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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

|  1. DATE | 9 Sep 60 | 2. LOCATION | 111 mi E of Kansas City, Missouri  |
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|  3. DATE-TIME GROUP | Local 2121 GMT 10/0221Z | 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION | ☐ Ground-Visual ☐ Air-Visual ☐ Ground-Radar ☐ Air-Intercept Radar  |
|  5. PHOTOS | ☐ Yes ☑ No | 6. SOURCE | Military  |
|  7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | not given | 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | one  |
|  9. COURSE | vertical descent | 10. COMBINED SAMPLE | ☐ Other ☐ Insufficient Data for Evaluation ☐ Unknown  |
|  11. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING | A brilliant "shooting star" phenomenon with a beginning b…

DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
WASHINGTON 25, D.C.

12 Sep 60

REPLY TO
ATTN OF: AFPDP

SUBJECT: Unidentified Foreign Object

TO: Aerospace Technical Intelligence Center
Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio

The undersigned was pilot in a T-33 aircraft flying at 33,000 feet altitude (indicated) on a magnetic heading of 230° on radio 111 from Kansas City VOR at 2121 EST, 9 September 1960, approximately 60 miles east of Kansas City, and observed the following:

A brilliant "shooting star" phenomenon occurred with a beginning burn trace approximately 30° above the horizont…