USAF record 28965024 (1956)

PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE 2 March 1956

2. LOCATION Beloit, Wisconsin

3. DATE-TIME GROUP Local [ILLEGIBLE] ONCE GMT 02/2238Z

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

5. PHOTOS No

6. SOURCE Civilian and AF (GOC)

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION one & one half hour

8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS one

9. COURSE. stationary

10. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF SIGHTING: One black oblong object, size unknown, appeared to be at approximately 1,000 feet. The object was seen through binoculars and appeared to remain stationary until it gained altitude and disappeared.

No report in file.

11. COMMENTS: Due to the duration of the sighting and the color of the object it is the opinion of the headquarters that this sighting was possibly generated by a balloon or the pibald type 225 was the time of end of the sighting; it is possible that the observers saw a pibald type balloon released at Beloit at 2100Z; I is unlikely that a balloon would remain stationary for over an hr & then rise; insufficient data for evaluation.

ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 53)

12. CONCLUSIONS: Possibly Balloon [STAMP:] Possibly Balloon [STAMP:] Possibly Aircraft [STAMP:] Possibly Aircraft [STAMP:]