Bellingham, WashingtonMarch 1956

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Summary

On March 8, 1956, a 72-year-old civilian at Bellingham, Washington, reported a single object. The report was made under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified flying object reports.

The witness described one round object the size of a basketball. It was dark grey and looked like a balloon. The object flew level and then went behind a mill. The sighting lasted about two minutes. The sky had broken clouds with clear visibility.

The Air Force concluded the sighting was probably aircraft. The record said the level flight pointed to an aircraft and that nothing about the report conflicted with that finding.

Reported location

Bellingham, Washington

Date of incident

March 1956

State / country

WA / US

Page count

3 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 24

Original case file scans

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: . PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
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1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
0 Vas Balloon
—8 March 1956 ~~ |Be1jj ngham, Washingtm HRS ns leen
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION ial CUCL
FRE Cee WE IX Ground- Visual 0 Ground-Radar eb J
eMT.. 09/01237 5 0 Air Visual [8] Air-Intercept Radar |B Possibly Aircraft -
SPHOTOS eee pnts 0 Alrlitorcept Rader
5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical
4 DO Yas [m] Probably Astronomical
g DeNo Civilian O Possibly Astronomical
Sena I Gviddan I
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE CORRE dit so
0 Insufficient Data for Evaluation
; 0 Unknown
! ede minutes {sr ene unknown | &
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10. BRIZF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING ; 11. COMMENTS : ; ;
4 Qne round object size of basketball, Level flight indicates a/c,
Color dark grey and balloon like, Witaess 70 yrs old. Distance
level flight, Went behind maiden; object traveled and speed not
included, Nothing conflicting
i w/a/c analysis,
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ATIC FORM 320 (REV 25 3EP 32)
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