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USAF record 28972298 (1957)

28972298

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE 18 October 1957

2. LOCATION Avon Park, Florida

3. DATE-TIME GROUP Local 1950 GMT 19/0050Z

4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ground-Visual Air-Visual

5. PHOTOS Yes

6. SOURCE Military

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION few seconds

8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS one

9. COURSE SW

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING Stationary object with "in center" white light. Object itself was reddish in color, after a few seconds it went out of sight very fast. Obj had a tail train similar to jet on take off. Second observer seemed to think light just went out rather than moving out of sight.

11. COMMENTS Probable meteor sighting.

ATIC FORM 229 (REV 24 SEP 52)

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