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East Prairie, Missouri, March 1956

Date of account
1956-03
Location
East Prairie, Missouri
Source
uap_archive
Record updated
2026-10-10

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Record summary

Project Blue Book case file indexed from National Archives metadata; page-level review pending.

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PROJECT10073RECORD CARD 1.DATE 2.LOCATION 12.CONCLUSIONS 20 March 1956 paxWas Balloon East Prairie,Missouri 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 口 Probably Balloon 4.TYPE OF OBSERVATION 口 Possi bly Balloon Local Ground-Visual Ground-Radar 口 Was Aircraft GMT. 20/1600Z 口 ProbablyAircraft DAir-Visuol Air-Intercept Radar 口 Possibly Aircraft 5.PHOTOS 6.SOURCE Yes 口 Was Astronomical XNo Civilian（Goc) Probably Astronomicai 口 Possibly Astronomical 7.LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8.NUMBER OFOBJECTS 9.COURSE 口 Other- 口 Insufficient Data for Evaluation two minutes one 口 Unknown south 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11.COMMENTS One balioon,trailing object under- Concur with the opinion of the neath.Orange color,teardrop shape. rpting authority that this sighthg was caused by a balloon. Probably the radiosnnde type. ATICFORM329(REV26SEP52)

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