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Rochester, Indiana, May 1956

Date of account
1956-05
Location
Rochester, Indiana
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 10073RECORD CARD 1.DATE 2.LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS 口 Wos Balloon 7 May 1956 Rochester, Indiana 口 Probably Bailoon 口 Possibly Balloon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 4.TYPE OF OBSERVATION 口 Was Aircraft Local RGround-Visual Ground-Radar 口 Probably Aircraft DAinVisuol Air-lntorcopt Radar 口 Possibly Aircraft 5.PHOTOS 6.SOURCE 口 Was Astronomical 口Y.. 口 Probably Astronomical Civilian.- Military 口 Possibly Astroromicol 8.NUMBER OP OBJECTS9. COURSE Oth Beacon Light 7.LENGTH OP OBSERVATION Insufficiont Data for Evaluation 口 Unkno wn unknown one stationary (fixed) TO. BRIEP SUMMARY OP SIGHTING 11.COMMENTS One round object - three inches in diameter, color silver and green. One a/c scrambled UFoB identified as fixed beacon light. ATIC 7ORM 329(REV 263ZP S2)

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