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USAF record 28968211 (1956)

28968211

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

I. DATE 8 November 1956

2. LOCATION Rapid City, South Dakota

3. DATE-TIME GROUP Local [ILLEGIBLE] ONCE GMT 09/0233Z

4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION XX Ground-Visual Ground-Radar [ILLEGIBLE] ONCE Air-Visual [ILLEGIBLE] ONCE

5. PHOTOS O Yes [HW: X] O No [HW: ]

6. SOURCE Military

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION eight to ten seconds

8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS one

9. COURSE SE to ESE

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING One object shaped like flame from jet fighter with afterburner on, colored blue at head shading into orange at tail, Obj appeared 5 to 10 feet long fm approx one mile, Obj was seen as a flame trail--no solid obj was visible. Obj was observed flying at a very high rate of speed, faster than any jet. Obj flew in a straight and level flight path except for a sharp pull-up at the end of the observation when the light west out. Obj was observed visually for 8 to 10 seconds.

11. COMMENTS Probable meteor sighting.

12. CONCLUSIONS O Was Balloon [STAMP:] Possibly Balloon [STAMP:] Possibly Balloon [STAMP:] Was Aircraft [STAMP:] Possibly Aircraft [STAMP:] Possibly Aircraft [STAMP:] Was Astronomical Meteor [STAMP:] Possibly Astronomical Meteor [STAMP:] XX Possibly Astronomical Meteor

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