Brooksville, Florida, May 1956
- Date of account
- 1956-05
- Location
- Brooksville, Florida
- 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 page 1
Source text · mention onlyPROJECT 10073RECORD CARD 1.DATE 2.LOCATION 12.CONCLUSIONS 口 Was Balloon 18May 1956 Brooksville, Florida 口 Probably Balloon 口 Possibly Balloon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 4.TYPEOF OBSERVATION 1850 EST Ground-Radar 口 Was Aircraft Locai XxGround-Vi suai 口 Probcbly Aircraft 18/2350Z Air-Visual Air-lntercept Radar 口 Possibly Aircraft GMT_ 5.PHOTOS 6.SOURCE 口 Was Astronomical Spica DYes BXProbobly Astranomical XONo Civilian 口 Possibly Astronomical 7.LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8.NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9.COURSE 口 Other. ascending 口 Insufficiont Doto for Evaluation 口 Unknown 2 hrs,12 mins one straight course 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11.COMMENTS pne object round size of marble, no Star Spica at about 45 dgr ele- sound. Color silver. No radar report. vation rising to position over- Wx station at McDill. No balloons were head in 22 hours. Although no released. Initial observation at 45 dgr/ azimuth included, durat
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