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CASE REFERENCE6962763

DATE OF SIGHTINGMay 1955

REPORTED LOCATIONAlemeda California

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’ PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE 12 LOCATION

12. CONCLUSIONS
O Was Balloon
19 May 1955 __ _Alemeda Cali forni -) 0 : Probably Bolloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP | 4. TYFiz OF OBSERVATION KxPossibly Balloon
Local sree 4XGround- Vi sual O Ground-Radar E Probobly Rirersts
GMT 20/0315 Q) Air Vi sual 0 Air-Intercept Radar [o Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE i Wos Astronomical
0 Yes . O Probably Astronomical
ENNo Civilian 4 O Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE 0D, Other
. OQ Insufficient Dota for Evaluation
Stationary 0 Unknown
-_thirty minutes one _ to upward
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
One round, silver object sze of a | Sighted object has all the
pea held at arms length, was obser- Characteristics of a balloon,

ved for a period of 30 minutes, Object The length of Sig
seemed to remain Stationary and then | stantiates the above,
to rise slowly and then faded from as A probably balloon,

hting sub-
Resolved

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One (1) round, silver object, the size ofa
pea held at arms length, was observed for a
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stationary and then to rize slowly and then
faded fron view.

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length of sighting substantiates the |
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Object seemed to remain

12. CUNCLUSIONS

Was Balloon
Probably Balloon
Possibly Balloon

Was Aircraft
Probably Aircraft
Possibly Aircraft

Was Astronomical
Probably Astronomical
Possibly Astronomical

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