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Okahoma City, Oklahoma, May 1956

Date of account
1956-05
Location
Okahoma City, Oklahoma
Source
uap_archive
Record updated
2026-10-10

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 1.DATE 2.LOCATION 12.CONCLUSIONS 口 Was Balloon 6 May 1956 ORahoma City, Oklahoma 口 Probabiy Bolloon 口 Possi bly Balloon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 4.TYPE OF OBSERVATION XKGround-Visual Ground-Rador 口 Was Aircraft Local 口 Probably Aircraft 07/0410Z AirVisual Air-lntercept Radar 口 Possibly Aircraft GMT 5.PHOTOS 6.SOURCE Was Astronomical Capella Y.s 口 Probably Astronomical Military 口 Possibly Astronomical 7.LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8.NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9.COURSE 口 Other. 口 Insufficiont Data for Evaluation 口 Unknown 50 minutes one north 10.BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11.COMMENTS One object concave as a soup bowl, size First magnitude star Capella of dime, 4 miles from eye, had orange was at 12 dgr elevation,320 dgt lights all around it. A/C in vicinity azimuth at time of initial sigh also tornado in area. ing. Would set about l hr later w/an apparent northerly motion. Inversion pre

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