USAF record 28957311
28957311
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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE 10 JAN 54
2. LOCATION WEST MINSTER, MD
3. DATE-TIME GROUP Local 1 AM GMT 10/0500Z 10/0800Z
4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ground-Visual [HW: Ground-Radar] Air-Visual [HW: Air-Intercept Radar]
5. PHOTOS [HW: Yes] [HW: No]
6. SOURCE civilian
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 1.30 seconds [ILLEGIBLE] minutes
8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS One
9. COURSE East 2.
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 1. Round spinning ball with erratic though straight flight. Flight W to E about 30 sec green & red fire. Exploded. 2. At 3AM in West, Round, White, Blinked object stationary.
11. COMMENTS Meteor Jupiter in West at 35°
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
CONCLUSIONS: Was Balloon Possibly Balloon Possibly Balloon Was Aircraft Possible Aircraft Possible Aircraft Meteor Was Astronomical Jupiter Probably Astronomical Probably Astronomical Other Insufficient Data for Evaluation Unknown
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- Page 1 PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 1. DATE 10 JAN 54 2. LOCATION WEST MINSTER, MD 3. DATE-TIME GROUP Local 1 AM GMT 10/0500Z 10/0800Z 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ground-Visual [HW: Ground-Radar] Air-Visual [HW:…
- Page 2 [HW:] On January 10th, 1954 at about 1:00 [HW:] Am., a stripe of startling, brilliant [HW:] green unfurled from left to right toward the left with three bursts [ILLEGIBLE] furled a certain distance;…
- Page 3 [HW: Even though it seemed to dip about 3 yds.] [HW: at times. This went on for approximately] [HW: 25 min. I had a daughter take a look] [HW: at the sky then, not telling her what] [HW: it was. I…
- Page 4 ``` the round object had been [REDACTED] a black void. All around that were somewhat loosely floating white puffy of smoke. They nothing! It all took, about a half-minute or so. It was warm and still…
- Page 5 may consider me 'crazy', so to speak, and who knows, maybe they would be right. Yet, sometimes, though these things are not exciting to us anymore, as we did begin occasionally, to see the things)…
- Page 6 similar glow of light, like night before the colors of the sunrise appear, and everything is silhouetted against it. [REDACTED] [HW: Too bad, someone can't come out here and watch, and see,…
- Page 7 in what have you singing, dancing, or gliding up and down. [HW: Very sincerely yours,] [HW: (Mrs.)] Westminster, Md.
- Page 8 Southern Sky: [REDACTED] [HW:] [STAMP:] 1:00 A.M. Date: 12, 1954 Light behind farm
- Page 9 MANASSAS, VA 10/06/22 15 647TH AIRCRAFT CONTROL AND WARNING SQUADRON Manassas, Virginia 18 FEB 1953 SUBJECT: Unidentified Flying Object TO: Commander Air Technical Intelligence Center…
- Page 10 PAGE TUP OF ZSC /2/ A. HAPPENED TO BE LOOKING OUT WINDOW JUST HAPPEN TO SEE IT THE BRIGHTNESS OF IT B. NO AVAILABLE INFORMATION C. UNK D. FLYING IN THE ARC OF A RAINBOW STOOD STILL FLYING SSW TOWARDS…