USAF record 28976059 (1957)
28976059
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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE 12 December 1957
2. LOCATION Great Neck, Long Island, N.Y.
3. DATE-TIME GROUP Local 1600 EST GMT 12/2100Z
4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ground-Visual [HW: Ground-Radar] Air-Visual [HW: Air-Intercept Radar]
5. PHOTOS [X]Yes [X]Not Recd [X]No
6. SOURCE Civilian
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 5 minutes
8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS one
9. COURSE straight up
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING Square, yellow object, size of basketball with tentacles coming out of object. Was giving off smoke and a humming sound. Was stationary, then shot across sky, came back and went straight up.
11. COMMENTS Source gives no azimuth, bearings or direction of object. Without this data cannot conclude. It was showing any object can take on weird appearance through snow.
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 53)
12. CONCLUSIONS [REDACTED] Was Balloon [REDACTED] Probably Balloon [REDACTED] Possibly Balloon [REDACTED] Was Aircraft [REDACTED] Possibly Aircraft [REDACTED] Possibly Balloon [REDACTED] Was Astronomical [REDACTED] Probably Astronomical [REDACTED] Possibly Astronomical [REDACTED]
Other: Insufficient Data for Evaluation Unknown
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- Page 1 PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 1. DATE 12 December 1957 2. LOCATION Great Neck, Long Island, N.Y. 3. DATE-TIME GROUP Local 1600 EST GMT 12/2100Z 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ground-Visual [HW: Ground-Radar]…
- Page 2 12 Dec 57 Witness Shear Rock & L, NY 13 Dec 57 14 26 [HW: D4E4] [HW: 3 +x2a] [HW: atic] INSUFF DATA SQH023 SQF120 YDB122 TYB242 TMB102 NYA039 RR RJEDDN RJEDSQ RJEPHQ RJEPNB DE RJEPNY U R 181338Z
- Page 3 [STAMP:] TH 2SADLV TO RJEDDN/COMDR ADC ENT RJEDSG/COMDR ATIC RJEPHQ/AC S INTEL HQ USAF INFO RJEPHB/COMDR EADF BT UNCLAS/FROM OIN EQPTM SUBJ: UFOB 1. DESCRIPTION: A. SQUARE [REDACTED] B. BASKETBALL…
- Page 4 6. IDENTIFYING INFO OF ALL OBSERVERS: A. [REDACTED] AGE -34, [REDACTED] RD GREAT NECK, NEWSDAY REP B. N/A 7. WEATHER: A. BROKEN CUMULUS WITH SCATTERED SNOW [HW: Note showing] 7. SURFACE 318 DEG 12 KT…