PROJECT BLUE BOOK

PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
0 Was Bolloon
30 April 1956_ acoma, Washington _ QO Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP | 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION GO Possibly Balloon
F 0 Wes Aircraft
Locol SESE 2NGround- Vi sual D Ground-Redor [XXProbobly Aircroft
cmt__01/0633Z —__ D Air Vi suol O Air-Intercept Radar |9 Possibly Aircroft
5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE QO Was Astronomical
D Yes 0 Probcbly Astronomical
MMe Civilian OD Possibly Astronomicel
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION - |6. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE ‘4 O , Other "
| : Aantal set Date for Evaluation
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10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11, COMMENTS ee a

One slim object, 2" wide and 18" long
with red light on each end, no wings,
Heading east then turned north, Sound
of piston engine(s).

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_- ° —Pet Appel an@ Carolyn Clay, on duty
éuring aorming at filter center, “odeerved a hish flying white,
apparently setallic object, poving in a general westerly direction
at a high rete of speed. The unidentified object apparently had

no winge nor visible means of propulsion. A report was mece to the

filter eenter at Beaidji vy the observers.” (Seudette Region, */11.)

Baudette, Minnesota

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No Case (Information Only) 14 April 1956
Manomet, Massachusetts

On April 14 an Air Foroe Vonan, liiss Dorothy }

Ourrier of Otis Air Force Baso in Massachusetts photographed
@ dome-topped saucer-sheped object, which had rotating lights,

sanding wheels, and nade e hunning sound, before many eyenitnese— io
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On April.1h, 1956 over ManomET, Massachusetts a dome-topped object with peheline
lights and landing wheels was taken by Miss Dorothy Currier of the Air Force,
She xeyurted that the object was seen by a group of persons and that a "humming"

sound was heard coming from the strange "flying saucer-shaped object."

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No Case (Information Only)

22 April 1956
Cofeyville, Minnesota

Apr. ea~—agiieyrilie. Hana Rovere Henry end the £. J. Mengelse
feaily apet ted as na 4iec, giving off @ drigzht reé glow”
around 10:30 p.an. “watched the stranse object more slowly in
the eky between their howe and Coffeyville —10 ailes distant—
“untill it sank below the horizon about a helf hour later, When first
signted,” by Mr. Henry, “the disc appeared about 1} Sd long." (This
latter subjective figure is difficult to interpret—Ed.) “Later,”
the account continued, “the red glow seemed to fade m little and the
viewers reported seeing sane S3eote appear on the object's surface.”
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(Coffeyville Daiiy Journal.

No Case (Information Only)

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25 April 1956
El Monte, California

—R. M. Greee, of Covine, describea

fora «®t -esg-s On omitted no sound and “vas a bril-
-"" * “tient white.” The UFO, first

be hovering @Dout 1,900 feet
bee] said, and that fact isnt
plane. Mr. Grace added the

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observed eat 8:30 De®., “appearee to

above” his, “It had no riding lights," |
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29 April 1956

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. No Case (Informa z Phoenix, Arizona

A Phoeniz. Arig.-Bud Pecarc, with his family, were
driving from Loe Angeles to Greenwich, Conn. Here is his story:
"As we were starting out in the morning on the highway to Tezpi,
Arizona (betveen Phoentz and Tucson), my father rewarked about an
object in the sky to the right front of us. When I first looked I
sev a longa silver object with something seeulng to shoot away fron
4t and to the right of us. I immediately asked for the large pair
of binoculars ag I knew ay smeller ones would be ineffective. When
I looxed I dian‘t have them in focus right away but I could tell
that the object waa a long cigar shape with 4 dark spot, or hole,
in the center. I then handed the acsees to my father. After a
while he said he saw what looked like a row of windows or ports
that kept flashing light or flanes st One the side of the thing, and
that while he was watching, something like a little meteor case -
shooting out of the bottom. About this sane time I noticed that
bie thing seemed to flare up, after which it appeared to be far-

r away.

