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Project 10073 Record Card — Petropavlovsk, USSR, 14 Oct 60

📅 14 Oct 60 📍 Petropavlovsk, USSR 🏛 ATIC 📄 Intelligence Report
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TL;DR

A civilian in Petropavlovsk, USSR, reported a yellow light in the sky on October 14, 1960. Military intelligence concluded the object was likely an artificial satellite, though it could not be positively identified.

This intelligence report, dated October 19, 1960, documents a sighting of an unidentified aerial phenomenon in Petropavlovsk, Northern Kazakhstan, USSR, which occurred on October 14, 1960. Between 1900 and 2030 hours local time, a civilian witness observed a 'good sized yellow light with vapor around it' moving toward the East. The witness was alerted to the object by someone running into their house shouting 'Sputnik!'. The object was observed for several minutes before it was lost behind an overcast sky. The report, prepared by Colonel T. F. Hoffman of the Army Attache, notes that while the object's movement, duration, and appearance through the haze were characteristic of an artificial satellite, it could not be correlated with any known satellite in orbit at that time. Despite the lack of a specific correlation, the official conclusion reached was that there was sufficient information to assume the object was a satellite. The report was distributed to British, Canadian, and French military attaches in Moscow.

They ran out into street. They saw a good sized yellow light with vapor around it.

Official Assessment

Although the movement of the object, the description as seen through a haze of light overcast, and the duration are characteristic of an artificial satellite, it cannot be correlated with a known satellite to be in orbit at the time of the sighting. The elevation when first and last observed was not reported, precluding a valid conclusion as to the satellite observed, however sufficient information is available to assume that it was a satellite.

The object was likely a satellite, though it could not be correlated with a specific known satellite in orbit at the time.

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