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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

|  1. DATE | 11 Oct 60 | 2. LOCATION | Organ Pass, New Mexico  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|  3. DATE-TIME GROUP | Local GMT 12/0035Z | 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION | ☐ Ground-Visual ☐ Air-Visual ☐ Ground-Redor ☐ Air-Intercept Redor  |
|  5. PHOTOS | ☐ Yes ☑ No | 6. SOURCE | Civilian  |
|  7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | Not given | 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 8 lights 9. COURSE  |
|  10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING | 8 yellowish lights arranged in 2 triangles of 3 each and followed by 2 in echelon. Travel was slow when first seen. Aprox angular velocity on order of 2000 seconds of ar…

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APCIN-422x

UFO Sighting, 12 October 1960 (Hr)

Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Attn: Mr Warren McCurdy
OPI
Cambridge 33, Massachusetts

1. Reference attached copy of message from Satellite Organ to Satellite, Cambridge, Massachusetts, dated 12 October 1960. This message is concerned with the sighting of unidentified flying objects by Mr. [redacted]. The sighting occurred on 12 October 1960 in New Mexico.

2. The ATIC analysis indicates that the objects of this sighting were probably high flying jet aircraft. The angular velocity reported by Mr. [redacted] results in a linear velocit…

ATIC

FM SATELLITE ORGAN
TO SATELLITE CAMBMASS

12/0300 Z OCT

~~OBSERVED UNIDENTIFIED LIGHTS TRAVELLING FROM SOMETHING TO SOUTH SOUTHWEST AT 0035 UT 12 OCTOBER~~

CONSISTED OF FIGHT YELLOWISH LIGHTS ARRANGED IN TWO TRIANGLES OF THREE EACH AND FOLLOWED BY TWO IN ECHELON TRAVELLING SLOW WHEN FIRST SEEN IN NORTH AND APPROXIMATE ANGULAR VELOCITY WHEN PASSING ACROSS OBSERVERS LINE OF SIGHT ON ORDER OF 2000 SECS OF ARC PER SEC.

RANGE UNCERTAIN

END OF MSG

TRANSMIT FORM NO. 54

Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

TO : Col. Philip G. Evans
AFCIN - 4E2x

FROM : Warren W. McCurdy

SUBJECT: UFO Report

DATE: October 14, 1960

Re attached UFO report from SAO's Baker-Hunn Satellite
Tracking Station at Organ Pass, New Mexico, [redacted], the observer of this UFO, is a professional astronomer and
has worked both with Professor Clyde Tombaugh in searching
for natural earth satellites, and for a period of about
two years with the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
as Station Chief of the tracking station at Sharaz, Iran.
Mr. [redacted] is pre…