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PROJECT Ir /'3 RECORD CARD
1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
Rockledge, Florida 00 Was Bolloon
18 February, 1960 Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Possibly Balloon
Local. 1000 Ground-Visual Ground-Rodar Was Aircraft
000 Probably Aircraft
GMT.. 18115002 Air-Vi sual Air-Intarcept Rodar Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS SOURCE Was Astronomical
. 000 00 Probubly Astronomical Probubly Astronomical
8No Civilian Possibly Astronomical PossiblyAstronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERYATION 7. LENGTH OF OBSE ATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9. COURSE Other. Other Birds Birds
7600 7600 Insufficient Data for Evaluation Insufficiont Data for Evaluation
Not Given six South Unknown Unknown
O. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING O. BRIEF SUHMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS 11. COMMENTS
Slow moving objects at great altitude Probably birds.
heading southerly direction. Appeared to be
in a "y" formation. Brilliant white color.
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What Was It -
Two additional reports have
Who Saw It? 2 been received concerning those
"things" seen moving through n the
Up in the sky! It's sky last Wednesday morning by
a Rockledge resident.
what?" The other reports, also from
A half-dozen or so brilliantly- A nali-do women, corroborated in general wemen, corroborated in general
white objects - at white objects at apparently apparently the first sighting . . . that is, the
very high altitude - moving slow- objects appeared brilliantly white,
ly south Wednesday morning -- were moving generally south, and
that's the report. nurnbered about six.
The caller, a resident of Rock- One saw the objects from
ledge who asked that her narne not a
be used, said what she saw while point a bit south of the Merritt
driving south on the river road in Island Post Office the other from
Rockledge about 10 a, m. were the south River Drive, near where
definitely not planes. What they the Rockledge woman said she had
were was what she wanted to seen the white "things" moving
southward.
know. know. What she wanted to know The The Tribune has done a bit of
Tribune could not tell her, so this checking, but still can offer no no
announcement is by way of a definite answer as to what the
query. "unidentified flying objects" were.
Did anyone else see the long, It was learned that a number of
slender, south-moving objects yes- large balloons had been released
terday morning? several days previous
If so, give the paper a call. Our sightings from Wallops Island, Va.
flying saucer file hasn't had an And some say such balloons be-
entry in quite a while. come elongated when being car-
ried at high altitude by a strong
wind . .. but whoever heard of
balloons flying in formation
Our Cape Canaveral man says
he's heard no reports of any such
"things" flying south Wednesday
... or any other time.
So...?
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