PROJECT BLUE BOOK

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969

CASE REFERENCE9739127

DATE OF SIGHTINGJanuary 1964

REPORTED LOCATION29 50W177 50W PACIFIC

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| 1. DATE 2, LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
| sa soi ; pry oy f 4 , ) M Was Balloon
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3. DATE-TiME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OSSERVATION | BO Fossily Batloon
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7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | 3. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE ra) Other — a
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not reported | one falling S Unknown
10, BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11, COMMENTS
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to 4,500 Pt where it burned out a just above
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b. CIRVIS REPORT 2. V43185 3. APPEARED TO BE FLARE OR
LARGE METEOR FALLING 4, 339 DEGREES TRUE FROM 29-S2N
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7s STRAIGHT DOWNWARD 8. UNKNOWN 9. WHITISH GREEN AT
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burned out just above cloud deck at about 4500 ft evaluation unknown.
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