SE of Paine Field, Washington, January 1961
- Date of account
- 1961-01
- Location
- SE of Paine Field, Washington
- 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 2.LOCATION 12.CONCLUSIONS 1.DATE 口 Wos Balloon 15 Jan61 SE of Paine Field, Washington 口 Probably Bolloon 口 Possibly Bolloon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 4.TYPEOF OBSERVATION 口 Was Aircraft 2227 口Ground-Visual Ground-Rodar Local 口 Probobly Aircraft 1606272 Ai~Visual Air-lntercept Rador GMT 6.SOURCE 口 Was Astronomicol 5.'PHOTOS 泊 Probobly Astronomical aYes Possibly Astronomical No Military 8.NUMBEROFOBJECTS9.COURSE 口 Other- 7.LENGTH OF.OBSERVATION 口 Insufficient Data for Evaluation 口 Unknown 5 sec 1 1. coMMENTsNo satellites reentering at size of basketball. Resembled a strong spot- this time.Description and duration are characteristic of a meteor. Brightness light.Then it exploded and a large part of the sky was lit up. There was considerable eorapge and explosion suggest that object and some blue coloring in explosion. No sound was a fireball which exploded before it at35,0
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