Colorado, Springs, ColoradoAugust 1956

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Summary

On August 18, 1956, a civilian in Colorado Springs, Colorado, reported a single object. The sighting was recorded at 1020Z and lasted about four minutes. It was still visible when the witness went to bed.

The witness described one round, very bright white object about the size of a silver dollar held at arm's length. The brightness varied and the object had a bouncing movement. It was first seen at about 90 degrees azimuth and 40 degrees elevation.

The Air Force noted the object was the same as one reported by the same source on August 14, 1956. The source was contacted by phone, and the object was again determined to be the planet Venus shining through a temperature inversion. The evaluation was astronomical.

Reported location

Colorado, Springs, Colorado

Date of incident

August 1956

State / country

CO / US

Page count

1 scanned page

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 26

Original case file scans

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
0 Was Balloon
18 August 1956 Colorado, Springs, Colorado [9 a 14 tv
3. DATE-TIME GROUP & TYPE OF OBSERVATION TERT —
CT RRR Sa X¥Ground- Visual O Ground-Radar S 4 Ee
GMT 18/10202 O AirVisual O Air-Intercept Radar O Possibly Aircraft
S. PHOTOS 0X <Was Astronomical
: O Yes O Probably Astronomical
L XN Civilian = OQ Possibly Astronomicoel
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE CB RRS ——
0 Insufficient Data for Evaluotion
; : O Unknown
still in sight one i r EE RnR RS RT
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
| One round very bright white object Object was same as previously
| about the size of a silver dollar at rptd by source on 14 Aug 56
arm's length, Brightness of object (AISS-UFOB-287-56). Source
varied and it had a bouncing movement,| was contacted by phone and again
Object was sighted at approximately object was determined to be the
90 dgrs azimuth and 40 dgrs elevation,| planet Venus shining through 2a
Object was viewed visually for 4 minutes temperature inversion.
and was still visible when observer
went to bed,
No Report In File
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