Saginaw, MichiganMarch 1956

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Summary

On March 27, 1956, a civilian at Saginaw, Michigan, reported one object at 1105 (about 6:05 a.m. local). The report was made under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified flying object reports.

The witness described one spherical object that was burnt orange. It had a grey band at the top and bottom, and the band looked irregular and about one-eighth inch wide. The object appeared to stay still in the west-southwest and seemed to break apart from the bottom up. The sighting lasted about ten minutes. There was no sound and no trail.

The Air Force did not list a final cause. The record said the color and spherical shape suggested a possible balloon. It noted that the chance of a large balloon was checked with negative results.

Reported location

Saginaw, Michigan

Date of incident

March 1956

State / country

MI / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 25

Original case file scans

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: PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
0 Vas Balloon
27 March 1956 aginaw, Michigan EL Rak filogn
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION (edie ied Rcd dha
tocol ooo NM} Ground- Visual 0 Ground-Radar o Probably Alreraft
CMT 27/1 1057 0 Air- Vi sual 0 Air-Intercept Radar DO Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE 0 Was Astronomical
OVYes 0 Probably Astronomical
B-No : Civilian i D Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE Jo) A EA OSI
apparently 0 Insufficient Date for Evaluation

3 : A A Va SynEhown

ten minutes one statonary in {est

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS

One shperical, orange object, with Color and shape (shperical) seem
band of grey at top and at bottom of |to indicate the possibility of a
object, Band of grey appeared to be balloon, The possibility of the |
irregular, The object seemed to large MDH type balloon were checked
disintegrate from the bottom up. out with nogative results,
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)

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