5 Mi NW of Big Delta, Alaska, July 1960
- Date of account
- 1960-07
- Location
- 5 Mi NW of Big Delta, Alaska
- Source
- uap_archive
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
Project Blue Book case file indexed from National Archives metadata; page-level review pending.
Published source text
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Source text · mention onlyPROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 12.CONCLUSIONS 2.LOCATION 口 Was Balloon 00 Probably Balloon 1.DATE 5mi NW of Big Delta, Alaska Possi bly Balloon 8Ju1 60 口 Wos Aiicraft 4.TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ground-Rodar 口 Probqbly Aireraft 口 Possibly Aireraft 3.DATE-TIME GROUP Ground.Visual Air-lntercopt Rodar α Wes Astronomical Meteor Local D Ai~Viswel 09/06452 口 Probably Astronomical GMT 6.SOURCE 口 Possibly Astronomical S.PHOTOS Civilian 口 Other. 9.COURSE 口 Insufficient Data for Evqluation RNo 8.NUMBER OF OBJECTS 口 Unkno wn descending 7.LENGTH OF OBSERVATION one 5-10 sec 11.COMMENTS Probably a daylight meteor. 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING Brilliant yellow flash with large trail of heavy black smoke with varying degrees of intensity, trail larger than flash.Trail of smoke several miles long,then object dipped toward earth and burned out instantaneously after flash. ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP S2)
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