PROJECT BLUE BOOK

PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
I. CATE 2LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
0 Was Balloon
27 April 1956 Greensboro, North Carolina 0 Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Possibly Balloon
Local AXGround-Visual Ground-Radar KXXWas Aircraft
0 Probably Aircraft
GMT_ 28/0220Z Air-Visual Air-Intercopt Radar 0 Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE ox XWas Astronomical Meteor
Ys 0 Probably Astronomical
xNo Civilian 0 Possibly Astrorromical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION NUMBER OF OBJECTS . COURSE Other.
1.3 seconds 1. one 1not repor ednsufficient Dota for Evaluation
2.5 minues 2. two 2." "1 D Unknown
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
1. Bright silver object without sound l. Meteor sighting. Absance of
or tail flashed across sky. Thought at tail & nearness does not rule
first to be shooting star except too out meteor Rptd because of
close, no believed to closeness.
land nearby. 2. Nothing conflicting with
2. Two colored objects in sight analysis as a/c. Duration & amaiysls a
in parall in pa lntaining the taining the flight are flight are consistent with consistent with
same posit throughout hroughout this evaluation. this evaluation.
sighting. No sighting. reen lights asso- en lights asso-
ciated,with ciated,wit arge and assumed arge and assumed to be at
geat altitude. geat altitude.
ATIC FORM 329 (R 26 6 SEP 52)
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but only one of the two copper colored objects. She is somewhat
nearsighted and I am extremely farsighted. We had been visiting
a mutual woman friend that evening in Country Club Apartments,
located on the east side of North El reet going north, that is,
to the right of North Elm. The apartments are two-storied, ins
several different buildings, and surround an inner large court of
lawn, and trees of some height surround the place. The court is
very dark, as is the whole area at night. I had just looked at
my watch inside while we were chatting, and by the time we got
outside it t was about l0 min. later, or 9:20.
While still both saw a brilliant silver
ob,ject dart diagonally from the sky and she at once said, "A shooting
star!" but I immediately pointed out that it couldn't be a shooting
star since it had no trail except the speed of the object itself,
and that the head was far too large - about the size o baseball.
We were still discussing the object when I looked up to the
start in front of me, and suddenly I saw a moving object at a tremen-
dous distance - just canopy, it seemed, and pointed
out to her - arter a few seconds she s0O tred it. It was moving
steadily in a straight line from north to southwest, and it was
copper colored. Size, about like a vanilla wafer, larger than a
dollar. The shape of it was elliptical, to be certain I looked up
the word in Webster's, and the drawing of an ellipse was exactly
the shape of the object. Then I caught sight of a similar object
about half the slze of the first aboub a city block in the sky
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