Samish Island, Washington, April 1956
- Date of account
- 1956-04
- Location
- Samish Island, Washington
- Source
- uap_archive
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
Project Blue Book case file indexed from National Archives metadata; page-level review pending.
Published source text
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Source text · mention onlyPROJECT 10073RECORD CARD 1.DATE 2.LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS Wos Balloon 5April 1956 Samish Island,Washington 口 Probably Balloon 口 Possibly Balloon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 4.TYPE OF OBSERVATION Local XXGround-Visual Was Aircraft Ground-Radar 口 Probably Aircraft GMT_06/0700Z AirVisual Air-Intercept Radar 口 Possibly Aircraft 5.PHOTOS 6.SOURCE XWas Astronomical 口Yes 口 Probably Astronomicol Civilian (GoC) 口 Possibly Astronomical XONO 7.LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8.NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9.COURSE 口 Other. 口 still in sight when rptd Insufficiont Data forEvaluation 口 Unknown at least l hr duration one stationary 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11.COMMENTS One round bright red object, the size The planet Venus was at the of a penny held at arm's length,obser- same position as the UFoB i.e. ved at an angle of elevation of 15 dgrs. / l5 dgrs elevation in the Nw. in the northwest. Seen thru binoculars This sighting wa
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