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COLD OPEN This is a reading of the record titled “1960 02 6970327 Rome NewYork,” a Project One‑zero‑zero‑seven‑three file dated February nineteen sixty. The document is notable for its detailed observation of an unidentified aerial phenomenon and its accompanying astronomical commentary, now available through the public archive at theblackvault.com. PROVENANCE The file was released to the public via The Black Vault archive, uploaded as part of a Freedom of Information Act release. The record appears under the entry “1960‑02‑6970327‑Rome‑NewYork” and can be accessed at https://archive.org/download/1960-02-6970327-Rome-NewYork/1960-02-6970327-Rome-NewYorkdjvu.txt. No specific FOIA case number is listed; the declassification authority is the United States Air Force, which authorized the public dissemination of the material. THE DOCUMENT PROJECT ONE‑ZERO‑ZERO‑SEVEN‑THREE RECORD CARD PEERS, SESE MCE SS, SE EE 2. LOCATION: TWELVE. CONCLUSIONS: SOBRYARY, ONE‑ZERO‑SIX‑ZERO | ZERO WOS BALLOON NINE, PROBABLY BALLOON THREE. DATE‑TIME GROUP: FOUR. TYPE OF OBSERVATION: SEVEN. OBSERVATION DETAILS: VISUAL – GROUND. GROUND‑RADAR – PROBABLY AEROCRAFT. AIR‑JETERCEPT? – POSSIBLY AEROCRAFT. PHOTOS: SIX. SOURCE: WAS ASTRONOMICAL – YES – PROBABLY ASTRONOMICAL. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION: EIGHT. NUMBER OF OBJECTS: NINE. COURSE: OTHER. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING: ROUND OBJECT SIGHTED SOUTH OF VARGO, HEAD OF OAN AT ISIS. COMMENTS INDICATE A VERTICAL AZIMUTH OF ONE‑NINTH DEGREE TO LSO, DIRECTION EAST. “LOOKED LIKE A MILITARY TRAY.” ATOMIC FORM 3129 (REV 76 5EP 52) – (TEXT OMITTED). OBJECT MOVING IN DIRECTION BETWEEN ONE‑FOURTY AND ONE‑FIFTY DEGREES. DURATION SEVEN MINUTES. ANALYSIS OF ASTRONOMICAL CONDITIONS: Uranus will be a mere 1,618,000,000 miles away on the eighth of February. Pluto will be at a hue more than three billion miles distant at the end of the month. Pluto, at fifteen magnitude, requires a large telescope; Uranus is just at the limit of naked‑eye visibility in the constellation Leo, marked by a small “x” on the southern half of the sky. Mercury’s

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COLD OPEN This is a reading of the record titled “1960 02 6970327 Rome NewYork,” a Project One‑zero‑zero‑seven‑three file dated February nineteen sixty. com. PROVENANCE The file was released to the public via The Black Vault archive, uploaded as part of a Freedom of Information Act release.

Agency: Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Date: JUL 18 · 2026
Release: Declassified · U.S. public record (FOIA)
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COLD OPEN This is a reading of the record titled “1960 02 6970327 Rome NewYork,” a Project One‑zero‑zero‑seven‑three file dated February nineteen sixty. The document is notable for its detailed observation of an unidentified aerial phenomenon and its accompanying astronomical commentary, now…

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What was Reading Of The Record Titled “1960 02 about?: COLD OPEN This is a reading of the record titled “1960 02 6970327 Rome NewYork,” a Project One‑zero‑zero‑seven‑three file dated February nineteen sixty. com. PROVENANCE The file was released to the public via The Black Vault archive, uploaded as part of a Freedom of Information Act release.
Why was this case declassified?: This material was released by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) through the U.S. declassification and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) process. The originating source document is linked in the case notes above so the citation chain is fully auditable.

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