Red Oak, Iowa, December 1955
- Date of account
- 1955-12
- Location
- Red Oak, Iowa
- 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 text · mention onlyPROJECT 10073RECORD CARD 1.DATE 2.LOCATION 12.CONCLUSIONS 口 Was Balloon 17 Dec 55 Red Oak,Iowa 口 Probabiy Bolloon 口 Possibly Bolloon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 4.TYPE OF OBSERVATION 口 Was Aiicraft Local. GroundVisual Ground-Rodar 口 Probably Aircraft GMT18/0122Z D AirVisual D Air-lntercept Rador 口 Possibly Aircroft 5.PHOTOS 6.SOURCE 的 Was Astronomicol Meteor aY. 口 Probably Astronomical 口 Possibly Astronomical xNo civilian 7.LENGTH OF.OBSERVATION 8.NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9.COURSE 口 Other. 口 Insufficiont Dota for Evqluotion 15 sec obj 口 Unknowm Imin trail 1 SW 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11.COMMENTS One fast moving soundless obj was observed to Obj has allcharacteristics and per- explode in the sky. Obj seemed to change formances of a meteor.It is felt that colors from white to red to blue. time of observation was slightly overestimated.ASTRO (Meteor Sighting) ATIC FORM 329(REV 26SEP 52)
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