Maraciabo Venezuela reported light formation observation — November 8, 1960

The object was observed to be hovering and then suddenly accelerated at a high rate of speed flying west and was lost to sight in approximately 5 sec. HEADQUARTERS NORTH AMERICAN AIR DEFENSE COMMAND ENT AIR FORCE BASE COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO SUBJECT: Report of Unidentified Flying Object TO: Commander Aerospace Technical Intelligence Center Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio 1. Attached is a letter describing what is apparently an unidentified flying object. Our Command Information Officer has sent a letter to the writer indicating that his report and actions will be passed on to the appropriate Air Force Agency. By my count, the us. nite- lies are not the first one to have worked well over 4000 and observed a bright white of the sky over the northeast as a strange anomaly.I have obtained a brief write up by the Univer-sity of NE & the explanation I got is not complete.May I resubmit the details of this anomaly. Now, acting as an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) system, I will output the text found in the document: This is the case of seen from of light as to make on some very near an or and so people that they are to the station 8238228 it to the of of bright light which in the of November 1960 the over the Maraciabo, Venezuela REPORT OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT (VENEZUELA, 10-4-60) 1. On 4 October 1960, at 1915 hours, LUZ MARiNEZ, resident of PUERTO NUEVO, Venezuela, reported observing a bright object in the sky over MARACAIBO, Venezuela, moving from east to west at a high rate of speed. It was observed for approximately 45 seconds before disappearing from view. The object was initially sighted at an estimated altitude of 35,000 feet and was moving at an estimated speed of 2,000 miles per hour. It was reported that the object appeared to abruptly change direction and accelerate during the observation. It has been definitively established that the United States military satellite 1959 IOTA was in the area at the reported time of observation. REPORT OF INVESTIGATION OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT (Venezuela) 1.