PROJECT BLUE BOOK

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969

CASE REFERENCE7228605

DATE OF SIGHTINGSeptember 1957

REPORTED LOCATIONNEFrance

FRAMES3

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A PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE 2. OCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
DX Was Balloon
12 September 1957 INE France D Probobly Balloon 7
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Possibly Balloon
Local Ground-Visual Ground-Radar 0 Was Aircraft
0 Probably Aircraft
GMT 12/1250Z AirVisual Air-Intercept Radar 0 Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE 0 Was Astronomicol
Yes 00 Probably Astronomical
DNo Military Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF.OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9. COURSE Other..
000 Insufficient Dato for Evaluation
4-5 seconds vertical Unknown
one
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
Round Description of object is of typi
light grey or white object was cal balloon characteristics.
hanging beneath sighted object emi-
ting Smoke or flashes of light Object
rose rapidly and disappeared.
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ROUND PD ONE BRAVO PR SILVER DOLLAR
PD ONE CHARLIE PD LIGHT GRAY ORCWHITE2PD ONE DETT PD ONXE PD ONE EC- (
HO PD NECTAR ALFA PD ONE FOXTROT PD AN OBJECT WAS HANGING BENEATH THE (
SIGHTED OBJECT EMMITING EITHER SMOKE OR NLASHES OF LIGHT PD ONE GOLF
PD EXHAUST WAS SMALLER THAN SUSPENDED OBJECT PD ONE HOTEL PD NEGATIVE
ONE INDIA PD BALLON TYPE OBJECT PD TWO ALFA PD APPERARED IN FIELD OF C
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THE AIRCRAFT PD TWO CHARLIE PD UNKNOWN PI THE AIRCRAFT TWO CHARLIE UN D TWO DELTA PD RISING RAPIDLY TWO DELTA PD RISING RAPIDLY ( C
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THREE CHARLIE PD 4
NECTAR ALFA PD ROMEO FOXTROT EIGHT FOUR NOXTROT CMN
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12 50 7 NCE PD FOUR AL-
TWELVE TWELVE FIFTY ZULU I SEPT FIVE SEVEN PD NOUR E •
FA BRAVO PD DAY PD FIVE
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PD FOUR EIGHT FIVE ZERO EAST PD SIX BRAVO PD .
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QISABILITY PLUS TEN MILES
SMCL SCATTERED CIRRUS CLOUD DECK ABOVE THREE E ZERO THOUSAND FEET PD SURM- .
FACE TWO TWO ZERO DEGREES FOURTEEN TO TWENTY SEVEN KNOTS GUSTY SMCL
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SIX THOUSAND FEET THREE ZERO ZERO DEGREES THIRTY NINE KNOTS SMCL EIGHT
THOUSAND FEET THREE ZERO ZERO DEGREES FIFTY ONE ANOTS SMCL TEN THOUS- .
AND GEET THREE ZERO ZERO DEGREES FIFTY ONE KNOTS SMCL SIXTEEN THOUS-
AND FEET THREE ZERO ZERO DEGREES SIXTY FIVE KNOTS SMCL TWENTY THOUSAND
FEET THREE ZERO ZERO FEET EIGHTY KNOTS SMCL THIRTY THOUSAND FEET THREE
ZERO ZERO DEGREES ONE FOUR TWO KNOTS SMCL FIFTY THOUSAND FEET XXTWO SIX .
ZERO DEGREES FORTY KNOTS PD SEVEN CHARLID PD TWO FIE HUNDRED FEET
BROCKEN PD SEVEN DELTA PD SEVEN MILES PD SEVEN ECHO PD FIME EIGHTS PD .
SEVEN FOXTROT PD D NEGATIVE PD EIGHT PD NEGATIVE PD NINE PD NEGATIVE PD 0
CMN NO_ EXPLANATION FO WHAT APPEARED TO BE HANGING : FROM SIGHTED OBJECT .
PD TWETVE NEGATIVE PD UFOB RPT V
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