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Seattle, Washington, January 1956

Date of account
1956-01
Location
Seattle, Washington
Source
uap_archive
Record updated
2026-10-10

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PROJECT 10073RECORD CARD 1.DATE 2.LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS 口 Was Balloon 24 January 1956 Seattle,Washington 口 Probably Balloon 口 Possibly Balloon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 4.TYPE OF OBSERVATION XXGround-Visual Ground-Radar 口 Was Aircraft Local field,glasses 口 Probably Aircraft GMT. 25/0550Z AirVisual Air-Intercept Radar 口 Possibly Aircraft 5.PHOTOS 6.SOURCE 口 Was Astronomical Yes 口 Probably Astronomical XRNO Civilian 口 Possibiy Astronomical 7.LENGTH OF OBSERYATION 8.NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9.COURSE 口 Othor. N-S later XInsufficiont Data forEvaluatian 口Unknown 3 minutes one S-N 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11.COMMENTS Oval shaped, golden and glowing with Probably a/c with contrail; long tail. Wx clear.object climbing. however,data too limited to support this analysis.Insuffi- cient data. ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26SEP 52)

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