Kent, OhioAugust 1956

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Summary

On August 27, 1956, a military ground observer in Kent, Ohio, reported a single object. The sighting was recorded at 1750Z (day) and lasted about two minutes.

The witness, a 14-year-old ground observer corps spotter, described one silver, cigar-shaped object, about a half inch long with the naked eye and three inches long through 7 by 50 binoculars. The object was sharp on one end and blunt on the other and made no sound. It moved at about 120 miles per hour at a very low altitude toward the southwest.

The Air Force said the shape, size, color, speed, and duration pointed to the probability of an aircraft. The evaluation was aircraft.

Reported location

Kent, Ohio

Date of incident

August 1956

State / country

OH / US

Page count

2 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 26

Original case file scans

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TES ERT TR SVN TELS NOOR 17 Lay Fas OTM 1 P80, 57 1 2 a ral LSE Ee TL -
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. PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD ao
1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
- . OC Wes Balloon
27 August 1956 X2nt, Ohio O Probably Bolleon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Possibly Balloon
Raa ine | TO GRRE sual DO Ground-Roder Bx» ag HOPE
oMT. 2 Ao s 7/1750Z —— 0 Air Visvel O Air-Intercept Rodor O Possibly Aireroft
5. PHOTOS 8. SOURCE O Wes Astronomical
O Yes O Probobly Astronomicol
% 8 Ne gilitary (GOC) DO Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 3. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE 0 Other ————
O Insufficient Dete for Evaluation
i 0 Unknown
two minutes one southwest
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS =
§ One silver cigar-shaped object, one Shape, size , color, speed dura-
half inch long visually and three tion of sighting indicate the
inches long through binoculars, Object probability of an a/c.
was sharp on one end and blunt on the
other, object moved at about 120 MPH a
| a very low altitude in 2 southesestaly
EF. direction. Object was in view for two fit
minutes,
ATIC PORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28967194