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Lake Charles, AFB, Louisiana, February 1956

Date of account
1956-02
Location
Lake Charles, AFB, Louisiana
Source
uap_archive
Record updated
2026-10-10

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PROJECT 10073RECORDCARD 1.DATE 2.LOCATION 12.CONCLUSIONS RxWas Balloon 6 February 1956 Lake Charles AFB,Louisiana 口 Probably Balloon 口 Possibly Balloon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 4.TYPE OF OBSERVATION XXGroun d-Visual Ground-Radar 口 Was Aircraft Local 口 ProboblyAircraft 07/0010Z GMT AirVisual Air-Intercept Radar 口 Possibiy Aircraft 5.PHOTOS 6.SOURCE 口 Was Astronomicai 口 ProbabiyAstronomical NO military 口 Possibiy Astronomical 7.LENGTH OF OBSERYATION 8.NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9.COURSE 口 Other. 口 Insufficiont Data for Evaluatian 口 Unknown 20 minutes one unknown 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11.COMMENTS Object appeared to be pentagonal with Balloon sighting. bright spots at points.Changed to triangle bright spots at points,seen at approx 30,000 ft.just after sun went down. From other report in same area this was a balloon. AT1C FORM329(REV 26SEP 52)

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