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USAF record 28964378

28964378

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE 2. LOCATION Red Oak, Iowa

3. DATE-TIME GROUP Local GMT 18/0122Z

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

5. PHOTOS Yes [No]

6. SOURCE Civilian

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 15 sec obj [ILLEGIBLE] min trail

8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS 1

9. COURSE SW

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING One fast moving soundless obj was observed to explode in the sky. Obj seemed to change colors from white to red to blue.

11. COMMENTS Obj has all characteristics and performances of a meteor. It is felt that time of observation was slightly overestimated. ASIRO (Meteor Sighting)

ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)

12. CONCLUSIONS Was Balloon [HW: Probably Balloon] Was Aircraft [HW: Possibly Balloon] Was Astronomical Meteor [HW: Probably Aircraft] Other, Insufficient Data for Evaluation Unknown

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