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This section contains descriptions of unexplained facts provided by eyewitnesses or published in the media, as well as the results of their analysis by the group.

UFO. Netherlands

ID	#1568989641
Added	Fri, 20/09/2019
Author	July N.
Sources	miger.ru газета "Известия" от 19 января 1961
Phenomena	UFO
Status	Hypothesis

Initial data

Initial information from sources or from an eyewitness

Incident date:

16.01.1961

Location:

Северная Голландия

Netherlands

In the night from 15 to 16 January, many residents of coastal Islands in the North of Holland was watched for 15 minutes a large moving ball of fire at an altitude of 15 miles (24 km) and at a distance of 50 miles (80.4 km) from the coast. Now Utrechka Observatory has been studying the phenomenon, which attracted the witnesses.

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Type:

Scanned document

Phenomena:

UFO

"News", 19 January 1961 (jpg, from the samizdat collection)

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Source:

miger.ru

Hypotheses

List of versions containing features matching the eyewitness descriptions or material evidence

Meteor

Meteor, "shooting star" is a phenomenon that occurs when small meteor bodies (for example, fragments of comets or asteroids) burn up in the Earth's atmosphere. A similar phenomenon of greater intensity (brighter than magnitude -4) it's called a fireball.