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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

|  1. DATE | 12 Oct 60 | 2. LOCATION | Boston Harbor, Massachusetts  |
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|  3. DATE-TIME GROUP | Local 2145 GMT 13/0145Z | 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION | ☐ Ground-Visual ☐ Air-Visual ☐ Ground-Rader ☐ Air-Visual ☐ Ground-Rader ☐ Air-Intercept Rader  |
|  5. PHOTOS | ☐ Yes ☑ No | 6. SOURCE | Civilian  |
|  7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | 2 min | 8. SOURCE | N-S  |
|  10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING | White, starlike object. About as bright as Polaris. Angular speed about a degree and a half per second. The object appeared to come from about 5° E of Polaris, …

STANDARD FORM NO. 64

Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

TO: [redacted]
DATE: Oct. 25, 1960.
FROM: [redacted]
SUBJECT: Observation of Oct. 12, 1960, 9:45 p.m. EDT.

Looks like a pretty definite U.O. Believe the only polar orbits now are 59 Epsilon-2 and 60 Theta. The former was in the vicinity around this time but is very doubtful (unless his time and sky fix is very inaccurate); also this satellite should be very much fainter than Polaris. 60 Theta is a bright object but was way out from the observed time.

His object must have been seen for only 1½ minutes, or else his reported an…

Boston Harbor, Maymonth Fore River, Mass.

October 12, 1960
About 9:45 PM Eastern Daylight Time

Oct. 13, 01 45 U. T.

Plus or minus 10 minutes

About as bright as Polaris

True bearing corrected from compass bearing 5 degrees east when
sighted, angle of elevation about 15 degrees, plus or minus a few degrees
about two minutes

North to South

No

I would guess around a degree and a half persecund.

Star-like

White

No

There appeared to be another object in the near vicinity which was not visible to the naked eye, but which could be seen clearly with 7x50 binoculars, and appeared to be travelling at the same speed.

No

## Binoculars

The object appeared to come from about five degrees east of Polaris, the trajectory continued until the object was slightly east of zenith, and then continued to the south. We were unable to get an accurate southerly bearing. However, it appeared to be slightly east of south as it approached the horizon. It appeared to wobble or occult in a similar manner to the Echo…