Parma Heights, OhioSeptember 1956

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Summary

On September 4, 1956, at about 10 p.m. local time, a civilian in Parma Heights, Ohio reported an unidentified flying object. He was observing stars from his home near Doxmere and Snow Roads, about four miles east of Cleveland Hopkins Airport. He came to an Air Force investigative office to make the report.

The witness said the object was shaped and sized like a star. It glowed in yellow, green, blue, orange, and red, and it blinked off and on. It stayed still in the sky and did not move during the roughly five minutes he watched it. He first saw it at about 30 degrees elevation toward the west. The sky was clear with no wind.

The sighting was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified flying object reports. From the description, the Air Force concluded the sighting was probably caused by the planet Mars.

Reported location

Parma Heights, Ohio

Date of incident

September 1956

State / country

OH / US

Page count

6 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 26

Original case file scans

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1. DATE g 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
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3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION RIT, wm—
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CMT 0 5/0300Z a Air Visuvel O Air-Intercept Rodar O Possibly Aireroft
5. PHO : . XIX Was Astronomical 1201'S
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X08 Ne Civilian OSI report O Possibly Astronemic
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE BE
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five minutes one no _movemant
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS : :
One object size & shape of star, From all indications & descriptioi,
Color glowed in yellow, green, blue, of sightiug, beleived to be causeq,
orange & red, Object did not move, by planet Mars,
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28967441