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Airport Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 1952

Date of account
1952-05
Location
Airport Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Source
uap_archive
Record updated
2026-10-10

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Record summary

Project Blue Book case file indexed from National Archives metadata; page-level review pending.

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 1.DATE 2.LOCATION 12.CONCLUSIONS Airport 口 Was Balloon 16 May 1952 Rio de Janeiro, Erazil 口 Probobly Bolloon 口 Possibly Balloon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 4.TYPE OF OBSERVATION 1630 口 Wos Aircraft Local D Ground.Visual D Ground-Rodar 口 Probably Aircraft D Air-lntercept Radar 口 Possibly Aircraf! GMT. O Air-Visuol 5.PHOTOS 6.SOURCE 口 Was Astronomical Yes 口 Probably Astronomical A/C inspector 口 Possibly Astronomical K No. 7.LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8.NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9.COURSE Othor. Insufficient Data for Evaluation 口 Unknown 10min 1 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11.COMMENTS Hoyered then moved near horizon thon moved slowly.Heturned to original spot and really took off. None---too little infornation ATIC FORM 329(REV 26 SEP 52)

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