USAF record 28959256 (1954)

PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE 5 August 1954

2. LOCATION W. Germany

3. DATE-TIME GROUP Local [ILLEGIBLE] GMT

4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ground-Visual [HW: Ground-Radar] Air-Visual [HW: Air-Intercept Radar]

5. PHOTOS [ILLEGIBLE] Yes [ILLEGIBLE] No

6. SOURCE Military

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 90 Seconds

8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS 1

9. COURSE Other [HW: Insufficient Data for Evaluation] Unknown

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING U.S. Army sergeant and wife observed orange glowing object for appro 90 seconds. Obj traveled at high rate of speed and had a "jerky" motion.

11. COMMENTS Exclusive of the reported time element which could have been mis-calculated, the object was probably a meteor.

This information extracted from AFll2, ATI-1528-54, ATIc 196527, 13 Sep 54. The rpt is on file in the ATIC repository.

ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)

12. CONCLUSIONS Was Balloon [STAMP:] Probably Balloon [STAMP:] Possibly Balloon [STAMP:]

Was Aircraft [STAMP:] Probably Aircraft [STAMP:] Possibly Aircraft [STAMP:]

Was Astronomical METEOR [STAMP:] Probably Astronomical [STAMP:] Possibly Astronomical