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USAF record 28964584 (1956)

28964584

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE 18 January 1956

2. LOCATION Itazuke, Japan

3. DATE-TIME GROUP Local GMT 18/0100Z

4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION ☐ Ground-Visual ☐ Ground-Radar ☒ Visual ☐ Air-Intercept Radar

5. PHOTOS ☐ Yes ☐ No

6. SOURCE Military

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 45 SEC

8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS one

9. COURSE southerly

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING White, appearing to have shape of project balloon at 40000 ft., moving fast. No smoke, no contrail.

11. COMMENTS Object moving in opposite direction of sighting. Probable balloon sighting.

12. CONCLUSIONS ☐ Was Balloon [REDACTED] ☒ Probably Balloon [REDACTED] ☐ Possible Balloon [REDACTED] ☐ Was Aircraft [REDACTED] ☒ Probably Aircraft [REDACTED] Possibly Aircraft [ILLEGIBLE]

[STAMP: ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)]

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