Baltic Sea, March 1959March 1959

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Summary

On March 10, 1959, near Walingabad, Illinois, a witness reported seeing several fireballs that appeared every night for a week. Only one was observed at a time. The objects were first sighted as a red glow of fire at about 70 degrees above the horizon. The light did not seem to move and it was impossible to say from where it came or how it came to its position in the sky. After a short while, the fireballs emitted a bright yellow-red like hue. From ground-based observation, the fireballs appeared in the main direction of CRAN Z, 50 km north of Walingabad. The Air Force evaluation is marked as Unknown.

Reported location

Baltic Sea, March 1959

Date of incident

March 1959

State / country

? / XX

Page count

3 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 35

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 3

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE
10 to 16 Mar 59

2. LOCATION
Walingabad

3. DATE-TIME GROUP
Local [illegible]

4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
[X] Ground-Visual
[ ] Air-Visual
[ ] Ground-Radar
[ ] Air-Intercept Radar

5. PHOTOS
[ ] Yes
[X] No

6. SOURCE
Not given

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION
not given

8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS
several

9. COURSE
not given

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING
Several fireballs were seen every night for a week, but only one at a time. Objects were first observed as a red glow of fire at about 70 degrees above horizon.

12. CONCLUSIONS
[ ] Probably Balloon
[ ] Probably Balloon
[ ] Possibly Balloon
[ ] Was Aircraft
[ ] Probably Aircraft
[ ] Possibly Aircraft
[ ] Was Astronomical
[ ] Probably Astronomical
[ ] Possibly Astronomical
[ ] Other
[X] Insufficient Data for Evaluation
[ ] Unknown

11. COMMENTS
Info is very limited in nature preceding an analysis of the rpt.

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