Matador, Texas, August 1951
- Date of account
- 1951-08
- Location
- Matador, Texas
- Source
- uap_archive
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
Project Blue Book case file indexed from National Archives metadata; page-level review pending.
Published source text
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Source page 1
Source text · mention onlyPROJECT10073RECORDCARD 1.DATE LOCATION 12.CONCLUSIONS Was Bolloon 31 Aug 51 MatAdor, Texas 口 Probably Balloon 口 Possibly Bollcon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 4.TYPE OF OBSERVATION 1245CST Locel_ DGround-Visuol Ground-Rodar 口 Was Aircraft 31/1845Z 口 Probably Aircraf! AirVisual D Air-lntercopt Rador 口 Possibly Aircraft GMT. S. PHOTOS 6.SOURCE 口 Was Astronomical DYo 口 Probably Astronomical ONQ Civilians 口 Possibly Astronomical UNIDENTIFIED 7.LENGTH OP OBSERYATION 8.NUMBEROFOSJECTS9.COURSE Otho!. 口 Insufficient Dato for Evaluation Not given 口 Unknown 1 E 10. BRIEP SUMMARY OF SICHTING 11.COMMENTS Object like a yellow pear-shaped tomato, uration ruch toeshort for a balloon. aluminum or silve in color that reflected the Disappearance tooquickly. Case sunlight readily.Had a door,window,or some unidentffied. thing similar located at a pt where the object began to taper toward smaller end.Moved throught the
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