USAF record 28967465 (1956)

PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE 5 September 1956

2. LOCATION Olympia, Washington

3. DATE-TIME GROUP Local [ILLEGIBLE] GMT 06/0422Z

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

5. PHOTOS [X] Yes [X] No

6. SOURCE Civilian

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION forty minutes

8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS two

9. COURSE south to northeast

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING white Two round bluish/objects, size of a dime at arm's length. Course of object was from 25 dgr elevation South to 25 dgr elevation Northeast. Objects arced to 30dgr elevation during flight. Objects were observed visually thru binoculars for 40 minutes and disappeared by fading out of sight. Another phenomena was reported which supposedly is related to the sighting i.e., an explosion without any noise and sheet of light following the explosion.

11. COMMENTS Cause of sighting was possibly a balloon. Size, shape, color, wind direction, course, and duration substantiate this hypothesis. The conflicting fact that there were two objects can be accounted for by the possibility of 2 balloons or that thru binoculars a single balloon light could be mistaken for two balloon lights. Concluded that "explosion and sheet of light" is not a potential sighting. Probably shooting star which exploded at 0440Z & rptd by jet pilot.

ATIC FORM 379 (REV 26 SEP '52)