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Parksburg, Pennsylvania, March 1955

Date of account
1955-03
Location
Parksburg, Pennsylvania
Source
uap_archive
Record updated
2026-10-10

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PROJECT10073RECORDCARD 1.DATE 2.LOCATION 12.CONCLUSIONS 口 Was Bolloon 2March 1955 Parksburg,Pennsyyania 口 Probably Batloon 口 Possibly Balloon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 4.TYPEOF OBSERVATION Local xround-Visual Ground-Rcdar 口 Was Aircraft 口 ProbabiyAircraft 03/0205Z DAir-Visual Air-lnterceptRadar 口 PossiblyAircraft GMT 5.PHOTOS 6.SOURCE 口 Was Astronomical Yes 口 ProbablyAstronomical XKNO Civilian Goc Observer 口 PossiblyAstronomicol 7.LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8.NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9.COURSE Sxother_AA Firings 口 InsufficientDataforEvaluation 口 Unknown one one stationary 10.BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11.COMMENTS Gocobserverreportedmany redobjects Atelephonecheckwith the which appeared to expand to 6 to S fept,Aberdeen Proving Ground posi- Explode and burn to a yellowish green tively identified this sight- This sighting was repeated every few ing as aerial bursts fron minutes over a period of an hour. 75 mm A

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