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UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969

CASE REFERENCE6963097

DATE OF SIGHTINGMarch 1958

REPORTED LOCATIONTampa Florida

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

' 1, DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
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. r- or farca 1908 , Tampa a. on lorida 0 Probaoly Balloon
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Office Memorandum e UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

TO : Director of Intelligence DATE: May 12, 1956
JSAP, Att: AFCIN LAL
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FROM : Office of Program Planning,
Weather Bureau

SUBJECT: Unidentified Flying Ooject

As discussed with Major Fountain of your office, this date, attached

herewith are copies of correspondence with our Tampa office, concern-

ing an unidentified flying object.

Je H. Everly

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STTICE Memorandum e UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

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TO >; MIC, WERAS, Tampa, Fla. DATE ipral 10, 1956
PrOM : Chief, F432 Division

susyect: RAWARC

Dear Bob:

Will you please check with the observer who was
on duty at the time the attached report of "unidentified
flying object" was transnitted on HAWARC and obtain details

of basis for the revort. Mote that the report indicates

tower sighted obisct but that according to JAX the IPA tower

later denied sighting such object.

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E. M. Vernon

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UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT LANDED ON AIRPORT NORTH END 205058

AND THSN TOOK OFF. TOWER REPORTS WAS ORANGS COLORED WITH BRIGHT
LIGH? WAS OBSERVED BY TOWER WITH BINOCULARS.

WAS OBSERVED IN AIR BY 3 We 3. PERSONE Ln MANSUVSRED LIKE

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HELICOPTER BUT NO NOISE.

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Office Memorandum © UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

TO : Mr, Perry pate: April 17,1958

rrkom : Mr. Francis

sunjuct: Unidentified Flying Object.

1. Dete of occurence was Sunday evening,3:45 to 9:00 P.M,,%.S.T.,

March 2; 1958, not March BP

2. Meteorological factors and pilot reports indicated severe, possibly
extreme trubulence over Tampa and vicinity. Turbulence in varying
degres- ucderate to “heavy”, according to pilot's reports, occured
throughout the afternoon and evening om March Ze
The stability index, on the Tampa OCOOZ, March 3, R/S observation
vas minus 3. This R/S wa, released approximately 2 hours before
the odjectcwas reported, ——

33.This cbiect was rirsteported to ms by the Tampa tower, They wanted to
know if we bad released a la red balloon the size of the R/S tallocns,

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with a bright light on it, adding that what apvearsd to be one had landed

on the airport. I told the and was told they would send a truck Cus
for it, Soon the tower called again and said it was rising- this tim eli
i DATE:

7a0N three of us on duty went outside and saw a rether bright lizht (white)
hovering nearly stationery, just under the clouds, (ceiling was
suerace: measured 800rt at 1952E and 2058 om March 2nd). After a short tins,
: it moved off and dissapeared. pres ci

Shortly thersafter, Mr. Burnham answered a call on the public telephor
It was from a man who said he and his girl friend, parked near the
airpert, had also seen the odject descend and rise apnin. He told

Mr, Burnham his girl frisnd was qyits frightened by the incident,

4 short tine later the Tampa tower denied seemtg anything unusal.

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