OCR recovered text quality varies — view PDF for accurate reading. - -_ % | PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 1. DATE NT TEE hi . LOCATION To ~|12. CoNcLUSIONS — | ver IO Was Balloon mA kes 1 0 rairfield, Utah |D Probably Bolleon [3 BATE Tie GROUP | 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION Local O Ground-VYisual » MAirVisval | 6. SOURCE 5 PROTOS ~- 0 Possibly Balloon |Q Was Aircraft |O Probobly Aircroft O Possibly Aircraft Kx Was Astronomical YENus | O Ground-Rador O Air-Intercept Radar DO Yes | Probably Astronomical BM Xo Military AF Pilot Possibly Astronomicel | 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE Other | approx 25 minutes _ one ho. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING | One object, no discernible outline or features, about the size of a base- ball held at arm's length, Changed coi lors fm blue to white ROFSoRL ands First appeared to be, & ied as a blinking light, The shifot ‘appeared t e at 40,000 feet on an azimuth of *290 dgrs. Obj appeared to have an erratic course in the West, * ATIC Comment: Star Almanac & Epheme cise. y. in position rptd, Files indic dance orratica /. Genera due tic "ATIC FORM 339 (REV 26 SEP 52) &/C ON 1LS axes, ris plot indicate Venus almost pre ite fixed afl; Sifitude, thiougl Or Insufficient Data for Evaluation | o Unknown erratic | [1 COMMENTS | Copy of sraliminaiy sl attachdd,| 'ht- | Due to the duratobn of the sig ing, the position of the UFOB compared w/the position of *Venus at the time of the sighting, the colors of the obj & the circum- stances of the sighting; the obj in question was probably the planet Venus. | bright celestial body | a/c windshield, appears to move | o slight " vawing'" % movement of