Crescent City, FloridaJuly 1956

Insufficient Data

Summary

On July 1, 1956, near Crescent City, Florida, a civilian ground observer reported one object at about 11:07 p.m. local time. It was a ground visual sighting. The object was watched for about one minute.

The object was round and much larger than a basketball. It was red in color. It appeared above the tree tops. It stood still for a short time, then burst.

The Project 10073 record card, the official record for unidentified flying object reports, listed the conclusion as insufficient data. There was no report in the file.

Reported location

Crescent City, Florida

Date of incident

July 1956

State / country

FL / US

Page count

1 scanned page

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 25

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 1

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| PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
{ 1. DATE 2. LOCATION 5 CONCLUSIONS
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1 July 1956 Crescent City, Florida 'O Probably Balloon
| 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 2. Tessin pelicen
O Was Aircraft
1 Local —— | fHGround-Visud 0 Ground-Reder 13 BER Alen |
i omr_02/03072 D0 Air Visual 0 Air-Intercept Radar OC Possibly Aircrcft |
5. PHOTOS [ SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical
: 0 Yes : 0 Probobly Astronomical
: BXo | Civilian (GCC) DO Possibly Astronomical
EE EE a RSE ee
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE DO: OMS thai ae
Di XInsufficient Deta for Evaluction
3 i 5 0 Unknown
J approximately 1 min one NE
i 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
1 One round object much larger than Insufficient Data
: a basketball, red in color. Appeared:
: above the tree tops, stood still short .
| time, then bursted. Observed for
S approximately 1 minue,
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No Report In File
; J ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)

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