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West Palm Beach, Florida, January 1955

Date of account
1955-01
Location
West Palm Beach, Florida
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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PROJECT10073RECORDCARD 1.DATE 2.LOCATION 12.CONCLUSIONS Was Balloon 28 January.1955 West Palm Beach,Florida CxProbablyBailoon 口 PossiblyBalloon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 4.TYPEOF OBSERVATION XXGround-Visuol Ground-Radar 口 Was Aircraft Local 口 ProbablyAircraft 28/1215Z Air-Visuol DAir-lnterceptRadar 口 PossiblyAircraft GMT 5.PHOTOS 6.SOURCE 口 Was Astronomical Yes 口 ProbablyAstronomical Civilian 口 PossiblyAstronomical ONo 7.LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8.NUMBER OF OBJECTS9.COURSE 口 Othar. 口 InsufficientDotaforEvaluation 口 Unknown 1hour one NE - Bouth 10.BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11.COMMENTS Round silver object approached from Due to the description of the Northeast,made an orbit then pro- shape,color and flight ceeded south. characteristics of the object, it is believed the object was probably a weather balloon. ATICFORM329(REV26SEP52)

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