Wheaton, Illinois, May 1956
- Date of account
- 1956-05
- Location
- Wheaton, Illinois
- 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 onlyPROJECT10073RECORDCARD 1.DATE 2.LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS 口 Wos Balloon 20 May 1956 Wheaton, Illinois 口 Probably Balloon 口 Possibly Balloon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 4.TYPE OF OBSERVATION Local X风 Ground-Visual Ground-Radar 口 Was Aircraft 口 Probably Aircraft 21/0350Z D AirVisuol Air-lntercept Radar 口 Possibly Aircraft GMT. 5.PHOTOS 6.SOURCE Was Astronomical Venus Yes Probably Astronomical Sx Civilian 口 Possibly Astroromicol 7.LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8.NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9.COURSE 口 Other. 口 Insufficient Data for Evaluation 口 Unknown approx 25 minutes NW 10.BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11.COMMENTS One round object, the size of a dime A message requesting more infor- held at arm's length, white to pink mation was sent to the 755th in color. Bright, appeared to be ACWRON. Reply indicated that drifing aorthwest. this sighting inall probability was caused by the planet Venus. ATIC FORM 329(REV 26SEP 52)
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