OCR recovered text quality varies — view PDF for accurate reading. . PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD = — = = EE — ee ———— eee EEE p— — | 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS 1. DATE Was Balloon Probably Balloon 5 May 53 Ft Rragg, N.Carolina oly Ba ta fd Possi ol y Bal loon | 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION | Was Aircraft Probably Aircraft Possibly Aircraft | Local — — _ _ _ 0 Ground-Yisual 0 Ground-Radar 16/02577 XO Air Visual O Air-Intercept Radar &. SOURCE — ~ — Was Astronomical Probably A stronomical | Possibly Astronomical vel 1 1 fn O Yes | __ BNo | Military & Civilian | 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE Other_2. — Insufficient Dota for Evaluation ood ooo opo ooo 2 mins/S mins one | North [10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING | 11. COMMENTS Rnd obj, appeared to be slightly lar- | No confirmation of satellite ger than the planet Lars, red-orange. | track; however, sighting is | Traveling at terrific speed, Two rpts, characteristic of orbital obser- |hoth cssentially same w/the exception vation, 1958 Gamma was visible that one estimates the duration as 2 fm 26 Mar - Jun 28 '5H8, Case mins and the other, 5 mins. Both give | considered probable 1958 Gamma the same DTG but no mention is made of] or Sputnik III. observers being together at the time lof observation, Co ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52) EE i