Wheelus AB, Tripoli, Libya, December 1960
- Date of account
- 1960-12
- Location
- Wheelus AB, Tripoli, Libya
- 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 onlyPROJECT10073RECORD CARD 2.LOCATION 12.CONCLUS!ONS 2 Dee 60 Wheelus AB,Tripoli, Libya Was Bailoon 口 Probably Bolloon 口 Possibly Balioon 3.DATE-TIAE GROUP 4.TYPEOF OBSERVATION Locol. 0000 DGround-Visuel Ground-Rodar 口 Was Aiicraft 口 Probably Aircraft 2216z GMT DAirVisuol DAir-lntercap Rador 口 Possibty Aircraf 5.PHOTOS 6.SOURCE 谷 Was Astronomical OYes Military Probably Asronomical Metoom 口 Posaibly Astronomicol ONo 7.LENGTH OF.OSSERVATION 3.NUMBEROF OBJECTS 9.COURSE 口 Orher. 口 Insufficient Dato for Evoluation 5-6 sec one N-S or SII-SE 口 Unknown 10.BRIEF SUAMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS A ball of flane with tapering flaming tail 6 lo a/e in area.Deseription and duration tines diameter of ball. Ball vas fire orange; charaeteristic of meteor.Sputnik Iv tail,lighter shade of orenge to yellow.Observel reentry this date; however dexeription aaking visual weather observation, noticed and durationi
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