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CASE REFERENCE6785392

DATE OF SIGHTINGMarch 1956

REPORTED LOCATIONVentura California

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

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1. DATE 2. LOCATION
21 March 19568 Ventura, California _
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION

Local MKGround- Vi sual O Ground-Radar

GuT_22/03387 D Air- Vi suol OD Air-Intercept Radar
5. PHOTOS 4 6. SOURCE

0 Yes
XB No Civilian & Military

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12, CONCLUSIONS

Yias Balloon
Probably Balloon
Possibly Balloon

Was Aircraft
Probobly Aircraft
Possibly Aircraft

Was Astronomice! Yonus
Probably Astronamical
OXPossibly Astronomical

oo 000 OOO

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE O , Other.
Ist observer: ten mins . seen in west a Teradata Data for Evaluation
2nd observer: 1 hr 30 min// two unknown .

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10, BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING

Two round objects, red and white, the
size of peas held at arms length, one
very slow and one very fast seen by

civilian and then later by a/c at Ox-
No radar contact with

nard AFB Tower,
the objects.

ATIC FORM 329 (REV 25 SEP 52)

11. COMMENTS
The duration

leads
seem logical
other

in 7 above.

of the sightng, the

lack of radar contact, the fact
that the objects
the west (the location of Venus)
this hq th the above

checked evaluation.

Wwe

re reported i

It does not
that one object

was traveling very slow and the
“very fast"
seen for the periods indicated

if they were

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