34.24S 23.41E, South of Capetown, South Africa, July 1965
- Date of account
- 1965-07
- Location
- 34.24S 23.41E, South of Capetown, South Africa
- Source
- uap_archive
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
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Source text · mention onlyPROJECT 10073 RECORD 1.DATE·TIME GROUP 2.LOCATION :1 2July6502/0015Z 34.24s 23.4lE, South of Capetown, South Africa 3.SOURCE 10.CONCLUSION Civilian Astro (METEOR) 4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS One Evaluated as a meteor observati on. S.LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS 5 Seconds Object observed in SSw moving East at elevation of 35 deg. Object moved in this menner for about 5 seconds at which time 6.TYPE OF OBSERVATION it became stationary and remained so for a further second. Ground-Visual Object turned a light arange and exploded.No sound.Explosion was. estirated to be about 50 NM from observer.Object was shape 7.COURSE ofa sme ll orange, and blue-white in color. Easterly & Exploded 8.PHOTOS Yes KXNO 9.PHYSICAL EVIDENCE 口Yes ONXX FORM FTD SEP630-329 (TDE) Prevlous editions of thie form may be used.
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