PROJECT BLUE BOOK

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969

CASE REFERENCE7340835

DATE OF SIGHTINGMarch 1956

REPORTED LOCATIONMiami Florida

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7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION

twenty seconds

8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE

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11. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
‘ : i QO Was Balloon
1O March 1956 Miami, Florida O Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION O Possibly Balloon
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GMT. 10/09002 D Air- Visual O) Air-Intercept Radar GO Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE &XWes Astronomical Meteor
O Yes O Probably Astronomical
«-f2 No ot tee a A oa ye: Possibly Astronomical
Ss vex Civilian (student, 14 years

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1 Insufficient Data for Evaluation
O Unknown

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING

| One round, small object, appearing as
a small glow, white in color, The
object was the size of a ping pong
ball held at arms length, The object
disappeared by fading. The object did

not appear on radar,

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11. COMMENTS

Concur with the opinion of the
reporting officer that this
Sighting was in all probability
generated by a meteor,

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