Batesville, Ark., April 1959April 1959

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Summary

On April 1, 1959, civilians in Batesville, Arkansas, reported seeing a round, transparent, egg-shaped object with a silver color rising straight up. The sighting lasted about two hours. A TV engineer viewed the object through a telescope and said it appeared to be a weather balloon. A Navy minisweeper climbed to 34,000 feet and circled below the object, reporting it looked like a weather balloon at 3:52 p.m. The Air Force evaluation was unknown.

Reported location

Batesville, Ark., April 1959

Date of incident

April 1959

State / country

? / XX

Page count

3 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 35

Original case file scans

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE
April 1, 1959

2. LOCATION
Batesville, Ark., Newport

3. DATE-TIME GROUP
Local
GMT 00/1200Z

4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
Ground-Visual
Air-Visual

5. PHOTOS
Yes

6. SOURCE
Civilian

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION
2 hours

8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS
one

9. COURSE
straight up

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING
Rnd, transparent, egg-shaped obj, silver in color, obj rising straight up.

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

11. COMMENTS
The description is typical of a weather balloon, substantiated by observation of other viewing obj of the same type.

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