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Folsom Prison, California, March 1956

Date of account
1956-03
Location
Folsom Prison, California
Source
uap_archive
Record updated
2026-10-10

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PROJECT 10073RECORD CARD 1.DATE 2.LOCATION 12.CONCLUSIONS 口 Was Bolloon 17 March 1956 Folsom Prison,California 口 Prohabiy Salioon 口 Possibly Ballaon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 4.TYPE OF OBSERVATION XtGround-Visuai Ground-Radar 口 Was Aircraft Local_ DxRroboblyAircroft GMT18/0324Z DAir-Visual Air-lntercept Radar 口 Possibly Aircroft 5.PHOTOS 6.SOURCE 口 Was Astronertica! DYes 口 ProbablyAstronomical OKNO Civilian (Prisoners on.Goc 口 Possibly Astronomical duty) 7.LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8.NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9.COURSE 口 Other. 口 Insufficient Data for Evaluation 口 Unknown four.minutes see descriptidn 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11.COMMENTS One wing shaped object, approximately Preliminary report received via the size of a B-29 a/c,black in color AF Form ll2.Due'to he fact that wih red and white lights emitted a sighting fits the criteria for ah aircraft generated sighting this jet like noise.Prisoners thou

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