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Avon Park, Florida, March 1956

Date of account
1956-03
Location
Avon Park, Florida
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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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 1.DATE 2.LOCATION 12.CONCLUSIONS 口 Wos Balloon 26 March 1956 Avon Park,Florida 口 Probably Balloon 口 Possibly Balloon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 4.TYPEOF OBSERVATION Local kGround-Visual Ground-Radar 口 口 Probably Aircraft GMT26/1750 & 1755Z D Air-lntercept Radar 口 Possibiy Aircraft D Air-Visuol 5.PHOTOS 6.SOURCE 口 Was Astronomical Yos 口 Probably Astronomical Civilian 口 Possibly Astronomicol XENo 7.LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8.NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9.COURSE MxOther- Birds 口 Insufficient Dota for Evaluation 口 Unknown one minute 100 or more N to S 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11.COMMENTS Round object size of childs balloon, Identified by Goc observers on shiney and reflecting. First one duty as birds. hundred or more loosely grouped, second,was a wedge formation. Had direct flight path - Goc identified UFOB as birds. ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26SEP 52)

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