PROJECT BLUE BOOK

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969

CASE REFERENCE7228407

DATE OF SIGHTINGOctober 1957

REPORTED LOCATIONBaker Florida

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE ; 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
1 O Was Bailoon
29 October 1957 Baker, Florida Ox Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION ") O Possibly Balloon
O Was Aircraft
Lecal EX Ground- Vi suol O Ground-Rodar OQ Probobly Aircraft
GM 29 /22007 - 0 Air Visual D Air-Intereept Rador |7 Possibly Alrcroft
5. PHOTOS ; 6. SOURCE O Was Astronomicol
0 Yes 0 Probably Astronomicol
10 Ne Civilian O Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION ~ |& NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE ee
D Insufficient Date for Evaluation
= | . DB Unknown
15 minutes one fast
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS

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traveling due east. winds aloft, balloon would have
been traveling rapidly eastward,
Sunset could have accounted for
brilliance of object,

Round, shining object, very brilliant], Probably a balloon, D

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B. NOT GIVEN BY OBSERVER C. (SHINING D. ONE E. NA/A Fe NOT GIVER :

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REPORTED Fe TRAVELED EAST FOR 15 MINUTES AND THEN REMUINED STILL

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CEILING, HIGH THIN SCATTERED CIRRUS CLOUDS D. UNLIMITED E. TWO TO

THREE TENTHS Fe NONE 8. NONE 9. NONE 1%. 678TH ACWRON REPORTS NO AIR
TRAFFIC 14. DIRECTOR OF INTELLIGENCE, 35TH AIR DIVISICN: PROBABLE

A BALLOON, DUE TO WINDS ALOFT AND/OR UPPER AIR CURRENTS, BALLOON
WOULD HAVE BEEN TRAVELING RAPIDLY EASTWARD. SUNSET IN THIS AREA

WAS AT 2245Z, WHICH COULD ACCOUNT FOR BRILLIANCE OF OBJECT. 12.

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