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EASTERN AIRLINES PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

|  1. DATE | 2. LOCATION | 12. CONCLUSIONS  |
| --- | --- | --- |
|  6 March, 1960 | SSW of Evansville, Indiana | ☐ Was Balloon ☐ Probably Balloon ☐ Possibly Balloon  |
|  3. DATE-TIME GROUP Local GMT 0224Z | 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION ☐ Ground-Visual ☐ Ground-Radar ☐ Air-Visual ☐ Air-Intercept Radar | ☐ Was Aircraft ☐ Probably Aircraft ☐ Possibly Aircraft  |
|  5. PHOTOS ☐ Yes ☐ No | 6. SOURCE Civilian | ☐ Was Astronomical ☐ Probably Astronomical ☐ Possibly Astronomical  |
|  7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION --- | 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS One | 9. COURSE Stationary…

AEROSPACE TECHNICAL INTELLIGENCE CENTER
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE
ONHO

REPLY TO
ATTN OF: AFCIN-4X2/Captain McNeill/59117

SUBJECT: Extract from ATIC Duty Officers Report

7 March 1960

TO: AFCIN-4X2

Following is an extract from ATIC Duty Officer, 1/Lt H C Kimball report dated 5 Mar to 6 Mar 60 for your information:

2245 Received telephone message from Capt B. F. Dula, ext 51107, Military Flight Services, W-P AFB. He stated that he had received a report from St Louis ARTC regarding an unidentified sighting by an Eastern Airlines Pilot. Details obtained are as fo…

AFCIN-422

UFO Sighting

Eastern Airlines
Radio City
New York, New York

1. On 7 March 1960, a report of an unidentified flying object by an Eastern Airlines pilot was relayed to Aerospace Technical Intelligence Center from St Louis AATC. The only identification of the witnesses is that they were the crew of Eastern Airlines flight 6403 (or possibly aircraft tail number), and location of the aircraft as northeast bound SSW of Evansville, Ind.

2. It is requested that if the crew of the above flight can be identified from the information, the attached forms be completed by these witnesses and r…

EASTERN AIR LINES
INCORPORATED
MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL
MIAMI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
MIAMI 48, FLORIDA

April 25, 1960

Colonel Philip G. Evans, USAF
Deputy for Sciences and Components
Air Technical Intelligence Center
Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio

SUBJECT: UFO Sighting
REFERENCE: AFCIN-4E2

Dear Colonel Evans:

We regret our delay in acknowledging your letter of March 15 but we have been checking every way possible to determine whether one of our pilots reported the unidentified flying object on March 7.

We do not have an airplane 6403 and we did not have a flight 6403 on the date …