Radiosonde Falls In Japan
<N 2. Press Association —Com/nani- ' TOKYO, January 8 A Soviet radiosonde believed from a Russian rocket or sputnik fell on a farm near the city of Asahikawa, Northern Japan, shortly before dawn today, the Defence Board announced. A radiosonde is used to transmit data about atmospheric conditions from high altitudes. Radio specialists from the Ministry were flown from Tokyo to investigate the object, covered in thick rubber.
A Ministry spokesman said the radiosonde was a more complicated piece of equipment than the instruments usually carried by weather balloons. The Ministry spokesman said scientists tracing back the direction of the fall of the radiosonde were convinced the instrument formed part of some type of equipment launched on the Vladivostok or Khabarovsk area of Siberia.
The radiosonde might have formed part of a Russian intercontinental ballistic missile (1.C.13.M) or a sputnik—or less likely an ordinary weather observation balloon. The instrument was found by a farmer who had just got out of bed to begin his day’s work when the radiosonde landed.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28481, 10 January 1958, Page 3
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