PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS 0 Woa Balloon 0 Probably Balloon DATI!TIM! GROUP TYPE OP oaSEAVATION Po asi bl y Boll oon 0 Grounti-VIaual 0 Groun4Rodar 0 Was Aircraft a Probably Aircroft IXAI,..VI.,ol 0 Alr-lntorcopt Rodv Po aai bl y AI rcroft Was Astronoml col ~teor . Military Probably Aatronomlco 0 Possibly Astronomical 7. LENGTH OP OaSUV.ATION HUMBER Of' OBJECTS 9. COUASI!! 0 0 Insufficient Dcrta for Eval"atlon few s e c one &RIEP SUMMARY OP SIGHTlHO 11. COMMENTS Large bright explosion of small object ob servec Sighting has characteristics f or a few sec. erved from a MATS plane abo~t observation. ~i in front of the a/~ on a course NE- SW. ':b.iect without t a i l . Jb servers at 8ooo ft. ~bJ~ct appeared to be about 7000 . ATIC POitM Ut (lt&Y 2t laP 52) PRECEONCE IACTIONI RC:LEASED BY DRAFTED BY OOF'Rh T T l1~l o 1 Tl't11~Frl T ~ Ti=' OPERA T IC~AL U1M Ji TE FM CO~NAVMARIANAS TO RJMALB/ 13AF INFO RBE P\~/C NO RBHPB/CINCPACFLT OP-CP-1, SAFS-3 lNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT !. ?!LOT OF MATS 20996 PATE SIGHTED OBJECT DESCRIBED AS 2. LARGE BRIGHT EXPLOSION OF SMALL OBJECT o OBSERVED F'OR FE'I! SECO~ms PR lOR TO EXPLOSION ON N::-sw COURSE APPROX 30 t-1 I IN FRmJT OF A/C. OBJ::CT WITHOUT TAlLo 3. SIGHTED FROM AIRCRAFT AT 8000 FT, TIME 281850Z, POSIT 13-42N 144-20E. OBJ::CT APPEARED TO BE AT 7000 FT ALTo JUST AEO'IE LOW CLOUD LAY2R. . 4. PLANE ETA CLARK 290125Z. NO~: Adv cpy del to CIN l815L. BFR CMC JCS CSA CSAF CIA COGARD OIA OIRNSA OSD/ISA ////ADVANCE COPIES DELIVERED//// CONTROL NO. CIRCUIT NO. TIME OF RECEIPT DATE TIME GROUP U F 0 ANALYSIS SHEET DATE TIME GROUP PHOTO YES NO A-\. PHYSICAL SPECIMEN YES NO X.-: SOURCE MILITARY X~r CIVILIAN TYPE OF OBSERVATION _ .:.ir V:.~u l OF OBSERVATION F_e_:r _S_c_c_on_a_ s _ NUMBER OF OBJECTS One COURSE _"_, _ METEOR Prob.:.bl.y REFLECTION _ INVERSION PRESENT --- LENTICULAR CLOUD--- PHOTO ANALYSIS------------ PHYSICAL SPECIMEN ANALYSIS------ BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING: Observers ~t S,COO ~t. ~oject ap;ear ed to be abou t 7, 000. v-:.,ject dthout t a i l . EVALUATION: CONCLUSION: Sighting has the chare..cterist:!.cs of ~ r.~eteor obs erv tion.