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CANTERBURY, NEW ZEALAND, November 1954

Date of account
1954-11
Location
CANTERBURY, NEW ZEALAND
Source
uap_archive
Record updated
2026-10-10

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 1.DATE 2.LOCATION 12.CONCLUSIONS P K Was Balloon 211 NOV54 CANTEBURY,NEW ZEALAND 口 ProbablyBalioon 口 Possibly Bailoon 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4.TYPEOFOBSERYATION Ground-Yisuol Ground-Rador 口 Was Aircraft Locai 口 ProboblyAircrof 21/0340Z GMT. Ai~Yiswol Air-!ntercopt Radar 口 Possibly Aircraft 5.PHOTOS 6.SOURCE 口 Was Astronomical 口 ProbablyAstronomical No civilian 口 Possibiy Astronomicol 7.LENGTH OP OSSERVATION 8.NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9.COURSE 口 Othor 口 Insufficiont Dato for Evaluation 口 Unknown MINUTS ONE WEST 10.BRIEF SUAMARY OF SIGHTING 11.COMMENTS Bright cigar shaped obj,motionless and with Balloon released at same time with erratc flight observed for 6 minutes.Dis- identical flight path.Onlydata appeared by rising and moving west into a conflicting i s that the obg was re- cloud layer. ported as cigar shaped and the balloon was cylindrical.The fact that the balloon was

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