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USAF record 28964620 (1956)

28964620

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE 21 January 1956

2. LOCATION at sea 215 Mi SE of Burmuda

3. DATE-TIME GROUP Local [REDACTED] GMT 21/0804Z

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

5. PHOTOS No [ILLEGIBLE] ONCE

6. SOURCE Civ ships officer

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8 seconds

8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS one

9. COURSE North

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING One object round, colored like a star. However, when object turned to North it had a tail which was like a red flame. Its length was about five times the diameter of object. Object traveled at high rate of speed and constant until it disappeared. No change in speed.

11. COMMENTS Meteor sighting. Apparent change in course could be caused by passage of object into atmospheric conditions conducive to distortion, such as an inversion. Also burning appeared to be in two phases, initial glow and then burning with tail.

STAMP: ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)

12. CONCLUSIONS Was Balloon [ILLEGIBLE] ONCE Possibly Balloon Possibly Balloon Was Aircraft Possibly Aircraft Possibly Aircraft Was Astronomical [ILLEGIBLE] ONCE Possibly Astronomical (METEOR) Other Insufficient Data for Evaluation Unknown

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