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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
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2. LOCATION
20) Sep tember
| 3. DATE-TIME ‘GROUP
1957
Mantauk, N.Y.
0 Ground-Yisuel
O Air Vi sual
| 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION
CONCLUSIONS
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Was Bolloen |
Prebakly Bolloon |
Possibly Bolloon |
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Was Aircraft
§ Fonly Aircraft
Pessibly Aireroft
IrGround-Rodor
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O Air<Intercep! Rodor
ir 5 SOURCE
| USAF
| 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS
apnrox 12 minutes eaact nr not
Radar Units
Was Astronomical
Probably Serna
Possibly gd
Ra dR Tama l funct if mn
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| 9. COURSE X:20ther_
0 ther he Dote for Evaluation |
0 Unknown
275 dgr app |
l10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING “oiven
Two radar untis (one in N.Y. & other
in Pa) observed high speed targets
heading west, Alerted other radar
| units along a pre-plotted track,
| intercepter units ADC) in Michigan &
Wisconsin scrambled to intercept,
| ct made, Nothing unusual seen.
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faded, Radar inve:stirration team
set un
FILS
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| iD to check this incidont,
made in special report(in case file).
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 51)
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“COMMENTS | |
EAeNELE hans disclose that there
was an equipment malfunction in |
first radar unti; when frequency
r/changed, spurious targets disa
termined that two SAC |
a/c were dropping streams of radar|
chaff in area. Also, the targets |
shown in the set were comnletely |
abnormal. //Conclusions: No com-
peiling reason or indications |
that targets wel hostile or enemy
or missiles, |
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