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USAF record 28974810 (1957)

28974810

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PROJECT 100/3 RECORD CARD

1. DATE 1. November 1957

2. LOCATION 20 MI NE of Hill City, Kansas

3. DATE-TIME GROUP Local [ILLEGIBLE] Z

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

5. PHOTOS [HW: No]

6. SOURCE Military

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8-9 minutes

8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS one

9. COURSE rising

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING Object shape of foot ball with rounder ends, Size of pen, Metallic silver grey, becoming brighter during movement, Had a brighter ring around the oval running horizontally across it, but not extending beyond the edges of the oval The ring similar to that around the planet Saturn Object was stationary for about 1 minute then moved to follow another B-47 remaining stationary over the B-47 for about 1 minute Then rose vertically until disappeared.

11. COMMENTS Venus was observed to be quite bright by ground observers at Dyess AFB The position of the observer's a/c in relation to the planet Venus could have caused the sighting.

ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP '52)

12. CONCLUSIONS Was balloon [HW: Possibly Balloon] Probably Balloon [HW: Possibly Balloon] Aircraft [HW: Possibly Aircraft] Probably Aircraft [HW: Possibly Aircraft] Was Astronomical Object [ILLEGIBLE] Other Insufficient Data for Evaluation Unknown

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