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Steilacoom, Washington, May 1956

Date of account
1956-05
Location
Steilacoom, Washington
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 25May 1956 Steilacoom,Washington 口 Probably Balloon 口 Possibly Balloon 3.DATE-TIME GROUP 4.TYPE OF OBSERVATiON Ground-Radar 口 Was Aircraft Local XA Ground-Visual 口 Probobly Aircraft GMT_26/0315Z Air-Visual Air-intercept Radar 口 Possibly Aircraft 5.PHOTOS 6.SOURCE 口 Was Astronomical Venus DYes XX Probably Astronomicol Civilian 口 Possibly Astronomical XKNo 7.LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8.NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9.COURSE 口 Othor. 口 Insufficient Dato for Evaluotion 1 hour 46 minutes 口 Unknown still in sight stationary 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11.COMMENTS One round object, she size of a small The description of the object jet aircraft, pure white in color. The and the position of the object object was estimated to be at an alti- indicate that in all probability tude of lo,0oo feet & remaining sta- this sighting was caused by t

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