Amherst, MassachusettsDecember 1956

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1 PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
1 1. DATE 2, LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
3 0 Wos Balloon
1 __9 December 1956 Amherst, Massachusetts!! |[o Probably Balloon
| 3. DATE-TIME GROUP | 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Bi Dapaibly Balloon |
i Local —_ Bt round- Vi sual 0 Ground-Radar g Bat alrenlt |
mr. 06/2205Z2 ~~ 0 Air Visual O Air-Intercept Radar |B Possibly Aircraft
3 5. PHOTOS 4. SOURCE XIX Was agrenenical (7. Zo) ) |
/ DO Yes 0 Probably Astronomical |
a Xb Civilian 0 Possibly Astronomicol
% Ey ET TT GT oe TT TE PR CT RE Te rr ell Le SEEN SO SER. |
] 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION i NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE Ber OtHersel, Lauiigs od
i DO Insufficient Dota for Evaluation
i O Unknown
l - 3 seconds one SW to NW !
{ 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS :
; One dark round object, size of a Description, duration, and
| basketball at arm's length, Object manner of disappearance indi-
3 had an exhaust - ball shaped, taper-| cate sighting was probably
ing to pencil thin, Object was first caused by a meteor,
seen at 30 dgr elevation, 132 azimut
and disappeared at 30 dgr elevation,
1 35 dgr azimuh, Object flew in a
i straight flight path and disappeared
i in an orange-yellow puff of explo-
i sion, after having been observed
j visually for 1 to 3 seconds.
4 ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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