
Kennard, a Tamavna housewife, woke
about 3:30 a.m. and gazed through her
window at what appeared to be a ball
of fire in the sky over Beqa. It appeared
to be moving toward Laucala Bay. She
said it was “horrifying.”

Ten minutes earlier three Fijian po-
licemen at Ba had reported seeing a
similar object and at 3:30 a.m., members
of the Royal New Zealand Air Force
also saw the object. Men on HMS ship
Cook had reported seeing strange ob-
jects “falling into the Fiji Islands group”
at about 3:20 a.m. the same morning.
They said they watched a huge fireball
fall into the sea while they were anchor-
ed in the northern Yarawa group. An
officer reported that at the time the
area was bathed in a light as bright as
moonlight which seemed to be coming
from a falling object. Another officer
said the falling object looked to him
“like the classic example of a Hollywood
spaceship.” It was glowing with a bright
greenish-white light and had an enorm-
ous, long fiery orange tail.

The same or a similar object was re-
ported by several people at Lakota.