Dixon, California Walnut Creek, CaliforniaMarch 1956

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i | PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
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| 29 March 1956 Walnut Creek, California O Probably Balloon |
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION —|@ Possibly Balloon
{  LCyy Fee TO Re eR He SN 3% Ground- Visual a} Ground-Radar a Sarat
J aA A 0 Air- Visual 0 Air-lntercept Radar D Possibly Aircralt
5. PHOTOS | . SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical
] O Yes 0 Probably Astronomical
fr) XB No Civilian 0 Possibly Astronomical
A “#. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE GI TT 1 eT CR 25)
j 1st sighting: 1-2 min | | a {iii chen) Data for Evaluation ;
3 ; 3? 2 nknown
2nd sighting: unknown one NW then NE
1 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
| One spherical object, the size of a A check with HEDADC revealed
h head of a match held at arms length that two balloons were launched
! white in color, first appeared to be at Vernaliis, California, on the
E heading northwest and then changing day of the sighting, and a few
4 heading to north east, The object hours before the sighting.
seemed to oscillate. Object was obser+ Balloon "1-8" (MDH Type) was
| ved later for an unknown period of launched from Vernallis at 22/
: time. 1407%Z, Balloon "1-9" (MDH Type)
was launched at 15127 on 22 Nar
56, Both balloons initially headed
Rt north and were computed to have
been in the approx area of the
1 ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 82) sight ing Ay : :
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