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NNW of Lebreville, Africa, August 1960

Date of account
1960-08
Location
NNW of Lebreville, Africa
Source
uap_archive
Record updated
2026-10-10

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MILITARY AIR PROJECT 10073RECORDCARD 1.DATE 2.LOCATION 12.CONCLUSIONS 22 Aug 60 NNW of Lebreville,Africa 口 Wos Bolloon 口 Probobly Bolloon 口 Possibiy Balloon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP TYPE OF OBSERVATION 口 Was Aiicroft Locai GroundVisual DGround-Rodar 口 Probably Aireraft 227512 Ai~Viwal Air-lntercptRodor 口 Possibly Aireroft GMT 5.PHOTOS 3.SOURCE 只 Wos Astronomical Meteor aYos ProbablyAstronomicol Military 口 Possibiy Astronomicol 7.LENGTH OF.OBSERYATION 3.NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9.COURSE 口 口 insufficiont Doto for Evgluation 口 Unknown 4sec one S 10.BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11.COMMENTS Round, orange object,size of volley ball. Witnesses probably saw a type of meteor Object exploded in a brilliant flash at an called a"bolide. estimated 20-30,000 ft altitude.After explo- sion a bluish green trail was ooserved which lasted about 2 sec,then changed into a whitish gray could which lasted for 9 min. ATIC PORM

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