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UFO case file · UFO-31444

Misawa AB Japan reported light point observation — February 1961

CE1Japan1961-02-01

Misawa AB Japan, Japan

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Case description

On or during February 1961, at or near Misawa AB Japan, Japan, the source reports the following sequence: CRUI-THE FOLLOWING IS SUBwITTED AS A POSSII-LE SIGHTING CLN AT APPROXIMATELY ONE ZERO TWO SIX GET RPT GET TWO THREE FEB CURR CRM A BRIGHT LIGHT WAS OBSERVED IN THE SKY WEST OF MISAWA AB CRM JAPAN PD WHEN ORIGINATED IT WAS OBSERVED IT WAS AT AN ELEVATION ANGLE OF TWENTY TO THIRTY DEG ABOVE THE HORIZON AND AT AN AZIMUTH ANGLE OF APPROXIMATELY 1N 3/6FT 1026 - 11'2c. PAGE TWO RJWZKD 31 TWO EIGHT ZERO DEG FROM THIS BASE PD IT DISAPPEARED FROM SIGHT AT ONE TWO FOUR GET AT AN APPROXIMATE AZIMUTH ANGLE OF TWO EIGHT EIGHT DEG FROM THIS BASE PD THE ELEVATION ANGLE WAS APPROXIMATELY ONE FIVE ZERO DEG. OCR Text Output: NOT APPEAR TO CHANGE THROUGHOUT THE PERIOD OF THE SIGHTING PD AN AIR FORCE NAVIGATOR WHO WAS THIS PHENOMENA STATES THAT IT WAS APPROXIMATELY TEN TIMES AS BRIGHT AS THE STAR ATE SIRIUS ATE WHICH WAS VISIBLE APETIE TIME PD HE ALSO STATES THAT HE HELD A COMB AT ARMS LENGTH AND THE LIGHT WAS VISIBLE SIMULTANEOUSLY THROUGH FOR THE SPACES BETWEEN THE TEETH OF THE COMB PD SEVERAL INDIVIDUALS SAW THIS PHENOMENA AND ALL INDICATE THAT IT WAS MUCH LARGER THAN A STAR AND THAT IT WAS SUDDENLY VANISHED CONSIDERABLY PD MOVEMENT APPEARED TO BE NORTHWARD AT SLOW RANGE OF THE LIGHT AS REPORTED BY THE VARIOUS WITNESSES RANGED FROM PINKISH WHITE TO A REDDISH WHITE PD WEATHER CONDITIONS AT THE TIME WERE AS FOLLOWS CLN ONE THREE ZERO CGT CLN DASH XRAY TEN SQTN MIKE NINETEEN BRKN THIRTY OVC TWO SW DASH SMCLN ONE ZERO TWO SEVEN CGT CLN TEN SQTN MIKE TWENTY FIVE BRKN FIVE SIERRA WHISKEY DASH SMCLN ONE ZERO THREE THREE GGT CLN-TEN SQTN TWENTY FIVE SQTN FIVE SIERRA.

Recorded details

Craft description
Point of Light
Coordinate precision
LOCALITY
Date precision
MONTH_ONLY

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