Palm Beach, Fla, July 1955July 1955

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Summary

On July 14, 1955, at 3:12 a.m., a military observer at Palm Beach, Florida reported a sighting. One conical white light with tail exhaust was observed moving smoothly to point and blue-white in color. The object appeared at 10 degrees elevation at 330 degrees and disappeared at 10 degrees elevation at 310 degrees. The observation lasted 10 to 15 seconds. The witness was reliable. The sighting was reported to be an observatory sighting in Orlando, Florida on July 15, 2002 (note: this date appears inconsistent with the original date). The investigator concluded that if the object crossed a major portion of sky in 10-15 seconds, it was probably astronomical in nature. The evaluation was probably meteor.

Reported location

Palm Beach, Fla, July 1955

Date of incident

July 1955

State / country

? / XX

Page count

3 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 23

Original case file scans

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE
14 Jul 55

2. LOCATION
Palm Beach, Fla

3. DATE-TIME GROUP
Local ___
GMT 15/0315Z

4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
X-Ground-Visual  [ ] Ground-Radar
[ ] Air-Visual    [ ] Air-Intercept Radar

5. PHOTOS
[ ] Yes
XX:X No

6. SOURCE
military

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION
ten to fifteen Seconds

8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS
one

9. COURSE
SSE to WNW

12. CONCLUSIONS
[ ] Was Balloon
[ ] Probably Balloon
[ ] Possibly Balloon
[ ] Was Aircraft
[ ] Probably Aircraft
[ ] Possibly Aircraft
[ ] Was Astronomical Meteor
[ ] Probably Astronomical
[X] Possibly Astronomical
[ ] Other ___
[ ] Insufficient Data for Evaluation
[ ] Unknown

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING
One conical, white light with tail exhaust. Observer of this sighting was originally reported to be an observer of sighting reported at Orlando, Fla at 15/0200Z jul 55. If times are correct this observer must have seen different obj. If obj crossed a major portion of sky in a period of 10-15 seconds it probably was astronomical in nature. Probably meteor.

11. COMMENTS
[continued from brief summary section]

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