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CASE REFERENCE6971442

DATE OF SIGHTINGDecember 1957

REPORTED LOCATIONEl Paso Texas

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE 2 LOCATION 12, CONCLUSIONS

Wes Balloon
Probably Balloon
Pessibly Balloon

Was Aircraft
Probably Aircraft
Possibly Aircraft

29 December 1957 El Paso, Texas
3. OATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION bang

XX) Ground- Vi sual O Ground-Reder

Bineguiars oO Air-intercept Radar

5. PHOTOS vi eee Ss rn en

Wes Astronomical
Probebly Astronomical
Possibly Astronomical

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CxXinsufficient Data for Evaluation

3 minutes one stationary |2 Unknown

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS *) Hama
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Object with appearance of a star. Size| No elevation or azimuth given.
of baseball, white with red tail. Was Without which data, no evaluation

spinning. Had a glow. Glow seemed can be made, Object, was possibly
very close and bright. Venus.

Civilian
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE

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