4020N 14210EMisawa AB Japanand reported light formation observation — March 1961

Object extremely large and brilliant in color, was falling vertically downward at a steep angle with one steady glow, changed to greenish-blue to orange as it fell, NO other details observed. PILOT SAID OBJECT APPEARED SHARP IN FRONT BEHIND HIM GIM THEN TRAVELED IN AN ARC OUT FROM HIS RIGHT WING PD ALL THREE OBSERVERS SAID THE OBJECT WAS EXTREMELY LARGE WITH LONG FIREY TAIL PD PILOT SAID COLOR WAS FIERY GREEN TO CONTROL OFFICER SAID COLORS CHANGED FROM WHITE TO GREENISH DASH TO ORANGE AS THE OBJECT FELL OUT OF THE SKY PD TOWER SERGEANT SAID HE ACTUALLY COULD NOT DISTINGUISH COLORS GIM BUT THAT IT WAS VERY BRIGHT PD OBJECT DESCENDED FROM THE SKY AT AN ANGLE A LITTLE OFF VERTICAL GIM POSSIBLY A FIVE DASH DEGREE SLANT PD MOBILE OFFICER OTHER OBSERVER SAID OBJECT DISAPPEARED INTO OR ABOVE THE HORIZON PD MOBILE OFFICER STATED IT DISINTEGRATED INTO LEAST TEN PIECES PD THIS INFORMATION WAS PASSED TO FIVE ALPHA FOUR INDICATIONS CENTER BY TELEPHONE AT TWO ONE ONE ZERO INDIA TO LT PD HE INDICATED THAT HE WOULD CALL ONE OF FIVE INDIA TO COME READ THE INFORMATION.