South Portland, MaineAugust 1956

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Summary

On August 4, 1956, military observers at a Coast Guard station near South Portland, Maine, reported a single object. The sighting was recorded at 0722Z (night). It was still in sight when the report was made.

The witnesses described one round, large, white light. The object moved to the northeast, then turned south and moved slowly. It was watched both with the naked eye and through binoculars. The light was first seen between about 30 and 45 degrees azimuth.

The report noted that two similar sightings had been reported in the same area in the past 36 hours, one reporting nine objects and one reporting six. An intercept attempted on an earlier report 18 hours before had negative results.

Although the wind direction did not match the object's movement exactly, the Air Force evaluated the sighting as a balloon.

Reported location

South Portland, Maine

Date of incident

August 1956

State / country

ME / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 25

Original case file scans

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Anta - PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD i
1. DATE 2. LOCATION i CONCEOSIONSE  E
- 1 Was Bolloon 3
5 South Portland, Maine 0 Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION ~—PX Possibly Balloon
Local Ss ea B3Ground- Visual O Ground-Rador a Probebly Aircraft
; CMT 04/07227Z 0 Air Visual O Air-Intorcept Radar | UO Possibly Aircraft :
3. PHOTOS - SOURCE O Wos Astroromical
0 Yes ; O Probably Astronomical
XX No Military O Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE |O, Other __
oO ert Data for Evaluation
still in sight one NE to South |? UYmkmew
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS B
One round, large, white light. Object| Although wind direction does :
was moving northeast then turned not correlate exactly to move-
south slow. Ofgect still in observance ment of object, sighting is
at time of report. Observed visually evaluated as balloon,
and through binoculars,
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