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Gulf Of Mexico, January 1960

Date of account
1960-01
Location
Gulf Of Mexico
Source
uap_archive
Record updated
2026-10-10

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 1.DATE 2.LOCATION 12.CONCLUSIONS 18 January,1960 Culf of Mexico 口 Wes Balioon 口 Probably Balloon 口 Possibly Balloon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 4.TYPE OF OBSERVATION Loca! Ground-Visual Ground-Rodar 口 Was Aircraf: 口 Probabiy Aircraft D Air-Visual DAir-Intsrcopt Radar 口 Possibly Aircroft GMT 5.PHOTOS 6.SOURCE 口 Was Astronomical DY. 口 Probably Astronomicol O-NO Military 口 Possibly Assronomical Anomalous Proo. 7.LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8.NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9.COURSE 口 Othor. 口 Insufficiant Data for Evaluation 18 Seconds One Etow 口 Unknown 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11.COMMENTS Consultation witn Mr. bryant of TDe-l B-52 Radar picked uo object with estimated speed o 10-lh,0c0 mph on collision course and his belief was that the object was at 38,000 ft with heading of 060 deg.Air interference fron within the A/c due speed at time was hho kts. Object bearing to the colision course

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