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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
| 1. DATE 2, LOCATION 12. CONCL USIONS
0 Was Bolloon l |
oO December 1956 | Amherst, Massachusetts:: |O Probably Balloon |
| ‘3. DATE-TIME GROUP rT 4. TYPE OF eS THUATIOR =| 0 Possibly Balloon | |
BE emir do Vi =e a 0 Was Aircraft
Bt pround- Visual 0 Ground-Radar O Probobly Aircraft
22007 ni 0 Air Vi sual O Air-Intercep! Radar O Possibly Aircralt | _ \ |
Local _
|__ GMT. Nf fb = ~~ 0 Air-Intercept Kad
| 5. PHOTOS ~ 4. SOURCE CE “|XDC Was Astronomical (/ 77
OY O Probably Astronomical
Civi lian Co] O Possibly Astronomical
[7 LENGTH OF OBSERVATION "|B. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE ODO Other
DO ' Insufficient Data for Evaluation |
0 Unknown
1 one | SW to NW | =~
10. BRIEF ane ey Ry |11. COMMENTS
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One dark round object, size of a Description, duration, and
basketball at arm's length, Object | manner of disappearance indi-
had an exhaust - ball shaped, taper-| cate sighting was probably
ing to pencil thin, Object was firsjt caused by a meteor,
seen at 30 dgr on, 132 azimuth
| elevati
| and disappeared at 30 dgr elevation, |
35 dgr azimuh, Object flew in a
straight flight path and disappeared
| in an orange-yellow puff of explo- |
N sion, after having been observed | |
: YARGELLY for 1 to 3 seconds. |
"ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)