PROJECT BLUE BOOK

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969

CASE REFERENCE6970609

DATE OF SIGHTINGDecember 1957

REPORTED LOCATIONSt Louis Missouri

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE 2 LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
o Was Balloon 7
13 December 1957 St Louis, Missouri 00 Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Possibly Balloon
Local Ground-Visual Ground-Radar 0 Was Aircraft
Probably Aircraft
GMT_ 14/0454Z AirVisual Air-Intercept Radar 0 Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE KXWas Astronomical
Ys Probably Astronomical
x No Civilian Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS COURSE Other.
000 Insufficient Data for Evaluation
Unknown
2- 3 seconds one NW
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
Oblong object tail, size of base A check mas made and it was found
ball bat, yello r orange. Object that a meteor had fallen WNw of
seemed to separate at t times. Appeared St Louis, Missouri.
to hit ground in Nw direction.
ATIC fORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52) ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP S2)
JIATRONEJJTVZIN 17 FATRaVEiJTVa
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VISUAL 2. N/A 3. N/A D. 1. 0454 14 DEC 1957 2. NIGHT 4>-4- E. DRIVING
WEST ON PAGE BLV 1800 BLOCK ST. LOUIS, MO. F. 1. C
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