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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
Disintezrated very
of thread at arms length,
south end of the trail. Observered through BX,
rapidly. No objec$ at end of
this trail. Moved BX southward, saw a brillian
golden object or light. No sound. Object sf fgié
estimated over 10 miles distance. Trail size
l. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
: 0 Wos Balloon
10 July 1954 omerset, Penna O Probably Balloon
3. OATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 2 hae eee
9205 :
Local a03? 2IX Ground- Vi sual BX DO Ground-Rodor O Was Aivcroft
11/0 Q Probably Aireroft
GMT 1552 O Air Vi sual 0 Air-Intercep? Rodor QO Possibly Aircroft
5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE O Was Astronomical
O Yes Ss O Probably Astronomicol
ra) No CIVILIAN 0D Possibly Astronomical
: ONTPAT
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE S other CUT TRALL |
0 Insufficient Dote for Evaluction
15 Seconds 1 O Mexnewn
10, BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
Short vapor trail over western horizon. Golden
in sunlight, with a brilliant object et the Evaluated as a contrail
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SFP 52)
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Al*thourch T am coenizan* of the fact tyat ih will do no cnad t9
senda son the follo-rine onesible 7.7.9. sich int, Sinc] Menzel has hv-mnotized
vo: rantlenen into thinkine all and evervthing, no matter how intellizentlL-
nanesuvered, are MIRAGSS, I, never the less, am disposed to waste several
minutes of m7 time and a three cent stamo in voresenting the following :
Time: \oproximately 7:55 P.M. D.S.T.. Place: Avoroximtely 6
miles north of Somerset, Pa. (sichting point). Weather: very clear, sky
cloudless, svn just set. As we were drivine noxwth of Somerset, I chanced +o
se] a short vavor trail hich over western horizon. Geclden in the sunlicht.
with a brillisnt o¢ject at the south eni of the trail. Immediatelr got ont
of car and trained 7 X binoe:lars on trail. This took about I5 sec-
onds from first mbment of si ng. The vapor trail, through the alasses had
oractically disasreared : Iwas amaze? at the rapidity of disi-tese-
ration. No odject was of this trail. Then, as I moved the clesses
southward, £ sav a brill m Iden object or licht far to the south of the
by now disappeared "trail} as I looked, this bright object, WITHONT TRAIL,
Faded ont, and the scene we clear of trail or object. No sommd of jet. Coject
POSSIBLY over IO miles dis frail, size of thread :t arm's lenzth, very
“ine, but very clearly the first few seconds. I nave seen jets
; tha 37n so. and their + zOldan traits Hs | hartrs Never seen 2a £23)
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tisappear so suddeni-, the object, “ITHOUT TRAIL, “ar vemorvre? from it.
Thank he2ven for news commentator, Franic Sdwards, who is nfkbic-mninde
mouzh to present, us, several times a week, with U.7.0. sigahtines. How else
e.n serious aerial researchers li're mrsel? leom of current sichtings? I think
i+ di serancen) =4at nra or mrre FPAMNDS tele. 1q *aal +ha+ +neax 407 3 a "manscrcsl—
«kr objects. tS is domricht PUSRILs, centlemen.
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