"Along the side of the highway were telephone poles, two in
a row, This is important because the object seemed to foliow ths
poles with each end touching—at least, for a sort tine. Finally,
after we were out of the traffic, we stopped along side of the
road to get a better look at the object. By this time it had moved
from the right to the left of the highway, and away from the tele-
phone poles. It was now over some mountains in the distance and
seered to have gotten there rather quickly. I got one last good
look at it through the binoculars before we and it moved away, It
looked like a big ball point pen that was glowing on top and dark
underneath. ‘The sighting, in all, lasted ten almutes.” (Xr, Pe-
esreo estiaates the object's length as 0.75 degree—Ed.) (Cn file.)

30 April 1956 ne ee:
No Case (Information Only) East Mansfield, Massachusetts

vanstiesd, ¥ —Mre. Oilzore, 1176 Saut Street, ‘
dosorttat ohateane appeared to ee in the oxy” at 6:15 p.s.
She eaid, "It came whistling ‘een "plummeted to the street,

just a few feet froa” her house. “4D ball of fire, the size of a
basketball,” then "shot upwards as it hit the roa4, in a burst of
orange fleme.” The nevspaper account adted, "Szall fragments burned
on the ground. They were brought into the Gilscre hoa, but as they
cooled, they faded away, disappeared without a trace. In a few nos-
ents, there was nothing left...Only a strenge burnt sneil in grevel
on the roadside where the fire burned. (Manefield Neye-Times, 5/3.)

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No Case (Information Only) 2 April 1956

Coffeyville, Kansas

> ec. 2— Coffeyville, Kan,—R. H. Smith was awaxened when his

ly after @” p.m. Sata he: "I went
to wy astonishaent saw this illuminated object gliding down toward

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ame alarmed over the inoreseing velocity of the wine short-

outside to eheck the clouds and
neighbor's home. There was no framework visible, but the lighted

body eppeareé scaecewbat shorter than the standard airplane with @

ef abveut 50 feet. It hovered over the Lee Fortenbverry7
house, abeat SOO feet south ef our home, at wheat I Judged 360 feet
altitude, them glided across the road to circle the Thurwan Wat- -
aon house before starting toward cur home.” Hr. Suith continued,
“Bofors the objeet resched our place, however, it veered off and
etarted to ascend sgain. Just then, Mrs. Ssith came cut to see
what wes keeping se and she also saw the object. For a few minutes,
it appeared to send spots of light froe it an4 then disappeared
inte the clowds.” (Coffeyville Daily gourmal, 4/3.)

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No Case (Information Only) 4 April 1956
Durham, North Carolina

.«++2On the night of April 4th, about 15 or 20 people

in Durhaz, N. C., reported sesing "a silver-colored angel” flying north over |
the local U. S. Steel plant. One man said that he could sse it flapping its —

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Some windows were repersee broken.

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Associated Press, others, 4/4.) —

@iles of Florida

4 April 1956
Florida

@xploeion, or series of explo-

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Pilot in the Gulf of Mexico

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6 April 1956
No Case (Information Only) Brown's Gulch, Montana

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BRILLIANT OBJECT STARTLES MONTANA RESIDENTS: Five peo- —
ple living in the Brown's Gulch district of Montana reported that on the night ©
of April Sth, at about 9-30 p.m., they saw an extremely bright object which |
seemed to be in the sky near their house. Mrs. Victoria Gabrielli, her son ©
Victor Gebrielli, Mr. and Mre. Charles Mitchell and Mrs. Mary Baxanella were |

gathered in the Gabrielli residence watching television, with the house part-

ially darkened, they said, when the phenomenon occurred. "It lit up the whole |
house,” Mre. Gabrielli said. "The television blacked out et the same time. We |
thought it was ea crashing plane or some kind of exnlosion, but there was no .
noise. The television came on again in a few seconde." The Civil Aeronautics |

Administration offices at the local airport said no unusual objects in the sky

had been logged or reported at its office Shes night, and that there were no |

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