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Midway Island (Pacific), January 1961

Date of account
1961-01
Location
Midway Island (Pacific)
Source
uap_archive
Record updated
2026-10-10

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Record summary

Project Blue Book case file indexed from National Archives metadata; page-level review pending.

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 1.DATE 2..LOCATION 12.CONCLUSIONS 28 Jan 61 口 Was Balloon Midway Island (Pacific) 口 Probably Balloon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 口 Possibly Balloon 4.TYPE OF OBSERVATION Local 0620 Ground-Visual Ground-Rodar 口 Wos Aircraft 口 Probably Aircroft GMT 281720Z AirVisual D Air-Intercept Radar 口 5.·PHOTOS 6.SOURCE 口 Was Astronomical OYes 口 Probably Astronomical XXNO Military 口 Possibly Astronomical 7.LENGTH OF.OBSERVATION 8.NUMBEROF OBJECTS9.COURSE 口 Other. Insufficient Dato forEvaluation 口 Unknown E 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING Blue-White ObjeCt With 1. coMMENTsAlthough the description and short bright tail.Object about 20° above the flight path of the object is character- horizon proceeding left to right.Estimated istic of a meteor,there is insufficient extremely high. data on which to form a valid conclusion ATIC FORM329(REV 26SEP 52)

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