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USAF record 28967946 (1956)

28967946

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE 17 October 1956

2. LOCATION Tohatchee, California

3. DATE-TIME GROUP Local GMT 17/1023Z

4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ground-Visual

5. PHOTOS O Yes XO No

6. SOURCE Civilian

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION twenty two minutes

8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS one

9. COURSE west & descending

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING One red egg-shaped object, size of dim at arm's length. Object was initially sighted directly overhead at 1000 foot altitude. Object was moving to the West and ascending and descending(out of sight). Object was viewed visually for 23 minutes.

11. COMMENTS Object viewed overhead and moving west too fast for astro body. Bobbing motion, slow descent, variable winds, and duration indicated that sighting was probably caused by a balloon.

ATIC FORM 329 (REV 25 SEP 52)

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