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UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969

CASE REFERENCE6971164

DATE OF SIGHTINGDecember 1957

REPORTED LOCATIONBill Wyoming

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE 2.LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
Was Balloon
22 December 1957 Bill, Wyoming 000 Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP . TYPE OF OBSERVATION Possibly Bllloon
Local_1930 Ground-Visual Ground-Radar Was Aircraft
000 Probably Aircraft
GMT23/0230Z Ain Visual Air-Intercept Radar Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE OCK Was Astronomical Meteor
O Yes 00 Probably Astronomical
No Civilian PossiblyAstronamical
7. LENOTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9. COURSE Other_
000 Insufficient Data for Evaluation
not reported falling Unknown
one
1O. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS 11. COMMENTS
Mass fell to earth at estimated dis- Mass fell to earth at estimated dis- Meteor sighting.
tance of l/4 mile. Ball of fire, tance of l/4 miie. Ball of fire,
greenish color.
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)

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SAFIS-3/Ma.j Tacker/jmd/74966/22 Feb 58
24 February 1958
Dear Mr.
Your letter of 2 January 1958 addressed to the
Weather Records Processing Center in San Francisco
this office for reply.
From you description the sighting 3 you observed
on 22 December 1957 was a fireball or bolide. The
coloring greenish white) and other characteristics
attest to this conclusion, and there were similar
sightings of bolides in that area last year.
Thank you for your detailed Your interest
in this subject is appr
Sincerely, Sincerely,
LAWRENCE LAWRENCE E J. TACKER J. TACKER
Major, USAF
NS Executive Officer Executive Officer
Public Information Division
Office of Information Servizes Information Servizes
Myo
Bill, Wyoming
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